Architecture / urbanism

 
 
Eyal Weizman - L\'art de la contre-enquête - Esthétiques de l\'investigation – Politiques de vérité
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
forthcoming
A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law.
Tools - To Cut
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
forthcoming
The fourth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry.
Gilles Perraudin - Trilogie - Trois architectures en pierre
2024
French edition
Avenir radieux
forthcoming
As part of a series of publications on singular architectural bodies of work, this volume focuses on three stone projects by Gilles Perraudin, an advocate of the renewed use of this material.
Arts, écologies, transitions - Un abécédaire
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.
Jan Kinsbergen - Plates
2024
English edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
forthcoming
A visual, experimental research on the architectonic potential of the horizontal surface in building processes in the format of a folded manifesto. Drawings, images and texts by Jan Kinsbergen, Neven Kostic and David Klemmer.
L’Art dans la vie - Le constructivisme et le productivisme russe dans les textes
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
forthcoming
An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.
Frog
2024
texts in English and French
Frog
forthcoming
Torbjørn Rødland, Pierre Joseph, Jill Mulleady, Samuel Fasse, Rob Pruitt, Ugo Rondinone, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Ana Jotta, Donald Judd, GaHee Park, Ange Leccia, Richard Phillips, NP2F, Seton Smith, Giacomo Borella, Valérian Goalec, Sean Landers, Huma Bhabha, Paul Pfeiffer, Claes Oldenbourg, Brian Calvin, Karen Kilimnik, Robert Gober, Rita Ackermann, Allen Ginsberg, Karen Kilimnik, Robert Longo...
Joar Nango -
2024
bilingual edition (English / Sámi)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
Centering on a notion of nomadic space, this publication offers the first in-depth overview of the projects, photo archives, and architectural investigations of Sámi architect and artist Joar Nango, and includes a series of essays and conversations with long-time collaborators and discussion partners.
Eyal Weizman - Avant et après - L\'architecture du désastre
2024
French edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
Eyal and Ines Weizman explore the history of the before-and-after image, from its origins in 19th-century Paris to today's satellite surveillance.
 Ganko - Glasraum
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
forthcoming
The result of a collaboration in the fields of architecture and photography, Glasraum explores the deliberate ambiguities embedded in a seemingly aloof approach to the construction of both space and image.
Gilles Perraudin - Les jours sont ronds
2024
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
forthcoming
The story / manifesto of an architect's life: a rereading of Gilles Perraudin's career by himself.
Chris Dorley Brown - A History of the East End
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Nouveau Palais
forthcoming
Four decades of urban change in London's East End: a comprehensive retrospective of the British photographer's documentation work since the 1980s.
Nasser Rabbat - Critical Encounters
2024
English edition
Dongola
The second installment in the Dongola Architecture Series, dedicated to the great voices of contemporary architecture in the Arab culture, delves into the life and work of the distinguished Syrian architect and architecture historian Nasser Rabbat.
Espace art actuel - Building
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
With the theme "Building," this issue is interested in the future of architecture as a practice of creating housing for the living within urban agglomerations. It questions the ways architecture, as the creation of living spaces, always requires collaboration with several participants including, hopefully, the users.
Nikil Saval - A Rage in Harlem - June Jordan and Architecture
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval tells the story of an unlikely partnership between June Jordan and R. Buckminster Fuller, and their attempt to reimagine Harlem in the wake of the 1964 riots.
Massimiliano Locatelli - Editions
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An anthology that gathers a selection of furniture and lamps designed over the years by the Italian architect Massimiliano Locatelli.
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach - Project of a Historical Architecture
2024
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The facsimile and English-language reprint of the volume published in 1721 by Austrian architect and historian Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, a historical and theoretical work covering all architectural periods and styles, from Stonehenge to Chinese imperial arches, which had a considerable influence throughout Europe.
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
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
This volume presents a little-known facet of Japanese culture: the know-how of traditional wooden architecture.
Tools - To Fold
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The third issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to folding.
Dennis Pohl - Building Carbon Europe - Critical Spatial Practice 13
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
How architecture powered European energy politics in the postwar era and paved the way for today's dependency on coal, steel, and nuclear power.
Luca Merlini - La traversée de ma bibliothèque
2024
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
An adventure book, written and drawn, by Luca Merlini that takes us closer to the creative process of the architect and the parallel that can be drawn with literature, highlighting the question of the book and its intimate relationship to architecture.
Jesús María Aparicio Guisado - Le mur - Concept essentiel dans le projet architectonique : la matérialisation de l\'idée et l\'idéalisation de la matière
2024
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
Jesús María Aparicio Guisado expounds here his conception of architecture by exploring the notion of the wall in four major buildings through drawing and words.
Simple Architecture - The Villa Baizeau in Carthage By Le Corbusier and Jeanneret
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Accattone
A dialogue between architectural history and design, in homage to Le Corbusier's theoretical vision behind the construction of the Villa Baizeau in Carthage.
Giovanna Silva - Napoli
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A photographic exploration of the architecture, history and people of Naples at the time of the fervent Scudetto celebrations.
 Anni\'s - Repetition, repetition,
2023
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Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A publication compiled, edited and designed by Danish graphic artist Anni's, based on research into the uses of the grid.
