52 Weeks, 52 Cities
Kehrer verlag 2014 In his project 52 Weeks, 52 Cities developed exclusively for Marta Herford, Iwan Baan takes the viewer on a one-year photographic journey around the world – always on the lookout for ingenious homes in unexpected places and outstanding construction projects. Continue reading
Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography – Elias Redston
Photography has always played a vital role in how architecture is communicated. For most of us, it is how we experience the most exceptional, arresting, unreachable, beautiful or ephemeral works we cannot visit in person. With immediate distribution and consumption of imagery now so readily available, photography and architecture together… Continue reading
Architecture Zoo – Parc Zoologique De Paris. The Architectural Project
Conceiving the architecture of a zoo is not all that simple. If the housing of human beings is made up of history, traditions and styles, should that of animals imitate their original habitats? Is it possible to gather together under the same covering the visitors, the technical buildings and the… Continue reading
Haiti Now
“Haiti Now” is a 700+ page visual almanac that depicts Haiti’s issues and opportunities. This comprehensive resource encompasses the nation’s modern history, politics, infrastructure, ecology, cultural and social issues through graphics, photography, data and text in both English and French. It is intended to build a common foundation of knowledge… Continue reading
Hugh Maaskant: Architect of Progress
NAi010 publishers 2014 Today considered the godfather and forerunner of a generation that includes Adriaan Geuze, Rem Koolhas, Winy Maas and Willem Jan Neutelings, Hugh Maaskant (1907-1977) was underappreciated for many years. Continue reading
Zaha Hadid: Heydar Aliyev Centre
Lars Müller Publishers 2013 Zaha Hadid: Heydar Aliyev Centre is devoted to the new cultural center designed by Zaha Hadid in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku. Continue reading
Ruta del Peregrino
For the 13th Veice Architecture Biennale 2012 with the main topic ‘common ground’ given by David Chipperfield there was produced a Booklet to the project ‘Ruta del Peregrino’. The Booklet documents all projects, built by several architects from around the world, on the pilgrim route from Ameca to Talpea… Continue reading
Superkilen
The book Superkilen celebrates the dawn of a new type of urban public space. Designed by BIG, TOPOTEK1 and SUPERFLEX, Superkilen is a kilometre-long urban park wedged within one of the most ethnically diverse and socially challenged neighbourhoods in Denmark. The project triggers the imagination, exploring the idea of a plural… Continue reading
Stedelijk Architecture
NAI 010 Publishers 2013 In September 2012, grand celebrations marked the reopening of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam after a renovation that took eight years. The striking new white addition designed by Benthem Crouwel Architekten – popularly known as ‘the bathtub’ – is the subject of this richly illustrated publication. Continue reading
Diller, Scofidio + Renfro: Lincoln Center Inside Out: An Architectural Account
Damiani editore 2013 The redesign of Lincoln Center is one of the most challenging and innovative civic projects in recent urban history. Over the past eight years, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), in close collaboration with FXFOWLE, Beyer Blinder Belle and Lincoln Center’s leadership, has transformed the 50-year-old modernist citadel… Continue reading
Cloudline: A House by Toshiko Mori
Cloudline is a unique building designed by architect Toshiko Mori in collaboration with gallerists Sean and Mary Kelly and situated on the slopes of the Hudson River in Upstate New York. One is immediately greeted by art as soon as one enters the structure: Joseph Beuys, Jannis Kounellis, Juan Munoz,… Continue reading