Esch Sintzel Architekten
Buildings and Projects
Esch Sintzel Architekten’s work is characterized by the prudent use of available resources as well as great respect for the existing urban fabric and its careful further development. The mastery of structural means enables them to translate technical requirements into expressive, beautiful designs. This monograph offers a comprehensive survey of the firm’s entire body of work, exploring its full range down to construction details, and placing it in a wider context.
Cloth $75.00
Center and Periphery
Five Houses by Mikael Bergquist
With a Foreword by Charlotte von Moos
The book collects five vacation homes in Sweden designed by Stockholm-based architect Mikael Bergquist. Realized over more than two decades, they are all located in the Swedish countryside and rooted in the Nordic tradition of timber construction and the simplicity and economy of Sweden’s historic farm buildings. Bergquist’s great care for detail and choice of materials characterize these houses. They are united also by a close relationship to the surrounding nature, the experience of which is enhanced by the concepts of movement and the placement of passages between the outside and inside.
Cloth $35.00
Performative Architecture
With Contributions by Elli Mosayebi, Joseph Schwartz, Laurent Stalder, and Nina Zschocke
Performance has long been a recurring topic in the design and research work of Zurich-based architecture firm Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architects (EMI). In this volume, texts by the firm’s founding partner Elli Mosayebi and by Joseph Schwartz, Laurent Stalder, and Nina Zschocke, as well as artistic and documentary photographs, plans, and drawings, illuminate the phenomenon from the different perspectives of architectural practice, theory of architecture, and structural engineering.
Paper $35.00
Genuine Construction
Zhang Pengju’s New Regionalism in Inner Mongolia
With Contributions by Chen Zhao and Yonggao Shi
With a Foreword by David Leatherbarrow
“Zhang Pengju is something of an uber-landscraper, an architect who melds building and landscape in many of his firm’s designs, all of which are found in Inner Mongolia. . . . Documented with brief descriptions, many photographs, a few drawings, and at least one axonometric detail per project, Genuine Construction provides the most in-depth presentation on Zhang Pengju’s architecture outside China.”—A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books
Paper $55.00