AA editorial board shares with you its book selection! 

Un monde de bidonvilles. Migrations et urbanisme informel, Julien Damon, Seuil, Collection République des Idées, october 2017, 128 pages, 11 euros.

The sociologist Julien Damon pursues his research works about the social poverty and slums, affecting nowadays almost a billion human beings, focusing this time on migrations and one informal urban planning especially in India, Latina America and Europe.

Copy Paste, The Badass Architectural Copy Guide, Winy Maas, Felix Madrazo, Adrien Ravon et Diana Ibáñez López, nai010, october 2017, anglais, 424 pages, 32 euros.

The reproduction and the copy in architecture: a “taboo” subject concerned and experimented for several years by the Why Factory, research institute managed by the architect Winy Maas, the cofounder of Dutch agency MVRDV.

Études sur (ce qui s’appelait autrefois) la ville, Rem Koolhaas, Payot & Rivages, october 2017, 247 pages, 18.50 euros.

New York, Londres, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris… how do these cities with so different cultures lead to similar configurations? Through a series of texts including the essay Singapore Songlines, Rem Koolhaas questions the nature of the contemporary city and its transformations in recent decades.

Le XIQ, dits et dessins d’architecture, Luca Merlini, Preface de Bernard Tschumi, MētisPresses, october 2017, 220 pages, 36 euros.

Through a lexicon of architecture with a strong graphic identity, the Swiss architect Luca Merlini questions the fundamentals of this discipline by highlighting the important interaction between drawing and words.