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 …

The starting point for TEST was a colony of ants that Bielau temporarily set up in her studio. In this experimental arrangement, she observed the hierarchical and state-building organisation of the insects, in which the altruistic workers support the q …

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Artist and fashion designer Cinzia Ruggeri (1942–2019) made her artistic research a tool for inquiry into the functional and semantic properties of the object and the architectural and social dimension of the body, according to an original and nonconfo …

“Al Qasimi’s photographs are filled with flowers but they are rarely real. Instead, they are represented metonymically as object, ornament, pattern, and image. In a series of flower studies, their natural forms are translated materially into a glinting …

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 …

Dan Graham (1942–2022) was one of the most influential protagonists of conceptual art from the 1960s on. With his walk-through glass Pavilions, he places architecturally designed elements in space, thereby altering the viewer’s perceptions of its surro …

Purple Magazine is bridging the gap between art and fashion since 1992. Comes with different Covers.

Le Corbusiers Bauten sorgten für Verwirrung. War seine 1955 im Dorf Ronchamp in Frankreich errichtete Kirche, die “Notre-Dame du Haut”, ein neues Kapitel der Baugeschichte? Oder ein “nicht zu überbietendes Beispiel von Neuerungssucht, Willkür und Unord …

The volume Theorie und Geschichte des Designs 2. Reaktionen auf die Moderne is dedicated to international design trends since the 19th century in loose chronological order: from Michael Thonet to the Chicago School in the USA, Russian constructivism, t …

Frame magazine is the world’s leading interior-design publication. The bimonthly magazine is filled with inspiring projects and stunning photography from all sectors of the international interiors industry. Since 1997, Frame has remained faithful to it …

photo zine, 2024

Illustration‘ zu definieren ist nicht einfach; immer sitzt sie zwischen den Stühlen der angewandten und freien Kunst, zwischen Dienstleistung und Selbstverwirklichungsanspruch. Mit neuen Möglichkeiten technischer Reproduzierbarkeit werden Illustratione …