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Hermann Czech
Essays on Architecture and
City Planning
2019. Hardback
252 pages, 17 color and
68 b/w illustrations
16 × 24 cm (6¼ × 9½ in)
978-3-03860-020-6 English
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00
£ 20.00 | $ 30.00
Eve Blau with Ivan Rupnik
Baku—Oil and Urbanism
2018. Paperback
304 pages, 159 color and
176 b/w illustrations
18 × 27 cm (7 × 10½ in)
978-3-03860-076-3 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00
£ 40.00 | $ 49.00
Very few architects are equally prolific in theory and design, and
Hermann Czech is one of those few. This book finally makes his
influential ideas available to an international audience. In these
essays, collected from throughout his career, Czech showcases
his commitment to developing precise terminology to advance
architectural dialogues while rooting these dialogues in the
larger history of ideas.
Iñaki Ábalos
The good life
A guided visit to the houses of
modernity
New revised edition, 2017.
Paperback
256 pages, 116 b/w illustrations
15.5 × 21 cm (5 × 8¼ in)
978-3-03860-051-0 English
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00
£ 35.00 | € 39.00
Iñaki Ábalos’s highly acclaimed book on seven iconic 20th-century
houses—some of them actually built, others merely imagined
or realized as film sets—takes readers through the key
philosophical precepts that likely guided the creation of these
homes, making insightful points about the relationship between
ideas about a particular modern way of living and approaches to
architecture and design.
Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital and formerly part of the Russian Empire
and Soviet Union, is a city built on and with oil. This new
book investigates how oil stimulated Baku’s urban development
and explores in detail the more complex and important question
of how the disparate spatial logics, knowledge bases, and practices
of oil production and urban production intersected, impacted
and transformed one another.
Jesús Vassallo
Seamless
Digital Collage and Dirty Realism
in Contemporary Architecture
2016. Hardback
200 pages, 164 color and 7 b/w
illustrations
17 × 24 cm (6¾ × 9½ in)
978-3-03860-019-0 English
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00
£ 30.00 | $ 39.00
In his study, architect Jesús Vassallo investigates the relationship
between architecture and photography and the emergence
of a new understanding of realism, based on the production of
architectures and images from fragments of reality. Starting
out from a series of interviews, he discusses collaborations between
Filip Dujardin and Jan De Vylder, Philipp Schaerer and
Roger Boltshauser, and Bas Princen and OFFICE Kersten Geers
David van Severen.