Architecture / urbanism

Karenna Gore posits a future for the design practices that works within the living and intelligent design of Earth.

A wide-ranging investigation into the architectural legacy of the rural utopian communities that settled in California in the 1970s.

The first comprehensive and personal look behind the scenes at the architect couple Trix and Robert Haussmann's planning, design and working processes.

Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History revisits the founding principles of architectural and landscape discourse in the Arabian Peninsula. The publication explores instances of pre-oil planning, ranging from desert kites to fish traps and water channels, upending the toolset for thinking through architecture's relationship to its context.

The anthology black monument explores how artists and communities across Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa disrupt colonial monumentality.

A vast collection of Ettore Sottsass's writings, edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz.

A collective reflection on the tensions and shifts taking place in design, in light of contemporary and future challenges, combining forward-looking visions with concrete experiments, and bringing together theoretical approaches, manifestos, and analyses of design practices, from a critical perspective that responds to the environmental, social, cultural, technological, and political transformations of our time.

The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of blowing.

The edition offers a new approach to what Ines Weizman names "documentary architecture," meaning that to write about the history of a building is also to map the world in which it is located.

A broad exploration of precariousness—whose contours and realities are constantly evolving—examined through the lenses of architecture, the city, and the landscape.

A renewed and expanded approach to writing the history of architecture and the profession.

A portrait gallery of creators on the margins of art brut gardens, houses and environments, of which Francis David has compiled a monumental photographic inventory since the late 1970s.

An aesthetic and political reflection on contemporary monumental and commemorative art, at a time of critical revision of history.

This collection of texts on design by the avant-garde Italian architectural group Superstudio (1966-1982) highlights one of the most powerful and complex moments in the period of Italian architectural neo-avant-garde, revealing a progressive and increasingly radical reflection on the meaning of design, on architecture and design as forms of thought, and finally on life itself as a project.

Eight issue of the series Taccuini d'Architettura, dedicated to the architectural office Studio Wok.

Seventh issue of the series Taccuini d'Architettura, dedicated to the architectural office Lopes Brenna.

e-flux Index first special thematic issue, concentrating on the relationship between art and theory today, brings together essays by some 100 international contributors considering the relationship of theory to artistic practice, architectural practice, contemporary politics, and arts education.

An artistic and documentary exploration of the transformation of the Swiss Cultural Center building in Paris and the renovation process carried out between 2022 and 2026 by the architectural agencies ASBR (Paris) and Truwant + Rodet + (Basel).

A true artist's book, the catalogue for the Greek Pavilion by Andrea Angelidakis, an exercise in speculative storytelling which offers a non-linear historical account from 1934 (the year the pavilion was built) to today.

An exploration of the future of Rome through what has become forbidden.

Paolo Monti's photographs capture the affirmation of modernist aesthetics and the dawn of the golden age of Milanese architecture in the postwar period.

The outcome of Caroline Mazel's long-term research on the "critical regionalist architecture" developed by Jean-Raphaël Hébrard (1927–2006) in the Basque Country, which bridges modernist architecture and local building traditions.

As part of a series of publications on singular architectural bodies of work, this volume highlights Pierre Lajus' pioneering hedonistic wooden constructions of the 1970s, and gives his work its rightful place in the history of architectural experimentation.

Leading scholars explore the connections between democracy and justice, architecture and urban design, the growth of cities, cosmopolitanism, inclusion, and free speech.

The work of Sámi architect and artist Joar Nango, investigating indigenous spaces and their critical value in a contemporary cultural discussion.

Hosting Space explores how processes of hosting, such as access, support, and gathering, operate within the context of an art institution. It invites readers to reconsider how these activities are embedded in the spaces we inhabit and how they shape spatial practices.

The third issue, titled "Opacity", of Flash Art's yearly review.

A monumental anthology of critical essays devoted to the figure of Umberto Riva, introduced and edited by Maria Bottero, accompanied by a collection of sketches and drawings from the architect’s personal archives (new revised edition).

A transcript of a lecture by Harun Farocki exploring the relationship between architecture and cinema.

Diego Marcon, Autumn Ramsey, David Ostrowski, Nina Childress, Larry Mantello, Paul Winstanley, André Butzer, Edgar Bryan, Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Alain Séchas, Philip Guston, John Giorno, Lutz Bacher, Rodolphe Parente, Sapiens Architectes, Michael Krebber, Laurie Simmons, Jacqueline Humpfries, Wolfgang Tillmans, Joe Bradley, Niele Toroni, Saâdane Afif...

Philippe Weisbecker's series of mirrors.

Artist's book (a tribute to the beauty of the greenhouse).

An exploration of the utopian labyrinth that has fueled the imagination and work of internationally renowned architect Rudy Ricciotti, through a quasi-cinematic montage of images and quotes, constituting a stroll through the mind of the “character” Ricciotti, each space visited punctuated—as in a voice-over—by a text by Jean-Louis Poitevin.

An exploration of the utopian labyrinth that has fueled the imagination and work of internationally renowned architect Rudy Ricciotti.

By retracing the history of three colossal candelabras made by Piranesi (1720–78) from fragments of ancient Roman sculptures, Caroline van Eck introduces us to the complicated journey of art objects from their production to their reception, and tests the effectiveness of anthropological methods by isolating what relates to the commodification of art objects and their singularization.

Gabriele Basilico's photographs dedicated to Aldo Rossi's architecture, brought together for the first time.

A highly personal reflection on the practice, teaching, and very essence of architecture and design.

The 15th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), featuring: interviews with Shirin Yousefi & Lucas Erin, Charlie Engman, and Rebecca Zlotowski; portfolios: "THEY," Elizaveta Porodina, Ronan Bouroullec, Assises Vidy, and Freitag; Books feature: Nicole Udry, Friederike Daumiller, Pierre Charpin, Sonya Dyakova, Thierry de Peretti, Yoo-Mi Steffen.

The first print edition of Daftar, the online media edited by Afikra, a platform focused on the history, debates, and cultures of the Arab world.

Baukunst explain the singular logics behind their projects in an interweaving of architecture, philosophy, representation and technology.

The 9th issue of the magazine that explores minor practices in art and architecture brings together a reflection on the ebb and flow between affirmation and denial as well as material-conceptual operations with dirt.

The 12th issue of the journal of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Bretagne, featuring a dossier on the theme of desire in architecture.

Sixth issue of the series Taccuini d'Architettura, dedicated to the architectural office ErranteArchitetture.

Fifth issue of the series Taccuini d'Architettura, dedicated to Lorenzo Guzzini's architectural office.

Third issue of the series Taccuini d'Architettura, dedicated to the architectural office Studiospazio.

Fourth issue of the series Taccuini d'Architettura, dedicated to the architectural office VG13 Architects.

Index #8 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from March–May 2025. It includes contributions from 142 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.