#libros #arquitectura | Ser(t) arquitecto

Ser(t) arquitecto / Maria del Mar Arnús.
Barcelona : Editorial Anagrama, 2019.
293 p. : il.
Serie: Biblioteca de la memoria ; 41.
ISBN 9788433908124
/ ES / Libros / Arquitectos / Arquitectura – Cataluña / José Luis Sert / José María Sert
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72SERT SER
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1103163665

[.es] Josep Lluís Sert es uno de los grandes arquitectos que ha dado Barcelona al mundo, y su trayectoria personal y profesional estuvo marcada por las convulsiones del siglo XX. Esta biografía al mismo tiempo íntima y profesional, escrita desde una cercanía familiar que ha permitido el acceso a documentos personales, aborda en todos sus aspectos una figura fascinante e imprescindible para entender la arquitectura contemporánea. Cuenta cómo un hijo del conde de Sert, prohijado por su tío el pintor Josep M. Sert, empezó acudiendo a las clases en la universidad en un Rolls con chófer y acabó por desarrollar una conciencia social que plasmó en su arquitectura; su temprano interés por la obra de Gaudí y la exploración de la arquitectura racionalista bajo la influencia de Gropius y la Bauhaus; su participación en la efervescencia cultural de los años de la República y en iniciativas como el GATCPAC (Grupo de Artistas y Técnicos Catalanes para el Progreso de la Arquitectura Contemporánea), la revista AC y el grupo ADLAN (Amics de l´Art Nou); el paso por Barcelona de Le Corbusier invitado por él; su implicación en los sucesivos CIAM (Congreso Internacional de la Arquitectura Moderna)... 

Y tras el estallido de la guerra civil, la construcción del Pabellón de la República y, ya en 1941, el exilio en Nueva York; y después la importantísima labor pedagógica en la Universidad de Harvard; los proyectos internacionales en Latinoamérica y en otras partes del mundo (como la embajada de Estados Unidos en Irak), los proyectos barceloneses como la Fundación Miró y los que no se llegaron a materializar; su amistad con artistas como Miró, Calder, Picasso, Léger, Giacometti, Mondrian, Duchamp, Luis Buñuel o Julio González; la pasión por el Mediterráneo y su especial relación con Ibiza... En definitiva, esta biografía nos ayuda a entender a un arquitecto comprometido con la innovación y la responsabilidad social, una figura fundamental del siglo XX, que mantuvo intensos vínculos con el mundo de la cultura y tuvo una notoria proyección internacional.

#libros #arquitectura | Registros de lo ordinario : Rem Koolhaas, Denise Scott Brown, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto

Registros de lo ordinario : Rem Koolhaas, Denise Scott Brown, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto / [entrevistados por] Enrique Walker.
Barcelona : Puente, 2019.
98 p.
Las entrevistas recogidas en este libro se llevaron a cabo para la instalación de vídeo "The Ordinary" presentada en la sección de Shenzhen de la Bienal de Urbanismo y Arquitectura Bi-City de 2013.
ISBN 9788494969447
/ ES / Libros / Arquitectos / Arquitectura – Filosofía / Denise Scott Brown / Rem Koolhaas / Urbanismo – Teoría / Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.01 ORD
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1123190203

Este libro recoge cuatro conversaciones con Rem Koolhaas, Denise Scott Brown y Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. Desde principios de este siglo, la disciplina de la arquitectura ha centrado vehementemente su atención en documentar la condición urbana contemporánea. Cada ciudad ha sido examinada como un repositorio de conceptos arquitectónicos, interrogada como un manifiesto urbano, registrada como una serie de objetos encontrados. ‘Registros de lo ordinario’ articula una genealogía potencial para esta práctica y para el género de libros que de ella se deriva, y forma parte también del proyecto que Enrique Walker recogió en el libro ‘Lo ordinario’ (Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2010). Organizado en torno a conversaciones con los autores de tres textos fundamentales que documentan la ciudad —Rem Koolhaas con Delirio de Nueva York, Denise Scott Brown con Aprendiendo de Las Vegas y Yoshiharu Tsukamoto con Made in Tokyo—, este volumen rastrea la historia de estos “libros sobre ciudades” al examinar el material que registraron, los hallazgos que establecieron, los argumentos que formularon y los proyectos que promovieron. Estas conversaciones también cuestionan los supuestos subyacentes a esta práctica, y si en su ubicuidad esta aún supone un espacio de oportunidad.

