FORMAFANTASMA: CAMBIO – LONDON, SERPENTINE GALLERIES – Catalogue by Riccardo Badano, Rebecca Lewin & Natalia Grabowska. London 2020. Vorw. von Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bettina Korek. Einl. von Formafantasma. Beitr. von Jennifer L. Anderson, Paola Antonelli, …

»Ich persönlich bin der einzige TYPOGRAPHISCHE KONSTRUKTIVISTISCHE in Leipzig.« Tschichold, 1902 in Leipzig geboren, studiert an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst bei Walter Tiemann und Hermann Delitzsch und erlebt in der Stadt den Beginn der typ …

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The Umlauftank 2 (UT2, 1967–1974) is one of Berlin’s more enigmatic landmarks. Its architect, Ludwig Leo, was still alive when it was designated for historic preservation. The iconic construction is a place for experiment—a laboratory for fluid dynamic …

According to the cliché, California is the place where anything goes and everyone does their own thing. Maybe that’s because everyone knows that in California there’s no terra firma: earthquakes, mudslides, fires, and the occasional civil uprising caus …

Maurice Göldner (hrsg.), Studierende der Hochschule Augsburg LAB M 3.11b, 2020

In 1926 El Lissitzky created an unconventional exhibition space in Dresden. His Room for Constructive Art connected the notion that space and the viewer are constitutive elements of an artwork and that the reception of art can be activated through the …

‘Having worked with Le Corbusier on Villa Shodhan and Villa Sarabhai, the images of their flowing spaces, quality of naturally reflected light, varied volumes, and their connection to nature passed through my mind. I remembered Le Corbusier’s words: “F …

While researching in the university archive of Burg Giebichenstein (Halle, Saale, DE) for his master studies, the designer Markus Lange came across the typo- graphic poster artwork of Karl- Heinz Drescher, a graphic artist, who studied from 1955 to 196 …

When making things without prior knowledge of “the material,” how should such naive and potentially brutal behavior be interpreted, and what does it represent and generate? The temporary master Materialisation in Art & Design (MAD) investigated thi …

How do we design our cities when our most intimate experiences are incessantly tracked and our feelings become the base of new modes of production that prioritize the immaterial over the material? Since the 2008 financial crisis, lists of well-being in …

‘Natural Enemies of Books’ is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication ‘Bookmaking on the Distaff Side’, which brought together contributions by women printers, illustrators, authors, typographers, and typesetters, highlighting the print indus …

Karl Gerstner’s work is a milestone in the history of design. Designing Programmes is one of his most important works: in four essays, the author provides a basic introduction to his design methodology and suggests a model for design in the early days …

Four years after ‘Statement and Counter-Statement’ (2015), Experimental Jetset returns with their second paperback for Roma Publications. Whereas the previous publication had a more overall monographic scope, ‘Full Scale False Scale’ focuses on a singl …

he work of the late Swiss artist “Xanti” (Alexander) Schawinsky (1904–1979) was until recently almost inaccessible. In his lifetime, Schawinsky was mainly known for his work in the theater department at the Bauhaus. In the 1930s, while teaching at Blac …

Seit 2008 nennen Peter Weigand und Lukasz Lendzinski ihr Stuttgarter Architekturstudio „umschichten“. Denn sie bauen prinzipiell „umschichtend“, entwickeln künstlerische und gestalterische Praktiken zur Untersuchung des Verhältnisses von städtischer Id …

The International Poster competition launched in 2014 and has received 22,000+ poster entries from 100+ Countries (x5 competitions 2014-2018). Over 37,000 people have attended International Poster Exhibitions (x5 exhibitions 2014-2018). 5x Internationa …

50 Meter, so lang ist die Betonbrüstung in der Eingangshalle des Fachbereichs Architektur an der Technischen Universität Darmstadt. Für die Ausstellung Max Bächer. 50 Meter Archiv wurde der Handlauf der Treppenbrüstung mit Archivfunden überbaut. Bächer …

Texte renommierter Gestalter und Autoren über den tatsächlichen und gefühlten Einfluss des Designs auf unser heutiges und künftiges Leben.

