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Ruby Press Everyday Matters: Architects and urban planners have
Schönholzer Str. 13-14 Contemporary Approaches long oscillated between powerless-
10115 Berlin to Architecture ness and megalomania, seeking
to design habitats, civilizations,
T +49 30 30 34 99 31 Vanessa Grossman, and even the entire planet. But in
F +49 30 30 34 99 32 Ciro Miguel (Eds.) the current climate of geopolitical
mail@ruby-press.com uncertainty, occurring against the
www.ruby-press.com Release date: May 2021, backdrop of unprecedented envi-
Language: English ronmental change, design professi-
208 pages, 200 × 120 mm onals acknowledge once again the
Representative Germany: Softcover vulnerability of their field. Everyday
Design: Something Fantastic Matters shows how architects have
Hans Frieden ISBN 978-3-944074-39-9 shifted their focus to the realm of
c/o G.V.V. 24 EUR the quotidian as they are confronted
Groner Str. 20 with the challenges of an uncertain
37037 Göttingen future.
T +49 551 79773-90
F +49 551 79773-91 The book considers banal objects,
g.v.v@t-online.de 9 783944 074399 the use of simple materials, and
the concern with daily routines
and issues of maintenance. It
Distribution Germany: chronicles how the everyday has
influenced both the practical and
GVA Gemeinsame Verlags- theoretical domains of architecture
auslieferung Göttingen and urbanism by triggering a new
GmbH & Co. KG ethic and aesthetic of humbleness.
Postfach 2021 Rather than evidence of inaction or
37010 Göttingen a lack of will, architects claim this
T +49 551 384200-0 approach can make design relevant
F +49 551 384200-10 for everyone as a shared concern.
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With a foreword by Beatriz Colomi-
na and Mark Wigley. Contributions
International distribution: by Anna Heringer, Andrés Jaque,
Anna Puigjaner, Charlotte Malterre-
Idea Books Barthes, Markus Miessen and many
Nieuwe Hemweg 6R others.
1013 BG Amsterdam
The Netherlands About the authors: Vanessa
T +31 20 6226 154 Grossman is Assistant Professor at
F +31 20 6209 299 TU Delft. She is an architect, his-
www.ideabooks.nl torian, and curator whose research
examines architecture’s intersec-
tions with ideology, power, housing
and governance. Ciro Miguel is a
Doctoral Fellow at the gta Institute/
ETH Zürich. He is an architect, vi-
sual artist, and photographer whose
work revolves around alternative
narratives to the built environment
and the interplay between buildings
and the city’s every day.
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It is nice today curtains, creating a dynamic and
adaptable insulation of several
Anne Lacaton, layers. Living becomes a continuous
Jean-Philippe Vassal (Eds.) movement in a new kind of space
between the inside and the outside.
Release date: June 2021,
Language: English This book is the first scientific
132 pages, 275 × 200 mm study of the thermal performance
Softcover, threadbinding of winter gardens in residential
Design: Something Fantastic construction, showing their potential
ISBN 978-3-944074-37-5 and effectiveness via selected
38 EUR projects of Lacaton&Vassal:
from their first house, Latapie, to
The pleasure we derive from where a recently completed apartment
we live depends largely on our and office tower in Geneva.
ability to experience the exterior Complementary essays trace
environment from inside our home. the historical development of
But buildings, especially their conservatories, and the architects
façades, are increasingly subject to share their personal motivations for
regulations intended to minimize exploring this particular typology
energy loss and ensure thermal and their long experience with it.
comfort. As a result, we often
inhabit hermetically sealed rooms
with a uniform temperature, without About the authors: Anne Lacaton
being able to feel changes in the is professor of architecture
weather and seasonal conditions. and design at ETH Zurich, and
Jean-Philippe Vassal is professor
The architecture of the French of design and urban renewal
duo Anne Lacaton and Jean- at the Berlin University of the
Philippe Vassal offers a radical Arts. Together they founded the
counter-approach to this climatic architecture firm Lacaton&Vassal,
claustrophobia. The houses they based in Montreuil, France. Their
design contain integrated outdoor work has received numerous
areas modeled on the winter awards, including the 2019 Mies
garden—spaces that are open van der Rohe Prize and the 2020
to the climate, transparent, and BDA Grand Prize.
permeable. Lacaton&Vassal pursue
this approach at different scales
in both new construction and in
transforming existing buildings. 9 783944 074375
Their projects, designed to work
with rather than against the climate,
take into account daily and seasonal
temperature variations due to the
direct heat of the sun’s rays or the
freshness of the evening. They let in
gentle breezes or dry winds, making
it possible to sleep outside under
clear night skies, or use textile
shades to provide shelter from the
midday sun.
