YRD.Works erarbeitet mit ihren begehbaren und nutzbaren Raumskulpturen eine aktive Schnittstelle zwischen Architektur, Performance und sozialem Ereignis. Ausgangspunkt für eine Projektidee ist neben besonderen Architektursituationen oft das Finden kult …

This colourful, edgy, photo and typography-rich look-book retraces the best images and designs of revolutionary and liberation movements. Concepts around nuclear disaster, Palestine, technology, sexuality, Elvis, Muhammad Ali, Winston Churchill, virus …

«Architektur zu erschaffen bedeutet, Ordnung herzustellen»: Le Corbusier und sein kreativer Prozess

Materialbuch über ein vergessenes Gebäude der Arbeiterbildung in Leipzig Die Schule der Arbeit war ein Modellprojekt der Arbeiterbildung unter Leitung von Gertrud Hermes (1872–1942). Mit dem Neubau des Architekten Johannes Niemeyer (1889–1980) entstand …

To look at things #50 – A Site: The Palace of Typographic Masonry

This book is A Meaningful Order by OK-RM. Across its 328 pages it holds a new history of the distributed realities of design. It depicts designed objects on their own terms to give an account of vision, material, and curiosity—representing a selection …

Each issue features diverse content — essays, interviews, portfolios, re-publications, fiction as well as visual works — to satiate both type design experts, with contributions from or about recognized practitioners just as well as recent students, and …

Faire – To look at things #46 – A calculated approach: Norm’s unreasonable reasonableness

Faire – To look at things #46 – A calculated approach: Norm’s unreasonable reasonableness

Wild Windows is a recent study of Brazilian modernism, published in the form of an artist’s book. The title refers to Claude Lévi-Strauss’ The Savage Mind and to Veronika Kellndorfer’s more than twenty years of research on the pictorial significance of …

STEDELIJK A-Z: EXPLORE THE COLLECTION. Text by Rein Wolfs & Frank van Lamoen. Cologne 2024. 11,5 x 17 cm. 333 S. mit 172 (153 farb.) teils doppelseit. Abb., Glossar, broschiert – Text in engl. Sprache.

Beginning with the exhibition craze of the 1950s, Linus Rapp’s monograph Wohltuende Sachlichkeit looks at the design work carried out at the HfG and the way this was reflected in theoretical considerations. In this sense, the book interprets exhibition …

Following the exhibition Tendenzen—Neuere Architektur im Tessin in Zurich in 1975, contemporaneous architecture in Ticino became the subject of fervent coverage in Swiss and international publications. This extended essay argues that the critical atten …

Hassan Fathy is Egypt’s best-known 20th-century architect. He embraced traditional, vernacular forms, techniques and materials and throughout his career promoted their use as part of a campaign to improve the conditions of Egypt’s rural poor. Earth …

Die jährliche Wettbewerbsdokumentation der Stiftung Buchkunst: “Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher” und der “Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung” in Wort und Bild.

From 2021 to 2024, OK-RM assembled a group of artists, designers, architects, researchers, musicians, and dancers to create new propositions for collective working and making. Commissioned by Goldwin 0 as a means to influence and inspire through new fo …

A book of images originally presented as a slideshow lecture.

The story of a stool, from its origin as a necessary furniture to repopulate a disused park in East London to becoming an ubiquitous sight in international art centres and people’s homes in New Zealand or Korea. Martino Gamper’s Arnold Circus Stool acc …

We draw diagrams to help us think, communicate, and put forth what we think is important or what we want to be true. While some diagrams are seen as statements of fact, they can also further agendas by discounting other realities beneath a cloak of per …

In 1961, Belgian architect René Heyvaert conceived ‘Denver Mosaic’ for a building on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado. Due to its scale, permanence, and site specificity, the mosaic has a spatial operation that is closely linked to architecture and em …

_Kulturgeschichter Abriss und Einordnung _Mit zahlreichen Praxisbeispielen _Zusammenstellung der besten Monospace-Schriften _Handbuch, Nachschlagewerk und Inspirationsquelle in einem Monospaced-Schriften gehen auf die Schreibmaschine zurück und sind ch …

Originally introduced by French biologist Pierre-Paul Grassé in 1959 to describe a coordination mechanism used by insects, the term “stigmergy” describes the principle that the work of a single agent-whether natural, animal or human-always leaves a tra …

Architecture and urbanism were traditionally based on climate and health, as we can read in the treatises of Vitruvius, Palladio or Alberti, where exposure to wind and sun, variations in temperature and humidity influenced the forms of cities and build …

Mit über 800 Werken beherbergt das Museum Ludwig eine der weltweit umfangreichsten Sammlungen zur Russischen Avantgarde. Über 70 Künstler aus dieser Zeit, darunter Persönlichkeiten wie Alexandra Exter, Natalja Gontscharowa, Alexei von Jawlensky, Wassil …

Mit über 800 Werken beherbergt das Museum Ludwig eine der weltweit umfangreichsten Sammlungen zur Russischen Avantgarde. Über 70 Künstler aus dieser Zeit, darunter Persönlichkeiten wie Alexandra Exter, Natalja Gontscharowa, Alexei von Jawlensky, Wassil …

Eine architektonische Auseinandersetzung mit dem NS

An enticing collection of before-and-after scenarios, created by master artist and acclaimed author of “This Is Not A Book” Graphic artist Jean Jullien insightfully and comically depicts a set of clever and surprising before-and-after two-frame narrati …