From his student days to the present, star architect Norman Foster (born 1935) has used drawing as an analytical and pedagogical tool, as a conduit for dialogue between eye and mind. Foster's earliest drawings for projects such as Creek Vean and Waterfront Housing are almost picturesque in their integration of building and landscape; in the 1970s, he uses drawing to devise and then explain such typological subversions as the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank headquarters. In the 1980s, Foster's sketches for Stanstead airport make plain his revolutionary effect on airport architecture, paving the way for a new generation of aerated terminals with luminous roofs; plans for the Carré d'Art in Nimes exemplify his reinvention of how we envision and construct heritage sites today. From buildings of the past two decades, highlights include a fantastic sequence of drawings for the Collserola Tower, glorious sketches of the Reichstag dome, the Millenium bridge, the library at Berlin's Free University, the Expressionist penumbras of Abu Dhabi's Masdar City and the Sierra Leone school, where scarcity of resources necessitated and produced great conceptual elegance and clarity. In this magnificently produced, slipcased and linen-bound two-volume collection, spanning a half-century of works across over 200 drawings, each of Norman Foster's projects is seen to command its own graphic style, and is narrated eloquently by the architect's pen.

Norman Foster: Drawings, 1958-2008

Arts & Photography

SUDJIC, DEYAN

Foster, Norman

Fernández-Galiano, Luis

Vital, Not

Individual Artists

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In 1933, the visionary architect, engineer and designer Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) built a car that was at that time the world's most fuel-efficient car. The Dymaxion Car ran on 35 miles per gallon, while every other car on the road struggled to manage half that amount; zeppelin-like in appearance, it was streamlined to minimize wind resistance and was capable of carrying six to eight passengers. Fuller designed two more Dymaxion Cars over the following year, though none of the three saw production. In his book Everything I Know (1975), Fuller remembered: "Many people said to me, after I built three of these cars, 'I'm sorry your car wasn't a success.' And I'd say 'What do you mean?' They said, 'Well you didn't get it into production.' I said, 'I wasn't going into business, I was producing a vehicle. And it was extremely successful. I learned an incredible amount.'" Today the Dymaxion Cars look dynamic, beautifully designed and several paradigm shifts ahead of their time, and Norman Foster has taken up their legacy with a new vehicle of his own. This monograph reconstructs the history of Fuller's first three models for the Dymaxion Car through detailed plans and archival photographs, and relates the production process of Dymaxion #4, a new prototype produced by Norman Foster, which was launched on the street in 2010.

Buckminster Fuller: Dymaxion Car

Engineering & Transportation

GLANCEY, JONATHAN

Automotive

'Roman Hours' is the first publication in collaboration between writer André Aciman and photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron. The idea for this project grew out of a series of conversations between the two authors and their shared desire to capture Rome. The book brings together a selection of images that, put together, offer a reflection on the contradictions, colours, and sounds of Rome, where the ancient is glimpsed through the modern and the bright colours fade into the characteristic ocher tones of the Eternal City.

Roman Hours

Aciman, André

Photography & Video

'It Just Happened' is a book by the American photographer and writer Bob Colacello, who was editor of 'Interview' magazine between 1971 and 1983 and Andy Warhols right-hand. In this publication, he shares photos from his personal album taken between the late seventies and early eighties, bringing alive an intimate and faithful chronicle of the fascinating social circle around the so-called Pope of Pop. Conceived as a photographic album, the book presents Colacellos photographs chronologically, accompanied by captions handwritten by the photographer, explaining and contextualising the images.

It Just Happened: Photographs by Bob Colacello 1976–1982

Colacello, Bob

This photo album facsimile edition presents forty-seven works by Sophie Taeuber-Arp in the fields of applied arts and interior design, which the artist compiled around 1930. The photographs show a selection of her works made after 1916 and include pieces as distinct as the marionettes, furniture, interiors, and textile design. Encompassing large, site-specific projects and smaller compositions alike, this book testifies to the breadth and heterogeneity of her oeuvre, which was among the most progressive of the time.

Album

Web(s) of Life: Webs of Life. Tomás Saraceno in collaboration

Saraceno, Tomás

Curated by Norman Foster, the exhibition ‘Motion: Autos, Art, Architecture’ at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao takes a deep dive into how the invention and development of the automobile ushered in a profound social transformation over the course of the 20th century. Its unmistakeable imprint can be seen everywhere in our living environment today, with particular resonance in art and architecture. This catalogue offers a broad and fascinating overview of this rich history and the interaction and creativity it has engendered in both artistic production and the urban and architectural imagination. Foster is a car enthusiast who is passionate about mobility solutions, now and in the future.

Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture

Graphic Design

New York Memories

Jiménez, David

Real Venice = Venezia autentica (C Photo) (English and Italian Edition)

Ochoa, Elena F. L.

Thomas Demand’s photographic practice--the depiction of meticulously recreated life-size interiors and environments--takes on a new twist with this beautifully produced volume. The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles is home to the architectural maquettes of architect John Lautner, whose extraordinary buildings are major highlights of Californian architecture. Lautner’s space-age structures--such as the legendary “Chemosphere,” a four-bedroom house resembling a flying saucer, mounted atop a 20-foot concrete pillar--are particularly beautiful and toy-like in their maquette versions, and for this project, Demand photographed 12 of these models in loving, close-up detail. Model Studies includes more than 130 color images of Lautner’s models. With this volume, Demand, who has always been concerned with the intersections of art and architecture, now looks at the architect as sculptor, paying tribute to Lautner on the centenary of the architect’s birth.

Thomas Demand: Model Studies (Liberars)

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