The Expendable
Reader:
John McHale
Five North
American Architects:
An Anthology by
Kenneth Frampton
Hermitage, 2014
Architects’ Journeys:
Building, Traveling,
Thinking
GSAPP
BOOKS
FALL
2011–
SPRING
2012
Post-Ductility: Metals
in Architecture
and Engineering
Dan Graham’s
New Jersey
Volume 28:
Internet of Things
arch.columbia.edu
/publications
arch.columbia.edu/publications
GSAPP C-Lab + Archis + AMO, 2010
ISSN: 1574-9401
Volume 26: Architecture of Peace
GSAPP C-Lab + Archis + AMO, 2011
ISSN: 1574-9401
The Western world is heading
towards a life expectancy of 100
years. Do we have the energy
to live and build for eternity?
An issue examining the popularized characteristics of the 1960s
that have shaped our current
beliefs about technology, the
environment, and community.
Edited by Jeffrey Inaba + C-Lab
Volume 24: Counterculture
Edited by Jeffrey Inaba + C-Lab
VOLUME 27: Aging
GSAPP, 2011
Designed by MTWTF
ISBN: 978-1-8835-8465-8
Studio-X New York is one node
of a global network that includes
like-minded event and work
spaces in Beijing, Mumbai and
Rio de Janeiro. In 2011, the publication was selected for an AIGA
award for outstanding design of
printed matter.
Edited by Gavin Browning
Afterword by Mark Wigley
The Studio-X New York Guide
to Liberating New Forms of
Conversation
Archis + GSAPP C-Lab + AMO, 2010
ISSN: 1574-9401
An issue completely dedicated to
the Moon. What are the implications for the design practice of
going there, for the idea of what
is indeed human, or for what is
essential to sustain life? And on
the nearside, how does this
affect our daily lives right here?
Edited by Arjen Oosterman
Volume 25: Getting There,
Being There
GSAPP, 2010
ISSN: 2156-4906
built upon a system of gift
exchanges.
CC: A Global Report from
Columbia University GSAPP
Hermitage, 2014
(Paul S. Byard Memorial Lecture)
Post-Ductility: Metals in
Architecture and Engineering
The China Lab Guide to
Megablock Urbanisms
Edited by Jeannie Kim
Author, Rem Koolhaas
Edited by Jeannie Kim
Edited by Michael Bell
+ Craig Buckley
Edited by Cressica Brazier
+ Jeffrey Johnson + Tat Lam
This lecture series at GSAPP
celebrates our dear colleague
Paul Spencer Byard (1939–2008),
who embraced the idea that
preservation itself is always a
forward-thinking gesture, simultaneously responsible and
adventurous. In this inaugural
volume, Rem Koolhaas gives context to his recent engagement
with questions of preservation
and, also, suggests a few
personal strategies (of, it could
be said, self-preservation) to
avoid the pitfalls of eponymous
celebrity in design. With contributions by Mark Wigley and
Jorge Otero-Pailos.
Metals, as surface or structure
—as the generators of space—
play a role in nearly every strain
of modernization in architecture.
They define complete geographies of work, production, and
political life. Non-architectural
metals delivered in automobiles
and hard goods worldwide
have been the engines of the
sprawling late twentieth-century
city. Architecturally, metals
—steel in particular—have been
used in the building of entire
urban areas. In Post-Ductility,
an interdisciplinary group of
architects, historians, theorists,
and engineers collectively
explore (and test) the past,
present, and future possibilities
of this quintessential building
material.
Typically considered as an
exponent of the Modernist
housing superblock, the
megablock has been expanded
and mutated through Chinese
demands for hyperdensity
as well as government policies
of gated-community organization. Taking this intermediate
scale between architecture and
the city as a laboratory for the
consequences, opportunities,
and potential global proliferation of Chinese urban models,
the guide highlights strategies
for reconsidering large-scale
development through the filters
of environment, economics,
and ethics.
If the school’s existing website
can be described as GSAPP’s
daily newspaper, CC: is seen as
its Sunday magazine. The goal of
the project is to keep readers
informed about the school and
its broad global network of
activities. CC: offers a real-time
monitor of the wider GSAPP: the
expanded school that reaches
from the deepest recesses of
Avery Hall to the most energetic
forms of practice and discourse
in the furthest corners of the
planet.
FALL 2011
GSAPP
Designed by 2x4
68 pages, paperback
230 mm x 300 mm
GRATIS
Edited by Michael Bell
+ Jeannie Kim
Engineered Transparency:
The Technical, Visual, and Spatial
Effects of Glass
AMO + GSAPP C-Lab + Archis, 2010
ISBN: 978-90-77966-23-5
“Dubai is a prototype that will
never be repeated. Its madness,
even in retrospect, has the profoundly sympathetic quality of a
test with an uncertain outcome.”
