AA PUBLICATIONS CATALOGUE AUTUMN 2010

Architectural Association

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CONTENTS 2 2 4 4 6 6 8 8 10 10 12 12 20 20 22 NEW/FORTHCOMING Architecture Words 5: Form, Function, Beauty = Gestalt Architecture Words 6: Projectiles Architecture Words 7: Modernity Unbound Architecture Words 8: Tarzans in the Media Forest & Other Essays AA Agendas 8: Nine Problems in the Form of a Pavilion AA Agendas 9: Making Pavilions AA Agendas 10: London +10 AA Agendas 11: Mediating Architecture Architecture on Display: On the History of the Venice Biennale of Architecture Marseille Mix Serie Architects Space as Membrane 20/20: Editorial Takes on Architectural Discourse AA Book: Projects Review 2010 AA Files 24 24 24 24 26 26 26 26 26 28 28 28 CURRENT Architecture Words 1: Supercritical Architecture Words 2: Anti-Object: The Dissolution and Disintegration of Architecture Architecture Words 3: The Poetics of a Wall Projection Architecture Words 4: Having Words AA Agendas 7: Articulated Grounds: Mediating Environment and Culture Enabling: The Work of Minimaforms First Works: Emerging Architectural Experimentation of the 1960s & 1970s An Atlas of Fabrication 311 Methods L.A.W.U.N. Project #19 DRL Ten: A Design Research Compendium The World of Madelon Vriesendorp: Paintings/Postcards/Objects/ Games

The Architectural Association was established in 1847 and includes within its founding charter the promotion of architecture through publications. Today, thanks to the AAs unique position at the centre of the international architectural scene, AA Publications has become a major architectural publishing house, with a reputation for innovative and finely produced publications introducing the work, ideas and interests of the AA School of Architecture. In Marseille Mix, William Firebrace describes the city of Marseille in seven chapters the book uses various forms of writing to examine the city and investigate its defining mix. Working in Series has been published to accompany a major exhibition of the work of Serie Architects to be held in November at the AA. Plans are also well underway for further editions of the Architecture Words and AA Agendas series. These will include, for our Architecture Words series, a collection of political essays by the French theorist Bernard Cache, essays by Japans Toyo Ito and the American historian Detlef Mertins. The AA Agendas series, dedicated to documenting the work of our units and research clusters, will include titles on the AAs Intermediate Unit 2 summer pavilion projects and the 2008 DRL pavilion competition. The following pages contain a complete catalogue of available publications, together with a list of forthcoming titles. Brett Steele Director, AA School of Architecture

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BEDFORD PRESS Civic City Cahier 1: Social Movements in the (Post-)Neoliberal City Civic City Cahier 2: Design and Democracy

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NEW AND FORTHCOMING New ARCHITECTURE WORDS 5 FORM, FUNCTION, BEAUTY = GESTALT Max Bill With an introduction by Karin Gimmi Translated by Pamela Johnston and Clare Barrett 256 pp 180 x 110 mm, paperback May 2010 978-1-902902-85-2 12 Max Bill (19041994) a product of the Bauhaus at Dessau, pupil of Walter Gropius, Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee was a virtuoso designer whose work overleaped disciplinary boundaries, encompassing architecture, painting, sculpture, industrial and graphic design, as well as education. What unites all the work is a clarity and precision of expression. Through both his designs and his writings Max Bill has long been a major figure of reference in the German-speaking world. This collection makes many of his key texts available in English for the first time.

Forthcoming ARCHITECTURE WORDS 6 PROJECTILES Bernard Cache With an introduction by Mario Carpo Translated by Clare Barrett c160 pp 180 x 110 mm, paperback December 2010 978-1-902902-88-3 12 Bernard Cache is the principal of the Parisbased practice Objectile which he founded in 1996 with Patrick Beauc and a noted theorist of geometry and computational ontology. He formulated his concept of non-standard architecture in his 1995 book Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories, a concept that was given the name objectile by Gilles Deleuze in his book on the philosopher Leibniz, The Fold. This collection of ten essays brings together a number of key texts by Cache. These include his 1999 Plea for Euclid and more recent writing commissioned especially for this collection, including Vitruvius Machinator Terminator.

