ARCHITECTURE

El Croquis 231 - SelgasCano (2014-2025) Loose Parts Play

El Croquis 2025 ISBN 9788412823462 Acqn 37440
Pb 25x34cm 360pp col ills £83

The Spanish architecture firm SelgasCano was founded in 1998 by architects Jose Selgas and
Lucia Cano, who have since built a reputation for their creative use of materials and focus on the
relationship between architecture and nature. Following on an earlier issue of 'El Croquis'
featuring work by the Madrid-based practice completed between 2003 and 2013, this one
presents the studio's work since then, including the Bathing Pavilion at the Bruges Triennial,
Beijing Xicheng Exhibition Hall, a bookshop on Hanbury Street in London, and several homes.
The studio is recognised for its lightweight, transparent designs and experimental use of colour
and new technologies.

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Trans 47 – Soft
gta Verlag 2025 ISBN 9783856765040 Acqn 37424
Pb 21x28cm 140pp col ills £22

Soft is the breath that blurs sharp edges, the quiet elusion of fixed categories, the slow wearing
away of the rigid. Soft yields, absorbs, envelops. It is the presence that lingers, bending rules
without announcing rebellion, dissolving rather than breaking order. Soft forces hold the potential
to reshape the hard world through resistance and deformation; subverting norms, transcending
categories. Reshaping political spaces by seeping through the cracks, working along the edges,
rendering control porous and vulnerable. 'Trans' tackles the notion of "soft" through diverse
contributions in four chapters: On the Planetary, At a Breaking Point, Through Interaction, From
the Margins.

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This Is Not a Summer School - The International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban
Design (ILAUD)
gta Verlag 2025 ISBN 9783856764784 Acqn 37482
Pb 15x23cm 180pp col ills £27.50

The International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD) was an influential
platform for rethinking urban discourse and pedagogy in the 1970s and '80s. Founded by
Giancarlo De Carlo with Team X members, it brought together architects, teachers, and students
from Europe and North America to explore user participation, building reuse, and eclecticism.
Though its theoretical discussions shaped architectural education and practice, ILAUD's impact
remains understudied. Contributors examine the laboratory's early years through conceptual,
methodological, and geographical perspectives.

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A Good City - The Short Story

Danish Architectural Press 2025 ISBN 9788774073307 Acqn 37484
Pb 13x21cm 84pp col ills £36.50

Do you remember the series of lectures and teachers from your days studying? No? Camilla van
Deurs does. She remembers one supervisor and professor in particular: Jan Gehl. Not just for his
knowledge, but for the way he communicated it. Jan Gehl let the conclusions from his research
wander like anecdotes and repeated them until they stuck. From lecturer to student. From one
generation of architects and urban planners to the next. 'Good City - The Short Version' is a
collection of 24 short stories in which Gehl's research work is translated into easy-to-understand
reflections on city life. About the divide between architecture and urban planning on the drawing
board and the concrete, lived city. About small spaces and big experiences.

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Album Architectures – Maputo

Caryatide 2025 ISBN 9782493283313 Acqn 37437
Pb 24x32cm 128pp col ills £37

The 'Album Architectures' collection reflects on contemporary heritage through the architectural
landscapes of cities. This edition focuses on the modernist architecture and urban transformation
of Maputo, Mozambique. Featuring photography by Giovanna Silva, it captures the postcolonial
city's evolving landscape and social fabric, serving as a lens to explore changes to its streets,
public spaces, and urban adaptation. Interviews with Ana Tostoes and Ana Raquel Machava
provide insights into Maputo's architectural heritage and challenges, while architects Matteo Poli
and Luca Astorri discuss its possible futures and enduring legacies, examining resilience and
identity.

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Ordinary Beauty - An Italian Scenario

Caryatide 2025 ISBN 9782493283269 Acqn 37438
Pb 24x32cm 208pp col ills £47

By combining two seemingly antithetical values, 'Ordinary Beauty' is an open investigation aimed
at fostering a generation of architects who, on a daily basis, dismantle the wall separating the
ordinary from beauty, construction from architecture. The research project features 61
architectural offices from across Italy, along with reflections from scholars and professionals in
the field. It encapsulates a generation of designers who begin with people and life itself,
reclaiming the ordinary and elevating it to a common practice of architectural quality - first
imagining a new way of living and then designing the very spaces that will be used and inhabited
by this new life.

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Housing Loops - Opulence, Precarity, Dignity, Prosperity And Fraternity

a+t Ediciones 2025 ISBN 9788409714353 Acqn 37475
Pb 17x24cm 472pp col ills £42.75

This research by a+t research group proposes an alternative reading of the history of housing.
Rather than being organised around architectural styles or movements, it is structured through
five essential conditions that define the lived experience of inhabitation: Opulence, Precarity,
Dignity, Prosperity, and Fraternity. Drawing on 178 case studies-ranging from the onset of the
Industrial Revolution in the mid-eighteenth century to the second decade of the twenty-first-this
critical chronology maps the evolution of collective housing in relation to the social demands of
each historical period. The timeline identifies key patterns in housing design, recurring spatial
loops that transcend eras, advances in construction technologies, and the transformation of the
domestic unit as a nucleus of cohabitation.

