Gifts for Architects

Anglepoise 90 Mini Mini

£95.00

Colour Carbon Black Steel Blue Warm Silver

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Carbon Black

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The Anglepoise 90 Mini Mini is the offspring of the ever-popular 1970’s Model 90 Powered by USB for enhanced portability and has a dimmable integrated LED for focused light for up to 20,000 hours At half the size of a standard desk lamp, it has all the versatility and personality of a classic Anglepoise® lamp, with the ability to fit just about anywhere - perfect for working on the go The lamp has a micro-USB port that can be powered by a standard Micro-USB to USB-A cable (included). This can be plugged in to a mains adaptor with a USB-A port (included) or via any USB power source such as a portable battery. Assembly is simple and takes a few minutes. There are four parts: a shade, an arm, a base and 2 springs to fit. These all clip together. No tools are needed. Hex keys are supplied for fine tuning the tension The lamp will remember your dimmed setting when it's turned on/off. Disconnecting the cable will reset to factory settings.

Spomenik Monument Database

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The first ever spomenik guidebook, with over 75 examples alongside map references and information on why they exist and who built them Spomenik' the Serbo-Croat/Slovenian word for `monument' - refers to a series of memorials built in Tito's Republic of Yugoslavia from the 1960s-1990s, marking the horror of the occupation and the defeat of Axis forces during World War II. Hundreds were built across the country, from coastal resorts to remote mountains. Through these imaginative forms of concrete and steel, a classless, forward-looking, socialist society, free of ethnic tensions, was envisaged Instead of looking to the ideologically aligned Soviet Union for artistic inspiration, Tito turned to the west and works of abstract expressionism and minimalism. As a result, Yugoslavia was able to develop its own distinct identity through these brutal monuments, which were used as political tools to articulate Tito's personal vision of a new tomorrow. Today, following the breakup of the country and the subsequent Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, some have been destroyed or abandoned. Many have suffered the consequences of ethnic tensions - once viewed as symbols of hope they are now the focus of resentment and anger This book brings together the largest collection of spomeniks published to date. Each has been extensively photographed and researched by the author, to make this book the most comprehensive survey of this obscure and fascinating architectural phenomenon A fold-out map on the reverse of the dust jacket shows the exact location of each spomenik using GPS coordinates

Brutal Bloc Post Cards

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A collection of previously unpublished postcards from the former Eastern Bloc - sinister, funny, poignant and surreal, they depict the social and architectural values of the period Brutal concrete hotels, futurist TV towers, heroic worker statues - this collection of Soviet era postcards documents the uncompromising landscape of the Eastern Bloc through its buildings and monuments. They are interspersed with quotes from prominent figures of the time, that both support and confound the ideologies presented in the images In contrast to the photographs of a ruined and abandoned Soviet empire we are accustomed to seeing today, the scenes depicted here publicise the bright future of communism: social housing blocks, Palaces of Culture and monuments to Comradeship. Dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, they offer a nostalgic yet revealing insight into social and architectural values of the time, acting as a window through which we can examine cars, people, and of course, buildings. These postcards, sanctioned by the authorities, intended to show the world what living in communism looked like Instead, this postcard propaganda inadvertently communicates other messages: outside the House of Political Enlightenment in Yerevan, the flowerbed reads `Glory to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union'; in Novopolotsk, art school pupils paint plein air, their subject is a housing estate; at the Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute students stroll past a five metre tall concrete hammer and sickle

Architect's Paperclips

£18.00

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A set of 6 brass architect's paperclips branded exclusively for the Design Museum Packaged in a dark grey cardboard box with gold foiled, debossed Design Museum logo

Tom Pigeon 'Plane' Series Print - Grey

£30.00

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Exclusively designed and produced for the David Adjaye Making Memory exhibition at the Design Museum, Plane is a series of three prints by design studio Tom Pigeon which celebrate the outstanding architecture of the Design Museum The series reflects interior lines and angles as well as explores the different shades and colours created by changing weather and the passing of time

Bauhaus Dessau

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Comprehensive guide to one of the most important Bauhaus schools, published to coincide with the Bauhaus Centenary. 80 unique photographs of the Bauhaus Dessau - a popular tourist attraction with 80,000 visitors per year. Text includes biographies of famous Bauhaus associates and the history of the Bauhaus Dessau The Bauhaus Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius, was home to the Bauhaus Dessau School of Design from 1925 to 1932. The epitome of 20th-century modern design worldwide, it attracts some 80,000 visitors annually from Germany and abroad. In 1996, the building was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. This volume shows, in over 80 unique photographs taken in the empty rooms immediately after the general renovation of 1996-2006, the transparency and lightness of an exceptionally sensate modern architecture, whose surprising and bold colouration debunks the myth of a white Modernism Alongside the history and architecture of the building, this book also describes the work carried out in the Bauhaus Dessau's former workshops, and the most important products made there, illustrating how the Bauhaus architecture, design and concept are inseparably intertwined. Biographies of the most important Bauhaus associates complete the picture. Bauhaus Dessau offers aesthetic pleasure, ageless inspiration and a lively point of view, and brings this legendary building within the reader's grasp

a.mag 14. Adjaye Associates

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Through a selection of 21 projects that includes pavilions with different uses, realities, programmes, and materials, this issue of a.mag gives special insight into the work of Adjaye Associates, a global practice founded by Sir David Adjaye in 2000, with offices in London and New York Renowned for an eclectic material and colour palette and a capacity to offer a rich civic experience, the buildings the firm produces differ in form and style, yet are unified by their ability to generate new typologies and reference a wide cultural discourse

