Den 23. maj udkommer Fremtidens forstæder, som sammenfatter de mange forslag og ideer, der fremkom gennem Realdanias ambiti¢se arkitektkonkurrencer om seks forskellige danske forstæder. De 29 forslag behandles tværgående i otte temaer af f¢rende specialister. Realdanias initiativ er af vital betydning for en fremtidig bæredygtig udvikling af forstæderne, herunder de udfordringer, som klimaforandringerne stiller. Engelsk resumé. OBS!Bogen vil først blive afsendt efter d. 23 maj.

I slutningen af 1800-tallet var danske kunstnere blandt de f¢rste i den vestlige verden, som tog japansk kunst til sig og skabte et selvstændigt dansk udtryk. Og den tradition har holdt sig lige siden. Bogen analyserer og skildrer denne udvikling i dansk kunst, design og arkitektur i snart 150 år, fra 1870 til 2010. Inspirationen blev en katalysator med langtrækkende og varige effekter. Gennemslaget var så omfattende, at japanismen blev en væsentlig forudsætning for dansk modernisme i det 20. århundrede og for den status, som designnationen Danmark helt frem til i dag kan være stolt af. Med 450 illustrationer blændes der op for en gennemdokumenteret beretning om, hvordan et selvstændigt formsprog opstår; i begyndelsen var det motiverne, man fascineredes af. I nyere tid er det materialebehandlingen og processerne, der får danske kunsthåndværkere og designere til at rejse til Japan på ofte langvarige studieophold.

GA Document presents the finest in international design, focusing on architecture that expresses our time and striving to record the history of contemporary architecture. International scholars and critics provide insightful texts to further inform the reader of the most up-to-date ideas and events in the profession. With projects by Morphosis, Sanaa, Tod Williams Billie Tsien, Jean Nouvel, Steven Holl, and Zaha Hadid.

Filled with stunning colour and black-and-white photographs of ten remarkable residences from around the globe, this instalment of æGA HousesÆ presents Paul Rudolph''s masterful Deane Residence as its top feature. Also highlighted are two homes by Smiljan Radic, Kengo Kuma''s Jejuball, the House in Takamatsu by Tadao Ando, as well as notable residences by Barclay & Crousse, Hiroyuki Arima, Ricardo Torrejón Schellhorn and Masaki Endoh. A detailed project description accompanies each residential profile, plus architectural plans and drawings.

''GA Houses'' documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. Included in each issue also are retrospective looks at residential works of the past which are now considered epoch-making. With projects by Issey Miyake, Sou Fujimoto, Reiko Sudo, Matthias Klotz, Barclay & Crousse, Jean Prouvé, and Keisuke Maeda.

''GA Houses'' documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. Included in each issue also are retrospective looks at residential works of the past which are now considered epoch-making. With projects by Tadao Ando, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, Kengo Kuma, Alphaville, Selgascano, and many more.

International icon of black ink, artist Michael (GIANT) LeSage incorporates a broad swathe of influences and skills in the creation of a singular, unmistakable aesthetic. Mike''s central practice, drawing, is informed by his training in architectural drafting, his illustrious career as a tattooist and worldwide exploits writing on walls. Within his latest and most complete monograph, the reader will enjoy photos of perfectly executed tattoos, page after page of Mike''s inscrutable tattoo flash, hand lettering nonpareil, and of course tons of drawings, graffiti pieces and action shots. GIANT''s worldwide travels - inking people, places and finer drawing paper around the world from Amsterdam to London, Thailand, Toronto, New York and back home to San Francisco are also given due prominence. Buddhism, track bikes, designing for apparel brand Rebel8, and painting fill Lesage''s hours, but at the end of the day, it all comes full circle, back to his unwaveringly mindful solid black lines.

Culture is your local consensus reality; your clothing, cuisine and hairstyle, the music you listen to, the films you see; your values, ideas, beliefs and prejudices. Culture, unlike race, is not a compulsory accident of birth, but an intellectual position.Today culture has a powerful new vector: the internet. Ideas are travelling further and faster, and changing the cultural landscape like never before. In a new electronic democracy of ideas, cultural power is devolving to the creative individual. We will soon all have the means to create; we just have to decide whether it be art or bombs. In our symbol-drenched lives we desperately need a way of decoding the messages that bombard us. Cult-ure is the culmination of a decades research into why and how we communicate. Revealing how ideas are communicated through words, symbols and gestures, how such ideas gain cultural currency via the theory of the meme, cult-ure provides a thought-provoking exploration into media convergence within our digital age and an

This book brings the best examples of green projects from the Architecture Now! series together with numerous new, never-seen-before projects. Well-known architects like Frank Gehry and Norman Foster are present right alongside young, up-and-coming creators from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Asia. This is not a technical book, nor are its contents limited to any predefined category. Being ''green'' means being aware of the responsibility implied in the construction and use of modern buildings, and there are many ways to express this rising consciousness. Some solutions, the ones generally called ''passive,'' are as old as the history of architecture, while others are born of cutting-edge technologies. Both approaches and many more are included in this groundbreaking collection of 100 of the world''s most innovative and recent eco-friendly buildings. 2 vols. in slipcase.

