We draw diagrams to help us think, communicate, and put forth what we think is important or what we want to be true. While some diagrams are seen as statements of fact, they can also further agendas by discounting other realities beneath a cloak of per …

Originally introduced by French biologist Pierre-Paul Grassé in 1959 to describe a coordination mechanism used by insects, the term “stigmergy” describes the principle that the work of a single agent-whether natural, animal or human-always leaves a tra …

Architecture and urbanism were traditionally based on climate and health, as we can read in the treatises of Vitruvius, Palladio or Alberti, where exposure to wind and sun, variations in temperature and humidity influenced the forms of cities and build …

MANUAL FOR SURVIVAL Überleben ist eine gemeinschaftliche Praxis. Wir können es nicht allein tun; wir brauchen einander. Wir brauchen Werkzeuge und Praktiken, die uns helfen, uns zu verbinden, zu verstehen, gemeinsam zu bauen, zu überleben in diesem Zei …

In der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts haben Designerinnen Pionierleistungen hervorgebracht. Ihr Mut und ihr Talent werden vor dem Hintergrund gesellschaftlicher Widerstände in Ausbildung oder weiblicher Selbstständigkeit sichtbar gemacht. Zu ihrer …

Can design cater to a diverse society? How does it respond to the disparate demands of the people using it? Debates about inclusion and participation have been an important part of the design discourse since at least the 1980s. Contemporary design appr …

In The Dragonfly’s Eye, 92-year-old author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge tests out the cooperative capacities of the Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to process images. As a film-maker, he has many years of experience in dealing with the camera an …

In The Dragonfly’s Eye, 92-year-old author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge tests out the cooperative capacities of the Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to process images. As a film-maker, he has many years of experience in dealing with the camera an …

Als Metabolisten bezeichnet sich eine Gruppe von Architekten, Designer und Stadtplanern, die ihren ersten gemeinsamen Auftritt 1960 auf der World Design Conference in Tokio hatten. Dieser eindrückliche Bildband stellt die Architektur der Metabolisten v …

Seit der Moderne steht die Kunst für Freiheit, Provokation und Mut. 1972 sollte sie ihr Potenzial als emanzipatorische und gestalterische Kraft im Gesamtkunstwerk der Spiele der XX. Olympiade in München nachhaltig entfalten. Das war die große Vision de …

The Politics of Public Space Volume Five collates the all four previously sold out volumes along with nine new conversations with; Gary Foley, Alison Young, Lily Éire Parsons, Uncle Dave Wandin, Wendy Steele, Polly Stanton, Kelsie Nabben, Olivia Daw, G …

Neoliberalism has taken autonomous professional values and labour firmly in its grasp. Traditional forms of employment are replaced with post-Fordist conditions in which work has become freelance, mobile, project-based, and temporary. This way of worki …

There is a new growing ethical consciousness within the arts, both in the way it relates to the larger social, political and economic challenges and in how it reflects on its own production and distribution mechanisms. The Ethics of Art attempts to des …

The pandemic has once again made us more aware of the fragility of life and the importance of being able to properly mourn the dead. Dramaturg Guy Cools has been researching laments and other rituals of mourning. He is particularly interested in how th …

This book explores both positions. It looks at the representation of male sexuality, nudity, fatherhood, male violence, rape, fascism and virility, men and war. It shows works of art that deal with the intricacies and contradictions of these socio-cult …

Der ostdeutsche Kunstkritiker Lothar Lang bezeichnete die documenta 1959 als „Monsterschau“ –  ein Urteil, das die kulturpolitischen Spannungen zwischen den beiden deutschen Staaten spiegelt. Welches Bild machten sich Künstler*innen und Kulturfunktionä …

For centuries, architectural theory, discourse, and agency have been based on diurnal and solar paradigms. References to the night in Vitruvius’ De architectura are residual; they are similarly scarce in the most influential Renaissance treatises by Al …

Not another annual monograph. No grand theses about caesura and new beginnings. No attempt to approach the present by way of a selected past. Instead: Digressions, drifting and excursions on the fringes of history. Understood in this way, “ca. 1972” is …

After a previous focus on questions of historiography and the archive, In Medias Res #2: Architecture in Motion continues Fluentum’s ongoing investigation into the history of its grounds with a focus on its architecture and surrounding material culture …

