Architectural Association School of Architecture

• Pugin's Contrasts Rotated
• James Langdon

This publication makes a corrective gesture. A.W.N. Pugin's 1836 book Contrasts presented a comparative analysis of what Pugin considered the glorious buildings of the Middle Ages and the detestable architecture of his own time. The etchings that illustrated this work originally appeared awkwardly paired on single pages. Here photocopies of 15 pairings from Contrasts are rotated 90 degrees and reproduced on facing pages, as part of an ongoing enquiry by the author into the book as an active site of display.

• 32 pages, b/w ills
  148 x 210 mm, Paperback, 2011
  ISBN 978-1-907414-22-0
  
  £4.50

• ARCHIZINES
• Edited by Elias Redstone, with essays by Pedro Gadanho, Iker Gil, Adam Murray, Rob Wilson and Mimi Zeiger

From photo-copied and print-on-demand newsletters such as Another Pamphlet, Scapegoat and Preston is My Paris, to beautiful magazines such as Mark, Spam and PIN-UP, ARCHIZINES celebrates and promotes the recent resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing from around the world.

• 152 pages,
  216 x 315 mm, Paperback, 2011
  ISBN 978-1-907414-20-6
  
  £12.00

• Inventory Arousal
• James Hoff & Danny Snelson

Inventory Arousal is an artists' book by American artist and publisher James Hoff with writer, editor, and archivist Danny Snelson.

• 80 pages,
  214 x 134 mm, Paperback, 2011
  ISBN 978-1-907414-16-9
  
  £7.00

• Civic City Cahier 5
• Designing the Post-Political City and the Insurgent Polis
• Erik Swyngedouw

Reading the urban revolts and outbursts of irrational violence preceding and following the crisis of neoliberalism as sings of discontent and of a desire for alternative designs of the urban, Erik Swyngedouw reintroduces the idea of the (dead) polis as a space of political encounter. Techno-managerial policies of governing colonised the polis. Politics as dispute is replaced by the neoliberal, postdemocratic consensus. This condition, which designers of all kinds helped to shape, excludes disagreement and disavows conflict as the constitutive element of democratic politics.

• 64 pages, 2-col, b/w ills
  190 x 115 mm, Paperback, 2011
  ISBN 978-1-907414-19-0
  
  £8.00

• Civic City Cahier 3
• Distributed Agency, Design's Potential
• Tom Holert

Tim Holert intends to reframe and re-imagine design in post-capitalist terms. By tracing the appearance of the term ‘design’ in contemporary critical theory he develops an optimistic micro-political approach, which tries to go beyond well-rehearsed figures of critique, namely, those accusing design of being complicit with capitalist commodification and, ultimately, exploitation.

• 60 pages, b/w ills
  180 x 110 mm, Paperback, 2011
  ISBN 978-1-907414-12-1
  
  £8.00

• Translated By
• Edited by Charles Arsène-Henry and Shumon Basar

Translated By is published to coincide with an exhibition at the AA, which gathers eleven literary writers and eleven literary places and subjects them to an act of immaterial translation – via the voice.

• 144 pages,
  175 x 105 mm, Paperback, 2011
  ISBN 978-1-907414-17-6
  
  £10.00

• Maelfa
• Sean Edwards and Sam Jacob

Maelfa is the focus of artist Sean Edwards's portrait of the near derelict Maelfa Shopping Centre in Llanedeyrn.

• 160 pages, extensive b/w ills, some col.
  185 x 135 mm, Paperback, 2011
  ISBN 978-1-907414-09-1
  
  £12.00

• The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON
• Binna Choi and Maiko Tanaka, with Peter Bakker, John Curl, Dolores Hayden and Marina Vishmidt

Co-published by Bedford Press and Casco, this publication is a reflection and MIDTERM MANUAL for ongoing artistic and design research and activities for User's Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution.

• 144 pages, b/w ills
  240 x 170 mm, Paperback, 2010
  ISBN 978-1-907414-14-5
  
  £10.00

• Exhibition Prosthetics 2nd Ed.
• Conversations with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Zak Kyes
• Joseph Grigely

The second edition on Exhibition Prosthetics is published on the occasion of Joseph Grigley's exhibition at the New York Art Book Fair, 2010.

• 64 pages, b/w ills
  210 x 286 mm, Paperback, 2011
  ISBN 978-1-907414-13-8
  
  £10.00

• Civic City Cahier 1
• Social Movements in the (Post-) Neoliberal City
• Margit Mayer

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.

• 56 pages,
  190 x 115 mm, Paperback, 2011
  ISBN 978-1-907414-05-3
  
  £8.00