Creativity has been hailed as the driving force and most important skill of the twenty-first century–a power to be taught, understood and deployed on all levels of society. Debate concerning the origins and potential of creativity is mostly confined to …

OASE 105 – Practices of Drawing | It is hard to overstate the importance of drawing for architectural practice. Ever since antiquity, architects have relied on drawings to conceptualize ideas, provide instructions for workers and construct their ideas …

Ausstellen des Ausstellens untersucht die Geschichte des Ausstellens von der Vergangenheit bis in die Gegenwart. Die Ausstellung in der Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden nimmt ihren Ausgangspunkt bei den Vorläufern der modernen Museen und frühen Kunst …

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 …

Bauhaus and documenta are two globally successful cultural brands, representing a modern Germany that is both cosmopolitan and innovative. They both came into being at a time when civilization was in a state of collapse, and they both exemplify the ide …

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 …

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 …

OASE 105 – Practices of Drawing | It is hard to overstate the importance of drawing for architectural practice. Ever since antiquity, architects have relied on drawings to conceptualize ideas, provide instructions for workers and construct their ideas …

Edited by Achim Szepanski. Texts by Jan Heintz, Frédéric Neyrat, Achim Szepanski, Holger Schulze, Zafer Aracagök, Shintaro Miyazaki, Gerriet K. Sharma, Txgen Meyer, Taylor Adkins & Joseph Weissman, Bernd Herzogenrath, Corry Shores & Melike Başak Yalçin, Algorithmic Committee, Jose Rosales, Stefan Paulus, Marcus Schmickler & Julian Rohrhuber, Thomas Brinkmann, Thomas Köner, Alessio Kolioulis, Benjamin Noys, Bill B. Wintermute.

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

– 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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Aldo Rossi verfolgte in seiner 1966 erschienen Publikation L’Architecttura della Città die städtebauliche Entstehung und Entwicklung der großen europäischen Metropolen und legte damit seine Theorie zum Umgang mit den historisch gewachsenen Strukturen d …

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 …

Criticism has fallen into crisis, and today’s critical practice mistrusts its own tools—a development that also applies to critique in architecture. For a major part of the twentieth century, critique played an important part in what was considered “mo …

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 …

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 …

– 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 …

American author Ben Lerner and German film-maker and writer Alexander Kluge come from two different generations but share a single passion: an interest in the long-term effects of things. A line from Lerner’s poem “The sky stops painting and turns to c …

“At a moment of tremendous technological and cultural change, David Reinfurt makes the case that graphic design is not merely a craft, but a fundamental way to understand and engage with the world. Discursive, expansive, and inspiring, this book redefi …

This issue is devoted to the Italian designer, artist, and inventor Bruno Munari, whose visual experiments were so iconic as to become a self-evident part of visual culture. At its core is the first English translation of ‘Obvious Code’ (1971), a colle …

„Weltall Erde Mensch #23“ ist eine Auseinandersetzung mit Blumen, Büchern, ostdeutscher Alltagskultur, dem Medium der Enzyklopädie, Geschichtsschreibung, Hoffnung und Enttäuschung. Hintergrund der Publikation stellt das Buch „Weltall Erde Mensch“ dar, …

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 …

The English architect, historian, critic, and educator Kenneth Frampton received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the latest Venice Biennale 2018. There is no architecture student that is not familiar with his book ‘Modern Architecture: A Cr …

The ‘Serving Library Annual’ comprises several “bulletins” organised around a theme for an international audience of designers, researchers, writers, and artists. This year’s collection explores how translation is fast becoming a significant site for t …

Why do design? What is design for? These are forward-looking questions for a creative discipline that seems more slippery to define than ever. In a world of dwindling natural resources, exhausted social and political systems, and an overload of informa …

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

Renowned contemporary artists and writers address the intersection of art, global politics, and emerging technologies. Time, Forward! questions the notion and function of time and how it relates to the way we create and interact with art in the 21st ce …

Die Publikation „Bauhaus | documenta. Vision und Marke“ (hrsg. von Birgit Jooss, Philipp Oswalt und Daniel Tyradellis) verbindet die thematischen Ausrichtungen der Ausstellung mit den kunsthistorischen Perspektiven der Virtuellen Ausstellung. Die reich …

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 with; and by doing so deliberately force new collisions and contrasts that allow …

In Fragments of a Crisis untersucht Julian Irlinger das Verhältnis von Ästhetik und Ideologie anhand künstlerischer Arbeit in der Weimarer Republik. Sein Ausgangsmaterial ist Notgeld, das während der Inflation (1918 – 1923) parallel zur offiziellen Wäh …

Kolkata: City of Print is a literary essay by Mara Züst realized through research conducted during several stays in Kolkata and focused on different aspects of the print medium in this Indian city. Formerly known as Calcutta, the city was founded as a …

As we hurtle into the twenty-first century, will we be passive downloaders of content or active uploaders of meaning? The computer, writes Peter Lunenfeld, is the twenty-first century’s culture machine. It is a dream device, serving as the mode of prod …

The Anarchitecture group show at the fabled 112 Greene Street gallery – an artistic epicenter of New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s – in March 1974 has been the subject of an enduring discussion, despite a complete lack of documentation about it. A …

Lene Markusen first visited St Petersburg in 1993. With only a very rudimentary knowledge of Russian, she made drawings of the women she observed in the urban environment. Both of her films GRAD (2004) and Sankt: Female Identities in the Post-Utopian ( …

Platform 11 is the 2017–2018 installment of Platform, the annual compendium documenting select student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Platform represents a year in the life of the Harvard Un …

21 x 29,7 cm, 184 p, 120 b-w, 25 colour ills, thread-sewn paperback, English, Italian ISBN 9783948200008 edition of 500 March 2019 Editors: Verena Buttmann, Leslie Johnson Text: Verena Buttmann, Viana Conti, Leslie Johnson, Jorgen Svensson Design: Stud …

Fehler lesen. Korrektur als Textproduktion is an essay on textual errors and a personal quest to find them. Misprints demonstrate the vulnerability of a text. Here we catch a glimpse of the pre- and post-production phases, work that is to a large exten …

TOTAL ARMAGEDDON is about design. And culture. And complexity, notably how we, as a global civilization, deal with science fiction, taste, social media, the cities we live in, aesthetics, PowerPoint, burkas, Big Tech, full-contact sports, and other tho …

When Marcel Duchamp invented the readymade one hundred years ago, there was no way of knowing that these random objects taken from everyday life would have such a lasting influence on art. The book The Readymade Century examines his readymades from two …

When Marcel Duchamp invented the readymade one hundred years ago, there was no way of knowing that these random objects taken from everyday life would have such a lasting influence on art. The book The Readymade Century examines his readymades from two …

100 Jahre nach der Bauhaus-Gründung wird mit der Zeitschrift bauhaus ein bedeutsames Schriftzeugnis dieser Ikone der Moderne wieder zugänglich gemacht. In der von 1926 bis 1931 periodisch erschienenen Zeitschrift kommen bedeutende Stimmen der Bewegung …