NEW AND FORTHCOMING Forthcoming ARCHITECTURE WORDS 7 MODERNITY UNBOUND: OTHER HISTORIES OF ARCHITECTURAL MODERNITY Detlef Mertins c160 pp 180 x 110 mm, paperback November 2010 978-1-902902-89-0 12 For almost 20 years, Detlef Mertins has been a critical voice in renewing our understanding of architectural modernity. Architect, historian, professor, his essays have often taken up familiar themes in order to redress inaccuracies and release energies that we were unaware of. These essays elaborate on such key modernist tropes as transparency, glass architecture, organicism, life and event, sameness and difference. Previously published in a variety of different venues, from journals to anthologies including such noted books as Lars Spuybroeks NOX: Machining Architecture and FOAs Phylogenesis they are now assembled for the first time in this volume.

Forthcoming ARCHITECTURE WORDS 8 TARZANS IN THE MEDIA FOREST & OTHER ESSAYS Toyo Ito With an introduction by Thomas Daniell c160 pp 180 x 110 mm, paperback December 2010 978-1-902902-90-6 12 Born in 1941, Ito is one of the worlds most innovative architects. Emerging from the radical Metabolist generation of Japanese architecture (including Kisho Kurokawa and Kiyonori Kikutake, with whom Ito worked for a number of years), he has synthesised the experimental, lightweight architectural language of Metabolism with his own distinct design sensibility. First evidenced by his Aluminium House, U House and Silver Hut house, this architecture has recently developed a more dramatic formal adventurousness with buildings including the Sendai Mediatheque, Mikimoto building, Tama Art University library and the soon to be completed Taichung Metropolitan Opera House. The texts in this collection cover over 30 years of writing and feature famous essays including The Saran-Wrapped City, The Virtual Body and Tarzans in the Media Forest as well as previously untranslated writings that shed new light on Itos relationship to evolving patterns of architectural thinking and design. 5

NEW AND FORTHCOMING New AA AGENDAS 8 NINE PROBLEMS IN THE FORM OF A PAVILION Edited by Yusuke Obuchi and Alan Dempsey 144 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills 249 x 170 mm, paperback October 2010 978-1-902902-73-9 15 Created as part of the 2008 tenth anniversary celebrations of the Design Research Laboratory, the AA DRL Ten Pavilion is one of those built projects that push the conventions in architecture and structural engineering as well as the building materials industry. A full-scale construction built by a group of students as part of their academic activities, the pavilion was conceived as a way of bringing together digital explorations in architectural design with state-of-the-art manufacturing processes and advanced structural calculations based on non-linear stress analysis. This book recounts the story of the creation of the DRL Ten Pavilion illustrating the design, development and assembly processes as well as the structures place within the evolving teaching methodologies of the DRL as a whole.

Forthcoming AA AGENDAS 9 MAKING PAVILIONS Edited by Martin Self and Charles Walker c160 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills 249 x 170 mm, paperback November 2010 978-1-902902-82-1 15 Over the past four years the students of the Architectural Associations Intermediate Unit 2 have designed and built a series of experimental pavilions. Structured to follow a year in the life of the unit, this book presents the processes of the pavilions design and production, from concept ideas to workshop fabrication. Essays by the units tutors, Charles Walker and Martin Self, explain the ambitions and pedagogic basis of the programme, rooted in the idea of learning through experience. The educational validity of this innovative designbuild programme and its architectural output we explored through the voices of students, tutors and anonymous critics.