#books #architecture | Discovering new

Discovering new / Akihisa Hirata.
Tokyo : Toto Publishing, 2018.
279 p. : il.
ISBN 9784887063730
/ EN / Libros / Akihisa Hirata / Arquitectos – Japón / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Japón
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72HIRATA DIS
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126996377

[.en] This monograph presents work by Japanese architect Akihisa Hirata and is divided into three parts: Discovering New Form, Discovering New Nature, Discovering New Commitment. According to the architect, new things are an essential part of life. Yet his concept of “new” is not meant as something that is completely unknown, without any connection to the past. Rather, he intends to actualise things that already exist but remain hidden, and in the process discover the essence of living through architecture as a new form of nature, imbued with a previously unseen wildness. The book features a selection of more than 20 concepts, designs, and realised projects, plus texts by Hirata.

#libros #arquitectura | Arquia Temas 42 | Destino Barcelona, 1911-1991 : arquitectos, viajes e intercambios

Destino Barcelona, 1911-1991 : arquitectos, viajes e intercambios / Josep M. Rovira, Enrique Granell y Carolina B. García (ed.) ; textos de José Ramón Alonso Pereira ... [et al.].
Barcelona : Fundación Arquia, [2018]. 359 p. : il.
Serie: Arquia-Temas ; 42.
ISBN 9788469792919
/ ES / Libros / Arquitectos – Cataluña / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Cataluña / Barcelona
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.036(460.23) DES
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1089140006

A lo largo del siglo XX Barcelona fue una plataforma de intercambio de ideas que afectaron al devenir de la historia de la arquitectura. El motivo de la llegada de estas ideas responde a muy diversas índoles. Habrá invitados, viajeros atraídos por la ciudad, curiosos, estudiosos y profesionales. Invitar a un arquitecto a visitar una ciudad puede ser considerado un acto de cortesía. Dicha cortesía espera ser correspondida. Hasta los preparativos de las Olimpiadas de 1992, el resultado entre estos intercambios se traducía en ideas, conferencias, debates, escritos y exposiciones. Entre visitante y ciudad se establecían nexos ineludibles. Así que viajar propiciaba intercambios, aprendizajes y placeres.

Este libro muestra algunas de las visitas que nos hicieron una serie de arquitectos que nos ayudaron a mejorar, a abrir nuestra mirada a otros mundos, y de aquí, en muchos de esos casos, se llevaron también su aprendizaje. El lector atento encontrará en las páginas que siguen algunos de estos ejemplos. Estos raros por diferentes, vinieron a difundir nuevos modos de mirar, pensar, analizar, historiar y criticar la arquitectura. Encontraron sus corresponsales en las aulas de la escuela y en restringidos círculos profesionales, cosa que contribuyó a mejorar tanto la enseñanza de la arquitectura como a elevar el nivel de las revistas que aquí se editaban. La última en percibir dicha cortesía fue la arquitectura: desde la Casa Bloc de Sert y Torres hasta el Tiro con Arco de Miralles/Pinós, el listado es larguísimo.

#libros #arquitectura | Arquia Contextos 16 | Eficiencia y productividad en arquitectura

Eficiencia y productividad en arquitectura / Agnieszka Stepien y Lorenzo Barnó.
Madrid : Catarata ; Barcelona : Fundación Arquia, 2019.
107 p. : il.
Serie: Arquia-Contextos ; 16.
ISBN 9788490976524 / 9788409055678
/ ES / Libros / Arquitectos / Arquitectura - Práctica
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72-05 EFI
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101177713

