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Actalog

Actalog
Verb Next A c t a r Ca t a l o g
03 2010 – 2011

Questioning the recipes Punks Design | 122

Colourful Art | 160
Other Photography | 229

for a sustainable practice. come back! universe Europe(s)

03 2010–2011
Actar launches a new phase of The London Punk Tapes Pippilotti Rist videoworks Jordi Bernadó’s On Tour
this publication series that will be
produced in partnership with schools
of architecture worldwide, and that Architecture | Theory | 64
results in an enhanced research and
journalistic approach, expanded
multimedia content and increased
periodicity.

Clip, Stamp, Fold

—new— An explosion of little architec-

Selections from 70 little

tural magazines in the 1960s
and 1970s instigated a radical
Next Design | 121

architectural magazines
(1969-1970) that
transformation in architectu-
ral culture, as the magazines
Nature
transformed architectural acted as a site of innovation and Exploring the Nature
culture. debate.  Caused By People
ActarBirkhäuser
A New Publishing Group to Face Tomorrow’s Challenges!
Photo by: Boris Brorman Jensen

Architecture | Housing | 15

Total Housing is a
demonstration of the
virtues of high and
medium density multi-
family homes, and an
antidote to urban sprawl. Nature changes
www.actar.com along with us!
www.actar.com/totalhousing
 preface | actalog 03

Actar is a neologism that combines activity and architecture. It was coined

in 1931 by Nicolau M. Rubió i Tudurí to describe built production that is
concerned with efficiency and technology, distinguishing it from aesthetic
and representational forms of construction for which he reserved the term
Architecture.
Originally conceived as a new discipline that would liberate architecture
from the demands of modern, industrial societies, Actar has defined a use-
ful course for our publishing program: the relevant question is not what
architecture, art and design practices in general symbolize, but how they
relate to contemporary societies and perform with regard to their needs
and aspirations. Actar bridges disciplines, it reflects the collaborative na-
ture of cultural and material production, it is prospective and concerned
with the everyday.
In order to consolidate this activity, Actar has joined forces with ­Birkhäuser
—a publisher with a long history and a vast catalog of books conceived as de-
sign tools, to which Actar adds forward-looking instability. The two imprints
continue to operate independently, with distinct programs, teams and agen-
das, but are part of a common logistics and distribution structure.
This Actalog presents Actar’s complete production since its inception in 1994.
Complementary information is available on www.actar.com and—for a pre-
view of some of our publications—on www.issuu.com/actar. The Actalog is
obviously intended as a promotional tool, but also as a tool to generate a dis-
cussion and as a call for contributions. If you have any comments or propos-
als, please send them to editorial@actar.com.
Enjoy,

The Actar team

actalog 03 | index
ARCHITECTURE
29 A green new deal
55 A peripheral moment
36 Agenda. JDS Architects
75 Ant Farm
116 Architecture Described
95 Architecture Guide to
Barcelona
50 Armani Ginza Tower
110 Arquitectura en Austria
94 Barcelona Metápolis
96 Barceloneta Market
82 Blue Monday
65 Bracket 1
93 Building Barcelona
46 Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz
33 Carlos Ferrater
99 Carme Pinós
23 Casas y habitantes
39 CCIB
64 Clip, Stamp, Fold
22 Collective Housing:
A Manual
101 Coming from the South
91 Costa Ibérica
103 Creating Environments
6 Desert America
45 Design Engineering
74 Domesticity at War
106 Dominique Perrault
2 Elemental Chile
51 Emporio Armani
Hong Kong
111 Engaged with reality
119 Expo Architecture 2008
120 Fabrications
68 Far from Equilibrium
49 Ferrari Research Center
31 Ferrater and Partners
35 Formula New Ljubljana
47 Frames
4 From Control to Design
62 GeneroCity
37 GeoLogics
18 Global Housing Projects
71 GSD 08 Platform
70 GSD Platform 2
69 GSD Platform 3
24 Housing +
Singular Housing
76 Iconoclastia
80 In Favour of Public Space
86 In the Chinese City
87 In the Chinese City/
Positions
78 Inquietud teórica y
estrategia proyectual
14 Journeys
20 Kazuyo Sejima in Gifu
42 KM3. Excursions
on Capacities
113 Leaf, Flame, Crystal
52 Looking for Mies
40 MAD Dinner
30 Media-ICT Building
57 Mies Van der Rohe Award
1999
58 Mies Van der Rohe Award
2001
59 Mies Van der Rohe Award
2003
60 Mies Van der Rohe Award
2005
56 Mies Van der Rohe Award
2009
109 MPreis
83 Multi-National City
118 MUSAC. The building
88 Mutations
43 MVRDV at VPRO
77 Natural Metaphor
112 Net.It
48 New Trade Fair Milan
100 New Urban Metabolism
38 Occasions
72 Open
63 OPOP
61 Patent Constructions
28 Performative Architecture
44 Phylogenesis
117 Poch & Moliner
92 Políticas del espacio
41 Positions
54 Pro Domo
84 Project Zagreb
108 Rathaus Innsbruck
104 Re-Envisioning
Landscape Architecture
102 Recycling Madrid
67 Requiem
115 Salvador Pérez Arroyo
19 SANAA Houses
8 Seattle Public Library
16 Self-Fab House
79 Self-Sufficient City
17 Self-Sufficient Housing
10 Sendai Mediatheque
114 Sense Formations
85 Shanghai Transforming
90 Skycar City
25 Sociopolis
98 Soriano & Palacios
89 Spacefighter
32 Synchronizing Geometry
26 The Function of Form
27 The Function of Ornament
81 The Infrastructural City
73 The Metapolis Dictionary
of Advanced Architecture
66 The Sniper’s Log
12 The Yokohama Project
34 Thicker than Paper
15 Total Housing
97 Translation
107 Velodrome and Swimming
Pools in Berlin
7 Verb Conditioning
9 Verb Connection
3 Verb Crisis
11 Verb Matters
5 Verb Natures
1 Verb Next
13 Verb Processing
53 Victor Gruen
105 Víctor Rahola
21 Vivienda, envolvente, hueco
ART
DESIGN
144 *S,C,P,F...
123 12” sleeves.
Disco graphics
152 Barcelona +
145 Barcelona Brand
New Fashion Designers
146 Barcelona Communicates
147 Barcelona Frame
153 Barcelona Lab
148 Barcelona, a Culture
on the Move
133 Bastard. Choose my
Identity
index | actalog 03
156 Crossed Lines 222 Colección Prinzhorn 182 The Cell
140 Dainippon Type 159 Cooking Science 213 The Maghreb Connection
Organization 171 Cultures of change 178 The Musac Collection I
139 Delaware 186 Dias & Riedweg 179 The MUSAC CollectionII
126 ESC 177 Discursive Variants 220 The Onnasch Collection
138 Flyer Soziotope 223 Dora García 183 The Unavowable
128 HD: Holland Design 2 00 Emergencies Community
129 JPG 2 201 Emergency 211 Trial Balloons
150 Laus 01 196 End 195 Viennese Actionism
149 Laus 03 158 Food for Thought. 170 Virtual Societies
151 Laus 30 Thought for Food 189 Vito Hannibal Acconci
125 Neuland 217 Force Fields Studio
121 Next Nature 168 Frequencies 180 Working from diversity
155 Offjects 166 From I to J 225 Zero Gravity
154 On Barcelona 187 Günter Brus
137 One to One 229 Hans Hofmann PHOTOGRAPHY
136 Place: 35 relatos 210 Istanbul traversée
35 ciudades 2 06 It is Difficult. Ten years 248 Agustí Centelles
135 Place. 35 Designers 2 02 Jaar SCL 2006 253 Anna Malagrida
35 Cities 224 Jorge R Pombo 1999-2006
124 RGB 221 La col·lecció de 243 Antarctica
127 SHD col·leccions de Guy Selz 237 Barcelona. Secret Museum
122 The London Punk Tapes 2 05 Let There be Light 244 Benicàssim. El Festival
134 The One Weekend Book 191 Luis Gordillo 236 Berlín
Series 185 Marjetica Potrc 247 Castilla y León
131 The picture of cla-se 192 Michelangelo Pistoletto 246 China
143 Thought up in Barcelona 161 Modernidad tropical 252 Chronos
142 Thought up in Barcelona 2 175 Multiple Exposure 249 Dark is the Room where
157 To Object 165 Muntadas we sleep
141 Twenty-Two Tips 164 Muntadas 250 David Goldblatt
on Typography 176 Nocturama 240 Deconstructing Osama
130 US Trade Center Graphics 227 Omnivorous Romance 255 Embryonic Landscapes
in Europe 230 Orbis 231 Europa
132 visualkultur.cat 198 Parallel 232 La Rambla In/Out
228 Pat Andrea y Alicia Barcelona
167 Paul Pfeiffer 254 Ladies and Gentlemen
226 Pep Agut 239 Libro de las Maravillas
181 10,000 Francs Reward 219 Perejaume 245 Nice to meet you
184 24 hours 10 minutes 160 Pipilotti Rist 238 Photo-Identities
199 Adrian Piper 188 Posiciones en el mundo 257 Photography
169 After Architecture real 256 Puddles
162 Ai Wiewei 194 Raymond Pettibon 258 Subject
190 Antoni Tàpies 163 Sanaa 241 The Artist & the
2 07 Apartheid 173 Say I’m your number one Photograph
2 09 Art and Utopia 172 Sonic Process 251 The Other in Palestine
2 08 At War 2 04 Studies on Happiness 234 True Loving
214 Authentic Fiction 197 Tacita Dean 242 Twilight Zones
215 B-zone 174 Tell Me Nothing 235 Very Very Bad News
218 Blinky Palermo 216 The (un) common place 233 Welcome to Espaiñ
212 Canòdrom 2 03 The Aesthetics of
193 Carles Santos Resistance
1 | ARCHITECTURE | Verb Series
Verb Next
ACTAR
A decade has passed since Wil-
liam McDonough presented his
“Bill of Rights for the Planet” at
Expo 2000 in Hannover, Germa-
ny. The set of nine broad principles
were developed to guide architects
—COMING SOON—
and planners towards a sustainable
built future, and while the pursuit
of sustainability is a fashionable,
growing social demand, the ques-
tion stands as to whether the Bill’s
premises and objectives have had
any relevant consequences for ar-
chitectural practice and the built
environment.
In architectural vernacular “sus-
tainable” is normally used as a
modifier that describes a specific
type of design process or result —
there is “architecture” and “sus-
tainable architecture.” On one
hand, Verb Next takes the obvi-
ous position that the social and
environmental responsibility
that we usually package under
Verb Series | ARCHITECTURE | 1
the term ‘sustainability’ should
be the groundwork for design, a
starting point rather than an end
goal. On the other hand, the re-
search in Verb Next reveals signifi-
cant economic, socio-cultural and
political obstacles that stand in the
way of sustainability operating as a
forgone conclusion, and questions
whether the recipes for a respon-
sible practice should be restated.
To do this, Verb Next unpacks the
derailed development of two zero-
waste, zero-carbon city plans that,
on paper, should have worked, and
calls on thinkers and practitioners
from different disciplines to reflect
on the terms of today’s approach
to ‘sustainability’.
“There is an issue in the questions, “Designing Behaviour”, We all know that part
of the equation can be controlled by technological inventions like solar panels, re-
usable water and so on. But one of the major issue is actually the behaviour of the
people using the buildings and inhabiting the space.” (Boris Brorman Jensen)
1 | ARCHITECTURE | Verb Series
With Verb Next , Actar launches a
new phase of this publication se-
ries that will be produced in part-
nership with schools of architec-
ture worldwide, and that results
in an enhanced research and jour-
nalistic approach, expanded mul-
timedia content and increased pe-
riodicity.
—COMING SOON—
Verb Next is produced with the
collaboration of the Princeton
University School of Architec-
ture and the Aarhus School of
Architecture.
Verb Series | ARCHITECTURE | 1
“The world is dying for solutions, not for
problems. Because everybody is talking about
the climate change problem, but nobody is
talking about the climate change solutions. It
is important to show something which allow
people to think that this might be a solution.”
—Matthias Schuler / Transsolar
Contributions by Boris
Brorman Jensen, Matthias
Schuler (Transsolar), Alexis
Madrigal, Tobias Wallisser
(Lava), David Benjamin,
Work AC (Dan Wood &
Amale Andraos), Momoyo
Kaijima, Michael Karlsen “It is more about the idea of how to use
ENG [978-84-92861-60-6]
these ingredients in an architecture sense.
SPA [978-84-92861-61-3] You make people think or you seduce people,
Publication date March 2010 re-defining the meaning of luxury in 5
Price: INT 20€ / UK £18 / star hotels, for example. That is much more
DE 21.50€ / USA $24.95 /
CH 33 CHF interesting than coming up with certain rules
17 x 24 cm. 204 pages. and try to force certain behaviour on people.”
Flexibound cover. —Tobias Wallisser / LAVA
2 | ARCHITECTURE | Verb Series —new— Verb Series | ARCHITECTURE | 2

Elemental Chile
A ‘Do Tank’ for Urban Projects in Contexts of Scarce Resources
Alejandro Aravena y Andrés Iacobelli (ed.)

ACTAR

A compelling analysis of
the Chilean social hous-
ing initiative, Elemental.
Elemental is a Chilean initiative Alejandro Zaera has been awarded the Venice Biennale 2008
creating innovative solutions for ‘Silver Lion for Most Promising Young Architect’
subsidized housing. The program’s Elemental is a Do Tank affiliated with the Pontificia ENG [978-84-96954-23-6]
SPA [978-84-96954-82-3]
urban projects aim to improve so- Universidad Católica de Chile and COPEC, Price INT 33€ / UK £26.95 /
cial housing for poverty stricken
families. Elemental organized an
implementing urban projects DE 36€ / USA $39.95 /
international architecture com- for social interests. CH 55 CHF
petition which resulted in seven 17 x 24 cm. Color and b/w
constructed projects throughout images. 340 pages.
Chile as hybrids between house Flexibound cover.
and building, pushing the limits
of expansion and density. Built
in central areas, these houses are
half-constructed, offering inhab-
itants the infrastructure to extend
the house to personal needs. This
is a fascinating study of the suc-
cesses and failures of the ‘Elemen-
tal Houses’.
3 | ARCHITECTURE | Verb Series —Best Seller— Verb Series | ARCHITECTURE | 3

Verb Crisis
ACTAR

Architectural responses
to unprecedented con-
ditions: the limits of
architectural design and
the demands for updated
social relevance. “The Latest issue of Verb is refreshingly critically
Verb Crisis examines architec- engaged... addressing some genuinely thoughtful
tural solutions to the extraordi- and provocative work.”
nary conditions of an increasingly —ICON Magazine
dense and interdependent world.
It presents innovative projects and
research through original photos,
essays, and exclusive interviews
with key figures from architec-
ture and urban planning to envi-
ronmental, economic, and glob-
al affairs. Confronted by shifting
densities and uncharted urban
transformations, Crisis tackles
the conflict between the physi-
cal limits of architectural design
Featuring: FOA, Teddy Cruz, ENG [978-84-96540-97-2]
and the demands on the practice
Shigeru Ban, Elemental, SPA [978-84-96954-01-4]
for an updated social relevance.
Boris B.Jensen, Hilary Price INT 32€ / UK £25.45 /
Sample, John May, Jacobo DE 34.9€ / USA $39.95 /
García Germán, Markus CH 53 CHF
Miessen, Interboro Partners, 17 x 24 cm. 250 color images.
MVRDV, and Takuya Onishi. 288 pages. Flexibound cover.
4 | ARCHITECTURE | Verb Series
From Control to Design
Parametric / Algorithmic Architecture
ACTAR
Published for the first
time, a compilation by
practitioners across
parametric and algorith-
mic design fields on new
technologies and the fu-
ture of design.
Parametric and algorithmic de-
sign are two of the fastest emerg-
ing, most radical technologies re-
shaping architecture today. This
book presents six independent
practices that explore current ap-
plications of parametric and al-
gorithmic design techniques in
architectural production. If the
first generation of digital mod-
eling programs allowed design-
ers to conceive new forms and
design processes, a new breed of
digital techniques is today being
discussed for their ability to al-
low these forms to be controlled
and realized. How are these tech-
niques affecting architectural
practice and what potentials do
they offer the discipline? A com-
pilation of projects from leading
practitioners across the fields of
parametric and algorithmic design
for a multi-perspective debate on
the future of design.
Cover image: Fibrous Structures,
project conceived and directed by
Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto
and Nilufer Kozikoglu.
“A solid companion to any
student of architecture’s
studies, ‘From Control
to Design’ is a strong
choice.” —The Midwest
Bookreview
Featuring: Mutsuro Sasaki,
AGU (Arup), Aranda-Lasch,
Michael Meredith and Hillary
Sample (mos), P.art (AKT),
Designtoproduction, and a
conversation between Sanford
Kwinter and Jason Payne.
—Best Seller—
ENG [978-84-96540-79-8]
Price INT 30€ / UK £24 /
DE 33€ / USA $39.95 /
CH 49 CHF
17 x 24 cm. Color images.
280 pages.Flexibound cover.
—Best Seller— Verb Series | ARCHITECTURE | 5
Verb Natures
ACTAR “Nature meets technology... Presenting some of the
most striking projects to grace the pages of the series.”
—Life Without Buildings
Innovative projects that
fuse the artificial and
organic to form new
architectures.
Natures explores the fusion of the
real and the digital as part of the
same nature. Buildings and cities
grow and dissolve. How can this
evolution be generated, controlled,
enhanced? How does the fusion
of natural and artificial matter Shortlisted for the RIBA International Book Awards 2008
produce new architectural organ-
isms and environments? Natures
looks for a new definition of the
organic. Featuring: Terraswarm, “Cultivated, socially ENG [978-84-96540-21-7]
Aranda/Lasch, Shohei Matsuka- conscious, cautiously SPA [978-84-96540-22-4]
wa / 000studio, Kram/Weisshaar, Price INT 32€ / UK £25.95 /
Michael Meredith, mos, Foster optimistic, yet DE 34.9€ / USA $39.95 /
+ Partners, George L. Legen- pragmatic... An enjoyable CH 53 CHF
dre, IJP Corporation, PTW exploration into the 17 x 24 cm. Color and b/w
Architects + Arup Australia + images. 280 pages.
CSCEC, ON-A, Hitoshi Abe, nature of nature.” Flexibound cover.
Vicente Guallart, Yusuke Obuchi, —Dwell Magazine
R&Sie(n), Cristina Díaz, AMID,
INI,Vehovar Jauslin Architektur
+ INI, Kas Oosterhuis, ONL...
ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE

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Desert America Seattle Public Library

ACTAR
The desert is a huge paradox. Be-
neath its outward appearance of
immensity and silence, are the
sounds of various experiments,
mysteries, and utopias. The set-
ting of outrageous true histories,
entertainment oases founded on
consumerism and play, and the
secret staging of military power,
the desert is far from empty. In-
stead, it is full of activity: unex-
pected, uninhibited, and exces-
sive. Not subject to barriers and
seemingly free of the formal, ide-
ological or cultural ties of global
society, the desert cultivates al-
ternate architectures, urbanisms,
and built phenomena. Through
photographs, essays, and history,
this book emerges as an explora-
tion of some of these phenomena
and the protagonists that made
them possible.
ENG [978-84-96540-09-5]
Price INT 19€ / UK £16.5 /
DE 19.9€ / USA $24.95 /
CH 31 CHF
24 x 16,5 cm. 280 color and
b/w images. 320 pages.
Hard cover.
New Landscapes,
New Territories
ENG [978-84-89698-40-6]
—Out of Print
OMA/LMN
ACTAR
This Verb monograph examines
the Seattle Public Library, one
of OMA’s most anticipated proj-
ects in the US. The book looks at
the project in terms of the role
of new media technologies that
have changed the library’s sta-
tus in the contemporary city. In
Seattle, the city’s library begins
with a radical rethinking of the
very nature of the library, con-
ceived as an “information store”
rather than as a traditional reposi-
tory for books. Seattle Public Li-
brary explores the relation of the
project to OMA’s investigations
into the library/mediatheque ty- ENG [978-84-95951-63-2]
pology, including TGB, Jussieu, Price INT 19€ / UK £16.5 /
and ZKM projects. A compre- DE 19.9€ / USA $24.95 /
hensive account of the project’s CH 32 CHF
design process from concept to 17 x 24 cm. Color images.
construction and inauguration, 320 pages. Flexibound cover.
through photos, drawings, and
interviews.

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Verb Conditioning Verb Connection

ACTAR
Verb Conditioning looks at the
relationship between the con-
ditioning of architectural envi-
ronments and the conditioning of
behaviors. Studies of luminosity,
sound, atmosphere and temper-
ature expand the range of tech-
niques available to the discipline,
allowing more extensive effects
with increasingly minimal means.
But the rise of theming and man-
ufacturing of identity produce a
different set of effects, directing
users and their emotions for maxi-
mum financial success.
Featuring: The Venetian in
Las Vegas, Spanish Pavilion
in Aichi by FOA, New Milan
Trade Fair by Fuksas, Arup
SoundLab, Décosterd &
Rahm, Arakawa + Gins, Enric
Ruiz, Tomihiro Museum by
Makoto Yokomizo.
What are the real potentials of
conditioning? Do these new en-
vironments merely replicate the
existing with more accuracy and
sophistication, or can they gener-
ate qualitatively new atmospheres
capable of stimulating not just new
effects but new forms of living?
ENG [978-84-95951-86-1]
SPA [978-84-96540-04-0]
Price INT 19€ / UK £16.5 /
DE 19.9€ / USA $24.95 /
CH 32 CHF
17 x 24 cm. Color images.
280 pages. Flexibound cover.
with an increased blurring of the
ACTAR
distinctions between the physical
and the informational dimensions
of cities, we explore the relation
between virtual connections: the
effect of digital networks on the
spaces and uses of the city, and ar-
chitecture’s role in creating physi-
cal connections between people
and programs.
Connection looks at the impact
of electronic technology on new
forms of urban reality, generated
by new phenomena that affect all
aspects of space and the experience
of living in new urbanisms. Faced
Featuring: OMA, Atelier
Bow-Wow, AUDC, PLOT,
Palast der Republik in
Berlin, Chip City by Shinobu
Hashimoto and Rients
Dijkstra, Sim City.
ENG [978-84-95951-06-9]
SPA [978-84-95951-78-6]
Price INT 19€ / UK £16.5 /
DE 19.9€ / USA $24.95 /
CH 32 CHF
17 x 24 cm. Color images.
260 pages. Flexibound cover.
ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE

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Sendai Mediatheque The Yokohama Project

Toyo Ito Foreign Office Architects

monograph presents through pho- book’s editorial structure has two

ACTAR
Toyo Ito’s Mediatheque reveals a
new structural prototype that ex-
presses the will to incorporate the
notions of mobility and fluidity
into space and structure. This Verb
tos, drawings and text, the pro-
cess of design and construction of
Ito’s prototype over the six years
between the building’s initial de-
sign (1995) through completion.
The Mediatheque aspires to in-
tegrate real and virtual worlds, in
Ito’s words, “the primitive body of
natural flow and the virtual body
of electronic flow”. Long after its
completion, the Mediatheque is
still evolving. An evolutionary
building that combines the vir-
tual and real into one design ob-
jective.
ENG [978-84-95951-03-8]
Price INT 19€ / UK £16.5 /
DE 19.9€ / USA $24.95 /
CH 32 CHF
24 x 17 cm. Color images.
240 pages. Flexibound cover.
ACTAR
As a complex entity, an interesting
building always has an epic story.
The building epic of the Yokoha-
ma International Port terminal is
described in this book, the first in
the Verb monograph series. The
fundamental intentions: to depict
the design development process as
the growth of ideas from specific
material domains; and to rediscov-
er the linearity of the ordering sys-
tem of construction documents.
As an experiment outside of the
typical architecture publication,
critical texts are excluded, in fa-
vor of a description of the set of ENG [978-84-95951-18-2]
decisions that made diverse mat- Price INT 32€ / UK £25.95 /
ters evolve into a building. DE 35€ / USA $39.95 /
CH 53 CHF
24 x 17 cm. Color images.
320 pages. Flexibound cover.

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Verb Matters Verb Processing

ACTAR
Verb Matters looks at the formal
and material possibilities within
current construction methods.
Our starting point is the current
context of the information era,
typified by extensive data pro-
cessing, global networking and
an increasingly blurred distinc-
tion between natural matter and
artificial technology. Matters re-
flects on the actual result of the
more sophisticated ideas applied
to the shaping of buildings. It ad-
dresses the growing possibilities
Featuring: Diller-Scofidio:
Blur Building; Jürgen Mayer
H.: Corridor and Stadthaus
Scharnhauser Park; OMA:
Material research for the
Prada stores; Toyo Ito: Sendai
Mediatheque and Torrevieja
Relaxation Park; Media Lab,
MIT: Metapolis, Media
House Project.
of current technology: a living,
built, artificial matter that pro-
cesses information and interacts
with natural beings.
ENG [978-84-95273-76-5]
SPA [978-84-95951-20-5]
FRE [978-84-95951-21-2]
Price INT 32€ / UK £25.95 /
DE 34.9€ / USA $39.95 /
CH 53 CHF
17 x 24 cm. Color images.
280 pages. Flexibound cover.
ACTAR
The shift from modern to digi-
tal systems of design and produc-
tion opens up a material work to a
deeper relationship between au-
thor and perceiver. From the clas-
sical work to the modern object
and from the modern industrial
to ‘computerised’ procedures, the
interplay between author and us-
er has become closer, more direct
and open. How does this increas-
ing complicity affect architectural
practice? How can architecture
be conceived as a more fluid in-
formational development? Pub-
lishing architectures is much more
than displaying a recently finished
product in which the architect is
the unique author. To make ar-
chitecture is a real undertaking
of numerous authors based on the
processing of information before,
during and after the materializa-
tion of the building. The contem-
porary relationship between in-
formation and authorship in
architectural practice, featuring
works and texts by Manuel de
Landa, Jorge Wagensberg, FOA
Architects, Sadar & Vuga, njiric
& njiric, Love, Lacaton & Vassal.
ENG [978-84-95273-55-0]
SPA [978-84-89698-88-8]
FRE [978-84-89698-87-1]
Price INT 19€ / UK £16.5 /
DE 19.9€ / USA $24.95 /
CH 32 CHF
17,5 x 24,5 cm. Color images.
288 pages. Flexibound cover.
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Journeys
How travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment
Giovanna Borasi (ed.)

ACTAR, Centre Canadien

d’Architecture/CCA

The effect of migrations

on built environments
Journeys: How travelling fruit, ideas
and buildings rearrange our envi-
ronment explores the subject of
migrations and their impact on
the built environment. The pub-
lication includes 16 stories written
in a narrative form similar to his-
torical fiction. The stories featured
highlight key concepts critical to Contributions by: Kozy
understanding the movement of Amemiya; Anders Bell;
people, animals, objects and ideas Giovanna Borasi; Ilaria
and explore the physical impact Brancoli Busdraghi; Lev
of this movement on the built en- Bratishenko; Ian Chodikoff;
vironment. The book brings to- Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer;
gether different authors, subjects Bernard L. Herman; David
and historical periods in a cohe- Howes; Serge Michel;
sive way, allowing it to maintain a Riitta Oittinen; Wouter
consistent narrative feel through- Oostendorp; Maureen Power;
out. The authors, experts within Peter Sealy; Jouke Sieswerda;
their research field, come from Jean Teillet; David Theodore
various disciplines. Their differ-
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15 | ARCHITECTURE | Housing —new— —Issuu Available— Housing | ARCHITECTURE | 15

Total Housing
Alternatives to urban sprawl

ACTAR
Visit: http://www.actar.com/totalhousing
This book is a design manual as each project, revealing that inter-
much as a reference for future esting design solutions are found
good practices. Its structure fol- in big and small projects alike. The
lows a simple sequential order of book also contains detailed plans
the number of homes included in of 17 of the featured projects.

