Alexandre Chemetoff Visits

Alexandre Chemetoff
Alexandre Chemetoff, architect, urban planner and landscaper, develops his projects by visiting the sites, walking them and connecting them with other experiences. This book, which covers a selection of his projects, includes a DVD that captures five visits with guests on film (in French with English subtitles). Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783034601122. Hardback with DVD. $145.

Basics Barrier-Free Planning

Isabella Skiba and Rahel Zuger
Basics Barrier-free Planning improves our understanding of the needs of people with disabilities such as limited mobility or impaired vision, children, and the elderly, all of whom have special requirements when using a building, presenting possibilities for designing buildings and their spaces so they can be used by everyone. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783764389598. Paperback. $35.

Basics Urban Analysis

Gerrit Schwalbach
As a basis for city planning and architectural design work, a solid understanding of the existing and surrounding urban structures is indispensable. Basics Urban Analysis is a new addition to the module on city planning providing techniques for analysing cities. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783764389383. Paperback. $35.

Contact Sheet

Steve Crist
An insightful look into the most iconic photographs of our times, revealing the rarely seen contact sheets from the original photo sessions. This compilation book showcases some of the most seminal photographers of our time, from Andre Kertesz to Andres Serrano, showing the depth and breadth of the photographic process. Ammo Books. ISBN 9780978607692. Hardback. $79.95.

Expanded Practice

Meejin Yoon and Eric Höweler

Rising stars in Boston’s design scene, architects Eric Höweler and J. Meejin Yoon have in a single decade developed a reputation for radical experiments in architectural form. Expanded Practice presents twenty-nine recent projects by this young firm encompassing a broad range of scales and media. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568988665. Paperback. $80.

Finding Frida Kahlo

Barbara Levine and Stephen Jaycox
An astonishing lost archive of one of the 20th century’s most revered artists. Hidden from view for over half a century, this richly illustrated, intimate portrait overflows with fascinating details about Kahlo’s romances, friendships and business affairs. Offers scholars and fans alike an opportunity to examine firsthand Kahlo’s secret world. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568988306. Hardback. $100.

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Hans Wolfsbauer-Schönau Salzburg

Karin Wolfsbauer
Hans Wolfsbauer-Schönau ranks among Austria’s most important artists. His numerous graphics and paintings dedicated to the city of Salzburg, the Salzburg Music Festival and the state of Salzburg and its people are compiled for the first time in this monograph. A must for everyone who knows and loves Salzburg. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783211981214. Hardback. $86.50.

Inside the Painter’s Studio

Joe Fig
24 artist interviews (including Ross Bleckner, Chuck Close and Ryan McGinness), as well as exclusive documentation of their studios. Artists open up about how they set a creative mood, how they choose titles and even whether they sit or stand to contemplate their work. Also included are a selection of Fig’s detailed miniature dioramas of the studios. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568988528. Paperback. $70.

Installations by Architects

Sarah Bonnemaison and Ronit Eisenbach
The first survey of its kind: fifty of the most significant installation projects from the last twenty-five years by today’s most exciting architects, including Anderson Anderson, Philip Beesley, Diller + Scofidio, John Hejduk, Dan Hoffman, and Kuth/Ranieri Architects. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568988504. Paperback. $80.

Lickshot

Ben Watts
Ben Watts’ highly personalised scrapbook and travel diary: a triumph of lo-fi style, its pages are a delirious pastiche of gritty photographs, wonky Polaroids, and hand-scrawled graffiti, held together by slashes of colored tape. Includes photos of Heath Ledger, Benicio del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Rachel Weisz, Guy Pearce and Adrien Brody. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568988382. Hardback. $100.

New Tectonics

Yu-Tung Liu
The seventh Far Eastern International Digital Design Award. The prizewinning projects are presented in detail, probing the innovative potential that digital media holds in store for designers. Documented with texts and color illustrations, the projects presented provide an outstanding overview of international digital design. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783764386917. Hardback. $93.50.

Plot 3

Rainer Haupl et al, eds
Plot is a brand new international magazine for creative spaces with the first cross-section of contemporary exhibition design, set and stage design, brand design and installations, a must for all designers in the field of scenography. This issue has features on Diesel and 55DSL, LED-Colourlabs and Tita Von Hardenberg. AVedition. ISBN 9783899861143. Paperback. $36.

Red Dot Design Yearbook (Product) 2009/2010

Peter Zec
An overview in two volumes of the best in product design. Volume one presents the best products in furniture, lighting and garden equipment as well as in the fields of architecture, sanitary, and office. Volume two presents the best products for the digital age in the sectors consumer electronics, communication, and computers. AVedition. ISBN 9783899391060. 2 vols Hardback. $205.

Slideshow

Hubert Blanz
Accumulations of runways, circuit boards organized like cities, or recently rediscovered slot-car racing tracks – these are the motifs Hubert Blanz collects in his images. With essays by Wolfgang Fiel, Ruth Horak, Roland Schöny and Margit Zuckriegl that discuss the projects themselves and also take a look at parallel theoretical areas. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783211857816. Paperback with DVD. $75.

Smart Surfaces

Thorsten Klooster, ed
Whether luminous wallpaper, curtains that produce electricity or self-cleaning windowpanes, surface technologies are revolutionising the use of materials in architecture, interior design and design. Smart Surfaces brings these design fields into the creative focus of planners and designers, and emphasises concrete possibilities for applications. Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 9783764388126. Paperback. $110.

Spatial Pathology Floating Realities

Margot Krasojevic
Margot Krasojevic – architect and psychologist – is no longer an unknown quantity on the experimental architecture scene. This book, designed by Büro Destruct, is an image/text collage that comprises Krasojevic’s work over the last 10 years in experimental architecture and spectacular digital visualizations. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783211715338. Paperback. $58.50.

Style and Scale, or: Do You Have Anxiety?

Ken Adams, et al
Ken Adams’ set designs for the early Bond films are legendary and Katharina Fritsch’s enigmatic sculptures are just as vivid and striking. Bice Curiger, editor of Parkett, talks with Adam and Frisch, along with Hans Ulrich Obrist, about film, art, work processes and the astonishing parallels in their work. Springer Verlag. ISBN 9783211992159. Paperback. $62.

Think/Make Della Valle Bernheimer

Andrew Bernheimer and Jared Della Valle
Brooklyn-based Della Valle Bernheimer has assembled an impressive body of completed projects just a decade into their practice. This unique monograph illustrates how personal, associative and often highly poetic thoughts are made legible in architecture. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568987811. Paperback. $80.

Wayne White

Todd Oldham
The clever and warped world of artist Wayne White. From his early days as a production designer and puppet maker for the iconic TV show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse to his unmistakable and exquisitely rendered text paintings, this monograph is a comprehensive view of Wayne White’s oeuvre. Ammo Books. ISBN 9781934429112. Hardback. $129.50.