This direct connection to our
climatic environment led
Lacaton&Vassal to rethink the
concept of the façade. Instead
of closing off the house with a
wall, they add to it a habitable
spatial layer consisting of a winter
garden equipped with large sliding
elements and thermal protection
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51N4E, Denkstatt, based practice 51N4E, focusing on
endeavour. urban and social transformation.
Design in Dialogue Since 2019, he is a professor in
the Department of Architecture
Seppe De Blust, Freek Persyn, and Urban Transformation at ETH
Charlotte Schaeben Zurich. Charlotte Schaeben specia-
lizes in photography, mapping, and
Release Date: April 2021 the cognitive response to spatial
Language: English environments. She joined the Chair
104 pages, 320 x 240 mm of Architecture and Urban Transfor-
Softcover mation at ETH Zurich in summer
ISBN 978-3-944074-35-1 2019.
28 EUR
The second edition of the Chapters
series from the Brussels architecture 9 783944 074351
firm 51N4E focuses on the question
of how design processes can be
shaped through dialogue.
The first part of the book investi-
gates the work of 51N4E and two
design-focused consulting firms,
endeavour from Antwerp and Basel-
based Denkstatt. All three com-
panies explore the boundaries of
architecture, advocating openness
and dialogue with clients and users
rather than the autonomy and mo-
nologue typical of many architects
and urban designers. Digesting the
firms’ work and probing for pat-
terns, this book seeks to explain the
craft and organizational processes
that drive this design approach.
A second part of the publication ex-
amines the hidden presence of this
“design in dialogue” approach in a
wide range of European architec-
ture firms and their projects—not
as a new methodology to study,
but as a liberating attitude to share,
cherish, and develop. Reflecting on
these undertakings illustrates the
way design in dialogue can create
a productive momentum and foster
engagement.
About the authors: Seppe De
Blust is a sociologist, urban planner
and co-founder of endeavour, an
Antwerp office for socio-spatial
research. He works on reflexive
pedagogy, intervention-driven
design, and adaptive infrastruc-
tures at the Chair of Architecture
and Urban Transformation at ETH
Zurich. Freek Persyn is an architect
and co-founder of the Brussels-
Ruby Press
New Titles polycentric settlement form, with no ETH ZURICH district and the hardship of living
clear core. The changing dynamics in Marseille, a city marked for
MAS URBAN DESIGN
of antagonistic political forces MIGRANT centuries by migration, poverty,
forged a variety of spatial characte- MARSEILLE and social struggle. Divided along
ristics and abnormalities. ARCHITECTURES ethnicity and class lines, with
OF wealthy conservatives dominating
The 18 chapters offer an atlas of the SOCIAL the south and an energetic
special, strange, or undiscovered SEGREGATION but pauperized community of
phenomena of the German capital: AND immigrant origins in the north,
natural and artificial mountains, URBAN Marseille highlights the tensions
escape tunnels and enclaves, INCLUSIVITY stemming from problematic
swamps and moors, the four walls, EDITED BY
MARC ANGÉLIL
CHARLOTTE MALTERRE-BARTHES
governance, a lack of housing-stock
and much more. The book presents ELENA SCHÜTZ
JULIAN SCHUBERT
LEONARD STREICH
maintenance, a constant influx of
architectural geography, urban WITH
NICOLAS MEMAIN
THIERRY DUROUSSEAU RUBY PRESS
migrants, widespread privatization
history, political upheavals, scenic of services, and rapid, profit-driven,
spaces, and curiosities with relish and destructive post-industrial
in newly drawn maps and detailed GRANDS ENSEMBLES:
45
urbanization.
illustrations. DOMESTIC SOLUTION,
COLLECTIVE PROBLEM
Migrant Marseille: Architectures
of Social Segregation and Urban
Early housing solutions (1930s–1950s)
In the aftermaths of the Second World War and its massive
destructions, the interwar period witnessed the beginnings of a
raging debate on housing. The rapid demographic growth and
About the authors: Sebastian Felix Inclusivity examines this complex
the subsequent housing shortage caused a major shift in the
French government’s reconstruction policies. The state began to
promote mass production of publicly-funded housing, especially on
the outskirts of existing cities, resulting in what could be described as
a postwar urbanization frenzy.1 This unprecedented pubic involvement
Ernst and Jonas Tratz are native city through a series of case studies
in social housing can be attributed to a general change of mentality.
