Holiday Gift Books: 2010 Edition

As in the last five years, I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays. This year I'm presenting one each by close to 40 publishers, posted in one long list.

010 Publishers:

Megacities: Exploring a Sustainable Future edited by Steef Buijs, Wendy Tan, Devisari Tunas

Actar:

Total Housing: Alternatives to Urban Sprawl edited by Albert Ferre and Tihamer Salij (It is also a recent competition.)

a+t:
Strategy Public

AVA Academia:

Basics Architecture: Architectural Design by Jane Anderson

Birkh�user:

Thinking Architecture (Third Edition) by Peter Zumthor (Edition is expanded, with two new essays.)

Douglas & McIntyre:

Sketches: From Here and There by A.J. Diamond

Elsevier:

Architecture in Detail II by Graham Bizle

Gestalten:

Closer to God: Religious Architecture and Sacred Spaces edited by L. Feireiss, R. Klanten

Gingko Press:

Conceptual Architecture by Sandu Cultural Media

Gregory R. Miller & Co.:

Brad Cloepfil / Allied Works Architecture by Brad Cloepfil with Sandy Isenstadt, Kenneth Frampton

Hatje Cantz:

Raimund Abraham and the Austrian Cultural Forum NY edited by Andreas Stadler

Island Press:

Cities for People by Jan Gehl (Read my review here.)

Lars M�ller Publishers:

Brasilia-Chandigarh: Living with Modernity by Iwan Baan

Laurence King Publishing:

Towards Zero-Energy Architecture: New Solar Design by Mary Guzowski

Merrell Publishers:

New Architecture in Japan by Yuki Sumner and Naomi Pollock (Read my review here.)

Metropolis Books:

The Power of Pro Bono edited by John Cary and Public Architecture

MIT Press:

Event Cities 4: Concept-Form by Bernard Tschumi

The Monacelli Press:

Remarks on 21 Works by Rafael Moneo

ORO Editions:

Small Projects by Kevin Mark Low

Oxford University Press:

AIA Guide to New York City, Fifth Edition by Norval White, Elliot Willensky, Fran Leadon (Read my review here.)

Papadakis Publishers:

Fair World: A History of World's Fairs and Expositions from London to Shanghai 1851-2010 by Paul Greenhalgh

Phaidon:

John Pawson: Plain Space by Alison Morris

Princeton Architectural Press:

Narrow Houses: New Directions in Efficient Design by Avi Friedman

Reaktion Books:

Architecture's Evil Empire?: The Triumph and Tragedy of Global Modernism by Miles Glendinning

Rizzoli:

Frank O. Gehry: Since 1997 by Germano Celant

Routledge:

Will Alsop: The Noise by Tom Porter

Scribner:

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities by Witold Rybczynski

Skira Rizzoli:

Thomas Phifer and Partners by Stephen Fox and Sarah Amelar

SUN Architecture:

Cultivating the City: London Before and After 2012 by Bob Allies

Taschen:

Coop Himmelb(l)au: Complete Works 1968-2010 by Michael M�nninger, Peter G�ssel (Also of note is an acrylic bookstand for your mondo Taschen titles and Phaidon Atlases.)

Thames & Hudson:

Architect: The Work of the Pritzker Prize Laureates in Their Own Words edited by Ruth Peltason and Grace Ong-Yan

Toto:

Tadao Ando: Process and Idea

University of Chicago Press:

Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age by Blair Kamin

University of Minnesota Press:

Architecture's Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern by Jorge Otero-Pailos

Wiley:

What is Architectural History? by Andrew Leach

W.W. Norton:

Greening Modernism: Preservation, Sustainability, and the Modern Movement by Carl Stein

Yale University Press:

A Landscape Manifesto by Diana Balmori

Holiday Gift Books: 2009.5

As in the last four years, I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays. This time around I'm presenting one each by 50 publishers, posted in five digestible installments of ten each, in alphabetical order. Below is the fifth installment. Once posted, the rest can be found here.

Taschen:

Zaha Hadid: Complete Works by Philip Jodidio
"This XL tome demonstrates the progression of Hadid�s career�including not only her extraordinary buildings but also furniture and interior designs�with in-depth texts, spectacular photos, and her own drawings."

Thames & Hudson:

Unbuilt Masterworks of the 21st Century by Will Jones
"100 of the best projects to have been proposed since the turn of the millennium. Includes projects by by the world�s greatest architects, from UN Studio, Foreign Office Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Zaha Hadid to such up-and-coming stars as J. Mayer H. Architects and Asymptote."

University of Pittsburgh Press:

Pittsburgh: A New Portrait by Franklin Toker
"Remade as a thriving twenty-first-century city and an international center for science, medicine, biotechnology, and financial services, Pittsburgh is now routinely acclaimed as one of the most promising and livable of America's cities. Franklin Toker shows us why."

