New books in the Library

Some new books for the library are listed a below - a mix of print and e-books. Send any purchase suggestions to Tristan.



Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics

"From Francis Alys and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use, including the growth of the global economy, climate change, sustainability, Occupy movements, and the privatization of public space...Critical Landscapes skillfully surveys the stakes and concerns of recent land-based practices, outlining the art historical contexts, methodological strategies, and geopolitical phenomena."





Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies: Re-conceptualising Design and Making

"Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies explores how digital technologies are reshaping design and making in landscape architecture.  While the potentials of digital technologies are well documented within landscape planning and visualisation, their application within design practice is far less understood.  This book highlights the role of the digital model in encouraging a new design logic that moves from the privileging of the visual to a focus on processes of formation, bridging the interface of the conceptual and material, the virtual and the physical."



Living Roofs

"Living Roofs...celebrates the charming and ever more popular phenomenon that brings greenery and natural beauty to our cities, the roof garden.  Showcasing private rooftop terraces and gardens from around the world, Living Roofs...features everything from stunning penthouse gardens to sustainable retrofit solutions from award-winning homes."







Thinking about Landscape Architecture.  Principles of a Design Profession for the 21st Century

"What is landscape architecture?  Is it gardening, or science, or art? In this book, Bruce Sharky provides a complete overview of the discipline to provide those that are new to the subject with the foundations for future study and practice.  The many varieties of lanscape practice are discussed with an emphasis on the significant contributions that landscape architects have made across the world in daily practice."

Representing Landscapes: Hybrid

"In this book, Amoroso curates over 20 leading voices from around the world to showcase the best in contemporary hybrid design. With over 200 colour images from talented landscape architecture students, this book will explore the options, methods and choices to show the innovative approaches that are offered to students and practitioners of landscape architecture"

Geografie: rappresentazioni del mondo tra arte e design = Geographies: representaitons of the world between art and design

"Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy, April 1 - May 4, 2015"

Google SketchUp for Site Design: A Guide to Modeling Site Plans, Terrain, and Architecture

"Google SketchUp for Site Design illustrates a holistic approach to SketchUp: how it works and more importantly, what to do with it... You will learn how to approach modeling site plans, buildings and site elements: from modeling each of these exterior environment elements to piecing them together to generate a singular expressive model."






Prototyping for Architects: With More Than 700 Illustrations

"Prototyping for Architects examines how architects are combining new digital design and fabrication technologies with traditional hands-on building techniques to gain more insight into the strengths and weaknesses of their designs. Beginning with an introduction charting the rise of prototyping in design history, this cutting-edge volume for students and professionals presents an extensive range of prototyping techniques, followed by a selection of 30 projects by leading contemporary international architects."





X Agendas for Architecture

This book "considers the recent developments in the agendas for architecture, inviting a range of contributors into a structured discourse to highlight issues and extend questions on the necessity of architectural agendas"









The Case for the Independent Developer

"Part political manifesto, part provocation for supporters of the status quo... a heartfelt plea from an idealist committed to the challenge of housing all out people in decent dwellings" - Foreward, p. 8








Berrel Berrel Krautler

"Since 2009, Jurg Berrel, Maurice Berrel and Raphael Krautler have managed their own architectural offices based in Zurich and Basel.  An outstanding building was created for the vocational school in Vouvry VS, which has a sports hall at its centre. Natural light shines through the ceiling and onto two surrounding walkways.  Since then, the team has designed a number of other inventive buildings."

Parallel Cities: The Multilevel Metropolis

"Parallel Cities examines the history of the multilevel city with a focus on elevated pedestrian systems as a recurrent concept in urban planning and design. The book chronicles the evolution and migration of this concept from 19th-century French social utopian thinkers to 20th-century Soviet Constructivist architectural circles to its incubation in postwar London, its theorization by members of CIAM and Team 10, and its eventual dissemination to North America and Asia, where extensive systems were built in cities such as Minneapolis, Calgary and Hong Kong."

Cities Interrupted Visual Culture and Urban Space

"Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture - in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media - to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces."








Cities That Think Like Planets: Complexity, Resilience and Innovation in Hybrid Ecosystems 

"Cities That Think Like Planets advances strategies for planning a future that may look very different from the present, as rapid urbanization could tip the Earth toward abrupt and nonlinear change. Alberti's analyses of the various hybrid ecosystems, such as self-organization, heterogeneity, modularity, multiple equilibria, feedback, and transformation, may help humans participate in guiding the Earth away from inadvertent collapse and toward a new era of planetary co-evolution and resilience."

Design 101: Storie Zanotta

"A dictionary of design "stories": 101 thoughts, anecdotes and critical interpretations on as many (and more) designs put into production over the course of sixty years of Zanotta, tripping over ourselves in an attempt to outline the characteristic horizons of so many successful projects including many famous masterpieces."

Paul Kjærholm: Furniture Architect

"This catalogue has been published on the occasion of the exhibition of Poul Kjærholm - Furniture Architect, Louisiana June 23 - October 29, 2006"








Eileen Adams: Agent of Change in Art, Design and Environmental Education

"In this book a highly effective innovator explains her thinking and methods in relation to art, design, and environmental education.  Eileen Adams has wide experience in what has recently been identified as 'cultural leadership'...Eileen Adams views visual education as an essential part of general education.  In education through art, she says: 'making is central but art and design are also about making sense, making meaning and making things happen'."





Waste

" 'Waste' focuses on those waste objects that most fundamentally shape our lives and attempts to understand our complicated emotional and intellectual connections to our own refuse: nuclear waste, climate debris, pop culture rubbish, digital detritus, and more." - Book jacket.







Eileen Gray: The Private Painter

"Eileen Gray considered herself a designer and an architect, not a painter: she viewed her work as a painter with great modesty, treating it as a private occupation and a vehicle for artistic expression during periods when she could not design furniture. Much of her artwork has disappeared, either lost in the Second World War or destroyed by the artist herself. But a body of works on paper, produced between the 1920s and the 1950s, has survived: elegant, geometric drawings and gouaches of muted tonality and subtle power." 





A Vertical Forest: Instructions Booklet for the Prototype of a Forest City

"A Vertical Forest is the book in which Stefano Boeri speaks about the project that has since become, even before it was finished, one of Milan's most emblematic buildings.  An attempt to introduce a concept to architecture that, until now, has been completely disconnected: biodiversity.  The Vertical Forest is not only a building to be inhabited by humans, but also by other creatures such as birds and insects"

Sixties house
"From Pop art to Op art, plastic furniture to bubble-gum paint colours, the Sixties saw a new wave of interior design that was closely linked to popular culture and fashion, becoming increasingly youth-oriented and playful to appeal to the new generation of baby-boomers. In Sixties House, mid-century modern enthusiast Catriona Gray has drawn on the magazine's peerless archive, curating the best illustrations and photographs to show how the use of color, pattern, homewares and furniture evolved through the decade. The homes of key tastemakers are featured including Bridget Riley, Mary Quant, David Mlinaric, Barbara Hulanicki of Biba and David Bailey. The second title in the new Decades of Design series, House & Garden Sixties House is required reading for mid-century modern enthusiasts, collectors and decorators in search of inspiration from the most influential homes of the past."