Between 1942 and 1980, Max Huber (1919-92) earned an international reputation as one of the most innovative, distinctive and significant designers of his generation. After an Arts and Crafts education and a later graphic apprenticeship in Switzerland, …

Der austro-amerikanische Architekt, Designer, Bühnenbildner, Künstler und Theoretiker Friedrich Kiesler ist ein wahrer Visionär des 20. Jahrhunderts. In Berlin, Wien und Paris schuf er in den 1920er-Jahren elektromechanische Bühnenbilder, spiralförmige …

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TO THINK is a magazine that explores thoughts and conversation on visual culture. Each issue of TO THINK asks just one question and aims to see what happens when we place deep thinkers together by raising debate around questions we are constantly faced …

The graphics, interiors, and products designed by Vignelli Associates are internationally recognized for their refined aesthetics, evolving modernity, and crisp execution. This landmark volume is devoted to Massimo and Lella Vignelli’s influential work …

Was ist die Zukunft des Luxus? Was macht Marken und Produkte für junge Leute begehrenswert? Warum interessieren sie sich für Kleidung, Autos, Uhren oder Yachten? Als Leitmedium für kulturell vernetzte, stilsichere junge Männer von heute spielt Highsnob …

In Luftschlosser: Ein Blick auf Haus-Rucker-Co / Post-Haus-Rucker Zamp Kelp, one of the founders of the legendary Viennese collective of architects and artists, sets out his intellectual cosmos and examines his performances, objects, and architectural …

Two Austrian-born designers have left their indelible mark on California’s residential architecture of the 1930s to 1960s: Richard Neutra (1892–1970) and Rudolph M. Schindler (1887–1953) combined modern form and inventive construction with new material …

Herausgegeben vom Museum Marta Herford. Mit Texten von Ulrike Bestgen, Lorenzo Benedetti, Erich Schmid und Getulio Alviani sowie einem Interview von Friederike Fast mit Angela Thomas Schmid Neuausgabe, 2018 Text Deutsch und Englisch Broschiert 200 Seit …

When the Bauhaus departed Dessau in 1932, there was no Bauhaus collection left in its wake. Apart from the files in the city archive and some works in the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, which survived the wave of Nazi iconoclasm, as well as artworks in pr …

Konrad Wachsmann played an exceptional role among modern architects in helping to industrialize architecture and fostering the potential this contained for an architectural turn. Wachsmann’s universal wedge connector, invented in the shadow of World Wa …

1911 notierte Harry Graf Kessler in seinem Tagebuch, am Bauhaus suche man „vor allem den neuen Menschen“. Einer, der sich damals mit auf diese Suche begeben wollte, war der gebürtige Leipziger Karl Hermann Trinkaus. Anfangs künstlerisch ambitionierter …

50 Innovative Fashion Projects + 8 Short Articles by Daniëlle Bruggeman, Jan Mahy, Rens Tap, Ben Wubs, Loe Feijs, Koen van Os, Gail Kenning, Lianne Toussaint, Stephan Wensveen, Anke Jongejan, Pauline van Dongen and Oscar Tomico. Despite technological a …

Design for the Real World has been translated into over twenty languages since it first appeared in 1971; it has become the world’s most widely read book on design and is an essential text in many design and architectural schools. This edition offers a …

Nicht Funktion und Gebrauch zeichnen das Bauhaus aus, sondern Symbolik. Ob Quadrat, Dreieck oder Kreis, ob Wagenfeld-Lampe, Schlemmer-Kopf oder weisse Kuben mit Flachdach: Das Bauhaus hat ikonische Bildzeichen und einen Stil kreiert, der weder funktion …

Im Internet stoßen wir tagtäglich auf neue Artefakte rund um das Bauhaus — zum 100-jährigen Jubiläum haben diese zahlenmäßig einen Höhepunkt erreicht. Surfing Bauhaus stellt sich der Informationsflut und nähert sich der Institution Bauhaus auf zeitgemä …

