2006

rizzoli: fluidity and flexibility are hallmarks of UN STUDIO projects, and many of these projects have literally reinvented a number of standard building types, such as power stations, museums, bridges, transportation hubs, and live-work residences. un studio projects fuse a sophisticated understanding of digital design with a formal and material exploration that has ensured that their work reaches far beyond the “supermodernism” associated with other dutch firms. this book presents the firm’s complete body of work.

2005

princeton architectural press: we all know that today’s architectural design has moved from the sketchpad to the screen-the era of the mayline and the drafting board now seems downright paleolithic-but techniques for using the computer not just as a tool for rendering but as a generative instrument remain woefully unexplored. in tooling, the latest installment in our renowned pamphlet architecture series, the technologically progressive young firm ARANDA/LASCH illustrates how advanced computational methods and algorithmic codes can be used to foster architectural design. tooling explores patterns generated by computer codes that in turn create an organizational template assembling projects. by openly sharing these codes, the authors seek to foster further investigation into their methods, allowing other architects to model and evolve more critical and insightful geometries and patterns.

2004

the book documents the work of the austrian born sculptor, erwin hauer, who developed patterned screens made from concrete casts. Full of beautiful illustrations and photographs this volume explores all of his walls and modular structures.

2004

thames & hudson: written and compiled largely by the architect, the book reveals the inspirations, insights, and techniques that allow him to conceive—and build—such experimental work. there is a complete documentation of NOX’S oeuvre, including built and unbuilt work—some twenty-three projects in total; essays by leading critics manual de landa, detlef mertins, andrew benjamin, brian massumi, and arjen mulder; and explanatory texts by spuybroek that link the projects together. many of the illustrations in the book have been specially created, making accessible for the first time the complex strategies employed by spuybroek. this in turn will make the publication an invaluable resource for both students and practicing designers. over 800 illustrations, 400 in color.

2004

actar: phylogenesis is structured as a reflection on the work that foreign office architects (FOA) has produced during its first 10 years of practice…[CONT]

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2002

the case study program redefined modern living through its 36 modernists houses around los angeles designed by architects such as charles and ray eames, eero saarinen, and richard neutra.. this huge book covers the entire case study program from 1945-1966 through beautiful photographs, sketches, and plans.

2001

princeton architectural PRESS: preston scott COHEN combines the use of the most advanced digital modeling technologies with a fascination for 17th century descriptive geometry. he uses familiar forms distorted by oblique projections and similar devices to create complex designs that challenge our preconceptions about the nature of order in architecture. contested symmetries and other predicaments in architecture features cohen’s intricate abstract geometries and lucidly describes both the mechanics and the theory behind their application. a wealth of projects, including the widely acclaimed torus house, are represented through drawings, models, and computer-generated images.

1999

princeton architetcural PRESS: in this first monograph on his work, architect neil DENARI sets his sights on the gyroscopic horizon, a term based on the altitude device found in most aircraft.

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1999

stan ALLEN: the filed condition implies an architecture that admits change, accident, and improvisation. it is an architecture not invested in durability, stability, and certainty, but an architecture that leaves space for the uncertainty of the real.
stan ALLEN’S excellent points + lines includes his seminal essay on field conditions as well as two other writings and an afterword by robert somol. allen investigates swarms, flocks, mats, intensities and the shift from object to field at the end of the 20th century. the book is organized as a user’s manual and includes documentation of six projects by allen.

1998

architectura & natura: long awaited reprint in one volume of this seminal and influential architecture manifesto that was first released in 1998 by the founders of UNSTUDIO. move examines the architect’s new role in an environment of technological, public and economic change. the redefinition of organizational structures is the common thread running through the three chief volumes (imagination, techniques, and effects) that are published in this edition as one book.