A selection of innovative
contemporary collective
housing

Total Housing is a demonstration

of the virtues of high and medium
density multi-family homes, and
an antidote to urban sprawl. The
selection of works in Total Hous-
ing (in hard copy and on its sup-
plementary website: www.actar. Featuring works by Lacaton-
com/totalhousing/) spans a pe- Vassal, BIG, + JDS, Sadar
riod coinciding with the height Vuga Arhitekti, Ryue
of the housing boom, and conse- Nishizawa, FOA, SHoP,
quent bust, experienced in most and many emerging new
“developed” economies in the first architects, this volume is not
decade of the 21st century. a simple catalog, but rather a
From among the vast built produc- studied collection of inventive
tion of this period, Total Housing projects.
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15 | ARCHITECTURE | Housing Housing | ARCHITECTURE | 15
16 | ARCHITECTURE | Housing
Self-Fab House
2nd Advanced Architecture Contest
Vicente Guallart (ed.)
ACTAR, Institut
d’Arquitectura Avançada
de Catalunya
Innovative proposals for
constructing self-fabri-
cated dwellings through
digital technologies.
The Institute for Advanced Archi-
tecture of Catalonia investigates
global projects for sustainable de-
velopment on the cutting edge of
self-sufficient housing, addressing
environmental, economic and so-
cial needs. The projects investigate
construction techniques and pro-
cesses to build houses with local
means, from the intelligent ap-
plication of traditional techniques
to advanced digital processes and
fabrication.This book is a fascinat-
ing compilation of the most inno-
vative projects for single dwellings
and residential buildings, propos-
ing the most creative designs and
construction through the use of
new materials and energy systems,
and the integration of architecture
into the landscape.
Based in Barcelona, the
IAAC is an international
centre of architectural
research in territorial
analysis, urban development,
digital fabrications and
informational environments
for improving cultural,
economic and social
conditions.
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384 pages. Soft cover.
—Best Seller— Housing | ARCHITECTURE | 17
Self-Sufficient Housing
1st Advanced Architecture Contest
Vicente Guallart (ed.)
ACTAR, Institut
d’Arquitectura Avançada
de Catalunya
A selection of entries
from the design competi-
tion for a self-sufficient
houses.
Created to inspire changes
in how new buildings are de-
signed and constructed, the
Self-Sufficient Housing com-
petition challenged partici-
pants to design a self-sufficient
and ecologically oriented
dwelling. In the Machine Age
of the early 20th century, the
concept of “dwelling” was de-
fined as a “machine for living.”
Today, we face the challenge
of constructing a sustainable
or self-sufficient dwelling, a
living organism that interacts
with its environment, both ex- “A fascinating collection. ENG [978-84-96540-43-9]
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Book Awards 12 x 16,5 cm. 300 color images.
384 pages. Soft cover.
18 | ARCHITECTURE | Housing
Global Housing Projects
25 buildings since 1980
Josep Lluís Mateo (ed.)
ACTAR, ETH Zürich
A compilation of 25 years
of built projects repre-
senting architectural
typologies in contempo-
rary housing.
The world is merging into one
global system of goods, people
and information.This book ex-
plores the social, cultural, and
economic phenomena of globali-
sation through housing. The Chair
of Architecture and Design at the
ETH in Zürich examines the last
25 years of housing development
through a historical criticism with
the built projects as protagonists
and housing typologies chosen as
contemporary architectural pro-
totypes. A selection of the most
innovative and influential built
housing projects, proposing im-
portant new guidelines in housing.
“...a top pick for any Featuring: Charles Correa,
Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Jean
college-level library
specializing in
Nouvel, Alvaro Siza, Rem
Koolhaas, Riegler Riewe,
architecture. It packs Hans Kollhoff, Kazuyo
Sejima, MVRDV, Lacaton
in pages of black and Vasal, Dietmar Eberle,
white photos of building Herzog & De Meuron,
exteriors, sample floor PLOT, among many others.
plan patterns, making
it a perfect pick for The ETH Zürich is a
any student of global renowned European
architecture.” architecture institute. This
—The Midwest Book is the fourth book in their
acclaimed series.
Review
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—Best Seller—
SANAA Houses
Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa
ACTAR, MUSAC
From conceptual draw-
ings to photos of com-
pleted projects, a fas-
cinating collection
of SANAA’s housing
projects.
A compilation of Sanaa’s hous-
ing projects, both finished and
in progress (including Flower
House, Seijo Apartments, Ichika-
wa Apartments, House in China,
Eda Apartments, House in a Plum
Grove, Small House, Moriyama
House). SANAA’s architecture
embraces complexities within de-
ceptively simple appearances. SA-
NAA’s projects cannot be revealed
in “representative” media such as
plans, models, and photographs.
Their architectural works incorpo-
rate ambiguity and chronological
elements that make them one of
the most innovative offices in the
current architectural panorama.
Housing | ARCHITECTURE | 19
20 | Buildings
Kazuyo Sejima
in Gifu
Metropolitan Housing
Studies
ACTAR
Kazuyo Sejima’s
(SANAA) highly uncon-
ventional housing design
in Gifu.
“SANAA´s works are
indeed uniquely amazing
and the book gives a
glimpse into their world.”
—Shift Magazine
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20 x 26,5 cm. Color images.
192 pages. Flexibound cover.
ARCHITECTURE
21 | Housing
Vivienda, envolvente, hueco
Un catálogo de soluciones constructivas para la vivienda
José María de Lapuerta, Fernando Altozano (eds.)
ACTAR, MCH (Master in
Collective Housing)
A catalogue of different designs
for collective housing developed
by Madrid City Council’s housing
authority in recent years. It analy-
ses this type of housing from the
perspective of its constructive sys-
tem, with a particular focus given
to types of skins and spaces, of
which the technical and project
requirements, social impacts, and
cost and energy savings are consid-
ered. This book has been produced
based on results, and has involved
the redrawing, completion, stan-
dardising and correction, and re-
photographing of the buildings.
22 | Housing
Collective Housing: A Manual
José María de Lapuerta
ACTAR
Juan Herreros (Abalos & Her-
reros), Dietmar Eberle (Baum-
With projects by David
Chipperfield, Manuel
Santaolaya, José María
Fernández-Isla, MVRDV,
Blanca Lleó, Wiel Arets &
Associates, Nieto Sobjeano
Arquitectos, Burgos and
Garrido, Paredes Pedrosa
Arquitectos, Ramón Andrada,
Estudio Entresito, Aranguren
y Gallegos, SSalvador Pérez
Arroyo, Eva Hurtado,
Rueda Pizarro Arquitectos
Dosmasunoarquitectos,
schlager & Eberle), Wiel Arets,
Frits van Dongen (Architecten
Cie), Felix Claus (Claus en Kaan),
Jacob van Rijs (MVRDV), and
Jose Morales were among ten tu-
tors that taught a series of intensive
housing workshops that included
a group of 34 international archi-
tects and students during the Col-
lective Housing Master Course
(2006). The book is divided ac-
cording to professor and features
Morphosis, B+DU
Arquitectos, Fernando Maniá,
AB-A Arquitectos, Carlos
Ferrater and Elena Mateu.
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24 x 21 cm. Color images.
180 pages. Soft cover.
professional work from the mas-
ter architects, as well as dozens of
student projects.
ENG [978-84-96954-15-1]
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16 x 23 cm. Color images.
300 pages. Soft cover.
23 | Housing
Casas y
habitantes
Carlos Ferrater
ACTAR, OAB
The real life experienc-
es of architects and the
inhabitants who live in
their buildings.
This book revolves around five sto-
ries of ten houses designed and
built by Carlos Ferrater and his
team between 1982 and the pres-
ent day. Each story describes the
design and construction process
of two different but closely-linked
homes. Throughout the five chap-
ters in which the relationship be-
tween the architect - the narra-
tor in this case - and the users of
his architecture unfolds, the need
for compromise between both is
shown as the only way of arriving
at a shared result.
SPA [978-84-96954-48-9]
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17 x 23,5 cm. Color and b/w
images. 128 pages. Hard cover.
24 | Housing
Housing
+ Singular
Housing
Manuel Gausa,
Jaime Salazar (eds.)
ACTAR
Specially packaged
together as a compre-
hensive housing design
survey, international
bestsellers Housing and
Singular Housing.
Invaluable to any formal or con-
ceptual study of contemporary
housing design, this double vol-
ume edition compiles a compre-
hensive collection of ground-
breaking housing projects through
text, photos, and drawing. This
conceptual dialogue is illustrated
by a collection of current projects
that have established themselves
as paradigms in current discourse
and practice.
SPA [978-84-95951-15-1]
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CH 31.1 CHF
16,5 x 24 cm. Color images.
560 pages. Soft cover.
ARCHITECTURE
25 | Housing
Sociopolis
Project for a City of
the Future
Vicente Guallart (ed.)
ACTAR, Architektur
Zentrum Wien
13 internationally ac-
claimed architects tackle
21st century public
housing.
Sociopolis is a project for build-
ing a city neighborhood of pub-
lic housing in Valencia. Vicente
Guallart invited thirteen world
renowned architects to create pro-
posals for urban public housing
and new relationships between
agriculture and the natural en-
vironment for a shared habitat.
Featuring works by: Toyo Ito,
MVRDV, FOA, and Francois
Roche, Manuel Gausa, Abalos
& Herreros, Duncan Lewis,
Greg Lynn, Jose Maria Torres
Nadal, Willy Muller.
ENG [978-84-95951-83-0]
Price INT 31€ / UK £25.95 /
DE 33.2€ / USA $45 /
CH 50.8 CHF
15 x 21 cm. Color images.
250 pages. Soft cover.
26 | ARCHITECTURE | Techniques + Materials
The Function of Form
Farshid Moussavi, Daniel Lopez, Garrick Ambrose, Ben Fortunato,
Ryan Ludwig, Ahmadreza Schricker
ACTAR, Harvard Graduate
School of Design
Following Farshid
Moussavi’s critically ac-
claimed best-seller The
Function of Ornament,
The Function of Form
comprehensively com-
piles a set of material
systems, analysing ways
in which they can be tes-
sellated to produce novel
forms.  ENG [978-84-96954-73-1]
’Form follows function.’ There
has never been a more seductive
dictum in the history of architec-
ture. In The Function of Form, in-
ternationally acclaimed architect,
Farshid Moussavi, provides a pro-
vocative critique of the historical-
ly opposing relationship between
function and form to reveal the
contradiction at the heart of mod-
ernism. We need to move away
from the definition of function as
utility, she argues, to align it with
“Here is one (book) that
is thoughful, useful,
and only incidentally
related to Ms. Moussavi’s
practice.  Yet it is about
architecture.  The book
is ostensibly a survey
of distinct structural
spanning systems, all of
which contain repetitive
structural members
and variations on their
arrangement, scale, or
shape.” —Tropolism
how function is defined in math-
ematics, biology or music. Form,
on the other hand, should be con-
sidered not only in the way build-
ings are produced, but also how
they perform sensorially. Function
—Best Seller— —Issuu Available— Techniques + Materials | ARCHITECTURE | 26
and form, considered together in
architecture, stand in opposition
to the dualism which defined our
approach to the built environment
throughout the twentieth century.
This book provides a thought-pro-
voking account of the challenges
facing the 21st century built envi-
ronment, and an enlivened aware-
ness of the wider possibilities of
architectural form.
Farshid Moussavi is an archi-
tect and co-founder of Foreign
Office Architects. Renowned
as one of the world’s most
innovative architectural
practices, FOA integrates and Cineplex in Leicester, A prominent academic and ar- influential first book, The Function
architecture, urban design England. FOA’s current chitectural theorist, Moussavi of Ornament, and her new book,
architectural projects include has been a Professor in Practice The Function of Form, at Harvard.
the Museum of Contemporary in the Department of Architec- Moussavi is continuing this work
Art, Cleveland in the United ture, Harvard University Gradu- as director of Function-Lab, a re-
States. ate School of Design since 2005. search laboratory she has founded
She directed the research for her to explore the changing relation-
ship of architecture and material
culture.
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discover how subtle differences in the manipulation of
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formal manipulation, account of the challenges
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Yokohama International Port design” —James Biber an enlivened awareness
Terminal in Japan and the
John Lewis Department Store of the wider possibilities
of architectural form.”
—Archdaily
27 | ARCHITECTURE | Techniques + Materials —Best Seller— Techniques + Materials | ARCHITECTURE | 27

The Function of Ornament

Farshid Moussavi, Michael Kubo (eds.)

and material. These internal or-

ACTAR, Harvard Graduate
School of Design
ders produce contemporary ex-
pressions whose affects are resil-
ient in time.
Initiated as a seminar at the Har-
vard University Graduate School
of Design.
“A thoroughly and
beautifully illustrated
book that gives a broad
overview of various
affects.”—Archidose

A graphic guide to orna-

ments of 20th century
building envelopes.
A graphic guide to 20th century “A primer for the digital age, with Foreign Office Architects’ Farshid Moussavi
ornaments. Rigorous drawings of demonstrating how the computer is as fine a form generator as any pattern book.”
iconic projects unveil the function —Wallpaper Magazine
of ornament as the agent for spe-
cific affects, dismantling the idea
that ornament is applied to build-
ings as a discrete or non-essential
entity. Each case exploits specif-
ic synergies between the exterior
and the interior, constructing an
internal order between ornament

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Performative Architecture
Enric Ruiz-Geli, Cloud 9

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of the Cloud 9 architectu- Publication date March 2011
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of the Spanish Pavilion in 320 pages. Hard cover.
the Architecture Biennal
(Sâo Paulo), co-director of
Metapolis, and Associate Set
Designer to Bob Wilson. His
Habitat Hotel was recently on
exhibit at MoMA.

This is the first mono-

graph that compiles the
complete work of Enric
Ruiz Geli, an archi-
tect who is as atypical as
innovative.
“Perhaps Villa Nurbs is the most
important construction laborato-
ry, both in terms of technology and
size, that is currently being made
in the planet (currently 6 patents
have been created). Ruiz Geli per-
fectly embodies the archetype of
the active independent, of the To-
tal Designer that Fuller defined in
1949 as an emerging synthesis of
artist, inventor, mechanic, target
economist and strategic of evolu-
tion. A professional who under-
stands and who constantly proves
that ideas are not powerful if they
do not connect with the drives.”
(Manuel Ocaña)

Contributions by Paul Virilio,

José María Torres Nadal and
Manuel Ocaña among others.
29 | ARCHITECTURE | Architects
A Green New Deal
From geopolitics to biosphere politics
Enric Ruiz-Geli, Cloud 9
ACTAR, Arts Santa Mònica
“A Green New Deal” is
the transit from a miner-
al architecture to vegetal
architecture.
The number one cause of Glob-
al warming is Architecture – the
buildings. Buildings are respon-
sible for 40% of the CO2 that is
emitted into the atmosphere. The
architects must take this respon-
sibility and move from geopoli-
tics towards biosphere politics. “A
Green New Deal” is a real test
of how this can be achieved. The
context for the intervention is an
existing historic building in Bar-
celona, the Arts Santa Mònica; a
building to explore the Third In-
dustrial Revolution as the poten-
tial of a transformation towards
an empathic architecture. Nature
should let us show the path. Cloud
9 equipped the trees in front of
Arts Santa Mònica with sensors
that capture data on temperature,
humidity and light energy to in-
form the building. The interven-
tion is an installation on the facade
that produces energy from the en-
vironment, like the sun and wind.
It is an additional skin which al-
lows control of natural light and
regulates solar radiation.
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Media-ICT Building
Enric Ruiz-Geli, Cloud 9
skin protects the inside. When
ACTAR, Consorci de la light is needed it opens itself and
Zona Franca lets the daylight in. The result is
an eco-energy-efficient build-
ing. This book unveils the most
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of this building. A fine example
of what is called “performative ar-
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The Media-ICT building is de-
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the world of information and com-
munication technologies (ICTs),
as well as for the media and audio-
visual sectors. Now, in the Infor-
mation era, architecture has to be
a technological platform, in which
bits, connectivity, new materials,
and nanotechnology are impor-
tant. Connections are more rel-
evant than materials. Its complex
façade, made of ETFE, represents
digital construction, the construc-
tion of information. It responds
to the user’s necessity: when too
much direct sunlight, the ETFE
31 | ARCHITECTURE | Architects
OAB, Office of Architecture
in Barcelona
Carlos Ferrater & Partners
ACTAR Carlos Ferrater’s studio
is now called OAB in-
corporating young and
bright architects.
With the publication of the book
“Synchronizing Geometry”, in
2006 the baseline of a typical
OAB theoretical discourse was
established in which a series of
projects under development or
construction stressed the impor-
tance of a theoretical background
—new—
32 | Architects
Synchronizing
Geometry
Landscape,
Architecture &
Construction /
Ideographic Resources
Carlos Ferrater,
Borja Ferrater
ACTAR
Geometry as a means of
designing landscape and
urban forms. ¨A futuris-
tically produced tome¨.
RIBA
ENG [978-84-96540-34-7]
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Architects | ARCHITECTURE | 31
in the professional practice of ar-
chitecture.
This book illustrates how, from
over 35 years experience on Car-
A few years later, this book arrives
showing the work carried out and
now going into more depth on the
los Ferrater’s part, and the emer-
gence and participation of a group
of young architects (such as Xavier
direction and approach of Ferra- Martí Galí, Lucia and Borja Fer-
ter/OAB. rater, Nuria Ayala, Alberto Peñín
It also analyses and reflects on the etc.), a new concept of professional
career of Carlos Ferrater, as well as office has taken shape.
the results of the development of
a new office involving a group of
young architects, including family
members. In 2006, they decided 33 | Architects 34 | Buildings
to set up, alongside Carlos, a plat-
form that would support a con- Carlos Ferrater Thicker than
nected and flexible professional
structure and the combination of
Works and Projects Paper
different important figures in di-
1980-2000 Carlos Ferrater
verse projects.
The book explains how from ex- ACTAR ACTAR
perience and the examination and
manipulation of some complex ge- Carlos Ferrater, one of The Catalan Conference
ometries a critical and theoretical the most active and in- Center in Barcelona is
vision of reality is established, as- ternationally acclaimed one of Carlos Ferrater’s
suming at all times rigour, social architects in Spain. most outstanding works.
roots, landscape and construction.
For this reason, the book also re-
veals how the activity of OAB is
not only deployed in the execu-
tion of construction projects, but
how it is also complemented and
enriched by going into depth in
other fields such as teaching and
academic research.
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GeoLogics
35 | Architects

Formula New Ljubljana Geography, Information and Architecture

Sadar & Vuga Arhitekti
ACTAR
The collected works of Slovenian
architects, Bostjan Vuga and Ju-
rij Sadar.
36 | Architects
Vicente Guallart
“Essential for any ACTAR “Guallart’s is one of the finest because of how
who wish greater effortlessly he pries apart old credos regarding
understanding of a small supposed irreconcilable differences between Nature
nation bridging ‘old’ and and high-tech. Best of all, he creates an original and
‘new’ Europe.” practical vocabulary for thinking through designs to
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CH 31 CHF
24 x 15 cm. 200 color images.
280 pages. Hard cover. The acclaimed Spanish
architect proposes new
urban designs through
geography and logic.
—Issuu Available— Vicente Guallart, pioneer of inter-

Agenda. JDS Architects action between nature, technol-

Can We Sustain our Ability to Crisis?
Jesse Seegers, Benedict Clouette, Julien de Smedt, Ryan Neiheiser (eds.)
ACTAR AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days,
like a diary or journal: a collective
narrative, personal and subjective.
It documents the work and think-
ing of JDS Architects over a spe-
cific year marked by crisis, begin-
ning on September 15th, 2008,
the day that Lehman Brothers
filed for bankruptcy. The form
of the book exploits the double
meaning of its title, presenting the
absurdities of day-to-day architec-
AGENDA is an architec- tural practice while also staking
ture book that occupies the our intent.
territory between a mono- Rather than a definitive direction,
graph, a diary, and a collec- our agenda is a directive, a motiva-
tion of essays, interviews, tion to act, at times without clear
and conversations. knowledge of where it will lead.
“Change,” the buzzword of the
last U.S. presidential campaign,
is the order of the day, and the task
of AGENDA is to explore what
kind of change will be needed if
architects are to assume a politi-
cal and social agency in this new
landscape.
ENG [978-84-96954-98-4]
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CH 41 CHF
Color images. 544 pages.
Soft cover.
ogy and architecture examines the
urban, social and cultural chang-
es in our information society for
new urban building. Presenting
the last 15 years of his work, this
book investigates architecture’s
ability to construct systems for
inhabitable environments in di-
verse environmental, social, and
economic conditions. He cross-
es boundaries through collabora-
tions in geology, sociology, engi-
neering, economics, software and
interface design. His projects fol-
low a “natural” logic, referring to
components originating in nature,
as well as to environmental sys-
tems. A logic that connects nature
with the transformations of urban
spaces, social organizations, and
the digital world.
“Guallart has created
a kind of manual
for analysing and
intervening in the world,
with natural order in all
its intricacy as the base.”
—The Architect’s Journal
Merging architecture, nature and
new technology, Guallart (b. Va-
lencia 1963) is one of today’s most
exciting Spanish architects. Be-
sides having his own practice, he
is the director of the Institute of
Advanced Architecture in Cata-
lunya (IAAC) and is the leading
architect of Sociópolis project in
Valencia, an innovative housing
project for urban and environmen-
tal development with projects by
international architects.
ENG [978-84-95951-61-8]
SPA [978-84-96954-13-7]
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12,5 x 19 cm. Color and b/w
images. 384 pages. Hard cover.
38 | ARCHITECTURE | Architects Architects | ARCHITECTURE | 38

Occasions
Josep Lluís Mateo

cent projects, his influences, his

ACTAR
A compelling collection
of recent projects, both
built and unbuilt, by
Barcelona-based archi-
tect Josep Lluís Mateo.
A fascinating interface
between the “occasion”
of a project and its built
reality.
Josep Lluís Mateo is one of Spain’s
most influential architects today.
This book brings together his re-
references together with materi-
al from interviews and a wealth
of images. It is, in a nutshell, his
work philosophy. Conversations,
reflections and projects completed
in the last five years are presented
as realities and actions, interpreted
through this concept, which can
be contemplated as infinity of in-
dividual forms of contacting with
reality and acting upon it. For Jo-
sep Lluís Mateo, the crux of this
work is to analyse, from the per-
spective of his unique work, the
state of issues and situations to-
day in architecture and to interact
accordingly with exterior space.
Josep Lluís Mateo graduated in
Architecture in 1974 from the
ETSAB and gained his doctor-
ate (cum laude) at the Polytechnic
University of Catalonia in 1994.
Josep Lluís Mateo has been Pro-
fessor of the Architecture De-
partment at the Swiss Federal
Polytechnic in Zurich (ETH-
39 | Buildings
CCIB
Josep Lluís Mateo.
MAP Architects
ACTAR
The creation of the
Barcelona International
Convention Center.
ter in Los Angeles from 1991 to projects. With each of his projects,
1992. Josep Lluís Mateo is Pres- Mateo seeks to connect the prac- ENG [978-84-96954-97-7]
ident since 2009 of the Board of tice of construction with research SPA [978-84-96954-96-0]
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Color images. 316 pages.
Hard cover.

Z) since 2002. He has also taught

and lectured at numerous institu-
tions around the world, including
Princeton, Columbia University
in New York, the Harvard Gradu-
ate School of Design, ABK Stutt-
gart, UP8 Paris, OAF Oslo and
ITESM Mexico. He was Visiting
Scholar at the Jean P. Getty Cen-
40 | ARCHITECTURE | Architects Architects | ARCHITECTURE | 41

MAD Dinner Positions

The First Book from MAD, China’s Hungriest Architects Portrait of a New Generation of Chinese Architects
Ma Yansong, Yosuke Hayano, Dang Qun Frédéric Edelman, François Ged (eds.)

ACTAR ACTAR, Cité de

“Wildly futuristic designs and [a] sneak peek at Asia’s l’architecture & du
exciting new skylines... A compelling look at urban patrimoine, Col·legi
planning, culture, art, and iconography, through the d’Arquitectes de Catalunya
eyes of China’s most stimulating young architects.”
—URBANE

