Phaidon Atlas of the 21^st Century
The "Phaidon Atlas of the 21st Century" is a new collection of more than 1000 outstanding projects built since 2000 and will be available at Architext bookshops in September.
In 2004, Phaidon released their first Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture. It was a five year snapshot of the architecture bridging the millennium and it has become a favoured reference in architect's offices throughout the world. A small number of significant buildings from the first collection are retained in this new Atlas as they represent major 21st century additions to the built environment, but 95 per cent of the projects featured are new to the "Phaidon Atlas of the 21st Century". It will be available from September 2008, post free within Australia for pre-publication orders.
Phaidon 2008 HB AU$275.00

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NEW BOOKS

100 Dream houses from Down Under Robyn Beaver
New to the series, 100 Dream houses introduces houses from Australia and New Zealand and the way in which they utilise site, materials, and climate to their fullest potential. Particularly interesting is the multitude of environmentally sustainable projects, with most dwellings implementing solar and passive heating and cooling, thermal qualities and rainwater harvesting. Images Publishing 2008 349pp HB AU$59.95 [14/08]

2G Dossier: Iberoamerica Emerging architecture 2G
Ibero-american architecture is exciting: the identification of a diverse and inherently heterogeneous group that bases its similarities on the interpretation of contemporary culture. Providing examples from numerous European and Latin American, Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries, defining them according to the socio-economic realities they are going through. 2G Spain 2008 135pp AU$66.00 [14/08]

2G Paulo Mendes da Rocha: Recent work 2G
Issue 45, A collection of recent works from the internationally recognised Brazilian architect, in a well documented 2G title, including photos, plans, and sketches. 2G Spain 2008 145pp AU$65.00 [14/08]

2G Smiljan Radic  2G
Issue 44, of 2G international architecture review looks at Chilean architect Smiljan Radic, displaying a number of his recent works, from 1997 to 2007. 2G Spain 2008 145pp AU$65.00 [14/08]

AA files 56 Nigel Taylor
Topics of this issue include: Programmatic Geometry, Robert Venturi, The Grand Tour and the Revision of Modern Architecture. AA UK 2008 88pp PB AU$55.00 [14/08]

AA Book Projetcs Review 2008
Architecture. AA UK 2008 PB AU$94.20 [05.09.08]

Absent Architecture of the 20^th Century Series
14: Loos: Group of Twenty Villas on the Cote D’Azur 1923
19: G.A.T.C.P.A.C. Portable Bungalow 1931- 1935
21: Terragni El Danteum, Roma 1938- 1940
23: Wright Memorial Masieri, Venecia 1953
Editorial Rueda Madrid HB $AU50.00 [07.08.08]

AD: Cities of Dispersal Segal R & E Verbakel
Questioning the traditional boundaries between cities, suburbs, countryside and wilderness, this issue of AD explores emergent types of public space in low-density environments. It describes this new form of urbanism: de-centralised, in a constant process of expansion and contraction, not homogenous or necessarily low-rise, nor guided by one mode of development, typology or pattern.
JWiley USA 2008 135pp PB AU$59.95 [29.08.08]

AD ProtoArchitecture: Analogue and Digital Hybrids Castle H [ed]
With contributions from Lebbeus Woods, Evan Douglis, Theo Jansen, Shin Egashira and many more, ProtoArchitecture presents an explicitly diverse collection of works from leading and emerging practitioners, educators, researchers and visionaries from all corners of this innovative field.
JWiley USA 2008 136pp PB AU$59.95 [23.08.08]

Airport Interiors: Design for Business Steve Thomas-Emberson
Explores the global development of the Airport. It also looks at the development of design, circulation, space and interior finishes, and the way in which they impact upon the users of space. Over the past 10 years, Airports have also developed into commercial shopping hubs and this too must be well considered.
Wiley 2008 232pp HB AU$115.00 [14/08]

Architect's Pocket Book 3^rd Edition Ross et al
A pocket size reference book for the practising Architect or student. This book provides the first rules of thumb for building design and provides a quick and accurate guide for a complete range of on the job issues. Site-work, Planning, Materials, Services and Structures are just some of the topics covered in this book.
Architectural Press US 2008 PB 340pp $43.95 [28.08.08]

