The Architectural Association Library Cecil Balmond : a selective bibliography This bibliography contains a selected list of books and journal articles on the work and writings of Cecil Balmond. Books held in the Architectural Association Library will have the shelfmark noted.

Books (arranged alphabetically by title) Informal: the informal in architecture and engineering / Cecil Balmond, with Jannuzzi Smith; edited AA SHELFMARK: 624 BAL by Christian Brensing. Munich: Prestel, 2002 ISBN 3791324004 Natur und abstraktion: lehrstuhl Jose Luis Mateo / Cecil Balmond et al. ISBN 849207180X

Actar, 1995

Number 9: the search for the sigma code: nine fixed points in the wind / Cecil Balmond. Munich: AA SHELFMARK: 511 BAL Prestel, 1998 ISBN 3791319337 Railway Tunnel Site: nine concepts: Wiel Arets and Wim van den Bergh; Joan Busquets; Bernard Tschumi; Andreas Brandt; Henri Ciriani; Peter Wilson; Cecil Balmond; Rem Koolhaas; Pierluigi Nicolin./ Architecture International Rotterdam. Rotterdam: Uitgeverij 010, 1988 AA SHELFMARK: 711.553.12(492R) ARC

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002: Toyo Ito with Arup / Toyo Ito, Cecil Balmond. Tokyo: Telescoweb.com, 2002 ISBN 4906544819 Spiral: new directions in architecture / Victoria and Albert Museum. London: V&A, 1998 (Brief report of the seminar with Daniel Libeskind and Cecil Balmond held at the RIBA on 6 October AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(42) VIC 1998, plus 11 press cuttings about the project) SOM Journal 1 / edited by Wilfried Wang (includes contributions by Wilfried Wang, Cecil Balmond, Kenneth Frampton, Jenny Holzer, Jesse Reiser). Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2001 AA SHELFMARK: JOURNALS ISBN 3775710892 Unfolding architecture: the Boilerhouse Extension / Daniel Libeskind, Cecil Balmond. Rotterdam: AA SHELFMARK: 72.092.036(421) NET Netherlands Architecture Institute, 1996 ISBN 9056620398

Journal Articles (arranged by year and month of publication) 2002 ‘Scultura mangia architecttura [When sculpture eats architecture]’ / Artist: Anish Kapoor, with engineer: Cecil Balmond / article by Mark Irving in Domus no.853 November 2002 ‘Brief encounter: Anish Kapoor’ (brief interview with Anish Kapoor who is working with structural engineer Cecil Balmond of Arup on a sculpture for Tate Modern, the third in the Unilever series of art works) in RIBA Journal vol.109 no.10 October 2002 ‘Delight. Tea pavilion, Hyde Park, London’ Architects: Toyo Ito with engineer: Cecil Balmond / article by Catherine Slessor in Architectural Review vol.212 no.1267 September 2002 ‘Temporarer Pavillon in London [Temporary pavilion in London]’ ; Architects: Toyo Ito with engineer: Cecil Balmond / article by Thomas Madlener in Detail vol.42 no.9 Konzept September 2002

‘Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002, Kensington Gardens, London’ ; Architects: Toyo Ito Architect & Associates, Cecil Balmond with Arup / article by Takayuki Miyoshi in GA Document no.71 August 2002 ‘Serpentine Galerie Pavillon 2002, London’ [Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002, London]; Architects: Toyo Ito with engineer Cecil Balmond / article by Volker Welter in Bauwelt vol.93 no.30/31 August 2002 ‘Special issue: GA document international 2002’ (includes Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002, Kensington Gardens, London (Toyo Ito Architect & Associates with Cecil Balmond) / article by Takayuki Miyoshi in GA Document no.70 July 2002 ‘One cube or two?’; Architects: Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond / article by Marcus Fairs in Building vol.267 no.8243 (28) July 19 2002 ‘AD Profile: 155. Contemporary techniques in architecture’ (includes ‘The digital and the material: Cecil Balmond in conversation with Michael Weinstock) / article by Ali Rahim, and others in Architectural Design vol.72 no.1 January 2002

2001 ‘Summer in the city’ ; Architects: Daniel Libeskind, with structural engineer: Cecil Balmond of Arup / article by Arup in Architecture Today no.122 October 2001 ‘Daniel Libeskind in consultation with Cecil Balmond’ in Kenchiku Bunka vol.6 no.652 April 2001

2000 ‘Special issue: Coproductions’ (special issue on the relationsip between architects and engineeers – includes: Interview with Cecil Balmond, engineer, article by Philip Nobel) in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui no.329 July/August 2000 ‘Konstruktion och fria former’ [Construction and free forms] (includes interview with Cecil Balmond) / article by Mikael Bergquist in Arkitektur (Stockholm) vol.100 no.4 May 2000 ‘Access all areas’ / Michael Mackay et al [Feature on “the era of the transport super-hub”] in World Architecture no.84 March 2000