¿Cómo aprender a ser un arquitecto productivo y eficiente en el día a día? Los profesionales de la arquitectura saben lo difícil que es culminar satisfactoriamente un proyecto por la dedicación que requiere y la diversidad de tareas que implica. La tendencia es asumir más compromisos de los que se pueden realizar, las jornadas de trabajo interminables y a contra reloj para cumplir con los plazos de entrega, la postergación de las tareas menos estimulantes pero ineludibles, las dificultades para priorizar entre lo urgente o lo importante no son problemas ajenos a muchos arquitectos y les afectan tanto a nivel profesional como personal. Por ello, una buena planificación y organización son imprescindibles. Este libro propone distintas metodologías y estrategias de eficiencia y productividad adaptadas al perfil de arquitecto, como el sistema GTD (Getting Things Done) creado por David Allen, la parcelación de tareas o "time blocking", así como diversas herramientas digitales. Una propuesta sugerente y motivadora para mejorar la productividad, rendimiento, creatividad y bienestar de los arquitectos.

Agnieszka Stepien y Lorenzo Barnó, StepienyBarno, inician su actividad profesional en 2003. La llegada de la crisis le ofrece la oportunidad de redefinir su perfil como estudio de arquitectura especializado en identidad digital, ofreciendo a los arquitectos servicios de asesoramiento para mejorar la visibilidad y aumentar las posibilidades laborales a través de cursos y charlas y de la plataforma digital Stepienybarno, blog de referencia en ese ámbito en castellano. En 2014, tras la implantación a su quehacer profesional de la metodología GTD, comienzan a compartir su experiencia y difundir y adecuar los criterios del sistema al perfil de los arquitectos, a fin de que puedan optimizar su tiempo y realizar su labor con más calma y excelencia.

#books #architecture | Architects' houses

Architects' houses / Michael Webb.
London : Thames & Hudson, 2018.
303 p. : il.
ISBN 9780500343401
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectos / Arquitectura doméstica / Casas individuales
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-728.3 ARC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127050782

Thirty of the world's most talented architects, including Norman Foster, Thom Mayne, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, talk about the houses they designed for themselves over the past decade in Architects' Houses. What inspired them, what were the constraints, how did their concepts take shape? Michael Webb explores the creative process and traces the influence of architects' houses over the past two hundred years, from Jefferson's Monticello to the creations of Charles and Ray Eames, Toyo Ito, and Frank Gehry. Texts, sketches, and plans illustrate houses that differ widely, in size, material, character, and location. Spacious or frugal, ambitious or modest, refined or rough edged, daring or reductive, these adventurous dwellings make a statement. This generously illustrated book brims with ideas and inspiration as these architects' houses show different answers to the question: how can a house enrich lives and its natural surroundings?

#books #architecture | Elemental

Elemental / Alejandro Aravena ... [et al.].
London : Phaidon, 2018.
255 p. : il.
ISBN 9780714878034
/ EN / Libros / Alejandro Aravena Mori / Arquitectos – Chile / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Chile /
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72ARAVENA ELE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1087497805

[.en] A spectacular, visually rich monograph on one of the most visionary architecture firms of the twenty-first century led by 2016 Pritzker Prize-winner Alejandro Aravena. Elemental, based in Santiago, Chile, epitomizes a new generation of pioneering, socially engaged architects. The firm specializes in innovative, powerful, and humane public-interest projects, working on both large and small scales across Chile, the United States, Mexico, Switzerland, and China. Featuring stunning images by renowned architectural photographers together with sketches and drawings from Aravena's personal notebooks, this book beautifully, often irreverently, displays Elemental's unique working methods and philosophy. Each project - from iconic structures like the Anacleto Angelini UC Innovation Centre to seaside residences and pioneering reconstruction plans - is accompanied by Aravena's engaging texts, bringing to life his understanding of civil society and the built environment.