Armani Ginza Tower Massimiliano Fuksas
As suggested in its title, this small book, displays the new Armani tower of glass and lights that illuminates the heart of the new fashion district of Ginza, Japan. Interpreting the emotions suggested by the clothes with a lightness and a sense of transparency. Actar Spain 2008 PB AU$55.00 [14/08]

Artificial Light: A narrative inquiry into the nature of abstraction, immediacy,
and other architectural fictions Mitnick K
Keith Mitnick, himself an architect and teacher, presents a startling vivid personal memoir, inexorably linked to his highly developed awareness of his surroundings.
Princeton architectural press USA 2008 150pp PB AU$45.00 [28.08.08]

Art Nouveau Fahr-Becker G
With 16 chapters, 14 of them dedicated specifically to Art Nouveau in a particular city, country or region, Fahr-Becker displays art, architecture and design from this decorative period of style.
Tandem Verlag Germany 2007 425pp PB AU$35.00 [10.07.08]

Atlas: Global Architecture circa 2000
A worldwide survey of architecture, with 10 chapters separated into regions and countries.
BBVA Spain 2007 309pp PB $AU69.30 [07/08]

AV 125: Oscar Niemeyer, One Hundred Years
AV Spain 2008 137pp PB AU$62.25 [07.08.08]

b720MN19 Ubeda R
b720 is a team of architects based in Barcelona and Madrid, MN19 is a project that consisted of transforming an administrative building between party walls in Barcelona, with significant structural problems, into an office building with all of the flexibility and services expected of such constructions. With punchy photography and quotes from renowned architects b720MN19 documents the project both visually and conceptually.
Actar Spain 2007 104pp HB AU$75.00 [23.08.08]

Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape edited by Denise Markonish
Badlands questions the way in which we perceive landscape and the future. A catalogue of the works of 21 artists, including Vaughn Bell and Yutaka Sone, it addresses such issues as the history of landscape, volcanoes and wildfire, land use and much more. Including colour illustrations, interviews and a range of essays.
MIT Press US 2008 PB 226pp $36.95 [28.08.08]

Banraisha: A Poetic Architecture by Yoshiro Taniguchi and Isamu Noguchi Sugiyama M
The Faculty Retreat of Keio University in Tokyo, named New Banraisha, was a post-war collaboration between architect, Taniguchi and sculptor, Noguchi. This book documents the architecture and surrounding gardens, including essays and photographs. Kejima Inst. Pub. Japan 2006 103pp HB $AU61.60 [07.08.08]

Barcelona: The city of Gaudi Moix L
This pocket sized, historic tourist guide, encapsulates two thousand years of history while maintaining Barcelona’s young and vibrant spirit of today. Maps and well illustrated photographs create the main body of this guide, although reference to styles and popular locations are noted. Triangle Postals Spain 2007 230pp AU$28.00 [14/08]

Barragan: Space & Shadow, Walls & Colour Dan Pauly
NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
Birkhauser Germany 2002 PB 232pp AU$93.50 [02.08.08]

Basics Interior Architecture 02 Context + Environment Brooker G
Context + Environment examines the ways in which elements based both inside and outside of the host building can influence and affect the interior space. With detailed studies of contemporary interiors, focussing on such issues as colour, natural and artificial lighting, climate and sustainability.
AVA Switzerland 2008 150pp PB AU$49.95 [28.08.08]

Between Earth and Heaven: The architecture of John Lautner Olsberg N
This richly illustrated monograph includes previously unpublished plans, drawings, construction images and Lautner’s own photographs.  The evolution, originality and logic of his designs is unveiled, with a focus on the connection to landscape and the fluidity that marks his innovative spatial arguments.
Rizzoli Italy 2008 235pp HB AU$99.00 [14/08]

Buildings for the Performing Arts 2^nd Edition Ian Appleton
A guide to the development process of designing buildings for the performing arts. Throughout the various stages of development the reader is introduced to such issues as dealing with clients, planning, design and the final building stages. Architectural Press US 2008 PB 284pp $100.00 [28.08.08]

