Newsletter October 2009 Dear Reader, At the Dutch Design Week, which was held from 17-25 October 2009, the renewed Dutch Design Yearbook was presented. With a wide selection this yearbook shows the best designs of authoritative and young Dutch designers in the field of spatial design, product design, vogue and graphic design. Dutch design at his best!   In November Refuge and Reciprocity are two of the themes that are highlighted at the IABR. In the publication by Bas Princen, Refuge is the central topic.   From 29 October through 1 November 2009 the AFFR takes place: the worlds largest architecture film festival. In only four days you can watch more than 100 films, attend premières and take part in debates.   Our offer this month excists of different editions of VERB series. These publications are now available from € 32.50 for € 19.95!    Looking forward to seeing you, Dutch Design Yearbook 2009  Vincent van Baar, Bert van Meggelen, Timo de Rijk Paperback / 216 pages / text Dutch, English / October 2009 At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 29.50 euro This first Dutch Design Yearbook presents a survey of more than 60 of the best designs in the field of spatial design, product design, fashion and graphic design that were produced in 2008-2009 in the Netherlands. A selection of important events, publications and exhibitions in the field adds colour to the design year and content to the design debate during this period. ‘Dutch Design’ – whether design pur sang, fashion design, graphic design or architecture – has over recent years been winning acclaim the world over. Besides being of interest to designers, studios and the industry, this publication is also highly accessible to a broad in ter¬national readership with an interest in Dutch design. Order now Architecture of Consequence. Dutch Designs on the Future Ole Bouman, Anneke Abhelakh, Mieke Dings, Martine Zoeteman Paperback / 160 pages / text English / October 2009 Also available in Dutch edition At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 27.00 euro This book demonstrates that there needs to be a shift from spatial to social tasks, because the notion that architecture should be an expression of its time or of the might of its commissioners pales into insignificance when compared to its value in resolving societal problems.  This volume serves as the publication accompanying the international touring exhibition, which will receive its premiere as the Dutch presentation at the Architecture Biennale in São Paulo. The NAI selected 22 Dutch architecture firms with distinctive ideas concerning the seven stated themes and an unbridled ambition to do something about them. The result is an agenda for the future of our living environment, but is also a sampler of the creative power of designers to provide its actual substance.  Order now Claus en Kaan Architecten. Ideal Standard. Buildings 1988-2009 Felix Claus, Kees Kaan Paperback / 360 pages / text English / October 2009 At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 35.00 euro   Working in acceptance of the distance between the general idea of architecture and its specific elaboration in individual projects, Claus en Kaan Architecten produce buildings in which an ideal standard is always at least visible in the background. It is an architecture in which arbitrariness is kept in check as much as possible without lapsing into schematism. The selection of work presented here, designed between 1988 and 2009, makes clear that the practice has developed an increasingly explicit and recognisable signature over the years, based on the conviction that the best they can make consists of buildings in which the layers that expressly make them architecture are stripped off as much as possible. By doing this, Claus en Kaan are able to position their projects between the mass of buildings and exceptional architecture: their architecture is neither ordinary nor extraordinary, but is situated in an area in between, free of the conventions of the commonplace, unhindered by the urge to be original. Their architecture acquires its distiction by a far-reaching reduction of specificity, and by a unique condensation of ordinary forms and compositions Order now DP6. Ten Years of Architecture Olof Koekebakker Paperback / 200 pages / text English / October 2009 Also available in Dutch Edition At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 34.50 euro   In the autumn of 1999, Chris de Weijer and Robert Alewijnse left Mecanoo Architecten to start up their own office, which they called DP6 architectuurstudio. In the ten years that have passed since then, they have realized a rich and multi-faceted oeuvre. Eighteen projects from this oeuvre – those that most fire the imagination – are presented in DP6. Ten Years of Architecture. They range from the glass towers of the Walterbos complex in Apeldoorn to the archetypical wooden dwelling house in Driebergen, and from the striking red mega-cinema in a noise barrier to near Ede to the bridges for the Zuid erpark in Rotterdam. Besides comprehensive documentation of the projects, the book furnishes insight into the way in which DP6 deals with assignments. Designs are often created in two stages. Rational analsis is followed by a more intuitive process in which the emphasis is placed upon associative thought. This produces strongly sensory architecture in which a major role is often reserved for the landscape. DP6 is also notable for the way clients and users are involved in the genesis of a design. DP6. Ten Years of Architecture is a book about an architectural office that manifests itself without much propaganda or fuss but which is, at the same time, distinctive enough to claim a conspicuous position in the realm of Dutch architecture.  