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Global Topologies: Converging Territories

Edited by Mario Gooden

At the geographical center of globalization in the Middle East is Amman, Jordan. As Amman reemerges, the tensions within territories of this cultural landscape converge. As the making of architecture is a conscious act of constructing an individual, social, or political identity, two queries formed the foundation for a fall 2009 advanced architectural design studio: How does architec-ture as an active process within these converging territories engage the production of meaning? As a process where meaning is continually in production, how does architecture engage history, preservation, and the future of key urban artifacts?

Fall 2012GSAPP Print-on-DemandDesigned by Mario Gooden171 pages, paperbackISBN: 978-1-883584-72-640 USD

Ludwig Hilberseimer: Metropolisarchitecture

Edited by Richard Anderson, Afterword by Pier Vittorio Aureli

In the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885–1967) redefined architecture’s relationship to the city. His proposal for a high-rise city, where leisure, labor and circulation would be vertically integrated, both frightened his contemporaries and offered a trenchant critique of the dynamics of the capitalist metropo-lis. Hilberseimer’s Groszstadtarchitektur is presented here for the first time in English translation. The propositions assembled here encourage us to reconsider mobility, concentra-tion and the scale of architectural intervention in our own era of urban expansion. This is the second title in the GSAPP Sourcebooks series.

Fall 2012GSAPP Books + Artbook/DAPDesigned by Geoff Han366 pages, paperbackISBN: 978-1-883584-75-720 USD

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Environments + Counter Environments: Experimental Media in The New Domestic Landscape

Authors: Craig Buckley, Peter Lang, Luca Molinari, and Mark Wasiuta

Edited by Craig Buckley and Mark Wasiuta

Environments + Counter Environments: Experimental Media in The New Domestic Landscape retrieves archival material related to the famously lost media projects associated with the 1972 exhibition Italy: The New Domestic Landscape at the Museum of Modern Art. The book compiles the original films and videos from the exhibition, materials related to the exhibi-tion’s Implicor Computer system, as well as intensive documentation of the temporary environments conceived for the exhibition.

Spring 2013GSAPP + ACTARDesigned by ACTARISBN: 978-1-883584-85-6

Re-Cultivating The Garden City Of Kumasi

Edited by Clara Goitia, Johannes Pointl, Richard Plunz, Geeta Mehta, Susan Blaustein

Tackling the challenges of Ghana’s second largest city on different scales, seven urban design projects suggest bottom-up approaches for incremental growth, in contrast to current development practice which evokes the Garden City without touching ecological and social infrastructure. The project’s area of impact spans from small-scale interventions like reestablishing crop plants for a greener and healthier city to large-scale proposals that reclaim currently abandoned railway infrastructure. With articles by Abenaa Akuamoa-Boateng, Prince A. Anokye, Viviana d’Auria and Jeffrey Sachs.

Fall 2012GSAPP Urban Design Program + Urban Design Lab at the Earth InstituteISBN: 978-0-9822174-3-656 USD

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Collecting Architecture Territories

Edited by Craig Buckley and Mark Wasiuta with Momo Araki, Adam Bandler, Jordan Carver, Jared Diganci, Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Jess Ngan, Marina Otero-Verzier, and Troy Therrien

Collecting Architecture Territories samples and presents a research exhibition developed by GSAPP that emerged from a collaboration with the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art. The exhibition examined the relationship between architecture and collection, considering architec-ture both as an agent that organizes, supports, and informs various contemporary collecting practices, and as an object of collection in its own right.

Spring 2013GSAPP + DESTE + Artbook/DAPDesigned by MTWTFISBN: 978-1-883584-78-8

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Giulio Carlo Argan: The Crisis of Values

Edited by Cesare Birignani

Giulio Carlo Argan (1909–1992) played a major role in Italy’s cultural life throughout six decades—from his scholarly work and cultural criticism, to his direction of academic and state institutions, to his influence in the political arena. The paucity of English translations of Argan’s writings has long obscured this influential body of work. The selected essays all grapple with the ideological ambiguities of the modern project and its relationship to the cultural and political crises of the twentieth century, ranging from the Futurist visions of Antonio Sant’Elia to the work of Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus, to Expressionism, Abstraction, and Pop art.