C3 Magazine C3
272: Reclaiming the Time and Place, Living the Land
279: Beyond the Bridge, Urban Figures, A69- Architects
282: +Mobile, RHM Architects
283: Farm Houses in Transition, 2010 Shanghai Expo Pavilion, FAR Frohn & Rojas
C3 Publishing Co Korea PB AU$31.35 [02.08.08]

Frank O.Gehry: Selected Works 1969 to today Mathewson
Gehry is one of the worlds most innovative and prolific architects who’s career now spanning nearly 40 years, is still in progress. This retrospective of Gehrys work features informative essays and hundreds of superb photographs illustrating his work. Firefly China 2007 600pp AU$120.00 [14/08]

Gardens of Persia Hobhouse P
The First book to explore the evolution of the Persian paradise garden from its ancient beginnings to today’s modern design: buildings, water, and plants, combine to give the gardens of Persia a beauty and spiritual quality.
Kales Press China 2004 192pp HB $AU89.95 [14/08]

Green BIM: successful sustainable design with building information modelling Krygiel E & B Nies
Meet the challenge of integrating Building Information Modelling and sustainability with this in-depth guide, which pairs these two revolutionary movements to create environmentally friendly design through a streamlined process.
JWiley USA 2008 241pp PB AU$64.95 [29.08.08]

Hernan Diaz Alonso: Xefirotarch Steele, Bratton & Petit
Xefirotarch is the practice of Hernan Diaz Alonso, an award winning design and architecture firm based in Los Angeles. 22 mostly unbuilt projects and competitions are shown, with complimentary essays and analysis.
Hust Press 2008 298pp HB AU$75.00 [14/08]

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling Bergdoll C
Home Delivery traces the history of prefabrication in architecture, from its early roots in colonial cottages to the work of such figures as Thomas Edison, Marcel Breuer and Jean Prouve. It concludes in the present day with a group of full-scale contemporary houses commissioned specifically for the MoMA exhibition that this book accompanies. MoMA USA 2008 240pp HB AU$83.50 [28.08.08]

Hotel and Restaurant Design No.2 Yee R
Organised alphabetically by design firm, with each project index for easy reference. Hoteliers, restaurateurs and the architects and interior designers serving the hospitality world will find exciting new ways to inspire their projects in its pages. From the Ritz-Carlton Beijing to Philadelphia’s Le Bec-Fin, these are hotels and restaurant environments to meet the particular needs of every business or leisure guest.
VRP USA 2008 263pp HB AU$130.00 [14/08]

Hotel Spaces Montse Borras
Creativity and distinction in the hotel business is essential to success. Hotel designers around the world have discovered the growing need for individuality in hotel spaces. This book showcases some of the most beautiful and inventive hotels in the world providing over 300 gorgeous images of luxurious and creative lobbies, lounges, restaurants, bars, bedrooms, suites, and spas.
Loft China 2008 210pp HB $AU70.00 [07/08]

Houses Now: Urban Houses Chueca P
This monographic work analyses the difficulty of integrating new residential volumes into sites that are seriously conditioned by their situation and environment. In each case, particularly narrow and awkward dimensions imposed limitations that the architects have resolved with creativity and wit, implementing exemplary technical and formal solutions to make the buildings connect with the existing context while making aspects of the projects composition and construction interesting. Links Spain 2008 240pp HB AU$79.95 [14/08]

Houses Now: Unique Houses Broto E
Houses Now provides dozens of truly unique homes, packed with the latest ideas on layout, design, materials and functionality. Each project is presented with full colour photographs, floor plans, commentary from the architects, construction details and more. Links Spain 2008 240pp HB AU$79.95 [14/08]

Ian+ New Ecology Lan BQ
The Italian studio Ian+ has recently accomplished 10 years of practice. To celebrate this occasion they are presenting to the international public this volume of work. With sections on Critical Writing, Museums, Headquarters, Public Buildings, Urban Spaces, Parking and Essays.
AADCU China 2007 239pp HB $AU68.50 [07/08]

Informal Architectures Anthony Kiendl
An alternative experience into the built environment and public space, Informal Architectures looks at the politics and culture of space. Descriptions and analytical writings from often semi-permanent works by Dan Graham, Gordon Matta-Clark, David Hoffos and more.
Black Dog Pub. UK 2008 PB 208pp $105.00 [28.08.08]