Viking:

Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
"An account of what he sees and whom he meets as he pedals through metropoles from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to San Francisco, Manila to New York, Bicycle Diaries also records Byrne�s thoughts on world music, urban planning, fashion, architecture, cultural dislocation, and much more, all conveyed with a highly personal mixture of humor, curiosity, and humility."

Wasmuth:

Sigurd Lewerentz: St. Petri edited by Wilfried Wang
"For the village of Klippan, the Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz was invited to design a church in 1962 at the age of 77. It was to become his most important commission, one that absorbed his typological concerns of earlier church designs as well as formal interests that he held since the early 1930s."

Wiley:

Architectures of the Near Future edited by Nic Clear
"Architectures of the Near Future offers a series of alternative voices, developing some of the neglected areas of contemporary urban life and original visions of what might be to come. Rather than providing simplistic and seductive images of an intangible shiny future, it rocks the cosy world of architecture with polemical blasts."

William Stout Publishers:

URBANbuild: local_global by Ila Berman and Mona El Khaff
"This publication documents a two year program at Tulane University School of Architecture ... initiated to actively support the rehabilitation of the city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina."

W.W. Norton:

Corporate Architecture: Building a Brand by Alejandro Baham�n, Ana Ca�izares and Antonio Corcuera
"A brand is much more than the product or service that it represents�it is a whole imaginary world custom-made for the target consumer, and it often has little to do with what is being sold. Competition has given rise to a new class of buildings, designed by top architects and characterized by bold design approaches, surveyed in this sweeping study." Read my review of the book here.

Yale University Press:

Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books by Jo Steffens
"An intimate look at the personal libraries of twelve of the world�s leading architects, alongside conversations about the significance of books to their careers and lives."

Zero Books:

Militant Modernism by Owen Hatherley
"In readings of modern design, film, pop and especially architecture, [the book] attempts to reclaim a revolutionary modernism against its absorption into the heritage industry and the aesthetics of the luxury flat."

Holiday Gift Books: 2009.4

As in the last four years, I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays. This time around I'm presenting one each by 50 publishers, posted in five digestible installments of ten each, in alphabetical order. Below is the fourth installment. Once posted, the rest can be found here.

Phaidon:

Anish Kapoor by David Anfam
"This is the most extensive monograph ever published on the artist, covering more than thirty years of work and illustrated with hundreds of full-color images including sketches and technical diagrams from his most ambitious projects."

Poligrafa:

The Feeling of Things by Adam Caruso
"Principal of the London based architecture office Caruso St John, together with Peter St John, Adam Caruso has develop an intense activity as writer, focusing his thoughts on the architectural practice and the updated of some figures of the so called other tradition of the Modern Movement."

Prestel:

Albert Speer & Partner: A Manifesto for Sustainable Cities by Jeremy Gaines
"Many of [the firm's] trailblazing projects are discussed in this compelling and timely look at what has been accomplished in an effort to satisfy the array of social, economic, and environmental demands of the twenty-first century."

Princeton Architectural Press:

Design Ecologies: Sustainable Potentials in Architecture edited by Lisa Tilder and Beth Blostein
"A new generation of architects, landscape architects, designers, and engineers aims to recalibrate what humans do in the world according to how the world works as a biophysical system. Design Ecologies is a ground-breaking collection of never-before-published essays and case studies by today's most innovative designers and critics. Their design strategies�social, material, and biological�run the gamut from the intuitive to the highly technological."

Reaktion Books:

Twenty Minutes in Manhattan by Michael Sorkin
"A personal, anecdotal account of [Sorkin's] casual encounters with the physical space and social dimensions of this unparalleled city. His perambulations offer him�and the reader�opportunities to not only engage with his surroundings but to consider a wide range of issues that fascinate Sorkin as an architect, urbanist, and New Yorker."

Rizzoli:

Frank Gehry: The Houses by Mildred Friedman
"[The architect] has achieved worldwide fame for such large-scale public projects as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, but it was in private houses that Gehry first explored and interrogated the principles of modern architecture."

Rockport:

1000 Ideas by 1000 Architects by Sergi Costa Duran and Mariana R. Eguaras
"This book provides behind the scenes insight into the work of 100 top international designers through the deconstruction of 1000 architectural details and projects. An unrivaled sourcebook for ideas, this collection also provides details and information that are not available on this level through any other source."

Routledge:

Climate and Architecture by Torben Dahl
"Beautifully illustrated with photographs, diagrams and building plans, the book sets out the environmental basis for sustainable design into the 21st century."

Skira:

The New Acropolis Museum edited by Bernard Tschumi Architects
"The book provides an in-depth look at the creation of the building, set only 280 meters from the Parthenon, as well as the restoration, preservation, and housing of its exhibits through over 200 photographs, drawings, and texts."

Steidl:

Edward Burtynsky: Oil edited by Marcus Schubert
"Burtynsky locates and documents the sites that urban dwellers never see, and questions human accountability. His imagery is vast in both scale and ambition, revealing the apparatus behind the energy we mine from dwindling resources, and the ongoing effects of the industrial revolution."