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  • (H)eerlijk werken
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    (H)eerlijk werken

    About offices and churches

    Matthew Loulidi, Yvonne Lub, Jennifer Schoone [ed.]

    €10.00

    Architecture

     

    ISBN

    978-94-90322-28-1

    Graphic designer

    Montse Hernandez i Sala

    Number of pages

    60

    Book size

    15 x15 cm

    Binding

    Paperback

    This book is published by Jap Sam Books in cooperation with Podium voor Architectuur Haarlemmermeer en Schiphol

    Only available in Dutch

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  • 111 INCEPTION
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    111 INCEPTION

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    111 INCEPTION

    Anna Bates

    €25.00

    Architecture / New titles

    ISBN

    978-94-92852- 47-2

    Editor

    Sabine Krese

    Graphic designer

    SJG (Joost Grootens, Julie da Silva, Carina Schwake)

    Number of pages

    296

    Book size

    12.5 x 19 cm

    Binding

    Softcover

    English

    Release date: March 2022

    What is inspiration? What inspires you? 111 INCEPTION is a chain of inspiration, which involves 111 architects from around the world.

    This book was not guided by theory, yet it grew out of a search for new ways to look at authorship, ideas and inspiration. The experimental and playful character of the project itself, with its unpredictable outcomes, allowed for a much needed change of perspective—away from the traditional approach to creation characteristic of modernity and towards inspiration—which does not respect borders.

    The exhibition 100 Experiments. Inspiration in Design Processes was on show at AEDES Gallery, Berlin in 2019.

    ‘Design is not only what you see, but how it makes you feel today and how it creates your tomorrow.’ - Anna Bates

    Just a century ago Theo van Doesburg, the leading representative of De Stijl, created the painting The Rhythm of a Russian Dance (1918). Van Doesburg worked not only as a versatile artist, but also as an editor of the magazine De Stijl. He contributed to various journals and was member of various artist societies. It was his strength, as a spider in the international web and an as a networker avant-la-lettre, to forge bonds between fellow artists, architects and graphic designers, to bring them together through congresses, lectures and artist groups to promote their work.

    Eleven years later in 1929 this painting by Van Doesburg became an inspiration for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, for the German Pavilion at the 1929 World’s Fair in Barcelona. Van Doesburg’s geometrical abstraction helped to radically re-imagine the very idea of a building, gave freedom to space and quite literally brought down the walls of prior architectural conventions. The building was to become a major inspiration for the further development of modern architecture and an iconic example of the modernist aesthetic

    How does inspiration move through the atmosphere? How do we inspire each other? And how does creative inspiration itself change through each person’s unique experience? To find out, Anna Bates set an experiment by tasking one architect to use the painting of Van Doesburg as a stimulus for creating his/her own work, which would then be passed on to other architects, who in turn would draw inspiration for their new work, and over time growing into a web of conversation, interplay and inspiration—a dance all on its own. In 2017 as a starting point of this project, American architect Gary Bates of Space Group was invited to create the first work in the chain of architects.





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  • 169 KLUSHUIZEN
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    169 KLUSHUIZEN

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    169 KLUSHUIZEN

    Van experiment naar instrument

    Annemarie Sour [text], Joop Reijngoud [photography]

    €12.50

    Architecture / Special offer / Theory / Urbanism

    ISBN

    978-90-5973-116-5 [episode]

    Graphic designer

    Ping-Pong Design | Meike Nip

    Number of pages

    452

    Book size

    22 x 19,5 cm

    Binding

    Paperback

    Only available in Dutch

    This publication has been made possible by the Municipality of the City of Rotterdam

    special offer: now only € 12.50 (incl. 9% VAT) instead of € 25,00

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  • 56 Beaver Str.
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    56 Beaver Str.

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    56 Beaver Str.

    Erik Wesselo

    Erik Wesselo i.c.w. J.M. Edwards

    €29.50

    Art / Photography

    ISBN

    978-90-5973-056-4 [episode]

    Graphic designer

    Floor Koomen

    Number of pages

    224

    Book size

    21 x 14

    Binding

    doublepaperback

    English

    This publication has in part been made possible through the generous support of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, and drukkerij Mart Spruijt bv.

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  • A BLACK COLLAGE
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    A BLACK COLLAGE

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    A BLACK COLLAGE

    My History with African-American Art

    Rob Perrée

    €27.50

    Art / New titles

    ISBN 978-94-92852-89-2
    Price € 27,50
    Author Rob Perrée
    Editor Eleonoor Jap Sam
    Translation Robert van de Walle, Jane Hall
    Design Mainstudio (Edwin van Gelder)
    Number of pages 512
    Book size 12 x 19 cm
    Binding softcover
    Printer ORO Grafisch projectmanagement
    Language English edition
    Release date November 2023
    Publisher Jap Sam Books 

    Made possible with the support of Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, and Mondriaan Fund

    [this is the ENGLISH EDITION, for DUTCH EDITION see DUTCH EDITION]

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  • A Colour Has Many Layers. Liesbeth Piena
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    A Colour Has Many Layers. Liesbeth Piena

    Mirjam Westen [ed.] Jurriaan Benschop, Francis Nagy [text]

    €20.00

    Art / Landscape | Nature

    ISBN

    978-94-92852-41-0

    Graphic designer

    Florian Schimanski

    Number of pages

    104

    Book size

    21.3 x 28.5 cm

    Binding

    Paperback (otabind)

    English Dutch

    Release date: September 2021

    This book is published by Jap Sam Books in cooperation with Sieger White Fonds / Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and in conjunction with her solo exhibition at the Mini Galerie (3-5 September 2021). Sieger White Foundation Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

    Photo portrait by Felicity van Oort. For more information about the artist Liesbeth Piena, www.liesbethpiena.nl

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  • A Critical History of Media Art in the Netherlands
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    A Critical History of Media Art in the Netherlands

    Platforms, Policies, Technologies

    Sanneke Huisman, Marga van Mechelen [eds.]