—Rem Koolhaas
Edited by Todd Reisz
+ Rem Koolhaas
VOLUME 23: Al Manakh Cont’d
GSAPP, 2010
Designed by HvA Design
ISBN: 1-883584-66-3
Photographer Erieta Attali
presents a cartography of
contemporary global architecture focusing upon the close
relationship between different
building types and the landscapes in which they are
situated.
In Extremis: Landscape into
Architecture
Edited by Michael Conard
+ Geeta Mehta + Kate Orff
+ Marielly Casanova
Mumbai Dharavi: Scenarios
For Development
GSAPP + Editorial Rueda, 2009
ISBN: 978-8-47207-2-009
This illuminating book contains
a series of debates between
Spain’s most celebrated architects, and their critical reflections
on the nature of contemporary
architectural design.
Edited by Jorge Otero-Pailos
Spain on Spain: Debates on
Contemporary Architecture
GSAPP, 2009
ISBN: 978-1883584573
A document of the partnership
between Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation
and the Faculty of the Built
Environment and Engineering,
Queensland University of
Technology.
Edited by Mojdeh Baratloo
+ Kathi Holt-Damant
GS
BO
A detailed and extensively
illustrated reconsideration of the
early trajectory of the Ant Farm
collective, including its architecture, inflatables, performance,
multimedia, and video work.
Author, Felicity D. Scott Ant Farm: Allegorical Time Warp:
The Media Fallout of July 21, 1969
GSAPP, 2008
ISBN: 978-1883584535
This richly illustrated volume
features the non-linear process
taught by Kathryn Dean at the
Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation at
Columbia University.
Edited by Kathryn Dean
Constructive Practices: Between
Economy and Desire
GSAPP, 2008
ISBN: 978-1883584542
This full-color volume features
the work of the joint studio
conducted between the Historic
Preservation and Architecture
programs at the Graduate
School of Architecture, Planning
and Preservation at Columbia
University.
Edited by James Wei Ke
Emerging Urban Futures in Land
Water Infrastructure: South East
Queensland
Building on Templo Mayor:
Design with Historic Architecture
FALL 2011
GSAPP C-Lab + AMO + Archis
176 pages, paperback
210 x 280 mm
ISBN: 9-789-077-966-80
20 USD
2011–2012
Edited by Arjen Oosterman
Solid States: Concrete in
Transition
FALL 2011
GSAPP
90 pages, paperback
160 mm x 230 mm
ISSN: 2156-4906
8 USD
Edited by Michael Bell
+ Craig Buckley
FALL 2011
GSAPP + Lars Müller Publishers
128 pages, approx., hardcover
190 x 260 cm
ISBN: 978-3-03778-259-0
65 USD
When it comes to the occupant
of a given building, there exists
an infinite variety of customers.
Certain buildings render most
evidently the type of customer
one can be. In the hotel lobby,
Siegfried Kracauer writes, people
behave as the faithful do in the
temple. “In both places people
appear as guests. But whereas
the house of God is dedicated
to the service of the one whom
people have gone there to
encounter, the hotel lobby accommodates all who go there to
meet no one. It is the setting for
those who neither seek nor find
the one who is always sought.”
How do we materialize peace?
Experts seem agreed on
strategies, but are the architects
and politicians ready for the
long-haul?
Architects, historians, engineers,
and scientists redefine glass as a
21st century building material
and challenges our assumptions
about its aesthetic, structural,
and spatial potential.
When things start talking
back, you’ve become part of
an Internet of Things. Autosensoring, basic intelligence,
interaction; we’re increasingly
part of a world where things and
living souls are equally connected. The fridge is a node just
as you are. Volume 28 dives into
these new dimensions of reality,
into the consequences for design
and for our understanding
of our own position in the world.
Coders and architects are different beings and speak different
languages, this issue seems to
conclude. Since merging virtual
and physical requires knowledge about both worlds, this
reality should be overcome. So
this Volume is not just about
framing the issue, but also about
indicating a practice in the
making: we call it correlation
designing.
Archis + GSAPP C-LAB + AMO 2011
ISSN: 1574-9401
GSAPP + ACTAR + Berkeley Art
Museum, 2008
ISBN: 978-8496954243
Directed by Yehuda E. Safran
Edited by Cristobal Amunategui
PP
KS
GSAPP + Princeton Architectural
Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-56898-798-9
This volume presents new
photographs by Dan Graham
taken in the context of a study
trip with the architecture faculty
of Columbia University together
with the original photographs
from the Homes for America
series. The new images exhibit
stark similarities to the older
ones, taken in the same suburban locations that Graham
photographed in the 1960s. The
juxtaposition creates a fascinating play of repetitions and
differences that raise questions
regarding the future of architecture, suburbia, and public space.
With contributions by Mark
Wasiuta and Mark Wigley.
