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 …

‘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 …

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, Lungomare is publishing the volume AS IF – 16 Dialogues about Sheep, Black Holes, and Movement. Starting from dialogue as a form of relationship that Lungomare has adopted over its 20 years of artistic and cultu …

There is a growing interest in fungi and mycelium as a material, the ever-branching connecting threads of the fungal world. The entanglements and how this rhizomatic network functions is not just a fascinating ecological system and material, but carrie …

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

»Wenn jemand ›Rot‹ sagt (als Bezeichnung einer Farbe) und wenn 50 Personen zuhören, darf man erwarten, dass 50 verschiedene Rot in ihrem Bewusstsein auftauchen. Man darf sicher sein, dass all diese Rot verschieden sind.« Bereits an diesen beiden ersten …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Grassroots activism encompasses so much. It doesn’t depend on what different groups do, but rather, how they do it. This issue looks into actions: how grassroots activists operate from below, addressing causes from their roots, and nurturing their memb …

We can count on one hand the chains that have bound us, one to the other, for centuries: the family, the nation, and the market. The holy trinity of modernity leaves outside of its triptych what is deemed subaltern, primitive, ready to be exploited, le …

ROZBEH ASMANI: 54 LITFASS KIOSK. Köln 2017. 14,5 x 24 cm. 56 S. mit farb. Abb., Ausst’verz., broschiert – Text in dt. & engl. Sprache.

Author and film-maker Alexander Kluge and philosopher Oskar Negt, both of whom have strong connections to the Frankfurt School, have a long history of working together. Their collaboration began with the books Öffentlichkeit und Erfahrung (1972) and Ge …

Curating has evolved into much more than creating interesting exhibitions, promoting artists, and caring for artworks: in this millennium, art and business are fused, transforming capitalism from the inside out. Curating Capitalism implies new ways of …

Over the past fifteen years, the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, has brought together established and emergent scholars who convene to work with each other and share their ideas and insights. These assemblies have …

There is widespread consensus that we are living at the end—of democracy, of liberalism, of capitalism, of a healthy planet, of the Holocene, of civilization as we know it. In this book, drawing on radical futurisms and visions of justice-to-come emerg …

Jan Mammey and Falk Messerschmidt’s Statues Also Die records the artists criss-crossing Paris and documenting dormant monuments to French colonialism that can be found in the city. They made these traces, and sites, the focus of a six-month residency, …

„Bis zum heutigen Tag stellt die Commune den einzigen Versuch eines revolutionären Urbanismus dar“, schreibt Henri Lefebvre, während sich um ihn herum, an den Universitäten von Strasbourg und Nanterre, die Ereignisse von 1968 zusammenbrauen. In Auseina …

Im Rahmen der Internationalen Bauausstellung (IBA) Thüringen wurden in über zehn Jahren ressourcenbewusste Projekte mit gemeinwohlorientierten Werten im und für das StadtLand entwickelt: innovativ, praxisorientiert, zum Nachahmen. An den Thüringer Scha …

Es wird Zeit, den Blick zu weiten: Das Land ist nicht mehr die Kolonie der Stadt. Die Publikation ist ein Plädoyer, die urbane Logik zugunsten einer territorialen Logik aufzubrechen. Dafür gibt es wichtige Gründe: Die Konzentration auf die Städte verna …

Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetic, and Critique is a symptom and an outcome of a collectively experienced crisis — one that has produced a new, widespread sensorium for often invisible and overlooked infrastructures and highlighted their impo …

The story of art as it’s never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day, with more than 300 works of art.

Photography has always depended on the extraction and exploitation of so-called natural raw materials. Having started out using copper, coal, silver, and paper—the raw materials of analogue image production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—pho …

The Advanced School of Collective Feeling explores the advent of radical new conceptions of the body—a phenomenon known in the 1920s and ’30s as “physical culture”—and their impact on the thinking of some of modern architecture’s most influential figur …

Fotografie als Motiv / Photography as Motif is an artists’ book, a work of photographic theory, and a practical handbook of photography all in one volume. The publication presents an exemplary conjunction of the practice of taking photographs and artis …

Wolfgang Tillmans: Reader präsentiert erstmals in systematischer Weise die Beiträge des Künstlers als Denker, Autor und Gesprächspartner, der sich in einer großen Vielschichtigkeit kreativer Ausdrucksformen für viele Themen unserer Zeit einsetzt. Von B …

Platform is the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s annual compendium of select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions. Taking the artistic still life as its departure point, the ninth edition of Platform chronicles the 2015–2016 ac …

A Cat-Tree for the Arts is the name of the sculpture that provided low-threshold and free access to art in the foyer of the Kunsthaus Graz from 2019-2022.

Headdresses and head coverings are among the most powerful vehicles of cultural identity, referring variously to nationality, subculture, gender, ethnicity, religion, and profession. Yet cultural identity is also continuously evolving. ‘Hybrid Heads’ i …

Ein Manifest für politisch engagierte Architektur Spatializing Justice fordert Architekt*innen auf, mit ihren Entwürfen aktiv gegen gebaute Ungleichheit in der architektonischen und planerischen Praxis Stellung zu beziehen. Mit 30 kurzen, manifestartig …

Stadt gemeinsam gestalten Socializing Architecture stellt anhand der Stadtforschungsprojekte des Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman die Möglichkeiten von Architektur und Design vor, gesellschaftliche Prozesse und gerechtere Städte zu gestalten. Ausgehen …

The first media images of the Earth came into being as a by-product of space travel. Today, we use GPS signals every day and satellite images are part of the toolkit of intelligence officers, scientists, and artists. In addition to looking at the histo …