#books #architecture | The ordinary : recordings : Rem Koolhaas, Denise Scott Brown, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto

The ordinary : recordings : Rem Koolhaas, Denise Scott Brown, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto / [entrevistas realizadas por] Enrique Walker.
New York : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018.
98 p.
Rem Koolhaas : in conversation with Enrique Walker. Denise Scott Brown : in conversation with Enrique Walker. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto : in conversation with Enrique Walker. Enrique Walker : retroactive manifestoes.
ISBN 9781941332061
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectos / Arquitectura – Filosofía / Rem Koolhaas / Denise Scott Brown / Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.01 ORD
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1083264504

[.en] Since the beginning of the century, the field of architecture has fervently turned its attention to documenting the contemporary urban condition. Every city been has been examined as a repository of architectural concepts, scrutinized as an urban manifesto, and recorded as a series of found objects. The Ordinary articulates a potential genealogy for this practice and for the genre of books derived from it. Organized around conversations with the authors of three seminal texts that document the city-Denise Scott Brown's Learning from Las Vegas (1972), Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York (1978), and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto's Made in Tokyo (2001)-this volume traces the history of these "books on cities" by examining the material they recorded, the findings they established, the arguments they advanced, and the projects they promoted. These conversations also question the assumptions underlying this practice and whether in its ubiquity it still remains a space of opportunity.

#books #architecture | Sticks & stones, steel & glass : one architect's journey

Sticks & stones, steel & glass : one architect's journey / Anthony Poon.
Lakewood, CO : Unbridled Books, 2016.
239 p. : il.
ISBN 9781609531362
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectos / Arquitectura – Práctica
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72-05 STI
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1077286907

[.en] In this personal and revealing book, Anthony Poon takes us on a creative journey that begins with his re-envisioning of a seaside public space as a very young architect. Poon has designed hundreds of buildings across the United States and internationally, from eco-friendly homes to public schools, from intimate retail venues and restaurants to sports arenas, from university housing to retreats and places of worship. Sticks & Stones / Steel & Glass takes us inside a purposive yet open mind always hoping to "design it all," to weave together light and material, culture and commerce, music and design, a good meal and the joy of gathering to share it. In these pages we engage the creative processes of a thoughtful and intense architect whose works--public and private--all strive to enhance his clients' stories and identities. Poon's goal in each commission is to reward those who will enjoy and inhabit the structures he designs. In every building designed by Anthony Poon art is shelter and architecture is a social good.

#books #architecture | Architectural strategies : (marketing, icon, politics, masses, developer, the No. 1)

Architectural strategies : (marketing, icon, politics, masses, developer, the No. 1) / Eduard Sancho Pou ; foreword by Eduard Bru.
Península, Barcelona : 2012.
XV, 185 p., [12] p. de lám. col. / Bibliogr.: p. 175-185.
ISBN 9788499421957
Arquitectos.
Marketing.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72-05 ARC
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1751657~S1*spi

This book studies the strategies used by architects to secure commissions, sell projects and erect buildings. Although their modus operandi might seem to be mere marketing techniques, the economic conditions in each stage of a project that determines the final result cannot be overlooked.
Selling strategies are not taught in school, since it has traditionally been considered that architects cannot market themselves. Nor are they discussed among practicing professionals, since no one is willing to reveal his recipes for success. Therefore, there is no specific bibliography in this area, although architects have always been excellent salesmen for ideas.

California is a place for opportunities where results matter more than theory. Everyone working there uses strategies to secure profits. Most of the architects in the study were born or developed their careers in the area: Gehry (who lives in Santa Monica), Gensler (who lives in San Francisco), Ma (who is dean of USC), Jerde (who works in L.A.), Koolhaas (who created Amo on the basis of a project for the Universal Building in L.A.), Jobs (who founded Apple and worked in Cupertino) and Page and Brin (the founders of Google in Palo Alto).
The inclusion of software architects in the list of building architects may come as a surprise; however the change undergone by architecture justifies it. Nowadays, corporations do not commission buildings to represent them, but rather strategies to improve their brands, efficiency and sales. Offering these is also the work of today’s architects.

Nowadays architects are designing fewer buildings and focusing on designing strategies. Let’s begin to study them. We shall discover how they work and where can they take us. We are certainly going to need them to convince society that we can still be useful.