NEW AND FORTHCOMING New AA AGENDAS 10 LONDON + 10 Carlos Villanueva Brandt 340 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills 253 x 187 mm, paperback February 2010 978-1-902902-83-8 30 London +10 focuses on London over the last 20 years, interpreting it as a 'live city' and speculating on the relationship between the live realm of the city and its urban fabric. In parallel to this central topic, the book includes a number of speculative projects carried out by the AA's Diploma Unit 10 that have attempted to integrate this realm into the design of alternative urban strategies. The book addresses London by means of themes such as politics, control, crime, sex, integration, events, time, infrastructure, architecture, regeneration and terrorism. These form part of the everyday experience of London and inform the concept of Direct Urbanism. The structure of the book is governed by these specific themes and each one is expanded by means of a topical article, a short essay and selected illustrations of related projects. In addition, a series of essays by contributors including the writer Will Self and the journalist Rowan Moore provides an overview of London, questioning and celebrating the city and generating possible scenarios for its future.

Forthcoming AA AGENDAS 11 MEDIATING ARCHITECTURE Edited by Theo Lorenz and Peter Staub c160 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills 249 x 170 mm, paperback December 2010 978-1-907896-01-9 15 Given todays multitude of demands on the built environment, the role of the architect has extended from being a mere designer and builder to acting as a mediator within a much larger network of expertise. This mediation takes place on multiple levels within the building industry, between public, clients and designers, and between the actual design and its environment. To achieve this, the field of work, the tools of design and the representation of architects needs to develop. The architect has to design the design process itself. Mediating Architecture demonstrates the extended role of the architect through the applied work of AA's Diploma Unit 14 within London's Thames Gateway over three consecutive years. A series of essays reflect this methodology from the multi-disciplinary perspectives of architecture, urban design, landscape design and philosophy. 9

NEW AND FORTHCOMING New ARCHITECTURE ON DISPLAY: ON THE HISTORY OF THE VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE Aaron Levy and William Menking 208 pp 178 x 110 mm, paperback September 2010 978-1-902902-96-8 7.50 Architecture on Display is a research initiative by Aaron Levy and William Menking that consists of interviews with each of the living directors of the Venice Biennale for Architecture. The origins of the architecture biennale are traced to the 1970s, when it emerged from under the umbrella of the larger Venice Biennale, which was itself established in 1895. Since then it has become one of the most prestigious forums for architectural discourse today, and has served as a model for a range of international exhibitions. The book explores the biennale through the directors who established its particular discourse, including Vittorio Gregotti, Paolo Portoghesi, Francesco Dal Co, Kurt W Forster, Massimiliano Fuksas, Hans Hollein, Richard Burdett, Deyan Sudjic, Aaron Betsky and Kazuyo Sejima, as well as the current president of the Venice Biennale, Paolo Baratta. These conversations do not seek to recapitulate the exhibitions themselves but rather explore the questions that they raise with the hope of offering a model for future curatorial endeavours.

New MARSEILLE MIX William Firebrace 248 pp 225 x 140 mm paperback October 2010 978-1-902902-95-1 18 Marseille Mix describes the city of Marseille, its culture, buildings, gastronomy, cinematic images, history, planning, language, music, detective stories, criminology. These aspects of the city interrelate and overlap to create a complex ever shifting image. Marseille lies on the edge of Europe, separated from the rest of France by a circle of high mountains. It looks outwards to the Mediterranean, relating more to the exterior world than back to the rest of France. It is one of the oldest cities of western Europe, with traces of prehistoric inhabitation, a trading city founded by the Greeks, a flourishing medieval culture. Once one of the busiest ports in the world, its harbour is now largely empty. With its sea-trade almost abandoned, Marseille has lost its traditional purpose. It is like a sea creature marooned on the land, uncertain as to whether to settle or move on. In seven chapters (in reference to the seven hills surrounding Marseille and the seven seas to the south) the book uses various forms of writing essay, narrative, description, list, recipe, glossary, conversation to examine the city and investigate its defining mix. William Firebrace is an architect and author, and teaches in various London schools of architecture including the AA. 11

