This book is a dynamic and generously illustrated survey of independent publications that are breathing new life into old media.

Between 2003 and 2005, artists Lina Kim and Michael Wesely scoured public and private archives in an ambitious effort to survey, catalog and restore photographs of the construction of Brasilia, many of which were inaccessible to the public and at risk of disappearing. The two carried out a monumental job of researching and

While the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century diminished the role of the craftsperson in the manufacturing process, the digital revolution has had a less devastating effect. Today’s digital technologies have given rise to entirely new working methods, skill sets, and consumer products that don’t eliminate, but enrich traditional hand techniques.

Lighthouse is packed with extraordinary stories of human innovation, desperate shipwrecks, builders defying the elements and heroic sea rescues. Through more than 350 gorgeous vintage images and historic details, Lighthouse brings the golden age of seafaring alive.

With the intention to inspire, the clear instructions and hand-drawn illustrations make it wonderfully easy to assemble items like this Flying Shelf by Matteo Thun." -Absolutely City & Angel "Ever wanted to actually use the drill your aunt bought you three Christmases ago? Try one of these 50 DIY builds from the world's most lauded artists and designers...

OPTIONS offers a non-linear reading of the events that led to the annexation of South Tyrol to Italy at the end of WWI. When the area between the present-day Austrian and Trentino boundaries officially became an Italian province in 1919, a choice was given to the local communities: they could either stay, naturalise as Italians and side with the Fascists, or they could emigrate to the Third Reich and leave behind their culture and possessions.

Im Jahr 1932 errichtet der junge Marcel Breuer sein architektonisches Erstlingswerk: ein Wohnhaus für die Familie Harnischmacher in Wiesbaden. Nach dem Krieg baut der mittlerweile in den USA lebende Architekt nur wenige Meter vom ursprünglichen Bau entfernt für dieselbe Familie ein neues Domizil: Haus Harnischmacher II. Anders als sein Vorgängerbau bleibt dieses Projekt, das einzige bis heute erhaltene Wohnhaus Marcel Breuers in Deutschland, weitgehend unbeachtet.

Angelegt als »Emotional Catalog of Booths«, diskutiert das Buch anhand der vielfältigen Stimmen einer eklektischen Gruppe von Autorinnen die Typologie der Booth – Buden, Stände, Kabinen, Kapseln, Zellen – als Inbegriff (räumlicher) Intimität. Mit einer Reihe von ausführlichen Interviews sowie Beiträgen von Künstlerinnen, Architektinnen, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Schriftsteller*innen, bildet das Buch den Kern einer fortdauernden künstlerischen und architektonischen Forschung zur Verschränkung von Raum und Emotion.

Seit dem Ende der 1960er Jahre gehen vom Wirken des Museosophen, Designers, Architekten und Medieninterventionisten Peter Noever – seit 1986 Direktor des MAK in Wien – wesentliche Impulse aus.

Wien is a perennial calendar featuring twelve illustrated glimpses of contemporary Vienna. Francesco Ciccolella, born in Salzburg in 1990, is an illustrator and graphic artist living in Vienna. His award-winning illustration work regularly appears on the covers of international newspapers and magazines or on advertising billboards around the globe. And now, on a brand-new calendar. Limited edition of 500

Dada Afrika erscheint anlässlich von Ausstellungen im Museum Rietberg Zürich und in der Berlinischen Galerie im Frühjahr und Sommer 2016 und untersucht erstmals die Auseinandersetzung der Dada-Bewegung mit der außereuropäischen Kunst und Kultur.

Nach 80 Jahren wieder im Umlauf: bauhaus – die neue Zeitschrift der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau. Neues aus der Bauhauswelt, Essays, Interviews und mehr. Als im Dezember 1926 das Bauhausgebäude in Dessau eröffnet wurde, erschien zum ersten Mal die Zeitschrift bauhaus. Sie berichtete

Whether you have already tried your hand at bookbinding or are a complete beginner, Rachel's knowledge and passion will inspire you to explore the many possibilities of bookart.

The two-dimensional drawing with plan layout, elevation, and section is a necessary prerequisite for all building. Perspectives help to give three-dimensional expression to the architect’s ideas.

This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect’s work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wright’s projects,

Die überarbeitete, aktualisierte und um fast 100 Projekte erweiterte Neuausgabe des Katalogs zur «a_schau», der Dauerausstellung über die österreichische Architektur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts im Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W), ist zu einem eigenständigen Werk geworden, das weit über die Ausstellung hinausweist.

Im Fokus dieser Publikation stehen die Fotoarbeiten von Aglaia Konrad und Armin Linke zu wegweisenden Hollein-Bauten der vergangenen fünf Jahrzehnte.

