Architectural Association School of Architecture

• Beyond the Minimal
• Artec, Adolf Krischanitz, PauHof , Riegler-Riewe
• Essays by Peter Allison, Andrew Benjamin, Ernst Hubeli, Michael Hofstätter, Otto Kapfinger, Mohsen Mostafavi, Brett Steele

Beyond the Minimal presents four of the most interesting practices in Austria today: Artec, Adolf Krischanitz, PauHof and Riegler-Riewe...

• 96 pages, duotone & line ills
  320 x 244 mm, Paperback, 1998
  ISBN 978-1-870890-83-0
  
  £10.00

• Berlin Free University
• Candilis, Josic, Woods, Schiedhelm
• Candilis, Josic, Woods, Schiedhelm, Gabriel Feld, Mohsen Mostafavi, Peter Smithson, Manfred Schiedhelm, Alexander Tzonis & Liane Lefaivre, George Wagner Photography: Charles Tashima

This publication on the Berlin Free University contains specially commissioned photographs, archive material, construction details and plans. The visual survey is completed by essays that describe the building's conception and system of construction, and analyse the reasons for its enduring importance.

• 144 pages, extensive col. & b/w ills
  320 x 224 mm, Paperback, 1999
  ISBN 978-1-870890-76-2
  
  £10.00

• Bodyline:The End of Our Meta Mechanical Body
• George L.Legendre, with a preface by Brett Steele

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Bodyline is intended for architects, architecture and design students, product designers, fashion designers, art lovers, structural engineers and anyone else interested in the visual arts.

• 42 pages, Extensive ills
  275 x 188 mm, Paperback, 2006
  ISBN 978-1-902902-46-3
  
  £10.00

• Cities from Zero
• Edited by Shumon Basar, with essays by Amale Andra

At the start of the 21st century there has been a marked shift - both economic and political - from the West to the East. Dubai vies with other Gulf cities to create the ultimate Middle Eastern hub for business, culture and leisure. Chinas feverish construction industry is operating at an unprecedented scale, as it builds higher and faster than anyone else...

• 136 pages, extensive col. & b/w ills
  150 x 210 mm, Paperback, 2007
  ISBN 978-1-902902-60-9
  
  £10.00

• Corporate Fields
• Office Projects by the AA Design Research Lab
• Edited by Brett Steele, with essays by Andrew Benjamin, Mark Cousins, Christopher Hight, Mohsen Mostafavi, Patrik Schumacher, Brett Steele, Tom Verebes

Corporate Fields imagines and gives form to the future of office life, bringing together more than 2,000 diagrams, models, renderings and other images from 26 architectural projects completed during the first three years of the ground-breaking AA DRL programme.

• 264 pages, over 2,000 col. ills
  17 mm, Hardback, 2005
  ISBN 978-1-902902-41-8
  
  £20.00

• Diamond Vaults
• Innovation and Geometry in Medieval Architecture
• Zoë Opacic

The diamond vaults of Central Europe are among the most original yet little-known creations of medieval architecture: ceilings so complex that, as their name suggests, they recall the facets of a cut gemstone. First appearing in 1471 at the palace of Albrechtsburg in Meissen, Germany, they were employed for almost a century in locations as far apart as Gdansk on the Baltic to Bechyne in southern Bohemia (today's Czech Republic)...

• 72 pages, col. & b/w ills
  249 x 170 mm, Paperback, 2005
  ISBN 978-1-902902-47-0
  
  £10.00

• Do Android Crows Fly over the Skies of an Electronic Tokyo?
• The Interactive Urban Landscape of Japan
• Akira Suzuki

'It is difficult to describe Tokyo in terms of traditional urbanism. Its population is extremely fluid and capricious. It has no tradition of architectural culture, its infrastructure is quite haphazard, and its local communities - recently even the family unit - have begun to disintegrate.'

• 72 pages, extensive ills
  215 x 155 mm, Paperback, 2001
  ISBN 978-1-902902-07-4
  
  £8.00

• Glass Ramps/Glass Wall
• Deviations from the Normative
  Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University
• Essays by Bernard Tschumi, Hugh Dutton, Jesse Reiser

Tschumi's Alfred Lerner Hall is a turbulent mixture of the conventional and the innovative. Its opaque, masonry-clad wings respond to the traditional materials and massing of the Columbia University campus, while its transparently clad middle develo

• 96 pages, extensive col. ills
  220 x 220 mm, Paperback, 2001
  ISBN 978-1-902902-00-5
  
  £8.00

• Imprint of India
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• Alison Smithson

In the manner of intrepid Victorian women traveller-diarists, Imprint of India is an elaborate collage of fiction and images drawn from memories of hot, dusty travels in India.

• 60 pages, duotone collages
  230 x 230 mm, Paperback, 1995
  ISBN 978-1-870890-49-6
  
  £10.00

• Le Corbusier & The Architecture of Reinvention
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• Essays by Charles Jencks, Stanislaus von Moos, Hilde Heynen, Tim Benton, Peter Carl, Daniel Naegele, Fernando Pérez Oyarzun

'How, in a turbulent century, was Le Corbusier able to reinvent himself at least five times? How was he able to become the Picasso (or Duchamp) of architecture? How was he able to produce work in a regional Art Nouveau mode, then become a leader of the Modern Movement and International Style, then switch to primitive materials and Brutalism before pre-empting Post-Modernism through Ronchamp and Chandigarh, and pre-empting High-Tech and Complexity Architecture through the Centre Le Corbusier and the Philips Pavilion? How?'

• 176 pages, extensive col. ills
  215 x 155 mm, Paperback, 2003
  ISBN 978-1-902902-29-6
  
  £15.00