    €39.95

    Art / Film / video / Theory



    ISBN

    978-94-92852-14-4

    Graphic designer

    Mind Design, Niels Schrader, Martijn de Heer

    Number of pages

    376

    Book size

    17 x 22 cm

    Binding

    Softcover

    Printer

    drukkerij robstolk®

     

    Date of Release: November 2019

    English

    Translation: Michael Meert (Dutch/English)
    Image editing: Sanneke Huisman, Marga van Mechelen, assisted by Maan Meelker
    Glossary: Sanneke Huisman, Eleonoor Jap Sam, Alexandre Michaan, Marga van Mechelen, assisted by Zoë Spaaij
    Printing, lithography and binding: robstolk®
    Project coordination and publisher: Eleonoor Jap Sam

    Published by Jap Sam Books and made possible with the generous support of the Creative Industries Fund NL, Mondriaan Fund, LIMA and V2_.


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  • A Decade of Country Hits
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    A Decade of Country Hits

    Art on the Rural Frontier

    Edited by Margo Handwerker | Foreword by Richard Saxton

    €35.00

    Architecture / Art / Design / Landscape | Nature / Theory / Urbanism

    ISBN

    978-94-90322-40-3

    Graphic designer

    Peter de Kan

    Number of pages

    544

    Book size

    17 x 23 cm

    Binding

    Bound with open spine

    1304 grms 

    English

    Release date: Spring 2014 

    For more information also see: www.richardsaxton.org www.M12studio.org

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  • A E I OU
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    A E I OU

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    A E I OU

    Articles, Essays, Interviews and Out-takes by Tony Fretton

    Tony Fretton

    €27.50

    Architecture / Home page / Theory

    ISBN

    978-94-90322-70-0

    Graphic designer

    Studio Joost Grootens, Joost Grootens, Dimitri Jeannottat

    Number of pages

    160

    Book size

    13.5 x 21 cm

    Binding

    Softcover

    English

    Date of release: February 2018

    This publication is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL. 

    For more information: www.tonyfretton.com/  

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  • A Fair Share of Utopia
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    A Fair Share of Utopia

    Nest – space for contemporary art

    €15.00

    Art / Literature / New titles

    ISBN

    978-94-92852-34-2

    Graphic designer

    Michiel Niesen | ZetProducties (book design), Soft Turbo (cover design)

    Number of pages

    96

    Book size

    15.6 x 22 cm

    Binding

    Softcover

    Date of Release: July 1, 2021

    English

    Edited by Manon Braat, Heske ten Cate, JLC Coburn, Eleonoor Jap Sam and Clara Ronsdorf. 

    Editors Dutch publication: Manon Braat, Heske ten Cate, Lieneke Hulshof and Maurits de Bruijn. 

    Translations: JLC Coburn, Manon Braat and Urgent Vertalen.

    This publication was made possible through the support of BankGiro Loterij Fonds, Mondriaan Fund, Gemeente Den Haag and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.

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  • A Photographic Portrait of a Landscape
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    A Photographic Portrait of a Landscape

    New Dimensions in Landscape Philosophy

    Pietsie Feenstra, Wapke Feenstra, myvillages.org

    €24.50

    Art / Bookazines / Series / Landscape | Nature / Philosophy / Photography / Poetry / Theory

    ISBN

    978-94-90322-37-3

    Graphic designer

    Mind Design - Niels Schrader

    Number of pages

    272

    Book size

    15,5 x 22 cm

    Binding

    Paperback

    Date of Release: November 2012

    English

    In 2010 Jap Sam Books and Myvillages formed an editorial alliance to produce a new series of books.  This is the second publication in this series of books.

    Translation NL-EN Kathleen van Overzee-McMillian

    The research for this publication was supported by Fryslan 2018 and Villagers of Wjelsryp.

    This publication was made possible by the Mondriaan Fund and the Netherlands Architecture Fund.

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  • A Schelde Riverscape
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    A Schelde Riverscape

    Vlassenbroek __________ Broekkant

    Wapke Feenstra (Myvillages), Ronald Van de Sompel

    €24.50

    Art / Landscape | Nature

    ISBN

    978-94-90322-55-7

    Graphic designer

    Montse Hernandez i Sala

    Number of pages

    208

    Book size

    21 x 27

    Binding

    Softcover

    Dutch-English

    Translators: N/E Kathleen van Overzee-McMillian, E/N Peter Groeninck

    781 grms 

    Date of Release: October 2015

    This book is part of Tekenen in Vlassenbroek (2014-15), an art project by Wapke Feenstra (Myvillages), commissioned by the Vlaams Bouwmeester and Waterwegen & Zeekanaal in association with the Municipality of Dendermonde.

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