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2 Cedric Price Works A Forward-Minded Retrospective Edited by Samantha Hardingham Published in conjunction with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), this anthology brings together for the first time all of the projects, articles and talks by British architect Cedric Price ( ). A chronological arrangement places Price in postwar England, illuminating how cultural, social and political factors conditioned his work from the outset and then shaped its development as his practice changed from the 1960s 90s. Full project descriptions are set alongside illustrations, many previously unpublished. Content material is drawn from the original work, now largely held in the Cedric Price Fonds at the CCA to present the munificence of Price: thinker, philosopher, artist and unparalleled raconteur Autumn 2016 Two vols (912 pp and 528 pp) Extensive col & b / w ills mm, hardback & paperback in slipcase

3 In Progress: The IID Summer Sessions Memo for Nemo Edited by Irene Sunwoo Co-published with the Graham Foundation William Firebrace The International Institute of Design (IID) was an independent school of architecture founded and directed by AA chairman Alvin Boyarsky from In Progress details this short-lived experiment and reveals how three informal architectural gatherings, held over three summers, helped to establish a new model for architectural education. February pp, extensive col & b / w ills mm, paperback Memo for Nemo is an account of the human inhabitation of the undersea, in fact and fiction. It takes as its starting point Jules Verne s novel Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, with the Nautilus submarine and its captain Nemo inventor, explorer, oceanologist, gastronome and terrorist. An analysis of this undersea is paralleled by a fictitious history of films such as The Abyss, The Life Aquatic and other hallucinogenic delights. June pp, b / w ills mm, paperback AA Files 73 AA Files 72 AA Files 73 features essays on Luigi Moretti, by Fabrizio Ballabio and Alessandro Conti, on the oddness of William Butterfield, by Nicholas Olsberg, on Palladio s battle formations, by Gabriela García de Cortázar, on the mathematics of Shinohara s houses, by Hans Frei, a conversation with Alberto Ponis, and multiple oral histories on the life and work of Patrick Hodgkinson. AA Files 72 features essays by Irénée Scalbert on the nature of gothic, Davide Spina on Casa Malaparte, Mario Tedeschini-Lalli on Saul Steinberg s years in Italy, Emma Letizia Jones on Schinkel s panoramas, Nicolas Kemper on Isaiah Berlin s architectural responsibilities and a conversation with the Russian paper architect Alexander Brodsky. December pp, col & b / w ills mm June pp, col & b / w ills mm AA Agendas: Rituals and Walls The Architecture of Sacred Space Tales from the Dark Side of the City Box Set Edited by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Shéhérazade Giudici Unknown Fields This book is the result of a year-long investigation of sacred space developed within the AA s Diploma Unit 14. It consists of design proposals that range from a multifaith school in Strasbourg to the reconstruction of a festival hall in the city of Xian, China; from a Jesuit monastery in Detroit to a women s Islamic centre in Paris. This six-book set presents the work and travels of the AA s Unknown Fields, a nomadic design studio that ventures into the shadows cast by the contemporary city to uncover the industrial ecologies and precarious wilderness its technologies and cultures set in motion. The series forms an atlas to the territories and stories of a global city that sits between fact and fiction. 272 pp, extensive col & b / w ills mm, paperback Six-book set, 64 pp each, col & b / w ills mm, hardback in a slipcase

4 Tales from the Dark Side of the City, individual titles The Breastmilk of the Volcano Never Never Lands A World Adrift Treasured Island Snowing in the Supercomputer High Strange Bedford Press Fieldwork, The Complete Reader Ryan Gander Fieldwork serves as a reader to the on-going and ever-evolving practice of the artist Ryan Gander. 464 pp, col ills mm, paperback The Construction of an Image: Bas Princen Edited by Vanessa Norwood 7 per individual title In The Construction of an Image, Dutch photographer Bas Princen takes a single image Ringroad, Houston to deconstruct and discuss. By studying one photograph, time is given over to process, allowing insight into both the mind of the photographer and the trajectory of a project. November pp, col ills mm, paperback AA Book 2017 AA Book 2017 offers an overview of the AA s 2016 / 17 academic year and features hundreds of drawings, models, installations, photographs and other materials documenting the world s most international and experimental school of architecture. June AA Files 74 AA Files 74 features essays on Theo Crosby, Francesco Borromini, Albert Kahn, Gordon Matta-Clark, the concrete office buildings of Mies van der Rohe, the nineteenthcentury toilets of Berlin, a Roman drive-in cinema, a vast Chilean swimming pool and a conversation with Kate Macintosh. June pp, col & b / w ills mm Breaking the Mould: AA Women in Architecture Edited by Lynne Walker and Elizabeth Darling October 2017 marks the centenary of the admission of the first female students to the Architectural Association. Published to coincide with a symposium, exhibition and series of talks all celebrating this event, Breaking the Mould puts forward the stories of women who have entered the architectural profession and their contributions to architectural practice and education. October c 40 AA Agendas: Scavengers and Other Creatures in Promised Lands Ricardo de Ostos and Nannette Jackowski The latest AA Agendas title is the culmination of eight years of research in Intermediate Unit 3. Led by Ricardo de Ostos and Nannette Jackowski, the unit and the book argue for an alternative reading of environment in which the brutal and lyrical are juxtaposed through visually compelling narrative architectural explorations. October pp, extensive col & b / w ills Paperback c 30 Architecture Words 10: Second-Best Utopia Anthony Vidler This latest instalment of the Architecture Words series presents not so much a descriptive history of utopia, but a series of questions that have emerged throughout history when utopian thought, as derived from literary and philosophical genres, has been adopted by architects and urban designers mm, paperback Architecture Words 14: The Hero of Doubt Ernesto Nathan Rogers Translated by Steve Piccolo, edited by Roberta Marcaccio with Shumi Bose Ernesto Nathan Rogers ( ) can be credited with expanding the appreciation of modern architecture within the Italian context and beyond. Yet he is relatively unrecognised in the historiography of twentiethcentury architecture. Most of the texts selected for this volume have been translated into English for the first time mm, paperback Architecture Words 9 12 Boxed Set Contains Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt, by Mark Rakatansky; Stones Against Diamonds, by Lina Bo Bardi; Second-Best Utopia, by Tony Vidler; and The House of Light and Entropy, by Alessandra Ponte Hardback OM Ungers TU Berlin Lectures Translated by Pamela Johnston and with an introduction by Sam Jacoby c 25

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