University of Chicago Press: New Titles from 'gta publishers'

Buchner Bründler

Reto Geiser; Ludovic Balland — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Basel-based architects Daniel Buchner and Andreas Bründler have established an international reputation for creating attractive, innovative designs over the past decade. This monograph presents a selection of the firm’s most famous projects including the Swiss pavilion for the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, the St. Alban youth hostel and the Volta Center in Basel, and the pavilion in Jinhua Architecture Park, China. Beautifully illustrated with over six hundred photographs, Buchner Bründler Works explores twenty different projects from a variety of perspectives, including other architects, critics, and Buchner and Bründler themselves, and discusses not only the buildings, but also the process of creating them.

City as Loft

Martina Baum; Kees Christiaanse — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

City as Loft examines the remarkable legacy of the industrial age in the United States, Russia, Brazil, China, and Europe. Looking at thirty case studies of repurposed industrial areas, the editors have assembled a variety of essays and interviews to provide a full cast of characters and context for each location, while scholars have contributed information on the history and theory behind the conversion of industrial spaces into other uses. The volume is rounded out with breathtaking images of each venture and an infographic by famed Dutch designer Joost Grootens that allows for the reader to visually compare all thirty projects.

ETH Yearbook 2012

ETH Zürich — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Every year, ETH Zürich publishes the best of the work created by its students, teachers, and researchers in architectural design, technology, and visual design from the Department of Architecture. All the work in the 2011 yearbook was produced during the previous school year, some of it through exchange programs with other universities and programs of study in Europe and beyond. Highly illustrated, the resulting volume gives an interesting snapshot of the current state of architectural study, the approach and concerns of the Department of Architecture, and the perspectives of young architects learning their craft.

Forms of Practice

Irina Davidovici — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:00:00 GMT

During the 1980s and ’90s, German-Swiss architecture gained worldwide acclaim for the novelty of its construction and its striking aesthetic coherence. In this book, Irina Davidovici carefully examines the cultural and theoretical conditions that gave rise to the movement. Forms of Practice combines in-depth case studies of specific pieces of architecture with theoretical essays exploring implicit conflicts that arise between a number of dichotomies: the individual artist and the ethos of the movement; artistic integrity and economic interests; and the abstract and the concrete reality of a building.