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Culicidae Press, LLC and its subsidiary Culicidae Architectural Press is a full-service publishing house with a focus on academic texts about architectural history, theory, criticism, and sustainable practice.
We are also interested in publishing interdisciplinary projects by authors who bridge the space between music, architecture, and the health sciences.
In addition to publishing books we currently offer graphic design, individual layout, cover art, ISBN numbers, as well as editorial services. Books are printed using print-on-demand leader Lulu.com. Pricing is competitive.
For more information please go to http://www.cularchpress.com
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Print: $22.49 "Essays on the Intersection of Music and Architecture" is a collection of nine
texts written by international scholars. Most of the essays were originally presented at the interdisciplinary conference Architecture | Music | Acoustics that took place in Toronto, Canada, in June 2006 at Ryerson University.
The texts range from historiographical and theoretical explorations of the relations between music and architecture via translations of architectural spaces into music to analytical case studies of architectural spaces for musical
performance. The book includes illustrations, author biographies, and an index. For more information see the review.
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Print: $13.96 An intuitive and interactive way to learn how to read music by combining music notation with biographies of twenty-five internationally known women composers from four thousand years ago to the present. The first of a multi-volume set. The biographies of the following women composers are included in this volume: Enheduanna, Kassia, Hildegard von Bingen, Maddalena Casulana, Francesca Caccini, Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Anna Amalia, Theresia von Paradis, Agata Szymanowska, Clara Schumann, Lili Oukalani, Agathe Backer Grondahl, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Teresa Carreno, Dame Ethel Smyth, Amy Beach, Nadia Boulanger, Florence Price, Jean Coulthard, Peggy Glanville Hicks, Marian McPartland, Erzsebet Szonyi, Sofia Gubaidulina, Kikuko Masumoto, and Anoushka Shankar. Several quiz pages with answers and a bibliography are included.
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Print: $65.95 Download: $16.95 Delight’s Muse is a blessedly short, accessible, and thoughtfully illustrated summary of Christopher Alexander’s four volume work, The Nature of Order. It rescues readers from the massive effort required to navigate Alexander’s 2000-page labyrinth without map or compass.
Delight’s Muse will interest not only fans of Alexander’s earlier books (the best known being A Pattern Language from 1977, and The Timeless Way of Building from 1979) but everyone willing to entertain a fresh and stimulating way to observe the world and the variety of things we place in it.
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Print: $12.96 Music and Healing Across Cultures unfolds the mechanics of the relationship between music, healing, and the cosmos. It shows the organizing power of this tradition in its ability to even promote mind/body coordination in schizophrenics. This systematic, scientific approach to ethnomusicology and anthropology stands as a beacon light to those researchers who wish to make use of an ancient and wiser time when drums and restraints were preempted by creative energy and inner calm. Those incapable of feeling happiness are found dancing with joy. Those who could not speak are singing.
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Print: $20.15 A book that teaches hands-on perspective drawing using the projected image method developed by architect and former University of Florida architecture professor Harry Merritt. The book includes detailed instructions on how to generate one-, two- and three-point perspectives. With many illustrations and a Preface by Culicidae Architectural Press editor Mikesch Muecke.
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Print: $13.50 A book of children's stories, poems, tongue-twisters, proverbs, and brain-teasers from Africa by Sr. Stella Sabina, an author from Uganda who studied in Kenya and now lives and works in Indiana, USA.
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Print: $23.95 Download: $9.95 An illustrated chronicle of the design and installation of the mechanical action house organ Opus 28/Emily by A. David Moore (Pomfret, Vermont), commissioned by organist and music professor Miriam Zach for her home in Gainesville, Florida.
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Print: $35.95 Download: $12.95 A collection of color photographs with short stories—in English and German—that trace twentyfive years of the author's work and life.
Eine Sammlung von Fotografien mit Kurzgeschichten—auf Englisch und Deutsch—die fünfundzwanzig Lebens- und Werkjahre des Autoren beschreiben.
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Print: $25.50 Download: $9.95 Documentation of a modern design/build renovation of a universal-design bathroom suite for a retired and disabled music teacher by the design company misumiwaDesign. Includes numerous full-color illustrations of design sketches and drawings as well as demolition, construction, and in-use photographs.
