Kute Funter

Aillagon, Jean-Jacques
Designs in the Fonds National D’Art Contemporain have been composed into this book. Cataloguing some of the 3, 500 pieces they have received since 1981, thus putting there department squarely at the forefront of contemporary European collections in this field. Fonds National D’Art Contemporain France 2003. PB 240pp $A 107.25

Ten “house” projects from Korea are presented in this publication, illustrating the changing idea of a residence in the current era where the home does not solely revolve around the family. Works by Korean architects featured include a gallery, a publishing office and a museum amongst various studios and houses all of which adopt the fundamental definitions of a house. Each project is illustrated in detail with photographs, architects’ essays and drawings. Space 2006 Korea 309pp HB
You'll be amazed by what's happened since "10x10_2". Green architecture has gone from novelty to necessity, walls have gone from necessary to optional, hula hoops have become a building material. Local is the new international. Architecture is the new art. The 100 architects featured in this volume, the latest in our successful "10x10" series, are pushing the boundaries of design and redefining the very meaning of architecture: a building sliced in half in order to design the space in between; a one-ton floating object of seeming weightlessness; a high-end shop in downtown Seoul covered entirely in vegetation; and, a skyscraper that seems to disappear on sunny days. This is architecture as you've never seen it before. "10x10_3" is a comprehensive and global view of new architecture, presenting the work of 100 up-and-coming architects from around the world, selected by 10 of the best-informed critics, curators, and architects.
A new architectural journal developed as an instrument for critical and theoretical exchange, 32 posits architectural and spatial ideas against a political, economical, cultural, and technological backdrop. Using illustrative and literary elements, a multiplicity of interaction and inherent unexpectedness entices alternative thinking, broader discourse, and deeper research. The journal evolves from the collaboration of its editorial group: Michael Bell, Yung Ho Chang, Steven Holl, Li Hu, Andrew Mc Nair and Yehuda Safran. 32 is published three times a year in English and Chinese. In addition to contributors from the editorial group, this issue also contains writing by Kenneth Frampton and Mark C.

Compiled by Roger Connah.40/40 is a contemporary mapping of new architecture, the 'hip', 'hop' and 'house' of young Finnish architects and painters.' Hip' might be cool, 'hop' might be a transition, and 'house' might be the destination of architecture which must envelope us in the future. And besides musical nuances, 'house' is the destination for architecture often, at present, only partially defined. A place like infinity where things happen that don't. Deepening what Finnish architects achieved in the last century, can young architects turn their own influence and passion for new ideas and other disciplines into deeper, imaginative architecture?

Another book to bring us the very best of young architect's, but with so much more. As with all Skira publications, it's crisp format, beautiful paper and flawless editing make it a pleasure to read. Refreshing and clever, the projects herald a new era in architecture and it is here we can discover who the leaders of this movement are. collected from around the globe the book includes familiar names such as Greg Lynn and Shuhei Endo as well as Australia's own Kerstin Thompson and FIELD Consultants. Selected as entrants for the International 'Borromini Prize for Architecture, these young architect's are certainly inspiring and worthy of being published at such a young age. Skira, Italy, 2

Peter Swinnen, Johan Anrys, & Freek Persyn call themselves 51N4E, a name that refers to the geographic coordinates of their place of business, located in Brussels, Belgium. The somewhat immodest subtitle that underscores their cryptic collective moniker--Space Producers--has been justified by their transformations of dwelling spaces, their recent renovation of the Groeninge Museum in Bruges, & their most important commission to date, the conversion of an old brewery in Mechelen into a cultural centre. One of the most talented & promising architecture bureaus in northern Europe, their collective has recently been awarded the prestigious Maaskant Prize for young architects, the most important prize in the Netherlands.


A collection of the 17 different finalists from the Spanish Architecture Biennial, including the Enric Miralles Prize. The book has been beautifully composed. Photographs, and drawings present the vast array of projects and is the main source of information provided for these works. Including Architectural and Landscape projects from a theatre to a new concept of cemetery. These award-winning projects are the “new” language of Spain, and remarkably seen by the fact that all the finalists were under the age of 45 . . . an interesting look at what Spanish Architecture may be becoming.