fourthdoor books
A specialist sustainability and experimental book imprint
Fourth Door Books
Our Books
You’ll find information about our first books on this page
Super-Thatch provides an up-to-the-minute overview* of a quiet pan-European materials revolution, showcasing four of the highest profile thatch clad projects in Britain and on the continent.
The 64 page book comprises three sections:
Part I
The making of the University of East Anglia’s Enterprise Centre natural materials showcase by the leading sustainable architectural practice, Architype.
Part II
Three continental examples of nature visitor centres using thatch; the Wadden Sea Visitor Centre, Denmark by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekten, the Beautour biodiversity centre in Britanny, France by GuineePotin Architecte, and the Takern Naturum visitor centre, Lake Takern, Sweden by Wingardh Arkitektur. Also included is an essay on why architects are using thatch for nature visitor centres.
Part III
The Dutch origins of the return of thatch as a contemporary building material, including an essay on the Dutch Thatchers Federation and MohnBauman’s Felsoord Day Centre.
Designed with the care associated with Fourth Door Review, Super-Thatch uses special straw flecked sustainable paper stocks to support the edition’s theme.
Super-Thatch is the first in the imprints New Vernaculars architecture and sustainability culture series, which will be grown into a full series over the next years. The edition is complemented by a special thatch (and straw) themed edition of Fourth Door’s Unstructured extra web-magazine.
64 pages, A4, Full Colour
£30.00 (plus £2.50/£5.00 Post and Packing (UK/Europe)
With folder £35.00
*a second edition is being prepared for publication.
Treating the Copy – FDR Xperimentum is a first art book from Fourth Door Books. A visual story book, an exploration of the copy, the copied and the original in the print and design technology context, and a meta-observation on Fourth Door Review, Treating the Copy is a small, singular piece of book artwork.
64 pages, A5, Full Colour and B&W
£15.00 (plus £2.50/£5 Post and Packing UK/Europe)
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The second of the FDR X(perimentum) series (Sometimes I Feel So) Unintentional features several visual stories drawing in stillness and speed yet leading to the same source, along with an essay on the culture and meaning of Meetingization by Thomas Yarrow and the water colour art of Clare Belbin.
118 pages, A5, Full Colour and B&W
£20.00 (plus £2.50/£5 Post and Packing UK/Europe)
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Still: Empty Flowers & Other Fields
Three artists working with nature across book art, water colour and photography
Still: Empty Flowers & Other Fields is Fourth Door first art book. Themed around three artists working with and in nature and their connection to Chinese nature art traditions the book offers an insightful and original approach into the work of the three artists: Helen Douglas, one of Britain earliest generation book artists, Clare Belbin, a water colour artist who has committed much of her practice to working within the four walls of several Yorkshire walled gardens, and Sandra Kantanen, the Finnish photographer who developed a unique approach to the photographic image while living and working in China.
Draft details 84 pages, A5, Full Colour and B&W, £30.00 (plus £3.50/£5 Post and Packing UK/Europe)
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Landlines – the Land Art Editions
A special handmade edition of Fourth Door Review’s Land Art material
A unique book for the Fourth Door Review land art editions
Landlines draws together four Fourth Door Review editions – no’s 6, 7, 8 & 9 – each of which highlight Land Art and Land Artists, which are held within a unique handmade ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ art book design holder. These editions include in-depth interviews with and features on Andy Goldsworthy (no’s 6. & 7), Chris Drury (no 8) and David Nash (No 9) which come with the Landlines holder. Please allow two weeks for orders to be processed, as the Landlines holders are individually made.
£115.00 (plus £35/45/55.00 Post and Packing UK/Europe/USA)
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