Spring 2013GSAPP + Artbook/DAPDesigned by Geoff Han300 pages approx., paperbackISBN: 978-1-883584-76-4

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After the Manifesto

Edited by Craig Buckley

Does the recent resurgence of the manifesto signal a new urgency of the form or does it repre-sent a hopeless effort to resuscitate something that has outlived its useful lifespan? After the Manifesto brings together a range of architects and scholars to revisit the past, present, and future of the mani-festo, to consider how they have transformed the discipline over the last fifty years, and in turn how manifestos have been transformed by changing technical and political concerns. With contribu-tions by Ruben Alcolea, Craig Buckley, Beatriz Colomina, Carlos Labarta, Felicity D. Scott, Bernard Tschumi, Anthony Vidler, Enrique Walker, and Mark Wigley.

Spring 2013GSAPP + Artbook/DAPISBN: 978-1-883584-87-0

Hermitage, 2014 (Paul S. Byard Memorial Lecture)

Author, Rem KoolhaasEdited by Jeannie Kim

This lecture series at GSAPP celebrates our dear colleague Paul Spencer Byard (1939–2008), who embraced the idea that preservation itself is always a forward-thinking gesture, simulta-neously responsible and adventurous. In this inaugural volume, Rem Koolhaas gives context to his recent engagement with questions of preservation and, also, suggests a few personal strategies (of, it could be said, self-preservation) to avoid the pitfalls of eponymous celebrity in design. With contributions by Mark Wigley and Jorge Otero-Pailos.

Spring 2013GSAPP + Artbook/DAPDesigned by Bruce Mau112 pages, paperbackISBN: 978-1-883584-74-0

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Promiscuous Encounters

Edited by Francisco Díaz, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik, Marcelo López-Dinardi and Marina Otero Verzier

Promiscuous Encounters—a daylong event held at GSAPP—examined the interplay between the critical, curatorial, and conceptual capacities of architecture by asking theorists, architects, scholars, and curators to discuss their practice. No audio-visual recordings were made of the discussion among Keller Easterling, Andrés Jaque, Reinhold Martin, Mitch McEwen, Markus Miessen, Felicity D. Scott, Pelin Tan, Rodrigo Tisi and Mark Wasiuta. The publication is the sole vehicle for documenting the encounter, and the site where the interpretations of participants and audience are made public.

Fall 2013GSAPPISBN: 978-1-883584-87-0

The China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanisms

Edited by Cressica Brazier, Jeffrey Johnson, Tat Lam

The China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanisms comprehensively explores the phenomenon of the Megablock in China. Typically considered as an exponent of the Modernist housing super-block, the Megablock has been expanded and mutated through Chinese demands for hyper-density as well as government policies of gated-community organization.

Spring 2013GSAPP + ACTARDesigned by 2x4ISBN: 978-1-883584-86-3

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Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering

Edited by Michael Bell and Craig Buckley

While plastics are perhaps the most deeply engineered building materials today, we are still in the nascent stages of understanding their potential applications and uses. Permanent Change sheds new light on these materials and their implications for the fields of architecture and engineering. Materials that once forecast easily molded shapes have become a permanent measure and control point in design. Permanent Change is the fourth in the series Columbia Books on Materials and Architecture.

FALL 2013 GSAPP + Princeton Architectural PressDesigned by Jan Haux300 pages, approx., hardcoverISBN 978-1-61689-166-465 USD

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Dan Graham’s New Jersey

Edited by Craig Buckley and Mark Wasiuta

Dan Graham’s New Jersey presents new photographs by Dan Graham—taken in the context of a study trip with the architecture faculty of Columbia University—together with the original photographs from the Homes for America series. The new images exhibit stark similarities to the older ones, taken in the same suburban locations that Graham photographed in the 1960s. The juxtaposition creates a fascinating play of repetitions and differences that raise questions regarding the future of architecture, suburbia, and public space. With contributions by Mark Wasiuta and Mark Wigley.

GSAPP + Lars Müller PublishersDesigned by Integral Lars Müller192 pages, hardcoverISBN 978-3-03778-259-065 USD

Five North American Architects: An Anthology by Kenneth Frampton

On the occasion of Kenneth Frampton’s eightieth birthday, five distinguished practices based in North America came to GSAPP to discuss their work and its ongoing dialogue with Frampton’s thinking: Steven Holl Architects (New York), Rick Joy (Tucson), Patkau Architects (Vancouver), Stanley Saitowitz (San Francisco), and Shim + Sutcliffe Architects (Toronto). Essays by Frampton, as well as each of the invited practitioners, reconsider the specificity of the work within the larger North American context, taking stock of the practice of architecture on the continent today.