Order now The Schools of Herman Hertzberger Herman Hertzberger, Abram de Swaan Paperback / 160 pages / text Dutch, English / October 2009 At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 29.50 euro   Schools crops up often in Hertzberger’s prodigious oeuvre. They are his favourite buildings, he says. Hertzberger designs schools that are to function like cities. Schools and cities, he contends, can be read in many ways and are challenging, inspirational and inviting. School is where you can withdraw and adopt a position with respect to others, where you learn to take a place in society. Besides a presentation of Hertzberger’s thirty-plus built schools and a number of unbuilt ones, the sociologist Abram de Swaan addresses Hertzberger’s work in an essay. Aided by examples, he examines how school architecture and the way s chool buildings are organized impacts the social development of children. De Swaan pays tribute to Hertzberger as a pre-eminently ’sociological’ architect.   Order now Tadao Ando Museums Luca Molinari, Tadao Ando Hardcover / 240 pages / text English / October 2009 At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 59.95 euro   More than thirty years ago Tadao Ando started to establish himself as one of the best designers on the international scene for the rigor and character of his works, and ever since his intense activity has moved tirelessly between private residences and public buildings. Each of Ando’s museums has added a small piece to the construction of a cohesive path based on a strong and clear use of geometry, the employment of few materials in the right proportions, the harmony of the spaces, and a relationship with the landscape. From this point of view, his series of museums communicates the Japanese master’s design philosophy perfectly. This bo ok has been put together with the architect, who, through an important and exclusive series of study sketches, images, and models, tells us of his works and his way of seeing and conceiving architecture including the construction of the museum. From the early buildings accomplished in Naoshima, Osaka and Oyamazaki, through the Pulitzer Center in Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, and the restructuring of Palazzo Grassi in Venice, readers will be guided into the reserved and rigorous world of Tadao Ando, gaining a sense of the "secret" of his project work.  Order now Occasions Josep Lluis Mateo Paperback / 224 pages / text English / October 2009 At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 29.50 euro Josep Lluís Mateo is one of Spain's most influential architects in architecture today. This book brings together his recent projects, his influences, his references together with material from interviews and a wealth of images. It is, in a nutshell, his work philosophy. Conversations, reflections and projects completed in the last five years are presented as realities and actions, interpreted through this concept, which can be contemplated as infinity of individual forms of contacting with reality and acting upon it. For Josep Lluís Mateo, the crux of this work is to analyse, from the perspective of his unique work, the state of issues and situat ions today in architecture and to interact accordingly with exterior space. Order now 2G 51 MGM Morales De Giles Mariscal  Paperback / 144 pages / text English, Spanish / October 2009 At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 29.95 euro Away from the traditional focal points of Spanish architecture-Madrid and Barcelona-the Sevillean studio MGM Arquitectos stands out among this new batch of Spanish architects, adding a peripheral condition of sorts to the substratum of good workmanship. MGM’s outstanding work with skins and their materials is not restricted to merely epidermal issues, but rather envelops and contains a whole series of intermediary spaces that are neither exterior nor interior, that give an added value to both apartment and public buildings, and pick up in turn on a whole tradition of intermediary spaces typical of Andalusian architecture. Order now   Other available issues of 2G Architecture of Change 2. Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment Kristin Feireiss, Lukas Feireiss Hardcover / 240 pages / text English / September 2009 Also available: Architecture of Change At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 46.00 euro Architecture of Change 2 presents an unrivalled collection of the most innovative architecture that makes a considerable contribution to a sustainable future. Over forty exemplary projects by internationally renowned architecture practices such as Renzo Piano and OMA founder Rem Koolhaas are featured in addition to social initiatives such as Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation. From a zero emission ice station facility in Antarctica to the High Line public promenade in New York, it represents a broad range of environmentally mindful concepts that are outstanding architectonically and also devoted to regional environmental and soci al conditions as well as their global impact. Order now Cities of Change. Addis Ababa. Transformation Strategies for Urban Territories in the 21st Century Marc Angelil, Dirk Hebel Paperback / 256 pages / text English / October 2009 At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 43.00 euro The Urban Laboratory – Addis Ababa is a research initiative launched by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in collaboration with Addis Ababa University (AAU) and the Ethiopian Engineering Capacity Building Program (ECBP). The laboratory sets as its objective the development of sustainable strategies for urban environments. Rather than upholding an a priori vision of an ideal city, the publication "Cities of Change: Addis Ababa" acknowledges the heterogeneous and at times messy conditions of urban territories, and makes a case for their transformation over time. Order now Visionary Cities. 