“Highly recommended.” —Library Bookwatch

The first book by Beijing-

based MAD, acclaimed
for designs that embrace
a new era in Chinese cit-
ies and lifestyle.
MAD office is one of the most
innovative young architectural
offices in China. Like a dinner
table conversation, this is a col-
lection of ideas and opinions from
politics to ecology to fame to the
future. The dinner “guests” are
from all levels of Chinese soci-
ety: a government official, hair-
dresser, migrant laborers, a doctor,
a taxi driver, a developer, brought
together to exchange views in an
open atmosphere. MAD’s work is
embedded in a series of extended
conversations with international
advisors, including the Swiss cu-
rator Hans Ulrich Obrist, British
writer Ian Buruma, filmmakers
Zhang Yimou and Jia Zhangke,
and the artist Ai Weiwei.The con-
versations work in tandem with
MAD’s proposals to reveal their
essential account of the architect’s
practice and experience inside of
China, the fastest urbanization
in the world.
ENG-CHINESE
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21,3 x 24,6 cm. Color and b/w
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Flexibound cover.
The best contemporary
architecture in China
by a new generation of
architects.
A fascinating presentation of
over 40 finished works by Chi-
nese architects, produced between
2003 and 2008. A compelling se-
lection representing a new gen-
eration of architects in a country
whose building rhythm over the
last decade has been unstoppable,
as China’s architects are making
their mark within the backdrop
of an avalanche of world class ar-
chitecture stars.
“An impressive visual
survey...original, and
highly recommended...
“Positions” is informed,
informative, and
inspiring.” —Library
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“A lively introduction to a rising generation of
Chinese architects, offering biographies and radiant
photographs... a provocative overview of architects
synthesizing Eastern and Western styles.”
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Featuring: China
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TM Studio, Urbanus, 17 x 24 cm. Color images.
Studio Pei-Zhu, Amateur 216 pages. Hard cover.
Architecture Studio, Atelier
Feichang Jianzhu, Atelier
Z+, Standardarchitecture
and Architectural Design &
Research Institute Nanjing
University.
42 | ARCHITECTURE | Architects
KM3
Excursions on Capacities
MVRDV
ACTAR
A theoretical 3-D city by
the acclaimed MVRDV.
Three-dimensionality can be seen
as architecture’s fundamental ex-
istence, the profession’s acclaimed
domain. In times of globalism and
scale enlargement, an update of
this definition seems needed: me-
tres turn into kilometres, “M3”
becomes “KM3”. KM3 is a sto-
ry about a world that is getting
dense. Very dense. It constructs
its logical response: a city that is
denser. A city that is continuous-
ly under construction, with space
for limitless capacities, popula-
tions. Beyond scarcity. Beyond
separation. Beyond pessimism
and protectionism. The 3D City.
A free-fall in endless space. From
right to left, from front to back,
from above to below. Pure depth.
KM3 is more a construct than an
analysis. KM3 is a hypothesis, a
theoretical city, a possible urban
theory. KM3 can also be seen as
a science-fiction novel, a twin
pair that describes this upcom-
ing city as an emerging presence,
an already existing ‘other’ world.
The book includes a DVD of ani-
mations and two urban planning
software programs by MVRDV.
ENG [978-84-95951-85-4]
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DE 69.9€ / USA $80 /
CH 108 CHF
15 x 20 cm. Color images.
1408 pages. Hard cover.
—Best Seller—
MVRDV was set up in
Rotterdam (the Netherlands)
in 1991 by Winy Maas, Jacob
van Rijs and Nathalie de
Vries. MVRDV produces
designs and studies in
the fields of architecture,
urbanism and landscape
design.
43 | Buildings
MVRDV
at VPRO
ACTAR
A photographic mono-
graph of MVRDV’s
masterpiece, VPRO
headquarters.
SPA [978-84-89698-59-8]
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Color and duotone images.
360 pages. Hard cover.
—Best Seller— Architects | ARCHITECTURE | 44
Phylogenesis
FOA’s Ark
Foreign Office Architects
ACTAR
The first monograph by
the renowned Foreign
Office Architects (FOA),
a decade of projects.
Through a series of competi-
tions, commissions, and built
work, FOA’s first monograph
is structured to ref lect the de-
velopment of their specific atti-
tudes and the technical arsenal
within their practice. The resul-
tant body of work is not simply a
series of experiments, but a con-
sistent reservoir of architectural
species that will continue to pro-
liferate, mutate, and evolve in the
coming years. With the spirit of
scientific classification, the gen-
esis of an architectural project is
identified within a series of phy-
lum, actualized and simultane- ENG [978-84-95951-47-2]
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application to the unique condi- Price INT 36€ / UK £28.95 /
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who investigate topics related to 656 pages. Hard cover.
FOA’s discourse.
45 | ARCHITECTURE | Architects
Design Engineering
Adams Kara Taylor
ACTAR
The first monograph on
the innovative engineer-
ing firm, proposing new
connections between
radical engineering and
design.
Collaborating with leading archi-
tects like Zaha Hadid, Foreign
Office Architects, Norman Fos-
ter, and Will Alsop, Adams Kara
Taylor have become the engineers
of choice for projects that rede-
fine the conventional boundaries
between structural engineering
and architecture. Their holistic ap-
proach expands structural think-
ing to include technical solutions,
aesthetics, and advanced research
to adapt both diverse architectures
and design methodologies. Or-
ganized into a series of synthetic
themes - complexity, trans-sca-
larity, modelling, process - this
book presents a cross-section of
diverse projects and methods as a
manual for new relations between
radical engineering and design.
Adams Kara Taylor is a design-
led engineering firm based in
London.
ENG [978-84-96540-66-8]
Price INT 35€ / UK £28 /
DE 38€ / USA $44.95 /
CH 58 CHF
16,5 x 24 cm. Color images.
288 pages. Hard cover.
Buildings | ARCHITECTURE | 46
Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz
The Book of the Museum
UN Studio
ACTAR
A complete overview of
the design and construc-
tion of UNSTUDIO’s
Mercedes-Benz
Museum.
More than the document of a
remarkable project, this book
shows how various forms of ex-
pert knowledge have been com-
bined to generate an unconven-
tional, breakthrough museum
design. Providing insight into
the various ideas, experiences
and ambitions behind the proj-
ect, this book allows visitors to
take the museum home. Through
photographs, diagrams, text, and
drawings, it explains the unique
Mercedes museum design model
developed by UNSTUDIO: the
digitally programmed, three-di-
mensional, cross-connected tre- “One of the year’s most ENG [978-84-96540-37-8]
foil. The building radically breaks notable monographs.” GER [978-84-96540-36-1]
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many surprising perceptual ex- 17 x 24 cm. Color images.
periences. 576 pages. Hard cover.
ARCHITECTURE
47 | Architects
Frames
Massimiliano Fuksas
ACTAR
48 | Buildings
New Trade Fair Milan
Massimiliano Fuksas
ACTAR
Once heavily industrial and pol-
luted, the current site of the New
Milan Trade Fair by Italian ar-
chitect Massimiliano Fuksas has
been converted into an iconic
new destination. Nearly 1.5 km
in length, it is much more than
a simple building. Convention
A selection of five years of work by
renowned architect Massimiliano
Fuksas. The underlying concept is
the architect’s work as the sum of
different fragments or `frames´.
‘Frames’ gathers a selection of
works from a five period of Mas-
similiano Fuksas. The concept be-
hind Frames is to understand the
work of an architect as the sum of
different fragments. Here, refer-
ences to digital means as the en-
gine of change become relevant
and fragments become frames.
The architect evolves within a con-
text that is not always logical and
often unstable and ‘on the verge’.
Creating order in this process im-
plies a ‘freezing’ of its contents.
halls, retail areas, offices, and ad-
ministrative buildings are united
by a swirling and undulating “sail”
that floats above ground, creating
a spectacular vision in the Milan
skyline. This is a journey through
drawings, photography, and texts
of the well-known and unknown
aspects of the building.
ENG [978-84-95951-04-5]
IT [978-84-95273-98-7]
FRE [978-84-95951-14-4]
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CH 53 CHF
17 x 21,5 cm. Color images.
296 pages. Soft cover.
ENG [978-84-96540-12-5]
Price INT 32€ / UK £25.95 /
DE 35€ / USA $44.95 /
CH 53 CHF
22 x 16,8 cm. Color images.
224 pages. Hard cover.
ARCHITECTURE
49 | Buildings 50 | Buildings 51 | Buildings
Ferrari Armani Emporio
Research Ginza Tower Armani
Center Massimiliano Fuksas,
Doriana Mandrelli Hong Kong
Massimiliano Fuksas Massimiliano Fuksas,
ACTAR Doriana Mandrelli
ACTAR
ACTAR
A spectacular presenta-
A monograph on the tion of the Armani Ginza
Ferrari Research Center Tower in Tokyo, de- A fascinating mono-
by Massimiliano Fuksas. signed by Massimiliano graph on Fuksas’ and
Mandrelli’s Emporio
Studio Fuksas creates a new land- Fuksas and Doriana
scape for the employees of Ferrari. Mandrelli.
Armani shop in Hong
Water, bamboo, ecological mate- Kong.
rials, and bio-techniques enrich How do you translate Giorgio Ar-
the work space. This monograph mani into architecture? For the The design of the Hong Kong
reveals the architect’s building and Armani/Ginza Tower, it was es- Emporio Armani shop by Mas-
design concerns. sential to project not only Ar- similiano Fuksas and Doriana
mani’s creativity as a designer, Mandrelli combines architec-
but his one and only personality, ture, fashion, and global culture.
recreating the atmosphere of the
atelier of the Italian creative ge-
nius, as well as his aesthetic code
and personal image. In Tokyo, the
entirety of his work and image is
represented in a single building.
ENG [978-84-95951-96-0]
IT [978-84-95951-97-7]
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DE 33€ / USA $40 /
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17 x 22 cm. Color images.
DE 30€ / USA $34.95 /
160 pages. Hard cover.
CH 46 CHF
ENG-IT-JAP 17 x 22 cm. Color images.
[978-84-96954-42-7] 160 pages. Soft cover.
Price INT 25€ / UK £18.95 /
DE 27€ / USA $29.95 /
CH 42 CHF
16 x 22 cm. Color images.
98 pages. Soft cover.
52 | ARCHITECTURE | Architects
Looking for Mies
Ricardo Daza
ACTAR Mies Van der Rohe:
the man behind the
architecture.
A short and compelling text,
‘Looking for Mies’ aims to re-
veal the man behind the archi-
tecture. The now famous photo-
graph of Mies van der Rohe in a
steel and glass building smoking a
cigar has fascinated and intrigued
the author to such an extent, that
—Best Seller— Architects | ARCHITECTURE | 52
he has painstakingly researched
the events surrounding its taking.
ENG [978-84-96954-37-3]
SPA [978-84-96954-36-6]
Price INT 22€ / UK £17.95 /
DE 23.55€ / USA $29.95 /
CH 36 CHF
16,5 x 15,7 cm. Duotone.
200 pages. Soft cover.
53 | ARCHITECTURE | Architects
Victor Gruen
From Urban Shop to New City
Alex Wall
ACTAR
Compelling urban theo-
ries and projects by the
“pioneer of the shopping
center.”
Architect Victor Gruen (1903-80)
was one of the most crucial fig-
ures in the mid-century debates on
the American city’s development.
His work and influence during the
50s and 60s was driven by urban
planning problems with the onset
of new suburbias, highways, and
the deterioration of downtowns.
Dubbed the “pioneer of the shop-
ping center,” Gruen envisioned the
suburban mall as a new type of ur-
ban public space in the freshly dis-
persed residential fabric. Present-
ing over 30 years of theories and
projects by Gruen, Alex Wall con-
veys the largely overlooked story of
conflict between the ambition of
an architect and the transforma-
tion of American cities and land-
scape. He proposes new insights
into postwar architecture and the
relevancy of Gruen’s theories in
urban discourse today.
ENG [978-84-95951-87-8]
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CH 64 CHF
16,5 x 21 cm. Color images.
220 pages. Hard cover.
Architects | ARCHITECTURE | 54
Pro Domo
Yona Friedman
ACTAR, Centro Andaluz de “Bold and entirely sensible.”
Arte Contemporáneo
—Riba Book Review
Hungarian architect,
Yona Friedman, presents
a personal selection of
his work.
Yona Friedman published his
first manifesto (1958) on “mo-
bile architecture” and founded
Groupe d’Etude d’Architecture
Mobile, which proposed differ-
ent strategies for the adaptation
of architecture to modern needs
for social and physical mobility.
Friedman claims that architec-
tural knowledge cannot be the
exclusive property of profession-
als and specialists, and proposes
guides for architecture and urban
planning in simple terms.This is “A fantastic new Selected among “Most
“a collection of scattered topics” hardcover look at Notable Monographs”
selected by the author himself for Friedman’s work, —The Architects
“sentimental value”, spanning a 50
year period of production. Build- full of images and Newspaper
ing structure studies, urban design essays and plans.”
theories, observations on regional —Geoff Manaugh, ENG [978-84-96540-51-4]
development, and design manuals
for self-construction and compe-
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Theory of the Derive Situationists
14,8 x 21 cm. Color and b/w
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images. 390 pages. Hard cover.
—Out of Print —Out of Print
55 | ARCHITECTURE | Architects
A peripheral moment
Experiments in architectural agency. Croatia 1990-2010
Ivan Rupnik (ed.)
ACTAR
Comprehensive account
of the recent architectur-
al scene in Croatia
This book is an account of the pe-
ripheral moment, a highly produc-
tive decade of architectural ex-
perimentation in Croatia lodged
between the violent break-up of
Yugoslavia and that countries
slow integration into the Euro-
pean Union. With the total col-
lapse of existing urban planning
regulations, severely reduced gov-
ernmental building programs, and
the lack of private patronage, ar-
chitects were forced to develop a
whole new host of design meth-
odologies. Ivan Rupnik guides the
reader through the emergence of
this bizarre and fascinating archi-
tectural scene on the very edge of
united Europe, utilizing Ljubo
Karaman’s theory of the periph-
ery as a distinct space of artistic
production from that of the cen-
ter or province, Manfredo Tafuri’s
concept of architectural experi-
mentation, as well contemporary
notions of agency. The account is
framed using a variety of differ-
ent lenses, including the observa-
tions of this moment by Kenneth
Frampton, Aaron Betsky, Stefano
Boeri, Manuel Gausa, and Hans
Ibelings, through the atmosphere
of the period as defined by Croa-
tia’s complex post-socialist/post-
war identity and the subsequent
positioning of the architectural
profession vis-à-vis that context,
the practices that emerged from
this prolonged period of archi-
tectural experimentation, and
through a series of discussions
with some of the peripheral mo-
ment’s primary agent provoca-
teurs: 3LHD, njiric +, Randic -
Turato, and STUDIO UP.
—new— Architects | ARCHITECTURE | 55
Collaborators: Sasa Begovic,
Tatjana Grozdanic Begovic,
Marko Dabrovic, Silvije
Novak (3LHD), Hrvoje Njiric
(njiric +), Sasa Randic, Idis
Turato (Randic - Turato),
Lea Pelivan, Toma Plejic
(STUDIO UP)
Contributors: Kenneth
Frampton, Aaron Betsky,
Stefano, Boeri, Manuel
Gausa, and Hans Ibelings
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16,5 x 24 cm. Color images.
320 pages. Plastic cover.
56 | ARCHITECTURE | Buildings ARCHITECTURE

Mies Van der Rohe Award 2009 Mies Van der Rohe Award
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture

ACTAR, Fundació Mies 57 | Buildings 58 | Buildings

van der Rohe
Mies Van der Rohe Award 1999 Mies Van der Rohe Award 2001
ACTAR, Fundació Mies van der Rohe ACTAR, Fundació Mies van der Rohe

A compilation Important con-

SPA SPA
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tor for the candidate and images. 176 pages. 176 pages. Soft cover.
Soft cover.
winning projects of the
2009 Mies van der Rohe
Awards.

The Opera House in Oslo by

Snøhetta, built to house the Nor- 59 | Buildings 60 | Buildings
wegian National and Ballet, is the
winner of the European Union
Prize for Contemporary Archi-
Mies Van der Rohe Award 2003 Mies Van der Rohe Award 2005
tecture - 2009 Mies van der Rohe
Award. The Emerging Architect ACTAR, Fundació Mies van der Rohe ACTAR, Fundació Mies van der Rohe
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61 | ARCHITECTURE | Buildings
Patent Constructions
New Architecture Made in Catalonia
ACTAR, Institut Ramon
Llull, Deutsches
Architekturmuseum
A compilation of 30 in-
novative architectonic
inventions in Catalonia.
The architecture produced in
Catalonia has often been in the
vanguard of Europe, especially
since Barcelona hosted the 1992
Olympics. This book is an excit-
ing overview of innovative spaces
and techniques made in Catalo-
nia, presenting a cross section of
‘products’ as well as the buildings
and environments for which they
were conceived. The products solve
specific program requirements,
new social demands, environmen-
tal needs, budget limitations and
design aspirations to improve on
the status quo. They are proving
grounds of architectural innova-
tion. Works by EMBT, Carme
Pinós, Enric Ruiz-Geli, Vicente
Guallart, RCR, Arturo Frediani...
Shortlisted for the RIBA
International Book Awards
2008.
GeneroCity
Generous versus generic. A New Culture of More
in French Contemporary Architecture
Francis Rambert (ed.)
ACTAR, CulturesFrance
The concept of “generosity” is
explored through a selection of
architectural works contribut-
ing to the city. These “generous”
projects give new value to urban
density, public space, and archi-
tectural ethics, creating new and
OPOP
Operative Optimism in Architecture
Manuel Gausa (ed.)
ACTAR
“The editors have ENG [978-84-96954-09-0]
SPA [978-84-96954-11-3]
admirably compiled GER [978-84-96954-12-0]
a varied selection of CAT [978-84-96954-10-6]
architectural designs.” Price INT 28€ / UK £22.95 /
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CH 46 CHF
16,5 x 24 cm. Color images.
240 pages. Soft cover.
unexpected uses for buildings and
setting a base for cultural trans-
formation. The featured French
architects and collectives are ac-
claimed for their rich exchange
of ideas and for creating innova-
tive interfaces between buildings
and city.
ENG-FRE
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DE 36€ / USA $45 /
CH 54 CHF
12 x 16,5 cm. Color images.
656 pages. Hard cover.
Architects have had to recon-
sider their work in the new
digital context, while maintai-
ning the belief in architecture’s
material results. This is a look
at direct problem solving wi-
thin the context of materiali-
zation methods and manufac-
turing potentials, relationships
between building, matter and
nature.
ARCHITECTURE
Buildings | 62
Including works by Lacaton
& Vassal, Odile Decq,
Francis Soler, Rudy Riccioti,
Duncan Lewis, Brenac-
Gonzalez, Marin & Trottin,
Philippe Gazeau, Marc
Barani, Combarel & Marrec,
Berthelier-Fichet-Tribouillet,
Calori-Azimi-Botineau,
François Cochon & Laurent
Pierre, Dominique Coulon,
Anne Demians, Jakob &
McFarlane among others.
Buildings | 63
With projects by:
FOA, MVRDV, UN
Studio, Njiric+Njiric,
Lacaton&Vassal,
Ábalos&Herreros...
ENG [978-84-95951-60-1]
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duotone images. 270 pages.
Soft cover.
64 | ARCHITECTURE | Theory and Analysis
Clip, Stamp, Fold
The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X–197X
Beatriz Colomina (ed.)
ACTAR
Selections from 70 little
architectural magazines
(1969-1970) that trans-
formed architectural
culture.
An explosion of little architectural
magazines in the 1960s and 1970s
instigated a radical transforma-
tion in architectural culture, as
the magazines acted as a site of in-
novation and debate. Clip, Stamp,
Fold takes stock of seventy little
magazines from this period that
were published in over a dozen cit-
ies. Coined in the early twentieth
century to designate progressive
literary journals, the term “little
magazine” was remobilized dur-
ing the 1960s to grapple with the
contemporary proliferation of in-
dependent architectural periodi-
cals. The terms “little” and “mag-
azine” are not taken at face value.
In addition to short-lived radical
magazines, Clip, Stamp, Fold in-
cludes pamphlets and building
instruction manuals along with
professional magazines that ex-
perienced “moments of littleness,”
influenced by the graphics and in-
tellectual concerns of their self-
published contemporaries.
Beatriz Colomina is Professor of
Architecture and Founding Di-
rector of the Program in Media
and Modernity at Princeton Uni-
versity.
—new— Theory and Analysis | ARCHITECTURE | 64
Featuring: Beatriz Colomina
with Craig Buckley, Anthony
Fontenot, Urtzi Grau, Lisa
Hsieh, Alicia Imperiale,
Lydia Kallipoliti, Olympia
Kazi, Daniel López-Pérez and
Irene Sunwoo
ENG [978-84-96954-52-6]
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19 x 27 cm. Color and duotone
images. 390 pages. Soft cover.
64 | ARCHITECTURE | Theory and Analysis Theory and Analysis | ARCHITECTURE | 64
65 | ARCHITECTURE | Theory and Analysis
Bracket 1
On Farming
Mason White, Maya Przybylski (eds.)
ACTAR, Archinect,
InfraNet Lab
The new series highlights
emerging critical issues
at the juncture of archi-
tecture, environment, complex impacts of globalization ward a privileging of production.
and digital culture on architecture, landscape, and The issue collects original de-
Bracket is a new book series that
highlights emerging critical issues
at the juncture of architecture, en-
vironment, and digital culture.
It is a collaboration between In-
fraNet Lab and Archinect. Seek-
ing new voices and design talent,
Bracket is structured around an
open call for entries. Conceived
as an almanac, the series looks at
emerging thematics in our glob-
al age that are shaping the built
environment in radically signifi-
cant, yet often unexpected ways.
The series will chart the emergence
of this current design generation.
A generation raised when the in-
ternet was commonplace, when
environmental issues reached a
critical ‘inconvenient truth,’ and
when the cultural capital of archi-
tecture was in need of new vision.
The Bracket series will address the
urbanism.
Bracket 1 is titled “On Farming”
and looks at the capacity for ar-
chitecture to address ideas and is-
sues of productive landscapes and
urbanisms. Once merely under-
stood in terms of agriculture, to-
day information, energy, labour,
and landscape, among others, can
be farmed. Farming harnesses the
efficiency of collectivity and com-
munity. Whether cultivating land,
harvesting resources, extracting
energy or delegating labor, farm-
ing reveals the interdependencies
of our globalized world. Simul-
taneously, farming represents
the local gesture, the productive
landscape, and the alternative
economy. The processes of farm-
ing are mutable, parametric, and
efficient. Farming is the modifica-
tion of infrastructure, urbanisms,
architectures, and landscapes to-
—new— Theory and Analysis | ARCHITECTURE | 65
sign projects, installations, and
essays which interrogate new ty-
pologies, forms, and formats of
the built environment. With al-
most 40 design proposals and 12
essays, “On Farming” collects
emerging designers and think-
ers internationally.
ENG [978-84-92861-21-7]
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20 x 26 cm. Color images.
252 pages. Soft cover.
66 | ARCHITECTURE | Theory and Analysis —new— Theory and Analysis | ARCHITECTURE | 66

The Sniper’s Log

Architectural Chronicles of Generation X
Alejandro Zaera-Polo

stand the deep truths of the world,

ACTAR, Princeton but because we need to organise
University the realm where we operate, un-
derstand how reality works and
find an effective way to perform
within it.

An insight into the theo-

retical discourse that
shapes and expands the
architect’s practice
This compilation of texts written
since 1986 reveals a parallel ac- ENG [978-84-92861-22-4]
tivity to Alejandro Zaera-Polo’s SPA [978-84-96954-51-9]
professional life. The book is like Price INT 30€ / UK £24 /
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experience for future missions, be 15 x 22 cm. 300 pages.
it academic or professional, try- Flexibound cover.
ing to identify tendencies and to
assess performances, rather than
to establish truth.
Written for different media and
formats (professional magazines,
speaking engagements, academ-
ic presentations…), the texts are
thread together as part of a bio-
graphical experience that reveals
that theory is here primarily in-
strumental and seeks efficiency
rather than truth. We do not the-
orise because we want to under-
67 | ARCHITECTURE | Theory and Analysis —new— Theory and Analysis | ARCHITECTURE | 67

Requiem
For the city at the end of the millenium
Sanford Kwinter

ACTAR

A farewell to the city

as it is conventionally
understood

In this small, but sharply-pointed Daniell’s introduction, is first and ment to its sublime potentials—a
book, renowned theorist Sanford foremost redemptive: “Kwinter’s desire to sacralize the most pro-
Kwinter addresses the sometimes most negative assessments of the fane and fecund of human cre-
subtle, sometimes brutal trans- city are driven by a deep commit- ations”.
formations that characterized the
modernization processes set into ENG [978-84-92861-20-0]
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served as the harbinger and tem- 122 pages. Soft cover.
plate of the new idea of “Europe”,
through the dot.com bubble of the
late 1990s, to the destruction of
the World Trade Center Towers
in New York, a new world came
into being that design thinking
has yet to fully take into account.
The City is here seen not only as
the last frontier of human histo-
ry currently under threat of to-
tal eclipse, it is the indomitable
form of collective experience upon
which one can count as assured-
ly as one can on death and taxes.
Requiem, to quote from Thomas
68 | ARCHITECTURE | Theory and Analysis Theory and Analysis | ARCHITECTURE | 68

Far from Equilibrium

Essays on Technology and Design Culture
Sanford Kwinter

ACTAR
“Far from Equilibrium is an invaluable reminder of
what avant-gardism is.”  —Architect’s Newspaper

Sanford Kwinter analy-

ses the state of architec-
ture and criticism today.

Sanford Kwinter ponders the com-

plex encounters between technol-
ogy, culture, and architecture.
Critical essays offer an extended
meditation on infrastructure, war,
computation, mechanical and ma-
terial intelligence, and other mul-
tivariate facets of modernity. Far-
reaching in scope, this book is a
performance in writing of what “In a distinctly Kwinter-esque voice of commentary, ENG [978-84-96540-64-4]
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chitectural and critical writings, —Architectural Review images. 196 pages.
many published here for the first Flexibound cover.
time, this is essential reading for
anyone interested in the state of
architecture and criticism today.
A primer for (re)thinking design
in the 21st century.

“Far from Equilibrium is one of those rare works, an

insider’s critique.” —ARTFORUM
69 | ARCHITECTURE | Theory and Analysis Theory and Analysis | ARCHITECTURE | 69

GSD Platform 3 71 | Theory and Analysis

GSD 08
Platform
Whether exploring the potential A Year of Research
ACTAR, Harvard Graduate 70 | Theory and Analysis
School of Design
of a new technology, redefining through Studio Work,
a typology, or engaging a com-
munity on the other side of the GSD Theses, Exhibitions,
and Conferences at
globe, the lines of inquiry begin- Platform 2 the Harvard Graduate
ning at the GSD consistently in-
dicate relevance to larger social, ACTAR, Harvard Gra- School of Design
cultural, and spatial questions. duate School of Design
To understand the scope of this ACTAR, Harvard Gra-
potential impact, the work was All activities, research duate School of Design
framed with one simple ques- and seminars happening
tion. By asking, “What can de- at Harvard University A fascinating collection
sign do?” we have identified five Graduate School of of recent research by the
actions that describe the ability Design in 2009. Harvard GSD (2007–
A selection of work pro- of Architecture, Landscape Ar- 2008), including studio
duced during the 2009- chitecture, and Urban Planning work, research seminars,
2010 academic year of the and Design at the GSD to reach lectures, events, and
Harvard GSD and the beyond their immediate contexts exhibitions.
and out into the world: Instigate
potential of that work to
Evolution, Describe Identity,
address broader ques- Construct Equality, Negotiate
tions and inform global Growth, Imagine New Futures.
initiatives. The range and definition of these
actions is tested and demonstrated
through the work of a represen- ENG [978-84-92861-00-2]
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72 | ARCHITECTURE | Theory and Analysis —Issuu Available— Theory and Analysis | ARCHITECTURE | 72

Open
Arquitectura, vivienda y ciudad contemporánea.
Teoría e historia de un cambio
Manuel Gausa
ACTAR

In defense of a new archi-

tectonic logic, Manual
Gausa explores 15 years
of decisive experiences.
Focusing on the mapping of the
contemporary project and city,
this book explores the capacity of
links between dynamic systems
and irregular structures. Man-
uel Gausa defends the new, un-
derlying architectonic logic (spa-
tial-temporal in conception) that
has emerged within contempo-
rary culture. In accordance with
a shared terrain of inquiry, which
represent a series of decisive expe-
riences from the past fifteen years,
this new logic can be considered
a “logics of complexity.”

SPA [978-84-96954-86-1]
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—Out of Print
73 | ARCHITECTURE | Theory and Analysis —Best Seller— ARCHITECTURE

The Metapolis Dictionary

Theory and Analysis | 74

Domesticity at War
of Advanced Architecture Beatriz Colomina
images of domestic bliss, a lifestyle
ACTAR
ACTAR
campaign launched through recy- “A unique reading and
cled military techniques. The sig-
nificance of architects like Charles
thinking experience.”
and Ray Eames lies in their sen- —Urban Land
sitivity to buildings and images
both defining space. Domestici- “Compelling and wide-
ty At War is specially designed ranging.” —Metropolis
as a two-tiered, text and photo,
flip-book.
In the immediate postwar years, a ENG [978-84-96540-11-8]
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referenced dictionary, comes the property of the middle- Sexuality and Space. images. 320 pages. Hard cover.
Metapolis defines a global class consumer bombarded with
overview of contempo-
rary design concerns.
Theory and Analysis | 75
As a dictionary of cross-referenced
terms, Metapolis identifies a new
architectural will within the con-
Ant Farm gether archival material on their
extended fields of practice, Ant
temporary social and cultural pan- Living Archive 7 Farm features the first full-color
orama. It contributes to a global Felicity Scott publication of the complete Ant
vision of the emerging new archi- Farm Timeline, as well as Allegori-
tecture that participates in “ad- cal Time Warp: The Media Fallout
vanced culture” and visual art dis- ACTAR, Columbia GSAPP (1969) and an archival dossier on
ciplines and technology. The book Ant Farm’s Truckstop Network
speaks of an architecture inscribed (1970-1972). Felicity D. Scott is
in the information society and in- Assistant Professor of Architec-
fluenced by the new technologies, ture at Columbia University and
the new economy, environmental a founding editor of Grey Room.
concerns and individual interests.
The diversity of authors and works
Featuring: Manuel Gausa, ENG [978-84-96954-24-3]
is invaluable for the generational ENG [978-84-95951-22-9]
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Herreros, José Alfonso images. 320 pages. Soft cover.
16 x 23 cm. Color images. dia practices of the experimental
Ballesteros, Xavier Costa, 624 pages. Hard cover. collective Ant Farm, self-de-
Enric Ruiz-Geli, Alejandro scribed ¨super-radical activist en-
Zaera Polo. vironmentalists.¨ Drawing to-
ARCHITECTURE
76 | Theory and Analysis
Iconoclastia
Josep Lluís Mateo, ETH
ACTAR, ETH Zürich
In the past, buildings and other celebration of ritual or collective
constructions representing sin- affirmation. In the contemporary
gular moments for the communi- world, a project that aspires to be
ty were called monuments. Their exceptionally expressive is com-
origin was expression of power, monly called an icon. This book
77 | Landscape
Natural Metaphor
Architectural Papers III
Josep Lluis Mateo, Florian Sauter (ed.)
Written by cross-disciplinary
ACTAR, ETH Zürich
authors across Europe, Asia and
America, this anthology compris-
es articles and images considering
the use of nature for diverse design
approaches. Nature has rendered
poetic potential to stimulate, as
a metaphor, the design process.
From formal, conceptual, geo-
metrical to literal engagements,
the scope of potential correlations
between nature and design is as
far reaching as the human imag-
ination.
claims that star-architects and
their “iconic” architecture are no
longer valid today, as these proj-
ects are all driven by marketing
machineries. Architecture should
re-emerge as a credible artefact
and fulfill the transcendent de-
mands of our time.The publica-
tion begins with a series of gen-
eral texts on themes that vary but
all share a common critical look
at the role of the iconic on the re-
cent architecture scene.
ENG [978-84-96540-71-2]
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16,5 x 22 cm. Color images.
148 pages. Soft cover.
“A quality roster that
includes Manuel Castells,
Olafur Eliasson, Paulo
Mendes da Rocha,
and Renzo Piano...”
—Archidose
ENG [978-84-96954-08-3]
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16,5 x 22 cm. 85 color and b/w
images. 240 pages. Soft cover.
Theory and Analysis | ARCHITECTURE | 78
Inquietud teórica
y estrategia proyectual
En la obra de ocho arquitectos contemporáneos
Rafael Moneo
ACTAR
Spanish architect,
Rafael Moneo, explains
commonalities between
diverse contemporary
architects.
Rafael Moneo (Harvard Grad-
uate School of Design) presents
the work of a seemingly disperate
group of architects: James Stirling,
Robert Venturi & Denise Scott
Brown, Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisen-
man, Alvaro Siza, Frank Gehry,
Rem Koolhaas and Jacques Her-
zog & Pierre De Meuron.
This book draws on over a decade
of lectures by Moneo at the Har-
vard Graduate School of Design
and presents the work of a select
group of architects who have yet to
enter the pantheon of textbooks, nise Scott Brown, Aldo Rossi, Pe-
but whose accomplishments de- ter Eisenman, Alvaro Siza, Frank SPA [978-84-95951-68-7]
mand study by the academic com- Gehry, Rem Koolhaas and Jacques Price INT 36€ / UK £28.95 /
munity. The author explains his Herzog & Pierre De Meuron. Ac- DE 38.55€ / USA $40 /
reasons for gathering such a seem- cording to Moneo, these individ- CH 59 CHF
ingly disparate group of archi- uals have captured the attention 17 x 21 cm. Duotone.
tects, whom he considers among of students and professionals, and 404 pages. Flexibound cover.
his mentors and colleagues: James form a pedagogic whole from
Stirling, Robert Venturi & De- which emerges a tacit treatise.
79 | ARCHITECTURE | Urbanism —Best Seller— —Issuu Available— Urbanism | ARCHITECTURE | 79

Self-Sufficient City
Envisioning the habitat of the future
Vicente Guallart (ed.)
ACTAR, Institut
d’Arquitectura Avançada
de Catalunya