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NEW AND FORTHCOMING New WORKING IN SERIES Christopher C M Lee and Kapil Gupta / Serie Architects 160 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills 250 x 220 mm, flexicover October 2010 978-1-902902-98-2 20 The construction of a mental habit that systematically confronts the complexities and the contradiction of the architectural profession is what characterises the work of Serie. Serie searches for a level of coherence that goes beyond iconic recognition. Its method is an attempt to coincide and negotiate the two extremes of architecture: the commitment to the city and its project, and the definition of an architectural method discernible in its own disciplinary terms. Serie works in the direction of reconciling the disputatio between city and design, and the framework of this reconciliation is the idea of type. According to Serie, type is in itself a form of conflict between the idea of the project, its why do? and the praxis of the project, its how to. In the intentions of Serie, this modus operandi aims not only for a coherent production but also for a conceptual intelligibility of the method itself, working towards the production of generic design knowledge. Pier Vittorio Aureli Working in Series is published to coincide with an exhibition of the work of Serie Architects to be held at the Architectural Association in November 2010. New SPACE AS MEMBRANE Siegfried Ebeling Translated by Pamela Johnston and Anna Kathryn Schoefert With essays by Walter Scheiffele and Spyros Papapetros 68 pp, col. & b/w ills 270 x 220 mm, paperback October 2010 978-1-902902-92-0 15 What if architecture was no longer 3D or 2D, mass or surface, object or space? And what if the architectural environment was envisioned not as an abstract continuum but as a material envelope that grows organically from the human body, uniting its skin with the periphery of a city, a region or a continent, even the entire earthly atmosphere? Such a sprawling hypothesis informs the theoretical premise of the 1926 essay Space as Membrane, written by former Bauhaus student, architect and cosmological theorist Siegfried Ebeling. Read and praised by Mies van der Rohe, denounced by Walter Gropius and presaging some of the technological innovations introduced across the Atlantic by Buckminster Fuller, Ebelings treatise has been the subject of a number of recent commentaries, yet the text itself remains unread, due mainly to the scarcity of the original publication. This is the first English translation of Ebelings original treatise, as well as the first contemporary edition of the text in any language. The book includes the full 1926 text by Ebeling, supplemented by critical essays by Walter Scheiffele and Spyros Papapetros with original drawings by Ebeling, as well as a brief biography of the German architect. 13

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FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL STEP OVER THE PIONEERS OF THOUGHT AS IF THEY WERE OVERSTUFFED DUMMIES. SO WHAT? IF ONE WANTS TO DANCE ON A TIGHTROPE, ONE HAS TO FIRST TENSION THE WIRE. Siegfried Ebeling Space as Membrane

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NEW AND FORTHCOMING Forthcoming 20/20: EDITORIAL TAKES ON ARCHITECTURAL DISCOURSE Edited by Kirk Wooller With a preface by Brett Steele c 240 pp 135 x 216 mm, paperback November 2010 978-1-907896-00-2 tbc

20/20: Editorial Takes on Architectural Discourse brings together editors from 20 leading contemporary architectural magazines to discuss collectively the role editors play in shaping architectural discourse. Each of the contributors has responded to a set of 20 questions on the multiple conditions under which particular ideas and words enter architectural discourse through publication. The resulting critical positions and observations are as diverse as the magazines from which they originate, and range from the oldest student-edited journal (Perspecta) to a research collective that at the time of writing was on the cusp of being launched ([bracket]). Also included are contributions from the editors of 306090, AA Files, Actar, An Architektur, Footprint, Grey Room, Harvard Design Magazine, Hunch, Interstices, Log, Manifold, Mark, New Geographies, OASE, Praxis, Scapes, UME and Volume. 20/20 is a timely publication that provides todays architectural reader with concise viewpoints from the editors behind the magazines behind architectural culture.