12 reasons for claiming the future of our cities Winy Maas, The Why Factory Paperback / 240 pages / text English / October 2009 At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 15.00 euro Visionary Cities sets the agenda for the city of the future. This first publication in the ‘Future Cities Series’ is intended as an overview of the issues that The Why Factory is addressing and to outline this research institute’s ambitions and modus operandi for the coming years. Are we having too much fun? Are our dreams undermining the city? Has everything been done before? Is our future being imagined without us? Most importantly: What is an urban vision and why do we need one? In Visionary Cities, The Why Factory asks these questions and invites you to join them as they explore potential solutions for these and many more urgencies that are threatening our cities today. Visionary Cities is the first publication in the upcoming ‘Future Cities Series’ Order now Design and Politics Mieke Dings, Henk Ovink, Ellen Wierenga Hardcover / 352 pages / text Dutch, English / October 2009 Also available: Designing Randstad 2040 At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 29.50 euro In establishing a professorship in Design & Politics at the TU Delft, the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment has launched a programme of education, research and practice targeted at strengthening the interaction between design and politics for the spatial design of the Netherlands. This book serves to inspire and organize that programme in terms of history, reflection, position and, not least, intention. It outlines the history of the Netherlands’ thinkers, makers and builders. It also gives an understanding of how the role and relationships in Dutch spatial planning have been transformed and of the ideals, systems and processes this confrontatio n has strengthened. And it reflects on the situation today. From talks with designers, administrators, decision makers, interested parties and researchers, its editors seek to distil and display the array of narratives in the Netherlands and abroad. Major and minor challenges as the subject of the confrontation between politics and design, with narratives and with the confrontation of these narratives. This confrontation is essential, not just for refined reflection but for alternatives, eventualities, potentials. Designers and politicians can no longer avoid the challenges - there has to be confrontation. Order now Reading the American Landscape Lex ter Braak, David Hamers, Anne Hoogewoning, Erik de Jong, Hanneke Schreiber, Dirk Sijmons Paperback / 928 pages / text English / September 2009 Also available in Dutch edition At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 49,50 euro From city high-rise to southern desert, from urban sprawl to virgin canyons, the American landscape is endless in its variety. On the initiative of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, a group of landscape architects, architects, urban designers, artists and critics travelled through this imposing landscape, drawing inspiration for their own work from its history and transformations. Their journey is recorded in Reading the American Landscape, which includes essays by the members of the group and a number of American landscape researchers. Order now Refuge. Five Cities Portfolio: Istanbul, Beirut, Amman, Cairo, Dubai  Bas Princen Paperback / 48 pages / text English, Arab, Turkish / September 2009 At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 15.00 euro This book brings together intimate portraits of five great cities: Istanbul, Beirut, Amman, Cairo and Dubai. Through its pages we discover quietly beautiful, yet meticulously constructed images; unexpected views of cities which take us beyond the clichés. These images constitute architectural research and visual poetry at the same time. The publication is the result of a unique collaboration between leading academics and urban researchers based in the five cities and the Dutch artist Bas Princen. It has been specially commissioned by architectural curators Philipp Misselwitz and Can Altay for the IABR 2009. Order now Henri Lefebvre. A critical Introduction Andrew Merrifield Paperback / 240 pages / text English / October 2009 At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 28.50 euro   This book will be a highly accessible critical introduction to French theorist Henri Lefebvre, who is recognized as one of the great social theorists on the topics of cities, space, revolution, and the state. Philosopher and sociologist, urban theorist and maverick bon vivant, Lefebvre's life and thought spanned almost the entire twentieth century, during which he authored over sixty books and hundreds of articles. He introduced the "early Marx" to French audiences and patented the sociological sub-discipline of "everyday life." His legacy is a fascinating body of work that, over the past decade, has begun to receive the critical attention that it merit s. Lefebvre frustrates and befuddles, bewilders and bedazzles with an oeuvre that defies categorization, and English-language assessments of his work have only begun to truly grapple with the ambiguities and contradictions of his thought. Merrifield's work combines biography and theory in a chronologically-rendered critical assessment of the dynamics of Lefebvre's character, thought, and times. Henri Lefebvre explores the sum of Lefebvre's thought and the as yet philosophical roads that remain his legacy.  