How to Book in Berlin serves as a comprehensive guide to bookmaking and publishing, offering insights we wished we had when we were starting out. It includes information on research methods, funding strategies, production techniques and distribution approaches, all underpinned by the perspectives and advice of experienced publishers. Our ultimate ambition is to alleviate the challenges often associated with the journey of creating artists’ books and to foster meaningful connections within the diverse and vibrant artists’ book communities.

Notes on Book Design is a collection of 50 texts written by designers Siri Lee Lindskrog and Amanda-Li Kollberg of graphic and type design studio Formal Settings, based on books from the collection of Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin.

Manifesto per una nuova ceramica [For a Manifesto of the New Ceramics] is born from the necessity to shape a shared feeling, a “trembling,” that crossed the Italian and international ceramics landscape in the past few years. Irene Biolichini, curator and professor, intercepted this sensation and,

Bruno Flierl gehört zu den bedeutenden Architekturkritikern unserer Zeit. Diese Textsammlung umfasst eine Auslese seiner wissenschaftlichen Arbeit als Historiker, Theoretiker und Kritiker der Architektur und des Städtebaus seit den Sechzigerjahren des 20. Jahrhunderts.

“Urban Kitsch”, originally written in 1996, explores the forms of vernacular visual culture that emerged in the city of Baroda following the liberalization of the Indian economy. Plastic toys, celebrity mud flaps, and postmodern architecture collide into a new formal category—both celebrated and derided—as Praneet Soi traverses the city on his trusted Yamaha RX 100.

In the turbulent square of Martim Moniz, stands a robust building by the architect Bartolomeu Costa Cabral. Invited by TECLA PLAY Cultural Association, artist Leylâ Gediz presents an installation of paintings in the interior gallery of the building,

Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost and Dominique Perrault invited the historian Frédéric Prot and the photographer Philippe Chancel to reveal, both in writing and images, this radical work by the architect Jean Dubuisson that he designed during the 1960s, as well as the commitment of his client André Weil to build a domain at Pontpoint.

This special issue is the cataLog for “Model Behavior,” a group exhibition of models, architectural and otherwise, curated by the Anyone Corporation and presented by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, in New York City. The exhibition, which ran October 4–November 18, 2022, questioned the role of the model in projecting or eliciting social behavior.

Aldo and Hannie van Eyck met as students of architecture and married in 1942. They worked

Stijn van der Linden's photobook is an exploration of how spaces become spaces and how photography can influence this process, presenting a scientifically detailed, in-depth analysis of an urban feature seen in every city: the concave corner.

Throughout the history of the built environment there has been no more significant endeavor than the construction of houses of worship, which were once the focal point around which civilizations and city-states developed. Constructing the Ineffable is the first book to examine this topic across continents and from the perspective of

Which code to read the world with? Which story to invoke the world with? Connectings (2021) is an artist book by Adéla Součková that addresses the contemporary mythological world. Součková‘s pictographic blue and red line drawings depict a human gaining self-awareness through the connection between the Sky and the Earth.

This book is dedicated to the work of Roberto Sironi, as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers. The activity of the Italian designer unfolds through highly symbolic projects, based on his personal interest in anthropology and ethnology.

This book is dedicated to the work of Marcin Rusak, as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers. Beside testing new channels of preferential relationship between art and science as well as between artisanal and industrial manufacturing processes, the Polish designer is known for having contributed

More just spatial practices are to be found in the diversity and nuances of myriad space-making paradigms that tackle local challenges while providing credible responses to current global issues. In Radical Rituals, we collect spatial protocols following an imaginary line: the 45°N parallel.

This book is an extension and continuation of an artwork titled Proposal for a House Museum of an Unknown Crying Man by artist Mahmoud Khaled, in which he imagines a house museum for an anonymous person who has entered Egypt’s queer history as an „Unknown Crying Man“ and iconic image.

The Library of Mr. & Mrs. Neutra uses the built environment of Richard and Dione Neutra’s VDL House (1932/1965) as a space for site-specific research into the content and material structure of the modernist architect’s library.

First published in Italy in 1956, Bruno Munari's »In the Darkness of the Night« tells the tale of an interconnected, intimate yet expansive journey across three settings—in the darkness, through a meadow, and into a mysterious cave—through a spellbinding combination of paper stocks, transparencies, cutouts, and simple but lively characters. This timeless artist's book, available in a new English edition, is a must-have for Munari fans, designers, bibliophiles, and lovers of exceptional book design.

It creates expanded and stratified performances which also include the implementation and dissemination of design collections, audio-visual formats and editorial products.

NORMAL 2 - direkter Urbanismus x 4 zeigt die Realisierungen der 4 künstlerisch-urbanen Interventionen für NORMAL - ein Projekt für das Graz Kulturjahr 2020 und verortet diese im internationalen Diskurs, basierend auf transparadisos Methode des direkten Urbanismus.

Ein präziser Blick auf das architektonische Umfeld, den sozialen Kontext und die geografischen Gegebenheiten wurde für die Projekte durchgehend vorausgesetzt, die im dritten Band der von András Pálffy edierten Reihe Konzept und Entwurf präsentiert werden.

