MVRDV: KM3
Excursions on Capacity
Actar
ISBN 8495951851
In 1998, MVRDV called attention to themselves with the weighty tome FARMAX. Now the architecture avant-gardes present the second volume “KM3” comprising of 1,200 pages. The book’s theme is the re-discovery of the European city and presents three exemplary designs for Amsterdam and Rotterdam. As in many of their previous designs, MVRDV proceed from the unconventional layering of (urban) landscapes, which aim to contain the space required in the densely populated Netherlands.
Zaha Hadid: Architecture
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 3775713646
The book was originated in 2003 on the occasion of a Zaha Hadid exhibition in the Viennese Museum for Applied Arts. Amongst the numerous presently available books on Hadid it was the first to „document the artist’s most recent project” (according to the publishing house). Illustrated are amongst other projects the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, the National Library in Montréal and the stage sets for the 2000 Pet Shop Boys world tour. Several, so far unpublished drawings and graphics by the London architect round off the volume.
The Snow Show
Lance Fung (editor)
Thames & Hudson
ISBN 0500238197
For the second time, the ‘Snow Show’ enthused tourists from all over the world during the 2006Olympic Winter Games. It is the successor event to the first ‘2004 Snow Show’ in Lapland, which Lance Fung presented in his book. Seventeen works of art, created in the co-operation of one architects and one artist each, are documented in more than 250 photographs, numerous drawings and project text written by the designers. Illustrated are not only the final results, but also the partially complex genesis of the perishable artefacts.
Archilab
Radical Experiments
in Global Architecture
Frédéric Migayrou
Thames & Hudson
ISBN 0500283125
In this book Frédéric Migayrou, Director of the Centre Pompidou Department of Architecture, presents 60 of the world’s most innovative young architectural practices. Their answers to the questions on how we are going to live and work tomorrow and the day after are again and again surprising. Detailed practice profiles, more than 2000 illustrations, and texts of leading historians and critics of architecture make the 528-page volume a substantial source of inspiration regarding architectural design and visualisation