2G 56: ABALOS + SENTKIEWICZ Since its foundation in 2006, the work done by Abalos + Sentkiewicz, one of the two offices into which the former Abalos & Herreros studio split, has stood out on the Spanish and international architecture scene for its original synthesis of technical rigour, formal richness and its integrating of architecture, landscape and environment. This latest issue of 2G presents 15 recent works and projects including CaixaForum, Saragossa and Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona. 144 pages, PB, Gili, ISBN 9788425223754, $60
BUREAU B+B: URBANISM AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE A selection of the best work from Bureau B+B, active since 1977, and whose development coincides with the emancipation of Dutch post-war landscape architecture and urbanism. Self-assured and autonomous, the bureau reintroduced design to the city, and soon ranked among the world’s best, thanks among other things to its co-design for the Parc de la Villette in Paris. 608 pages, PB, NAi, ISBN 9789056627560, $95
FERRATER AND PARTNERS: OAB This book presents and analyses the career of architect Carlos Ferrater since the creation of his new studio called OAB (Office of Architecture in Barcelona). Their most relevant projects are the Beach Promenade in Benidorm, the Mandarin Hotel, the Zaragoza-Delicias Station, House A and Roca Barcelona Gallery, among many others. Recent works and projects presented by means of extensive photoreportages, plans and drawings. 336 pages, flexibound, Actar, ISBN 9788492861231, $85
CLIP, STAMP, FOLD Edited by Beatriz Colomina and Craig Buckley. An explosion of little architectural magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture, as the magazines acted as a site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period, including a selection of magazine facsimiles and a fold out poster that offers a mosaic image of more than 1,200 covers examined during the research. 672 pages, HB, Actar, ISBN 9788496954526, $90
DIGITAL MANUFACTURING IN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE This book examines the possibilities emerging for design and architecture by the introduction of novel computer-aided design and digital manufacturing techniques. The insights which arose from these experiments are presented and organized within five production techniques: cross segmentation, accumulation, frameworks, loops, and folding. 136 pages, PB, BIS, ISBN 9789063692322, $20
ECCENTRIC STRUCTURES IN ARCHITECTURE This book presents studies in architectural form focusing on the relationships between force, form and space. The design processes of different structures vary from inherently unstable forms to multi-span spaces in buildings to the creation of multi-layered spaces within physical shells. Joseph Lim, is an associate professor of the Department ofArchitecture at the National University of Singapore. 160 pages, PB, BIS, ISBN 9789063692421 $20
GREEN NEW DEAL: CLOUD 9 An examination of architecture's response to global warming through an intervention by Cloud 9 architects to an existing historic building in Barcelona, the Centre of Arts Santa Monica. They equipped the trees in front of the building with sensors that capture data on temperature, humidity and light energy producing an additional skin which allows control of natural light and regulates solar radiation. 96 pages, PB, Actar, ISBN 978842861583, $39
LANDSCAPE OUT OF THE CITY A selection of public and private spaces by landscape architects who are using their designs and ideas to bring to towns and cities a unique identity, help stimulate the local economy and enhance the history and culture of a community. 96 pages, PB, Monsa, ISBN 9788496823785, $20
LIGHT COLOUR SOUND A unique and original compilation that brings together in one single volume three fundamental themes relating to the sensory effects of contemporary architecture: light, color, and sound. Each case study goes deeply into the way in which the sensory element has been designed and the design put into practice. Special emphasis is put on aspects of the construction details by means of detailed technical plans. 336 pages, HB, Parramon, ISBN 9788434237667, $60
NORMAN FOSTER: DRAWINGS 1958-2008 This catalogue features 200 drawings by Norman Foster as well as texts from a series of paneled discussions with contributions from Norman Foster, Richard Long, Deyan Sudjic, Not Vital, Ricky Burdett, Jordi Gual, Saskia Sassen, Stefan Behling and Herbert Girardet. 600 pages, HB, Ivory, ISBN 9780956433923, $220
OASE 83: ARCHITECTURE ON COMMISSION This issue of OASE is about the role of the client or commissioner on the way in which buildings or urban ensembles take shape. Clients often have creative impulses themselves, and a re-reading of the history of architecture from the perspective of the client is more than necessary. Design by Karel Martens and Werkplaats Typografie. 144 pages, PB, NAi, ISBN 9789056627768, $45
PAISEA #15: URBAN FURNITURE This issue of Paisea presents a wide survey of recent developments in urban furniture both built and unbuilt, ranging from park benches in Switzerland to a chess park in Los Angeles. 112 pages, PB, Gili, $45
PERIPHERAL MOMENT: CROATIA 1990-2010 This book is an account of the highly productive decades of architectural experimentation in Croatia between the violent break-up of Yugoslavia and their slow integration into the EU and features the period's primary agent provocateurs: 3LHD, njiric +, Randic - Turato, and STUDIO UP, as well as contributions from Kenneth Frampton, Aaron Betsky, Manuel Gausa and others. 320 pages, HB, Actar, ISBN 9788492861576, $59
RESIDENTIAL FLOOR PLAN This edition of DASH searches for the best floor plans that bridge the gap between standard and ideal, meeting the (changing) needs of residents, architects and real estate entrepreneurs. Documentation consists of a series of classic and less familiar projects from the Netherlands and beyond, including projects by Diener & Diener, Frits van Dongen, Kenneth Frampton, MVRDV and Willem van Tijen. 160 pages, PB, NAi, ISBN 9789056627577, $63
SPONTANEOUS CITY Gert Urhahn, urban designer and architect for the city of Amsterdam, presents a new way of thinking in urban planning that is opposed to traditional rigid city planning, leaving room for spontaneous ideas and arguing in favor of local resourcefulness, flexibility and openness. 176 pages, PB, BIS, ISBN 9789063692650, $55
URBAN INTERIOR The creative projects in this book aim to overcome the traditional dualism between interior or private and urban or public spaces. These projects respond to the particularities of Melbourne, Berlin, Karachi, New York, Seoul and Tokyo with contributions by Suzie Attiwill, Kate Church, Mick Douglas, Rochus Urban Hinkel, Marieluise Jonas, Malte Wagenfeld. 176 pages, HB, Spurbuch, ISBN 9783887783518, $30
