Siri, Big Data, affective computing, interconnected bodies—the plethora of heterogeneous fragments that our present is split up into is unimaginably vast. Their composition is a question of milieu. The concept of determining how living beings relate to …

Dieses DUMMY will kein DUMMY Epoche sein, historische Geschichten publizieren wir ja auch sonst ganz gern. Diesmal wollten wir Reportagen aus dem Hier und Jetzt sammeln, in denen die Geschichte eine große Rolle spielt. Denn das Wissen, wie wir zu dem w …

If African American experience emerges from the structure of slavery, how does architecture relate to that experience? African Americans have claimed space in unexpected locations – often in opposition to architecture as a Eurocentric discipline that h …

Fifty years after Neil Armstrong, one of the Apollo 11 crew, placed his left foot on the surface of the moon for the first time in human history, our fascination with Earth’s satellite has lost none of its power. NASA Apollo 11: Man on the Moon tracks …

Herausgegeben von Ludovic Balland mit Pauline Mayor. Fotografien und Texte von Ludovic Balland. Mit Vorworten von Julien Gester, Brice Matthieussent und Hilar Stadler 1. Auflage, 2020 Text in Englisch Broschur 276 Seiten, 69 farbige und 139 sw Abbildun …

The LODOWN 25 − 10 SCRAPBOOK issue offers a free-wheeling stream of consciousness, an iconoclastic bundle of joy, a possible antidote against the new Biedermeier. Please do me a big favour and inform me about the amount of copies you’d like to order, a …

Photography enables us to observe the world and the effects of our existence in it. It can be used to document, eternalise and motivate events. Photography has also testified to the paradoxical relationship between man, nature and technology. As we use …

As the Cold War gained momentum in Europe, Tito’s break with Stalin led to Yugoslavia being expelled from the Eastern bloc in 1948. Confronted with this new reality, the Yugoslav government decided to bridge the indeterminacy of its cultural politics t …

Cities are full of stories—running in parallel, contradictory, overlapping and inseparably linked. Such stories are told in Living the City by referencing various projects from architecture, art, and urban planning. The book aims to show processes and …

Cities are full of stories—running in parallel, contradictory, overlapping and inseparably linked. Such stories are told in Living the City by referencing various projects from architecture, art, and urban planning. The book aims to show processes and …

This is not a fashion magazine. It is a book of photography and words. Two volumes filled with four months of chaos, emotional extremes and fleeting moments of hope. 600 pages of soul searching and heartbreak. This issue is a record of the world we liv …

„Die da oben gegen das Volk“ – so lautet das schlichte Narrativ derer, die in den besonnenen Regeln zur Bewältigung der Corona-Krise den „tiefen Staat“ erkennen wollen, während sie gleichzeitig autoritären Staatenlenkern, die tatsächlich einer „hidden …

Christof Zwiener suchte über mehrere Jahre den öffentlichen Raum Ost-Berlins nach Spuren der DDR ab. Große Teile des architektonischen und städtebaulichen Erbes sind verschwunden und zerstört worden, doch die Fahnenmasten scheinen dem Transformationspr …

Films and spaces have the capacity to intervene in the nexus of power, violence, and liberation. Sandra Schäfer’s book examines the methods of militant cinema within the decolonisation and liberation struggles of the 1960s and 1970s. The author analyse …

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, which was triggered by a real estate crisis, there is a renewed search for alternative forms of housing production that escape speculative interests and are based instead on models of co-ownership, co-producti …

Das Bild der europäischen Stadt wird zunehmend von entgrenzten Großbauten geprägt. Ortlose Shoppingcenter verbinden sich mit Verkehrs- und Vergnügungsbauten zu einer endlosen Folge von Räumen, die jeder Idee von Urbanität Hohn sprechen. Rem Koolhaas, s …

Paul Graham’s Beyond Caring published in 1986 is now considered one of the key works from Britain’s wave of “New Color” photography that was gaining momentum in the 1980s. While commissioned to present his view of “Britain in 1984,” Graham turned his a …

Eine kritische Inventur 2019 jährt sich die Gründung des Bauhauses zum hundertsten Mal. Aus diesem Anlass hat ARCH+ mit dem „projekt bauhaus” eine kritische Inventur der Bauhausideen vorgenommen: In einem mehrjährigen Arbeitsprozess untersuchte eine in …

– SYD SHELTON… in late 70s England, Shelton was a key-activist in the RAR movement, not only as a photographer and visionary, but also as one of the driving forces behind the accompanying, brilliant publication “Temporary Hoarding“ – a magazine that …

Von keiner realen öffentlichen Figur gibt es mehr fiktionale Repräsentationen als vom amerikanischen Präsidenten.