Doppelte Buchführung ist eine Sammlung von 248 Collagen, die vom deutschen Künstler Thomas Baldischwyler auf Grundlage von S/W-Kopien des 2004 erschienenen Katalogs Formalismus. Moderne Kunst, heute angefertigt wurden. Seine analoge Überarbeitung die …

Ein Lehr- und Handbuch zur Konstruktion von Räumen ausgehend von zehn grundlegenden Raumtypen. Mit Beispiele u.a. von Gottfried Böhm, Félix Candela, Caruso St John Architects, Le Corbusier, Egon Eiermann & Sep Ruf, Annette Gigon / Mike Guyer Archit …

In der DDR entstanden und zirkulierten autonome Künstlerfilme auf Schmalfilm (8 mm) in einer Grauzone am Rande des offiziellen Kunstbetriebs. Diese teils tolerierte, teils staatlich verfolgte »Underground-Szene« stellt die vorliegende Publikation erstm …

The publication presents a comprehensive overview of the vast production of monuments in socialist Yugoslavia (1945–91) dedicated to the antifascist People’s Liberation Struggle in the Second World War and the socialist revolution. Since the breakup of …

Markus Grob erzählt die Geschichte der Architektur im 20. Jahrhundert entlang einer Reihe von Einfamilienhäusern. Ihre entweder steilen oder flachen Dächer analysiert er als aus dem 19. Jahrhundert hervorgegangene Formen, deren Gegeneinander in einem „ …

• Die Zeitschrift als Plattform, auf der verschiedene Haltungen und Perspektiven aufeinandertreffen – welche Rolle spielte die archithese in ihrer Zeit, welche Rolle spielt sie heute?   • Ein kritischer Blick auf aktuelle und historische Themen de …

Begleitbuch zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung in der Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden

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 …

The language of tomorrow originates in the schools of today. This book looks at (colonial) alphabets in the school microcosm, centring on a Spanish course at Johanna-Eck-Schule in Berlin and the project work carried out with Santiago Calderón and Aliza …

The language of tomorrow originates in the schools of today. This book looks at (colonial) alphabets in the school microcosm, centring on a Spanish course at Johanna-Eck-Schule in Berlin and the project work carried out with Santiago Calderón and Aliza …

Cultural and academic institutions have been in crisis for quite some time now. In many cases, they still refer to a canon that has been made obsolete by global developments—in particular, by new voices from the Global South. Their modes of knowledge p …

Practices of Knowledge Production in Art, Activism and Collective Research

How can knowledge be both locally situated and globally relevant? Can knowledge be understood as a collective practice through the modes of action that produce it, rather than becoming a hegemonic matrix or lowest common denominator? The New Alphabet S …

People perceive audio events in very different ways. There is still a great deal of uncertainty about the physics, biology, signifiers, and unconscious processes on the basis of which auditory experiences are constructed. The book applies the methods o …

People perceive audio events in very different ways. There is still a great deal of uncertainty about the physics, biology, signifiers, and unconscious processes on the basis of which auditory experiences are constructed. The book applies the methods o …

„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 …

“Die Publikation WE ARE MILLENIUM STARS reflektiert die künstlerischen Forschungsprozesse, die wir während unserer Recherchen zur Architektin Helena Syrkus und ihrer Arbeit im Netzwerk der Moderne unternommen haben.” Die Ausstellungspraxis von WIRKUSPR …

„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 …

In diesen schwierigen Zeiten ist das Beste, was wir haben, ein Netzwerk von Freunden, die über diesen wackeligen Planeten verstreut sind”, schrieb Walter Gropius in den Nachkriegsjahren an die Architektin Helena Syrkus (1900-1982). Sie war als Mitbegrü …

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 …

Kant betrachtet die Analogien als etwas, das unerläßlich ist, um das Wissen zu erweitern. In der jetzt erschienenen und in der Bildbearbeitung deutlich verbesserten Neuauflage des 1982 erschienenen “Klassikers” stellt der Architekt O.M. Ungers 128 Stad …

Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one. Eve …

THIS IS BADLAND — A BIANNUAL PRINT PUBLICATION AND ONLINE PLATFORM DEDICATED TO THE EXPLORATION OF ART, DESIGN AND CULTURE FROM THE BALKANS AND BEYOND.

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 …

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 …

Bodies are classified by category and incorporated into narratives that are invariably oriented toward a supposed norm, one that, in turn, can mostly be understood as a system of belonging or exclusion. Non-binary, queer, ill, disabled, old, and Black …

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 …