New AA BOOK: PROJECTS REVIEW 2010 334 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills 249 x 170 mm, paperback July 2010 978-1-902902-93-7 20 Published annually to accompany the end-of-year exhibition and to record a year in the life of the AA School, the AA Book: Projects Review 2010 contains texts, reviews, graphics, photographs and, above all else, projects selected from across the entire school.

Back issues also available: AA BOOK: PROJECTS REVIEW 2009 336 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills 249 x 170 mm, paperback July 2009 978-1-902902-79-1 15 AA BOOK: PROJECTS REVIEW 2008 536 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills 249 x 170 mm, paperback July 2008 978-1-902902-67-8 10

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NEW AND FORTHCOMING AA Files is the Architectural Associations journal of record. Launched in 1981 by the AA Schools then chairman Alvin Boyarsky, the journal appears twice a year and is sent out to members of the Architectural Association, individual subscribers and is distributed to a global network of bookshops. Currently under the editorship of Thomas Weaver, AA Files looks to promote original and engaging writing on architecture. It does this by drawing on the AA Schools own academic research, lecture programme, exhibitions and events, as well as a rich and eclectic mix of architectural scholarship from all over the world.

Forthcoming AA FILES 61 88 pp, extensively illustrated in col. 297 x 245mm, November 2010 ISSN 0261 6823 ISBN 978-1-902902-94-4 15 Features essays by Lilly Dubowitz on Stefan Sebk, the art historian Karin Gimmi on Max Frisch, the architectural historian Irene Sunwoo on AATV, the oral historian Linda Sandino on the oral archive, the design historian Eric Kindel on stencils and a conversation between designer John Morgan and filmmaker Sally Potter about her father Norman Potter.

Forthcoming AA FILES 62 88 pp, extensively illustrated in col. 297 x 245mm, March 2011 ISSN 0261 6823 ISBN 978-1-902902-99-9 15 Features essays by the political scientist John Gray on magic and technology, the designer Quentin Newark on building his dream house, the architect Pier Vittorio Aureli on Ludwig Hilberseimer, the historian Dirk van den Heuvel on Piet Blom, the critic Claire Zimmerman on the Smithsons and the theorist Sony Devabhaktuni on choreographer Merce Cunningham. By annual subscription: UK 32, overseas 33 inc. P&P Back issues (nos. 1 to 56) subject to availability at 6 each. 22 23

CURRENT ARCHITECTURE WORDS 1 SUPERCRITICAL Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Jeffrey Kipnis, Robert Somol 160 pp, b/w ills 180 x 110 mm, paperback December 2009 978-1-902902-51-7 12 Supercritical is based on an evening of conversation between Peter Eisenman and Rem Koolhaas at the AA in 2006. Each architect states his views about the terms of architecture, including its theories and relationship to the city and other forms of critical and cultural practice. Responses from the audience follow, filtered through a debate moderated by Brett Steele. ARCHITECTURE WORDS 3 THE POETICS OF A WALL PROJECTION Jan Turnovsk Translated by Kent Kleinman 128 pp, b/w ills 180 x 110 mm, paperback March 2009 978-1-902902-68-5 12 Originally published in German, Jan Turnovsks The Poetics of a Wall Projection is ostensibly a description of a corner within the breakfast room of the Villa Stonborough in Vienna, designed by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Paul Engelmann. But it is also much more. Working from within an established Viennese tradition, his study elucidates a complex set of ideas from something seemingly trivial in this case, an analysis of the villas corner detail expands into a wider exploration of the logics of architectural syntax and his belief that good and poetic architecture is always also practical.

ARCHITECTURE WORDS 2 ANTI-OBJECT: THE DISSOLUTION AND DISINTEGRATION OF ARCHITECTURE Kengo Kuma Translated by Hiroshi Watanabe 152 pp, extensive b/w ills 180 x 110 mm, paperback October 2008 978-1-902902-52-4 12 In Anti-Object, Kengo Kuma argues that the dissolution and disintegration of architecture is not only desirable but possible. His approach is illustrated with a discussion of works by his office in which he has sought, by various tactics, to avoid objectification. The ideas embodied in these diverse projects have much in common with the Japanese tradition, not of monuments, but of weaker buildings characterised by their use of natural light and natural materials.

