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In Situ George Ranalli | Works & Projects

Introduction by Michael Sorkin Main text by George Ranalli Interview with Susan Szenasy Essays by Joseph Giovannini / Paul Goldberger / Ada Louise Huxtable / Herbert Muschamp and Anthony Vidler Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda

In Situ sums up the theoretical position embodied in the work of New York architect George Ranalli. Over the past thirty-two years, George Ranalli has worked on projects in New York, other states in the US, and across the world that have involved large-scale urban design, houses in the landscape, additions, renovations of major landmark buildings and new constructions. George Ranalli is internationally celebrated and published for his work in historic settings, National Register Historic Landmark buildings and settings with rich design and craft traditions. In Situ is his operational strategy in the design of these new buildings and additions to these complexes, providing contemporary and creative structures that also blend in seamlessly with their historic environments.The projects have developed a rich craft and design vocabulary, which links this work to the origins and roots of the longer craft tradition in design and architecture.

Book Size: 9.45 x 8.45 in / 240 x 215 mm Box Size: 9.60 x 8.60 x 2 in / 243 x 218 x 50 mm Format: Square Pages: 496 Language: English Photographs: 455 Illustrations: 690 Edition: Hardcover in clamshell box with DVD (978-988-16194-7-1)

Harry Seidler: The Exhibition Organizing, Curating, Designing, and Producing a World Tour

Authored by Vladimir Belogolovsky

Vladimir Belogolovsky’s Harry Seidler: The Exhibition leaves no stone unturned in documenting his ongoing, four years in the making to date, world tour exhibition, Harry Seidler: Painting Toward Architecture. It examines the blurry boundaries between art and architecture and how these disciplines inspire one another by bringing to focus the work of Vienna-born Australian modernist Harry Seidler and his creative collaborations with a dozen of world-renowned architects and artists.

Curator of 20 Seidler exhibitions and author of Harry Seidler: Lifework (Rizzoli, 2014), Belogolovsky provides detailed insights into the project from beginning to end: pitching initial exhibition idea to the client, developing its concept, arranging the tour, preparing the content, designing individual exhibitions, managing installations, presenting the lecture, initiating new collaborations and projects.

The book’s focus on a single touring exhibition is unprecedented; it explores what typical exhibition catalogues miss entirely – spatial engagement with the content by the public. In its attempt to present various aspects of a single exhibition the book raises fundamental curatorial issues beyond the project in question.

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Book Size: 8 x 10 in / 203.2 x 254 mm                                   Format: Portrait Pages: 272         Language: English         Photographs: 410 Illustrations: 50 Edition/ ISBN: Hardcover (978-1-946226-10-5) Hardcover in Slipcase (978-1-946226-11-2)

Foreword by Luis Rojo de Castro Text by Julio Salcedo Essay by Ivan Rupnik Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda

This book presents the work of the Spanish architect Julio Salcedo in a series of built and speculative projects. Salcedo’s houses, early achievements that stunned both academic and professional circles with their fresh originality and precocious sophistication, are presented along with unpublished competition proposals for large-scale buildings.

The projects’ varying locales, scales, and ambitions all demonstrate a commitment to architecture as a conceptual medium with the capacity to tackle complex ideas as well as a material practice of transformative, worldly practicality. Each is a built essay that works through architectural problems of form, construction, and material to archive thought-provoking resolutions of a difIcult yet satisfying beauty.

The book complements a thorough graphic documentation of selected projects with Salcedo’s own writings and critical essays by Luis Rojo de Castro and Ivan Rupnik. They situate the projects in Salcedo’s multi-faceted conceptual and professional world and place them in the context of the constellation of ideas that currently shape and propel the eld. “Julio Salcedo’s ongoing interest in landscape and urban design has informed his architectural work, producing a rich, invested and responsible practice. In all, I believe his work illustrates his ambition to inform even modest architectural projects with broader issues present in contemporary practice, something that I believe speaks highly for his intense and profound interest in design.” Rafael Moneo.  

Book Size: 7.25 x 9.25 in / 185 x 235 mm Format: Portrait Pages:168 Language: EnglishPhotographs: 95 Illustrations: 135Edition: Hardcover 978-84-9936-1925 

City Sink is a design research proposal for a meta-park of dispersed landscape infrastructure to boost carbon stocks in biomass and through formation of long-term sequestration reservoirs for soil organic carbon in New York City and Long Island. City Sink research merges urban land-use lifecycles and the carbon cycle to describe a systemic response to elevated atmospheric carbon levels provoking climate change. The project is a model for reimagining urban landscapes as urban ecological infrastructure.

