October reading list: five new-in architecture and design books

A graphic novel by Paolo Bacilieri, set among milanese the buldings by Caccia Dominioni, Ponti and Magistretti, and the rediscovery of Victor Papanek are among this month’s selection.

Tramezzino di Paolo Bacilieri

The Touch

From a collaboration between Nathan Williams (founder of the magazine Kinfolk) and Jonas Bjerre Poulsen (from the studio Norm Architects), The Touch presents 25 interior designs – museums, hotels, shops, houses: examples, as the authors explain, “for their tactile component”. There are new (John Pawson and Bijoy Jain) and classic designs (like the Brion Cemetery by Carlo Scarpa, left).

Book title:
The Touch
Authors:
Norm Architects, Kinfolk
Publisher:
Gestalten
Format:
24,5 x 33 cm
Pages:
288
Price:
45 €
ISBN:
978-3-89955-978-1

Tramezzino

In the comics of Paolo Bacilieri, architecture is often a support to the story itself. But with Tramezzino the real protagonists become the buildings of Modern Milan – Magistretti, Ponti, Caccia Dominioni – drawn with a personal touch and photographic precision.

Book title:
Tramezzino
Author:
Paolo Bacilieri
Publisher:
Canicola
Format:
30 × 42 cm
Pages:
36
Price:
17 €
ISBN:
978-8-89952-427-2

Drawings by Ico Migliore

In 176 pages, Ico Migliore gathers together approximately 100 of his sketches made in notebooks in A6 format. Divided into three main sections – sketches, views and maps – Drawings shows how the architect from Turin – founder of the studio Migliore + Servetto, former hockey player and student of Achille Castiglioni – uses drawing as an essential work instrument but also as a means to explore reality.

Book title:
Drawings by Ico Migliore. Sketches, Sceneries, Maps
Author:
Ico Migliore
Publisher:
A&C Publishing Co. Ltd
Format:
18 × 21 cm
Price:
18 $
ISBN:
978-8-97212-200-5

Design for the Real World

After the exhibition last year at the Vitra Design Museum, the rediscovery continues for Victor Papanek, a social design pioneer, with the re-issue of his seminal book Design for the Real World, after almost 50 years. Today, it is more relevant than ever, seeing the need for action due to climate change.

Victor Papanek, Design for the real world
Book title:
Design for the real world: Human Ecology and Social Change
Author:
Victor Papanek
Publisher:
Thames & Hudson
Format:
19.8 x 12.9 cm
Pages:
416
Price:
14.39 €
ISBN:
978-050029-533-5

100 Whites

“White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs speaks to us of life,” says Kenya Hara who, with 100 Whites, continues his research. This Japanese graphic designer, who since 2002 is art director at Muji, presents 100 examples – from milk to clouds, rice to the snow in Iceland – and invites to reflect on this non-colour essential to design.

100 Whites by Kenya Hara
100 Whites by Kenya Hara
Book title:
100 Whites
Author:
Kenya Hara
Publisher:
Lars Müller Publishers
Format:
13 × 18.7 cm
Pages:
224
Price:
28 €
ISBN:
978-3-03778-579-9

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