GSAPP + Lars Müller Publishers Designed by Integral Lars Müller136 pages, paperback ISBN: 978-3-03778-256-945 USD

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Abstract 2010–2011

Editor: Scott MarbleAssistant Editors: Jordan Carver and Jason RobertsPhotographers: Rachel Hillery and Lindsay Kunz

Abstract is the yearly publication of student work from Columbia University’s GSAPP. The catalog is produced through the office of Dean Mark Wigley. The archive of student work, containing documentation of projects selected by faculty at the conclusion of each semester, is utilized in the making of Abstract.

GSAPPDesigned by Sagmeister Inc.752 pages, paperbackISBN: 978-1-883584-73-325 USD

Post-Ductility: Metals in Architecture and Engineering

Edited by Michael Bell and Craig Buckley

Metals–as surface, structure, or generators of space–play a role in nearly every strain of modernization in architecture. They define complete geographies of work, production, and political life. Non-architectural metals delivered in automobiles and hard goods in the United States and worldwide have been sourced as the engines of the sprawling late twentieth-century city. In Post-Ductility, an interdisciplinary group of architects, historians, theorists, and engineers collectively explore (and test) the past, present, and future possibilities of this quintessential building material. Post-Ductility is the third in the series Columbia Books on Materials and Architecture.

GSAPP + Princeton Architectural PressDesigned by Jan Haux272 pages, hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61689-046-9 65 USD

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Volume 31: Guilty Landscapes

Edited by Arjen Oosterman, Liam Young, and Kate Davies

Guilt has been effectively used to control and manipulate the masses. But it can also be the start of a change for the better: awareness, concern, action. Engagement and guilt are never far apart. Engagement is sublimated guilt. We can build on guilt, but can we build with guilt? Is guilt a material to design with? The content for this issue was developed in collaboration with Unknown Fields Division.

Archis + AMO + GSAPP C-LabArchis Publishers, 2012Designed by Irma Boom and Sonja Haller160 pagesISBN: 978-90-77966-31025 USD

Volume 32: Centers Adrift

Edited by Arjen Oosterman

Centers are on the move—and so too periph- eries. As the world grows more complex, different systems are claiming different territories. Distri- bution networks, financial hubs, industrial zones, food belts, wind farms, data centers, they all develop their own logic and territorial claim, not necessarily overlapping in what was once called the center. And our traditionally conceived centers (downtown, the Western world, global cities) are slipping away. When assessing these claims, the question is forced: Are you in or are you out?

Archis + AMO + GSAPP C-LabArchis Publishers, 2012Designed by Irma Boom and Sonja Haller160 pages, with an insert on the New Order CatalogueISBN: 978-90-779966-32725 USD

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GSAPP, 201190 pages 160 mm x 230 mm ISSN: 2156-49068 USD

CC: A Global Report from Columbia University GSAPP

Edited by Jeannie Kim

CC: offers a real-time monitor of the wider GSAPP: the expand-ed school that reaches from the deepest recesses of Avery Hall to the most energetic forms of practice and discourse in the furthest corners of the planet.

GSAPP, 2011Designed by 2x468 pages, paperback230 mm x 300 mmGRATIS

Architects’ Journeys: Building, Traveling, Thinking

Edited by Craig Buckley and Pollyanna Rhee

The revolution in modes of travel during the twentieth century has transformed not

Volume 30: Privatize!

Edited by Arjen Oosterman What used to be collective care is rapidly becoming private responsibility. At least in the West. Is privatization the one fits all solution to every (financial) problem? Can addressing collective needs be thought of as the sum total of numerous private initiatives? And will the ‘retreat’ of government and state be compensated by other ways to organize the complex organism called society?

160 pages, with an insert on Trust Design, #4: Public Private ISBN: 978-9-077966-30-3 25 USD

The Expendable Reader: Articles on Art, Architecture, Design, and Media, 1951-1979

Author John McHale Edited by Alex KitnickAfterword by Mark WigleySeries editor, Craig Buckley

From the Bauhaus to Buckminster Fuller, and from

Elvis to ecology, the writings of John McHale (1922–1978) engage a diverse set of concerns. The Expendable Reader highlights McHale’s theorization of technology and communication and their impact on traditional ideas of culture. Assembled from a broad range of sources, the book enables a sharper grasp on McHale’s thinking and on our own cultural situation.

GSAPP Books, 2011Designed by Geoff Han296 pages, paperback117 x 180 mmISBN: 978-1-883584-70-220 USD

Potlatch 2: A Journal of the Potlatch Lab, GSAPP

Directed by Yehuda E. Safran, Edited by Cristobal Amunategui

When it comes to the occupant of a given building there exists, of course, an infinite variety of customers. Certain buildings render most evidently the type of customer one can be. Including texts by: Yehuda Emmanuel Safran, Daniel Sherer, Manuel Corrada, Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos, Richard Hamilton, KUU, Cecilia Brunson, Gerardo Pulido, and Jaye Rhee.