As urbanism expert Kenny Cupers explains, “architecture undertook a
whole new role — a social project. In those years modern architecture
did not belong solely to an avant-garde; it was shared and shaped by
government officials, construction companies, residents associations,
Berliners and co-founders of the of its built environment, from Le
real estate developers and social scientists alike.”2 The rhetoric
surrounding these efforts was largely consistent and can be defined as
an effort for universal access to housing and public services, regardless
of the social background. Radical changes came about not only with
architecture firm FAKT. Together Corbusier’s iconic Cité Radieuse
building techniques (e.g. pre-fabricated construction elements) but also
regarding the modus operandi of construction companies and financial
groups (i.e. unions).3 Some of the ideas developed in these projects
were not pursued while others became the norm for new cities across
France in the form of grands ensembles.
they taught at the DIA Institute of to La Castellane, the impoverished
Of the 4 housing precedents listed here, those aimed to house
middle-income classes (Unité d’Habitation, SOGIMA) are in the
Southern area, of Marseille while the ones targeting lower-income
classes are located in the Northern districts (Saint-Barthelemy, Saint-
Just) where 60% of the city’s social housing will emerge and various
Architecture (FH Anhalt), where public housing project that is the
migrant populations will settle in the consecutive decades.4
they explored new concepts for birthplace of football star Zinedine
Berlin‘s periphery. Currently, both Zidane. The essays, photographs,
are fellows of the German Academy and drawings illustrate the impact
Rome, Villa Massimo. of migration on space, architecture,
and territory. Migrant Marseille
tells of an urban reality in which
migration is present at every turn,
9 783944 074368 and offers tactics and strategies
to support social and spatial
integration.
Migrant Marseille About the authors: Marc Angélil
Architectures of Social is a professor of architecture at
Segregation and Urban ETH Zurich and an architect at
Inclusivity agps architecture with offices in
Los Angeles and Zurich. Charlotte
Berlin Maps Marc Angélil, Charlotte Malterre- Malterre-Barthes is an architect
Barthes, Julian Schubert, Elena and assistant professor of urban
Sebastian Felix Ernst, Jonas Tratz Schütz, Leonard Streich (Eds.) planning at the Harvard Graduate
School of Design. Julian Schubert,
Release date: February 2021 Release date: Oct 2020 Elena Schütz, and Leonard Streich
Language: German/English Language: English lead the undisciplinary architectural
88 pages, 310 mm x 180 mm 270 pages, 210 × 130 mm practice Something Fantastic and
Softcover, thread binding Softcover are directors of the Studio for
ISBN 978-3-944074-36-8 Design: Something Fantastic Immediate Spaces at Sandberg
24 EUR ISBN 978-3-944074-33-7 Instituut.
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Over the past century, Berlin has
undergone countless transforma- At 9 AM on November 5, 2018, a
tions, marked by rapid growth, pair of buildings in central Marseille 9 783944 074337
destruction, and survival and halting collapsed, taking the lives of eight
revival as a Siamese-twin city. people hailing from Algeria, the
This last phase was characterized Comoros, France, Italy, and Tunisia.
by stagnation or even shrinkage, This devastating toll of urban decay
which strengthened Berlin’s unusual reflects both the diversity of the
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Co-op
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A Micro-Political Sascha Delz, (Eds.) Release date: 2019
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Pier Vittorio Aureli (Ed.)
Release date: 2020, 4. edition Marc Angélil, Cary Siress
Language: English Release date: 2019
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Wisniewska, Sophie Nash (Eds.) Release date: 2017
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Lebens-und Arbeitsprojekte Skanderbeg Square Tirana
rund um Berlin
Freek Persyn, Charlotte Lao
Mathias Burke, Eleonore Harmel, Schmidt (Eds.)
Leon Jank, Sabeth Kerkhoff Release date: 2017
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Das Kotti-Prinzip Transtopia
Urbane Komplizenschaft Wie wir städtische
zwischen Räumen, Transformation gestalten
Menschen, Zeit, Wissen
und Dingen Rainer Hehl, Ludwig Engel (Eds.)
Release date: 2017
Christine Bock, Ulrich Pappen- Language: German
berger, Jörg Stollmann (Eds.) (with two interviews in English)
Release date: 2018 179 pages, 280 x 220 mm
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Cairo Desert Cities Reactivate Athens
Marc Angélil and Charlotte Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert
Malterre-Barthes, mit Something Klumpner, Alexis Kalagas, Katerina
Fantastic und CLUSTER (Eds.) Kourkoula (Eds.)
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