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Even at issue number 21 of zweikommasieben, it remains challenging to identify a common theme among the different contributions gathered in a magazine. What is the “thing” to which we have dedicated ourselves issue after issue? Over the years, it has b …

The two editors, graduate architects from the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture asked six renowned architects and four well-known artists, all among the latest generation in their field, about their underlying motivation, orientation and stances with r …

South African artist Nico Krijno’s photography exists at the intersection of performance, painting, montage, and sculpture. His photographs are full of visual codes, riddles, patterns, and colour. Krijno builds sculptures using discarded materials and …

Über sechzig Jahre lang sind Fan-Magazine – Fanzine – bereits eine der wichtigsten Ausdrucksformen der Selbstdarstellung. Oft handgemacht und selbst verbreitet, wird ihnen nachgesagt, nicht nur professionell hergestellte Zeitungen beeinflusst zu haben, …

‘The Mother Road’ is a publication that contains a double dvd with a five hour compilation video made from screen captures from the famed Route 66 as seen through Google Streetview. Hans Gremmen took 151.000 screen captures following the iconic Street …

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 …

Every image in ‘All Our Suns’ is taken from Olaf Nicolai’s collection of pictures of outer space that have been printed in daily newspapers. These images suggest a high degree of objectivity, though technological settings as well as individual wishes a …

Hundertwasser, der weltbekannte Maler, entfaltete ein bahnbrechendes ökologisches Engagement und schuf eine natur- und menschengerechtere Architektur in Respekt vor der Natur und der individuellen Kreativität. Seine gesellschaftskritischen und ökologis …

Aurel Schmidt’s intricately detailed drawings are a reflection of her life here in New York in that their individual parts pulled from the physical and emotional detritus of downtown. The drawings include objects such as flies, condoms, and cigarette p …

Tillie S. Pine and Joseph Levine first published the children’s book ‘Gravity All Around’, illustrated by Bernice Myers, in 1963. In this new, unauthorised but admiring, edition graphic designer James Langdon gives the original a fresh twist by rotatin …

Guy Bourdin was a groundbreaking image-maker and undoubtedly one of the most influential fashion photographers of the twentieth century. Intriguing and revolutionary, his work has achieved a cult-like following; the striking use of color, suggestive na …

Heinz Hirdina is considered one of the foremost design theorists of the GDR. Together with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Spector Books is publishing a three-volume set of the lectures on the Theory and History of Design that Heinz Hirdina held between …

Deutschland ist reich an herausragenden Zeugnissen moderner Architektur. Das Bauhaus war von Anfang an prägender Teil der Entwicklung des „Neuen Bauens“ im 20. Jahrhundert. Unser Verständnis von Leben, Arbeiten, Lernen und Wohnen ist nachhaltig davon b …