#books #architecture | Architectural intertextuality : architecture as acceptance of "the other"

Architectural intertextuality : architecture as acceptance of "the other" / Khaled al-Sultany.
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, [Copenhagen] : 2012.
256 p. : il. / Bibliogr.: p. 168-172.
ISBN 9788770980036
Arquitectos -- Dinamarca.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XX -- Oriente Medio.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.038(5-011) ARC
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1752780~S1*spi

The book aims to examine and describe the activities of Danish architects, who have worked in the Middle East countries. The works of Danish architects in Arabic countries are considered as important design works because of their public functions and big scale. They are also highly regarded by reason of aesthetical and cultural values. The book also points out the richness of architectural approaches of Danish architects when they have used elements and features related to Islamic architecture in their own designs in Denmark. The book contains projects by Utzon, Henning Larsen, Arne Jacobsen, Dissing and Weitling, Knuds Holscher and Hans Munk Hansen.

#books #architecture | Words with architects : 12 notes towards the "reconstruction" of the discipline

Words with architects : 12 notes towards the "reconstruction" of the discipline / Carlos Ferrater, Alberto Peñín & Cecília Obiol (eds.).
Palimpsesto, Barcelona : 2015. 
119 p. : il.
ISBN 9788494206825
Arquitectos.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XX.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.038 WOR
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1816826~S1*spi

The interview genre was born with the development of journalism toward the middle of the 19th century. Away from the fugacity of news, this format suits multiple objectives, such as bringing culture to society, getting to know a personality, or sending a specific message. The interviewer does not only carry the message, he also seeks to understand the interviewee, and in an effort to comprehend and learn, he sometimes ends up revealing his true nature by delving into his personality and unveiling his discourse. His primary objectives shall be to create an intimate mood, to connect with the interlocutor’s inner world and get him to tell what he has never told before, to steal his soul. Instead of aiming for the self-complacent essay, the interviewee speak and infuses life into his abstract thoughts. However, the recognition of the interview as a literary genre had many opponents from the beginning. Born from techniques used at court proceedings and halfway between the questionnaire, the profile interview and the conversation, its fidelity, integrity and coherence are not always guaranteed. The necessary transcription into written form, the excessive manipulations, the deceits and distrust have resulted in surprises more than once, as a result from that sort of harmless battle fought in every interview. As a scientific genre it is undoubtedly valuable in terms of dissemination, but its ability to generate knowledge is often questioned.

#books #architecture | Building Berlin : the latest architecture in and out of the capital. Vol. 5

Building Berlin : the latest architecture in and out of the capital. Vol. 5 / [chief editor Louis Back].
Braun, [Berlin] : 2016.
183 p. : il.
ISBN 9783037682050
Arquitectos -- Alemania.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Alemania.
Berlín (Alemania)
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.038(430) BUI/V
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From Berlin via China and Brazil to Spain Berlins architecture is one of the most exciting aspects of its cultural heritage. Many of its buildings are internationally renowned, and year after year local architects design countless new projects in the capital and throughout Germany. Whether new constructions or building redevelopments, interior design, landscape architecture or urban planning, projects related to the German capital stand for sophisticated concepts and high quality. As it does every year ‘Building Berlin’ presents the most important and interesting projects from the past year in Berlin. The presentation of the approximately 70 projects in eight chapters is accompanied by essays on exemplary aspects. Especially noteworthy is the analysis on the protection of buildings from the postwar years The contribution 'XS Living' looks at the different aspects of the current trend to live in the city on limited space and its consequences for residents, developers, designers and urban planners. Further texts deal with contemporary event locations between economic requirements, functional flexibility and the need to create always the desired atmosphere, and the use of expressionist elements in modern architecture.

#books #architecture | Building Berlin : the latest architecture in and out of the capital. Vol. 4

Building Berlin : the latest architecture in and out of the capital. Vol. 4 / [authors Uwe Aulich ... (et al.) ; chief editor Louis Back].
Braun, [Berlin] : 2015.
183 p. : il.
ISBN 9783037681886
Arquitectos -- Alemania.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Alemania.
Berlín (Alemania)
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.038(430) BUI/IV
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1872913~S1*spi

Berlin’s architecture is one of the most exciting aspects of its cultural heritage. Many of its buildings are internationally renowned, and year after year local architects design countless new projects in the capital and throughout Germany. ‘Building Berlin Vol. 4’ presents the most exciting of these: sensitive restorations of listed treasures like the Haus des Rundfunks, awardwinning new builds such as: envihab in Cologne, intelligently designed exhibitions, and open space developments like the IBA Spreehafen project in Hamburg. The book also features essays on current trends and issues in Berlin architecture. It explores the parks and green spaces that have grown up along the site of the Berlin Wall in the twenty-fi ve years since it came down, serving both as places of recreation and memorials to an unhappy past. It shows how the idea of sustainable building has developed an aesthetic all of its own, and how a legendary piece of Germany’s cultural heritage is getting the recognition it deserves as the Bauhaus approaches its centenary in 2019.

