Architecture / urbanism

A reading of Samuel Beckett's work from its architectures.

The third issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, addresses our urban condition at the age of Anthropocene, with contributions by about forty renowned international contributors (Nicolas Bourriaud, Pierre Huyghe, Yann Moulier-Boutang, Pierre Musso, Neri Oxman, Christian de Portzamparc, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, Jean Viard...), in long and elaborate interviews.

The third issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, addresses our urban condition at the age of Anthropocene (available in English edition).

A book about a fictional architecture office in a modernist social housing complex in Brussels, where real architects and locals worked together to make scale models: a reflection on scale models as spaces of negotiation, on maquettes as places where the desire of the architect is visible without the compromises of reality.

Mark von Schlegell's fusion of theory and fiction puts the SF back in notions of “speculative aesthetics.”

Mendini's writings 1972-2011.

The urgency of building subtraction.

Comprehensive monograph based on the special commission made by Barcelona-based Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga for the Sonae/Serralves Project in 2012.

Beatriz Colomina traces the history of the modern architecture manifesto, with particular focus on Mies van der Rohe, and the play between the written and built work.

Based on the findings of an interdisciplinary research project, Transcultural Modernisms maps out the network of encounters, transnational influences, and local appropriations of an architectural modernity manifested in various ways in housing projects in India, Israel, Morocco, and China.

The collaborative construction process of the “wood log tower” designed by Tadashi Kawamata in Ittingen Charterhouse, a former Carthusian monastery in Switzerland, developed with the architect Christopher Scheidegger.

Box set bringing together three books / DVDs devoted to Tadashi Kawamata's wood constructions: Scheiterturm (2014), Collective Folie (2014), and Workshop (2008).

A collective project initiated by Valérie Jouve.

Also available in English edition.

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.

A series of provocative projects by the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) that try to imagine “the morning after revolution.”

Andrea Pichl's photographs, sculptures, and drawings to date, with two essays by Sven Beckstette and Gabriele Knapstein.

Artist's book / catalogue.

Artist's book / catalogue.

Artist's book.

Based on a series of interviews and site visits with living artists about the role of their home in relation to their work, Kirsty Bell looks at the house as receptacle, vehicle, model, theater, or dream space.

The collaborative construction and deconstruction process of the tower designed by Tadashi Kawamata for the Parc de la Villette in Paris.

This publication documents the architecture of the Kembs-Niffer lock in Alsace, conceived by Georges Heintz and Anne-Sophie Kehr. It also features the text of a performance from 2011 by Charles Pennequin.

The Silo auditorium in Marseilles is an architecture of industrial splendor designed by Roland Carta. The building inspired Édith Azam a poetic text on the notion of spectacle.

The sport center designed by Rémy Marciano in Châteauneuf-les-Martigues, South-East France, inspired Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou to write a poetic text on the athletic body.

Artist's book: Tadashi Kawamata compiles, like a scrapbook, photographs taken from newspaper reporting natural disasters, terrorist attacks or accidents.

The experiments conducted around the mutations of the city by the urban research workshop at the ENSA (School of Fine Arts) Dijon between 2010 and 2012.

Artist's book (Tadashi Kawamata compiles, like a scrapbook, photographs taken from newspaper reporting natural disasters, terrorist attacks or accidents), with an original artwork signed by the artist.

The genesis and establishment of digital tools for design conceptualization, visualization, and production at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s.

First monograph: a transversal survey and a critical analysis of the sculptural work of the French artist who questions the suburban destiny of modernist utopias.

Sound avant-garde in architecture: a journey through architecture, art and music in the twentieth century.

New revised edition. Kawamata's main in situ installations all over the world, a complete documentation on the Carton Worshop, Tree Huts and Field Works projects, with numerous illustrations and three essays.

A selection of conversations between Markus Miessen and political philosopher Chantal Mouffe.

Two series of images around the construction of the City of Arts in Besançon (designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma), by artist Stephan Girard and architecture photographer Nicolas Waltefaugle.

The first comprehensive survey on the work of Slovenian artist/architect Apolonija Šušteršič, between Conceptual art, Contextualism, institutional critique, and relational aesthetics.

Five interviews with Tadashi Kawamata.

Yves Bélorgey's paintings and drawings, reflecting the central topic of the artist's work: a particular stage of modern architecture and the modern city, which Bélorgey sets out to rediscover, reinvent pictorially and record methodically.

Luxurious artist' book printed in 5 colors (silver ink on black paper), between document, archive and artwork: a subtle exploration of the history of an institution under reconstruction that also bares the internal architecture of the book itself.

Reference monograph.

Artist's book: a glimpse into the archive of status assessment photos that David Küenzi took for the city of Zurich over a period of several years.

Contributions by architects, philosophers and artists on the theme of time and architecture (conceptualized temporality, temporality in Japan, consideration of time in the architectural projects, new temporalities of public space...).

Reimagining and reanimating the infrastructure of cultural and intellectual life in contemporary cities.

Artist's book.

After Office, the second issue of Stream, addresses the conflicts of the evolution of our work conditions, now greatly modified, with contributions by international thinkers, artists, designers and architects.