Order now Paradoxes of Appearing. Essays on Art, Architecture and Philosophy M. Asgaard Andersen, H. Oxvig Paperback / 208 pages / text English / September 2009 At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 32.00 euro   The book contains a collection of essays by scholars and artists from a range of different fields including art, art history, architectural theory and philosophy. The essays are based on papers given at a symposium in Copenhagen in June 2008 and refer to the following considerations: When spectators confront and designers invent works of art and architecture, vital questions regarding their appearance arise. These are not simply questions about what appears, also what does not, i.e. what withdraws when works are experienced and created. How do we cope with this withdrawal, with latencies that escape concretization? What are the productive paradoxes associated hereto and how do they influence the processes of making? Based on multiple discourses on these subjects, contemporary positions in art, architecture and philosophy draw up new challenges, especially with regard to the creative practices. Within and between these positions emerge potentials for modes of thinking and doing with a new sensitivity. Order now Apostles of Beauty. Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago Judith A.Y. Barter Hardcover / 208 pages / text English / October 2009 At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers for 36.50 euro   The Arts and Crafts movement in architecture, interior design, and decorative arts reached its peak between 1880 and 1910 in Britain and North America. The movement’s emphasis on aesthetic quality and a high level of craftsmanship, promoted as an antidote to the ubiquity and uninspired appearance of machine-produced products, remains much admired today. Arts and Crafts enjoyed special resonance in Chicago, the home of Jane Addams’s Hull House, where immigrants and women received training in handicraft skills not only to beautify domestic life but also to provide them with viable, honorable work. Apostles of Beauty presents outstanding examples by the movement’s British originators, such as William Morris and Charles Robert Ashbee, as well as its greatest American practitioners, such as Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright. The volume highlights a wide range of objects, including ceramics, furniture, metalwork, paintings, photographs, and textiles. It focuses on Chicago’s absorption and interpretation of the movement, featuring works from the Art Institute, the University of Chicago, the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Crab Tree Farm, and private collections. Contributors to the book explore the complex influences of the Arts and Crafts style and provide a thematic history of the movement, including a section on design and collecting in Chicago. Order now Moleskine Agendas 2010     different editions / text English  At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers prices start from 9.90 euro   In the collection of NAi Booksellers you can find a wide selection of Moleskine notebooks and agendas. For 2010 we have several editions of the Moleskine agenda in stock:   - Daily Dairy hardcover pocket (red) - Daily diary hardcover pocket (black) - Daily Diary hardcover large (red) - Daily Diary hardover large (black) - Weekly Notebook hardcover pocket (red) - Weekly Notebook softcover large (black) - Project Planner softcover pocket (black) SPECIAL OFFER Verb Processing Jaime Salazar, Ramon Prat, Albert Ferré, Tomoko Sakamoto, Anna Tetas, Manuel Gausa  Paperback / 288 pages / text English / 2005 Also available: Verb Conditioning, Verb Connection, Verb Monograph Sendai Mediatheque, Verb Monograph Seattle Public Library - OMA At NAi Boekverkopers/Booksellers from 32.50 for 19.95 euro The shift from modern to digital systems of design and production opens up a material work to a deeper relationship between author and perceiver. From the classical work to the modern object and from the modern industrial to 'computerised' procedures, the interplay between author and user has become closer, more direct and open. How does this increasing complicity affect architectural practice? How can architecture be conceived as a more fluid informational development? Publishing architectures is much more than displaying a recently finished product in which the architect is the unique author. To make architecture is a real undertaking of numerous authors based on the process ing of information before, during and after the materialization of the building. The contemporary relationship between information and authorship in architectural practice, featuring works and texts by Manuel de Landa, Jorge Wagensberg, FOA Architects, Sadar & Vuga, njiric & njiric, Love, Lacaton & Vassal Order now Enjoy your shopping and reading!
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