A diverse group of experts,
including architects, historians,
scientists, engineers, and
designers examine the past,
present, and future of concrete.
Edited by Arjen Oosterman, et al.
Potlatch 1: A Journal of the
Potlatch Lab, GSAPP
The Urban Design Studio began
work in Mumbai with an intense
period of field briefings in early
January 2009. All the work
produced by the students is
being made accessible to the
people of Dharavi via this
document, local presentations,
and an interactive website.
Potlatch 2: Customers
GSAPP + Princeton Architecture
Press, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-56898-895-5
FALL 2011
GSAPP
Designed by Geoff Han
320 pages, approx., paperback
117 x 180 mm
ISBN: 1-883584-70-1
20 USD
Dan Graham’s New Jersey
Directed by Yehuda E. Safran
Edited by Cristobal Amunategui
GSAPP, 2009
ISBN: 1-883584-59-0
New Releases
FALL 2011
GSAPP + Lars Müller Publishers
240 pages, approx., paperback
165 x 240 mm
ISBN: 978-3-03778-256-9
45 USD
From the Bauhaus to Buckminster
Fuller, and from Elvis to ecology,
the writings of John McHale
(1922–1978) engage a diverse
set of concerns. The Expendable
Reader highlights McHale’s
theorization of technology and
communication and their impact
on traditional ideas of culture,
enabling a sharper grasp on
McHale’s thinking and on
our own cultural situation. This
volume inaugurates the
Columbia GSAPP Sourcebooks
series, devoted to compiling
primary source materials in architectural history and theory into
convenient, low-cost editions.
Architecture, based on intellectual labor, is first and foremost
FALL 2011
GSAPP + T6 Ediciones
Designed by Project Projects
256 pages, paperback
133 x 203 mm
ISBN: 978-1-883584-66-5
25 USD
depth survey of recent work by
each of the firms, essays by
Frampton and each of the invited
practitioners reconsider the
specificity of the work within the
larger North American context,
taking stock of the practice
of architecture on the continent
today.
Author, John McHale Edited by Alex Kitnick
Afterword by Mark Wigley
Series Editor, Craig Buckley
Volume 28: Internet of Things
Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation
Columbia University
2011–2012
The revolution in modes of travel
during the twentieth century has
transformed not only the way
we move through the world, but
how we perceive it. Architects’
Journeys brings together contemporary architects, historians,
and theorists to investigate
the role that travel has played in
the evolution of architectural
practice and theory during the
last century. Including contributions by: Rubén A. Alcolea,
Beatriz Colomina, Kenneth
Frampton, Héctor García-Diego,
Karin Jaschke, Carlos Labarta,
José Angel Medina, Juan Miguel
Otxotorena, Spyros Papapetros,
José Manuel Pozo, Jorge
Tárrago, and Mark Wigley.
On the occasion of Kenneth
Frampton’s eightieth birthday,
five distinguished architectural
practices based in North America
came to GSAPP to discuss their
work and its ongoing dialogue
with Frampton’s thinking: Steven
Holl (New York), Rick Joy (Tucson),
Patkau Architects (Vancouver),
Stanley Saitowitz (San Francisco),
and Shim + Sutcliffe Architects
(Toronto). Together with an in-
The Expendable Reader: Articles
on Art, Architecture, Design, and
Media, 1951–1979
Selected Backlist
Edited by Craig Buckley
+ Pollyanna Rhee
Five North American
Architects: An Anthology
by Kenneth Frampton
arch.columbia.edu/publications
Design: MTWTF
Architects’ Journeys:
Building Traveling Thinking
SPRING 2012
GSAPP
112 pages, paperback
115 mm x 170 mm
ISBN: 978-1-883584-74-0
8.95 USD
SPRING 2012
GSAPP + Princeton Architectural
FALL 2012
GSAPP + ACTAR
Designed by 2x4
300 pages, approx., paperback
Press
272 pages, hardcover, DVD
230 mm x 290 mm
ISBN: 978-1-61689-046-9
65 USD
New Releases
2011–2012
The Buell Hypothesis
Edited by Reinhold Martin
+ Leah Meisterlin + Anna Kenoff
The Buell Hypothesis examines
the cultural assumptions underlying the “American Dream” in
the context of the foreclosure
crisis, suburban sprawl, and the
architectural public sphere. The
book positions the dream as an
all too familiar “film” that can
only be sufficiently rethought
through a philosophical debate
about its most entrenched
underpinnings. It examines a
series of case study sites representative of the challenges
facing municipalities nationwide, each of which offers a
different context for testing the
hypothesis in its most basic form:
Change the dream and you
change the city.
SPRING 2011
The Temple Hoyne Buell Center
for the Study of American
Architecture
Designed by MTWTF
+ Greenblatt-Wexler
190 mm x 267 mm
433 pages, paperback
Download at buellcenter.org