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Riverside Architectural Press

Riverside Architectural Press

Euphoria & Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues
Update December 7, 2011: New price. New release date.

Edited by Sarah Cook and Sara Diamond
Essays by Sandra Buckley, Steve Dietz, Jean Gagnon, N. Katherine Hayles, Eric Kluitenberg, Jeff Lieper and Allucquere Rosanne Stone.
A compendium of some of the most important thinking about art and technology to have taken place in the last few decades at the international level. Based on the research of the Banff New Media Institute from 1995 to 2005, these essays, transcripts and artists projects celebrate the belief that artists and cultural industries, in collaboration with scientists, social scientists and humanists, have a critical role to play in developing technologies that work for human betterment and allow for a more participatory culture. Each thematic chapter features an introduction, an original essay and carefully edited transcriptions drawn from thousands of hours of audio material with artists and theorists such as Laurie Anderson, Herve Fische, Kim Sawchuck, Zainub Verjee, Bill Vorn and many others. Also included is the catalogue of the exhibition, The Art Formerly Known As New Media, and a DVD based on the electronic journal, HorizonZero. Featured artists include Geoff Lillemon, Matthew Sloly, Maria Lantin, Shu Lea Cheang, Sara Diamond, Michael Naimark, Greg Niemeyer, Catherine Richards and Martin Wattenberg, Maciej Wisniewski. With a Forward by Kellogg Booth and an Afterword by Susan Kennard.
Riverside Architectural Press (March 2012) 1104 pp 100 bw ill. 9 x 6 in softcover 978-1-894773-22-5 $39.95 Can. $45.00 U.S. (32 €)

Twenty + Change 03: Emerging Canadian Design Practices
Edited by Heather Dubbeldam and Lola Sheppard

This new publication is the third in a series profiling emerging design practices from across Canada in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Projects by nineteen Canadian designers engage the public realm in meaningful ways, investigate new ideas in collective housing and urban infill, and explore prefabrication and regional domestic vernaculars. The book includes profiles of emerging firms, project descriptions, full-colour images and essays by noted architectural critics, educators, and practitioners.

Riverside Architectural Press (December 29,2011) 128 pp col. ill. 8.5 x 7 in softcover 978-1-926724-12-6 $20.00 Can. $22.00 U.S. (14 €)

Fabricate: Making DIgital Architecture
Edited by Ruairi Glynn and Bob Sheil

Fabricate: Making Digital Architecture brings together the work of designers, engineers and makers within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, and computation. Covering a cross section of scales and typologies, the publication features 32 illustrated case studies of completed buildings, new works in progress, and the latest research in design and digital manufacturing. Practices discussed include Foster+Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, Arup, Buro Happold, Amanda Levette Architects, Ron Arad Associates, as well as renowned institutions such as Delft, Harvard, MIT, The Bartlett, CITA, and London’s Architectural Association. Punctuating chapters on academic and practice-based research, conversations between world leading experts Mark Burry, Philip Beesley, Matthias Kohler, Neri Oxman, Mark West, Michael Stacey, Hanif Kara and Sean Hanna discuss themes on drawing to production, behavioural composites, robotic assembly, and digital craft. As the scope and diversity of work shown here clearly conveys, new protocols of engagement between the design and making of digital architecture offer disciplines on all sides the challenge to rethink fabrication as a design activity, and to rethink how the necessary expertise to master this field can be acquired. With a foreword by Alan Penn and Robert Aish.

Riverside Architectural Press (05/2011)
260 pp 135 col. ill. 9.5 x 9.5 in hardcover 978-1-926724-09-6 $49.95 Can. $59.95 U.S. (40 €)

55/02: A Manufactured Architecture in a Manufactured Landscape
Peter Sharpe, Bob Sheil, Nick Callicott & Phil Ayres

This thoroughly illustrated publication documents a new project by the multidisciplinary collective sixteen*(makers). Composed of leaders from some of the most innovative schools in Europe, the group focuses on interactive 'intelligent' systems employing digital fabrication, robotics, and distributed networks of sensors and microprocessors. For more than two decades their skills have evolved by adopting techniques from the hand-made to the digitally-crafted and their output includes buildings, installations and furniture. The project 55/02 is a form of shelter that engages with the landscape and is designed to address the visitor towards the particular qualities of its unique placement. It’s name comes from its coordinates, (55° 11.30 N, 02° 29.23 W, '55/02'), in Northumbria, England.

