A few new books in the library are listed below. You can also see a list of recent print additions to the library (the list is sorted by dewey decimal number - the most relevant areas for the school of architecture & design might be 307, 711-729, 745, 747 and 749). Also, to search for new books by topic, try your search, refine the results to books and order by publication date - e.g., urban design.
Please send any purchase suggestions to Tristan, or Vivian at the Brunswick library for Graphic Design.
"Less in More collates about 120 projects that use only a few colours to attract the eye. In three chapters, categorised by the number of colour inks applied, these creative solutions or visual experiments represent a refreshing departure from mainstream designs that play with selective colour formulations, materials, special printing and graphic details and make a unique appeal. They are tailored for clean and effective brand identities, packaging designs, publications and events, large and small. Whether it is for affordability, visual economy, a non-existing colour stock, or a tribute to modernist art, it is a proof that designs can speak more with less"
Type tells tales
" 'Type Tells Tales' focuses on typography that is integral to the message or story it is expressing. This is type that speaks - that is literally the voice of the narrator. And the narrator is the typographer. This can be quite literal, for example when letters come from the mouth of a person or thing, as in a comics balloon. It can be hand lettering, drawn with its own distinctive peculiarities that convey personality and mood... Seeking out examples in the furthest reaches of graphic design, Steven Heller and Gail Anderson uncover work that reveals how type can be used to render a particular voice or multiple conversations, how letters can be used in various shapes and sizes to create a kind of typographic pantomime, and how type can become both content and illustration as in, for example Paul Rand's 'ROARRRRR' "
" 'Type Tells Tales' focuses on typography that is integral to the message or story it is expressing. This is type that speaks - that is literally the voice of the narrator. And the narrator is the typographer. This can be quite literal, for example when letters come from the mouth of a person or thing, as in a comics balloon. It can be hand lettering, drawn with its own distinctive peculiarities that convey personality and mood... Seeking out examples in the furthest reaches of graphic design, Steven Heller and Gail Anderson uncover work that reveals how type can be used to render a particular voice or multiple conversations, how letters can be used in various shapes and sizes to create a kind of typographic pantomime, and how type can become both content and illustration as in, for example Paul Rand's 'ROARRRRR' "
"Across all regions, cultures, and societies, humans have attributed to the circle ideals of unity, wholeness, infinity, enlightenment, and perfection... In The Book of Circles, his companion volume to the popular Book of Trees, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millenia of information design. Three hundred detailed and colorful illustrations cover an encyclopedic array of subjects, drawing fascinating parallels across time and culture... Lima's introduction provides an authoritative description of the circle's symbolism and uses through history, and a preface describes his unique taxonomy of the many varieties of circle diagrams, rounding out this visual feast for infographics enthusiasts"
"The idea of this new publication by Mark Pimlott originates from a series of lectures given to students of the course 'The Architecture of the Interior' at Delft University of Technology. As the public interior dominates the experience infrastructure or commercial interests -- its consideration is essential for all of those involved in their making and use. The public interior, as a place in the world for people to be themselves with others, has been designed, and thus inscribed within culture and its ideas"
Writing place: investigations in architecture and literature
"The book...marks a step forward in an emerging debate on literary means in architecture. It offers a series of reflections on written language as a crucial elements of architecture culture, and on the potential of using literary methods in architectural and urban research, education and design"
"The exhibition Century of the Child gathers for the first time the most progressive Nordic design, architecture and art for children of the 1900s. The exhibition borrows its title from the book written by Ellen Key 1900 with the same name. Her pioneering theories about the importance of encouraging the creativity, education and rights for children pervade the project"
" 'Density, Architecture, and Territory' puts forward a model of density as a tool for sustainable urban development. Based on five European urban planning projects in Saintes, Utrecht, Copenhagen, Nantes, and Bregenz, various densification strategies are presented and analyzed. Discussions with the architect Kees Christiaanse, the philosopher Marc Armengaud, the landscape architect Henri Bava, and the economist Allain Sallez round off the publication"
"Our living space is subject to permanent flux, with far reaching changes in the areas of mobility, the environment, demography, energy, and not least the climate, which increasingly require new strategies and concepts with regard to spatial planning and the transformation of our urban landscapes. This publication presents viable, innovative, and holistic approaches and solutions for the development of such landscape transformations, put forward by six renowned universities as part of the international, interdisciplinary doctoral college 'Spatial Research Lab'. The range of subjects comprises spatial planing, urban development, and district planning, as well as new usage and building development typologies"
