The first comprehensive monograph on the cross-disciplinary practice including over 100 built and ephemeral works Since its founding in 1981, New York-based studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) has designed some of the world’s most revered civic spac …

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How are politics embedded in the writing of architectural history? This issue of gta papers confronts and critiques the hidden political motivations which have inflected canonical writing. These motivations are not always explicit in the texts themselv …

Der Textem Verlag (Hamburg) und die Herausgeber Benjamin Dittmann-Bieber und Christian Driesen (Berlin) werden im Herbst 2024 die komplette (Neu)Übersetzung der legendären Zeitschrift La Révolution Surréaliste vorlegen. Sie erschien von1924 bis 1929 un …

YRD.Works erarbeitet mit ihren begehbaren und nutzbaren Raumskulpturen eine aktive Schnittstelle zwischen Architektur, Performance und sozialem Ereignis. Ausgangspunkt für eine Projektidee ist neben besonderen Architektursituationen oft das Finden kult …

Mensch, Baum, Architektur: neue Perspektiven aus der Baubotanik auf die Praxis der Architektur in der Zeit begrenzter Ressourcen

Ishinomaki Laboratory was born in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Initiated by the architect Keiji Ashizawa, it was originally thought as a community workshop intended to assist residents affected by the disaster rebuilding fu …

Unearthing the Music. Footnotes on Sonic Resistance in Non-democratic Europe 1950–2000 is the final piece of an international project initiated in Portugal, which has established an online archive for experimental underground and protest sounds. This a …

Herausgegeben von / Edited by VOLUPTAS ETHZ, Chair Charbonnet/Heiz. 304 Seiten / pages 11,5 × 18,5 cm Gestaltung / design: Atlas Studio, Zürich / Zurich zahlreiche farbige und s/w Abbildungen / numerous color & black/white images fadengebundene Bro …

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Sixteen of the acerbic historian’s essays and book chapters have been selected by the book’s contributors, ranging from classics such as ‘The Great Gizmo’ to lesser-known texts, such as ‘The Wall’, an intimate confession he penned at the hospital short …

Gnocchi Gnocchi who’s there is a picture-book by Anna Haifisch and Stefanie Leinhos. Life is a combination of magic and pasta (Federico Fellini) Everything you see I owe to Spaghetti (Sophia Loren) No man is lonely eating Spaghetti; it requires so much …

The Arab world’s modern built environment was shaped largely during a period when several Arab countries were on the cusp of gaining independence from colonial rule. Contributions in this volume present Arab modern architecture based on previously over …

WOLFGANG TILLMANS: THINGS MATTER, DINGE ZÄHLEN. Hrsg. von Dennis Brzek & Hilke Wagner. Mit einem Gespräch von Dennis Brzek & Hilke Wagner mit Wolfgang Tillmans. Köln 2025. 21 x 29,7 cm. 312 S. mit 600 farb., teils ganz- bzw. doppelseit. Abb., I …

REGIME SHIFT   There is no snow on Mount Fuji. Any hack will tell you the phase change is here, the restructuring of the world is underway. That would be a relief, like a broken fever. But they are wrong. We are still waiting. This period is merel …

Urban playgrounds form a vast, intricate spatial and social network. They are places where material innovation happens and stages for new professional collaborations that carry a wealth of social, spatial, and climate- and nature-positive design potent …

In the third issue of ‘Dirty Furniture
’ on the theme of the toilet, we wonder why poo-bum jokes are funny, lament the loss of the public loo, and stand for girls who stand. Sanitation in India is investigated, toilet paper unrolled, nappies reconsidered, and we interview a farmer and a toilet attendant. With Alex Schweder on pissing, Natalie D Kane on nappies, Alice Twemlow on graphic design, plus shitting monarchs, Superflex, and the poo emoji. 152 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English

COVER ME SOFTLY – TIMISOARA ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL – Catalogue ed. by Oana Stanescu, Chase Galis & Something Fantastic. Timisoara 2024. Beitr. von Nuar Alsadir, Benji B, Alice Bucknell, Jonah Coe-Scharff, Alyce Currier, Iman Fayyad, Chase Galis, Jul …

This colourful, edgy, photo and typography-rich look-book retraces the best images and designs of revolutionary and liberation movements. Concepts around nuclear disaster, Palestine, technology, sexuality, Elvis, Muhammad Ali, Winston Churchill, virus …

Dublab: 20 Years of Future Roots Radio bends time and space through sound. Founded in 1999, Dublab has been streaming far-out music since the dial-up age. We travel back to the dawn of Internet radio―a pre-podcast/smartphone/social-media era with infin …

Cities of Repetition offers a comprehensive and visually compelling analysis of Hong Kong’s massive housing estates, using original drawings, diagrams, and photographs to reveal the intricacies and evolution of these ultra-dense environments…

«Architektur zu erschaffen bedeutet, Ordnung herzustellen»: Le Corbusier und sein kreativer Prozess

isolarii are island books—singular worlds, encapsulated. Together, they assemble disparate writers.

Materialbuch über ein vergessenes Gebäude der Arbeiterbildung in Leipzig Die Schule der Arbeit war ein Modellprojekt der Arbeiterbildung unter Leitung von Gertrud Hermes (1872–1942). Mit dem Neubau des Architekten Johannes Niemeyer (1889–1980) entstand …

A fascinating view of the career of Bridget Riley, one of the most significant living artists, through her personal archive of her own works on paper Devoted exclusively to the artist’s works on paper, Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio e …

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To look at things #50 – A Site: The Palace of Typographic Masonry

This book is A Meaningful Order by OK-RM. Across its 328 pages it holds a new history of the distributed realities of design. It depicts designed objects on their own terms to give an account of vision, material, and curiosity—representing a selection …

herausgegeben von Annett Jahn und Ulrike Mönnig 320 Seiten 20,5 × 25,5 cm Gestaltung: Torsten Köchlin, Leipzig zahlreiche schwarz-weiße und farbige Fotografien Deutsch / English ISBN 978-3-944425-35-1

Following the success of the first two editions, Slanted Experimental Type 3.0 has evolved into an ongoing series, each edition exploring groundbreaking approaches in typography and graphic design. The third edition, developed in collaboration with stu …

Each issue features diverse content — essays, interviews, portfolios, re-publications, fiction as well as visual works — to satiate both type design experts, with contributions from or about recognized practitioners just as well as recent students, and …

Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence—they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and …

How does the world form itself? How does it create itself as a world? And how do we understand the role of the visual in this regard? Most responses to these questions within cultural theory and visual culture refer to the rise of globalization, thus h …