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only the way we move through the world, but how we perceive it. Architects’ Journeys brings together contemporary architects, historians and theorists to consider the role that travel has played in the evolution of architectural practice during the last century. Including texts by: Rubén A. Alcolea, Beatriz Colomina, Kenneth Frampton, Héctor García-Diego, Karin Jaschke, Carlos Labarta, José Angel Medina, Juan Miguel Otxo-torena, Spyros Papapetros, José Manuel Pozo, Jorge Tárrago and Mark Wigley.

GSAPP Books + T6) Ediciones, 2011Designed by Project Projects 256 pages, paperback133 x 203 mm ISBN: 978-1-883584-66-525 USD

Erieta Attali: In Extremis: Landscape into Architecture

A cartography of contemporary global architecture, focusing upon the close relationship between different building types and the landscapes in which they are situated, illuminating the resonances and contrasts, continuities and discontinuities between new work and the natural or urban environment. With contributions

from Alessio Assonitis, Kenneth Frampton, Juhani Palaasma, Dimitri Philippidis, Jeannette Plaut, Jilly Traganou.

GSAPP + DAP 2011Designed by HvA Design 160 pages, clothbound 32 cm x 24 cm ISBN: 978-1-883584-66-5 40 USD

Volume 29: The Urban Conspiracy

Edited by Jeffrey Inaba and C-Lab

The term ‘senior moment’ typically refers to an age-relat-ed lapse in memory, logical thinking, or sense of orienta-tion. But appearing at a loss is merely a common trick to conceal actions that are part of a highly coordinated effort. Driven by deep-seated memories and using long-term spatial planning, the elderly have been conspiring to realize a surprising plan.

Archis Publishers, 2011Designed by Irma Boom and Sonja Haller160 pages265 x 203 mmISBN: 978-90-77966-29-725 USD

Volume 28: The Internet of Things

Edited by Arjen Oosterman

When things start talking back, you’ve become part of an Internet of Things. Auto-sensoring, basic intelligence, interaction, we’re increasingly part of a world where things and living souls are equally connected. The fridge is a node just as you are.

Archis + AMO + GSAPP C-LabArchis Publishers, 2011Designed by Irma Boom and Sonja Haller176 pages, with an insert on Trust Design#2 and Tracing Concepts265 x 203 mm ISBN: 978-90-77966-8025 USD

Volume 27: Aging

Edited by Arjen Oosterman

With the Western world heading towards a life

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expectancy of 100 years, the question is: with the realm of architectural invention ready for the taking, are you ready to face getting old? This issue explores these ideas through current architectural typologies and institutional approaches over vast territory: from the nuclear industry that builds until One Billon AD to the top-down and bottom-up growth of New York, Tehran, Berlin and Newcastle.

Archis + AMO + GSAPP C-LabArchis Publishers, 2011Designed by Irma Boom and Sonja Haller184 pages 265 x 203 mm ISBN: 978-907796627325 USD

Volume 26: The Architecture of Peace

Edited by Arjen Oosterman

How do we materialize peace? On the level of fundamental and basic needs, global society more or less knows what is wrong, and what to do about it. There is a wealth of knowledge and experience in relief and first aid organizations, as there is with architects. We’re ready to intervene in conflict areas, to fight for peace, but what are we to do next? Experts seem

agreed on strategies, but are the architects and politicians ready for the long-haul?

Archis + AMO + GSAPP C-Lab Archis Publishers, 2011Designed by Irma Boom and Sonja Haller 160 pages, paperback265 x 203 mm ISBN: 978-907796626625 USD

The Studio-X New York Guide to Liberating New Forms of Conversation

Edited by Gavin BrowningAfterword by Mark Wigley

Studio-X New York is one node of a global network that includes like-minded event and work spaces in Beijing, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro. In 2011, the publication was selected for an AIGA award for outstanding design of printed matter.

GSAPP + DAP, 2011Designed by MTWTF192 pages, paperback210mm x 140mmISBN: 978-1-883584-65-815 USD

Volume 25: Getting There, Being There

Edited by Arjen Oosterman

An issue completely dedicat- ed to the Moon. What are the implications for the design practice of going there, for the idea of what is indeed human, or for what is essential to sustain life? And on the nearside, how does this affect our daily lives right here?