(RE)PICTURE is an independent magazine with the intention of reproducing the visual imagination. Featuring images by a selection of guest artists, the magazine is designed without the use of words and packaged as printed matter. In contrast to the unpr …

Balkrishna V. Doshi (*1927, Pune) zählt zu den einflussreichsten Pionieren der modernen Architektur in Indien. Sein Lebenswerk wurde 2018 mit dem renommierten Pritzker-Preis geehrt. Doshi hat über 100 Projekte realisiert, darunter Verwaltungs- und Kult …

1952 wird Gera Bezirksstadt. Damit hält moderne Architektur Einzug in die Stadt. Die ostmodernen Bauten haben jedoch seit den 90er und 2000er Jahren ein Imageproblem und so verschwanden viele spannende Einzelbauten, städtebauliche Ensembles und Kunstwe …

Since the early 1990s, Carsten Nicolai (b. 1965, lives and works in Berlin) has worked along the interface between visual art, music, and the natural sciences. With electronic sound and light material, he generates minimalist installations, sound perfo …

Sitting somewhere between sourcebook and picturebook, An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures Without Architecture by New York based-MOS Architects represents an endearing combination of novelty and follow-through. The publication presents numerous …

This publication brings together case studies by scholars from around the world that engage with the history of the Bauhaus as an entangled problem—the multiple historiographies of the Bauhaus and the global history of modernist architecture within whi …

The Radical Cut-Up Master of Fine Arts and Design program directed by Lukas Feireiss at Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam examined the topical phenomenon of the cut-up as the contemporary mode of creativity and dominant global model of cultural production …

Present is about the process and the journey of making today. It’s about concentrating and letting go (through the lens of makers and making). It’s about portraying the present people who are courageous enough to do their own thing with contributions from: Alexandra Bondi de Antoni, Amandine Cheveau, Andreas Hoppmann, Ari Sawyers, Ben Roth, Bobby Kolade, Béla Pablo Janssen, Dalad Kambhu, Daniel Marin Medina, David Kaltenbach, Frank Berzbach, Fritz Marlon Schiffers, Funkineven, Haw-lin, Hermes Villena, Jannik Schäfer, Jascha Hannover, Jasmin Truong, Jean Christian Pullin, Johannes Breyer, Joseph Kadow, Louise Friedländer, Luise Risch, Margaux Schwab, Marina Hoppmann, Mathis Esser, Mikey Woodbridge, Nam Nguyen, Natacha Voranger, Niklas Sanders, Olga Prader, Phillip Koll, Regina Schilling, Rich Roll, Thi Minh Huyen Nguyen, Tom Król, Terry Jones, Tricia Jones, Valentina von Klencke

Die italienisch-brasilianische Architektin Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992) prägte mit ausdrucksstarken Entwürfen einen eigenen gestalterischen Weg: In der Architek­tur, im Bühnenbild, im Mode-und Möbeldesign so­wie in der Grafik nahm sie Impulse der Internat …

Katalog mit 231 Abbildungen im Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Daniel Rother mit Texten von Paolo Bianchi, Frédéric Bußmann, Marthe Krüger und Simone Müller (szim) (dt./ engl.) Broschur, 216 Seiten, 21×30,4 cm, Auflage 800 Erschienen 08/2019 ISBN 978-3-9451 …

Expanding our understanding of Mexico’s important role in the story of modern art and design through the works of six important women artists and designers This stunning book unites for the first time the pioneering work of six artists and designers: C …

– SARAH MAPLE… Celebrated British artist Sarah Maples certainly is no stranger to challenging your beliefs about society, gender roles, religion, Internet culture, the art circuit, and whatnot – she smoked in a hijab, got beaten live on tape, transfe …

Karel Martens occupies an intriguing place in the current European landscape of art and design. His work is both personal and experimental, but also publicly answerable. Martens, a prolific book designer, has also contributed to a wide range of design …