Peter Eisenman
Ten canonical buildings, 1950-2000
Strelka Press, 2017
For Peter Eisenman, one of the foremost architects and theorists of our time, "in the context of this book, the term canon encompasses the potentially heretical and transgressive nature of how architecture is 'close-up'." For such an original consideration, he selected 10 buildings of the second half of the 20th century, and both they and their authors differ in ideology, level of fame, "background".
Mark Meerovich
Urban planning policy in the USSR (1917-1929). From a garden city to a departmental workers' village
New Literary Review, 2017
The book is devoted to the policy of urban planning - and housing construction - in the first decade after the October Revolution, including the situation in which barracks, divided into communal apartments, were built for the absolute majority of the population. This reality, which sharply differs both from the principle of the garden city, which was so popular at the beginning of the 20th century, and from the ideas of the architects of communal houses, seems to the author to be a consequence of the approach to housing as "a tool for managing people … a lever for establishing a repressive social and political order."
Valentina Khairova
Charles Mackintosh: Scottish Art Nouveau
BuxMart, 2017
This book is one of the rare Russian publications dedicated to the great modernist architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the "Glasgow School" that has developed around him. The so-called Glasgow style, characteristic of the work of Macintosh and his circle, influenced many masters of the era, including in Russia.
Sergey Ageev, Anna Reimer
Sverdlovsk CHP
TATLIN, 2017
The book from the Archive series is dedicated to the monument of constructivism located in the "risk zone" - the Sverdlovsk CHPP. This construction by the architects of Uralmashinostroy Joseph Robachevsky and Moisey Reischer is associated with the history of both the plant and the entire city - from the first five-year plans through the war years to the present day, when it still plays an important role in providing Yekaterinburg with heat and electricity.
Elena Zabelina
Architect Gabriel Guevrechean: creativity in the context of aesthetic trends in the first third of the twentieth century
Aquarius South, 2016
The works of Gabriel Guevrekian (Gevrekian), first of all, two gardens he carried out during the interwar period - at the International Exhibition of Contemporary Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris in 1925 and at the Villa Noailles - are considered in the wide context of the culture of this period, taking into account both the environment of the master and his own influence on architecture, first of all, is the innovative use of the achievements of contemporary Guevrecheanu art in landscape design.
Contemporary European Architecture ATLAS
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award 1988–2015
Fundació Mies van der Rohe, 2016
An impressive tome (over 800 pages!) Shows the last 27 years of architecture in the European Union through the prism of the Mies van der Rohe Prize. However, this is not a typical "architectural atlas" with short descriptions of buildings sorted by country and continent. The authors presented an analysis of 2,881 projects nominated for the main EU architectural award using a variety of infographics, representing their typographic, typological, geographical and other aspects. In addition, the book describes all the projects of the "long lists" of the award; those of them who then made it to the finals or received the grand prix, of course, are described in more detail.
Rebecca Roke
Mobitecture: Architecture on the Move
Phaidon, 2017
The publication contains a variety of examples of "moving" architecture - self-propelled, portable or simply moveable - on wheels, skids or on water. We are talking about houses-barges, houses-trailers, shelters for those who lost their homes as a result of disasters, "buildings" that can be worn like clothes, a variety of futuristic "exercises on the topic."
Michael Green, Jim Taggart
Tall Wood Buildings: Design, Construction and Performance
Birkhäuser, 2017
The book, co-authored by prominent multi-story timber construction specialist Michael Green, focuses on this rapidly expanding field of architectural practice. The book contains 13 examples of such structures up to 20 stories high - from Scandinavia to Australia, including Green's homeland of Canada - that demonstrate the variety of technological and formal techniques, as well as the wide scope of such projects.
William Hall
Wood
Phaidon, 2017
"Tree" continues a series of "material" books by the architect William Hall - published by the same publishing house "Brick" and "Concrete". The new edition collects 170 wooden buildings built over the past 1,000 years - with an understandable focus on buildings of the modern era, from the hut of Le Corbusier to the works of Renzo Piano, Peter Zumthor and Tadao Ando, but also traditional Japanese and Old Russian buildings can be found there.
Pippo Ciorra, Florence Ostende, Hiroyasu Fujioka, Kenjiro Hosaka
The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945
Marsilio, 2017
The catalog of the exhibition, first shown at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, and on display at the Barbican Gallery in London until June 25, 2017, is a detailed account of the sometimes daring experiments that have characterized Japanese residential architecture over the past 70 years. The combination of tradition and innovation, natural and artificial, ancient and high-tech, creates an unexpected harmony between man, building and environment.
