Architecture / design / graphic design

 
 
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Enzo Mari - 25 façons de planter un clou
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
forthcoming
Strange Design
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
forthcoming
A history of critical design in four episodes: the Italian radical design of the late 1970s; the Dutch conceptual design of the 1990s; the English critical design of the 2000s, and the contemporary scene (with contributions by Bless, Didier Faustino, Alessandro Mendini, Gianni Pettena…).
L\'art des charpentiers japonais - Au cœur de l\'architecture en bois traditionnelle
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
This volume presents a little-known facet of Japanese culture: the know-how of traditional wooden architecture.
Keep it Flat - A little history on flat earth
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated.
Objective: Earth - Designing our Planet
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.
Keep it Flat - Petite histoire sur la Terre plate
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated (also available in English).
Objectif Terre - Le design de notre planète
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.
Claudia Mareis - Théories du design - Une introduction
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
By introducing the main design theories of the twentieth century, Claudia Mareis outlines approaches and models that postulate an expanded notion of design, in connection with the human and technical sciences, as well as with the challenges of a changing society.
Cosmos - Design from here and beyond
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Weaving fruitful links between the worlds of science and design, this catalog unveils the work of designers who have, in conceptual, technical or poetic ways, questioned the architecture of the Universe and the hidden laws of physics that govern it, bringing to the fore the fundamental questions that drive artists and scientists alike (with a contribution of cosmologist Thomas Hertog).
Keep it Flat - A little history on flat earth
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated.
Objectif Terre - Le design de notre planète
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object (also available in English).
Keep it Flat - Petite histoire sur la Terre plate
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated (also available in English).
Cosmos - Design d\'ici et au-delà
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Weaving fruitful links between the worlds of science and design, this catalog unveils the work of designers who have questioned the architecture of the Universe and the hidden laws of physics that govern it (also available in English).
Adriano Olivetti - Écrits et discours
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
The first collection of writings and speeches in French by Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960), an Italian entrepreneur and publisher who transformed his writing and calculating machine factory into a laboratory for experimenting with a new model of social, political, and cultural life: a model of "concrete utopia" based on the idea of community and centered on the individual, whose instruments of realization are architecture, urbanism, and design.
Matali Crasset - Matrices
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Faced with the ecological peril, what can design and archarchitecture itecture do but encourage and accompany modes and ways of living that maintain a renewed relationship with nature? Based on realizations and projects, Matali Crasset and David Bihanic share the writing of this book, seeking together, between testimony and analysis, to characterize a design of matrices.
Alice Rawsthorn - Design as an Attitude
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Documents
Acclaimed author Alice Rawsthorn has revised her bestselling field guide to design in the wake of the pandemic, technological change, and the escalating climate emergency.
Pier Vittorio Aureli - Less is Enough - Sur l\'architecture et l\'ascétisme
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
A reflection on asceticism in architecture.
Jan-Christopher Horak - Saul Bass - Autopsie du design cinématographique
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
The first book to examine the life and work of the fascinating figure of Saul Bass, exploring the designer's revolutionary career and his lasting impact on the entertainment and advertising industries.
Augures - Laboratoire des nouvelles pratiques architecturales
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
The catalog of the exhibition at the first Biennale of Architecture and Landscape.
Victor Papanek - Design pour un monde réel
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
Critical re-edition in French of an absolutely precursory and fundamental work for the inclusion of social and environmental issues in the design process: the manifesto of a radical reconfiguration of the field of design, of its forms but above all of its mission.
Identités du transitoire
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
The dimension of the transitory in the fields of architecture, urbanism and design, as a new horizon of thought and action concerning all aspects of urban life, in its economic and ecological complexity.
Matali Crasset - The Drawing Centre - Les trognes
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – The Drawing Centre
Matali Crasset's drawings sketchbooks.
Arkhè
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
The collection of works by artists related to architecture and architectural projects of the Frac Centre-Val de Loire, as story of the origins: a rereading of the foundations on which architectural experimentation has been built since the beginning of the 1950s.
Adelfo Scaranello - Musée des beaux-arts et d\'archéologie de Besançon - Volume 2 – Scénographie
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
The scenography of the project for the restructuring of the Besançon Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology by Architectures Adelfo Scaranello.
