RIEAch
PUBLICATIONS / CONCEPT SERIES
ONE PROJECT, ONE THINKING PROCESS, INNOVATIVE, EXPERIMENTAL. THE CORE OF THE RIEAch CONCEPT SERIES
The RIEAch Concept Series presents one innovative research and experimental project in architecture initiated and implemented both by RIEAch and individual architects. It aims at exposing one work in architecture and related fields to a wide professional and lay public.
January 2009
PARKitectOUR
Lafranchi, Guy
PARKitectOUR, is a book which documents the three student workshops held in Italy and Switzerland by the University Of
Applied Sciences of Bern. The task was to show Parkour and architecture within urban projects. Parkour is a new sport that
was created in the suburbs of Paris.
AMAZON
May 2008
MORPHÊ
MRGD
Digital technologies influence architecture, art and design. These new technologies are generally used for preliminary design work and presentations, which hardly tap their experimental potential.
AMAZON
February 2007
THE HANGING CEMETERY OF BAGHDAD
Jackowski, Nannette; Ostos, Ricardo
The London-based NaJa and deOstos architecture office was founded by Nannette Jackowski and Ricardo de Ostos as a
platform for experimental architecture. One of their projects is
the "Hanging Cemetery of Baghdad”, which they have
continuously developed since 2004.
AMAZON
June 2006
TRANSIENT SEDIMENTATION
Kordetzky, Lars
Nature, landscape, cities, suburbs and sub-suburbs as well as
cities and dissolving locations, lines that densify, transform themselves and re-dissolve. "Transient Sedimentation” is an exploration of city movement, landscape and of unknown, invisible spaces.
AMAZON
September 2005
SPACE OUT
Kotoulas, Sotirios
The experimental and partly realized work of Sotirius Kotoulas, an architect living in New York City, has often attracted attention in the USA. He is presently working on a design for a house in Seriphos, Greece.
AMAZON
July 2003
GR(O)UND
Woods, Lebbeus; Lafranchi, Guy
The site and subject of the workshop was Lower Manhattan in New York City. The underlying theme combined "ground” and the German word "Grund” referring to the foundation of ideas that give a rational structure to urban activity.
AMAZON
July 2002
HISTOARMINA
Woods, Lebbeus; Lafranchi, Guy
With the unique coastal hilltown of Taormina, Sicily as both subject and setting, the authors lead a team of European and American students in an exploration that combines visual and conceptual design, historical references, critical discourse, and both local and global issues with innovative new methods of individual creativity and collaboration.
AMAZON
November 2001
EARTQUAKE!
Woods, Lebbeus
This monograph presents a summary of design research exploring the implications of earthquake for architecture and urban form in regions of seismic instability.
AMAZON
November 2001
PRISONERS OF MUSEUM
Lafranchi, Guy
The book is about a new concept of Museum. The underlying conceptual structures of present museumtypes remain much as they have been for the past two hundred years.
AMAZON