More than 100 proposals with the idea of “self-sufficient bourhoods, self-sufficient build-
from all over the world city”. It is an invitation to reflect ings, intelligent homes or any
envisioning the habitat on how we will live in the near fu- other proposal for a short-, me- Projects by aldayjover
ture in the light of the social, cul- dium or long-term project such
of the future. tural and technological changes as the winning ones: “HURBS”
arquitectura y paisaje,
Atelier d’Architecture
in which we are immersed. This proposed by Sergio Castillo Tello Autogérée, Atelier Kempe
The Institute for Advanced Ar- publication presents the projects and María Hernández Enríquez Thill, Barcelona Regional,
chitecture of Catalonia and the of the 107 finalists between 708 from Spain and “WATER FU- Nikola Bajic, Batlle i
technology company HP have de- participant proposals. From con- EL” by Rychiee Espinosa and Seth Roig Arquitectes + Teresa
veloped an international contest nected metropolises, eco neigh- Mcdowell from the United States. Galí-Izard, Büro Kiefer,
Caruso St John Architects,
David Chipperfield &
“The Institute for Advanced Architecture of ENG [978-84-92861-33-0]
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dS+V, Francesc Hereu
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Contest — following the Self-Sufficient House and CH 41 CHF
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Landschapsarchitecten,
Self-Fab House — asked entrants for proposals ‘with 12 x 16 cm. 400 color images.
GPY Arquitectos,
a view to enhancing the connected self-sufficiency of 416 pages. Soft cover.
Froetscher Lichtenwagner
our cities.’” —A daily dose of Architecture & IDEALICE, Ifdesign,
Irisarri & Piñera, Antonio
Jiménez Torrecillas, Karo*
with Architektur+ Netzwerk,
Piotr Lewicki & Kazimierz
Latak, McGarry Ní Éanaigh
Architects, muf architecture/
art Allford Hall Monaghan &
Morris, NL Architects among
others.
80 | ARCHITECTURE | Urbanism
In Favour of Public Space
Ten Years of the European Prize for Urban Public Space
Magda Anglès (ed.)
ACTAR, Centre de Cultura
Contemporània de
Barcelona
First publication on
the European Prize for
Urban Public Space
award, compiling a selec-
tion of winning projects
and reflecting on its ten
year history.
Bearing witness to the tensions
of public space in Europe: this is
the aim of the European Prize for
Urban Public Space. It was estab-
lished in 2000 by the Centre of
Contemporary Culture of Bar-
celona (CCCB) and now counts
with the collaboration of six other
European institutions. This book
is the first publication about the
prize, which celebrates its 10th is-
sue. It presents a selection of proj-
ects from former and new winners
and theoretical texts from Man-
uel de Solà-Morales, president of
the 2008 award, Dietmar Steiner,
director of Architekturzentrum
Wien and a jury member since
2002, the architect and president
of the 2010 jury, Rafael Moneo
and David Bravo, secretary of the
2010 award.
—new— —Issuu Available— Urbanism | ARCHITECTURE | 80
Texts by: Magda Anglès,
ENG [978-84-92861-38-5]
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Bravo, Peter Cachola Schmal, CH 54.1 CHF
Judit Carrera, Zeljka Corak, 17 x 24 cm. 180 color images.
Luis Francisco Esplá, Luis 208 pages. Flexibound cover.
Fernández-Galiano, Kjartan
Fløgstad, Beatrice Galilee,
Luis García Montero, Lars
Gemzøe, Huib Haye van
der Werf, Andreas Huyssen,
Hans Ibelings, Sarah Ichioka,
José Miguel Iribas, Gabriele
Kaiser, Dirk Laucke, Luca
Molinari, Rafael Moneo,
Joan Nogué, Shane O’Toole,
Antoni Puigverd, Francis
Rambert, Josep Ramoneda,
Xavier Ribas, Marina
Romero, Manuel de Solà-
Morales, Dietmar Steiner,
Elías Torres, Montserrat
Tura, Philip Ursprung, Ana
Vaz Milheiro, Adam Zagajews
81 | ARCHITECTURE | Urbanism
The Infrastructural City
Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles
Kazys Varnelis (ed.)
ACTAR
A mapping of infrastruc-
tures shaping contempo-
rary life.
Once the greatest American
example of a modern city
served by infrastructure, Los
Angeles is now in perpetu-
al crisis. Infrastructure has
ceased to support its urban
plans, subordinating architec-
ture to its own purposes. This
out-of-control but networked
world is increasingly organized
by flows of objects and infor-
mation. Static structures avoid
being superfluous by joining
this system as temporary con-
tainers for people, objects, and
capital. This provocative col-
lection of photography, essays,
and maps looks at infrastruc-
ture as a way of mapping our
place in the city and affecting
change through architecture.
Stalking Detroit
Charles Waldheim, ed.
ENG [978-84-95273-77-2]
—Out of Print
A project by Network
Architecture Lab (directed
by Kazys Varnelis) and the
LA Forum for Architecture
& Urban Design featuring:
Lane Barden, Barry Lehrman,
David Fletcher, Frank
Ruchala, Matt Coolidge,
CLUI, Warren Techentin,
Ted Kane, Rick Miller,
Roger Sherman, Deborah
Richmond, Robert Sumrell,
Steve Rowell, Sean Dockray
and Fiona Whitton.
Blue Monday
Stories of Absurd Realities and Natural Philosophies
Kazys Varnelis, Robert Sumrell
ACTAR
AUDC’s first book captures three
moments in modern culture that
offer glimpses into our increas-
ingly perverse relationship to ar-
chitecture, cities, and objects.
“Ether” explores the Los Ange-
Multi-National City
Architectural Itineraries
Reinhold Martin, Kadambari Baxi
ACTAR
NOW IN PAPERBACK
ENG [978-84-96954-25-0]
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16,5 x 22 cm. Color images.
256 pages. Soft cover.
A guidebook to architecture’s fu-
ture that follows three urban and
historical itineraries: Silicon Valley
in Northern California; New York’s
internal suburbias; and Gurgaon,
a burgeoning corporate city out-
“A provocative
contemporary
approach for inspired
and imaginative
metropolitan research”
—Arq Magazine
les telecom hotel, One Wilshire;
a 39 story building of utter banal-
ity and complete mystery. “The
Stimulus Progression” examines
the strange story of the Muzak
Corporation and the invention of a
culture of horizontality. “Quartz-
site, Arizona” visits a desert town
side of New Delhi. Like so many,
these cities are caught within the
feedback loops of the Information
Age, which makes them important
nodes in a single Multi-National
City stretching across the globe.
With interconnected stories, this
book tours the architectural mon-
uments of corporate globalization
past and present.
ENG [978-84-96540-62-0]
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DE 27€ / USA $29.95 /
CH 42 CHF
17 x 24 cm. Color and b/w
images. 202 pages. Soft cover.
ARCHITECTURE
Theory and Analysis | 82
of 3,000 people that swells to over
1 million residents every summer
when modern nomads in Recre-
ational Vehicles descend upon in
it in hordes. This book is a lively
mix of philosophy, photography,
architectural drawings and mod-
els, and new media.
ENG [978-84-96540-53-8]
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DE 24€ / USA $27 /
CH 36 CHF
13,5 x 20 cm. 65 color and b/w
images. 176 pages. Soft cover.
Urbanism | 83
“Wonderfully designed.
Not only does the graphic
design of the text reinforce
the connected loops of the
global network, but the
book itself ‘opens’ into
two, so the reader can
take in the text with or
without the photographs.”
—Archidose
ARCHITECTURE
84 | Urbanism
Project Zagreb
Transition as Condition, Strategy, Practice
Eve Blau, Ivan Rupnik, Harvard Graduate School of Design
ACTAR
Transition is a condition that cre-
ates opportunities for architecture
and urbanism. Zagreb is the per-
fect site for examining this gen-
85 | Urbanism
Shanghai Transforming
Iker Gil (ed.)
ACTAR
This comprehensive study of
Shanghai’s profound urban trans-
formation presents the bold new
opportunity for architecture and
urbanism that Shanghai repre-
sents. Immersed in a deep physical
transformation with the upcom-
erative dynamic: practicing in
conditions of continuous insta-
bility, its architects and planners
developed strategies for creative-
ly engaging the conditional and
open-ended—for anticipating and
instrumentalizing the condition
of irresolution. Moving between
texts, maps, and diagrams, Project
Zagreb reads the city as an open
work, dynamic but coherent, in
which architecture plays an ac-
tive role in the formation of both
urban practices and the city itself.
Initiated as a seminar at the Har-
vard University Graduate School
Texts by Denise
Scott Brown, Saskia
Sassen, Robert Venturi, Greg
Girard, Silas Chiow, Philip
Enquist, Sharon Haar,
Xiangning Li, Xiaochun
Zhang, Weigang Qiu, Haolun
Shu, Sol Madridejos, Juan
Carlos Sancho, Jonathan
Miller, Peter G. Rowe.
ing 2010 World Expo, Shanghai
is reconsidering relationships
within the city and surrounding
neighborhoods. Shanghai Trans-
forming examines this complex
transformation through histo-
ry, natural and artificial resourc-
of Design, the book features new
mapping and diagrams with many
original texts and never-before
published photos.
ENG [978-84-96540-57-6]
Price INT 30€ / UK £24 /
DE 33€ / USA $44.95 /
CH 50 CHF
16,5 x 21 cm. Color and
duotone images. 336 pages.
Soft cover.
es, economy, society, and public
perception. With illustrations,
texts, maps, and photos, this is
a rich resource for understand-
ing Shanghai’s past and future,
through a transformation which
is highly unique for speed, scale,
and politics.
ENG [978-84-96954-66-3]
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DE 35€ / USA $39.95 /
CH 53 CHF
16,5 x 24 cm. Color and
duotone images. 272 pages.
Soft cover.
In the Chinese City
Perspectives on the Transmutations of an Empire
Frédéric Edelman (ed.)
ACTAR, Cité de
l’architecture & du
patrimoine, Centre
de Cultura Contemporània
de Barcelona
An essential work for un-
derstanding the contem-
porary Chinese city.
Beijing, fresh from the sum-
mer 2008 Olympic Games and
Shanghai, to host the 2010 Uni-
versal Exposition, are both cities
which have undergone an archi-
tectonic and urban metamorpho-
sis without precedent for dimen-
sion or speed. This metamorphosis
has transformed the whole of Chi-
na and deeply affected the lives
of millions. The book first illus-
trates the history of urban Chi-
na, from its acceleration over the
20th century to its metamorphosis
over the last decade. It then ex-
plores 8 cities: diverse megalopo-
lises including popular Shanghai
and Beijing, famous Suzhou and
Xi’an, the unknown conurbian be-
tween Canton and Shenzhen on
the Pearl River, and the emerging
Chongqin with the gigantic three
Gorges Dam Project.
Urbanism | ARCHITECTURE | 86
Texts by Danielle Elisseeff,
Chiu Che Bing, Arnaud
Laffage, Liu Yanjun,
Catherine Bourzat, PIerre
Haski, Ruan Yisan, Selphine
Spicq, Brice Pedroletti,
Christine Druhle, Jean Louis
Rocca, Lily Eclimont, Paul
Bady, Amélie Marion, Wang
Jun, Yves Kirchner.
“A plethora of historical
and contemporary
illustrations and
photographs... a visual
feast that attempts to
situate and make sense
of what is happening
in China today.”
—Archidose
87 | Urbanism
In the Chinese
City/Positions
Boxed Set
ACTAR, Cité de
l’architecture &
du patrimoine
Specially packaged to-
gether, In the Chinese
City and Positions, a two
volume collection on the
contemporary Chinese
city and its architecture.
ENG [978-84-96954-62-5]
FRE [978-84-96954-61-8]
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DE 68.5€ / USA $85 /
CH 105 CHF
Color and b/w images.
Hard cover.
ENG [978-84-96954-49-6]
FRE [978-84-96954-57-1]
Price INT 40€ / UK £32 /
DE 42.82€ / USA $49.95 /
CH 66 CHF
17 x 24 cm. Color images.
348 pages. Hard cover.
88 | ARCHITECTURE | Urbanism
Mutations
Rem Koolhaas, Stefano Boeri, Sanford Kwinter, Daniela Fabricius,
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nadia Tazi
ACTAR, Arc-en-Rêve
International Bestseller.
An illustrated survey
on accelerated urbanism.
In a world redefined today by com-
munication networks and by a pro-
gressive erasure of borders lead by
economic forces, Mutations re-
flects on the transformations that
the acceleration of these processes
inflicts on our environment, and
on the space left for architecture to
operate. Introduced by charts and
¨You’ll come out seeing
the city like a pro.”
—New York Magazine
statistics on global urbanization
and a series of essays describing
the nature of the changes operat-
ing in our cities and in our econo-
mies, the book is organized as a
heavily illustrated atlas/survey of
contemporary urban landscapes.
The Pearl River Delta in South-
east Asia (by Rem Koolhaas and
the Harvard Project on the City)
exemplifies the extreme speed of
urbanization of former rural areas
and highlights the role played by
traditional infrastructures in this
process. Europe (Uncertain States
of Europe, a project by Stefano
Boeri and Multiplicity) would de-
scribe the end of traditional ur-
ban models, the reality of a new
configuration of European cities
and of the states that evolved from
—Best Seller—
them. A survey of American cities
(by Sanford Kwinter and Daniela
Fabricius) adds to this vision the
reconsideration of the notion of
infrastructure, and of the pow-
ers that define urbanization. La-
gos (a study by Rem Koolhaas
and the Harvard Project on the
City) is a last unfamiliar terri-
tory that would give indications
of new forms of globalizing mo-
dernity, and possibly of things to
come elsewhere.
ENG [978-84-95273-51-2]
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CH 73.7 CHF
15 x 20 cm. Color images.
720 pages. Flexibound cover.
Present & Futures
ENG [978-84-89698-10-9]
—Out of Print
89 | Urbanism
Spacefighter
The Evolutionary City
(Game:)
MVRDV, Delft School
of Design
Winy Maas (ed.)
ACTAR
An exploration of the
Evolutionary City by
simulating the challeng-
es of urban growth.
“Space Fighter suggests that to-
morrow’s cities will be run like
video games, an organizational
challenge best addressed through
simulations, not the book-based
planning of today’s town halls.  So
will mayors one day fire their plan-
ners and pick up a Wii?  Only time
will tell.” —Dwell Magazine
ENG [978-84-96540-73-6]
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DE 18€ / USA $19.95 /
CH 27 CHF
15 x 21 cm. Color and duotone
images. 300 pages. Soft cover.
ARCHITECTURE
90 | Urbanism
Skycar City
91 | Urbanism
Costa Ibérica
A Pre-emptive History Upbeat to the Leisure City
MVRDV, University of MVRDV, ESARQ
Wisconsin-Milwaukee Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs
Miny Maas, Grace La (ed.) (eds.)
ACTAR
ACTAR
A fantastic proposal for
a future city with flying
cars and airborn naviga-
tional networks.
MVRDV examines the
impact of tourism on the
Spanish Coast.
Recently the Spanish coast has en-
“A supreme piece of joyed tremendous economic de-
velopment and success. In spite
informed science fiction, of its natural and man-made
an extrapolation of what draws, it has been criticized for
we would do to embrace its mono-cultural behavior, lack
a seductive piece of of taste, ecological irresponsibil-
ity. MVRDV present their con-
imagined technology.” clusions on the past, present, and
—Things Magazine future of the region.
ENG [978-84-95273-19-2]
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Magazine 15 x 21 cm. Color images.
312 pages. Plastic cover.
ENG [978-84-96540-58-3]
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DE 18€ / USA $19.95 /
CH 27 CHF
15 x 21 cm. Color images.
240 pages. Soft cover.
ARCHITECTURE
92 | Urbanism
Políticas del
espacio
Arquitectura, género y
control social
José Miguel G. Cortés
ACTAR, Institut
d’Arquitectura Avançada
de Catalunya
Study questioning the
hegemonic sense of ur-
ban space and configura-
tion of our cities.
This book questions the hegemon-
ic sense of urban space and the
configuration of our cities through
uses, symbolic systems, and repre-
sentational elements. Complex ur-
ban relationships between build-
ings and bodies, structures and
genders, environments and links.
SPA [978-84-609-9110-6]
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CH 36 CHF
14,5 x 20 cm. b/w images.
188 pages. Soft cover.
Acupuntura Urbana
ENG [978-84-609-6450-7]
—Out of Print
93 | Urbanism
Building
Barcelona
A second Renaissance
Peter G. Rowe, Harvard
Graduate School of Design
ACTAR,
Barcelona Regional
A historical, critical, ur-
ban account of the mak-
ing of Barcelona.
Internationally renowned archi-
tect and critic, Peter Rowe, pres-
ents a global and synthetic view
of Barcelona’s transformation
from its inception to the present.
Rowe contextualizes the aston-
ishing evolution of Barcelona,
an international point of refer-
ence for architecture and urban
development. Building Barcelona
describes the major international
events and historical milestones
that have molded the city into its
present day form.
ENG [978-84-96540-28-6]
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CH 31 CHF
17 x 24 cm. Duotone.
192 pages. Hard cover.
94 | Urbanism
Barcelona
Metápolis
Vicente Guallart, Willy
Müller, Manuel Gausa (eds.)
ACTAR
An exploration of
Barcelona as a synthet-
ic setting for different
projects and schemes
for new ideas and future
icons by 21 different ar-
chitectural teams.
This project is founded on a single,
firm belief: that it is once again es-
sential to approach the city with
an optimistic attitude vis-à-vis its
general context. Barcelona be-
comes a synthetic setting for dif-
ferent projects and schemes, for
new ideas and new icons for the
future situations. An approxima-
tion to the future city that is more
committed than objective, and in
which proposals are formulated
for a Barcelona undergoing dy-
namic change.
SPA [978-84-89698-26-0]
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images. 224 pages. Hard cover.
—Best Seller—
Architecture Guide to Barcelona
1860-2002
Manuel Gausa, Marta Cervelló, Maurici Pla
ACTAR
This guide brings together the
most interesting and important
examples of modern architec-
Barceloneta Market
MiAs Arquitectes (ed.)
ACTAR
This market in the neighbourhood
of la Barceloneta was one of the
first covered markets built in Bar-
celona, it was 1884, and was con-
structed with a metal structure. It
was partially destroyed by bombs
during the Civil War. This recent
ture in Barcelona. It covers the
emergence of Modernisme and
Noucentisme, creative periods
for which Barcelona is known the
world over, the emblematic Ger-
man Pavilion by Mies van der Ro-
he (1929), rationalist works con-
ceived from the 1940s and 50s,
large housing projects of the 70s,
the Olympic architecture of the
late eighties, post-Olympic archi-
tecture, and examples of the on-
going urban redefinition from the
nineties. Each entry has a brief
description that includes comple-
tion date, author, initial planning
dates, address, a brief explanatory
remodelling is seen as a continuity
of the old structure from 1884, and
as a continuity of all the changes in
this highly dense neighbourhood.
The market seeks to form part of
its urban fabric and Miàs’ project
is a clear example of integration.
This book, richly illustrated, gives
a comprehensive insight to the re-
modellation project.
Josep Miàs graduated in 1992
at the Architecture School
in Barcelona (ETSAB). For
10 years he worked at Enric
Miralles office as associated
architect. In 2000 he founded
Mias Arquitectes. He teaches
at the School of Architecture
ARCHITECTURE
History and Theory | 95
description, arrival information
via public transport, and summa-
ries of subsequent additions, resto-
ration, alterations, or reconstruc-
tion information are highlighted
by a graphic coding system.
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Buildings | 96
and gives seminars and
conferences all over the
world. In 2007 he received
the Barcelona City Prize of
Architecure and Urbanism for
his project The Barceloneta
Market.
ENG [978-84-612-8326-2]
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ARCHITECTURE
97 | Architects
Translation
LAR/Fernando Romero
ACTAR
Pivotal projects by
Mexican architect
Fernando Romero.
Fernando Romero is the founder
of LCM (1999) and LAR (2005),
an office that considers architec-
ture to be a vital translator of cur-
rent societal needs. LAR seeks to
generate unprecedented spaces,
explore new structures and geom-
etries, and implement new mate-
rials and construction methods.
Translation divides the projects of
LCM and LAR into categories:
‘Fluid Bodies’, long-lasting private
projects, designed for specific sit-
uations and built with high-tech
resources; ‘Revised Boxes’, pub-
lic buildings, whose technology
is based on industrial products
like Mexico City’s Inbursa Bank
building with a façade of lami-
nated glass that becomes opaque
with the viewer’s physical position.
ENG [978-84-95951-92-2]
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CH 31 CHF
10,5 x 15 cm. 567 color images.
256 pages. Plastic cover.
98 | Architects
Soriano
& Palacios
It’s small, It Rains
and with Ants
Federico Soriano, Amadeu
Santacana (eds.)
ACTAR
An entertaining illus-
trated manual for re-
thinking how to build,
by architects Federico
Soriano and Dolores
Palacios.
This book is a manual of architec-
tural images by Federico Soriano
and Dolores Palacios. Telling sto-
ries, manipulating subjects, enter-
taining, polemicizing, inventing
new terms, imagining alterna-
tive realities, discovering hidden
poetics, dissolving the borders
between things, fostering new
actions. Times of professional
darkness stimulate new, ironic,
creative ways of rethinking the
sense of building.
SPA [978-84-89698-51-2]
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99 | Architects
Carme Pinós
Projects since 1991
Carme Pinós
ACTAR
Transformations of ar-
chitectural surroundings
by Carme Pinós.
A collection of projects, sketch-
es, models and ink drawings il-
lustrating Pinós’ work methods
and reflections on the relation-
ship between architecture and
surroundings. Carme Pinós’ ar-
chitecture is noteworthy for its
complicity with the territory in
which it is located, and its desire
to transform it.
ENG [978-84-89698-48-2]
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100 | Urbanism
New Urban
Metabolism
Josep Antoni Acebillo, I.CUP
Institute for Contemporary
Urban Project, Accademia di
Architettura Mendrisio, CH
Alessandro Martinelli (ed.)
ACTAR
The urban question is
a key issue for global
sustainability.
The growing urbanization of the
planet, visible in the fact that by
the middle of this century some
70% percent of the population will
live in cities, situates the urban
question as a key issue for global
sustainability. 
Many of the causes generating
the huge environmental crises,
climate change for instan-
ce, have their rationale in the
metabolic inefficiency of our
cities.  in the South.
ENG [978-84-92861-47-7]
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224 pages. Soft cover.
101 | Theory and Analysis
Coming from Recycling
the South Madrid
Eduard Bru
ACTAR
Architecture from the
Southern Hemisphere
challenges established
northern trends.
Responding to the current con-
dition of Central European ar-
chitecture, architect Eduard Bru
defends architectural design and
construction methods generated
ENG [978-84-95273-03-1]
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ARCHITECTURE
102 | Architects
Ábalos & Herreros
ACTAR
The work of Ábalos &
Herreros using Madrid
as a contemporary model
for bridging private and
public spaces.
Unusual projects, techniques
and places showing an exempli-
fied vision for the contemporary
city. Works by Ábalos & Herre-
ros featured: Recycling Plant for
Urban Refuse, the landscaping of
the former Madrid rubbish tip,
Villa en la Colina de los Chopos,
the Municipal Hall and plaza in
Colmenarejo.
ENG [978-84-95273-43-7]
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Areas of Impunity
Juan Herreros, Iñaki Ábalos
ENG [978-84-98698-17-8]
—Out of Print
ARCHITECTURE
103 | Landscape
Creating
Environ-
ments
The World of
André Jordan
José María Riberirinho (ed.)
ACTAR
Property developer
André Jordan unveils his
most successful architec-
tural and environmental
projects.
André Jordan is the man who
transformed Portugal’s Algarve
into the region as we know it to-
day. His capacity for creating envi-
ronments that actually change the
way people live is unique. He has
applied his own careful philoso-
phy to all his developments and
this book reveals the very special
way he has exercised his civilis-
ing influence on the environment.
ENG [978-84-96954-64-9]
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158 pages. Hard cover.
104 | Landscape
Re- Víctor Rahola
Envisioning ACTAR
Landscape A compelling mono-
Architecture graph on Spanish archi-
Catherine Spellman,
University of Arizona (ed.)
ACTAR
A platform bringing to-
gether landscape and ar-
chitecture in a critical di-
alogue. Twenty essays by
practising professionals.
The relationship between land-
scape and architecture became
strained when the two parted ways
in an effort to idealize and univer-
salize place making. The aim in
this book is to create a platform
where these two disciplines may
be reunited in a critical dialogue. It
includes twenty essays by profes-
sionals whose work addresses the
need to reconsider these two spe-
cialties as complementary pieces
of the same puzzle.
ENG [978-84-95273-99-4]
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duotone images. 304 pages.
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105 | Architects
tect Víctor Rahola.
In his work, Rahola revisits the ar-
chitecture of his own professional
history. His simplicity and sen-
sitivity enable him to harmoni-
ously incorporate an extensive
repertoire of modern references
with the indigenous vernacular
of the traditional architecture of
his native island of Ibiza. Rahola’s
empathy extends to place and ma-
terial: from the details of a par-
ticular hillside and unique texture
of a masonry wall, to the specifics
of a certain bioclimatic condition
and sculptural effect of a brise-
soleil. Rahola captures the emo-
tional aspects that emanate from
creative combinations.
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180 pages. Hard cover.
106 | Architects
With
Dominique Perrault
ACTAR
Perrault’s work inte-
grates every scale of
architectural prac-
tice, from the design of
new materials to urban
development.
A diverse collection Perrault’s
projects from new material design
to new metropolitan programs.
The book is a wide collecion of
those projects, which date from
1986 to the present and are pre-
sented here as a chronological ac-
count.
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ARCHITECTURE
107 | Buildings 108 | Buildings
Velodrome Rathaus
and Innsbruck
Swimming Jordi Bernadó,
Dominique Perrault
Pools in ACTAR
Berlin
Dominique Perrault The new city hall of
Innsbruck (Austria) by
ACTAR
Dominique Perrault,
photographed by Jordi
The velodrome and Bernadó.
swimmingpools de-
signed by Dominique Focusing on the interaction of
people, architecture, and histo-
Perrault act as enhanc- ry, Bernadó’s photos are a graphic
ing infrastructure in translation of the building’s inte-
the city’s reunification gration into the fabric of the city.
process. Accompanied by plans and sec-
tions, this book is a tribute to the
Consistent with Berlin’s agen- vision of the architect and the city.
da behind its unsuccessful bid to
host the 2000 Olympics. The two
buildings and the premises that
connect them are buried within
an orchard of apple trees, and cre-
ating a void that acts as an attrac-
tor for new recreational activities.
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ARCHITECTURE
109 | Buildings
MPreis
Jordi Bernadó,
Dominique Perrault
ACTAR
Photographs by Jordi
Bernadó of the super-
markets chain MPreis by
Dominique Perrault.
There is nothing else in Europe
quite like the M-Preis food
stores of the Austrian Tyrol.
In two decades, the family-
run chain has built more than
100 new food markets, both
urban and rural locations.
The supermarkets designed
by Dominique Perrault have
developed the interplay of ‘na-
ture’ and ‘culture’.
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110 | Buildings
Arquitectura Engaged
en Austria with reality
Una visión del siglo XX
ACTAR,
Architektur Zentrum Wien,
Birkhäuser Verlag
An overview of the
Austrian contribution to
the 20th-century archi-
tectural debate.
Featuring 100 chosen wor-
ks and more than 700 docu-
ments- photos, unpublished
sketches, working plans and
models.
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111 | Architects
Pich-Aguilera Architects
ACTAR
Inspriring architec-
ture by Pich-Aguilera,
renowned for their co-
hesion of small and
large scale urban formal
structures.
Pich-Aguilera work with the
conviction that architecture
should stimulate a new rela-
tionship between society and
environment. Their dedica-
tion to sustainable architecture
and their award-winning in-
vestigations into new systems
of industrialization have been
internationally acclaimed and
exhibited worldwide inclu-
ding at the Green Building
Challenge/ Sustainable
Building Conference in Tokyo
and in the 2008 Expo of
Zaragoza.
ENG-SPA
[978-84-96954-60-1]
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Flexibound cover.
112 | Architects
Net.It
A Snapshot of
Contemporary
Alberto Cecchetto
Architecture, Design and
Photography in Italy ACTAR
Pino Scaglione (ed.)
ACTAR
An exciting overview on
the contemporary Italian
creative community.
Net.It identifies and describes
the multi-disciplinary network
connecting city, architecture,
design, and photography. Pino
Scaglione, gathers projects and
writings from a diverse group
of Italian architects that out-
lines the intense exchange of
ideas in a country where such
interaction is often difficult
and obscure. Net.It presents
a cross-section of this design
community, composed of in-
dividuals and groups who have
come together to promote new
initiatives.
ENG [978-84-95951-89-2]
IT [978-84-95951-91-5]
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17 x 20,5 cm. Color images.
350 pages. Soft cover.
113 | Architects
Leaf, Flame, Sense
Crystal Formations
Works by Alberto
Cecchetto, one of Italy’s
most original studios
today.
An atlas of places and con-
texts, this is a survey of the
architectural work and projects
by Venice based architects
Cecchetto, among Italy’s most
innovative studios. Cecchetto
creates a unique coherence bet-
ween architecture and lands-
cape, producing experimen-
tal forms in physical settings.
Their projects explore a-scalar
forms and dilated spatiali-
ties for contemporary cities
and landscapes. A scale that
continually proposes new and
limitless solutions to diverse is-
sues through the production of
‘between’ spaces.
ENG [978-84-96540-77-4]
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ARCHITECTURE
114 | Architects
Farjadi Architects
ACTAR
A compelling selec-
tion of public space
projects by the ac-
claimed London-based
architects.
Homa Farjadi’s recent work
reveals a consistent, reflective
grasp on the role of design in
shaping public space within
our changing cities. In these
projects, there is a sense of
public space where citizens
or users of the sites construct
their own spaces while expe-
riencing them. These architec-
tures and landscapes incorpo-
rate spatial vectors, tensions,
lines of flow, all interwoven
within the historic and current
urban context, resulting in
design that appears as a still
snapshot within a complex sys-
tem of movement.
ENG [978-84-96954-55-7]
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ARCHITECTURE
115 | Architects
Salvador Architecture Poch &
Pérez Arroyo Described Moliner
Works
ACTAR
Salvador Pérez Arroyo’s
recent work cinemato-
graphically narrated.
This publication contains 14
projects and recent works by
Salvador Pérez Arroyo, an
experimental and heterodox
architect whose designs al-
ternate between light, heavy
and utopian. His unstoppa-
ble creativity never ceases
to amaze. Among his most
relevant works and projects
are the Moncloa lighthouse,
the Madrid Planetarium, the
restoration of the Palladium
Basilica in Venice and the
Convention Center of Liepage.
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116 | Architects
Batlle i Roig, Architects
ACTAR
An exploration of the
architectural projects
by the Barcelona based
architects Enric Batlle
and Joan Roig through
a compilation of photo-
graphs, plans, drawings
and paintings.
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117 | Architects
On the Limits
ACTAR
The work of architectural
team Poch & Moliner,
a team committed to
technical and formal re-
search to transcend the
contextual boundaries of
territory.
This monographic publication
on the work of the team Poch
& Moliner presents an appro-
ach to architecture committed
to technical and formal re-
search within a singular, diffi-
cult context, at the boundaries
of a territory. The main cha-
racteristic of these architects is
to transcend the context, and
the book illustrates how this is
achieved from their construc-
tional investigation.
ENG [978-84-95273-58-1]
SPA [978-84-95273-57-4]
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CH 15.5 CHF
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118 | Buildings
MUSAC. Expo Fabrications
The building Architecture Terence Riley, Marla
Robbins, Aaron Betsky,
Luis M. Mansilla ,
Emilio Tuñón 2008 Xavier Costa (eds.)
ACTAR, MUSAC
2007 Winner of the
Mies van der Rohe
European Union Prize:
MUSAC (Castilla
and León Museum of
Contemporary Art) from
design to construction.
From the onset, Mansilla+
Tuñón architects faced the
challenge of creating an im-
mense space to house exhibi-
tions and events, as the centre
of leisure and cultural activity
for León. This book presents
the building from concept and
theory to building plans and
evolution.
ENG-SPA
[978-84-932325-4-2]
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22 x 27,5 cm. Color images.
230 pages. Plastic cover.
119 | Buildings
Zaragoza, an urban
project
ACTAR, Expoagua
Zaragoza 2008
A tour of the Expo
Zaragoza 2008 architec-
tonic projects.
The International Exposition,
Expo Zaragoza 2008, is one
of the greatest international
events of the year, featuring
large scale urban projects.
With water as the central the-
me, the building designs of
acclaimed architects Enrique
de Teresa, Nieto y Sobejano,
Francisco Mangado, Olano y
Mendo Arquitectos, Álvaro
Planchuelo, Torres y Martinez
Lapeña, ACXT and Zaha
Hadid host the different events
and pavillions.
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ARCHITECTURE
120 | Architects
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona
Full-scale architectural
installations by 16 prom-
inent architects
Fabrications was organized
simultaneously by four art
institutions: The Museum of
Modern Art, New York, the
Wexner Center for the Arts,
the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, and the Museum
of Contemporary Art in
Barcelona. It features full-scale
architectural installations by
16 prominent architects which
suggest alternatives to the way
architecture is usually exhibi-
ted in the museum context.
ENG-SPA
[978-84-89698-73-4]
CAT-ENG
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21,5 x 26,5 cm. Color and
duotone images. 128 pages.
Soft cover.
121 | DESIGN | Graphic Design
Next Nature
Nature changes along with us
Koert van Mensvoort, Hendrik-Jan Grievink (eds.)
ACTAR
Exploring the Nature
Caused By People
Today the human impact on our
planet can hardly be underesti-
mated. Climate change, popula-
tion explosion, genetic manipu-
lation, digital networks, plastics
islands f loating in the oceans.
Untouched old nature is almost
nowhere to be found. “We were
here”, is written all over.
This book explores
how nature has become
one of the most succesful
products of our time
We are living in a time of rainbow
tulips, palm-shaped islands, hur-
ricane control and engineered mi-
crobes. An age in which the ‘made’
and the ‘born’ are fusing. This does
not mean however, that we have
become gods and have control over
our own destiny. Rather, our rela-
tion with nature is changing.
Where technology and nature are
traditionally seen as opposed to
each other, they now appear to
merge or even trade places. While
old nature, in the sense of trees,
plants, animals, atoms, or climate,
is increasingly controlled and gov-
erned by man our technological
environment becomes so complex
and uncontrollable, that we start
to relate to it as a nature of its own.
This book explores our changing
notion of nature. How nature has
become one of the most success-
ful products of our time, yet much
of what we perceive as nature is
merely a simulation: a romanti-
cized idea of a balanced, harmon-
ic, inherently good and threatened
entity. How evolution continues
nonetheless. How technology –
traditionally created to protect us
from the forces of nature – gives
rise to a next nature, that is just
as wild, cruel, unpredictable and
threatening as ever. How we are
playing with fire again and again.
How we should be careful in do-
ing so, yet how this is also what
makes us human.
Texts by: Bruce Sterling,
Kevin Kelly, Peter Lunenfeld,
Rachel Armstrong, Caroline
Nevejan, Tracy Metz, Zach
Zorich, Mieke Gerritzen,
Jiang Jun, Berry Eggen,
Arnoud van den Heuvel,
Rolf Coppens
—new— Graphic Design | DESIGN | 121
Will we be able to improve our
human condition, or will we out-
source ourselves for good? People
are catalysts of evolution, yet we
are only beginning to get attuned
with this job description. At least
we can be certain of one thing:
We will get the nature we deserve.
Hence the need to explore how we
can design, build and live in the
nature caused by people.
Seven magazines glued on
onto the other: Next Nature,
Recreation (What we think
of as nature has become a
simulation), Office Garden
(Primitive man knew no
difference between work
and leisure ), Super Market
(The Supermarket: Our Next
Savannah?), Wild Systems
(Real Nature Is Beyond
Control), Antropomorphia
(Products become People,
People become Products),
Back to the Tribe (New
Technologies Trigger Ancient
Intuïtions).
Publication date March 2011
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121 | DESIGN | Graphic Design —new— Graphic Design | DESIGN | 121
122 | DESIGN | Music
The London Punk Tapes
Vagina Dentata Organ
Jordi Valls
ACTAR, Arts Santa Monica
Comprehensive personal
documentary archive of
the punk explosion of
1976-77 made up by post-
er, flyers, programmes,
fanzines, magazines,
newspaper cuttings, pho-
tographs, tickets for gigs,
and other material.
During 1976 and 1977 Jordi Valls
recorded live on nine audio cas-
settes some of the early punk gigs
in London. These tapes, featuring
The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The
Damned, Subway Sect, Billy Idol
& Generation X, The Slits and
—new— —Issuu Available— Graphic Design | DESIGN | 122
Buzzcocks, capture the true sound
of punk — raw, countercultural 123 | Music
and subversive — as a phenom-
enon that had a radical impact on 12” sleeves.
popular music and fashion, first
in Britain and America, and then
Disco graphics
worldwide. Arguably the most in- Toni Rubio
teresting aspect of punk is its vital,
visceral energy, and the demon- ACTAR
stration that the only thing that
really matters is the intention, Maxi-single record cover
the power of the imagination, art selected for graphic,
and nothing more. This book is a historical, and nostalgic.
witness of this movement.
With substantial graphic mate-
rial such as photographs, newspa-
pers, cuttings, gig tickets, make
up this big and valuable archive
on a movement so intense as self-
destructive.
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96 pages. Soft cover. CH 15 CHF
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Hard cover.
124 | DESIGN | Graphic Design
RGB
Reviewing Graphics in Britain
Marc Valli, Richard Brereton (eds.)
ACTAR
A comprehensive, up-to-
date collection of the best
new graphic-design in
the United Kingdom.
What design scene is as diverse or
cosmopolitan, more rich in influ-
ences and references, as packed
with new trends and original
ideas, as teeming with talent and
ambition than the UK? To stand
out in this overcrowded, com-
petitive arena, British graphic
designers have had to make their
work ever more clever and pol-
ished, better informed. This fuels
“RGB achieves what it
sets out to do; providing
an invaluable index of
some of the country’s fres-
hest designers.” —Article
magazine
the distinctive, refined styles of
such artists as Mark Farrow, Sea,
Spin, Browns, Fuel, James Joyce,
Zak, Studio 8 and Bibliotek. The
UK (especially urban hotbeds like
London, Manchester and Shef-
field) is also a greenhouse for new
musical styles and youth trends,
and a fertile ground for eccentric
visual artists like Non-Format,
Ben Drury, The Designers Re-
public; and of course, also a major
financial nucleus for studios like
William Paul, BB Saunders and
Saturday marking their styles and
brands across the world.
With such a wealth of talent and
material, the main question in
compiling a book on the best of
—Issuu Available— Graphic Design | DESIGN | 124
new British design is not what to
put in, but what to leave out. Sty-
listic novelty and visual distinc-
tiveness are our key parameters,
rather than background or repu-
tation. RGB features artists from
highly diverse backgrounds, at all
different stages in their careers,
from household names to the new-
est young talents. RGB captures
the UK’s explosively vibrant and
unpredictable realm of graphic
design, in over 400 pages packed
with exciting visual material.
Including new projects by:
ABC-XYZ Julian Morey,
Accept & Proceed, Airside,
Anthony Burrill, APFEL,
Bark, BCMH, Bibliothèque, Marc Valli is the founder
Browns, Build, Cartlidge of the successful London
“RGB is a solid archive of the front runners coming
Levene, Craig Ward, David bookstore/gallery Magma out of the UK. With 288 pages filled with color ima-
Lane, Design Project, as well as the visual arts ges, it is a great visual reference showcasing the histo-
EhQuestionmark, Emily magazine Graphic. rical evolution and design experimentation emerging
Forgot, Family, Farrow, Richard Brereton began his
FL@33, Fuel, Hellovon, career in the London and from this part of the world.” —Designboom
I Want Design, Johnson New York art markets before
Banks, Julian House (Intro), producing for independent
Kiosk, Dominique Lippa television and the BBC. He
(Pentagram), Made Thought, is the author of Sketchbooks
Matt Dent, Me Company, published by Laurence King
Multistorey, NB Design, Publishers.
Non-Format, James Joyce
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Studio Output, Tim Fraser 288 pages. Soft cover.
Brown, Tom Hingston
Studio, Tomato, Universal
Everything, Village Green
Studio, Why not associates,
William Hall, Winkreative,
Yes.
125 | DESIGN | Graphic Design
Neuland
The future of German graphic design
TwoPoints.net (eds.)
ACTAR
An exciting look at the
future of German graphic
design, presenting the
best work of new and
emerging designers.
German graphic design has un-
dergone a dramatic metamorpho-
sis in recent years. Young profes-
sionals and students have been
demonstrating heightened tech-
nical skills and strong, individu-
alistic styles.The emerging design
generation has broken with cul-
tural and geographical bound-
aries, entering the international
arena and competing with cutting
edge design icons worldwide. As
the scope and depth of this excit-
ing development has been under
“All too often these ‘ best
of…’ books don’t li-
ve up to their name,
but here’s an exception
for you – how suitably
German.” —itsnicethat
—Issuu Available— Graphic Design | DESIGN | 125
recognised, Neuland documents
“Neuland. . . packs in the future of German graphic de-
photos and examples from sign by presenting the best work
of up-and-coming designers and
new German designers. design studios. This book compiles
. . . very highly recom- over 400 pages of exciting ideas,
mended as essential to never before seen experiments, self
any library representing initiated projects and commercial
work from Germans working and
European graphic design studying at home and abroad, as
examples and trends.” well as non-Germans working and
—The Midwest Book studying in Germany.
Review
“Neuland explores not only the white spot on the map that is Germany,
but also invites the reader to discover a new generation of sophisticated
designers who will shape the creative landscape of tomorrow.
Each of them we get to know through their extraordinary works, a short
interview, and photos.” —Page
ENG [978-84-96954-56-4]
Designers included: Andreas Wesle, Anthony Salvador, Bank, GER [978-84-96954-07-6]
Büro International London, C100, CatK, Christian Heinz,
Price INT 34€ / UK £29.95 /
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Felix Weigand, Fl@33, Fliegende, Heimann und Schwantes,
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Herr Dell, Hoffmann Skala, ICCF, Julia Müller, Julia Rompe, 16,5 x 24 cm. Color images.
Jung und Wenig, Katja Gretzinger, Katrin Schacke, Kekiretta, 496 pages. Soft cover.
Kid Yeah!, Kraenk, Liesenfeld und Rapp, Lowerground,
Manuel Buerger, Mario Wagner, Matthias Kantereit,
Michael Satter, Michael Seibert, Nadine Hilbig, Node
Berlin, Pixelgarten, PurpleHaze Studio, Rainbowmonkey,
Rasmus Giesel, Rebootlab, Sebastian Onufszak, Silja Goetz,
Stapelberg und Fritz, Stefanie Schwarz, StudioHeyHey,
Thibaut Tissot, Tobias Becker, twopoints.net, Typolabor,
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127 | Graphic Design 129 | Graphic Design

