2008
routledge: designers are becoming more directly involved in the fabrication process from the earliest stages of design. this book showcases the design and research work by some of the leading designers, makers and thinkers today. this highly illustrated text brings together a wealth of information and numerous examples from practice which will appeal to both students and practitioners.
2008
actar: sanford KWINTER ponders the complex encounters between technology, culture, and architecture. critical essays offer an extended meditation on infrastructure, war, computation, mechanical and material intelligence, and other multivariate facets of modernity. far-reaching in scope, far from equilibrium amounts to a performance in writing of what kwinter describes as radical anamnesis: the imagination’s escape from the sterile logic of what is. compiling over a decade of architectural and critical writings, many published here for the first time, far from equilibrium is essential reading for anyone interested in the state of architecture and criticism today. a primer for (re)thinking design in the 21st century.
2008
the book began as the catalogue for an exhibition in the late 80s but was expanded to include the writings of corb and loos as well as tons of photos, models, and drawings of their works. Amazing side by side comparison of two masters and their development and in turn the development of modern architecture.
2007
mit PRESS: in enduring innocence, keller EASTERLING tells the stories of outlaw “spatial products”—resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist outside normal constituencies and jurisdictions, in difficult political situations around the world. these spaces—familiar commercial formulas of retail, business, and trade—aspire to be worlds unto themselves, self-reflexive and innocent of politics. but as easterling shows, these enclaves can become political pawns and objects of contention. jurisdictionally ambiguous, they are imbued with myths, desires, and symbolic capital. their hilarious and dangerous masquerades often mix quite easily with the cunning of political platforms. easterling argues that the study of such “real estate cocktails” provides vivid evidence of the market’s weakness, resilience, or violence.
2007
AD: this issue of ad extrapolates current design tendencies and brings them together to present a new type of architecture, one that is seamlessly tying processes, space, structure and material together with a self-assured beauty. ‘elegance’ here is cast with a new contemporary meaning as it is applied to work that is effortlessly complex. it is analogous to an elegant algorithm that uses a small amount of initiative code to great effect. in a structure elegance may be expressed by a complex surface that retains its continuity and integrity even when punctured. in many ways, elegance marks a coming of age for, ‘digital architecture’, as architects become more adept at producing complexity and integrating digital design technologies, production and assembly systems producing elegant solutions.
includes essays by manuel delanda, greg lynn, un studio, zaha hadid architects, preston scott cohen, and hani rashid.
2007
yale university press: peter EISENMAN has been an innovative presence in the field of architecture and architectural theory for more than thirty years.
2006
rizzoli: perhaps more than any other architect practicing today, peter eisenman has made a career out of devising a dialectic of oppositions in architecture. with references to societal alienation and existing architectural forms, his work derives much from friedrich nietzsche, noam chomsky, and jacques derrida. he led the loosely knit group of architects known as “the new york five” (which included john hejduk, michael graves, charles gwathmey, and richard meier), who made an effort to introduce a theory and artistry of modernist architecture as rigorous as that of the european avant-garde. this is the first comprehensive single-volume overview ever published on eisenman’s buildings and projects, from his first work, house i (1960), to his most recent projects, currently under construction in spain and germany. the book includes all the projects eisenman has created, with essays from international architects and critics, including greg lynn, sanford kwinter, and stan allen.
2006
AD: emergence requires the recognition of architectural structures not as singular and fixed bodies, but as complex energy and material systems that have a lifespan, exist as part of the environment of other active systems, and as an iteration of a series that proceeds by evolutionary development.
2006
catalytic formations documents ali RAHIM’S work and thoughts through 2003. beautiful line drawings and stark white renderings fill the pages. interspersed are essays by rahim on technique, technology, affects, and feedback loops. work by greg lynn, zaha hadid, kol/mac, nox, and cecil balmond is used throughout to illustrate the ideas found in the texts.
