A landmark survey of one of architecture’s most controversial yet popular styles – in a great, new, classic edition The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance – and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most wide-ranging investig …

Seit wann sagen eigentlich alle ständig „alles gut“? Und das selbst in den unpassendsten Momenten. Mal abgesehen davon, dass das immer irre paternalistisch klingt – NICHTS ist gut! Das gilt auch für unser Heft, das richtig gut geworden ist. Denn das NI …

Ingo Gerkens Katalog schlägt im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes ein neues Kapitel in seiner Werkserie Bibliosculptures auf. Abbildungen von aufgeschlagenen Ausstellungspublikationen oder Kunstmagazinen werden hier zum Untersuchungsgegenstand. Scheinbar zufäl …

Karel Martens ist seit vielen Jahrzehnten eine einflussreiche Figur in der visuellen Kultur der Niederlande. Martens hat einen Abreißkalender “Jeder Tag ist ein neuer Tag” entwickelt. Für jeden Tag des Jahres hat Martens ein einzigartiges Design gescha …

Die Publikation WHEN THE ATMOSPHERE IS LESS THAN PERFECT versammelt die Arbeiten von 29 Künstler*innen, die in diesem essayistischen Bild- und Textband ihre Autor*innenschaft auflösen und zu einem Netz an Beziehungen verschmelzen. Die konzeptuelle Leit …

This issue is an official tribute to American filmmaker John Waters, covering his entire career through film photos, images of his own works of art, paintings, as well as one 28-page exclusive interview. DOESN’T EXIST __ a publication that brings cinem …

Le Corbusier’s buildings have long been part of the inalienable canon of twentieth-century architecture. But Le Corbusier’s work as a book designer and author is scarcely known. He planned and realized over 40 books in his lifetime. Architect of Books …

Initially inspired by the i-D of the early 2000s, when the magazine evolved into a publication that was bigger, glossier and more fashion-focused, The Ultra! Issue was inspired by fashion photography, fashion styling, print graphics and expansive layou …

Purple Fashion is the avant-garde reference for fashion, style, and contemporary culture with the usual big names. Purple magazine issue #38 is dedicated to the 30yrs of Purple and features 29 covers: – Collages by Martin Margiela – Rick Owens by Wolfg …

A new collection of Saul Leiter’s work, much of it published here for the first time. Saul Leiter remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by curators and critics in his early 80s, and his work has been drastically re-evaluated over the las …

“Prishtina in 53 Buildings” draws a multifaceted portrait of Kosovo’s capital city by using architecture as a prism to understand political, cultural and economic processes. Essays on fifty-three built structures, written by different authors with diff …

DRAMA sucht nach neuen Räumen des Erzählens, Denkens und Zeigen. Es spielt mit Identi­täten, Stimmen und Körpern, schafft Zukünfte und Möglich­keiten. DRAMA 2 zeigt Stückauszüge, Monologe, Kurzdramen und kollektive Erarbeitungen von Iva Brdar, Anna Gsc …

DRAMA ist Prozess: Es ist Hand­lung, ver­han­delt Positionen, ver­wandelt Sinn­zusammen­hänge, spielt mit Identi­täten, Stimmen und Körpern, ist Präsen­tation und Repräsen­tation. Es provo­ziert künstler­ische Aus­einander­setzung, Dis­kurs, Reali­sier …

Batia Suter’s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. ‘Parallel Encyclopedia’, which she conceived between 2004 and 2007, contains a precise composition of numerous images …

The tract developments are emulations of utopian communities. Going back to the 1920’s utopian cult Kibbo Kift made banners that they took to specific locations of historic, mysterious monuments and natural monument occurances, Silbury Hill, Stonehenge …

Since its founding in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David “Chim” Seymour, Magnum Photos, the legendary co-operative has powerfully chronicled the peoples, cultures, events, and issues of the time. This collection of twe …

Every copy of 032c Issue #41 features a free BALENCIAGA iron-on kit, so you can create your own apparel at home. It’s part of a donation campaign benefitting the World Food Programme’s emergency aid for Ukraine – order the magazine to find out how it w …

“A terrible mechanism [is] on the march, its gears multiplying.” So begins the 48th issue of Harvard Design Magazine, guest edited by Mark Lee, chair of the department of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Florencia Rodriguez, e …

The hyperconnected world of the late 20th and early 21st centuries has revealed that effortless mobility, wealth, and access for some has been attained at the cost of immobility, inequity, and displacement for others. We have entered a phase of critica …

Reportagen, das unabhängige Magazin für erzählte Gegenwart. Herausragende Autorinnen und Autoren berichten in spannenden Reportagen aus dieser Welt. Vor Ort recherchiert, persönlich bei den Protagonisten und abseits der ausgetretenen Pfade. Jeden zweit …