1999 ‘Organique et fluide’ (includes design for stadium in Chemnitz, Germany: P. Kulka & U Koneig, architects, C Balmond, structural engineer) in Architecture d’Aujourd’hui no.325 December 1999 ‘Drowning by numbers’ / article by Kester Rattenbury (reviews a lecture given by Cecil Balmond at the Architectural Association in London) in Building Design no.1397 May 28 1999 ‘Music theater, Graz, Austria, 1998 / New building of the Architectural Institute of Venice University Magazzini Frigoriferi a San Basilio, Venice, Italy 1998 – competition entries by Van Berkel & Bos of UN-Studio with Cecil Balmond’ in A+U: architecture and urbanism No.3 (342) March 1999 ‘La nueva estructura y lo informal = New structure and the informal’ / Cecil Balmond in Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme no.222 1999

1998 ‘Constructies ontfutseld aan het grid. Dragende architectuur van Cecil Balmond [Architecture freed from the straitjacket of construction – the work of Cecil Balmond] / article by Ed Melet in Architect (The Hague) vol.29 no.12 December 1998 ‘Costruzioni [Tectonics] / article by Guy Nordenson and others (includes ‘New structure and the informal, by Cecil Balmond) in Lotus no.98 September 1998 ‘Engineering by numbers’ / article by Jeremy Melvin (Arup’s Cecil Balmond brings mathematical principles to building design, using this to free it from imposed symmetry and grids) in Architects’ Journal vol.207 no.10 March 12 1998 ’30 jahre Arch + : Architektur und Stadtebau seit 1968’ ( includes Cecil Balmond / biographical references) in Arch Plus no.139-140 December 1997 – January 1998 (entire issue)

1997 ‘Kaskadenspirale = Cascading spiral [Boilerhouse extension, London 1996] in Arch Plus no.138 October 1997 ‘AD Profile 129. New science = new architecture? / article by Charles Jencks, and others ‘New structure and the informal’ by Cecil Balmond) in Architectural Design vol.67 no.9/10 September/October 1997

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‘Libeskind goes ‘Beyond the Wall’ in Rotterdam [exhibition review] / article by Andrew Mead in Architects’ Journal vol.206 no.9 September 11 1997 ‘Chemnitz athletic stadium’ ; Architects: Peter Kulka and Ulrich Konigs / article by the architects, and others (includes ‘New structure and the informal, by Cecil Balmond) in Assemblage no.33 August 1997 ‘Huit portraits d’ingenieurs (includes Cecil Balmond) in Architecture Interieure Cree no.277 1997

1996 ‘Informeller Diskurs uber die Konstruktion / Cecil Balmond (discusses the structure of Balmond’s entry for the Chemnitz stadium competition) in Arch Plus no.131 April 1996

1994 ‘Congrexpo’ / Cecil Balmond (On the congress hall for Euralille, France. Architects: Rem Koolhaas/OMA; Francois Delhay; engineers: Cecil Balmond, Ove Arup & Partners. Includes a short essay by Cecil Balmond) in Arch Plus no.124-125 December 1994 ‘Gran escala [Grand scale] / article by Luis Fernandez-Galiano, and others (includes ‘The mechanical egg: lights and covers in the conference/exhibition centre in Lille, by Cecil Balmond) in Arquitectura Viva no.39 November /December 1994

1993 ‘Speical issue. Armadillos’ / article by Manuel Gausa, and others (includes ‘The engineer in the architectural project, by Cecil Balmond) in Quaderns no.199 1993

‘Informelles Konstruieren’ / Cecil Balmond (Architectural engineering in projects by Rem Koolhaas) in Arch Plus no.117 June 1993

1992 ‘Room / Ahrensfelde Triangle / Norwich Castle Museum (includes ‘Ahrensfelde Triangle, Berlin : Harrison, Turnbull with Cecil Balmond and Nick McMahon) in AA Files no.24 Autumn 1992 ‘On architecture and engineering ‘ [interview with 16 architects and engineers] in Kenchiku Bunka vol.47 no.544 February 1992

1989 ‘Urban amnesia’ / article by Gail Hallyburton (Report on the urban design conference in Rotterdam entitled Rotterdam 88: Urban Design and Collective Memory) in Building Design no.919 January 13 1989

1986 ‘Stirling style’ / Cecil Balmond (Ove Arup’s involvement in the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie) in Building Design no.807 October 10 1986

1984 ‘Stuttgart Art Gallery’; Architects: James Stirling Michael Wilford & Associates / article by David Atling, Cecil Balmond and Tom Barker in Arup Journal vol.19 no.3 October 1984

Compiled by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian February 2003