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    • 10 MOMENTS IN ARCHITECTURE BOOKS / BEST OF 2013

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    DER BAUPLAN

    Edited by Annette Spiro and David Ganzoni / Park Books
    Weighing in like a phone book, Der Bauplan is a rare compendium of architectural construction drawings by some of the world’s noted builders. Along with essays by the authors, including Mario Carpo, Philip Ursprung and Ákos Moravánsky, the book offers a look at the documents and drawings that go into making the buildings of Alvar Aalto, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Le Corbusier, Valerio Olgiati, Jean Prouvé, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Álvaro Siza, Jørn Utzon, and more than 100 other luminaries.
    www.park-books.com

     

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    JUNKSPACE WITH RUNNING ROOM

    By Rem Koolhaas and Hal Foster / Notting Hill Editions
    “Junkspace,” Rem Koolhaas’s essay that introduced the term and concept of the same name, is paired here with Hal Foster’s rumination on it. It’s a quick read that will arm you with a widened perspective of the contemporary architectural condition and Christmas party chatter alike.
    www.nottinghilleditions.com

     

     

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    DRUOT, LACATON & VASSAL: TOUR BOIS LE PRÊTRE

    Edited by Ilka & Andreas Ruby, and German Architecture Museum / Ruby Press
    Technically, this book came out in 2012 (though some friends outside of Germany didn’t see it till this year), but one can never have enough of a good thing, especially during Christmas time. It’s an outsized book, filled with engrossing photographs, of a widely lauded project by a team of France’s most exciting architectural minds, which we interviewed here.
    www.ruby-press.com

     

     

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    AFRITECTURE

    Edited by Andres Lepik / Hatje Cantz
    As neocapitalism plays itself out in North America, Europe and Asia, this book—the catalog of an exhibition of the same name—lays out the most intriguing new architectural propositions coming out of sub-Saharan Africa today.
    www.hatjecantz.de

     

     

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    OASIS: WELLNESS, SPA AND RELAXATION

    Edited by Sven Ehmann, Sofia Borges, Robert Klanten / Gestalten
    I can’t stop looking at the images in this book. I’m obsessed.
    www.gestalten.com

     

     

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    PROJECT OF CRISIS: MANFREDO TAFURI AND CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE

    By Marco Biraghi / MIT Press
    For those of us who have struggled with Manfredo Tafuri’s elliptical texts in architecture school, Biraghi has basically produced a primer. Project of Crisis is not the Coles Notes version of Tafuri’s tough tomes, but it will contextualize and explain his most important points.
    www.mitpress.mit.edu 

     

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    THE ARTIST’S HOUSE: FROM WORKPLACE TO ARTWORK

    By Kirsty Bell / Sternberg Press
    There have been many forced theoretical alliances between art and architecture in recent bibliographic memory, but this book is not one of them. Bell takes the home, an architectural unit fundamental to all our experiences, and narrates it through its different guises as studios, artworks, concepts, and dwellings. See what Dahn Vo, Gregor Schneider, Andrea Zittel and Monika Sosnowska are like at home.
    www.sternberg-press.com

     

     

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    A QUESTION OF QUALITIES: ESSAYS IN ARCHITECTURE

    By Jeffrey Kipnip / MIT Press
    The collected writing of the great American architectural pedagogue and writer Jeffrey Kipnis is now upon us! He’s known for wrestling with theoreticians and philosophers like Peter Eisenman and Jacques Derrida, but his readers also know him for the way he’s able to translate complex ideas textually and embed them into the discipline at large.
    www.mitpress.mit.edu

     

     

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    PIN-UP INTERVIEWS

    Edited by Felix Burrichter and Andrew Ayers / powerHouse Books
    If you don’t have a copy of this yet then then get one! PIN-UP, the world’s one and only periodical dedicated to “architectural entertainment,” puts the fun back in the fundamentals. This book is an anthology of interviews the magazine has published over the years, featuring a cast as diverse as Barry Bergdoll, Julius Shulman, Rick Owens, Oscar Tuazon, Cyprien Gaillard, and Zaha Hadid. (Full disclosure: I contribute twice therein)
    www.powerhousebooks.com

     

     

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    THE CITY IN THE CITY – BERLIN: A GREEN ARCHIPELAGO

    Edited by Florian Hertwick and Sébastien Marot / Lars Müller
    For the past 30 years or so, “The Green Archipelago” was an architectural proposition by O.M. Ungers that everyone knew of, but very few actually knew well. Now with this new volume—containing original interviews with Ungers’s collaborators, facsimiles of notes, never-before-published photographs, and new essays by the editors—we should all be on the same page!
    www.lars-mueller-publishers.com

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  • “It’s obvious we need a new internationalism, but it’s not going to be politicians that get us there. We’re publishing the people we think will.”

     

    Earlier this year, 032c contributor SHANE ANDERSON spoke to actor India Ennenga and editor Sebastian Clark, publishers of isolarii. This week isolarii releases STREET COP, a new project by Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman – and Spiegelman’s first in more than a decade. The authors, whose respective oeuvres have long grappled with political mythos, now join forces to address the current state of the American psyche. Illustrated over the course of the pandemic in 2020, this short tale is a visceral response to reality’s dissolution and a reckoning of political disaster – and a proposal for a path to emergent empathy.

     

    Read “Books by ISOLARII: ‘Islands from which to view the world anew'” HERE.

  • Dior Men and Fendi designer KIM JONES has guest edited the April issue of Vogue Italia. Emanuele Farneti, the magazine’s in-house editor-in-chief, introduces the collaboration with a loose adaptation of the preface of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando – one of Jones’ favorite works of literature. “Many friends have helped us in writing this book,” he begins. Farneti continues:

     

    “Some creative products are the fruit of individual talent. Others are the result of a collective effort. They grow and gain strength thanks to the contributions of people with different sensibilities and experiences. Without any doubt, Vogue Italia belongs to this second group. Every idea, every photo and every page of the magazine is the outcome of constant exchanges between the people who work on this publication. It’s the part of our job that I love the most: helping someone else’s ideas to develop, and seeing how my own ideas are strengthened and take shape when they’re challenged by the various viewpoints of my colleagues. We are a community, and at times like these, heaven knows how central the sense of sharing is to our lives.”

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    JONES has shared with 032c before, inviting writer Jack Self and photographer Jackie Nickerson into his London home for our sold-out Issue #37. You can read the interview – and see Jones’ wild collection of art and artifacts, which includes plenty of Woolf paraphernalia – HERE.