Esc SHD JPG 2
Enter Spanish Creativity
Cla-se (ed.) Super Holland Design Japan Graphics
Spain has become an international ACTAR 128 | Graphic Design ACTAR
ACTAR
“Some of the finest gra- laboratory where creators from all
phic design talent to come over the planet retro-nourish and HD: Holland
out of Spain, including
influence one another. Works by
Basedesign, Ipsum Planet, En- Design
works by Basedesign and ric Jardí, Paco Bascuñán, among New Graphics
Ipsum Planet.” many others.
ACTAR
—joshspears.com Shortlisted for the 2008 Laus
Awards Work by 23 young Dutch
graphic designers.
The follow-up to international
The anxiously awaited follow-up bestseller Japan Graphics, JPG2
to Holland Design, Super Hol- examines changes in Japanese
land Design explores new func- graphic design. Instead of ‘more
A selection of the best tionality in contemporary Dutch copies, higher resolution, to a
graphic design emerging design. Featured designers trans- wider audience, there is a greater
in Spain today. form concepts into strong mes- focus on individual and original
sages, using new techniques and works. JPG 2 brings together over
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sign, this escape device is more pelling us to re-think the mean- USA $34.95 / CH 43 CHF teams, and the best contemporary
than the ‘escape’ (esc) on a key- ing of design itself. They question Color images. 640 pages. design talents.
board; it is the visual seduction every aspect of design, creating Soft cover.
by new and experimental formu- new concepts, processes, and for- Works by: Amane
las. This is the defining concept of mats, bravely pushing the limits Murakami, Buddha
emergent Spanish design today. of user participation and the de- Productions, Dainippon Type
signer’s role. Organization, Sunday-Vision,
among many others.
“Edgy... Delightful.” “Supremely intelligent Featuring: Herman van
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130 | DESIGN | Graphic Design
US Trade Center Graphics
in Europe
Lanfranco Bombelli
Tom Carr, Vicenç Altaió (eds.)
ACTAR, Arts Santa Monica
Sketches for the graphics
of the american trade cen-
ters in Europe,1963-1977.
A fine example of graph-
ics from the 60s and 70s.
The book includes a selection of
the sketches that Lanfranco Bom-
belli drafted, first in Paris and later
in Barcelona, for the graphics of
the exhibitions in the American
Trade Centers in Milan, Stock-
holm, Paris and Frankfurt, from
1963 to 1978, until they were
closed, as a continuation of what
the Marshall Plan had been. His
artistry in geometrical composi-
tions is based on a minimum of
plastic means and inspired by
mathematical principles. He de-
picts in this way new products of
technological innovation in the
fields of pharmaceutics, design
industry or printing among others.
Lanfranco Bombelli (Milan,
1921-Cadaqués, 2008) was an
architect, artist and art gallery
owner. After having studied ar-
chitecture in Milan and Zurich,
Bombelli was formally trained
as an artist with the pioneers of
concrete art, and with the artists
Bruno Munari, Max Huber and
Max Bill. In 1950 he started work-
ing with Peter Harnden in Paris
as a commercial pavilion architect
Graphic Design | DESIGN | 130
for the US Government. At the
beginning of the 60s, they chose
Barcelona and Cadaqués as their
headquarters from where they di-
rected their architecture office.
Thanks to Bombelli, founder of
the Galeria Cadaqués, interna-
tional avantgarde artists such
as Max Bill, Marcel Duchamp,
Jasper Johns, Richard Hamilton
and Joseph Beuys first came into
Catalonia and Spain. In the 70’s,
with his strong international rela-
tions, and his cultural, cosmopoli-
tan character, he became an out-
standing figure in the promotion
of the new commercial and insti-
tutional contemporary art circuit.
ENG-CAT-SPA
[978-84-96540-61-3]
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30 CHF
16,7 x 23,5 cm. Color images.
96 pages. Soft cover.
DESIGN
131 | Graphic Design
The picture
of Cla-se
ACTAR
A book object which
compiles projects from
2001 to 2008 by the
Barcelona graphic design
and communication
studio, Cla-se.
Presenting a selection of projects lan artists.
from the insider perspective of the
creators, this anthology presents
dynamic and diverse projects by
the Clase communication studio,
from the beginning until today.
The book reads like an object of
graphic communication with the
pages of Oscar Wilde’s novel The
Picture Of Dorian Gray, appear-
ing between the history of Clase’s
graphic design. Packaging, brand
identity, editorial design, and art
direction are Clase’s territories for
expressing their creative philoso-
phy of effective publicity.
ENG-SPA
[978-84-96954-77-9]
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DE 38€ / USA $44.95 /
CH 58 CHF
17 x 24 cm. Color images.
380 pages. Flexibound cover.
132 | Graphic Design
visualkultur.cat
art/design/books
Daniel Giralt-Miracle,
Vicenç Altaió (eds.)
ACTAR, Institut Ramon
Llull, Krtu
A sampling of visual
culture through ground-
breaking books by Cata-
An un-cut, un-edited journey into
Catalonian visual culture through
illustrated books, by the most cre-
ative artists from the mid 70s.
133 | Graphic Design
Bastard. Choose my Identity
C. Errst, A. Rösler, L. Harmsen, U. Weiss (eds.)
ACTAR
A mixed creative oeuvre
from the new global de-
sign community.
What happens when unrelated
communities fuse into a global vil-
lage and cultures mix? In search of
cultural identity, the authors em-
bark on an extreme expedition: in
21 days, a team of designers visited
“Photography, illustra-
tion, graphic design and
typography have mer-
ged into a tightly woven
work ”. —Shift Mag.
ENG [978-84-96540-93-4]
SPA [978-84-96540-95-8]
GER [978-84-96540-96-5]
CAT [978-84-96540-94-1]
Price INT 35€ / UK £28 /
DE 38€ / USA $49.95 /
CH 58 CHF
17 x 24 cm. Color images.
352 pages. Soft cover.
the major hot spots of globaliza-
tion: Mexico City, L.A, Tokyo,
Hong Kong, Bangkok, Dubai,
and Frankfurt.
ENG [978-84-96540-15-6]
Price INT 12€ / UK £10.5 /
DE 12.9€ / USA $14.95 /
CH 20 CHF
19 x 22 cm. Color and duotone
images. 396 pages. Hard cover.
134 | Illustration
The One
Weekend
Book Series
Graphic Tourism
Since 2003
Martin Lorenz (ed.)
ACTAR
Understanding the city
and oneself through a
visual diary.
A new visitor to any city can be-
come overwhelmed,inspired,
cheated, enamored. This process
of understanding a city is also a
way of understanding oneself. M.
Lorenz and a guest artist spend 48
hours in a city, documenting their
ideas in a visual diary (computer-
free). This book reveals not only
places never in regular guides, but
also a voyeuristic perspective on
Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Berlin,
Barcelona and New York.
Awarded 2007 Best Editorial
Design (ADG-FAD)
ENG [978-84-96540-17-0]
Price INT 12€ / UK £10.5 /
DE 13€ / USA $14.95 /
CH 19.9 CHF
14,5 x 21 cm. Duotone, 300
pages. Soft cover.
DESIGN
135 | Graphic Design
Place. 35 Designers 35 Cities
ACTAR
The logbook of the Place
project, featuring re-
nowned artists and new
talents in the field of de-
sign from all around the
world. two suitcases traveled the globe
stopping at 35 different cities.
An audiovisual research project by Each participant was invited to
renowned artists and new talents think about their context, explore
in the field of design from all over and discover.
the world, exploring individual
creativity in the face of dominant
culture. These artists questionned ENG-SPA
the degree of influence that one’s [978-84-95951-77-9]
place of residence exerts on the Price INT 15€ / UK £13 /
creative work. Each collaborator DE 16€ / USA $17.95 /
was sent a blank travel journal, CH 25 CHF
video camera, and T-shirt, as the 17 x 22 cm. Color images.
canvas for their creative outbursts.
In an eighteen months journey,
608 pages. Hard cover.
136 | Graphic Design
Place: 35 relatos 35 ciudades
ACTAR
Narrative accounts that
complement the graphics
published in Place:
35 designers, 35 cities.
This anthology of narratives is an
imaginary, choral gazetteer which
uses the written word and the ex- SPA [978-84-95951-79-3]
Price INT 27€ / UK £21.95 /
periences of narrators to describe
the thirty-five different places that DE 28.9€ / USA $35 /
were the settings for the collec- CH 44.2 CHF
tive Place project. Each text ac- 22 x 17 cm. Duotone.
companies graphic interpretations 352 pages. Soft cover.
created by the different designers.
DESIGN
137 | Graphic Design
Flyer
Soziotope
Topography of a
Media Phenomenon
Mike Kiemel (ed.)
ACTAR, Archiv der
Jugendkulturen Verlag
Flyers are an original and exciting
expression of urban youth culture.
They directly reflect the contem-
porary Zeitgeist of a generation as
it experiments with multi-disci-
plinary content and graphics.
This book illustrates the diverse
spectrum of this media-culture,
from the genre’s inception to its
dissemination, from its origins to
imagined futures. 25 years of in-
ternational examples.
ENG-GER
[978-84-96540-03-3]
Price INT 14€ / UK £12.5 /
USA $16.95
Not distributed in Germany
19,6 x 24,9 cm. Color images.
608 pages. Flexibound cover.
Barcelona Club Flyers
Tite Barbuzza, ed.
ENG [84-89698-25-2]
—Out of Print
138 | Graphic Design
Designin’
in the Rain
Delaware
ACTAR
Using the simple graphic of ‘bit-
maps’ to express diverse cultur-
al subjects like fine arts, music,
movies, literature, and philoso-
phy, Delaware have produced a
diverse body of work. From their
website to live concerts, their play-
ing fields are varied, including an
exhibition designed to be shown
on the screens of mobile phones.
Includes a CD-ROM with
Delaware’s music and motion
graphic works.
ENG-JAP
[978-84-95951-62-5]
Price INT 30€ / UK £24 /
DE 32€ / USA $39.95 /
CH 50 CHF
21 x 22 cm. Color images.
192 pages. Soft cover.
139 | Graphic Design
Type Card
Play Book
Dainippon Type
Organization
ACTAR
The Dainippon Type Organiza-
tion continually reinvent the art
of typography beyond its practical
dimensions, transforming it into
an active and essentially playful
experience. Here they present a
powerful retrospective covering
a decade of their work in font and
graphic production.
ENG-JAP-CAT-SPA
[978-84-95951-45-8]
Price INT 33€ / UK £26.95 /
DE 35€ / USA $35 /
CH 54 CHF
11,8 x 29 cm. Color images.
224 pages. Soft cover.
Graphic Design | DESIGN | 140
One to One
The Visual Culture of International Tickets
Tanja Backe
ACTAR
This is an international collection
of ticket stubs covering the past
two decades. These tickets come
from every imaginable source:
tickets from airplanes, trains,
ferries buses, the metro, cloak-
rooms, and parking lots, bank
and taxi receipts, inspection la-
bels, admission tickets for muse-
ums, theatres, cinemas, circuses,
operas, zoos, concerts, ballets. Or-
ganized non-chronologically but
by color, the collection reprints the
tickets at actual-size, one-to-one.
Backe guides us through the vari-
ety of typefaces, languages, for-
mats, styles, backgrounds, brand
identities, illustrations, and other
graphic elements of this sweeping ENG [978-84-96540-16-3]
collection. Fascinatingly small, Price INT 29€ / UK £23.95 /
the ticket has a unique and in- DE 31€ / USA $38 /
triguing format that demands ef- CH 48 CHF
ficiency and utility, making the 23 x 29,7 cm. Color images.
modest ticket a product of high 248 pages. Soft cover.
design and ingenuity.
141 | DESIGN | Typography —Best Seller— Typography | DESIGN | 141

Twenty-Two Tips
on Typography
Enric Jardí

ACTAR

Typographic recipes that

work and common mis-
takes to avoid.
This is a recipe book of twenty-
two tips for creating the best ty-
pography and twenty-two letter-
ing pitfalls you should avoid. A
showcase of secrets which many