#books #architecture | Authenticity : Landing Studio, First Office, Besler & Sons, Mcdowellespinosa, Thom Moran, Endemic

Authenticity : Landing Studio, First Office, Besler & Sons, Mcdowellespinosa, Thom Moran, Endemic / acknowledgements by Bille Tsien ; foreword by Michael Meredith ; introduction by Anne Rieselbach ; [editor Anne Rieselbach].
Architectural League of New York, New York : 2017.
176 p. : il.
Colección: Young Architects ; 17.
ISBN 9780991026364
Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers.
Arquitectos -- Estados Unidos.
Arquitectura -- Premios y recompensas.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Estados Unidos.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.092 *YOU/17
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1871733~S1*spi

The Architectural League Prize is an annual event involving a competition, a series of lectures, an exhibition, and a publication, organized by the Architectural League of New York and its Young Architects and Designers Committee. The 2015 competition theme, 'Authenticity', investigated recent advances in computation, visualization, material intelligence, and fabrication technologies, exploring how these advances have begun to alter the understanding of general design principles as well as the architect's role and practical approach toward architecture and research. Projects by the six winners address new positions of authenticity in architecture through form, design, substance, function, context, and other means that direct and transform their practices. The winners are: Dan Adams and Marie Adams, Landing Studio, Somerville, MA; Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood, First Office, Los Angeles; Erin Besler, Besler & Sons, Los Angeles; Seth McDowell and Rychiee Espinosa, mcdowellespinosa, Scottsville, VA, and Brooklyn; Thom Moran, Ann Arbor, MI; and Clark Thenhaus, Endemic, Ann Arbor, MI.

The Architectural League of New York, founded in 1881, nurtures excellence in architecture, design, and urbanism, and stimulates thinking and debate about the critical design and building issues of our time. As a vital, independent forum for architecture and its allied disciplines, the League helps create a more beautiful, vibrant, innovative, and sustainable future. Michael Meredith is a principal of MOS, an internationally recognized architecture practice based in New York, and an assistant professor at Princeton University School of Architecture. His writing has appeared in Artforum, LOG, Perspecta, Praxis, Domus, and Harvard Design Magazine. Anne Rieselbach, program director of the Architectural League, has directed the Architectural League Prize since 1987. She organizes many of the League's lecture series, competitions, and exhibitions, and she was the editor of the recent League publication 30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance.

#books #architecture | OfficeUS manual

OfficeUS manual / edited by Eva Franch ... [et al.].
Lars Müller, Zurich : 2017.
286 p. : il.
US Pavilion, 14 International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.
ISBN 9783037784396
Arquitectura -- Práctica.
Arquitectos.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72-05 OFF
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1871830~S1*spi

OfficeUS Manual is a critical, occasionally humorous and sometimes stupefying guide to the architectural workplace that documents and interrogates the protocols, policies and procedures of architectural offices. The book is the third publication of the OfficeUS series, which is dealing with the development of US architectural practices all over the world. 

OfficeUS Manual contains historical material from large firms and small studios. Additionally it features contemporary reflections by more than fifty architects, artists and writers concerned with the needs and desires of professional architecture practices today. It analyses the methods and practices of architectural firms looking at the past one hundred years. 

The book with its exceptional use of photography is a resource for understanding – and reimagining – the nature and design of an architectural practice. It features original graphic analysis and images from The Architects by Amie Siegel. Part of the series OfficeUS are OfficeUS Agenda – documenting the work of US architectural offices and their global influence over the past one hundred years – and OfficeUS Atlas, a register and press archive of US architectural production abroad.