Riverside Architectural Press (TBA. 2012) 196 pp 60 col. ill. 9 x 6 in hardcover 978-1-926724-07-2 $29.95 Can. $35.00 U.S. (24 €)

Hylozoic Ground: Liminal Responsive Architecture
Philip Beesley. Edited by Pernilla Ohrstedt and Hayley Isaacs

The Hylozoic Ground experimental architecture series developed by architect Philip Beesley has been expanded and refined by researchers, engineers and designers from around the world. It is an immersive, interactive environment that moves and breathes around its viewers, creating an environment can ‘feel’ and ‘care’. Next-generation artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and interactive technology create an environment that is nearly alive. The book contains essays by theorists and designers, extended photography, and detailed design documents of the evolving project. With contributions by Michelle Addington, Rachel Armstrong, William Elsworthy, Rob Gorbet, Eric Haldenby, Jonah Humphrey, Christian Joakim, Geoff Manaugh, Detlef Mertins, Neil Spiller, and Cary Wolfe. The Hylozoic Ground Project has been selected to represent Canada at the 2010 Venice Biennale in Architecture. Previously announced as: Responsive Envelopes: Hylozoic Soil.

(August 2010)196 pp col. ill. 9 x 7.5 in softcover 978-1-926724-02-7 $29.95 Can. $35.00 U.S. (24 €)

Kinetic Architectures and Geotextile Installations
Edited by Philip Beesley

This book documents architectural installations developed by Beesley and collaborators from 1995 through 2007. The collection includes architectural sculptures located in natural sites and works integrating kinetic components and interactive systems. Projects in the past several years have focused on immersive digitally fabricated lightweight ‘textile’ structures, and the most recent generations of his work feature responsive systems that use dense arrays of microprocessor, sensors and actuator systems. With contributions by Jean Gagnon, Eric Haldenby, Christine Macy, Andrew Payne, Robert Pepperell, Michael Stacey and Charles Stankievech.

Riverside Architectural Press (04/2010) 182 pp col. ill. 9 x 7.5 in softcover 978-0-9809856-9-6 $34.95 Can. $39.95 U.S. (28 €)

Twenty + Change 01: Emerging Toronto Design Practices
Edited by Heather Dubbeldam & Lola Sheppard

The first publication of a new series profiling emerging designers working in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. Projects by innovative Toronto designers rethink public and domestic space, new technology, and innovative materials and effects. Detailed projects and profiles on each designer are included. The collection is accompanied by essays by leading architectural critics, educators, and practitioners.

Riverside Architectural Press (July 2009)
128 pp col. ill. 8.5 x 7 in softcover 978-1-926724-00-3 $20.00 Can. $22.00 U.S. (14 €)

Twenty + Change 02: Emerging Canadian Design Practices
Edited by Heather Dubbeldam & Lola Sheppard

Published simultaneously, this second book features emerging designers across Canada and displays the breadth of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design being produced by a new generation of Canadian innovators. Projects examine new models for public space and housing, and unique relationships between single-family houses and landscape. The book includes profiles of emerging firms, project descriptions, full-colour images and essays by noted architectural critics, educators, and practitioners.

Riverside Architectural Press (July 2009)
136 pp col. ill. 8.5 x 7 in softcover 978-1-926724-01-0 $20.00 Can. $22.00 U.S. (14 €)

Ourtopias: Cities and the Role of Design
Edited by Paola Poletto, Philip Beesley, Catherine Molna

The essays in this book explore the varied and future states of cities and were developed at the Ourtopias conference at Toronto’s Design Exchange in 2007. City designers, architects and legislators offer a widely varying focus encompassing diverse public cultures and practical methods for transforming complex city forms. The word Ourtopia - our Utopia - conveys that the human experience cannot be removed from the city experience. Ten essays accompanied by numerous illustrations.