“If they let you, use left

justification; Don’t fool
too much with the default
values; Condense and
expand the lettering.”
Enric Jardí Enric Jardi teaches design at ENG [978-84-96540-92-7]
Eina, Elisava, and Ramon SPA [978-84-96540-91-0]
designers will never reveal. In an
Llull University. He is Price INT 13.5€ / UK £10.95
era of typographic fundamental-
President of the ADG-FAD / DE 14.45€ / USA $19.95 /
ism and the cult of forms, this list
(Catalonia), one of the most CH 22.1 CHF
of dos and don’ts explodes myths
important graphic design 14 x 18 cm. Color and b/w
and provides a fresh new view of
institutions internationally. images. 104 pages. Soft cover.
typography.
DESIGN
142 | Product Design
Thought up in Barcelona 2
ACTAR, Ajuntament de
Barcelona
ENG [978-84-92861-25-5]
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DE 29€ / USA $34.95 /
CH 45 CHF
15 x 21 cm. Color images.
160 pages. Hard cover.
143 | Product Design
Thought up in Barcelona
ACTAR, Ajuntament de
Barcelona
Thought up in Barcelona 2 is a col-
lection of unique, innovative and
pioneering cases that were de-
veloped in this city, and which
have often had international im-
pact. They are examples of the
potential Barcelona possesses as
an engine for innovation, cre-
Innovation is: creativity converted
into productivity. Thought up in
Barcelona proposes an engagement
with the tangible achievements
individuals who have been able
to see objects with an innovative
gaze. In this globalized world, the
hordes of new ideas that burst on
the scene every day are innumer-
able, but it is perfectly clear that
some have their point of depar-
ture in Barcelona, a city that is re-
discovering itself in its transition
from an industrial city to a city
of services and ideas. Thought up
—new—
ation and internationalisation.
They are proof that a dream can
be turned into reality, that an
idea in its earliest stages can be
successfully marketed and that
a small company can grow until
it becomes an internationally-
recognised standard.
in Barcelona is not an exhaustive
overview, but a snapshot that il-
lustrates the creative activity and
idea shapers of Barcelona, from
technology, industry, architec-
ture, culture to public services.
ENG [978-84-96540-84-2]
Price INT 27€ / UK £22 /
DE 29€ / USA $ /
CH 45 CHF
15 x 21 cm. Color images.
160 pages. Hard cover.
Graphic Design | DESIGN | 144
*S,C,P,F...
This book contains 2.520 grams of (VODAFONE); “Nightology”
ACTAR
advertising and depicts over nine (J&B-DIAGEO). Their awards
years in the life of Spanish ad- include 4 Grand Prix, 50 Soles
vertising agency, *S,C,P,F... The (San Sebastian Festival), and 10
book contains hundreds of print Lions (Cannes).
campaigns and two DVDs with
356 ads, and more than 90 con-
ENG [978-84-922811-3-8]
tributions by notable communica-
Price INT 55€ / UK £44 /
tion professionals from Spain and
DE 58.85€ / USA $74.95 /
abroad. *S,C,P,F... was launched
CH 90.1 CHF
in Barcelona in 1996, expand-
17 x 24 cm. Color images.
ing internationally with offices
764 pages. Hard cover.
in Madrid, Miami and Lisbon.
*S,C,P,F’s best known campaigns
include “Love to drive” (BMW);
A decade of work from “Redecorate your life” (IKEA);
Barcelona based creative “You feel clean, you feel good”
(EVAX); “Who are you for?” for Silenci?
agency *S,C,P,F... Ramon Piqué, ed.
(KAS-PEPSICO); “Your other
bank” (ING DIRECT); “Life ENG [978-84-96954-45-8]
is mobile, mobile is Vodafone” —Out of Print
145 | DESIGN | Fashion
Barcelona Brand New Fashion
Designers
Modafad 25 Editions
Chu Uroz (ed.)
ACTAR, Ajuntament de
Barcelona
25 editions of discovering
ModaFAD talent, the
story of how acclaimed
fashion designers
start their careers in
Barcelona.
This book portrays the ModaFAD
venture, a non-profit association
formed by students, proto-design-
ers, self-taught practitioners, styl-
ists, multidisciplinary designers,
sponsors and institutions, with a
common goal: to launch emerg-
ing young Barcelona-based de-
sign talents into the fashion world.
The book records the 25 editions
of Modafad, with the inclusion
of the most prominent designers
which have emerged from each
bi-annual event. Jordi Labanda,
Spastor, Josep Abril, Celia Vela,
Isaac Reina are some of the big
names that started their careers
in ModaFAD, and contribute to
this book with short interviews
and insights into their most cur-
rent collections. Other contribu-
tors to the book include Chicks on
Speed, with the tale of a work in
progress workshop they organised
at the 2005 ModaFAD event, or
Diane Pernet’s interview.
Bigoteprimerizo, Caterina
Foletti, Jaume Vidiella, Icaro,
Ida Johansson y Lucrecia
Lovera, La Bette Studio,
Bente Bjor, Rosa López, Pablo
Gómez, Georgina Vendrell,
Olivia Niebling, Eunate,
Txell Miras, El Delgado
Buil, Sebastián Barneche,
ENG [978-84-96954-65-6]
SPA [978-84-96954-84-7]
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DE 38€ / USA $49.95 /
CH 58 CHF
17 x 24 cm. Color images.
320 pages. Hard cover.
Fashion | DESIGN | 145
Borja Uriona, Boris Bidjan
Saberi, Maria Escoté, Arturo
Martínez, Krizia Robustella,
Lenfanterrible, Susy Sans,
Juan Vidal, Astrid Florencia
Naham, Chicks on Speed,
Comentrigo, Pia Kahila,
Victor Cardona & Israel
Frutos, Mystick Onion, Anne
Cécile Espinach, Davinia
Teys, Verdades a medias,
Sybilla, Gemma Degara,
Flora, Andrea Ayala, Aurora
Vilaboa, Bambi by Laura,
Carlota Santamaría, Cecilia
Sörensen, Celia Vela, Elena
Cardona, Gori de Palma,
Ion Fitz, Itxaso, Joan Pastor,
Jordi Labanda, La Marthe, la
White, Lluis Corujo, Serguei
Povaguin, Spastor, Potipoti,
Syngman Cucala, Isaac
Reina, Josep Abril.
Foreign Bodies
Christoph Zellweger
ENG [978-84-96540-80-4]
—Out of Print
DESIGN
146 | Corporate Identity
Barcelona Barcelona
Communicates Frame
ACTAR, Ajuntament de
Barcelona
The graphic works of
Barcelona City Council
in communication and
publicity.
This book presents the work car-
ried out by the Barcelona City
Council during a four year peri-
od. Dedicated to improving the
communication sector, it resulted
in a series of publicity campaigns
implemented in the city of Bar-
celona that were sponsored and
promoted by the City Council.
BCN Comunica is a compendium
of the experiences that embraced a
shared involvement blending cre-
ativity and imagination. This pub-
lication provides a graphic history
of a diverse, caring, festive and
dynamic city.
ENG-SPA
[978-84-95951-54-0]
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DE 36.4€ / USA $45.95 /
CH 55.7 CHF
20 x 24 cm. Color images.
216 pages. Hard cover.
147 | Television
BTV 1997-2003
Manuel Huerga,
Andrés Hispano
ACTAR, Ajuntament de
Barcelona
Culled from hundreds of
hours over a five year pe-
riod (1995-2000), an am-
bitious assemblage of the
diverse content of Barce-
lona Televisión.
BTV was the first channel to use
digital mini-cameras, a program-
ming concept that gave primacy
to the human factor in an unin-
terrupted chronicle of the city of
Barcelona, the channel’s exclusive
focus. Presenting a tele-visual ex-
perience in print form, created an
obvious difficulty: how to express
in static images something char-
acterized by movement, montage
and sound.
ENG-SPA-CAT
[978-84-96540-42-2]
Price INT 38€ / UK £30 /
DE 40.7€ / USA $39.95 /
CH 62.3 CHF
16 x 22 cm. 864 color and b/w
images. 444 pages. Hard cover.
148 | Theory and Analysis
Barcelona,
A Culture
on the Move
ACTAR, Institut de Cultura
de Barcelona
An examination of the
cultural changes that
Barcelona has undergone
in recent years with the
creation of cultural poli-
cies adapting to a new
urban context.
The book seeks to bear witness to
the cultural changes that Barce-
lona has undergone in these last
years. In 1996 Barcelona City
Council took a structural decision
for the future running of munici-
pal competencies in culture: the
creation of the Institut de Cultura
de Barcelona.
ENG [978-84-7609-562-1]
SPA [978-84-7609-561-4]
Price INT 30€ / UK £24 /
DE 32.14€ / USA $39 /
CH 49.2 CHF
15 x 21 cm. Color images.
345 pages. Hard cover.
149 | Graphic Design
Laus 03
33rd Graphic Design
and Visual Media
Awards
ACTAR, Adg-fad
From its beginnings over thirty
years ago, the LAUS Prize has
become the most important Span-
ish event of graphic design and
publicity.Internationally known,
the Laus Prize publishes a annual
compilation of the award winning
works at each year’s ceremony. In
the areas of graphic design, inter-
active design, graphic publicity,
audiovisual publicity, institution-
al graphics and communication,
an international jury, including
members such as Win Crowel,
M/M, Tyler Brûlé, Manuel Out-
omuro, Tomato, Marieke Stolk,
Uschi Henkes, and Juan Nozioli
come together to determine a win-
ner for each category.
ENG-SPA
[978-84-95951-67-0]
CAT [978-84-95951-66-3]
Price INT 29€ / UK £23.95 /
DE 31.05€ / USA $30 /
CH 47.5 CHF
15,5 x 21 cm. Color images.
256 pages. Soft cover.
150 | Graphic Design
Laus 01
Best of design and
advertising in Spain
2000
ACTAR, Adg-fad
Once again, the LAUS Prize
brings together the best in graphic
design, advertising, corporate im-
age, packaging and other forms
of visual communication created
in Spain during 2000. This cata-
log of the winners demonstrates
a high level of editorial produc-
tion, offering a new media format
that includes extensive interactive
features, CD-ROM, and related
webpage.
ENG-SPA
[978-84-95951-05-2]
Price INT 27€ / UK £21.95 /
DE 28.9€ / USA $29.95 /
CH 44.2 CHF
15,5 x 21 cm. Color images.
340 pages. Hard cover.
DESIGN
151 | Graphic Design
Laus 30
Design and Visual
Communication
Awards. Best of
graphic Design &
Advertising in Spain
ACTAR, Adg-fad
The LAUS Prize catalog for 1999
is awarded annually by the As-
sociation of Graphic Designers
(ADG FAD) and honors the best
in graphic design completed by
Spanish designers. In a variety of
categories that includes publicity,
corporate image, typography, ad-
verts and new audiovisual media
like The Web and CD-ROM, this
prestigious award process is care-
fully documented in this multi-
media edition book.
ENG-SPA
[978-84-95273-48-2]
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DE 28.9€ / USA $29.95 /
CH 44.2 CHF
15,5 x 21 cm. Color images.
340 pages. Hard cover.
DESIGN
152 | Graphic Design
Barcelona+
ACTAR, Ajuntament de
Barcelona
A visual project compil-
ing responses to the city
by creative professionals.
Graphic designers, product de-
signers, architects, and photog-
raphers engage in an everyday
dialogue with Barcelona. In this
book, the city is a theatre, where
the protagonist attempts to un-
derstand his own role through
interaction.
ENG [978-84-95273-68-0]
SPA [978-84-95273-67-3]
Price INT 40 € / UK £32 /
DE 43€ / USA $52 /
CH 66 CHF
15 x 20 cm. Color images.
288 pages. Hard cover.
153 | Graphic Design
Barcelona
Lab
ACTAR, Ajuntament de
Barcelona
A behind the scenes look
at studio spaces of cre-
ative professionals in
Barcelona.
What is a city if not a network
of flows, relations and interac-
tions? This is a journey through
Barcelona’s inner network of cre-
ators and their working spaces. A
compelling photographic profile
of creative workshops and studios.
ENG [978-84-95951-00-7]
SPA [978-84-95951-01-4]
Price INT 40€ / UK £32 /
DE 43€ / USA $49.95 /
CH 66 CHF
15 x 20 cm. Color images.
384 pages. Hard cover.
154 | Graphic Design
On Barcelona
ACTAR, Ajuntament de
Barcelona
Barcelona from the cre-
ative perspective of for-
eign residents. Specially
packaged with a Lomog-
raphy camera.
Designers not native to Barcelona
interpret the city in their own vi-
sual language. An accompanying
Lomography camera invites the
reader to participate too.
SPA [978-84-95951-65-6]
CAT [978-84-95951-73-1]
Price INT 60€ / UK £48 /
DE 64.23€ / USA $78 /
CH 98.3 CHF
15 x 20 cm. Color images.
324 pages. Hard cover.
155 | Product Design
Offjects
Designs and concepts
for a new century
Òscar Guayabero (ed.)
ACTAR, Institut de Cultura
de Barcelona
Objects for the 21st
The lines between
Century by contemporary
traditional design
Spanish designers.
disciplines have become
blurred.
The concept of the object has been
left behind. The universe of ob-
jects or ‘offjects’ presented here is
the work of the design generation
from 1992 to the beginning of the
21st century. The classic defini-
tion of ‘design’ has been rendered
obsolete. An object’s conceptual
and narrative charge largely de-
termines its material and physical
configuration and many present-
day pieces are not produced indus-
trially. This is a new typology of
designer, more open, multidisci-
plinary and remote from the tra-
ditional commercial circuit, but
on a new market pulse.
ENG [978-84-7609-967-4]
SPA [978-84-7609-959-9]
CAT [978-84-7609-958-2]
Price INT 14€ / UK £12.5 /
DE 14.9€ / USA $16.95 /
CH 23 CHF
14,5 x 21 cm. Color images.
196 pages. Hard cover.
156 | Interdisciplinary Design 157 | Product Design
Crossed
Lines
New Territories
of Design
ACTAR, Edicions de l’Any
del Disseny
The new contemporary and in-
terdisciplinary design terrain is at
times vague and unclassifiable, en-
gendering all sorts of exchanges,
blends, transactions, frictions and
superimpositions, sketching a map
of the territory with new points of
convergence and new crossings of
information and action. Crossed
Lines identifies this new cartog-
raphy of design, fixing its gaze on
the processes, strategies and alli-
ances, as well as the objects and
creators of 39 projects.
ENG [978-84-95951-44-1]
SPA [978-84-95951-43-4]
Price INT 38€ / UK £30.95 /
DE 40.7€ / USA $45 /
CH 62.3 CHF
24 x 33 cm. Color images.
168 pages. Hard cover.
DESIGN
To Object
Martín Ruíz de Azúa (ed.)
ACTAR, Edicions de l’Any
del Disseny
The work of a new gen-
eration of designers who
view design as a means
not an end.
This is a book that explores the
most human and generous side
of objects, ref lecting on the
very meaning of their existence.
Games, bricolage, humor, partic-
ipation and user-complicity are
strategies that help foster creative
relations with the everyday world.
An understanding of design as a
process of change where content
proceeds form. The book is an ob-
ject in itself and can be converted
into a functional picture frame.
CAT-ENG-SPA
[978-84-95273-80-2]
Price INT 9€ / UK £8 /
DE 9.9 € / USA $9.95 /
CH 15 CHF
16 x 16 cm. Color images.
180 pages. Hard cover.
Hidden Graphics
Jaume Pujagut, ed.
ENG [978-84-95951-32-8]
—Out of Print
158 | ART | Contemporary Art
Food for Thought.
Thought for Food
The creative universe of elBulli’s Ferran Adrià.
A reflection on the worlds of avant-garde cooking and art
Richard Hamilton, Vicente Todolí (eds.)
ACTAR
Ferran Adrià has not only
revolutionized gastrono-
my, but has also suspend-
ed the limits between the
worlds of cooking and
art. Edited by legendary
pop-artist Richard Ham-
ilton and Tate Modern
Director, Vicente Todoli,
a thought-provoking and
inspriring look at artistic
and gastronomic creativ-
ity through the world’s
most revolutionary chef.
Food for Thought, edited by Vi-
cente Todoli, director of the Tate
Modern (London) and by Richard
Hamilton, contemporary pop-art
legend, explores Adrià’s partici-
pation in Documenta 12 and the
debates this has stimulated be-
tween the worlds of gastronomy
and art. Food For Thought com-
piles the discussions of the artists,
chefs, critics, gallerists, and cura-
tors who took part in two round
tables at elBulli, presenting the
voices of 12 potent personalities
of the art and gastronomic worlds,
opening the boundaries between
kitchen and art. A fascinating look
at artistic expression and gastro-
nomic creativity, featuring breath-
taking photos of Adrià’s creations
with texts and discussions by in-
ternationally acclaimed creators
and critics.
“....a dense, high-co-
lour tome probing the
way in which Ferran’s
unique approach has
taken him to the frontli-
ne of culinary artistry.”
—Wallpaper
—Best Seller—
Ferran Adrià has revolutionized
the world of gastronomy over
the last 20 years. Adrià has ap-
peared on the cover of The New
York Times Magazine as the leader
of  “New Nouvelle Cuisine.” Le
Monde named him as the best chef
in the world and Time magazine
included him in the 100 most
influential personalities on the
planet. Adrià’s restaurant, elBulli,
was awarded 3 Michelin stars and
recognized 5 times as the world’s
best restaurant by The Restaurant
Magazine. So original and poeti-
cally sensible is his approach to
cooking that he is considered to be
the greatest “artist of the kitchen”
of his generation. In 2007, Adrià
was the first chef ever to be invited
to participate in Documenta (Kas-
sel, Germany), considered to be
the most important international
art exhibition.  continues to dynamically
Contemporary Art | ART | 158
British artist Richard
Hamilton is one of the
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art-savvy diners” 350 pages. Hard cover.
impact the art world today.
Vicente Todoli is the Director
—Washington Post
of the Tate Modern in
London. His 20 year career
in the visual arts includes
directing the IVAM (Institute
of Modern Art of Valencia),
acting on the Advisory
Committee of Carnegie
International and on the
acquisitions committee
for the MACBA (Museum
of Contemporary Art of
Barcelona).
158 | ART | Contemporary Art —Best Seller— Contemporary Art | ART | 158
159 | ART |
Cooking Science
Condensed Matter
Condensed matter. Cooking science
ACTAR, Arts Santa Monica
invites us to look at cooking, gas-
tronomy and nutrition through
the scientist’s eyes and see them
as a truly cultural activity which
brings a wealth of knowledge
into play. Challenging the pre-
dominance of visual culture, our
eating habits and the pleasure of
food privilege the senses of taste,
touch, smell and even hearing.
Perception and landscape define
our cooking, but cooking also has
Fundació Alicia’s task a component of reflection and in-
(cooking and science) novation based on scientific and
compiled in this original technological research. Informed
by this awareness, the new Cata-
volume, including QR lan cuisine as exemplified by the
codes that augment this Fundació Alícia is a major force for
book’s reality culinary innovation. This volume
—new—
constitutes a unique document of
this task. The book ‘s QR codes
link the paper media with the digi-
tal media, augmenting the reality
and giving further information.
ENG [978-84-92861-44-6]
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CAT [978-84-92861-42-2]
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CH 32.8 CHF
16,5 x 23,5 cm. 50 color ima-
ges. 128 pages. Soft cover.
—Issuu Available— Contemporary Art | ART | 159
Alícia is a research centre
focusing on technological
innovation in kitchen science
and the dissemination
of agronourishment and
gastronomic heritage. It has
a clear social mission in that
it is open to the public, and
is aimed at promoting good
nourishment. Its Board of
Trustees is headed by Ferran
Adrià and consultancy
services provided by
cardiologist Valentí Fuster.
160 | ART | Artists —new— Artists | ART | 160

Pipilotti Rist
Friendly game. Electronic feelings

Fundació Joan Miró,

Fundació Caixa Girona

This catalogue presents

Rist’s colourful universe
through her most recent
videoworks and installa-
tions for Miró Founda-
tion.
Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist (Grabs,
Switzerland, 1962) surprises and
provokes the spectator with her
artistic explorations that delve into
psychic and aesthetic landscapes,
while penetrating the deepest
strata of both the personal and
collective consciousness, often
straddling them both in a force-
ful and elusive manner. The book
Friendly Game - Electronic Feel-
ings, produced by Han Nefkens
and designed by Thomas Rhyner
of the Atelier Rist includes pho-
tographs of the artist’s works at
the Fundació Miró with poems by
Pipilotti Rist and texts by Martina
Millà, Han Nefkens and Karin
Seinsoth.
Pipilotti Rist has shown her works in museums around the
world, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the
MoMA in New York and Rotterdam’s Boijmans Van Beuningen
Museum. Rist’s first feature-length film, Pepperminta, was
premiered in September 2009. Included among the artist’s
forthcoming works is a ceiling piece for Jean Nouvel’s building
in Vienna (Praterstrasse 1), scheduled to open in October 2010.
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152 pages. Hard cover.
Miquel Barceló
1987-1997
ENG [978-84-89698-83-3]
—Out of Print
161 | ART | Artists —new— Artists | ART | 161

Modernidad tropical
Alexander Apóstol
ACTAR, Musac
From the nineteen-twenties on,
Latin America became a suitable
terrain in which to apply the ideal
embodied by the Modern Move-
ment. This period is approached
in the works of the Venezuelan
artist Alexander Apóstol by ex-
ploring the remnants of that ide-
al of modernity from a critical
standpoint. Through the texts
by the architect Juan Herreros
and the art critics and curators
Julieta González and Cuauhté-
moc Medina, various aspects of
his oeuvre are analyzed along-
side the context in which it arose.
Whether from the perspective of
architecture, art history or a po-
litical analysis of contemporary
Venezuela, each author contrib-
utes to a comprehensive study of
Alexander Apóstol’s production.

A perfect symbiosis be-
tween a research manual
and a scrapbook, this
volume delves deeper into
the aesthetic, political
and social character of
Apóstol’s work.
Alexander Apóstol was born in Venezuela, in 1969. He lives
and works between Madrid and Caracas. He has had solo
exhibitions in Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Guatemala, Ecuador
and the United States, and his photographs have appeared in
group exhibitions throughout Latin America, Italy, and the
United States.

ENG-SPA
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20 x 27 cm. 100 color images.
160 pages. Soft cover.
162 | ART | Artists —new— Artists | ART | 162

Ai Weiwei
With Milk, find something everybody can use

ACTAR,
Fundació Mies van der Rohe

Milk and coffee are the

elements that renowned Ai Weiwei was born in 1957 in Beijing, where he currently
lives and works. His work has been shown in a large number
chinese artist Ai Weiwei
of museums and galleries, including the Faurschou Gallery in
used in his project for the Beijing, the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the Mori Art Museum
Mies van der Rohe Pavil- in Tokyo, Ivorypress Art+Books in Madrid and the Beijing
ion in Barcelona Center of Photography, among others.
Artist, curator, architect and social activist, Ai Weiwei is
This book presents a new chap- acknowledged to be one of leading exponents of Chinese
ter in a series of installations that contemporary culture.
different visual artists and ar-
chitects from around the world
created in Mies van der Rohe’s ENG [978-84-92861-19-4]
emblematic building. The Chi- Price INT 14€ / UK £12.6 /
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pavilion’s pools with two typical CH 23 CHF
items that are part of our daily 19,5 x 28 cm. b/w images.
lives, but are completely at odds 36 pages.
with an architectural construc-
tion: the water in the pools, one
exterior and the other interior is
replaced, respectively, with milk
and coffee. With texts by Chris
Dearcon, Xavier Costa, Laurent
Gutierrez, Valerie Portefaix and
photographs by Anna Mas.
163 | ART | Artists
Muntadas
On Translation: Paper/BP MVDR
ACTAR, Fundació Mies
van der Rohe
Intervention in the Mies
van der Rohe Pavilion
Antoni Muntadas’ task consisted
of intervening rather than exhibit-
ing, of endowing the Pavilion with
another dimension, of activating
it in a different way. This book is
the report of this intervention: the
project introduces the invisibility
of the archive through its olfactory
presence: the archive, as well as all
the documents about the project.
The mediatic role of the Pavilion
and knowledge of it through writ-
ings, the press and bibliography,
which has reached so many people,
led Muntadas to another type of
olfactory proposal.
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48 pages.
—new— —Issuu Available— Artists | ART| 165
Sanaa
Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa
164 | Artists
Muntadas
On Translation
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de
Barcelona
This publication address-
es the identity of the ar-
tistic practice, the possi-
bilities of representation
and curatorial interpre-
tation.
ENG [978-84-95951-27-4] ACTAR,
Intervention in the Mies The acrylic curtains are standing
SPA [978-84-95951-29-8] Fundació Mies van der Rohe van der Rohe Pavilion freely on the floor and shaped in
a calm spiral. The curtain softly
CAT [978-84-95951-28-1]
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decided to use acrylic to make the pavilion and creates a new
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transparent curtains. They imag- atmosphere. The view through
CH 26.2 CHF
ined an installation design that the acrylic will be something
Color images. 300 pages.
left the existing space of Barcelona different from the original with
Soft cover.
Pavilion undisturbed. soft reflections slightly distorting
the pavilion.
ENG [978-84-92861-46-0]
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19,5 x 28 cm. 30 color images.
40 pages.
166 | ART | Contemporary Art Artists | ART | 167

From I to J Paul Pfeiffer

Isabel Coixet, John Berger
A woman writes letters to a man
ACTAR, Arts Santa who is in prison. Coixet has cre-
Mònica, La Casa Encendida ated an installation based on Berg-
er’s book From A to X, with the
collaboration of architect Bene-
detta Tagliabue and some of the
most acclaimed actresses working
in film today. The book is accom-
panied by a DVD, which includes
a selection of letters from the nov-
el From A to X read by Monica
Bellucci, Sophie Calle, Patricia
Clarkson, Penélope Cruz, Julie
Delpy, Isabelle Huppert, Henning
From I to J is an inter- Mankell, Maria de Medeiros, Sar-
ah Polley, Tilda Swinton, Leonor
national tribute to John Watling and Carme Elias, as well
Berger by filmmaker as the recording of Isabel Coixet’s
Isabel Coixet. interview with John Berger.
John Berger (London 1926) is a European author,
international thinker and internationalist,
novelist, essayist, scriptwriter, art critic, poet
and actor. Isabel Coixet (Barcelona 1962) is a
filmmaker. After graduating with a degree in
history, she embarked on a career in advertising.
She directed many award-winning commercials.
In 1988, Coixet made her screenwriting and
directing debut. 6 films later, she has gained
international recognition and the applause of
critics.
ENG [978-84-96954-85-4]
SPA [978-84-96954-92-2]
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16 x 23,5 cm. Color images.
112 pages. Hard cover.
I send you this cadmium red
John Berger, John Christie
ENG [978-84-95273-32-1]
—Out of Print
Octavio Zaya (ed.)
ACTAR, Musac
A selection of some of the
most sophisticated work
by one of the most crucial
American artists today.
Paul Pfeiffer is among the most
recognized and influential Ameri-
can artists today. This is a select
overview of his work over the last
decade, including his most recent-
ly produced projects, as well as his
fundamental works which explore
new technologies through creative
media as diverse as video, installa-
tion, sculpture and photography.
For his most widely recognized
work, the artist digitally alters old
film footage or TV sports events
to erase the main characters of the
scenes, dissecting the role played
by the mass media in the contem-
porary cult of celebrity. The book
also examines his creative process
with original essays by Lawrence
Chua (writer and professor at the
Architecture Department of Cor-
nell University, New York), Jessica
Hagedorn (writer, Philippines),
Niklas Maak (critic and columnist
for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zei-
tung) and Katy Siegel (critic, Art-
forum), and other writings select-
ed by the artist including works
by Don Delillo, Ellias Canetti,
Gary Indiana and Roger Cail-
lois.Born in 1966 in Honolulu,
Hawaii (U.S.A.), Paul Pfeiffer
spent most of his childhood in
the Philippines, until he settled
in New York in 1990. Pfeiffer was
selected for the 49th Venice Bi-
ennale and most recently for the
Sydney Biennial, 2008.