Inspired High-End Interior Design Reilly S
Inspired High-End Interior Design showcases 83 of the UK’s leading Interior Designers, examining their various sources of inspirations and outlining how the projects come together.
Schiffer UK 2006 191pp HB AU$100.00 [23.08.08]

Invented Edens: Techno cities of the 20^th Century R.H Kargon and A. P Molella
Introduces the notion of a ‘techno-city’ a term coined by the authors to describe the development of the urban environment. The ‘techno-city’ is influenced by large technological or industrial advances, in a mix of rural landscape and farmland, something of the Twentieth century we are all familiar with. The authors then use historical studies to interpret and present fantastical visions for the future.
MIT Press US 2008 HB 190pp $36.95 [28.08.08]

Log 10 Summer/Fall 2007
Observations on architecture and the contemporary city. With contributions from various people on various locations. Anyone Corp. USA 2007 152pp PB AU$18.15 [23.08.08]

Log 11 Winter 2008
Observations on architecture and the contemporary city. With contributions from various people on various locations. Anyone Corp. USA 2008 152pp PB AU$18.15 [23.08.08]

Looking for Mies Daza R
A short compelling text searching for the man behind the architecture, examination of evidence, making deductions and gradually bringing to light the elements of a Mies biography, enhanced by the attractive sequence of illustrations.
Actar Spain 167pp PB AU$49.00 [28.08.08]

Malls and Department stores Uffelen C
A range of creative solutions in contemporary retail architecture points to the importance of retail commerce in todays communal life. This richly illustrated volume examines the latest trends in retail architecture projected by some of the leading international architects of today. Braun Germany 2008 415pp HB AU$160.00 [14/08]

Marmol Radziner + Associates Marmol L & Radziner R
A unique monograph on the award winning firm, taking the reader from the early stages of concept right through to construction. AN insiders roadmap for anybody interested in the design-build phenomenon.
Princeton NY 2008 175pp PB $AU68.00 [07/08]

Mathematics for the Green Industry: Essential calculations for horticulture and landscape professionals Agnew Christians VanDerZanden
Designed for both students and practitioners in the green industry, this book offers full coverage of the calculations necessary to effectively, safely, and economically manage a Green Industry operation
Wiley USA 2008 395pp $AU72.95 [07/08]

Mecanoo: The Master Architect Series Houben F
Architecture is expressed as an all-embracing concept that ranges from conditions of fulfilling daily existence to architectural concepts. The books composition sheds light on Mecanoo’s meticulous approach to a project assignment, the explanatory project texts support this by illustrating the core of the interpretation of each projects program. Images Australia 2008 275pp HB AU$89.95 [14/08]

Modern Times: The Untold Story of Modernism in Australia Stephen A, P Goad & A McNamara
Richly illustrated and beautifully designed with more than 300 images , Modern Times reveals how modernism transformed Australian culture. It includes contributions from many authorities in the field and examinations on key figures such as Seidler, Hirschfield- Mack, the Featherstons, Boyd and Sievers.
Miegunyah Press & Powerhouse Publishing Australia 2008 253pp PB AU$49.95 [02.08]

Moved To Design Allan P & C Stutterheim [eds]
The collaborative effort between RMIT and Victoria University of Wellington Landscape departments has culminated in the publication of Moved To Design. With essays and student projects, topics to do with climate change and cities are addressed.
RMIT with VUW Australia 2007 101pp PB AU$25.00 [29.08.08]

New Uses For Heritage Places
Guidelines for the adaptation of historic buildings and sites.
Heritage Council of NSW Australia 2008 48pp PB $AU25.00 [07/08]

NL Architects: Life Logo Lan B.Q
Amsterdam based office NL Architects, focus on ordinary aspects of everyday life, including the unappreciated or negative, these are enhanced or twisted in order to bring attention to the unexpected potential of the things that surround us. AADCU 2008 287pp HB AU$74.80 [14/08]