Riverside Architectural Press (2008)
130 pp col. ill. 9.5 x 7.5 softcover 978-0-9809856-0-3 $29.95 Can. $32.95 U.S. (21 euros)

Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms
Edited by Martha Ladly and Philip Beesley

This collection of original essays by international scholars, researchers and industry experts explores the emerging field of mobile experience design. Discussions are wide-ranging, addressing technological issues, such as GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and intelligent materials and garments. Designers, engineers and creators write about the potential for mobile platforms in cultural industries, architecture, engineering, industrial design, entertainment and education. Forty texts accompanied by numerous illustrations.

Riverside Architectural Press (2008)
262 pp col. ill. 10 x 7 in hardcover 978-0-9780978-4-4 $44.95 Can. $47.95 U.S. (31 euros)

North House / Maison du Nord: Team North Entry to the 2009 Solar Decathlon
Edited by Geoff Thun, Philip Beesley, Kathy Velikov, Robert Woodbury

This book documents the North House proposal for the 2009 Solar Decathlon from the pan-Canadian consortium of Waterloo, Simon Fraser and Ryerson universities. In the Solar Decathlon, teams of architects and engineers compete to build self-sufficient houses on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In English and French.

Riverside Architectural Press (2008)
92 pp col. ill. 9 x 6 in softcover 978-0-9780978-9-9 $14.95 Can. $16.95 U.S. (10 euros)

Solar House / Maison Solaire: Team Montreal Entry to the 2007 Solar Decathlon
Edited by Hugues Rivard, Philip Beesley, Anna Rocki, Robert Woodbury.

This book documents the 2007 entry of Team Montreal, a consortium between l’École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), l’Université de Montréal faculté de l’aménagement, and the McGill University School of Architecture. Technical details, a discussion of strategies for sustainable building design today, and a survey of the competition entries are included. In English and French.

Riverside Architectural Press (2007)
120 pp col. ill. 9 x 6 in softcover 978-0-9780978-8-2 $14.95 Can. $16.95 U.S. (10 euros)

The Inner Studio: A Designers Guide to the Resources of the Psyche
Andrew Levitt

Filled with examples and exercises, The Inner Studio guides readers into deeper levels of our imagination and decision making, focusing on the experience of the designer during the creative act of design. How do designers convert their subjective and often unconscious experience of the world into design? What are the creative consequences of what we may call designing from within?

Riverside Architectural Press (2007)
197 pp col. ill. 9 x 6 in softcover 978-09780978-1-3 $17.95 Can. $19.95 U.S. (12 euros)

Future Wood: Innovation in Building Design and Manufacturing
Edited by Oliver Neumann and Philip Beesley

This book brings together international designers, manufacturers and researchers who examine natural and synthetic wood technologies.

Riverside Architectural Press (2007)
127 pp col. ill. 9 x 6 in softcover 978-0-9780978-2-0 $29.95 Can. $32.95 U.S. (21 euros )

Responsive Architectures: Subtle Technologies
Edited by Philip Beesley, Sachiko Hirosue, Jim Ruxton, Marion Trankle and Camille Turner

The focus of this collection is on a new generation of interactive systems within science, art and architecture that are based on constantly evolving relationships. Using a wide definition of architecture that includes both built and natural realms, we examine dynamic systems and environments of scales from molecules to cities.

Riverside Architectural Press (2006)
239 pp col. ill. 9.5 x 8 in softcover 978-0-9780978-0-6 $34.95 Can. $37.95 U.S. (24 euros)

Digital Fabricators
Michael Stacey

This book explores the revolutionary potential of three-dimensional modeling and automated fabrication to inform the built environment. The emphasis is on experiential and tactile architecture.

Riverside Architectural Press (2004)
96 pp col. ill. 11 x 8.5 in softcover 978-18970010-3-5 $19.95 Can. $21.95 U.S. (14 euros)