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The latest addition to the annual Archiprix series focusing on Dutch design graduatesThe annual Archiprix series presents the best graduation projects from Dutch schools of architecture, urban design and landscape design.

A manifesto for the future of the library, featuring conversations with leading architects and designersIn Imagination and Participation, Dutch librarians Rob Bruijnzeels and Joyce Sternheim examine the most important recent changes in public library design through conversations with experts and architects who have designed public libraries in the Netherlands and abroad. These conversations and the authors' insights and experiences offer a vision for future library buildings that respond to the needs of the communities they serve.Imagination and Participation lays out a manifesto guided by what the authors believe visitors should experience when they visit a library. Libraries featured include the Birmingham Library in Alabama, Mies van der Rohe's Martin Luther King Library in Washington, DC, and the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; architects and designers interviewed include Jo Coenen, Chris van Duijn, Francine Houben, Winy Maas, Vincent Panhuysen, Michael Riedijk and more.

A photographic homage to the uniquely everyday weirdness of the NetherlandsDutch photographer Jan Dirk van der Burg (born 1978) captures the little oddities of the Netherlands, from eccentrically disguised wheelie bins to comical gardens. This photobook collects over 200 color photos of typical suburban scenes.

A massive visual history of classic offices by Mies, Ponti, Le Corbusier, SOM and moreNow that technology has made it possible to work almost anywhere--and since the COVID-19 pandemic forced so many to work from home--we have a conflicted relationship with the office. Desperate to work again in physically shared spaces, we are also now questioning whether offices--and the demanding, alienating rhythms they may impose--are needed at all. Offices themselves are also subject to intolerable forces: 21st-century building regulations suggest redesigning them every seven to ten years; managerial strategies typically shift every five years; and offices are torn down, stripped out, rethought and renewed with alarming frequency.With the future of our workspaces so uncertain, Back to the Office looks to both past and future, revisiting the revolutionary offices of the 20th century, and asking what endures from their architecture, their materials and the ideologies of work they embody.Compiling before-and-after photography, archival documents, contemporary interviews and critical essays, this book engages corporations, architects, workers, building managers, regulators and others, in search of the lessons we need to learn for the future of office life.Back to the Office looks at the development of iconic office projects by SOM, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Arne Jacobsen, Herman Hertzberger, Oscar Niemeyer, Gio Ponti, Le Corbusier, Kenzo Tange and many others, spread across four continents. Includes contributions by Rem Koolhaas, Herman Hertzberger, Keigo Koyabashi Lab, Manfredo di Robilant and Shaun Fynn, among others.

An indispensable overview of Fontana's innovative spatial interventionsFamed for his iconic monochrome canvases with violent vertical cuts, Italian artist Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) is one of the most important avant-garde artists of the 20th century and he continues to inspire artists, designers and architects today. Lucio Fontana: The Conquest of Space highlights Fontana's "Concetto spaziale," or "spatial concept," and shows how these spatial notions took shape not only in his slashed canvases but also in his sculpture, jewelry and installations.For Fontana, there was no fundamental distinction between the visual arts, architecture and design: he was a sculptor by trade and refused to be limited by disciplines in his conception of space. He was one of the first visual artists to create spatial installations with floating sculptures and neon lights, and to collaborate with architects and designers. This lavish catalog contains 100 reproductions of his groundbreaking work.

Blood, guts and mortality: the unique convergence of fleshliness and devotion in medieval artAnatomical oddities abound in medieval artworks: headless saints who walk around seemingly unperturbed by such injuries, distinctly yonic wounds and a depiction of Jesus being crushed like a grape are only a few examples of the medieval artist's intriguing perception of the world. The result of the University of Amsterdam's multiyear research project on representations of the human body in late medieval art, Body Language is at once a collection of surprising artworks and a reflection on the role of the human body in a devotional context. From 1300 to 1500, artists participated in a culture that emphasized the crudest, most human elements of the Biblical stories depicted, blood, guts and all. Featuring a beautiful die-cut cover, this volume demonstrates the raw passion and vivid theological beliefs conveyed through illustrations that may now be considered disturbing or bizarre. "From severed heads to sensual relics, bearded ladies to wandering genitals, this lively and richly illustrated book animates the intersection between medieval understandings of the body and the materiality of Catholic devotion with a wit and playfulness that will surely appeal to students, scholars, and general readers alike." -Marisa Anne Bass, Yale University

The first comprehensive survey of the influential Belgian filmmaker's film installationsOne of the foremost avant-garde filmmakers of the 1970s, Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) moved toward the visual arts as a secondary career with the 1995 screening of her film D'est. Originally a documentary shot on 16mm film, D'est was transformed by Akerman into a large spatial installation played across 24 monitors. From that point on, Akerman continued to experiment with the possibilities of exhibition spaces, persisting in her lifelong project to document the political dimensions of daily life. This publication highlights the French filmmaker's installations, with full-color photographs and several essays exploring the central themes of Akerman's oeuvre such as gender roles, migration and the passage of time.

On the past and future of experimental housing in EuropeThe new edition of DASH surveys experimental housing of the past and present in Europe--specifically Dutch prototypes. Looking at the past and to the future, this publication hypothesizes on what the future of dwellings could look like.

Intelligent building systems in works from the esteemed Dutch firmThis first overview of the Rotterdam-based architecture firm Mei Architects and Planners features projects from the past 25 years, including Smarthouse, the 1995 modular home and SAWA, the wooden residential complex currently in development in Rotterdam.

