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On Sale Now: California College of the Arts Studio Series
Posted on Monday, July 12, 2010, by Jim Norrena
Select CCA Architecture Studio Series titles listed here can be purchased through William Stout Architectural Books. Select individual titles for specific ordering information.
5X2
CCA & University of California Berkeley College of Environmental Design
Executive Editor Balz Mueller and associate editor Mark Donohue
Paperback, 174 pages, $25
Leading architects from two countries, Switzerland and the United States, were brought together in five interviews to discuss research and the role it plays in the building process. The book 5x2 documents their international exchange revealing salient issues in contemporary practice. In the process, their discourse provides a blueprint for a new pedagogical model that values an engagement through dialog by those that shape the field, engaging students and practitioners in conversations about contemporary issues. These conversations confront the similarities and differences in education, design, and construction in the two countries in an effort to better understand how architecture is made.
Architecture for a Hybrid Landscape: Proposals for the California Delta
Edited by Katherine Rinne
Paperback, 112 pages, $25
Water and land are intimately linked in the California Delta. It is a charged landscape, full of tension both historically and literally, and heavily altered by human interventions. The Delta is also crucial to California’s water infrastructure. Students in Katherine Rinne's spring 2007 Architecture for a Hybrid Landscape studio course were asked to design a hypothetical new California Water Research and Interpretive Center facility on a specific California Delta site. This book showcases their innovative designs, essays, artworks, and photographs.
MXDF Architecture Studio: Una Propuesta Urbana para Xochimilco
CCA with University of California Berkeley & Universidad Iberoamericana
Editor Sandra Vivanco, Rene Davids, Isaac Broid, et al.
Hardcover, 91 pages, $25
The MXDF studio, the first of a series of international architectural laboratories, focuses on the Xochimilco area of Mexico City—well known for its extended series of canals which is all that remains of the ancient system of lakes stretching for most of the valley of Anahuac in the middle of which Tenochtitlan, the impressive capital of the Aztecs, was located.
Thirty-two California students and faculty traveled south producing and documenting 20 archeological pieces to serve as the “permanent collection” for a museum proposal.
Later, 43 Mexican students and faculty visited the Bay Area to review their projects. This book records their collective efforts, culminating in an exhibition at the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco.
Propositions: Thesis Research in Architecture 2007-2009
Editors Neal Schwartz and Geneviève L’Heureux
Paperback, 128 pages, $25
From Old Delhi to Jerusalem, Alameda to Philadelphia, students and faculty in the Architecture Program at California College of the Arts offer creative propositions for the potential of architecture in locations around the world. This full-color book features some of the most intriguing thesis projects to come out of the program in the last two years.
The work expands and deepens contemporary architectural practice: Frankenstein’s monster becomes a model for revitalizing a defunct naval air base; a jacket is transformed into a deployable hammock for urban living; an airport terminal is distilled down to the text on its walls and remains navigable; a decaying waterfront area in Istanbul is revitalized via reconsidered transit infrastructures. These projects and many more give a glimpse of what these promising minds will bring to the future of architecture.
Vertical Places; The Tall Building in the World City
Edited by Neal Schwartz
Paperback, 62 pages, $20
This volume is one is a series spawned by the design research of the Advanced Studios at California College of the Arts (CCA), developed under former chair Rodolphe el-Khoury. Vertical Places: The Tall Building in the World City not only takes on the complexity of the design of the tall building but also that of the tall building within the context of rapidly growing world cities—such as Beijing, Dubai, Mexico City, and Singapore. The work presented here was led by a small group of expert practitioners from Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP, San Francisco, and supported by the teaching experience of the Bay Area firm of GDeS Architecture and Planning.
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