City Sink Carbon Cycle Infrastructure for our Built Environments

Book Size: 11 x 8.5 in / 279 x 215 mm Box Size: 11.5 x 9.25 x 1.25 in / 292 x 234 x 31 mm Format: Landscape Pages: 498 Language: English Photographs: 230 Illustrations: 70 Edition/ISBN: Hardcover in clamshell box/978-988-15125-8-1

A Clear View How Glass Buildings in the Inner City Transformed a Neighborhood

Book Size: 10 x 8 in / 254 x 203 mm Format: Landscape Pages:136 Language: English Photographs:160 Illustrations: 50 Edition/ISBN: Softcover with 3/4 flaps (978-988-12249-3-4) Softcover with 3/4 flaps in slipcase  (978-988-13975-4-6)

A Clear View is the first book published by Washington, DC–based architect Suzane Reatig, FAIA. Exploring new interpretations of small-scale urban in f ll housing, it addresses the changing needs and the real demands of city dwellers. Filling the void in the urban puzzle, in narrow and constrained sites, all of Reatig’s new structures ensure comfortable and safe spaces. The majority of the work in this book is located in one neighborhood of Washington, DC, Shaw, demonstrating the powerful effect architecture can have on transforming and reviving a neighborhood. Through the use of simple materials and innovative clear design, Reatig reveals how community can be achieved among inhabitants without giving up privacy or independence. All projects share the same spirit; they are imaginative, rigorous, and give priority and value to their inhabitants and enhance their quality of life. Each project has its own unmistakable identity.

Architecture for the Arts | The De Santos & Sicardi Galleries

Foreword by Lars Lerup Introduction by Fernando Brave Epilogue by Anna Mod

Architecture for the Arts – De Santos & Sicardi Galleries is a unique book that details the thinking and design process behind two, multiple award-winning and frequently published, commercial art galleries. This book explores the numerous counterpoints between the two projects, their relevance as part of Houston’s distinctive architectural landscape, and the architect’s commitment to creating space to view and celebrate art.

This volume also explores the relationship between the permanent and the temporary, the built and the displayed, the design process and the buildings’ function: a true voyage into the poetry that starts with early design concepts and continues through the use of these two celebrated projects.

Book Size: 8.5 x 11 in / 215.9 x 279.4 mm Format: Portrait Pages: 192 Language: English Photographs: 300 Illustrations: 100 Edition/ISBN: Hardcover in Slipcase (978-1-946226-24-2)

A Clear View How Glass Buildings in the Inner City Transformed a Neighborhood

Preface by Thomas S. Shiner Introduction by Suzane Reatig

A Clear View is the first book published by Washington, DC–based architect Suzane Reatig, FAIA. Exploring new interpretations of small-scale urban in f ll housing, it addresses the changing needs and the real demands of city dwellers. Filling the void in the urban puzzle, in narrow and constrained sites, all of Reatig’s new structures ensure comfortable and safe spaces. The majority of the work in this book is located in one neighborhood of Washington, DC, Shaw, demonstrating the powerful effect architecture can have on transforming and reviving a neighborhood. Through the use of simple materials and innovative clear design, Reatig reveals how community can be achieved among inhabitants without giving up privacy or independence. All projects share the same spirit; they are imaginative, rigorous, and give priority and value to their inhabitants and enhance their quality of life. Each project has its own unmistakable identity.

Book Size: 10 x 8 in / 254 x 203 mm Format: Landscape Pages:136 Language: English Photographs:160 Illustrations: 50 Edition/ISBN: Softcover with 3/4 flaps (978-988-12249-3-4) Softcover with 3/4 flaps in slipcase  (978-988-13975-4-6)

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Architecture for the Arts | The De Santos & Sicardi Galleries

Foreword by Lars Lerup Introduction by Fernando Brave Epilogue by Anna Mod

Architecture for the Arts – De Santos & Sicardi Galleries is a unique book that details the thinking and design process behind two, multiple award-winning and frequently published, commercial art galleries. This book explores the numerous counterpoints between the two projects, their relevance as part of Houston’s distinctive architectural landscape, and the architect’s commitment to creating space to view and celebrate art.

This volume also explores the relationship between the permanent and the temporary, the built and the displayed, the design process and the buildings’ function: a true voyage into the poetry that starts with early design concepts and continues through the use of these two celebrated projects.

Book Size: 8.5 x 11 in / 215.9 x 279.4 mm Format: Portrait Pages: 192 Language: English Photographs: 300 Illustrations: 100 Edition/ISBN: Hardcover in Slipcase (978-1-946226-24-2)

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