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Planning and Designing Cities for a Rising Sea Level

Danish Architectural Press 2025 ISBN 9788774075806 Acqn 37476
Pb 17x23cm 426pp col ills £56.25

With a changing climate, sea levels are expected to rise at an increasing rate over the next
centuries, jeopardising populations living in smaller or larger urban communities along the
coastlines. The extent and speed of this process is uncertain, which puts coastal cities in the
difficult position of deciding which urban planning and design responses are adequate. Also, the
complexity and extended time-frame of this wicked problem calls for multidisciplinary and open-
minded approaches, where knowledge, practice, and visions for the future all contribute to robust,
evidence-based, and locally attuned adaption. This book tackles the challenge of sea level rise
and how cities can respond.

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... but who are we building for?

Danish Architectural Press 2025 ISBN 9788774071099 Acqn 37478
Pb 17x24cm 496pp col ills £48

Architecture has historically functioned as both shelter and a tool for power that can establish
dominance and exclusion, often failing to accommodate diverse needs and ways of being. In this
second publication from Building Diversity, architectural establishments and norms are
challenged. The editors examine who buildings and environments are designed for and with,
emphasizing collaboration that includes diverse perspectives across human, multi-species,
ecosystem, and climate needs. Rather than presenting a unified narrative, the book
acknowledges contradictions and multiple entry points into the question "who are we building
for?," aiming to amplify marginalised voices, emerging from a global open call for contributions,
and foster agency in making the built environment more inclusive and equitable.

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It's About Time - Perspectives on Scandinavian art in relation to architecture

Danish Architectural Press 2025 ISBN 9788774075585 Acqn 37481
Pb 17x24cm 254pp col ills £56.25

In Scandinavia, when the state builds, a small percentage of total construction costs is allocated
for art. This policy ensures creativity becomes an intrinsic component of the built environment
rather than an afterthought. Yet the spatial implications and artistic dimensions that result from
this funding mechanism are rarely studied. This volume explores the relationship between art and
architecture in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Contemporary case studies weave together
histories of cross-disciplinary collaboration, cultural policy, and environmental concerns, mapping
a sophisticated framework for grasping the multiple dimensions of art interventions within
architecture.

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Trustmaking - A Guidebook on Youth Empowerment in Urban Transformation

nai010 publishers 2025 ISBN 9789462089532 Acqn 37480
Pb 17x24cm 192pp col ills £37.25

Rethink the role of trust. This hands-on guide blends placemaking, arts-based methods, and
policy insights to arrive at co-creative urban transformation. It demonstrates how trustmaking can
bridge generational gaps and foster more inclusive cities, and therefore also explores how the
youth can lead the way in reimagining cities through collaboration and creativity. Grounded in
principles that transcend conventional urban planning paradigms, the book features insights from
four European Urban Living Labs, offering fresh perspectives and actionable strategies - from
arts-based interventions to placemaking - that empower young people to co-create inclusive,
trust-filled urban futures.

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Staging Ground - infrastructures, performance, and bodies in movement

DPR-BARCELONA 2025 ISBN 9791399087901 Acqn 37483
Pb 17x24cm 160pp col ills £20.25

A multiplicity of dynamics are driving rapid infrastructural transitions in cities, transforming

cultures of movement, both human and non-human. But these are all too often narrated at scales
that surpass the embodied experiences of those that live them every day. To better understand
the bodily and cultural implications of these transformations, we can learn from the performing
arts. 'Staging Ground' assembles on-site investigations, critical reflections, and performative
scores, developed through a creative research programme led by Theatrum Mundi. These
strategies can be enacted anywhere, expanding the tools available for thinking, making, and
inhabiting mobility infrastructures.

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Anatomy of Change - Architecture and Time in Ticino

Triest Verlag 2025 ISBN 9783038630944 Acqn 37486
Pb 22x31cm 136pp col ills £37

The combined, interconnected forces of climate, demographic, and economic change are
resulting in profound and unpredictable changes in architecture, landscape, and urban
[Link] Switzerland, Ticino is particularly affected by these developments. The canton in the
South of Switzerland has a unique microclimate, a widespread infrastructure network, accessto
construction and energy resources, diverse migration flows, and a rich cultural heritage. Over the
course of three semesters, students at ETH Zurich developed projects with different time horizons
- from temporary, circular to permanent - that address central aspects ofthe Ticino territory:
climate change, an aging demographic, and resource use. This publication illustrates not only the
specific projects but also their underlying design ideas and highlights how the narrative is key to
communicating new strategies.

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Space is Politics - A Manifesto on Architecture

Ruby Press 2025 ISBN 9783944074597 Acqn 37521
Pb 12x20cm 112pp col ills £21

In 'Space is Politics', architect and urban planner Hans Teerds shows that space is not merely a
prerequisite for political activity - it is political in itself. The design of public spaces such as
streets, squares, and parks influences who meets, who participates, and who is excluded. These
spaces are not mere backdrops, but central places of democratic practice. Architecture is never
neutral. It marks access, defines boundaries, and shapes the conditions of public life. Teerds
calls for such spaces to be reclaimed from investors and experts in social dialogues, returning
them to the political public sphere. A manifesto for those who understand architecture as a
political task.

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JTM 02 - Disco Inferno

JTM 2025 no ISBN Acqn 37528
Pb 23x30cm 208pp col ills £45

The second issue of the annual magazine on architecture, scenography, and design - blending
retro nostalgia with cutting-edge innovation. Disco Inferno is more than a theme: it's a reinvention
of freedom, a celebration of movement, and a space where forms, ideas, and emotions meet.
Inspired by the shimmering dance floors of the past, this issue explores how light, creativity, and
liberation intersect. It invites us to rethink not only how we dance, but how we adapt to the world
we live in - and the one to come. This issue features multiple covers, distributed at random.

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