ENG [978-84-96954-59-5]
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16,5 x 23,5 cm. Color images.
240 pages. Hard cover.
ART
168 | Artists
Freqüències
Eugènia Balcells
Eulàlia Bosch (ed.)
ACTAR, Arts Santa Mònica
Freqüències is the catalogue that
accompanies a new exhibition
project by the artist Eugènia Bal-
cells on some perceptive aspects of
energy: light and colour.
169 | Contemporary Art
After Architecture
Typologies of the Afterwards
Martí Peràn, Andrea Aguado (eds.)
ACTAR, Arts Santa Mònica
A compilation of materials with
which seventeen artists reflect on
the gap between architecture as
idea, architecture on paper, and
its actual use – in other words, the
Freqüències is a book that wants
to be faithful to the screens on
which the images of the multi-
media installations Colour wheel,
Labyrinth, Marble and Freqüències
are projected. It is a book that al-
lows us to slowly study the flow
of the colour spectrum that de-
fines the geometry of everything
that exists.
Freqüències is both a visual source
of knowledge and a collection of
reflections on the communicative
capacity of art and sciences.
‘afterwards’ of construction. The
project distinguishes four possible
typologies of the afterwards: back,
interior, around and demolition.
These typologies of the afterwards
would in this way come to com-
pose a kind of heterotopia of ar-
chitecture. With works by Van-
gelis Vlahos,Terence Gower, Pia
Rönicke, Xavier Arenós, Gregor
Graf, Mounir Fatmi, Xavier Mon-
teys, Heidrun Holzfeind, Tim
Etchells, Laurent Malone/ Den-
nis Adams, Didier Bay, Jordi Co-
lomer, Alexander Apóstol, Chris
Mottalini, Lara Almárcegui, Jan
Tichy, Clay Ketter.
ART
Contemporary Art | 170
Virtual This is the result of the research
and a series of updates and selec-
fluenced artistic visual approach
and new fiction in two ways: in
Societies tions by the art critic, Ricard Mas,
constructed at the historic cross-
roads between sources and narra-
games of great complexity con-
nected to an individual brain, and
in games that build a social brain
Gamer’s edition tive innovation in video games. He online.
Ricard Mas portrays a cultural transformation,
from a screen projected for a single
ACTAR, Arts Santa Mònica reader to a shared creation online
to massively consumed role-play-
ing games. This technoscientific
jump, led by physics, has fully in-
ENG-CAT-SPA
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16,5 x 31 cm. Color images. 16,5 x 23,5 cm. Color images.
192 pages. Hard cover.
96 pages. Soft cover.
Contemporary Art | 171
Cultures
of Change
Social Atoms and
Electronic Lives
C. Massip, J. Perelló,
G. Ascione (eds.)
Cultures of Change has set out to
ACTAR, Arts Santa Mònica accommodate a number of experi- ENG [978-84-92861-14-9]
mental simulations of a practical, SPA [978-84-92861-13-2]
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CH 45 CHF the society of readily available 128 pages. Soft cover.
16,7 x 23,5 cm. Color images. knowledge and information, the
112 pages. Flexibound cover. experiment takes on the value
of shared collective social expe-
rience.
ART
172 | Music
Sonic Process Say I’m your number one
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona
A visual exploration of
electronic music through
its history, social con-
texts, and instruments.
We have now decided to exam-
ine electronic music creation from
the past ten years and its relation-
ship to the visual arts. Similarly,
it seemed indispensable to offer
the reader a (non exhaustive) in-
ventory of the terms supposed to
characterize the many and var-
ied aspects of this shifting terrain
which is electronic music. The
word “sonic”, which appears in the
title, covers the research carried
out either in a purely sound-based
realm, or in the field of musical
experimentation. This work does
not tackle head-on the aesthetic
issues linked to these creations,
but deals rather with how they fit
into our era.
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CH 24.6 CHF
15 x 21 cm. 128 pages.
Soft cover.
173 | Artists
Carles Congost
Say I’m Your Number One can be
ACTAR, Musac
seen both as a monographic work
A monograph on the work covering Carles Congost’s career
of Carles Congost. The over more than ten years (1995
ultimate artist’s book. – 2007), or as an artist’s book,
thanks to Congost’s own collab-
Includes CD by The oration with design collective VA-
Congosound, featuring SAVA and Agustín Pérez Rubio
musician Vicent Fibla. (MUSAC).
ENG-SPA
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CH 63 CHF
19,5 x 25 cm. Color images.
240 pages. Hard cover.
174 | Artists
Tell Me Nothing
Carlos Pazos
ACTAR, Museu d’Art Carlos Pazos (b. Barcelona, 1949)
Contemporani de Barcelona, is the creator of rich microcosms
Museo Nacional Centro of self-reference and eccentric
de Arte Reina Sofía conceptual readings.The ratio-
nale of his oeuvre is always pe-
An ironic look at over culiar to the piece and is devel-
30 years of the artistic oped with whatever means the
artist has at hand.
career of Barcelona-born,
Carlos Pazos.
ENG-SPA
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DE 39.9€ / USA $49 /
CH 61 CHF
17 x 21 cm. 623 color images.
400 pages. Flexibound cover.
Multiple Exposure
Candice Breitz
Octavio Zaya (ed.)
ACTAR, Musac
A diverse collection of work by
acclaimed South African multi-
media artist Candice Breitz. This
publication highlights Breitz’s con-
tributions to the contemporary art
arena, where mass media culture is
Nocturama
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
ACTAR, Musac
This book explores the world of the
French artist Dominique Gonza-
lez-Foerster through lavish visual
material as well as essays by Ina
Blom (Professor at the University
of Oslo, Norway), Penelope Curtis
ART
Artists | 175
de-constructed and re-constructed
for a more defined and direct new
realm. Over the last decade, Can-
dice Breitz has been probing, trans-
lating, re-mixing and editing the
codes and icons of contemporary
media culture and the language of
the entertainment industry.
ENG-SPA
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28 x 28 cm. 200 color images.
252 pages. Hard cover.
Artists | 176
(Curator at the Henry Moore In-
stitute, Leeds, UK), Jens Hoffman
(Director of Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts, San Fran-
cisco, USA) and Lisette Lagnado
(Curator and Artistic Director of
the 27th edition of the São Paulo
Biennale).
Also featuring an interview
on literary creation with the ENG [978-84-96954-39-7]
writer Enrique Vila-Matas SPA [978-84-96954-40-3]
conducted by the artist Price INT 30€ / UK £24 /
herself, along with Hans DE 33€ / USA $39.95 /
Ulrich Obrist (co-Director CH 50 CHF
of the Serpentine Gallery, 18,5 x 23,5 cm. Color images.
London, UK). 144 pages. Hard cover.
177 | ART | Contemporary Art
Discursive Variants
The Musac Collection III
ACTAR, Musac
Selection of works from
the MUSAC Collection,
a museum for the 21st
Century. Extensive mate-
rial for research into the
works and artists based
on critical texts by ac-
claimed experts.
To commemorate its 5th Anni-
versary, the MUSAC (Museum
of Contemporary Art of Castilla
y León, Spain) has issued Volume
III of its Collection, containing a
selection of the most significant
artists and most representative
works of the turn of the century.
Within a period running from
1989 until the present time, the
MUSAC Collection aims to ex-
amine the major milestones that
have evolved on the international
scene in the world of contempo-
rary art throughout the past two
decades.Included in this third vol-
ume are key artists such as Ana
Mendieta, Elmgreen & Drag-
set, Lina Bertucci, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Paul Pfeiffer,
Alberto García-Alix and Pierre
Huyghe, all of whom are of vital
importance for understanding
the future of the art world today.
Apart from presenting a thorough
visual documentation of the vari-
ous works, they are all analysed in
articles written by international
art critics.
178 | Contemporary Art
The MUSAC
Collection
Volume I
ACTAR, Musac
Over 500 works from the
contemporary art collec-
tion by the MUSAC (Mu-
seum of Contemporary
art Castille and Leon).
ENG-SPA
[978-84-932325-5-9]
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/ DE 68.5€ / USA $75 /
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Color images. 700 pages.
Flexibound cover.
Contemporary Art | ART | 177
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[978-84-92861-27-9]
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22,5 x 28 cm. 320 pages.
Hard cover.
179 | Contemporary Art
The Musac
Collection
Volume II
ACTAR, Musac
International works
by 122 artists from
MUSAC, “the museum
for 21st century art”.
ENG-SPA
[978-84-96954-20-5]
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/ DE 69€ / USA $90 /
CH 105 CHF
Color images. 560 pages.
Plastic cover.
ART
180 | Theory and Analysis
Working from diversity
Learning experiences through art of the present
Education and Cultural Action MUSAC (ed.)
description of the activities that
ACTAR, Musac have taken place and the concepts
behind them.
This book is useful for those inter-
ested in educational and creative
practice, and also for professionals
working with education in con-
temporary art facilities. In par-
ticular, this is a book of interest
to all of those who believe that
The publication of this book means
that there is a new space for the
educational work carried out by
museums, and is a reflection on the
teaching activities that MUSAC
has been developing since its open-
ing. This book is also a support-re-
port for the different programmes
and projects produced, with a brief
181 | History and Theory
10,000 Francs Reward
(The Contemporary Art Museum, Dead or Alive)
SEACEX, ACTAR What is the museum’s role? What
should be its functions and activi-
ties in today’s society? What oth-
er operational and organizational
models could be proposed to help
overcome the modernist position
by which the museum, as a re-
pository of artistic essences, can
make a universal reality visible in
an immanent way? To debate these
questions, the Association of Con-
temporary Art Directors of Spain
- ADACE - constituted as a forum
for reflection and debate, held in
transforming social and political
practices can and must be devel-
oped in our specific work envi-
ronments.
ENG [978-84-92861-34-7]
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17 x 23 cm. 80 b/w images.
148 pages. Soft cover.
The Pleasure of Beholding
Eulàlia Bosch
CAT [978-84-89698-72-7]
—Out of Print
Baeza a conference in which those
responsible for Spain’s museums
reflected, together with their for-
eign colleagues, as well as artists
and thinkers, on these matters in
an idea-sharing session. The re-
sults of this meeting are published
in this book.
ENG [978-84-7993-074-5]
SPA [978-84-7993-058-5]
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CH 39.3 CHF
16 x 23 cm. B/w images.
251 pages. Soft cover.
The Cell
Antonio Negri
Angela Melitopoulos
ACTAR
The Cell is a DVD of three
video interviews with Antonio
Negri: 1997 while he was in
exile in Paris, 1998 in the
Roman prison of Rebibbia,
and 2003 after his release in
Rome.
The Unavowable Community
Valentí Roma (ed.)
ACTAR,
Institut Ramon Llull
Based on the book of the same
name by Maurice Blanchot, The
Unavowable Community is a pro-
posal that explores the types of
social intervention adopted by
various artistic practices that are
ART
Theory and Analysis | 182
For Antonio Negri, renowned po-
litical philosopher and author of
the international bestseller Em-
pire (co-authored with Michael
Hardt, 2000), a 17 year long chap-
ter of repressive Italian politics of
detention, exile, and imprison-
ment recently ended. The question
for Negri is how one can preserve
the freedom of spirit within a pe-
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Contemporary Art | 183
developed around the idea of the
communal. Three different proj-
ects have been selected to form
part of this project: Sitesize by
Joan Vila-Puig and Elvira Pujol,
Technologies To The People by
Daniel G. Andújar, and Arxiu
F.X. by Pedro G. Romero. These
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recognisable authorship.
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184 | Artists
24 hours
10 minutes
Salvador Cidrás
ACTAR, Musac
The intriguing art of
Galician artist Salvador
Cidrás on youth culture.
In 24 Hours 10 Minutes, Salva-
dor Cidrás examines the value
of youth culture, placing special
emphasis on the world of adoles-
cent males and the symbolic re-
lationships they develop in their
everyday environments. The artist
reshapes urban items and practices
to reconstruct teenage stereotypes
and explore the narratives that in-
terfere with the construction of
their identity. A compilation of
Cidrás’ drawings and templates
created for the mural installation
at the MUSAC. The book features
an interview between the artist
and curator, Tania Pardo.
SPA-ENG
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21 x 26 cm. Color images.
144 pages. Soft cover.
185 | Artists
Marjetica Potrc
Fragment Worlds
An artistic reflection
ACTAR, Fondazione Ratti
on urban and territorial
global transformations.
We live in fragmented cities, de-
clining cities, fast-growing cities
and shifting cities. A global look
at territorial urban changes, fo-
cussing on Amazonia, the West-
ern Balkans, shrinking cities and
beyond.
ENG-IT
[978-84-96540-55-2]
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CH 25 CHF
12 x 16 cm. 112 color and b/w
images. 112 pages. Hard cover.
186 | Artists
Dias &Riedweg
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona
A comprehensive mono-
graph on the art of Bra-
zilian Maurício Dias and
Swiss Walter Riedweg.
ENG [978-84-95951-51-9]
The video installations of Dias &
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Riedweg probe the relationship
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17 x 21 cm. Color images.
A complete overview of their
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oeuvres with a DVD video
short.
187 | Artists
Günter Brus
Nervous Stillness
on the Horizon
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona
A retrospective of the
most personal and signif-
icant works of Austrian
artist Günter Brus.
Brus creates ‘poem-pictures’
through literature and theatri-
cal stage design. This is a com-
pelling photographic collection
of his one-man performances,
body art, and neurotic drawings
on Western social, political and
religious taboos.
ENG [978-84-96540-19-4]
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17 x 21 cm. Color and duotone
images. 304 pages. Soft cover.
188 | Artists
Posiciones en el mundo real
Martha Rosler
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona
A retrospective of works
by Martha Rosler (pho-
tographs, installations,
performances and video)
in which she analyses the
myths and realities of a
patriarchal culture.
189 | Artists
Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona
Includes a DVD of 3 video
interviews with the artist.
ART
Through her diverse creations -
photographs, installations, per-
formances, video, essays and fic-
tion - Martha Rosler has produced
a series of incisive analyses of the
myths and realities of a patriarchal
culture. Expressed with detached
irony, Rosler’s work researches the
socio-economic reality and politi-
cal ideologies that dominate our
daily lives.
SPA [978-84-952732-2-2]
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CH 44.2 CHF
25 x 17 cm. Color images.
295 pages. Hard cover.
The renowned, provoca-
tive and radical art-mak-
ing of Vito Acconci.
A diverse selection of Acconci’s
confrontational and political con-
temporary art.
ENG [978-84-95951-71-7]
SPA [978-84-95951-72-4]
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CH 27 CHF
17 x 21 cm. Color images.
350 pages. Flexibound cover.
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190 | Artists
Antoni
Tàpies
In Perspective
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona
A collection of critical
and personal essays
on the complexity of
the artist and his work.
Interwoven essays and texts, in-
cluding those by the artist himself.
Acompelling insight into the work
of Antoni Tàpies.
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19,5 x 25 cm. Color and
duotone images.
496 pages. Hard cover.
191 | Artists
Luis Gordillo Michelangelo
Frozen Superego Pistoletto
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona
A complete overview of
all facets of Luis Gordi­
llo’s art: paintings, draw-
ings, photographs and
collages.
This catalog offers a complete
overview of all facets of Luis Gor-
dillo’s art: paintings, drawings,
photographs and collages. It af-
firms the importance seriality and
repetition have for Luis Gordillo,
and his idea that an image sub-
mitted to ongoing reproduction
never arrives at a definitive state.
Gordillo has used varying styles
and influences, such as Surreal-
ism, expressive automatism and,
later on, gesturalism and serial
calligraphy.
ENG-SPA
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21,5 x 26,5 cm. Color and
duotone images. 230 pages.
Hard cover.
192 | Artists
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona
This volume opens with two 1960
self-portraits, before arriving at
the artist’s most recent interven-
tions which, under the title of
Proggeto Arte, invite us to think
about contemporary art. It spins
a connecting thread that extends
from the image of the artist and
his initial pictorial representa-
tion to showing us the figure of
the artist as the driving force of
a different way of thinking and
living the world of today. During
the 60s and 70s Pistoletto estab-
lished himself as one of the most
important artists in Italian Arte
Povera, although his evolution
towards other, more theoretical,
preoccupations have clearly dis-
tanced him from this movement.
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21,5 x 26,5 cm. Color and
duotone images. 260 pages.
Hard cover.
193 | Artists
Carles Santos Raymond
Long live the piano! Pettibon
ACTAR, Krtu,
Fundació Joan Miró
Eclectic, original and
provocative, the work of
musician Carles Santos
(Vinaròs, 1940).
Santos is both performer and com-
poser, the creator of theatrical and
musical spectacles. A member of
the Catalonian avant-garde, he
has collaborated with poet Joan
Brossa and film-maker Pere Por-
tabella and was part of the Grup
de Treball, Catalonia’s foremost
conceptual art collective. This
book shows for the first time, in
all its breadth and richness, the
imaginative visual universe of the
ground-breaking artist.
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16,5 x 23,5 cm. Color and
duotone images. 496 pages.
Hard cover.
Pascal Comelade
and his Play Toy Orchestra
ENG [978-84-95951-52-6]
—Out of Print
194 | Monograph
Plots laid thick
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona
An artist’s book struc-
tured according to the
American artist Ray-
mond Pettibon himself,
with his own drawings
and writings, includ-
ing unpublished movie
scripts and plays.
Raymond Pettibon (Tucson, Ari-
zona, 1957) became involved with
the punk movement taking place
in South Bay, Los Angeles dur-
ing the late 1970s. This book is a
retrospective of his work.
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15 x 21 cm. Color and
duotone images. 470 pages.
Flexibound cover.
Ovyind Fahlström
Another Space for Painting
ENG [978-84-95273-49-9]
—Out of Print
ART
195 | Contemporary Art
Viennese
Actionism
Günther Brus,
Otto Muehl,
Hermann Nitsch,
Rudolf Schwarzkogler
ACTAR, Centro Andaluz
de Arte Contemporáneo
An exploration of Vien-
nese Actionism as the
urgent artistic expression
and re-encounter with
historical horrors of the
20th century.
As a product of the 1960s, Vien-
nese Actionism and its extremism
represent an artistic phenomenon
arising in a marginal cultural envi-
ronment. This book looks at Vien-
nese Actionism art as a convulsive,
virulent re-encounter between ex-
perimental art and destruction.
ENG [978-84-96954-44-1]
SPA [978-84-96954-43-4]
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CH 73 CHF
16,6 x 22,7 cm. Color and b/w
images. 440 pages. Soft cover.
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196 | Artists
End
Marina Núñez
ACTAR, Musac
A reflection on time, hu-
man body and post-hu-
manization age through
the work of artist Marina
Nuñez.
New technologies, particularly IT
and biotech, are driving humans
towards an unprecedented cross-
road of change. The book’s title
references the idea that the human
body is seen today as an organ-
ism reconstructed via mechani-
cal or electronic devices. Marina
Núñez (Palencia, 1966) underlines
how the image of a body-collage
is imposed: hybrid, unstable,
metaphorical, artificially viable,
where boundaries (with the world,
with other beings) cease to be unb-
reachable to become porous.
ENG [978-84-96540-30-9]
SPA [978-84-96540-38-5]
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DE 39€ / USA $39.95 /
CH 59 CHF
16,5 x 23,5 cm. Color images.
128 pages. Hard cover.
197 | Artists
Tacita Dean
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona
The work of Tacita Dean
mainly consists of 16mm
films and sound pieces
in which process, trans-
formation, coincidences,
facts and fiction play an
important role.
After beginning her artistic ca-
reer as a painter at the start of the
1990s, Dean discovered the pos-
sibilities of images projected from
16mm films. Tacita Dean’s work
method is highly f lexible. The
artist allows chance to intervene
during the phases of preparation,
filming, sound recording and edit-
ing, in such a way that she encoun-
ters a road for her work to proceed
along, instead of directing it from
a strict and unbending position.
SPA [978-84-95273-72-7]
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CH 42.6 CHF
15 x 21 cm. Color and duotone
images. 126 pages. Soft cover.
198 | Artists
Parallel
Hannah Collins
ACTAR, LABoral Ciudad
de la Cultura
Hannah Collins’ complex
art, photography, and
films on African immi-
grants.
Collins places us directly in front
of the daily lives of African mi-
grants. This book consists of stills
and dialogues taken from the film,
following their thoughts, memo-
ries and daily lives as they adapt to
their new surroundings in spite of
diverse origins and destinations.
Artist, photographer and film-
maker Hannah Collins makes
work on the collective experiences
of memory, history and the every-
day in the modern World. She has
exhibited at Tate Modern, Cen-
tre Georges Pompidou, MACBA
Barcelona and Reina Sofia Ma-
drid among other major museums.
ENG-FRE-SPA
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CH 71 CHF
24 x 22 cm. Color images.
280 pages. Hard cover.
199 | Artists
Adrian Piper Emergencies
Desde 1965: Meta-
Arte y crítica del arte
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona
This catalogue is a compi-
lation of Piper’s writings,
most of which have never
been translated before.
Adrian Piper is a conceptual artist
who incorporates language, rhet-
oric, and visual media to create
pieces that render issues such as
racism and xenophobia in harshly
realistic terms. Her work presents
themes and images from her life
experiences, as well as from the
mass media, in hopes of highlight-
ing their inherently racist struc-
tures. A compilation of Piper’s
writings, most published here
for the first time in English.
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400 pages. Flexibound cover.
ART
200 | Theory and Analysis
ACTAR, Musac
Contemporary events
form the stage for artistic
creation.
Environmental degradation, so-
cial inequality, media manipula- ENG [978-84-95951-88-5]
tion and armed conflict are some SPA [978-84-95951-76-2]
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contemporary reality. The collec- DE 31.05€ / USA $35 /
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temporáneo de Castilla y León 24 x 17 cm. Color images.
explore how the realms of art con- 280 pages. Soft cover.
front these problems.
201 | Theory and Analysis
Emergency
Alfredo Jaar
ACTAR, Musac
Collaborative essays
by 25 Africans on
contemporary reality
across Africa.
A series of ideas on the current
situation in Africa. Jaar invited ENG [978-84-95951-90-8]
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edge to write a personal paper on
CH 41 CHF
contemporary reality across the
17 x 21 cm. Color images.
continent.
260 pages. Hard cover.
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202 | Artists 203 | Artists 204 | Artists 205 | Artists

Jaar SCL 2006 The Studies on Let There be

Alfredo Jaar
ACTAR
A re-encounter with Chilean au-
diences after an absence of twenty-
five years, this is an anthology of
works better known to the rest
of the world than to his native
country. A frank, demanding
dialogue with a new public and a
new generation of intellectuals.
Jaar’s work evolves from project to
project, as he continually shapes
and renews his poetic thinking on
such themes as: the contemporary
status of images, the role of artists
and intellectuals in society, and an
ethical imperative expressed in an
“aesthetics of resistance.”
ENG [978-84-96540-48-4]
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CH 46 CHF
15,5 x 24 cm. 300 color
images. 312 pages.
Flexibound cover.
Aesthetics
of Resistance
Searching for Gramsci
Alfredo Jaar
ACTAR, Fondazione Ratti
Jaar presents new strate-
gies for public interven-
tion and resistance.
ENG [978-84-96540-31-6] IT
[978-84-96540-32-3]
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CH 28 CHF
12 x 16,5 cm. Color images.
208 pages. Hard cover.
Happiness
Alfredo Jaar
ACTAR
Santiago de Chile, 1979.
Alfredo Jaar’s first public
intervention questioning
people about happiness.
This project was born over twenty
years ago in the midst of a desper-
ate situation: Santiago de Chile,
1979. ‘It grew out of my utopian
idealism, which I tried to combine
with poetry, an activity that was
ingenuous but highly necessary at
that time’. This publication docu-
ments the seven phases of the proj-
ect and includes the reedition of an
original article written by Adriana
Valdés in 1981, together with a
new introduction and a postscript.
ENG [978-84-95273-02-4]
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duotone images. 112 pages.
Hard cover.
Light
The Rwanda Project:
1994-1998
Alfredo Jaar
ACTAR, Centre d’Art
Santa Mònica
Based on photographs
that document the geno-
cide that claimed one
million lives in Rwanda,
a harrowing testimony
of human brutality and
world indifference.
This publication documents the
first retrospective dedicated to a
body of work of four years. Based
on photographs that document the
genocide that claimed a million
lives in Rwanda, Let There Be Light
offers a harrowing testimony of
206 | Artists
It is Difficult.
Ten years
Alfredo Jaar
ACTAR, Centre d’Art
Santa Mònica
A ten-year survey of Al-
fredo Jaar, one of today’s
most compelling and in-
novative artists.
Available individually or in a box
with Let There Be Light.
human brutality and world indif-
ference. Jaar presents his work in
an extraordinary effective and cre-
ative fashion, and proves himself
to be one of the most provocative
artists of our time. Available in-
dividually or in a box with It is
Difficult.
ENG [978-84-89698-44-4]
SPA [978-84-89698-67-3]
CAT [978-84-89698-68-0]
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DE 33.45€ / USA $35 /
CH 51.2 CHF
22 x 22 cm. Color images.
240 pages. Hard cover.
SPA [978-84-89698-69-7]
CAT [978-84-89698-70-3]
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DE 33.45€ / USA $35 /
CH 51.2 CHF
22 x 22 cm. Color images.
360 pages. Hard cover.
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207 | Contemporary Art
Apartheid
The South African
Mirror
Pep Subirós (ed.)
ACTAR, Centre de
Cultura Contemporània
de Barcelona
A visual and conceptual
look at prejudice through
original art works.
From the nineteenth century to
the present day, this book visu-
ally documents the main stages
and characteristics of an infamous
209 | Contemporary Art
Art and Utopia
Limited Action
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona
A reinterpretation of
20th-century art move-
ments.
An examination of the influence
of Mallarmé on seminal figures
of modernity, reinterpreting cub-
ism, avant-garde movements, 70s
art, and questionning the idea of
modernity.
history which speaks not only of
the South African experience,
but of Western racial ideologies
and clichés. The book conveys the
continuous vitality of the South
African art scene and a renewed
commitment to its historical con-
text. Many original works are pub-
lished here for the first time.
Featuring key works by
internationally acclaimed
South African artists: Jane
Alexander, David Goldblatt,
William Kentridge, Zwelethu
Mthethwa, Santu Mofokeng,
Berni Searle, Penny Siopis,
Sue Williamson; as well as
emerging new artists.
ENG [978-84-96954-03-8]
SPA [978-84-96954-02-1]
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DE 30€ / USA $39.95 /
CH 46 CHF
17 x 24 cm. Color images.
200 pages. Soft cover.
ENG-SPA
[978-84-95951-81-6] CAT-
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DE 19.3€ / USA $22.95 /
CH 29.5 CHF
21,5 x 26,5 cm. Color images.
350 pages. Flexibound cover.
208 | Contemporary Art
At War
A. Monegal, F. Torres,
J.M. Guirao (eds.)
ACTAR, Centre de
Cultura Contemporània
de Barcelona
The Impact of war on
the work of 20th century
artists.
A survey of a century of conflict,
this book begins with the early
20th century and ends with the
current state of warfare. This
publication visually contrasts the
combatants and victims, placing
side by side images of ‘the noble
cause’ and a deep rejection of war.
Withholding judgement, ths book
presents war in its many manifes-
tations, composed of a range of
experiences, consequences, and
cultural by-products.
ENG [978-84-95951-69-4]
SPA [978-84-7794-998-5]
CAT [978-84-7794-997-8]
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DE 15€ / USA $16.95 /
CH 23 CHF
17,5 x 24,5 cm. Color images.
378 pages. Soft cover.
210 | Contemporary Art
Istanbul, traversée
ACTAR, Lille3000
Istanbul seen through
the artists’ eyes.
Its geographical location, its ram-
pant urban development and its
complex socio-political fabric
make Istanbul an ideal backdrop
for many artists, not only Turk-
ish and Istanbul artists, but also
artists from the diaspora or art-
ists from abroad who have come
to Istanbul as artists in residence.
211 | Contemporary Art
Trial Balloons/
Globos sonda
ACTAR, MUSAC
An exploration of new
international artistic
‘currents’.
Like trial balloons that measure
components of the atmosphere,
this book proposes complex artis-
tic currents. An international se-
lection of 50 contemporary artists
and other creative minds.
With texts and projects
by: Hussein Chalayan,
Kutlug Ataman, Erik
Göngrich, Martine Aubry,
Mikdat Kadıoglu, Pelin
Dervis, Christine Buci-
Glucksmann, Cengiz Aktar,
Korhan Gümüs, Jacques
Perot, Caroline Naphegy,
Bernd Nicolai, Minna
L. Henriksson, Hüseyin
Alptekin.
ENG [978-84-96540-63-7]
FRE [978-84-96540-29-3]
Price INT 25€ / UK £20 /
DE 27€ / USA $29.95 /
CH 42 CHF
16,5 x 23,5 cm. Color images.
200 pages. Soft cover.
ENG-SPA
[978-84-96540-54-5]
Price INT 37€ / UK £29.95 /
DE 39.6€ / USA $49 /
CH 61 CHF
19,5 x 25 cm. Color images.
360 pages. Hard cover.
ART
212 | Contemporary Art
Canòdrom
00.00.00
ACTAR, CoNCA
Nine artistic interven-
tions in a future center for
contemporary art in an
old greyhound stadium in
Barcelona.
Canòdrom 00:00:00 marks the
start of the countdown for the
recovery of the old Canòdrom
greyhound stadium. The build-
ing was designed in 1962 by the
architect Antonio Bonet Caste­
llana, and the renovation is by the
architects Xavier Monteys, José
Maria de Lecea, Laura Aybar and
Marta López.
Artists featured: Margarita
Andreu, Xavier Arenós, Marc
Arroyo, Isabel Banal, Ana de
Matos, Albert Gusi, Gustavo,
Jordi Mitjà, Observatori
Nòmada.
ENG [978-84-92861-37-8]
SPA [978-84-92861-36-1]
CAT [978-8492861-35-4]
Price INT 39€ / UK £38.9 /
DE 41.75€ / USA $49.95 /
CH 63.9 CHF
24 x 30 cm. 130 color images.
168 pages. Hard cover.
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213 | Contemporary Art
The Maghreb Authentic
Connection Fiction
Movements of Life
Across North Africa
Ursula Biemann,
Brian Holmes (eds.)
ACTAR
An art project on Medi-
terranean migration.
A discursive, visual presenta-
tion of the growing complexity
of North African mobility in re-
lation to the European Union.
In response to the human condi-
tions of trans-Saharan migration
and media images of border rein-
forcements, this is a collaborative
photographic and video project by
Swiss, Egyptian, African, Span-
ish, and Italian artists.
ENG [978-84-96540-56-9]
Price INT 29€ / UK £23.95 /
DE 31€ / USA $37.95 /
CH 48 CHF
15 x 21 cm. Color and duotone
images. 256 pages. Soft cover.
214 | Artists
Xavier Rovira
ACTAR
Investigates the plurality
of notions of public, city
and regional space,
The Authentic Fiction artistic
project investigates the plurality
of notions of public, city and re-
gional space, based on a consid-
eration of its limits, its frontiers,
the idea of passage and exile, and
the role of memory as a creator of
meaning. Authentic Fiction also ex-
amines the relationship between
work and spectator, between given
context and fiction, via the inter-
action with the spectator provided
for by the CD-ROM which goes
with the book.
ENG-SPA
[978-84-95951-30-4]
Price INT 15.5€ / UK £14 /
DE 16.5€ / USA $18.95 /
CH 20 CHF
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Hard cover.
215 | Contemporary Art
B-Zone
Becoming Europe
and Beyond
Anselm Franke (ed.)
ACTAR,
Kunst-Werke Berlin
A collaborative art
­project on transforma-
tional social and politi-
cal geographies, from the
Balkans to Turkey and
the Caucasus.
Each of the three core projects
follows the trajectory and histo-
ry of a large-scale transnational
infrastructure laid down in the
territories of former Communist
states. ‘The Black Sea Files,’ ex-
plores the new pipeline connect-
ing the Caspian city of Baku, the
world’s oldest oil capital with the
Mediterreanean.
ENG [978-84-96540-05-7]
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CH 53 CHF
16 x 19,5 cm. Color images.
419 pages. Soft cover.
ART
216 | Urbanism 217 | Contemporary Art 218 | Artist
The Force Fields Blinky
(un)common Phases of the Kinetic Palermo
Guy Brett (ed.)
place Glòria Moure (ed.)
Art, Public Space ACTAR, Museu d’Art ACTAR, Museu d’Art
and Urban Aesthetics Contemporani de Barcelona Contemporani de Barcelona
in Europe
ACTAR, Fondazione
Adriano Olivetti
A journey through cre-
ative practices in urban
art and architecture to
redefine the concept of This catalogue proposes a A selection of Palermo’s
public space in Europe.
new reading of art pro- abstract paintings, draw-
A ‘common place’, a shared vi- duced between 1920s and ings, engravings, and his
sion from Norway to Turkey, from the 1970s. installations, including
Spain to Bulgaria, from Cyprus examples taken from the
to Romania, emerges from this This book sets out to re-assess mural he painted between
collection of over 50 artists and certain aspects of the kinetic art 1963 and 1977.
projects. of the 1960s, a tendency all too
frequently ignored or trivialised Over the course of his fourteen-
in the history of art. Among the year artistic career, Peter Heister-
artists shown here are figures as kamp (Leipzig, 1943 – Maldives,
classic as Pol Bury, Alexander 1977), who adopted the pseud-
Calder, Marcel Duchamp, László onym Blinky Palermo, tirelessly
Moholy-Nagy, Georges Van- probed the limits of abstract paint-
tongerloo, Hélio Oiticica, Henri ing. The book features among oth-
Michaux, Gordon Matta-Clark er works the instalation created for
and Lucio Fontana. the 1976 Venice Biennale, which
will be reconstructed for the ex-
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ART ART

219 | Artists 220 | Contemporary Art 221 | Contemporary Art 222 | Contemporary Art 223 | Artists

