The first of its kind, a substantive guide to over 220 modern buildings in Cairo and the basis of an exhibition at New Yorks Center for Architecture entitled, Cairo Modern. The city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructio …

In the context of climate change, environmental degradation and related natural disasters, architectural photography takes on another dimension beyond aesthetic criticism, namely documenting processes for building sustainable and social housing. ‘Rebui …

Mal beleuchtet, mal hinter Glas, abgeschnitten, flach und bauchig führen mich Florian Glaubitz’ Bilderwelten zu Kernfragen vom zeitlosen Verhältnis von Körper, Material und Produkt. Weniger durch Worte, sondern durch eine jahrelang entwickelte Bildspra …

Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) started writing about photography from the moment he became a photographer: for his own publications, for Italian magazines and newspapers, as well as private reflections committed to paper, where his thoughts would settle and …

Die Reihe «Visuelle Archive» ist das Ergebnis von Forschungsprojekten, die von der ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne initiiert und durchgeführt wurden. Sie nimmt unerforschte Hinterlassen­schaften von Designerinnen, Autoren und Marken in Augensche …

Wenn Sie sich fragen, warum sich das Innere Ihres Kopfes in diesen Tagen so seltsam anfühlt, hat dieses Buch die Antworten! The Extreme Self ist eine neue Art von Graphic Novel, die zeigt, wie Sie sich in etwas anderes verwandelt haben. Es geht um die …

Katalog mit 58 Schwarz-Weiß- und 25 Farb-Abbildungen im Offsetdruck, gestaltet von Marie Lautsch mit einem Text von Anna Jessen (dt.) Festeinband mit Schutzumschlag, 96 Seiten, 23×31 cm, Auflage 400 (davon 30 als Vorzugsausgabe mit Originalgrafik) Ersc …

Der Architekt, Hochschullehrer und Senatsbaudirektor von West Berlin Werner Düttmann wäre am 6. März hundert Jahre alt geworden. Zu seinen bekanntesten gebauten oder als Senatsbaudirektor betreuten Werken gehören neben dem Brücke-Museum die Akademie de …

In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann’s legendary projects was dominated by the idea of television. While architecture is …

The booklet is composed entirely of photographs revealing the intimate, daily life of parenting and childhood: catching snowflakes on the tongue, learning to use chopsticks, and in perhaps the most humorous photo, a boy earnestly concentrating while ta …

This publication is an updated reissue of the book designed by Experimental Jet Set and published on the occasion of ‘Wim Crouwel: Architectures Typographiques, 1956-1976’, an exhibition that took place in the beginning of 2007 at Galerie Anatome in Pa …

Frederike Lausch herausgegeben von der Wüstenrot Stiftung und dem CCSA mit einem Vorwort von Oliver Elser und Philip Kurz 276 Seiten 16 x 23 cm Gestaltung: Matter of (MO-P-072), Stuttgart Reihenlayout 191 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen Broschur Deutsch/ Eng …

Fast zehn Jahre nach dem großen Erfolg seiner Publikation »The Hyena & Other Men«, stellt der südafrikanische Fotograf Pieter Hugo das bewegende Portfolio »1994« vor. Der Titel dieser Monographie erinnert an ein wichtiges Jahr in der Geschichte der afr …

October 2017 marks the centenary of the admission of the first female students to the Architectural Association. Published to coincide with a symposium, exhibition and series of talks all celebrating this event, AA Women in Architecture puts forward th …

“New Aesthetic approaches type design as an opportunity to create art: looking at type design with a benevolence to experiments and processes, and finding potential in the unusual, that might point us into a new future of practicing visual communicatio …

”To my astonishment, there are but few charismatic idols in the 400-year tradition of the bourgeois industrial revolution: Washington, Jefferson, the women in the Paris marketplace in 1789—those female freedom fighters marching on Versailles and bringi …

D for Dummy Woman, M for Monster’s Tools, S for Style Defense, U for Unstable Signs – the Glossary of Undisciplined Design looks into undisciplinarity as a feminist unpacking of the field of graphic design, of dogmatic rules, discriminatory structures …

During the Cold War, modernist art became a flagship of freedom and democracy in the West, and took on the role of a symbolic overcoming of fascism. Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War examines the cultural diplomacy of this period, particu …

Since the dawn of humankind, our planet has been profoundly affected by the constant, exponential increase in the world’s population. Having gone from being a flat disc to a sphere, the Earth is now architecture. This does not mean that it has been sup …

Contributions by DELE ADEYEMO, BENJAMIN BRATTON, STEPHANIE CARLISLE, EMANUELE COCCIA, KELLER EASTERLING, SWARNABH GHOSH, MACARENA GÓMEZ-BARRIS, JOSEPH GRIMA, PHINEAS HARPER, ELSA HOOVER, JANE HUTTON, INTERIORS AGENCY, ELISA ITURBE… more As the true u …

“If sound is birth and silence death, the echo trailing into infinity can only be the experience of life, the source of narrative and a pattern for history.” Drawing on Louis Chude­ Sokei’s metaphorical, political, and technopoetic investigations, this …

The artist’s book Detroit presents the contemporary urban landscape of this de- industrialized metropolis as an overlay of social and natural history. The catchwords “ruin porn” and “future city” are currently being used in the media to describe what w …

The Wüstenrot Foundation’s research project on modern architecture in the GDR takes preliminary stock of the country’s architectural heritage. It examines how this heritage was handled and looks at the challenges involved in the work of preserving it. …

Just as physical violence leaves its marks on the skin, conceptual violence is written into interfaces via algorithms—in the form of biases turned into pixels, as discrimi­nation implanted in memes in secret chat groups. The coding and decoding of body …

‘Innere Stimme’ is the title of a notation used by Olaf Nicolai as instruction for a sound performance. In the empty space of the Vleeshal in Middelburg, formerly the site of the city’s meat market until the end of the 19th century, the melody of the ‘ …

Crayon-Pinceau features a small selection of Ronan Bouroullec’s recent drawing. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, born 1971 and 1976, respectively, in Quimper, France, studied at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and at the École des Beaux-Art …

The curatorial denotes a sphere of activity involved with making art and culture available to the public. Although this area has become increasingly important in recent decades, the structural conditions that account for its special social status have …

In den 1920er Jahren entwickelte der Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaftler Aby Warburg seinen Bilderatlas Mnemosyne. Für dieses Projekt studierte er die motivischen Wechselwirkungen zwischen Kunstwerken aus der Antike und der Renaissance bis hin zur Gegenwa …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …

Arts of the Working Class” is a street journal for poverty, wealth and art. It is published every two months and contains contributions by artists and thinkers from different fields and in different languages. Its terms are based upon the working class …

Architect Hannes Meyer made substantial changes to the Bauhaus educational programme, reshaping it in response to the crisis created by Walter Gropius’s concept of a new unity of art and technology. From 1928 to 1930, as director at the Dessau Bauhaus …

Hailed as “British dance’s true iconoclast,” Michael Clark is a defining cultural figure in the contemporary dance world. Since emerging in the early 1980s as a prodigy at London’s Royal Ballet School, Clark has remained at the forefront of innovation …

Pacific Standard Time. Kunst in Los Angeles 1945–1980 präsentiert eine konzentrierte Untersuchung der bildenden Kunst Südkaliforniens in diesen Jahren. Auf der Grundlage von umfassenden Sammlungen, die das J. Paul Getty Museum erworben hat, und Quellen …

The photographic duo Shunk and Kender created the defining images of the international avant-garde of the 1960s and ’70s. In late 1950s/early 1960s Paris, Shunk and Kender were close to the New Realist artists, and as a result produced what remains pro …