An ode to three friends and their jubilant fusion of drawing, dance and photographyIn the days of downtown New York in the '70s and '80s, three boundary-pushing artists flourished: Keith Haring (1958-90), Muna Tseng (born 1953) and Tseng Kwong Chi (1950-90). Boundless Minds & Moving Bodies presents an intimate visual journey through the early collaborations between these artists and friends, offering a unique and colorful prism of their expression through their respective disciplines: drawing, dance and photography, respectively. Their work and interactions reveal a shared performative energy--the joy of experimenting, openness, exchange and social engagement. Together and independently, they were immersed in and contributors to the bustling and vibrant cultural downtown scene.This book features the 1982 collaboration between Haring and Tseng, in which the former created the set for the latter, drawing a visual score for her performance piece Epochal Songs. Tseng's brother, Kwong Chi, took photographs of Haring's work in the subways, on the streets and during public performances, rendering them accessible to audiences across the globe. Next to the collaborative work of Haring and Tseng, the publication introduces Kwong Chi's own body of seminal work: the famous self-portrait series East Meets West, which he made while visiting many iconic tourist sites across the world with Haring.

A new history of modern Japanese architecture, from an environmental perspectiveJoachim Nijs' Japan: Nation Building Nature is the first book to map out the views of nature that have shaped the widely acclaimed but often misunderstood modern architecture of Japan. By connecting the dots between philosophy, design, geopolitics and an earnest quest for a greener tomorrow, this book explains how Japanese culture can shed new light on our understanding of ecology, and vice versa.Using a distinctive blend of academic research and personal experience, Nijs draws on architectural history to navigate Japan's complex and unique ecological ethic through the lens of four typological phenomena: earthquakes, monsoon climates, nuclear erasure of life and insularity. This imaginative and refreshing book offers key insights and references for anyone wishing to deepen their knowledge of Japan and its architecture.

An Italian designer's reconception of the cultural semiotics of headwearDuring a Ghent residency, Italian designer Daniela Dossi created a collaborative textile research project compiling headwear from around the world, producing 800 textile samples to be recomposed in order to recognize mutual difference as a common value: what might the headdress of the first Mexican female President of the United States look like, for example?

An easy-to-use resource, this guide outlining 100 buildings and sites in the Dutch city of Eindhoven explores the city's newest high-profile buildings, historic icons and hidden gems.

A concise guide to Rotterdam's architectural highlightsThis compact, up-to-date guide to Rotterdam presents the highlights of the Netherlands' number-one city of architecture: the latest high-profile buildings, illustrious icons and hidden jewels. In addition to the 100 best buildings, this guide also directs visitors to the city's must-see locales.

A new building type emerges in the Dutch city of GroningenGroningen's new and stunning public structure, the Forum Groningen, built by NL Architects, which opened in 2019, is examined here through photography, articles, design sketches and more. This civic structure houses a museum, library, cinema and public spaces.

Twenty years of abstraction in clay from Denmark's leading ceramicistFor Danish ceramicist Morten Løbner Espersen (born 1965), artistic triumph is as much about failing as catastrophe is about finding beauty in the unplanned. Triumph and Catastrophe, the first comprehensive view of Espersen's 20-year exploration of the vessel, offers a good measure of both.

How to design architectural glass components, from wild avant-garde ideas to practical solutionsIn this heyday of glass architecture, many architects rely on pre-manufactured standardized glass components for their buildings. Dutch architect and engineer Mick Eekhout (born 1950), principal and founder of Dutch engineering firm Octatube, wishes to revive what was once a standard practice: architectural glass components designed specifically for the project they are intended to adorn. Illustrated with numerous examples, this book covers product development for glass facades, glass roofs and applications of cold-bent double-laminated glass. Eekhout shows how to design new glass components and their step-by-step development, from adventurous avant-garde projects to certified building components that enhance the specific character of a building. Examples include the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Santander's Glass Cube in Madrid and many others.

Soil as an ecological design tool in urban environmentsInspired by Bernardo Secchi's 1986 text "Progetto di Suolo," this issue of Oase offers critical analyses of how soil, as an intermediary entity between surface and subsurface, can further the practices of urbanism and urban design.

The present and future of Dutch designThis year's yearbook theme, Horizons, summarizes design in 2021 and looks to the future. The book offers a candid take on what designers are thinking and making now, through essays and interviews, remarkable graduation projects from Dutch design schools, award-winning work and portraits of design heroes.

The new authoritative monograph on Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo, famed for its work for the New York Public Library and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial LibraryFounded in Delft, Netherlands, in 1984, world-famous architecture firm Mecanoo operates under the belief that "architecture must appeal to all the senses," according to cofounder Francine Houben. What began as a firm focused primarily on social housing projects has expanded over the years to include projects as diverse as university campuses, houses of worship and entire residential neighborhoods across the globe. In the United States, Mecanoo's designs can be seen in landmark buildings such as the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building in Boston and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC. The lattermost building, set to reopen as the city's central library in fall 2020, was designed with the intent to honor Dr. King's legacy with a focus on community-building and letting light in. Across their diverse portfolio, one can see Mecanoo's commitment to the the three original tenets of Houben's architectural practice: people, place and purpose, from which design poetry can be created. This publication provides a comprehensive, up-to-date portrait of one of the world's most exciting architecture firms, with full-color photographs, illustrations and design plans.

On urban density as a tool for planning and designThis revised edition of Meta Berghauser Pont and Per Haupt's 2010 volume attempts to analyze the connections between density, urban form and performance--a prerequisite for understanding and successfully predicting the effects of specific designs and planning proposals. Its main focus is the relationship between types of urban environment and data such as amount, size and physical properties. Berghauser Pont and Haupt demystify the use of image-based references and concepts such as "compact city" and "park city" by challenging the reliability of such concepts and critically examining the possibility of redefining them through the concept of density. Spacematrix will be of interest to architects as well as urban planners and designers, but is equally relevant for other professionals working in the field of urbanism, such as developers, economists, engineers and policymakers.