Wiggle Michael Sorkin Based in New York, Michael Sorkin is one of the most talked-about and controversial architects working today. A critical and polemical (yet humorous) voice in contemporary culture, he is a highly respected and internationally known architect, writer, and lecturer. His previous books contained his critical writings, and he has never published a complete volume on his architecture and design projects until now. The projects of Michael Sorkin Studio exist on theoretical and experimental levels — they are part invention and part critique — and they come to… Read More »
Exquisite Corpse Writings on Buildings Michael Sorkin ‘Exquisite Corpse’ was a game played by the surrealists in which someone drew on a piece of paper, folded it and passed it to the next person to draw on until, finally, the sheet was opened to reveal a calculated yet random composition. In this entertaining and provocative book, Michael Sorkin suggests that cities are similarly assembled by many players acting with varying autonomy in a complicit framework. As unfolding terrain of invention, the city is also a means of accommodating disparity, of contextualizing sometimes… Read More »
Variations on a Theme Park The New American City and the End of Public Space Michael Sorkin America’s cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism–manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditional public space–is emerging both at the heart and at the edge of town in megamalls, corporate enclaves, gentrified zones, and psuedo-historic marketplaces. If anything can be described as a paradigm for these places, it’s the theme park, an apparently benign environment in which all is structured to achieve maximum control and in… Read More »
Prototypo n°9 Catherine Seavitt Prototypo is a Lisbon-based, high-profile bilingual magazine, in English and Portuguese, featuring 160 pages in color of the finest and most exciting architectural and artistic output. Responding to the motto of “space-craftsmanship”, Prototypo summons some of the leading figures in cultural discourse to give its readers a multifaceted perspective of recent proceedings in project design. Each issue establishes a subject to which contributors respond to in the areas of architecture, fine arts, graphic design and theory.
Generic Specific Continuum Julio Salcedo The work of Spanish architect Julio Salcedo is shown in this book as a series of built and speculative projects. Salcedo’s houses – early achievements that stunned both academic and professional circles with their freshness and precocious sophistication – are presented along with unpublished competition proposals for large-scale buildings. The projects in their varying locations, scales and ambitions all demonstrate a commitment to architecture as a conceptual medium with a capacity to tackle complex ideas as well as working projects… Read More »
The Agile City Building Well-being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change James S. Russell In a very short time America has realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation’s future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it? Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we’ll more quickly slow global warming-and blunt its effects-by retrofitting cities, suburbs, and towns. The Agile City shows that change undertaken at the building and community level can reach carbon-reduction goals rapidly. Adapting buildings (39 percent… Read More »
AIA Guide to New York City Fran Leadon, Norval White, Elliot Willensky Hailed as “extraordinarily learned” (New York Times), “blithe in spirit and unerring in vision,” (New York Magazine), and the “definitive record of New York’s architectural heritage” (Municipal Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky’s book is an essential reference for everyone with an interest in architecture and those who simply want to know more about New York City. First published in 1968, the AIA Guide to New York City has long been the definitive guide to the city’s architecture. Moving… Read More »
Freedom to Create Access your full creative potential and unleash a wave of creativity David Judelson Are you looking to expand your ability to create? Don’t believe you’re “the creative type” Do you dream about being free to just make your ideas happen? Have you hit a dead end or been gripped by a creative block and can’t seem to get yourself out of it? Whether you consider your creativity limited or just want to find new directions in which to create-this book was written expressly for you. Inside you’ll find: Exercises to unlock your creative energies Conversations that can… Read More »
Ineffable Architecture, Computation and the Inexpressible Maria Berman, Karl Chu, Evan Douglis, Mike Silver, Bradley Horn Ineffable documents a timely and invaluable debate surrounding the use of omputational tools in architecture and their affect on the nature of human expression. A distinguished group of architects, educators, and theoreticians discuss both the potential benefits as well as the perils associated with the recent turn to ever increasing computational complexity in contemporary design culture. Topics considered include:… Read More »
Field Guide to Softscape Leonard J. Hopper Part of Wiley’s new Graphic Standard Field Guides series, Graphic Standards Field Guide to Softscape is the reference for the on-the-go professional. The perfect companion to the main Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards, this field guide provides the same standard architectural details and drawings that professionals count on from Graphic Standards, and adds photographs and interpretive information that are essential when outside the office and away from the design desk. The small trim size and durable binding makes it easy for… Read More »
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