Archis + AMO + GSAPP C-Lab, 2010Designed by Irma Boom and Sonja Haller 184 pages , paperback265mm x 203 mmISSN: 978-90-77966-25-925 USD

Volume 24: Counterculture

Edited by Jeffrey Inaba + C-Lab

An issue examining the popularized characteristics of the 1960s that have shaped our current beliefs about

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technology, the environment, and community.

Archis + AMO + GSAPP C-Lab, 2010Designed by Irma Boom and Sonja Haller160 pages, paperback265mm x 200mm ISSN: 978-90-77966-24-225 USD

Volume 23: Al Manakh Cont’d

Edited by Todd Reisz + Rem Koolhaas

“Dubai is a prototype that will never be repeated. Its mad-ness, even in retrospect, has the profoundly sympathetic quality of a test with an uncertain outcome.”—Rem Koolhaas

Archis + AMO + GSAPP C-Lab, 2010536 pages, paperback235mm x 170 mmISBN: 978-90-77966-23-540 USD

Engineered Transparency: The Technical, Visual, and Spatial Effects of Glass

Edited by Michael Bell + Jeannie Kim

Architects, historians, engineers, and scientists redefine glass as a 21st century building material and challenge our assumptions about its aesthetic, structural, and spatial potential.

GSAPP + Princeton Architectural Press, 2009272 pages, hardcover285mm x 220mmISBN: 978-1-56898-798-965 USD

Emerging Urban Futures in Land Water Infrastructure: South East Queensland

Edited by Mojdeh Baratloo + Kathi Holt-Damant

A document of the partnership between Columbia University Graduate School of

Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and the Faculty of the Built Environment and Engineering, Queensland University of Technology.

GSAPP, 2009143 pages, paperback330mm x 245mmISBN: 978-1-883584-57-330 USD

Spain on Spain: Debates on Contemporary Architecture

Edited by Jorge Otero-Pailos

This illuminating book contains a series of debates between Spain’s most celebrated architects, and their critical reflections on the nature of contemporary architectural design.

GSAPP + Editorial Rueda, 2009158 pages, paperback190mm x 150mmISBN: 978-84-7207-193-315 USD

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Mumbai Dharavi: Scenarios For Development

Edited by Michael Conard + Geeta Mehta + Kate Orff + Marielly Casanova

The Urban Design Studio began work in Mumbai with an intense period of field briefings in early January 2009. All the work produced by the students is being made accessible to the people of Dharavi via this document, local presentations, and an interactive website.”

GSAPP, 2009117 pages, paperback280mm x 210mmISBN: 978-1-883584-59-740 USD

Building on Templo Mayor: Design with Historic Architecture

Edited by James Wei Ke

This full-color volume features the work of the joint studio conducted between the Historic

Preservation and Architecture programs at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.

GSAPP, 200896 pages, paperback230mm x 190mmISBN: 978-1-883584-54-215 USD

Constructive Practices: Between Economy and Desire

Edited by Kathryn Dean

This richly illustrated volume features the non-linear process taught by Kathryn Dean at the Graduate School of Architect-ure, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.

GSAPP, 2008156 pages, paperback240mm x 195mmISBN: 978-1-883584-53-5

Ant Farm: Allegorical Time Warp: The Media Fallout of July 21, 1969

Author, Felicity D. Scott

A detailed and extensively illustrated reconsideration of the early trajectory of the Ant Farm collective, including its architecture, inflatables, performance, multimedia, and video work.

GSAPP + ACTAR + Berkeley Art Museum, 2008318 pages, paperback210mm x 165mmISBN: 978-84-96954-24-340 USD

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Craig BuckleyDirector Office of Print PublicationGraduate School of Architecture, Planning, and PreservationColumbia University409 Avery Hall1172 Amsterdam AvenueNew York, NY 100271-212-851-5895 cb2718@columbia.edu

The books and magazines published through the Office of Publications at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) are enduring records of the school’s intellectual life. They reflect the diverse strata of the school, ranging from long-term research projects to conferences, exhibitions, labs, and studios. In thinking about architecture and the city, they reach out to draw on the knowledge of architects, planners, engineers, computer scientists, artists, politicians, data visualization specia- lists, scholars, theorists, and curators, among others. Yet even in their diversity, the school’s publications capture only a small fraction of what occurs at GSAPP. The Office of Publications’ commitment to print also includes broaden- ing its notion of publication, developing the website as a platform and hub capable of responding to the different speeds and formats of contemporary publishing, distributing, and reading, ranging from printed books, pamphlets, and posters, to PDF, print-on-demand, and blogging formats.

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