ARCHITECTURE WORDS 4 HAVING WORDS Denise Scott Brown 160 pp 180 x 110 mm, paperback May 2009 978-1-902902-70-8 12 Having Words collects together ten essays by the pioneering architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown. The essays extend from her 1969 text, On Pop Art, Permissiveness and Planning (written three years before the publication of Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenours seminal book Learning From Las Vegas) to Towards an Active Socioplastics from 2007, which offers an overview of Scott Browns education and the gestation of her key architectural and urban ideas. The collection is bookended by two additional texts by Scott Brown, a foreword and an afterword, addressing specifically the act of writing about architecture. 25

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CURRENT AA AGENDAS 7 ARTICULATED GROUNDS: MEDIATING ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE Edited by Anne Save de Beaurecueil and Franklin Lee 160 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills 249 x 170 mm, paperback July 2009 978-1-902902-71-5 15 The projects presented in this collection, drawn from the AA's Diploma Unit 2, are all either located within or influenced by a Brazilian context, rich in sculptural, variegated landscapes and African as well as indigenous Indian influences. Innovative design proposals illustrate symbiotic relationships between urban society, environmental conditioning and landscape by articulating ground organisations to mediate and synchronise both environmental and cultural flows.

ENABLING: THE WORK OF MINIMAFORMS Theodore and Stephen Spyropoulos 208 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills 240 x 200 mm, paperback March 2010 978-1-902902-86-9 22.50 This book highlights the work of the design practice Minimaforms, founded in 2002 by brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos. The practice has developed a diverse body of work that explores new forms of communication through correlated systems of interaction. The book features recent work developed in collaboration with Krzysztof Wodiczko (a vehicle for veterans), a pavilion produced with the performance artist Stelarc, a video piece with Warp recording artist Mira Calix and Minimaforms critically acclaimed light installation in Trafalgar Square, Memory Cloud. Accompanying the projects are texts by Archigrams David Greene, Stelarc, Marie-Ange Brayer, Andrew Benjamin, Bronac Ferran, Roger Malina and Krzysztof Wodiczko.

FIRST WORKS: EMERGING ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIMENTATION OF THE 1960S & 1970S Edited by Brett Steele and Francisco Gonzalez de Canales 284 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills 297 x 210 mm, hardcover November 2009 978-1-902902-81-4 40 During a tumultuous period in the 60s and 70s, a new generation of architects began their careers amidst a period of profound social change, new conditions for architecture and lasting changes to cultural production. First Works tells the story of this period and reassesses the conditions of architecture and the beginnings of architectural careers through a selection of projects undertaken during the 60s and 70s. Alongside these first works, 20 invited critics offer commentaries on these projects and their place within the architects subsequent careers. 26

AN ATLAS OF FABRICATION Barkow Leibinger 96 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills 297 x 210 mm, paperback March 2009 978-1-902902-75-3 12.50 An Atlas of Fabrication accompanied an exhibition at the AA in February 2009. It celebrates the commitment to material research that informs the buildings and teaching of Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger, who were AA unit masters in the late 1990s. The practices fascination with machine-tool fabrication began academically but now resonates in all ongoing building projects within the practice. 27

CURRENT 311 METHODS Edited by Cdric Libert 144 pp, extensive b/w ills 150 x 225 mm, paperback May 2009 978-1-902902-78-4 15 311 Methods accompanied an AA exhibition of the work of Atelier dArchitecture Pierre Hebbelinck. Exercising a recurring, almost obsessional process, Hebbelinck creates a personal universe of ephemera populated by a mass of different taxonomies photographs of shadows and tables after a meal, chalk drawings, notebooks with sketches, texts and collages. Similar methodologies accompany the production of the studios architectural work, illustrated through eight architectural projects, each examined through a specific lens.