Laurent Stalder - Un dessin n\'est pas un plan et autres essais
2023
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
This collection does not propose a theory of architectural drawing, but brings together seven essays (written over the last fifteen years), which explore the potential of architectural drawing during the 20th century, through seven modes of representation: plan, section, arrow, grid, images, diagram, drawing.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - LCDB (Le Culte Des Banni.e.s)
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A trans-theoretical essay: Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux explores the arcana of artists' cult status through a kaleidoscopic series of portraits of "banished" visual artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians and architects, from William S. Burroughs to Jean-Luc Godard via John Cage.
Tadashi Kawamata - Site Sketches n°1-500
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Site Sketches n°1-500 is the first volume of the catalog raisonné devoted to the Site Sketches series, works on paper made from recycled scrap wood by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata.
Gae Aulenti - Cina 1974
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
A series of astonishing photographs by the Italian architect and designer, discovering China at the end of the Cultural Revolution, between millenary traditions, openness to the world and forced modernization.
Décor - Trans
2023
French edition
Décor
École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
The third issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, placed under the complex and ambivalent sign of "TRANS", covering the various ways of transgressing (identity, textuality, coding, training, etc.).
 Dyvik Kahlen - Dyvik Kahlen In Practice - Villa Ruba
2023
English edition
MER. B&L
currently out of stock
For the fourth book in the In Practice series, Dyvik Kahlen architects explore the design process of the Villa Ruba, located near Utrecht.
 Muoto - Holy Highway
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - 6th Caryatide
A collection of texts, projects and images by the Parisian architecture studio on the subject of the highway, the most radical public space ever imagined, but also the most divisive and criticized today, questioning our relationship with modernity.
Livio Vacchini - Capolavori - Chefs-d\'œuvre
2023
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Fondamenta
Twelve texts on as many architectural masterpieces: pursuing their project to disseminate the work and thought of Livio Vacchini, Caryatide publish a new edition in French of Capolavori, the small (and immense) milestone, full of meaning and poetry, that the architect from Ticino wrote in 2006 just before his death.
Alexandra Midal - The Murder Factory - Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.
 Fosbury Architecture - Spaziale - Everyone belongs to everyone else / Ognuno appartiene a tutti gli altri
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The volume "Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else" brings together the voices of all the protagonists involved in the Italian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
In Plain Sight - Scenes from Aridly Abundant Landscapes
2023
English edition
Kaph Books
What architectural possibilities can emerge when we reimagine arid landscapes as spaces of abundance? (a collective book conceived as a travelogue that challenges preconceptions around aridity: the official publication of UAE's National Pavilion at Venise Biennale of Architecture).
Écoles troubles - Penser, éditer, spatialiser la controverse
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Accattone
A journal gathering texts, posters and extracts of three round-table conversations edited and spatilized by the students and the teachers at ÉNSA Versailles and the editors of the magazine Accattone.
Offline
2023
French edition (texts in English)
Offline
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
The 11th issue of the biannual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with Atlas Studio, Eurostandard, Nathalie Herschdorfer, Elisa Medde, Jonathan Olivares, Samuel Spreyz, Manon Wertenbroek.
Jacques Grange - Un goût parisien
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
The collaborative project conceived in New York by the world's most celebrated French interior designer Jacques Grange and gallerist Kamel Mennour.
Ugo Bienvenu - Lorem Ipsum - French Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2023
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
An architectural fiction that takes the form of a photo novel, born from the meeting between an author, Ugo Bienvenu, and the architects of the French Pavilion of the 18th International Architecture Biennale in Venice.
Peter Märkli - Dessins, disegni
2023
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
An in-depth study of Peter Märkli's work through an extensive body of 700 drawings by the Swiss architect, with eight essays.
Bernard Quirot - Trilogie - BQ+A Bernard Quirot architecte et associés – Trois architectures à Grachaux
2023
French edition
Avenir radieux
As part of a series of publications on singular architectural bodies of work, this volume presents three projects by architects working with Bernard Quirot in Grachaux, Haute-Saône (France), which examine three materials and their use in a local perspective of "critical regionalism".
Frog
2023
texts in English and French
Frog
Twelve interviews (Sarah Morris, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Austin Eddy, Jameson Green, Sébastien Tellier & Xavier Veilhan, James Richards, Tursic & Mille...), a dozen exhibitions and places in images (Genesis Belanger, Julia Scher, Robert Longo, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Man Ray's studio, Sam McKinnis, William Morris. ..), texts and special projects by artists (Sarah Morris, Emma McIntyre, Pierre Charpin, Marina Faust on Pierre Klossovski's studio...), exhibition reviews and columns, over 300 pages.
Giovanna Silva - Black Coffee No Sugar - Genoa
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
A photographic journey through the city of Genoa, exploring the past of historic buildings, the contemporaneity of the first modern museums, and Franco Albini's interiors.
Francesco Paleari - Green gulfs and Panga Panga parquet / Golfi verdi e parquet Panga Panga - Milano San Felice
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books
A revisiting of the singular urban planning project of the residential district of Milano San Felice.
Oscar Tuazon - Building
2023
English edition
DoPe Press
(last copies available!)
A retrospective of the American artist's work, balanced on the fulcrum between sculpture and architecture, spanning more than twenty years, presented as a visual essay on experimental space-making.
Traces de guerre
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
An multidisciplinary approach of the war by its traces.
Adriano Olivetti - Écrits et discours
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Fondamenta
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.
Global Tools (1973-1975) - Éco-Design : Dé-projet & Low-Tech
2023
French edition
isdaT (Higher Institute of Arts and Design of Toulouse) - Research Series
The reference book in French on the Global Tools design movement linked to the Italian radical architects of the 1970s.
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