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
The Light Pavilion
The first built project and final creative work of artist and architect Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012), the Light Pavilion is transcendent architecture, a project that exemplifies the preoccupations of a consummate draftsman, thinker, and educator. Nestled within a mixed-use complex in Chengdu, China, this daring construction is an emancipated drawing, a… Continue reading
Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities
Lars Müller Publishers 2012 Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an extra-legal and tenuous squat, that some have called a “vertical slum.” Urban-Think Tank, the authors… Continue reading
Herzog & de Meuron / Ai Weiwei: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012
Walther König Verlag, Köln 2012 Foreword and interview by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Text by Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Ai Weiwei, Joseph Rykwert. In 2008, Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei joined forces to design the celebrated Beijing National Stadium… Continue reading
White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes
University of California Press 2012 Spanning four continents and six countries, this book introduces “new art landscapes” that fuse architecture, the reuse of found structures, environmentalism, and artistic experimentation. Through words and pictures, readers explore six institutions—Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, USA; Raketenstation Hombroich, near Neuss, Germany; Benesse Art Site in… Continue reading
MASS Design Group: Empowering Architecture: The Butaro Hospital, Rwanda
MASS Design Group 2013 Empowering Architecture is the MASS Design Group’s first publication. MASS partners with governments and various organizations to apply design and architectural thinking to social justice goals and produce equitable infrastructure that assists its partners in breaking the cycles of structural violence and poverty. This volume is a… Continue reading