Perejaume The Onnasch La col·lecció Colección Dora García

Dis-Exhibit Collection de col·leccions Prinzhorn Sí/Yes/Oui. No/No/Non
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona
Aspects of de Guy Selz ACTAR, Museu d’Art ACTAR, Musac
Contemporary Art Contemporani de Barcelona
ACTAR, Arts Santa Mònica
A selection of Perejaume’s ACTAR, Museu d’Art A fascinating monograph
Contemporani de Barcelona
This book presents a se- on Spanish artist Dora
work from between 1977 lection of more than 200
and 1999, accompanied García.
drawings and books cre-
by installations that This publication brings ated by different mental
together a wide selection A visual tour of the principal proj-
reflect the more recent patients between 1890 ects from the Spanish province of ENG-SPA-FRE
preoccupations of the of the works that form and 1920. Castilla-León selected by the art- [978-84-934541-2-8]
artist. one of the most important ist. A real artist’s book to under- Price INT 18.5€ / UK £16 /
private collections of This book presents a selection stand the true scope and multiple DE 19.9€ / USA $22.95 /
This retrospective is posited as a contemporary art in of more than 200 drawings and facets of García’s work. Critical CH 31 CHF
thematic, and non-chronological, Europe. This is a compilation books created by different mental texts by Edwin Carels, Peter Do- 16,5 x 23 cm. Color images.
tour through the artist’s career. of collections that the patients between 1890 and 1920. roshenko, Guillaume Mansart, 240 pages. Flexibound cover.
The different media he works with The collection of the German Re- French journalist and The collection was assembled at Agustín Pérez Rubio and Fran-
– paint, photography, sculpture, inhard Onnasch, which reflects, in the beginning of the 1920s in the çois Piron.
installation, theater and literature a markedly personal way, the most
collector Guy Seltz University of Heidelberg, under
– are combined to provide a het- representative tendencies of the brought together over the initiative of the psychiatrist
erogeneous overview. second half of the 20th century. a period of fifty years and art historian Hans Prinzhorn
(1925-1976). (1886-1933), who wished to open 224 | Artists
a museum.
This book reflects the spirit of this
collector who, unlike a museolo-
Jorge R. Pombo
gist, does not work to preserve
memory but to capture energy ACTAR
from it.
Young and talented, Jorge
CAT-FRE Pombo is the author of an
[978-84-92861-15-6] intriguing body of work.
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21,5 x 26,5 cm. Color and 208 pages. Soft cover. works, the book features travel 25 x 29 cm. Color images.
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192 pages. Soft cover.
Soft cover. of inspiration.
ART
225 | Artists
Zero Gravity Pep Agut
Daniel Canogar
ACTAR, Centre d’Art
Santa Mònica
Daniel Canogar’s work
has long dwelt on issues of
immersion and realism,
of corporeal images and
sensations, of light in-
strumentalised to reveal
figments and traces of vi-
sual matter.
Daniel Canogar (Madrid 1964)
use of photography undermines
and transcends simple questions
of photographic realism, through
play with variable scales, obses-
sive pseudo-repetition, and dis-
concerting projection procedures
and surfaces.
ENG-SPA [978-84-95951-10-
6] CAT [978-84-95951-09-0]
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20 x 28 cm. Color images.
160 pages. Soft cover.
226 | Artists
To the Secondary
Actors
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona
Agut questions artis-
tic expression itself, and
through this, the estab-
lishment of new forms of
relating: Who is the art-
ist? Who is the spectator?
This overall questioning of art pro-
duction is the basis for the work
of Pep Agut. For this reason it is
aimed at “secondary creators”, to
all of us: the spectators who can
no longer be just passive specta-
tors of his actions.
CAT-ENG-SPA
[978-84-95273-35-2]
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21,5 x 26,5 cm. Color and
duotone images. 166 pages.
Soft cover.
227 | Artists
Omnivorous
Romance
Fernando Renes
ACTAR
The wildly imaginative
drawings of Spanish art-
ist Fernando Renes.
Born in Burgos (Spain) and liv-
ing in New York, Fernando Renes
has been devoted to the world of
drawing since 2000. His draw-
ings, mostly watercolors, are del-
ciously opaque, simple, obvious,
uneventful. The drawings are al-
ways plain and forthright without
metaphor or irony. Everything be-
longs to the simple, raw, innocent,
and direct realms of drawing and
imagination. His drawings pro-
cure and negotiate a world full of
wild and jarring discontinuities,
desires, repulsions, fears, and hu-
mor; a world ready and waiting for
the image in animation.
ENG-SPA
[978-84-96954-30-4]
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29,7 x 23 cm. Color images.
208 pages. Hard cover.
228 | Illustration
Pat Andrea
y Alicia
ACTAR, Arts Santa Mònica
Pat Andrea’s paintings
inspired by Lewis Car-
roll’s Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland and Through
the Looking-Glass.
Pat Andrea escapes from realism
in his 24 large-size works fea-
tured in this book. He painted,
designed, made inks, cut, glued,
encursted in gold and silver al-
most for two years only for Alice,
faithful to Carroll’s original text.
This book allow the adult read-
ers to get back inside the mind
of a child. Pat Andrea paints the
inversion of the dominant moral
and artistic values and shows us
the perversion licit in art through
very fine drawing.
SPA [978-84-92861-49-1]
CAT [978-84-92861-48-4]
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CH 33 CHF
16,5 x 23,5 cm. Color images.
128 pages. Soft cover.
229 | Artists
Hans
Hofmann
The Chimbote Project
ACTAR, Museu d’Art Con-
temporani de Barcelona
The Synergestic Promise
of modern Art and Urban
Architecture.
Hofmann was one of the most
influential European artists in
the birth of American abstract
expressionism. This catalogue
contains the pieces that Hof-
mann conceived to decorate the
church in Chimbote, Perú, com-
missioned to the Catalan architect
Josep-Lluís Sert but never built.
This publication extensively docu-
ments the proposal in its historical
context, aiming to offer a wider
interpretation on the twentieth-
century project of a renewed col-
laboration between art and ar-
chitecture.
ENG [978-84-89771-07-9]
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230 pages. Hard cover.
ART
230 | Artists
Tom Carr
Orbis
ACTAR, Krtu
The show documented in
this book was conceived
as a light and colour spec-
tacle, and according to
its creator, “constitutes
an allegory of the cyclical
concept of time”.
Tom Carr has always liked work-
ing in three dimensions. Known to
be a sculptor, he became interested
early on in creating works in public
places or doing particular shows
that remain closely related to the
architectural space in which they
are exhibited. This is the case of
Orbis, in which the artist projects
500 images onto the ground. It
also features a wide-ranging series
of drawings and a selection of his
most representative sculptures.
ENG-CAT-SPA [978-84-
95273-41-3]
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24 x 29,5 cm. Color images.
158 pages. Soft cover.
231 | PHOTOGRAPHY
Europa
Jordi Bernadó
Rafael Doctor (ed.)
Fundación Santander 2016,
ACTAR
An unexpected Europe.
This book is the first ever
published on today’s Eu-
ropean Union as seen
through the eyes of a sin-
gle author, the photogra-
pher Jordi Bernadó.
—new— photography | 231
Twenty-seven countries under the
ENG-SPA-FRE
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[978-84-92861-52-1]
rapher who collects the places
and landscapes he has lived: some Price INT 50€ / UK £44.95 /
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plausible. This vision speaks of a CH 81.9 CHF
world where life continues to alter 34,5 x 26,5 cm. 120 color and
each and every element that would duotone images. 188 pages.
initially appear well-ordered. The Hard cover.
author’s course carries us far and
wide, making us his travelling
companions, indeed his accom-
plices in the highly personal vision
he constructs. Bernadó comes ac- Scanscape
corss successively as euridte, his- Marc Räder
ENG [978-84-89698-66-6]
torian, architect, sociologist, but
most often as storyteller. With a —Out of Print
perfect mastery of colour ranges,
he employs de vocabulary of docu-
mentary photography.
One by one, the 27 countries con-
forming the European Union
are gazed by the eyes of the same
author on a critical ref lection
through a visual essay.
232 | PHOTOGRAPHY
La Rambla In/Out Barcelona
Jordi Bernadó/Massimo Vitali
ACTAR, Arts Santa Mònica Complementary and
particular visions: that of
Jordi Bernadó, looking
at the Rambla from the
inside, and that of Mas-
simo Vitali, looking at the
Rambla from the outside.
La Rambla, a joint project that
has emerged from the shared
concerns of two highly acclaimed
contemporary photographers, the
Catalan Jordi Bernadó (Lleida,
1966) and the Italian Massimo
Vitali (Como, 1944), sets out to
portray present-day Barcelona by
way of one of its most emblematic
public spaces, La Rambla. Each
—Issuu Available—
photographer, faithful to his own
visual poetics, presents his per-
sonal vision of La Rambla: taken
together, the photos show us two
faces, two profiles, which are no
less than two ways of looking and
seeing. Bernadó probes the inte-
riors of buildings on La Rambla
in contained, pared-down images
of hidden or little-known spaces
and other, more familiar spaces
that strike us here as strange,
ambiguous, almost grotesque.
For his part, Vitali captures the
more cosmopolitan, public face of
La Rambla, the popular interna-
tional thoroughfare, in panoramas
of crowds in the urban space as a
scenario of mass tourism.
photography | 232
By way of the specificity of the
Barcelona Rambla, this photo-
graphic chronicle proposes a criti-
cal reflection on architecture, ur-
banism and the transformation of
the contemporary city in the new
global era.
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[978-84-96954-22-9]
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16,5 x 23,5 cm. Color images.
96 pages. Hard cover.
233 | PHOTOGRAPHY
Welcome to Espaiñ
Jordi Bernadó
ACTAR
Jordi Bernadó’s images
take us on a journey that
is both audacious and dis-
turbing in equal measure.
Bernadó creates projects to ex-
press his keen eye and spirit. His
interest in all the signs character-
ising contemporary society and
culture in our environment is one
of the forces behind his creations,
and colour is an intrinsic part of
his study. Despite his having ex-
plored American spaces and cities
in Japan and Europe, Bernadó has
always maintained his focus on
Spain, attentive to the evolution
of its landscape and the décor of its
interiors that is linked to very dif-
ferent worlds. He casts an amus-
ing look at the details that only
he is able to see and makes them
distinct. His images turn reality
into a theatre set. The boundar-
ies between the real and the un-
likely become blurred. Beyond
Bernadó’s vision of the superficial
world and his form of satire, one
is given a glimpse of his inspired
personality on this guided tour of
the 20th-century playwrights who
have brought the senseless and the
ridiculous to the stage, even the
grotesque.
Good News*
Jordi Bernadó
ENG [978-84-89698-98-7]
—Out of Print
—Issuu Available—
“Behind each of Jordi
Bernadó’s photograph,
there’s a story”
—Avui, 8-11-09
SPA-ENG
[978-84-96954-16-8]
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34,5 x 26,5 cm. Color images.
208 pages. Hard cover.
234
True Loving
And Other Tales
Jordi Bernadó
ACTAR
Humorous, poetic, and
fantastical, landscape
photos of Bernadó’s trav-
els across the U.S.
What fascinates Jordi Bernadó
about world maps are place names.
Looking at a map of the United
States, he was attracted to the
equivocal coincidences like To-
kyo, Bagdad, or Rome, and his
236
Berlin
Ramon Prat, Jordi Bernadó
ACTAR
A photo report on the
urban landscape of 1994
Berlin.
Shot in 1994, Berlin is an extended
photo essay recording the trans-
formation of the urban landscape
of the city of Berlin. Capturing a
moment frozen in time, these im-
ages present a Berlin that no longer
exists but continues to survive.
imagination went wild with the
promises made by names like
Happy, Eden, or Utopia. He be-
gan to look through geography
and recover forgotten and ignored
histories. With the passionate sen-
sibility of the romantic explorer, he
gives tenderness to even the most
grotesque images. He transforms
the ordinary into the extraordi-
nary and the exceptional into the
ordinary. He cultivates stories and
builds them with subjective intu-
ition, wonder, and fantasy.
Shortlisted for PhotoEspaña
“Best Photography Books of
2007”
ENG [978-84-96540-33-0]
SPA [978-84-96540-65-1]
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DE 29.9€ / USA $34.95 /
CH 46 CHF
30 x 24 cm. 79 color images.
160 pages. Hard cover.
CAT-ENG-SPA-GER
[978-84-604-8113-3]
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25 x 31 cm. Duotone.
128 pages. Hard cover.
PHOTOGRAPHY
235
Very Very
Bad News
Jordi Bernadó
ACTAR
The prize winning sequel
to Good News. A photo es-
say by acclaimed photog-
rapher Jordi Bernadó.
From Brazilian shanty towns,
peep shows in Barcelona, beaches
in Cape Town and Sydney, De-
troit’s downtown, ruins in Bu-
charest, to the subterranean world
of Nagoya, Bernadó exposes the
more ominous side of apparent
normality. Maintaining his par-
ticular juxtaposition technique,
the photographer pairs unrelated
images to create new insights that
alter our time-honored beliefs.
ENG-SPA
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16 x 32 cm. Color images.
200 pages. Hard cover.
Atlanta
Ramon Prat, Jordi Bernadó
ENG [978-84-605-2807-4]
—Out of Print
237 | PHOTOGRAPHY —Issuu Available— PHOTOGRAPHY | 237

Barcelona. Secret Museum

Ignacio Vidal-Folch, Txema Salvans

Unlike any other city travel guide,
ACTAR
Barcelona Secret Museum, writ-
ten by Barcelonian novelist Igna-
cio Vidal-Folch, proposes a view
of the city from the subjective per-
spective of a writer. His contem-
plative, humorous, and beautiful-
ly descriptive writing guides the
reader through 80 sites –monu-
ments, squares, buildings, as well
as shop windows, hidden streets,
poor and desolate neighborhoods,
walls of posters and street art– al-
ways with fascinating cultural
commentary and universal refer-
ences to the history of art, cinema
Ignacio Vidal-Folch (b. Barcelona, 1956) has published many novels and short stories including
Contramundo, Amigos que no he vuelto a ver, La libertad, Cabeza de plástico, which take place in
different european cities. Barcelona, Secret Museum is the first book devoted to his native city. His
articles regularly appear in newspapers and magazines including Tiempo and El País, where these
writings were originally published.

The ultimate guide to a

secret Barcelona by liter-
ary writer Ignacio Vidal-
Folch. Discovered and
re-discovered places,
illustrated with photo-
graphs by Txema Salvans.

and literature. Each spot visited

becomes a Borgesian “Aleph,” a
plece of a universal puzzle with
poetic as well as tongue-in-cheek
connections. Street plot converges
with literary plot through famous
quotes, forgotten verses, and re-
called images of great works of art
and cinema, always with a playful
sense of humor. Illustrated with ENG [978-84-96954-76-2]
the extraordinary photographs SPA [978-84-96954-75-5]
of Txema Salvans, this book is a Price INT 23€ / UK £18.9 /
homage to the city’s diversely rich DE 29€ / USA $34.95 /
and international urban culture, CH 38 CHF
and as well is an open invitation to 13 x 21 cm. Duotone.
play with imagination and memo- 320 pages. Soft cover.
ry on the magnificent game-board
that is Barcelona.
238 | PHOTOGRAPHY —Issuu Available— PHOTOGRAPHY | 238

Photo-Identities
Miguel Trillo

ACTAR, Centro Andaluz With a degree in Image and His-

de Arte Contemporáneo panic linguistics from the Com-
plutense University of Madrid, the
photographer Miguel Trillo has
been depicting, since the 70’s, di-
verse generations of young adults
in their music inspired environ-
ments. Since 1994 he has been re-
siding in Barcelona, where he has
developed a sort of modern geo-
graphical series, that analyzes the
linguistic and territorial Span-
ish frontiers. The work of Miguel
Youth subcultures as seen Trillo forms a part of several out-
by Miguel Trillo’s lens. standing public and private col-
lections in Spain and in 2009 was
Retrospective catalogue of the the subject of a retrospective in the
photographer Miguel Trillo (Ji- CAAC (Centro Andaluz de Arte
mena de la Frontera, Cádiz, 1953), Contemporáneo) in Sevilla.
his work could be categorized
as photo-documental, (though
his first works had a clear experi-
ENG [978-84-96540-74-3]
mental vocation), the source of
SPA [978-84-96540-72-9]
the encounter between the art-
Price INT 37€ / UK £29.95 /
ist and his models is (almost) al-
DE 39.9€ / USA $44.95 /
ways accidental and clearly expos-
CH 61 CHF
es the photographed subjects in
23 x 21,5 cm. Color images.
their daily and habitual contexts.
272 pages. Flexibound cover.
Since the beginning of the 80’s
Miguel Trillo has depicted anony-
mous protagonists from what was
know as the “Movement” in Ma-
drid, and has documented the evo-
lution of urban “tribes”, (Mods,
Punks, Goths, Death-rock-
ers, Rappers, Head Bangers...)
over the last 3 decades all over
the world. His photographs de-
pict adolescents and young adults
trying to find their identities
through the assumption of de-
termined attire and or behaviour,
that also reflect the contradictions
of a society that has experiment-
ed a profound transformation
in a very short period of time.
239 | PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHY | 240

Libro de las Maravillas Deconstructing Osama

Joan Fontcuberta The truth about the case of Manbaa Mokfhi
Joan Fontcuberta
ACTAR
ACTAR, Fundació Pilar “An extremely provocative book that works
i Joan Miró
in very sophisticated ways... it strikes the perfect
chord of our current state of affairs.”
— 5B4 Photography and Books

From the photography
of nature to the nature of
photography. This is how
the career of Joan Fontcu-
berta in art, compiled in
this book, can be sum-
marised.
This original anthological compi-
lation containing twenty of Joan
Fontuberta’s most significant proj-
ects allow the artist to present an
analysis of the image perceived as
a document. Using a hacker’s tac-
tics to infiltrate epistemological
certainty-supply devices, Font-
cuberta moves from politics to sci-
ence and art history to show the
fragility of our experience with
irony and imagination: we in fact
live through images, and we have
to survive the risks this entails.
This book is an essential first aid
manual. Fontcuberta eschews the
mere description of reality, which
has always been the historical
mandate of photography, to delve
into stories and fiction.
Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona
1955) is the least literal of pho-
tographers and probably the most
literary of them all; he is a narrator,
a creator of fiction and an inventor
of imaginary worlds. His work is
known throughout the world and
has been exhibited on a number of
occasions. Among the distinctions
he has received is that of Chevalier
de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
awarded to him by the French
Ministry of Culture in 1994.
SPA [978-84-96954-81-6]
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CH 80.3 CHF
24,5 x 32,6 cm.
Color and duotone images.
224 pages. Hard cover.
Shocking photos! Chill-
ing documents! Secrets
revealed! The amazing
scoop from the Al-Zur
News Agency.
In November 2006 Al-Zur (the
Qatar-based news agency) photo-
journalists, Mohammed ben Ka-
lish Ezab and Omar ben Salaad,
pulled off one of the most stun-
ning scoops in the annals of in-
vestigative journalism. Ben Kalish
and Ben Salaad followed the trail
of Dr. Fasqiyta-Ul Junat, a leader
of Al Qaeda’s military wing. This
is how Joan Fontcuberta’s latest
fiction project starts. A complex
and ironic vision of how Western
World envisages the Arabic world.
ENG-CAT-SPA-FRE
[978-84-96540-90-3]
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CH 63 CHF
21 x 29,7 cm. 120 color ima-
ges. 124 pages. Soft cover.
241
The Artist &
the Photograph
Joan Fontcuberta
ACTAR
A fictional work by Joan
Fontcuberta, who after
having parodied different
scientific disciplines has
reinvented the history of
art itself, exploring style
and authenticity.
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242
Twilight Zones
Joan Fontcuberta
ACTAR
This book brings to-
gether 3 projects by Joan
Fontcuberta, projects
that partake of a critical
practice of photography
within the context of con-
temporary art.
ENG [978-84-95273-15-4]
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240 pages. Hard cover.
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Antarctica
Time of Change
Mireya Masó

ACTAR, Arts Santa Mònica Antarctica is the visible Mireya Masó mostly works in vid-
presence of change. eo and photography, and in recent ENG [978-84-92861-26-2]
Measured time is years she has essentially concerned SPA [978-84-92861-32-3]
herself with the study of human CAT [978-84-92861-31-6]
embodied in a never- Price INT 20€ / UK £18 /
beings through their action on the
ending sequence of landscape. In her project Antarc- DE 21.5€ / USA $26 /
sun and fog, of calm, tica. Time of Change, however, she CH 32.8 CHF
of snowfall and stone engages with a natural landscape 16,5 x 23,5 cm. Color images.
fields exposed by wind, of barely touched by man, and fo- 128 pages. Soft cover.
tides, of the advances and cuses her investigations on the
retreats of ice floes and mechanisms of perception of the
human being in an environment
pack ice on the bay.
in continual transformation.
The conversations between the
artist and scientists from different
disciplines provide the basis for a
discussion in the book which con-
siders questions such as Perception
in the Antarctic environment in
terms of glaciology, biology, psy-
chology, neurology and other dis-
ciplines, and The interpretation of
Antarctic microorganisms from
the perspective of bionanotech-
nology and architecture.
photography
244
Benicàssim. El Festival
ACTAR, Musac
Six prominent photographers:
Carmela García, Cristina Gar-
cía Rodero, Immo Klink, Ángel
Marcos, Álvaro Villarrubia and
Massimo Vitali capture with their
cameras the different beats that
pulse the spectacular annual mu-
sical event.
245
Nice to meet you
Txema Salvans
ACTAR
The FIB or Festival Internacional
de Benicàssim (Benicàssim Inter-
national Festival) is an interna-
tionally renowned music festival
held in Benicàssim (Spain). It fo-
cuses on alternative pop rock and
electronica.
Direct, intimate, and sincere,
these photographs by Txema
Salvans gather “the best things
in life” through the unique per-
spective of his lens. A brief text
by Guillem Martínez introduces
each group, as a loose guide for
each scene, leaving sufficient room
for the spectator to draw his own
conclusions. Though the photog-
rapher does not explicitly appear
in his photographs, his presence is
felt through his subject matter. His
photos capture diverse groups of
people from all over Spain. These
photos of families, friends, and
even strangers, are transformed
into a kind of family portrait.
ENG-SPA
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DE 53€ / USA $72 /
CH 81 CHF
37,7 x 29,9 cm. Color images.
174 pages. Hard cover.
ENG-SPA
[978-84-95951-70-0]
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DE 19.9€ / USA $22.95 /
CH 31 CHF
17 x 24 cm. Duotone.
380 pages. Hard cover.
China
Ángel Marcos
ACTAR, Musac
The publication presents the lat-
est photo project by Ángel Mar-
cos’ (b. Spain 1955) over a trip to
China in January 2007. It is tied to
two of the artist’s most outstand-
ing series: Around the Dream (New
York, 2001) and In Cuba (Havana,
Castilla y León
Un cierto paisaje
ACTAR, Musac
This is a unique book capturing
the gaze of 7 photographers who
interpret reality through the viv-
id landscape of Castilla y León,
where Man coexists with Nature.
The result is a wonderful series of
images which offers a stunning
vision of the landscape of Cas-
tilla y León.
2004-06), and closes a trilogy in
which the artist establishes a con-
versation with the city through
advertising and propaganda, pro-
jecting his personal vision on the
powers that be and the realities of
residents. Exploring both the city
centres and the suburbs of Beijing,
Hong Kong, and Shanghai, the
artist captures the contrast be-
tween past and present, tradition
and modernity through publicity,
architectures and metropolitan
landscapes. A broad-reaching
project that features photogra-
phy and video for a compelling
personal take on today’s China.
Photographs by Gerardo
Custance, Bleda y Rosa,
Álvaro Villarubia, Carmela
García, Javier Ayarza, Xavier
Ribas and Jordi Bernadó.
photography
246
ENG-SPA-FRE
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34,5 x 26,5 cm. 120 color ima-
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247
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37,7 x 29,9 cm. 120 color ima-
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Agustí Centelles Dark is the Room

The concentration camp at Bram, 1939
Where We Sleep
ACTAR, Arts Santa Mònica
Francesc Torres

Images captured by
photojournalist Agustí
Centelles in the concen-
tration camp of Bram,
France.
After the fall of Barcelona in the
final months of the Spanish Civil
War, the photojournalist Agustí
Centelles was interned together
with other refugees in the Bram
concentration camp in France,
where he remained a prisoner
from 1st March to 13th Septem-
ber 1939.
After leaving Barcelona and dur-
ing his stay and subsequent re-
lease from the Bram concentra-
tion camp, Centelles wrote a diary
that has now been published. He
also took about 600 documentary
photographs of life in the camp,
each possessing a stunning ex-
pressive force.
This is a unique and extraordinary
testimony of life in a concentra-
tion camp in 20th-century Eu-
rope. The catalogue gives a selec-
tion of images made by Centelles
in the Bram concentration camp
in 1939, in addition to a series of
extracts from his diary and docu-
mentation about the camp.
ACTAR
Documentary photo-
graphs of a mass grave ex-
cavation from the Span-
ish Civil War.
Francesc Torres (b. Barcelona,
1948) is one of Spain’s most im-
portant conceptual artists and a
pioneer of installation art. In this
book, he documents through pho-
tos a group of Spaniards deter-
mined to rescue a part of their
history which has been seques-
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CH 41 CHF
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128 pages. Hard cover.
tered. His photographs capture
an archaeological project to re-
cover Spain’s national collective
memory through the excavation
of mass graves from the Spanish
Civil War, a project by the Span-
ish Association for the Recovery
of Historical Memory. His work
questions social order and the
relations between political and
economic power. Examining
the machinery of war and violence
in culture and history, Torres as-
sumes the role of philosophical
historian, contemplating the ten-
sions between the implacability
of time, fragility of memory, and
politically loaded spaces.
ENG-SPA
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182 pages. Hard cover.
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David The Other
Goldblatt in Palestine
Fifty-One Years
David Goldblatt
Matei Glass
ACTAR
ACTAR, Museu d’Art
Contemporani de Barcelona In his photographs of
Palestine and its resi-
dents, Matei Glass ex-
plores the role of identity.
Glass’s photographs ref lect on
identities which cannot be mu-
tually exclusive and memory when
it becomes superimposed.
The work of David
Goldblatt, South
Africa’s most important
documentary
photographer.
Goldblatt’s work is uncompromis-
ing in its critical exploration of
South African society. Selected “Shot from the hip and on
photography throughout his ca-
reer, and material published for the fly, the photographs
the first time. become the embodiment
and transmission of at-
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you can breathe them.”
CH 63.9 CHF —Bordercrossing
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456 pages. Hard cover.
ENG-SPA
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CH 40 CHF
17 x 22 cm. Duotone.
145 pages. Soft cover.
252
Chronos
Pere Formiguera
ACTAR, Centre d’Art
Santa Mònica
The Chronos project re-
configures photography
as the living watchman of
the past and present.
32 individuals, ranging in age
from toddler to senior, were pho-
tographed every month over the
course of a decade. The resulting
collection of photographs cover
more than 500 pages of striking
black and white images that form
a fascinating mosaic.
ENG-SPA
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536 pages. Hard cover.
253
Anna
Malagrida
1999-2006
ACTAR
A fascinating compila-
tion of Anna Malagrida’s
photography.
Anna Malagrida’s photographs
prolong the gaze beyond the gaze.
Her transluscent images create
a trail of ref lections to catch a
glimpse of oneself. Melancholy
informs her entire oeuvre. Soli-
tude, the timid gesture, the lost
gaze, revealing forms of light are
re-current stylistic devices. Her
work evokes a state of perma-
nent fragile oscillation: between
the real and the virtual, the natu-
ral and the artificial, the self and
the other.
SPA-ENG-FRE
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128 pages. Soft cover.
254
Ladies and
Gentlemen
Antoni Muntadas
ACTAR
Particular symbols that
are transformed into
gender ones collected by
Antoni Muntadas.
During the last few years Antoni
Muntadas has been photograph-
ing images which depict and iden-
tify public spaces as a means of
access which, given their use and
function, go back to being pri-
vate. Particular symbols that are
transformed into gender ones and
which basically refer to a univer-
sally accepted gender division.
ENG-SPA
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120 pages. Soft cover.
PHOTOGRAPHY
255
Embryonic
Landscapes
Ariel Ruiz i Altaba
ACTAR
Ariel Ruiz i Altaba’s sur-
prising, deeply moving
photography as scientist
and artist.
In an era when the secrets of the
human genome are beginning to
be unraveled, Embryonic Land-
scapes presents images that reveal
morphologies and patterns of gene
expression in embryos of species
that share common developmental
mechanisms with man, making of
this work an introspective explo-
ration of our very essence. Thus,
this book not only represents an
inquiry about our nature but also
about our thought.
ENG [978-84-95273-45-1]
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18,5 x 27 cm. Duotone.
168 pages. Hard cover.
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256
Puddles
Jordi Bernadó
ACTAR
A different view of the
natural swimming-pools
of Tenerife.
This book of photographs tours
the Tenerife coast, focusing on
the “puddles”, the natural seawater
swimming pools that are typical
of the island. At the same time it
serves as a guide to the unusual
and picturesque spots encountered
along that coastline.
ENG-SPA
[978-84-600-9670-2]
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CH 41 CHF
21 x 10,5 cm. Color images.
168 pages. Soft cover.
257
Photography Subject
Crisis of History
ACTAR
An international group
of historians, critics and
photographers challenge
the dominant models or
canon of photography’s
history.
In this book an international
group of specialist historians,
critics and photographers revise
the dominant models on which
our knowledge of the history of
photography has been based and
set out a number of possible al-
ternatives.
With works by Hubertus von
Ameluxen, Joan Fontcuberta,
Daniel Girardin, André
Gunthert, Joan Naranjo, José
Antonio Navarrete, Steen
Wettendorff among many
others.
ENG [978-84-95273-50-5]
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12 x 16 cm. b/w images.
196 pages. Soft cover.
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Actar and Birkhäuser
ACTAR, Musac
face together, under a newly
created publishing group,
the challenges of mutating
from book publishers to
A collective photographic content generators.
project that transforms
the contemporary por-
trait by neutralizing the
composition and gesture
of the subject.
This book of over 40 portraits
share a common denominator:
the presentation of individuality in
the context of the subject’s naked
existence. The works of 24 artists
display a prevalence for photog-
raphy, but also include works of
sculpture, installation and paint-
ing, and together posit a very clear
question: are we capable of look-
ing at the ‘other’ to see our own
nakedness?
Specially bound with a mirror
cover.
ENG-SPA
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design, art, photography
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24 x 33 cm. Color and duotone and more on
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