Adjaye Africa Architecture: A Photographic Survey of Metropolitan Architecture

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The African continent contains some of the world's most vibrant culture and creativity, and yet its buildings - vernacular, colonial or contemporary - have rarely engaged the interest of Western architects. David Adjaye, the first black architect to establish a truly global reputation in his field, has found endless sources of inspiration for his designs in the rich - and chequered - heritage of Africa's teeming metropolises. His life dream was to return to the continent as an architect to document Africa's built environment. Over a long decade, he tirelessly documented these dynamic, colourful cities, photographing thousands of buildings, sites and places, and letting each building speak for itself in telling contrast to a design world obsessed with photorealistic slickness The result was a stunning seven-volume work that has become an essential resource for all those interested in the burgeoning continent. This compact edition will make the fruits of this once-in-a-generation record available to a much wider audience. The result is one of the most original, ambitious and important architectural publications of our time, now available to everyone wishing to gain an understanding of a unique architectural heritage overlooked for too long

Architecture is Life: Aga Khan Award for Architecture

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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was established by His Highness the Aga Khan in 1977 to identify and encourage excellence in architecture and other forms of intervention in the built environment of societies with a Muslim presence The award is given every three years and recognises all types of building projects that affect today's built environment. Smaller projects are given equal consideration as large-scale buildings Richly illustrated and with explanatory texts, the book presents this the most recent shortlist and the award recipients. The latest topic is centred around the relationship between life and architecture Numerous essays examine how architecture interacts with the life of people who inhabit it

Planning Architecture: Dimensions and Typologies

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In formulating a design concept into a viable plan, architects oscillate constantly between two planes of observation: the actual design task in the context of planning typologies such as residential buildings, office buildings, museum, or airport; and the individual room, meaning the kitchen, office, classroom, sanitary rooms, storage rooms, and so on Planning Architecture offers architects and students a thought-out planning tool, in which two main sections reciprocally complement one another: the "spaces" and the "typologies" between which the planner can flexibly oscillate depending on his or her plane of observation. All relevant planning information is presented in a detailed clear fashion, and in context An introductory chapter explains the basis and framework for typological design, and a "reference section" clearly lists general dimensions and units, regulations and standards

Why do architects wear black?

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"An industry manager who left his white-blue, silver-shimmering world of car bodywork and dove into the pitch-black, mysterious world of architecture for the first time during a competition asked me one day: "Ms Rau, why do architects actually wear black?" Although I was wearing black and I am an architect I didn’t have a spontaneous answer, so I responded: "Ask the other architects!" That was in 2001, and it is why this small book came to be. I have asked the question at an international level and whenever it seems appropriate ever since. The sometimes amusing and other times programmatic or hair-splitting answers I have received over the last seven years are listed chronologically in this little black volume. Read, and please, don’t ask me why architects wear black!" - Cordula Rau

DC Folder - A4

£12.00

Colour Rusty Red Petrol Blue

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Rusty Red

Petrol Blue

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High quality fabric bound folder with patterned lining and elastic bands to keep contents secure Stores materials A4 size and smaller Available in Rusty Red (Edit_01) or Petrol Blue (Edit_02)

Grids & Guides (Black): A Notebook for Visual Thinkers

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Map out graphs, schematics, sketches, and dreams with this sleek and durable workbook Inspired by vintage laboratory notebooks, Grids & Guides features 144 pages of graph paper (eight designs repeating throughout) interspersed with a multitude of scientific charts, tables, and infographics featuring everything from the periodic table to alternative alphabets to Newton's Laws of Motion This journal is the perfect tool for right-brainers and left-brainers alike

Boogie Board

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Transform the way you take notes with the Boogie Board, an electronic writing tablet that uses unique liquid crystal display technology and needs virtually no power to operate Write grocery lists, jot down messages, or simply doodle, then with the push of a button the slate resets to a blank state The screen is intuitive and responds to varying degrees of pressure, the same way that a pen does on paper, allowing a level of detail that the other devices don't offer Lightweight, and small enough to carry around in a purse or suitcase

andreas uebele material

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A major presence in contemporary German graphic design, Andreas Uebele trained as an architect, a thread that continues to present itself in much of his work. From the graphics of the Reichstag to the iconic signage of the Vitra campus, his experiments lead to dynamic solutions, while simultaneously maintaining lightness and clarity This new book presents 85 of büro uebele’s projects through two types of materials: the raw materials from which they emerged, and materials from creative collaborators who’ve accompanied the studio along the way. These include Matthew Carter, Adrian Frutiger, Massimo Vignelli and Hermann Zapf

Project Interrupted: Lectures by British Housing Architects

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The election, in 1979, of a Conservative administration led by Margaret Thatcher effectively marked the end of Britain’s heroic era of social housing provision. Over the next four decades, successive governments put faith in the private sector’s capacity to build homes in the numbers Britain needed. Consistently, that faith proved unfounded. The resultant housing shortfall has sent property prices rocketing beyond the reach of younger people, and led to record levels of homelessness and rough sleeping Project Interrupted records a series of lectures by acclaimed British housing architects. Neave Brown and Kate Macintosh were responsible for some of the most innovative housing commissioned by local authorities in the 1960s and 1970s; Peter Barber, Farshid Moussavi and Witherford Watson Mann navigate the very different conditions of the early twenty-first century At a moment when Britain is finally beginning to confront the enormity of its housing crisis, Project Interrupted asks what we can learn from the experiences of a previous generation and hears from some of the most ambitious architects working in the field of housing today about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead