Architects and designers critically examine their ability to contribute to the discussion on social issues and challenges This issue of OASE explores the role of architects as public intellectuals and the ways in which they contribute to society beyond …

Mit Inhalten aus über 20 Jahren Forschung und mehr als 1.000 Seiten ist der »Atlas« das umfassendste Buch, das je zu diesem Thema publiziert wurde. Er dokumentiert 1.740 Objekte von über 540 Designern und enthält mehr als 2.800 Abbildungen. Über 550 Te …

„No Trust no City!” war lange Zeit das Credo auf ihrer Website, „Some Ideas for Better Cities” ihre erste gemeinsame Vortragsreihe, Acting in Public ihr erstes Buch. Das Architekturkollektiv raumlaborberlin sucht seit über 20 Jahren nach neuen Orten de …

„No Trust no City!” war lange Zeit das Credo auf ihrer Website, „Some Ideas for Better Cities” ihre erste gemeinsame Vortragsreihe, Acting in Public ihr erstes Buch. Das Architekturkollektiv raumlaborberlin sucht seit über 20 Jahren nach neuen Orten de …

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New Aesthetic 1 A Collection of Experimental and Independent Type Design

Design is broken. Young and not-so-young designers are becoming increasingly aware of this. Many feel impotent: they were told they had the tools to make the world a better place, but instead the world takes its toll on them. Beyond a haze of hype and …

Stefan Sagmeister’s newest project encourages long-term thinking and reminds us that many things in the world are improving Initially conceived in 2020 as the world entered pandemic lockdown, Stefan Sagmeister has created a book that looks at the state …

Die neue englische Ausgabe dieses bereits zum Klassiker gewordenen Buches über Spielplatzarchitektur setzt neue Schwerpunkte, zum Beispiel auf den Abenteuerspielplatz Märkisches Viertel in Berlin (1967) – der ersten solchen Anlage Deutschlands

The New Designer: Design as a Profession deals with the emergence of the profession of artist and designer after the First World War and its development in the context of industrial production. The volume contains articles on teaching models that were …

The New Designer: Design as a Profession deals with the emergence of the profession of artist and designer after the First World War and its development in the context of industrial production. The volume contains articles on teaching models that were …

The history of architecture can not only be read as an accumulation of buildings and designs, but also as a pendulum movement between the appreciation and the rejection of projects, oeuvres, and positions, driven by varying arguments. In addition to co …

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 …

Complex problems do not always require far-fetched solutions, but in order to arrive at a solution a change of perspective may be needed. Making such a change in the study of the urban environment is what ‘The City as a System’ advocates. Designers who …

Die Industrialisierung des Bauens in den 60er und 70er Jahren der DDR begünstigte die Neuordnung der Städte durch das Entstehen von Großwohnsiedlungen an den Stadträndern. Als 1972 der Grundstein für das Neubaugebiet Gera­Lusan gelegt wurde, dominierte …

‘Why Graphic Culture Matters’ gathers 45 thought-provoking essays by design critic Rick Poynor about graphic design and visual communication, written in the past two decades. Poynor writes as a non-designer deeply immersed in the practice of graphic co …

Three years after Shape Grammars (2020), Jannis Maroscheck returns with an updated look on machine-generated graphics and the core motif of mass produced ideas: Latent Figures. Looking for forms of expression hidden between ancient runes and y2k logos, …

Lsamu Noguchi est à la fois sculpteur et designer, attaché à l’artisanat le plus traditionnel comme aux découvertes les plus avant-gardistes, il a évolué, tout au long de sa carrière, entre Orient et Occident. Formé , aux Etats-Unis après une enfance p …

An authoritative look at the art, life, and legacy of a revered artist. This pioneering, critically acclaimed book, originally published in 2010 and now available in paperback, is an authoritative and enlightening guide to a wide array of works by the …

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. The texts draw pa …

The scarcity of resources, climate change, and the digitalization of everyday life are fuelling the economy of swapping, sharing, and lending—all of which are in some way linked to a culture of commoning. In this context, we understand commons as commu …

Display ist kein objekt, keine skulptur. Architektur oder performance display ist objekt, skulptur. Architektur und performance. Display bewegt sich zwischen kunst. handwerk und design. Display ist modularer rahmen und container. Display ist immer eine …

European architecture is characterised by an ongoing exchange of cultures, ideas, and influences. In recent decades, this process has intensified. Ideas developed in one region can migrate and bear fruit elsewhere. Existing architectural conventions ar …

Over the last few decades the term “bootlegging” has become understood as a creative act. The debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world are now being held in the sphere of corporate branding, social media, and the …

English architect and writer Sir Peter Cook, renowned for his free-thinking spirit translated into architectural lines and shapes, is perhaps most well-known as the co-founder of the avant-garde architectural group Archigram in the 1960s. A selection o …

