As part of Architecture Books / Yet to be Written / 1982-2017-2052, the launching conference of the New York Architecture Book FairStorefront presents BOOKS-NOW, a selection of signed architecture books published over the past year. At the conference, they will be accompanied by rare and out-of-print editions written by conference participants. Books will be on sale at a special discounted rate.

 

Book selections include:

 

BOOKS-NOW*:

 

Aaron Betsky, Making it Modern – the History of Modernism in Architecture and Design, 2016

 

Alexander Vasudevan, The Autonomous City – A History of Urban Squatting, 2017

 

Allan Wexler, Absurd Thinking Between Art and Design, 2017       

 

André Tavares, The Anatomy of the Architectural Book, 2016

 

Andrés Jaque, Transmaterial, 2017

 

Angelika Fitz and Katharina Ritter (eds.), Assemble: How We Build, 2017

 

Barbara Hoidn (ed.), Demo:Polis – The Right To Public Space, 2016

 

Benoît Jallon, Umberto Napolitano and Franck Boutté (eds.), Paris Haussmann – A Model’s Relevance, 2017

 

Ciro Najle, The Generic Sublime – Organizational Models for Global Architecture, 2016

 

Daan Roggeveen, Progress & Prosperity – The Chinese City as Global Urban Model, 2017

 

David Chambers and Kevin Haley (eds.), Wherever You Find People – The Radical Schools of Oscar Niemeyer, Darcy Ribeiro and Leonel Brizola, 2016

 

David Gamble and Patty Heyda, Rebuilding The American City: Design and Strategy for The 21st Century Urban Core, 2016

 

Deane Simpson, Vibeke Jensen and Anders Rubing (eds.), The City Between Freedom and Security – Contested Public Spaces in the 21st Century, 2017

 

Despina Stratigakos, Where are the Women Architects?, 2016

 

Dongwoo Yim, [Un]Precedented Pyongyang, 2017

 

Elena Chiavi, Pablo Garrido Arnaiz, Francisco Moura Veiga, Guillem Pujol Borràs, Francisco Ramos Ordóñez, Júlia Trias Jurado and Rubén Valdez (eds.), Cartha – On Making Heimat, 2017

 

Felicity D. Scott, Outlaw Territories – Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency, 2016

 

Felicity D. Scott, ¿Qué salió mal?/ What Went Wrong?, 2016

 

Florian Idenburg, Jing Liu and Ilias Papageorgiou, Solid Objectives – Edge, Aura, Order, 2017

 

Francesc Magrinyà and Fernando Marzá, Cerdà – 150 Years of Modernity, 2017

 

Gediminas Urbonas, Ann Lui and Lucas Freeman (eds.), Public Space? Lost and Found, 2017

 

Herman Verkerk/Eventarchitectuur, Events: Situating the Temporary, 2017

 

Jesús Vassallo, Seamless – Digital Collage and Dirty Realism in Contemporary Architecture, 2016

 

Michael Hays, Aparición y Materialidad/ Appearance and Materiality, 2017

 

Keith Krumwiede, Atlas of Another America – An Architectural Fiction, 2016

 

Kersten Geers, Jelena Pančevac, and Andrea Zanderigo, The Difficult Whole – A Reference Book On Robert Venturi, John Rauch and Denise Scott Brown, 2016

 

Lèa-Catherine Szacka, Exhibiting the Postmodern: 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale, 2016

 

Linna Choi and Tarik Oualalou, Territories of Disobedience, 2017

 

Lluís Ortega, The Total Designer – Authorship in the Architecture of the Postdigital Age, 2017

 

Manuel Herz, Ingrid Schröder, Hans Focketyn and Julia Jamrozik, African Modernism – Architecture of Independence, 2015

 

Marwa Al-Sabouni, The Battle for Home – The Memoir of a Syrian Architect, 2016

 

Miquel Adrià and Andrea Griborio, Radical. 50 Latin American Architectures, 2016

 

Nanni Baltzer and Martino Stierli (eds.), Before Publication – Montage in Art, Architecture, and Book Design, 2016

 

Nicole Kalms, Hypersexual City – The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism, 2017

 

Nina Rappaport, Vertical Urban Factory, 2016

 

Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Disparen Sobre El Artista/ Shoot the Artist, 2016

 

Rafi Segal, Space Packed – The Architecture of Alfred Neumann, 2017

 

Reinier De Graaf, Imaginary Apparatus – Four Walls and a Roof the Complex Nature of A Simple Profession, 2017

 

Ruth Estevez, Wonne Ickx, Abel Perles, Victor Jaime, and Carlos Bedoya (eds.), Liga Vol. 2: Exposed Architecture: Exhibitions, Interludes and Essays, 2017

 

Sabine Müller and Andreas Quednau (eds.), Giraffes, Telegraphs, and Hero of Alexandria – Urban Design by Narration, 2016

 

Stephen J. Phillips, Elastic Architecture – Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture, 2017

 

William O’Brien Jr. (ed.), Room for Artifacts – The Architecture Of Wojr, 2016

 

 

*(list in formation)

 

 

CONFERENCE BOOKS**:

 

Beatriz Colomina and Craig Buckley (ed.), Clip Stamp Fold, 2011

 

Bernard Tschumi and Enrique Walker, Tschumi on Architecture – Conversations with Enrique Walker, 2006

 

Bernard Tschumi, Bernard Tschumi – Architecture Concept and Notation, 2016

 

Bernard Tschumi, Notations: Diagrams and Sequences, 2014

 

Bernard Tschumi, Parc de la Villette, 2014

 

Bernard Tschumi, The Manhattan Transcripts, 1994

 

Daniel Libeskind, Sonnets in Babylon, 2011

 

Kenneth Frampton, A Genealogy of Modern Architecture – Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form, 2015

 

Stan Allen and Marc Mc-Quade (eds.), Landform Building, Architecture’s New Terrain, 2011

 

Stan Allen, Four Projects, 2017

 

Weiss/Manfredi, Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures, 2015

 

 

**(list in formation)

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