Schweizer Möbeldesign / Mobilier Suisse 1927-1984 is a comprehensive survey of Swiss furniture design from the late 1920s to the early 1980s. Edited by Gilbert Frey, the volume documents key developments in Swiss modern and post-war furniture with a bilingual German/French text and extensive visual documentation. It covers seminal designers and movements in Swiss applied arts and industrial design, situating them in the broader context of European design history. The book features numerous illustrations — including photographs and technical drawings — to trace the evolution of form, material, and function in Swiss furniture.

In 1994, after seeing photographs of the plastic sheets given to Rwandan refugees to live under, Shigeru Ban went to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to propose ideas for better shelters. Since then, Ban has been critically heralded for his innovative approaches to environmentally sound architecture and his devotion to humanitarian efforts in the wake of some of the most devastating natural and man-made disasters.

Featuring a wealth of sketches, precision drawings, and computer-generated artwork, as well as a range of styles, concepts, languages, and alphabets, Free Hand illustrates the idiosyncratic creative processes behind the design of typefaces, logos, and word-images.

Walter Knoll gilt als Möbelmarke der Moderne, die Klassiker und Ikonen der Avantgarde geschaffen hat: Möbelstücke, die stilbildend wirken und unser Lebensgefühl nachhaltig prägen.

Alter Architecture Research Collective (AARC) is an interdisciplinary group of thinkers and practitioners that come together to observe, question, and distort existing strategies of cultural and spatial production.

As we shift in and out of a fold in time on a global and local scale, we reflect upon community importance. To stay as a whole - we must look inwards and form external connections. CODE52 01 is titled A Fold In Time Here and Elsewhere as it refers to the state of conscious­ness during this time of uncertainty.

Can corporate history be art? This question can only be asked if one is not familiar with the fascinating long-term project by the Chinese artist Xiaowen Zhu. Anyone who has experienced Oriental Silk will answer this question with a clear “yes.” The project’s title is also the name of a company founded in Los Angeles in the early 1970s.

Skinned and Detouched, by Alice Channer, are a pair of books about feelings. They are intended as portals to a single performative stage in the industrial production of two sculptures, and as an imaginative documentation of the multiple embodiments and disembodiments involved.

The book, Architecture as Fabulated Reality, marks the culmination of AAPK’s four experimental architectural projects, which employed virtual reality technology (VR) as the primary medium.

Visual and textual narratives coexist in the book, as this type of material needs not only visual but also textual support. They address the given subject in the wider chronological order: from the 20th century avant-garde to the present. Most importantly, the publication focuses on the Kharkiv school of industrial graphics and the accomplishments of Volodymyr Pobiedin.

The first comprehensive study of Knoll's innovative textile designs and the company's role within the history of interior design In 1940, Hans Knoll founded a company in New York that soon earned a reputation for its progressive line of furniture. Florence Schust joined the firm and helped establish its interior design division, the Knoll Planning Unit. In 1947, the year after their marriage, Hans and Florence Knoll

Ce livre - un projet porté par l’association Atelier d’Architecture Pierre Hebbelinck & Pierre de Wit et Atelier d'Architecture Hart Berteloot -

“Types of Assembly” is expanding the scope of typological investigations in order to detect the underlying mechanisms leading to assemblies in space—its collective rituals, political movements, spiritual dimensions, imaginary projections, everyday practices—and, it is suggesting that the performative quality of typological formation unfolds its true transformative potential within the timespan of hours, years and ages.

Das Werkverzeichnis Maria Pergay – Complete Works 1957-2010 ist die erste umfassende, monografische Werkschau der legendären französischen Möbeldesignerin....

Seit ihrem Erscheinen hat die durch den Philosophen Wolfgang Scheppe an der Universität für Architektur in Venedig (IUAV) unternommene vierjährige Studie zur globalisierten Stadt den Rang eines Standardwerks erreicht.

This book is a faithful reflection of the modus operandi and spirit that pervade the professional life of Josep Lluís Mateo, unquestionably one of the Spanish architects’ offices that has had the greatest impact on the international scene.

Chipperfield's design for the third and final building in a complex for the German clothing retailer Ernsting completes the compound and provides office space for business and retail managers as well as a Research & Development department. Fine condition. English / German.

Bibliophil und stimmungsvoll: das Architekturbuch über Architekturbücher
Projekte aus der Arbeit von Wiel Arets Architects, Fotografien von Bas Princen

Otto Wagner (1841–1918), einer der Pioniere der modernen Architektur, beschritt auch in seiner leidenschaftlichen Argumentation für einen radikalen Wandel im Bauen völlig neue Wege.

“So photography says nothing, you see.” Loos could not adhere to such enormous skepticism concerning the photographic representability of his architecture, however, when a monograph of his buildings was to be published in 1931.