Adelfo Scaranello - Musée des beaux-arts et d\'archéologie de Besançon - Volume 1 + 2
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
38.00 30.00 €
The 2 volumes of the catalogue documenting the project for the restructuring of the Besançon Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology by Architectures Adelfo Scaranello (special offer).
Michele Boni - L\'architecture de la bulle d\'air
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
A manifesto of the architecture of the air.
Nos années de solitude - Biennale d\'Architecture d\'Orléans
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Catalogue of the second Orleans Biennale of Architecture: a call for an archipelago of solitudes.
Adelfo Scaranello - Musée des beaux-arts et d\'archéologie de Besançon
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Catalogue documenting the project for the restructuring of the Besançon Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology by Architectures Adelfo Scaranello.
Milieux & créativités
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
An analysis of new collaborative artistic practices interconnecting artists, designers, graphic designers, architects and researchers with different social and economic backgrounds, outside the strict boundaries of the art world.
Yona Friedman - Drawings & Models / 手稿与模型 - 1945-2010
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
(last copies available!)
The updated chronological compilation of Yona Friedman's plans, sketches, drawings, models, collages, installations, etc., since 1945: a monumental publication which offers a complete overview of the work of one of the greatest artists-architects and urbanist theoreticians today, in its many dimensions (urban, economic, ecological, cultural, social and political).
Atelier national de recherche typographique ANRT - Archives 1985-2006
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Through 650 images drawn from the French National Institute for typographic research unpublished archives, this catalogue tells the untold story of a period of profound technological change, exploring the little-known world of typography design through a diverse selection of projects drawing on both an age-old craft tradition and the most radical innovation.
Claude Patriat - Résidence en résistance - Voyage dans les coulisses d\'Antipodes
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Alessandro Mendini - Ecrits (architecture, design et projet)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Mendini's writings 1972-2011.
Patrick Berger - Animal ?
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Also available in English edition.
Patrick Berger - Animal?
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
A manifesto for an organic architecture that provides a new reading of Patrick Berger's proposal for the Canopy of Les Halles in Paris, and of the main research and experiments undertaken by the Parisian architect during his career, by comparing architectural and biological structures.
Jean-François Pousse - L\'architecture contemporaine sur la Côte d\'Azur
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
An overview of contemporary architecture in the French Riviera from 1945 to the present day (a journey through 59 emblematic constructions presented by an architect and historian and an architecture critic).
 Cocktail Designers - Cocktail Designers\' music furniture
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Sound installations by the French graphic design studio.
 Tectoniques architectes - Unplugged + Explicit
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
50.00 40.00 €
Special offer for the purchase of the two complementary Tectoniques architectes monographs: Unplugged and Explicit.
 Tectoniques architectes - Explicit
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Seven recent ecological buildings by the French architecture collective specialized in wood constructions.
 Cocktail Designers -
2008
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
(last copies available!)
Retrospective catalogue of the graphic design studio's works.
 Tectoniques architectes - Unplugged
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
First publication devoted to the French architects collective specialized in wood constructions, gathering twelve exemplary buildings.
Adelfo Scaranello -
2004
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
First monograph dedicated to the French architect.
L\'art des charpentiers japonais - Au cœur de l\'architecture en bois traditionnelle
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
sold out
This volume presents a little-known facet of Japanese culture: the know-how of traditional wooden architecture.
Objective: Earth - Designing our Planet
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
sold out
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.
Gotico-Antiqua, Proto-Roman, Hybrid - 15th Century Types between Gothic and Roman
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
sold out
The first comprehensive and thorough scientific study of typographic typefaces created in Germany, Italy and France between 1459 and 1482, which are neither fully gothic nor roman.
Couleur et soin
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
sold out
For the past ten years or so, several hospitals, art and design schools, social science researchers and design agencies have been mobilizing around the notion of care, a concept derived from American féminist philosophy. This publication aims to explore the place of color in this concept of care.
Design et pensée du care - Pour un design des microluttes et des singularités
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
sold out
A collective reflection on reciprocal relations between design and the ethics of care, in the areas of health, social innovation, objects, or the environmental issue.
Marcher dans le rêve d\'un autre - Orleans Biennale of Architecture
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
sold out
Catalogue of the first Orleans Biennale of Architecture: introduced by a series of texts on Guy Rottier, Demas Nwoko and Patrick Bouchain, the publication offers an intersecting vision from over forty contemporary architects working on building a shared world. The concluding part presents a mapping of the research in architecture.
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