"Embodied and Whole Life Carbon thinking will change the way buildings are designed, yet carbon emissions associated with the construction and life of buildings are not wholly understood by the profession. Energy is assumed to be the province of service engineers, but energy from materials is a big issue. Architects have the opportunity to take the lead in redefining how buildings are designed to achieve a low carbon future. Targeting Zero... will demonstrate how architects can become central to the carbon resource impacts of the buildings they design and how low carbon approaches should drive innovation"
"The latest instalment of the Contemporary Architect's Concept Series features Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architects, a Tokyo based office active since 1998. The book was designed by So Hashizume, who also designed the Schemata Architects website. As such, it is an extension and continued expression of the office's identity, a concept that encourages referring to the website while reading the book. Seven contributors write about Nagasaka and his practice including long-time book lover Hiroshi Eguchi, who helped produce this edition while Nagasaka in turn responds with his thoughts on architecture and design, plus his own work and activities beyond building"
"The book demonstrates not only how and where a range of visual communication skills are needed to inform a design process, but also why they are essential. It illustrates how representational techniques can be sensitively applied in different contexts appropriate to a diverse range of design challenges and encourages experimentation with contemporary techniques "
"An experiment with alternative forms of design, Public Design Support is also an intervention in urban life. It helps local residents and others to shape their lifeworld and explore possibilities for action, instead of the usual experience of powerlessness and marginalization in the face of urban development. Public Design Support offers free practical help in dealing with everyday problems while also helping to develop alternative conceptions of the city. It explores the potential of design, including its social role and political significance. Design can be more than a way for competing cities to be distinctive, more than the display of individual status, more than a tool for segregation in urban development. Public Design Support is an engaged and political form of design, since it makes other people, problems and spaces into actors and objects in the design process. It usually works with people impacted b design, or excluded by it, rather than participants who profit from the process"
"Featuring lectures by Peter Eisenman, Jeffrey Kipnis and Thom Mayne with introductions by Hernan Diaz Alonso and Eric Owen Moss "
The aesthetics of sustainability
"Sustainability is flaunted as the answer to innumerable problems posed by environmental and social degradation. However, as epitomised by its role in many modern urban landscape projects, it often lacks a quality essential to any anthropic space: seduction. Sustainability has to develop its own unique style if it is to compete with the established charms of the unsustainable city.Talking about sustainability as an ethical necessity is a given, but aesthetics and emotions must also come into play. These elements are essential to making the city an attractive place. Paradoxically, in the capitalistic city, aesthetics have much to do with excess and exuberance, surplus production, conspicuous consumption and waste. The research presented in the book stimulates discourse about the importance of aesthetics in urban environments"
"'Shanghai Regeneration: Five Paradigms' emphasizes the value of design in the urban regeneration of Shanghai, with the unique capacity to lead urban transformation flexibly and productively, specifically through the representative case students in five different synthesized paradigms. The book initially addresses the issue of the urban restoration of Shanghai in the past ten years, not only through systematic analysis, but also by means of specific cases. This book will be enlightening and useful for the professionals, academics, and researchers in the field of urbanism and architectural design related with China."
"'Question the Wall Itself' examines ways that interior spaces and decor can be fundamental to the understanding of cultural identity. It showcases 23 international artists who explore the political and social dimensions of interior architecture as well as its complicated relationship to history and their own backgrounds... The book and the exhibition it accompanies take as its guiding principle what Marcel Broodthaers termed 'esprit decor': a critique of ideas of nationality, globalization and the space of the institution through constructed interior scenes. Recasting our conception of interior space and design, the featured work exists between art, prop, and set or stage."
"In The NAi Effect, Sergio Figueiredo elegantly elucidates the social and cultural aims of architecture museums - arguably the most significant institutions in creating architecture culture as well as directing architectural discourse and practice. By providing a critical survey of the history and legacy of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), Figueiredo provides insights to how cultural policy works in practice and how specific national cultural institutions relate to a fast changing global context"
Movment and meaning: the landscape of Hoerr Schaudt
"Horticulture and landscape design flourish in tandem at Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects, one of the most dynamic firms in Chicago today. In Movement and Meaning, this landscape architecture firm reveals how they embed plant material into their projects, embracing biological changes wrought by time"
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