Optimistic Architecture yearbook 2007 France French touch
67 projects by French Architects, with project geolocalisation, to locate projects by GPS coordinates. There is a diverse range of projects displayed in the large yearbook, great colour photos and technical drawings accompanying text explaining each project.
French Touch France 2007 PB AU$83.00 [14/08]

Paris: Art and Architecture M Padberg
An access guide to the astonishing collection of sites within Paris. A great travellers guide.  
H.F Ullmann 2008 HB 480pp $14.95 [28.08.08]

Place Makers: Contemporary Queensland Architects Edited by Miranda Wallace and Sarah Stutchbury
Featuring the works of 22 current and emerging Architects, with  55 projects from the largest exhibition of contemporary Architecture held in an Australian gallery. Place Makers provides an insight into the design of both dwellings and institutions, often exploring the effect of history, climate and culture upon local architecture. Projects feature include the works of Queensland practices Andresen O’Gorman Architects, Lindsay and Kerry Clare of Architectus, Donovan Hill and many more. Queensland Art Gallery 2008 319pp PB AU$49.95 [14/08]

Playgrounds Peter Friedl
In any event play is not an innocent activity, play is a mode of expression common to all children. Playgrounds by Friedl explores the tiny urban enclaves intended (if not reserved) for children to relate to a strict delimitation and confinement of play seperated from the street.
Steudl Germany 2008 255pp HB $AU75.00 [07/08]

The Possibility of (an) Architecture… Goulthorpe M
Collected essays by Mark Goulthorpe, creator of deCOi, based in Paris and Boston. Articulating a radical agenda for the re-thinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound shift that is underway in all aspects of architectural praxis. Essays and lectures from the past 15 years discuss these changes in relationship to deCOi architects.
Routledge UK 2008 204pp PB AU$81.00 [23.08.08]

Post- It City: Occasional Urbanites
This tri-lingual text refers to the different temporary occupations of public space, be it commercial, re-creational, sexual or of any other type. The common characteristic being they barely leave a trace and self manage their appearance and disappearances.
CCCB Barcelona 2008 214pp PB AU$42.00 [28.08.08]

Promenades: Landscape Design Krauel J
As a significant item in contemporary town planning, the promenade demands a case study of its most successful examples. A place for people to see and to be seen, the promenade is the meeting place where a society’s identity is constantly reaffirmed. This book answers to the needs of professionals or others seeking up-to-date knowledge regarding the management of public space in the city.
Links Spain 2008 180pp HB AU$99.95 [14/08]

Reinberg: Ecological Architecture Reinberg G. W
A pioneer of Austrian solar architecture, Reinberg has earned a reputation as an outstanding planner of social and eco-friendly housing since he designed and built his first collective residential project. His work combines the newest technical developments in the field of solar architecture with the highest aesthetic demands.
Springer-Verlag/Wein 2008 350pp HB AU$110.00 [28.08.08]

Responsive Volatility Ho, JD [ed]
This bi-lingual publication is concerned with emerging issues in contemporary architectural design including interactive apparatus, textile formation and genetic algorithm. The collected projects transform static architecture into a more dynamic, interlaced, morphological and responsive architecture that constantly reacts to environmental shifts. ARC Taiwan 2007 255pp PB AU$39.00 [23.08.08]

S AM Magazine Swiss Architecture Museum
No 02: Instant Urbanism, Tracing the Theories of the Situationists in Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism
No 03: An Alternative Modernist
No 04: Arch/Scapes, Negotiating Swiss Architecture and Landscape
CMV Switzerland 2007-2008 80pp AU$23.65 [02.08]

School Catherine Burke and Ian Grosvenor
Grosvenor and Burke reveal the way in which a school influences the lives of the people whom inhabit it. The history of the school demonstrates a dramatic change in both architecture, environment and the way in which a student learns. Changes in technology have also effected design and our own perspectives of what a school is and what it should be.
Reaktion Books 2008 208pp PB AU$45.95 [14/08]

Solar City: Sustainable Urban Development Treberspurg M
The solarcity is a model for a sustainable future. To be more precise, it is a complex, conscientiously planned, constructed used and inhabited urban model which at all levels and in all aspects represents the latest of development.
Springer-Verlag/Wein 2008 Austria 215pp AU$98.50 [28.08.08]