Silke Langenberg. Das Marburger Bausystem. Open as a matter of principle. Sulgen: Niggli Verlag, 2013.
It is always such a pleasure to open a Niggli book. The layout is impeccable, the photographs are well printed. They get right the weight, the format, the paper, the font, everything. Their books even smell good. The object is as important as the content. Chapeau!
Felicity Scott's latest book is all about the content. I especially enjoyed the chapter about Kevin Roche and the Ford Foundation Headquarters which sets the tone for the whole book.
Felicity D. Scott. Outlaw Territories. Environments of Insecurity / Architectures of Counterinsurgency. New York: Zone Books, 2016.
Also fascinating is the topic chosen by Clare Lyster: logistics. In the book she reads urban spaces according to operation systems and procedurals flows. Ryanair route network, FedEx network operations, Amazon storage spaces... and movement: movement is the key.
Clare Lyster. Learning from Logistics. How Networks Change Our Cities. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2016.
With The Space Between the trilogy that Alison and Peter Smithson started when they published The Charged Void (check out their 1976 lecture) is completed.
I believe the books on Herzog and de Meuron do not need any explanation.
Jean-François Chevrier. From Basel. Herzog & de Meuron. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2016.
The photographs of Richard and Cherry Kearton taking photographs in the landscape are quite unique and allow the reader to understand the labor behind their images.
John Bevis. The Keartons. Inventing Nature Photography. Axminster, Devon: Uniformbooks, 2016.
Content-wise I would certainly recommend The Apparent Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp. The author makes such an excellent point on the artist that makes you wonder why nobody thought about it before. If you are interested in curatorial practices you will be compelled to read it cover to cover. Together with Appearance Stripped Bare by Octavio Paz, this is the best book on Duchamp that I have read.
Elena Filipovic. The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016.
