Open for Maintenance is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, which is curated by ARCH+ and the SUMMACUMFEMMER BÜRO JULIANE GREB collective and will feature in the German Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. The p …

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 …

Open for Maintenance is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, which is curated by ARCH+ and the SUMMACUMFEMMER BÜRO JULIANE GREB collective and will feature in the German Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. The p …

The modern capitalist era, with its emphasis on growth and progress and an economic system based on consumption, wastage, and resources being bled dry, has led to the ruthless exploitation of people and nature. As a counter to this, “The Great Repair” …

For decades, the call for equality and equal opportunity has been heard within the hierarchical world of architecture. The number of those actively working for change is growing. Their goal is to turn architecture into an ethically responsible and soci …

Design spielte neben dem Städtebau und der Architektur eine zentrale Rolle für die Gestaltung der sozialistischen Zukunft. Ins besondere die Wohnungsfrage wurde auf beiden Seiten des Eisernen Vorhangs zum Gradmesser für die erfolgreiche Umsetzung der V …

Detailing and analysing approaches that anticipate change – from shifting user needs to fluctuating functions – FRAME’s Agility-themed Spring issue provides a directory for resilient design.

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 …

Niedliche Kunst? Das galt lange als Widerspruch in sich. Kunst konnte vieles sein – aber gewiss nicht süß. Während durch Readymades, Pop Art oder Appropriation Art andere Motive der Konsum- und Populärkultur selbstverständlich aufgegriffen wurden, blie …

»Chromacolor« is one of those records that immediately feels like home even though it is hard to locate stylistically. Written and recorded by Hanno Leichtmann in Berlin and Madeira between 2020 and 2022, it draws on rhythmic minimalism as a guiding pr …

fragments of a street

Issues 31 to 34 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design. #31 — An Edition: The Serving Library. Interview with Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey by James Langdon Dot Dot Dot magazine has always antagonised factions of the graphic design community. Wh …

You’ve heard it before: “Words, don’t come easy…” So how to write about F.R.DAVID, a journal that takes this very verse as its maxim? This instalment of Faire proposes a non-comprehensive overview of the twenty issues of F.R.DAVID, from the complementa …

Kunst und Kampf im Bruderland – Art and Conflict in Brotherland Transnationales Kunstschaffen ist in unserer globalisierten Welt selbstverständlich geworden. Wie aber sah die migrantische Kunstproduktion in der DDR aus? Der Band beleuchtet u.a. die Kul …

In his first evening-filling artist’s book “Notizen” (Notes), Sebastian Haslauer combines texts with drawings, most of which were created on the road, and which have one thing in common: they are unfinished, processual – and not to forget entertaining, …