Rem Koolhaas widmet sich mit seinem neuesten Forschungsprojekt den rasanten und oft verborgenen Veränderungen, die sich in den weitläufigen, nicht-urbanen Regionen der Erde ereignen. Diese ländlichen, abgelegenen oder verwilderten Gebiete sowie die 98% …

Accompanying the first in-depth survey of her work in the UK, Linderism offers four new perspectives on Linder Sterling’s wide-ranging practice by James Boaden, Alyce Mahon, Amy Tobin and Sarah Victoria Turner. The essays address Linder’s early photomo …

Die drei Gewinnertexte des True Story Award 2019. Aus 924 Reportagen in 21 Sprachen aus 98 Nationen. Mit einem Vorwort von Jon Lee Anderson. Shura Burtin über die Geschichte eines Lehrers und Boxtrainers, der im Tschetschenienkrieg zum Guerillakämpfer …

Even though his expertise in the field was self-taught, the teacher Dr Wilhelm Ganss is regarded as a pioneer of botany in Liechtenstein. In 1954 he published the essay “The Orchids of Liechtenstein”, in which he described the native orchids of his ado …

In Deutschland beenden jedes Jahr ungefähr Zehntausend Menschen ihr Leben – das entspricht der Bevölkerungszahl einer deutschen Großstadt. In den Monaten März und Mai sind die Suizide am häufigsten. Es ist wichtig, über Suizide zu berichten und vor all …

decomposed, an-arranged and reproduced by chimurenga. Published by Afterall Books and Chimurenga in association with Asia Art Archive, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College & RAW Material Company. Contrib. by Allioune Diop, Barkley Hendricks, …

The Museum Is Not Enough is the result of collective reflections on architecture, contemporary social concerns, institutions, and the public undertaken by the Canadian Centre for Architecture in recent years. Building on years of thematic investigation …

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 …

Das Thema des urbanen öffentlichen Raums wird im 21. Jahrhundert neu verhandelt. Überall in Europa gibt es Forderungen nach autofreien, klimagerechten, vielfältig nutzbaren und ästhetisch ansprechenden Aufenthaltsorten. Plätze spielen dabei eine heraus …

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 …

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 …

Vergleicht man die Jahre 1989 und 1990, zeigt sich, dass sie in der kollektiven Erinnerung höchst unterschiedlich präsent sind. Die Meisten können sich das Jahr ’89 rasch ins Gedächtnis rufen. Auch mit dem Abstand von knapp dreißig Jahren fällt es leic …

Weltweit gilt Wien als Hauptstadt des sozialen Wohnungsbaus. Die österreichische Metropole hat seit den 1920er Jahren abseits des „freien“ Marktes ein einzigartiges System des geförderten Wohnungsbaus etabliert, in dem heute mehr als 60 Prozent seiner …

The NSU trial has acted like a magnifying glass, revealing the fault lines that run through Germany. Bruchlinien uses the medium of the comic strip to reconstruct episodes that are not documented in photographs — events that were swept under the carpet …

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 …

This book is to be published fifty years after the events of ’68. The focus of the symposium, as is clear from the title, is concerned with both the discontinuities and the continuities between ’68 and our present situation, examined in a series of lec …

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 …

Tacit Knowledge provides an insight into the complex artistic and educational practices that characterized the first decade of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). There is a special focus on the conceptual and feminist strategies developed …

An East German mordernism existed in parallel to West German modernism in the fields of architecture and design. Walter Scheiffele shows the interplay between the two by looking at furniture making, for which the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau had been …

Radical Cut-Up: Nothing Is Original investigates the cut-up as a contemporary mode of creativity and important global model of cultural production. The term cut-up serves as an open container for a long list of terms and actions that describe the combi …

The Apparatus shows a photographer taking photographs. We do not see what she is recording but we follow all the individual steps in the process: how she looks at her subject, how the camera behaves in relation to the body, how the body—the locomotor a …

Under the influence of migration and financial crises, we are experiencing a renaissance of rationing—the limited dispensation of goods and services that are not paid for with money. In Germany too the “refugee crisis” has put “cashless billing” (vouch …

Housing Cairo: The Informal Response is a publication that aims to illuminate the architecture of informality and its mechanism, focused on the neighborhood of Ard-el-Liwa. It challenges the usual negative perception attached to informal areas. Instead …

Foreword by Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke With photographs by Leonore Mau “Fichte did away with the opposition between objective and poetic writing—his heightened objectivity becomes poetic, his poetry journalistic. He wrote to fight against …