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Print: $22.52 Download: $12.78 PhotoGraphs is an eclectic collection of ‘written light’ (photo- = ‘light’ + -graph = ‘written’), assembled over a time span of twenty-five years.
Each of the 125 images is countered by a short short-story—sometimes only a few words—that provide a historical, cultural, critical, architectural, artistic, and/or humorous context for the visual subject matter, which ranges from detailed views of textures/environments via interior and exterior architectural spaces to landscapes.
The reader can start on any page in the book since the images are arranged in no particular order, even if at times correspondences between certain photographs and texts emerge.
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Print: $19.95 Until now Gottfried Semper (1803-1873) has been framed as an important theoretician but a merely historicist architect. With a few exception no scholar has so far analyzed the resonance between his writings and his built works. Rather than limit himself to a historical analysis of either, the author explores in this text the consequences of thinking architectural production as the convergence of writing and building in six of Semper’s lesser known works, developed during his tenure in Zurich, Switzerland, between 1854 and 1871.
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Download: $5.95 View of Wabash Avenue and 'L' track in Chicago, looking south on March 24, 2007. One bird in the foggy sky.
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Disc: $9.95 SANIBONA is 'hello' in the Zulu language of Southern Africa. This CD brings to the world stage the first African techno-folk music. This is a genre of music that combines authentic traditional African folksongs and dance rhythms using both traditional and modern instrumentation with enhanced electronic processing (EEP). Dr. David Akombo together with his MTI Arts International band members Eric Doebel and Steven Adamski have brought together the magical rhythms and melodies of African music using song, bamboo flutes, African xylophones, shakers, and the European clarinet, as well as a keyboard synthesizer. The SANIBONA CD celebrates Africa’s great diversity unified by a neo-traditional folklore.
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Print: $22.95 Download: $7.95 A design/build project by misumiwaDesign, in which the company transformed a 1970s kitchen to 21st-century standards for a disabled and retired music teacher. The book chronicles the design decision-making process through sketches, CAD drawings, demolition, construction, and final installation/in-use photographs, and a descriptive text.
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Print: $22.00 Download: $11.22 Essays on Architecture contains twelve texts (with illustrations) on a variety of topics that engage architecture, history, theory, philosophy, and popular culture.
There are four thematic sections: Architecture & Mobility (academic tourism and literary readings of Rome; an architectural AutoBiography), Philosophy & Aesthetics (the figure of the collector in Walter Benjamin’s work; the idyll in 19th-century representations of interiors in Germany; the joints between beauty, ugliness, and caricature in the work of Karl Rosenkranz), Case Studies (Las Vegas and water management; Koolhaas’ design of Euralille; the history and theory of Princeton’s architecture building), and History, Theory, and Practice in Gottfried Semper’s Work (the effect of Semper’s ideas on architects in the US; two comparative design studies (Semper and Schinkel, Semper and Paxton); a detailed examination of Semper’s most unusual work, the Treichler laundry ship).
A bibliography and index are included.
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NyibaNyiba (DVD)
Disc: $14.95 Nyiba DVD by Dr. David O. Akombo is a well-choreographed fusion of African traditional, neo-traditional and contemporary dance styles. It captures all the excitement and style of African dances. These dances have their origins in South African Zulu people, Zimbabwean Shona people, Ghanaian Ewe people, and Kenyan Luyha people. Choreographed to imitate the social economic activities of the people of Africa, the dances also feature the African wildlife such as lions and elephants, and their habitats, and behavior. This DVD is a great addition to college level and university dance repertoires and world music classes
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Print: $19.75 The purpose of this book is to offer the reader the chance to explore, experience, and discover the public and private gardens and nurseries in Iowa. I have had the good fortune to visit many of these over the last ten years and must say that the horticultural entities of this state will prove amazing for those who have yet to embark on a quest to see them. Some of my favorite gardens and nurseries in the world lie between the waters of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, and it is my goal to share them with you in a succinctly written guide that leads you on adventures much like I’ve had.
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