Robert Buckminster Fuller
Spaceship "Earth". Manual
Publisher Dmitry Aronov, 2018
The most famous book by Bucky Fuller, a key figure in 20th century design, architecture and culture in general. His overarching vision of the way of life, needs and challenges of humankind anticipated the concept of "sustainable development" and inspired countercultural movements, which in turn became the basis for "green" design in the following years.
Evgeniya Konysheva
European architects in the Soviet urban planning of the era of the first five-year plans. Documents and materials
BuxMart, 2018
The work of Western architects in the USSR in the pre-war years is an extremely interesting topic, but until recently it has not been sufficiently studied. In the work of Evgenia Konysheva, on the basis of a large-scale study of archival documents and partly in the form of their publication (mainly the first), answers are given to many key questions - why did European specialists come to the Soviet Union, how and on what they worked there, what they brought into Soviet practice architecture and urban planning.
Georg Simmel
Big cities and spiritual life
Strelka Press, 2018
The collection of essays by the German sociologist and philosopher at the turn of the century reflects his keen scientific interest in the most diverse forms of human existence. In this case, Simmel acts as an "urbanist", considering various aspects of the life of a big city, to which he himself did not relate unequivocally positively. Topics include the emerging entertainment industry, the concept of leisure and tourism, prostitution, the role of money and consumption.
Reinier de Graaf
Four Walls and a Roof. The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
Harvard University Press, 2017
The book by OMA partner and AMO director Rainier de Graaf is also a collection of essays - devoted to the reality of the profession of an architect, the constant conflict of interests in which he finds himself, being caught between great ideas and rough reality. De Graaf, who is responsible for projects in Europe, including Russia, and in the Middle East at OMA, describes meetings with customers, intermediaries, and those in power who usually remain behind the scenes, but it is they who determine whether the project will be implemented - and in what form. The context of random circumstances, low and high goals, the historical situation and modern politics - it is this context that sets the width of the gap between what architecture is and what it could be.
Black: Architecture in Monochrome
Phaidon, 2017
Phaidon is once again turning to its beloved one-size-fits-all genre. This book contains 150 black buildings that have been created over the past thousand years. Among them are the wooden churches of Viking Age Norway, works by David Adjaye, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Stephen Hall and Peter Zumthor.
James crawford
Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings
Picador, 2017
The book contains "biographies" of twenty-one now defunct buildings - from the Tower of Babel to the New York Twin Towers. The history of their existence and death is often dramatic and even melodramatic, and no less interesting is their "afterlife" - the legends and hypotheses that they continue to generate in our time. Among the heroes of the book are the Library of Alexandria, the Berlin Wall, the Bastille, the panopticon-panopticon in St. Petersburg - and Palmyra.
Thom Mayne, Eui-Sung Yi
100 Buildings
Rizzoli, 2017
Pritzker Prize winner Tom Main asked his colleagues in architectural status to name one hundred of the most important buildings of the 20th century, which they would definitely tell their students about. More than fifty major architects and bureaus of various directions took part in the project: this small "encyclopedia" was created on the basis of a selection of the most frequently mentioned buildings. Maine invited Richard Rogers, Richard Mayer, Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelb (l) au, MVRDV, UNStudio, SANAA, Rafael Moneo, Tadao Ando. The publication is intended primarily for students, but it can also be useful to everyone who is interested in modern architecture and does not know where to start getting to know it.
Destination: Architecture. The Essential Guide to 1000 Contemporary Buildings
Phaidon, 2017
Another genre characteristic of Phaidon is the atlas of modern architecture. As a pocket-sized version of their most famous edition, it can be taken with you on short or long journeys. Each of the thousand of the most "amazing" buildings on the planet, in addition to a brief description, is given an address, access mode, website, etc.
Arne Winkelmann, Hauke Kock
Andrea Palladio. Auf der Suche nach der idealen Villa
antaeus verlag, 2017
The publication opens a series of children's books "Acquaintance with Architects". In fact, this is a traditional picture book (accompanied by a disc with an audiobook), telling about the life of Andrea Palladio and simultaneously acquainting with the historical and everyday circumstances of the Italian XVI century. As the title “ideal villa”, the Villa Rotonda is expected, which ends the story.
Lucas Harari
L'Aimant
Editions Sarbacane, 2017
The graphic novel by the young French artist is inspired by and dedicated to the Baths at Waltz, the most famous building by Peter Zumthor. The protagonist, student-architect Pierre, traveling through Switzerland, finally finds himself in Waltz, where, as he is sure, the monumental baths hide some secret. Harari himself was in Waltz with his architectural parents as a teenager, and since then this work of Zumthor has entered his "personal pantheon."
Allan T. Shulman
Building Bacardi: Architecture, Art & Identity
Rizzoli, 2016
Bacardi rum is a recognizable brand, whose image has been formed by long-term cooperation with talented designers - and architects. Chief among them, of course, are Felix Candela and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, but the company and its management also worked with Philip Johnson and other craftsmen. The resulting office buildings, factories, and directors' villas have combined the principles of classical modernism with an experimental approach, often associated with both the customer's characteristics and the "exotic" geography of buildings.
Julian flannery
Fifty English Steeples: The Finest Medieval Parish Church Towers and Spiers in England
Thames & Hudson, 2016
The book is dedicated to fifty medieval parish churches in England, more precisely, their towers and spiers - an important component of the national landscape. The author has selected fifty of the most interesting and important monuments, from the Saxon period to 500 years later, outlining the aesthetic and technical evolution of this architectural form. Each spire is provided not only with numerous photographic illustrations, but also with carefully executed drawings.
Arne Winkelmann, Kitty Kahane
Frauen bauen. Kinder entdecken Architektinnen
antaeus verlag, 2017
The children's book, released for the exhibition "Frau the Architect" (German Museum of Architecture in Frankfurt, 2017–2018), tells about twelve women architects, their lives and buildings. For obvious reasons, we are talking about the heroines of the last hundred years, from the author of "Frankfurt Cuisine" Margarete Schütte-Lichotzky to Zaha Hadid and the founder of Mecanoo Francine Hüben, as well as the interior designer of Soviet space stations Galina Balashova.