L.A.W.U.N. PROJECT #19 Edited by David Greene and Samantha Hardingham Essays by Samantha Hardingham, Sand Helsel, Sam Jacob and Robin Middleton 280 pp + 3 pull-out posters, extensive col. & b/w ills 330 x 240 mm, hardcover April 2008 978-1-902902-66-1 40 David Greenes L.A.W.U.N. Project #19 evidence of his increasing disinterest in form and wilful drift towards invisibility are documented in a publication which accompanied a retrospective exhibition in May 2008. In collaboration with a number of designers, Greene revisits signature works such as the Logplug and The Bottery and reviews them in relation to current construction and modelling techniques. The show and book were curated and edited by AA tutor and writer Samantha Hardingham, with David Greene. THE WORLD OF MADELON VRIESENDORP: PAINTINGS/POSTCARDS/ OBJECTS/GAMES Edited by Shumon Basar and Stephan Trby 278 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills 230 x 175 mm, hardcover January 2008 978-1-902902-63-0 26.50 The World of Madelon Vriesendorp is a testament to a brilliant figure who has made a unique contribution to the visual culture of architecture. Best known as one of the co-founders of OMA in the early 1970s, Vriesendorp's paintings and drawings are widely acknowledged as beguiling and beautiful masterpieces, illustrations of which are combined in this volume, alongside texts that illuminate her work. 29

AADRL DOCUMENTS 2 DRL TEN: A DESIGN RESEARCH COMPENDIUM Edited by Tom Verebes 388 pp, extensive col. & b/w ills 268 x 200 mm, hardcover March 2008 978-1-902902-65-4 30

DRL Ten evaluates the first decade of the AAs Design Research Lab. Since 1997 the DRL has championed a research-driven approach to design, continually reinventing itself in the process. The book reflects upon the DRLs collaborative teaching and learning methods, which have contributed to the wholesale reformulation of contemporary architectural practice during a decade in which digital communication, information, design and production technologies have gone from being nascent and emerging to being embedded in new forms of networked architectural education and practice. 28

BEDFORD PRESS The Civic City Cahier series intends to provide material for a critical discussion about the role of design for a new social city. It publishes short monographic texts by authors who specialise in urban and design theory and practice.

CIVIC CITY CAHIER 1: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE (POST-)NEOLIBERAL CITY Margit Mayer Edited by Jesko Fezer & Matthias Grlich 56 pp, two col. & one col. ills 115 x 190 mm, paperback with dust jacket September 2010 978-1-907414-05-3 7 Margit Mayer looks at contemporary social movements that contest neoliberal urban development by invoking the Right to the City, a motto originally coined by Henri Lefbvre in the 1960s. Mayer contrasts these new movements to those of previous phases in postwar politicaleconomic development, and thus establishes a set of correspondences between consecutive urban regimes and shifting forms of contestation. This framework helps to identify the novelty of progressive movements within the (post-)neoliberal city as well as to explore the scope of meanings attached to their demand for the Right to the City, which has become such a defining feature of current urban struggles not just in the Euro-American core, but around the world. Social Movements in the (Post-)Neoliberal City discusses the implications of the current economic crisis for the Right to the City movements, and speculates about what these movements might imply for designing the (post-)neoliberal city.

CIVIC CITY CAHIER 2: DESIGN AND DEMOCRACY Gui Bonsiepe Edited by Jesko Fezer & Matthias Grlich 80 pp, two col. & one col. ills 115 x 190 mm, paperback with dust jacket November 2010 978-1-907414-11-4 7 Rejecting the economicfocus of the neoliberal definition of democracy Gui Bonsiepe sets out his claims for the potential of design to promote democracy. Design and Democracy introduces a concept of design activities which aim to interpret the needs of social groups and to develop viable emancipative proposals in the form of material and semiotic artefacts. This short text is accompanied by a new interview with the author by Jesko Fezer and a reprint of historical material from Chile in the early 1970s. 31

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