The world is made up of a thousand colors, and no sound is like another. It’s noisy! We have finally accepted the dissonances because we are not all cut from the same cloth. Yet, we live under the same sun together. This year’s key visual, created by H …

Letters and typefaces not only transport information but also create a feeling and have a personality. Lettering takes this a step further—with its movement, artistic strokes, and variety, it has the potential to radiate a whole range of energies and t …

Die Betrachtung von Raumkulturen und Alltagsrealitäten der Raumproduktion nimmt einen anderen Weg als die normativen architektonischen und urbanistischen Diskurse. Sie wird zu einer allgemeineren Fragestellung, beschäftigt sich aber gleichzeitig mit ga …

A total of 400 books which appeared in 2022 were entered into the annual competition for a chance to be named among the most beautiful Swiss books. All books were judged by a new jury chaired by Sereina Rothenberger. The designers of this catalogue too …

The Dailies collects snapshots of a world unmistakably our own yet equally strange. Made through Thomas Demand’s renowned practice of constructing, photographing, and destroying meticulous paper models, this series captures minor, everyday moments base …

Die jährliche Wettbewerbsdokumentation der Stiftung Buchkunst: “Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher” und der “Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung” in Wort und Bild.

Who Can Afford to Be Critical?: An Inquiry Into What We Can’t Do Alone, as Designers, and Into What We Might Be Able to Do Together, as People

What is an object? This question was addressed by Graham Harman, the originator of object-oriented philosophy and a central figure of speculative realism, in a lecture at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Providing a thorough exposition of the object from a …

Malerisch liegt am Fuße des Erzgebirges das Schloss Wildenfels. Es ist vorrangig für seine einmaligen Interieurs aus dem 18. Jahrhundert bekannt. Sie lassen von fernen Länder und vergangenen Zeiten träumen. Auf den Wandbespannungen des „Chinesischen Ka …

Younger architecture firms in dialogue with the work of Austrian Pritzker Prize laureate Hans Hollein (1934–2014): Almannai Fischer, Baukuh, Bovenbouw, Claudia Cavallar, Asli Çiçek, Conen Sigl, Doorzon, Expanded Design, Martin Feiersinger, David Kohn, …

Acclaimed designers Sagmeister & Walsh explore the essence of beauty and the transformative power of beautiful design

IN diesem einfachen Taschenbuch werden sehr diverse Materialien zu etwa siebzig Ausstellungsgestaltungsprojekten der Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik aus den letzten zehn Jahren zusammengefasst. Skizzen, Pläne, Grafiken, Fotos, Modelle, Exponate, Di …

Ein praxisorientiertes Handbuch, das Gestaltern hilft, ihre Daten so für den Druck aufzubereiten, dass ein optimales Ergebnis erzielt wird. Dieses umfangreiche Nachschlagewerk weiht den Leser in wesentliches Grundwissen für die Aufbereitung von Druckda …

A newly revitalized edition of Tomi Ungerer’s children’s classic. Snail, where are you? At a party? At sea? In the mountains? Young sleuths will have hours of fun finding Tomi Ungerer’s snail in his many disguises. This beautiful, classic concept book, …

An overview of the work of illustrator and designer Milton Glaser during the 1960s and 70s From 1954, when he co-founded the legendary Push Pin Studios, to the late ’70s, Milton Glaser was one of the most celebrated graphic designers of his day, whose …

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Frank Gehry und Hans Scharoun sind einander nie begegnet – und doch sind zwei ihrer berühmtes- ten Bauwerke aufs Engste miteinander verknüpft: die Walt Disney Concert Hall von Gehry in Los Angeles (2003) und die Berliner Philharmonie von Scharoun (1963 …

The book examines the tower as the architectural expression of a long-term commitment to the city. The conclusion is that development must be driven not only by property value and architectural ingenuity but also by respect for collective memory and co …

Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age examines the challenges and opportunities in the wake of the rapid rise of creative coding within a growing community of designers opting to make their own design tools. This comprehensive overview covers educatio …

The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts. Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions composing the 29 pairs relate dialectically, as the …

Over one hundred tried, tested, and speculative exercises that expand the way we look at fashion, how we are part of its system, and how we can practice fashion otherwise. ‘Radical Fashion Exercises’ contains a copious collection of bottom-up activitie …

Nowness Files charts the evolution of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, under the deanship of distinguished architect Wiel Arets, from 2012-2018. It is the second publication in the NOWNESS series from Illinois Instit …

In Einstürzende Reichsbauten entwickeln die Künstlerin Henrike Naumann, die Kunsthistorikerin Angela Schönberger und der Architekt und Designtheoretiker Andreas Brandolini ein Projekt, das Naumanns Arbeit Ruinenwert (2019) in ein diskursives Verhältnis …