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ThE wOrLD’S fAIrEST<br />

CITy<br />

yOurS AnD MInE<br />

features of urban Living<br />

and Quality<br />

<strong>Design</strong>:<br />

Andrea gmünder<br />

18 × 12.8 cm, 7 × 5 in, 192 pages<br />

120 illustrations, softcover<br />

<strong>2010</strong>, ISBN 978-3-03778-186-9<br />

English<br />

<strong>2010</strong>, ISBN 978-3-03778-185-2<br />

German<br />

EUR 20.– GBP 20.–<br />

USD / CAD 30.–<br />

Petra Kempf<br />

yOu ArE ThE CITy<br />

Observation,<br />

Organization and<br />

Transformation<br />

of urban Settings<br />

<strong>Design</strong>:<br />

Integral <strong>Lars</strong> <strong>Müller</strong><br />

21 × 29.7 cm, 8 ¼ × 11 ¾ in<br />

22 transparent slides in folder<br />

brochure, 16 pages<br />

2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-159-3<br />

English<br />

EUR 30.– GBP 30.–<br />

USD / CAD 50.–<br />

gramazio & Kohler<br />

DIgITAL MATErIALITy<br />

In ArChITECTurE<br />

<strong>Design</strong>:<br />

Integral <strong>Lars</strong> <strong>Müller</strong><br />

19.5 × 30 cm, 7 ¾ × 11 ¾ in<br />

112 pages, 157 illustrations<br />

hardcover<br />

2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-122-7<br />

English<br />

EUR 35.– GBP 35.–<br />

USD / CAD 45.–<br />

Soon, more than two thirds of all human beings<br />

on the planet will live in cities, and the number of<br />

increasingly mobile people who shuttle effortlessly<br />

between major cities is constantly growing.<br />

Every year, various city rankings choose the<br />

“top ten” cities in the world. But what makes a city<br />

really livable? The answer to this question, as<br />

offered by the rankings, is anything but satisfactory.<br />

Their economically oriented, quantitative<br />

criteria are often taken out of context. But personal<br />

eperience is much more complex than this.<br />

With contributions by Catherine Ingraham<br />

and Keller Easterling<br />

Today’s cities are hybrid entities based on multilayered<br />

and sometimes contradictory organizing principles.<br />

As complex networks of geographic, economic,<br />

political and cultural segments, they are<br />

caught up in a constant process of differentiation.<br />

This publication offers architects and urban planners<br />

a mapping tool that creates a framework for<br />

understanding the continually changing configuration<br />

of the city. With the aid of themed transparencies,<br />

the tool allows one to superimpose various<br />

realities in layers in order to create new urban connections.<br />

Robots build! At their program in architecture<br />

and digital production at the Swiss Federal Institute<br />

of Technology in Zurich, the architects<br />

Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler have<br />

installed a research facility that is unique in the<br />

world. It is based on a computer-controlled industrial<br />

robot that produces construction elements<br />

directly from design data. The robot works flexibly<br />

with a tremendous range of tools and materials.<br />

In this way they probe the exciting potential<br />

of digital design, construction, and manufacturing<br />

techniques. First structures using robots have<br />

already been built, for example the installation<br />

at the Swiss Pavilion at the 11th Biennale <strong>Architecture</strong>.<br />

SEnSE Of ThE CITy<br />

Edited by Mirko Zardini<br />

and the Canadian Centre<br />

of <strong>Architecture</strong> CCA,<br />

Montréal<br />

<strong>Design</strong>:<br />

Integral <strong>Lars</strong> <strong>Müller</strong><br />

16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in<br />

352 pages, 280 illustrations<br />

hardcover<br />

2005, ISBN 978-3-03778-060-2<br />

English<br />

EUR 42– GBP 40.–<br />

USD / CAD 60.–<br />

COnSTruCTIOn SITE<br />

Metamorphoses<br />

in the City<br />

<strong>Design</strong>:<br />

haeberli winkelmann<br />

23 × 28 cm, 9 × 11 in, 144 pages<br />

137 illustrations, hardcover<br />

2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-112-8<br />

English<br />

2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-111-1<br />

German<br />

EUR 40.– GBP 40.–<br />

USD / CAD 55.–<br />

ThE IMAgE AnD<br />

ThE rEgIOn<br />

Making Mega-City<br />

regions Visible<br />

Edited by Alain<br />

Thierstein and Agnes<br />

förster<br />

<strong>Design</strong>: Valerie Kiock<br />

16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in<br />

288 pages, 203 illustrations<br />

softcover<br />

2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-131-9<br />

English<br />

EUR 30.– GBP 30.–<br />

USD / CAD 45..–<br />

With texts by Constance Classen, David Howes,<br />

Norman Pressmann, Emily Thompson and Mirko<br />

Zardini<br />

The everyday discoveries in Sense of the City were<br />

collected over a long time and then categorized<br />

according to their relationship with each other. The<br />

wide range of cities from which the examples were<br />

taken is reflected in the use of different languages.<br />

Without claiming completeness, this collection<br />

represents a pictorial archive documenting two<br />

very different kinds of expeditions through large<br />

and small cities of the world.<br />

Edited by Marie Antoinette glaser,<br />

ETh wohnforum<br />

The building site has been a popular metaphor<br />

for the patchwork plans of contemporary life.<br />

With authoritative information and reflection from<br />

a variety of perspectives, some quite surprising,<br />

the building site is presented as an extraordinary<br />

place in the city and as a microcosm that operates<br />

under heavy pressures of time and costs.<br />

The book includes essays on specific building<br />

sites such as the megaproject Sihlcity in Zurich<br />

or the La Défense building site in Paris, interviews<br />

with architects and construction managers, and<br />

impressive illustrations.<br />

Mega-city regions are currently a frequent topic<br />

of discussion. Researchers are exploring the<br />

fundamentals for understanding the role of metropolitan<br />

regions and their social, economic, and<br />

cultural developments on a national and European<br />

basis. The responsible decision makers<br />

in politics and business are calling for new measures<br />

for greater urban areas. But that is just<br />

the start of the problem: Europe seems to lack<br />

an awareness for metropolitan regions. For the<br />

majority of politicians, planners, institutions,<br />

and residents the features of mega-city regions<br />

remain invisible. They are scarcely charted; there<br />

are no concepts for representing them or any<br />

direct sensory understanding of them in everyday<br />

life.<br />

38 <strong>Architecture</strong> 39

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