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2018 Holiday Gift Books

For this year's roundup of Holiday Gift Books I'm highlighting 36 books by the same number of publishers, arranged alphabetically by publisher – from Actar to Yale. Titles link to IndieBound and covers link to Amazon for easy gift-buying. Actar Álvaro Siza Viera: A Pool in the Sea By Kenneth Frampton, Vincent Mentzel A slim, 92-page book that sees Siza, with Kenneth Frampton, revisiting the great pool he designed more than 50 years ago in Leça de Palmeira, Portugal. ar+d (Applied Research + Design) Towards Openness By Li Hu, Huang Wenjing A really nice monograph on OPEN, the firm led by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing that recently completed the UCCA Dune Art Museum. Arquine Mexico City Architecture Guide By Miquel Adrià, Andrea Griborio, Alejandro Gálvez, Juan José Kochen One of these days I'll make it south of the border to see the great architecture in Mexico City. When I do, I'll have this excellent guide to steer me around. Birkhäuser Herzog & de Meuron 1978-1996, Volume 1-3 By Gerhard Mack A reprint of the first three "Complete Works" on the influential Swiss architects. Per the publisher's website, the set is in German/English, not just German as in the links above. Circa Press Archigram - The Book By Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, Ron Herron, David Greene, Michael Webb I'm excited to get my hands on this large-format book that catalogs Archigram's activities in the 1960s and 70s and includes 165 pages from the ten Archigram magazines. Clarkson Potter Daniel Libeskind: Edge of Order By Tim McKeough An artistic, and visually dense and layered take on the architectural monograph, Edge of Center runs through Libeskind's life and important projects. Told in first person through collaborator Tim McKeough. Columbia Books on Architecture and the City A House Is Not Just a House: Projects on Housing By Tatiana Bilbao This petit book transcribes a lecture given by Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao at Columbia GSAPP in October 2016. With a focus on housing, Bilbao makes many logical arguments for improving housing for all. Hatje Cantz Neutelings Riedijk Architects: Ornament & Identity By Neutelings Riedijk Neutelings Riedijk's buildings and projects are presented in twelve thematic chapters (seam, pattern, cutout, etc.) that focus on expression and identity in a globalized world. Images Publishing Architecture Can!: HWKN Hollwich Kushner 2008-2018 By Matthias Hollwich, Marc Kushner Closer in size and proportion to a guidebook than a traditional monograph, HWKN's first monograph mixes their words and renderings with professional photos and images from social media. Island Press Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism By Mikael Colville-Andersen I learned about Mikael Colville-Andersen many years ago through Flickr, where he has thousands of photos of people on bikes, both in his native Copenhagen and in many other cities and countries. This book collects his thoughts on bicycles and their place in cities. Jovis Japanese Creativity: Contemplations on Japanese Architecture By Yuichiro Edagawa Architect Yuichiro Edagawa explores the roots of Japanese creativity in architecture, focusing on the role of details in whole buildings. Lars Müller Publishers The Architecture of Closed Worlds: Or, What Is the Power of Shit? By Lydia Kallipoliti Analyses of self-sustaining physical environments such as Biosphere and Masdar City accompanied by stunning "feedback drawings." Little, Brown The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century By Mark Lamster Easily one of the best books I read this year: my review. Laurence King Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia By Salma Samar Damluji, Viola Bertini Hassan Fathy's Architecture for the Poor is a classic and a must for any architect (I'm grateful to have gotten my hands on a first edition at a used bookstore a few years ago). Earth & Utopia is a beautiful tribute to Fathy's words and buildings, presented as a large-format book with plenty to absorb on every page. Lund Humphries The Global Spectacular: Contemporary Museum Architecture in China and the Arabian Peninsula By Mark Swenarton Documentation and comparisons of starchitect-designed museums in China and the Arabian peninsula as well as such nearby places as Azerbaijan and India. The MIT Press Garage By Olivia Erlanger, Luis Ortega Govela A "provocative history and deconstruction" of that appendage to the American house that's supposed to shelter cars but is often used for other things; a collaborative creation by an artist (Erlanger) and an architect (Ortega Govela). The Monacelli Press Le Corbusier: The Built Work By Richard Pare, Jean-Louis Cohen A great combination: Around 60 buildings designed by Le Corbusier, photographs by Richard Pare, and words by Jean-Louis Cohen. It's Pare's photos that stand out, drawing attention to the varied states of Corbusier's buildings.

The Museum of Modern Art Oasis in the City: The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at The Museum of Modern Art Edited by Peter Reed, Romy Silver-Kohn Philip Johnson's great sculpture garden at MoMA turned 75 this year. This coffee table book celebrates the "oasis" in Midtown Manhattan, just as MoMA transforms itself through another architectural expansion.

nai010 Publishers Too Big: Rebuild by Design’s Transformative Response to Climate Change By Henk Ovink, Jelte Boeijenga Rebuild by Design is an innovative process for creating resilient cities and coastlines, born from Hurricane Sandy in 2012. This book documents the process and the various designs in the works around the USA.