New York-based collective Anonymous Club, founded by fashion designer Shayne Oliver, engages with fine art, installation, performance, music, fashion and more. This publication surveys the collective’s work since its inception, with a collection of rel …

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Isabelle Graw’s Vom Nutzen der Freundschaft is a first-hand account and social critique rolled into one. Written in the style of a fictional diary, the book contains personal notes on the benefits of friendship in a society geared to competition. With …

Stefano Calligaro präsentiert eine Auswahl seiner fortlaufenden Arbeit an wortwörtlichen „poetischen Tricks”, die aus abgewandelten Wörtern und gängigen Englischen Begriffen bestehen, dummen, aber cleveren verbalen Ausrutschern, die etablierte soziale …

With contributions by 6A ARCHITECTS, GLENN ADAMSON, ASSEMBLE, JEREMY DELLER, PETER DORMER, TANYA HARROD, MARTINA MARGETTS, CLARE TWOMEY, JOHN ROBERTS, CATHARINE ROSSI, RICHARD SENNETT, FLORE DE TAISNE The notion of the handmade has shifted from the mar …

Reggae, technology and the diaspora… Louis Chude-Sokei documents the (un)making of Dr. Satan’s Echo Chamber.

PARALLEL WORLDS METAVERSE EVERYWHERE ON THIS ISSUE: INTERVIEWS Tinashe, Sevdaliza, Ikeuchi, Guillermo Lorca, Knwls, Jessica Goicochea, Eyedigo, Emily Barker, David Wallace, Lu Yang, yeule, Shea Couleé PHOTOGRAPHERS Brian Ziff, Celia Croft, Cvalda Xie, …

Photography has always depended on the extraction and exploitation of so-called natural raw materials. Having started out using copper, coal, silver, and paper—the raw materials of analogue image production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—pho …

Bitterfeld’s county museum, Kreismuseum Bitterfeld, contains a black box with herbaria dating from 1931. This collection, compiled by botanist Hans Weber, is an inventory of the flora gathered in the nearby Goitzsche region, a forested area of floodpla …

Sam Chermayeff [et al.]: Creatures, edited by Moritz Küng, is a look back through nearly two decades of experimental projects undertaken by the Berlin-based architect Sam Chermayeff and his collaborators—for the most part pieces of furniture whose use, …

How do we make sense of the Earth at a moment in which it is presented in crisis? Geostories is a manifesto on the environmental imagination that renders sensible the issues of climate change and through geographic fiction invites readers to relate to …

Text: Barbara John Gestaltung: Maria Magdalena Meyer 40 Seiten, Broschur 28 Abbildungen 30 x 24,4 cm 978-3-944903-73-6 (deutsch / englisch) Ab Dezember 2021 auch als E-Book mit zusätzlichem Filmmaterial über www.mmkoehnverlag.de und jeden App-Store erh …

Story and concept: Astrid Hamm Illustrations: Katie Armstrong Language: English Translation from German: Hagen Hamm Book design: Katharina Fiedler, Maria Magdalena Meyer 36 pages, Hardcover 16,5 x 24 cm 36 illustrations ISBN 978-3-944903-76-7 (english) …

Herausgeberin: Ricarda Löser Gestaltung: Ricarda Löser 144 Seiten 3 Abbildungen 13,5 x 20,5 cm, Hardcover 978-3-944903-87-3 (deutsch) 500 Exemplare Sein Leben beginnt ausgerechnet mit dem Satz „er atmet“ – eine künstlerische Textcollage. Dieser Text be …

Mit Texten von Lou Hoyer und Leonie Pfennig Gestaltung: Maria Magdalena Meyer, Katharina Fiedler 200 Seiten, Klappenbroschur ca. 90 Abbildungen 19,8 x 28 cm 978-3-944903-60-6 deutsch/englisch Im Sommer 2021 erscheint im MMKoehn Verlag auch das E-Book s …

Schuster malt Figuren und Wesen in surrealen Umgebungen. Salad Days – ungestüm und wild. „Das Reale wird von Schuster kompositorisch bearbeitet, nicht mit Gewimmer, sondern mit befreiendem Gelächter, was allen Werken einen witzigen Drive einschreibt. M …

The club as exhibition venue: in summer 2021, after more than a year of pandemic-induced downtime, the Institut fuer Zukunft (IfZ) in Leipzig reopened its doors to host two back-to-back exhibitions, DOSIS I and DOSIS II, conceived and curated by a crew …

Born in 1955 in a poor district of São Paulo, Ismael Ivo became one of the world’s most famous and successful dancers. As instigator and director of festivals like the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna, he shaped dance history. Artistically, he forged clos …

Born in 1955 in a poor district of São Paulo, Ismael Ivo became one of the world’s most famous and successful dancers. As instigator and director of festivals like the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna, he shaped dance history. Artistically, he forged clos …