In 1997, as George Lucas worked to complete early drafts for Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, he enlisted the talents of some of the greatest storyboard artists of the modern era to illustrate conceptual storyboards that would inform the development of the final shooting script, as well as the finished film. Working from Lucas''s ideas for scenes and sequences, these artists produced beautiful drawings that helped lay the foundations for the worlds, characters, and shots of the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. Together, these conceptual storyboards show early takes on favorite scenes; alternate, unused approaches to character designs and environments; and entirely different approaches to key moments. Like wordless comic books, they have an energy and rhythm all their own that is fascinating to explore. Now, for the first time, Lucasfilm has opened its archives to present the best of the conceptual storyboards for Episodes I, II, and III. Star Wars Storyboards: The Prequel

The photographs in this book have been taken over a period of nine years. The churches are the remnants of thousands that were built all over Russia from the time of Prince Vladimir, who, on his conversion to Christianity in 988, ''ordained that wooden churches should be built and established where pagan idols had previously stood. Most of those that survive are to be found in the sparsely populated north-western corner of Russia - specifically, in the Leningrad, Vologda, Murmansk, and Archangel Regions and the Republic of Karelia. Along with the photographs of Richard Davies, there are first-hand accounts by Matilda Moreton of their journeys, and the insights and interpretations of writers and artists, travellers and historians, propagandists and politicians.

De mange mindre byer i Danmark, der historisk blomstrede sammen med det voksende jernbanenet, er under hastig forandring. Stationen og rådhuset er væk, samtidig med at handelsliv og befolkningstal vakler eller ændrer karakter. ''Stationsbyer i dag'' beskriver situationen og peger på byernes potentialer. Bogen foreslår blandt andet, at fokus flyttes væk fra bymidter, der langsomt men sikkert t¢mmes for butikker og funktioner. I stedet kunne kræfterne bruges på at udvikle de nye centre i byernes boligområder: ved sportshaller, kulturhuse og supermarkeder. Bymidtens rolle og udformning skal i det hele taget nytænkes. Bogen består dels af en statisk gennemgang af stationsbyerne, dels af en analyse af situationen. Den afsluttes med et resumé. ''Stationsbyer i dag'' er udarbejdet for Realdania af Center for Strategisk Byforskning med bidrag fra Danmarks Tekniske Universitet og Trafikstyrelsen. Den er redigeret af Niels Boje Groth og Christian Fertner.

The Global Danish Architecture book series includes the most recent architectural projects within housing, schools, kindergartens, museums, concert houses, hotels, sports complexes and the like. The buildings featured in the series are either first prize competition projects or contemporary building projects that have been designed by well renowned architectural studios. Issue 1-6 in slipcase. Themes: "30 new projects", "Tradition & Crisis", "Sustainability", "Housing", "Living & Working", "Global Danish Architecture".

The Solar House explores the development of solar residential architecture over the course of the twentieth century and up to the latest designs today. The solar house is often understood as a product of the 1970s, and few people are aware of the influential experimental solar houses which were constructed during the previous four decades, beginning with the work of masters of twentieth-century architecture such as Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Paolo Soleri, Louis Kahn, Pietro Belluschi, Edward Durell Stone, and Harwell Hamilton Harris, and continuing with more recent innovations like the German Passivhaus movement and the Heliotrope, the first house to produce more energy than it consumed, and the U.S. -based Solar Decathlon, conceived as a living demonstration laboratory and recently expanded to include contests in Europe and China. The first complete study of solar house design through the decades, this volume is a must-have resource for designers today.

In the tradition of the bestselling Norman Rockwell''s Christmas Book and Norman Rockwell''s Spirit of America, this third book in Abrams'' Norman Rockwell series will focus on "dear ol'' Dad." Like the previous books in the series, it pairs Rockwell''s illustrations with songs, poetry, short stories, and excerpts from novels, all of which convey the spirit of fatherhood. Additionally, it will contain a chapter on the quintessential pastimes enjoyed by fathers and their children, including playing catch, skipping stones, flying kites, and fishing, as well as easy-to-follow instructions that make these hobbies accessible for any dad. Norman Rockwell''s Treasury for Fathers will not only be a perfect Father''s Day gift, but also a great gift for Rockwell fans at any time of year.