New York Review Books Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III: From Antoni Gaudí to Maya Lin By Martin Filler The latest collection of architecture critic Martin Filler's "reassessments" of significant modern architects — all originally published in NYRB — spans from Frederick Law Olmsted to Maya Lin, with roughly 20 more architects in between.

ORO Editions The Work of Machado & Silvetti By Javier Cenicacelaya, Iñigo Saloña I've been a fan of the built and unbuilt "unprecedented realism" (the name of their 1996 monograph) of Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti since at least the mid-1990s. This monograph collects projects designed by the duo over the last four decades.

Park Books House Tour: Views of the Unfurnished Interior Edited by Adam Jasper The official publication of the Swiss Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, winner of the Golden Lion for best National Participation. The labyrinth of empty apartments at various scales drew attention to the literal emptiness of photos of residential architecture in Switzerland.

Phaidon Drawing Architecture By Phaidon Editors Although Phaidon's one-page-per (building, garden, etc.) format is a bit formulaic and inherently shallow, sometimes the subject makes one of these titles irresistible. For me, it's architectural drawings by Zaha Hadid, Roberto Burle Marx, and many more.

Prestel Modern Spaces: A Subjective Atlas of 20th-Century Interiors By Nicolas Grospierre French-Polish photographer Nicolas Grospierre captures the interiors of buildings "both grand and mundane," most I was completely unaware of. The photos are presented as pairs with similar spaces and characteristics but divergent uses and geographies.

Princeton Architectural Press Studio Joy Works By Rick Joy The sequel to Rick Joy's Desert Works presents 13 projects completed by the architect in the last 15 years, many outside his home state of Arizona. Beautiful photographs make this monograph, just like his first one, a must.

Rizzoli Steven Holl: Seven Houses By Steven Holl Sub-subtitled "Luminist Architecture," this handsome, slipcased book documents seven Steven Holl houses completed over the last twenty years, some of them on the architect's own property north of New York City. Routledge Life Takes Place: Phenomenology, Lifeworlds, and Place Making By David Seamon An academic title on phenomenology that argues for the importance of place in our "mobile, hypermodern world." David Seamon was a professor of mine in undergraduate architecture school at K-State, so I'm looking forward to diving into his latest book. Scheidegger and Spiess Peter Zumthor Talks About His Work: A Biographic Collage By Christoph Schaub One of two new titles on Swiss architect Peter Zumthor from Scheidegger and Spiess (here's the other), this one offers copious insights into the contexts of his work and his self-conception as an artist." (Note: This title is a DVD, not a book.)

Taschen Rem Koolhaas: Elements of Architecture By Rem Koolhaas Koolhaas updates his 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale exhibition as a 2,528-page behemoth designed by Irma Boom.

Thames & Hudson Santiago Calatrava: Drawing, Building, Reflecting By Santiago Calatrava with Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz I've heard of exhibitions on the models that Santiago Calatrava has produced over the years, but lost in the shuffle are his sketches, collected and discussed here relative to his bridges, train stations, and other structures.

Timber Press GGN: Landscapes 1999-2018 By Thaïsa Way The first monograph of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, it contains such landscapes as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus in Seattle, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC, and the Lurie Garden at Chicago's Millennium Park. UCL Press The Venice Variations: Tracing the Architectural Imagination By Sophia Psarra Sophia Psarra paints a portrait of Venice as a prototypical city aided by analyses of Italo Calvino's classic Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier's project for Venice Hospital. University of Virginia Press Shaping the Postwar Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project Edited by Charles A. Birnbaum, Scott Craver The fifth installment in TCLF's "Pioneers of American Landscape Design" project chronicles the lives and work of important landscape designers in an encyclopedia format. Necessary for landscape designers and those interested in the preservation of modern landscapes. UR (Urban Research) Spaces of Disappearance: The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition By Jordan H. Carver Jordan H. Carver, a contributing editor to the Avery Review, has investigated the architectural spaces of secret prisons and taken a look into the post-9/11 spaces via architectural drawings.

W. W. Norton Historic Preservation, Third Edition: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice By Norman Tyler, Ilene R. Tyler, Ted J. Ligibel The third edition of Historic Preservation comes a couple years after the National Preservation Act of 1966 turned 50. One could argue preservation is even more important now, making this a much-needed introduction to the subject. Yale University Press City Unseen: New Visions of an Urban Planet By Karen C. Seto The authors of City Unseen reveal that the satellite views of Google Earth aren't the only way to see the earth from above. They present traditional satellite views with non-visible wavelengths colored to convey more information about cities and landscapes. from A Daily Dose of Architecture https://ift.tt/2DULhCM

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