Architecture / urbanism

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

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 over a period of fifteen years.

This book explores the secret territories that formed the City of Thelema, from which Rudy Ricciotti—an internationally renowned architect—built his work.

This book explores the secret territories that formed the City of Thelema, from which Rudy Ricciotti—an internationally renowned architect—built his work.

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

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

Centered on the Al Ahsa region, one of the world's oldest and largest oases, Maghras: A Farm for Experimentation (accompanying the inaugural Saudi Pavilion at the 24th Triennale di Milano, marking Saudi Arabia's first participation in this global architecture and design platform) reimagines the farm as a site of collective inquiry, where environmental change, cultural memory, and community practices converge.

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.

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

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.

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

The prospects opened up for architectural education by the pioneering initiative of the Um Slaim school in Riyadh.

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

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

Architect Mark Lee presents a body of work on the basis of five considerations: on history, on cadence, on autonomy, on America, and on point.

The collection brings together a dozen texts by the great architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928-2021), offering an overview of his work and Brazilian society in the second half of the 20th century.

22 international architects and architect-researchers collectively question what architecture can do.

An in-depth look at Carlos Bunga's multifaceted practice through a number of essays and a rich iconography including previously unpublished photos that reveal his working process.

Comprehensive documentation on the architectural design of the House of One in Berlin, a unique interfaith building housing a synagogue, a church, and a mosque.

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.

This pioneering group study accompanies the reader on a modern Grand Tour amid Italy's contemporary ruins.

The first French translation of Giorgio Grassi's 1967 text La construction logique de l'architecture [The Logical Construction of Architecture] is a strong statement in favor of an architecture conceived for its own sake, standing in opposition to the experimental excesses characteristic of both his time and ours.

The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the second volume of a periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

Index #7 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from December–February 2024–25. It includes contributions from 105 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.

A photographic report by the famous Italian architect and designer on his youthful trip to Moscow during the political “thaw.”

"The architect is an intellectual who draws": drawings made “by hand” by 24 contemporary architects, collected by Bernard Quirot.

A photographic project by Luc Boegly on architect Luigi Snozzi's exemplary urban development project in the rural municipality of Monte Carasso in Ticino.

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

This publication is a dynamic archive, the legacy of The Land Remembers, the Lebanese National Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Harnessing local knowledge, it responds with urgency to the intentional destruction of nature and societies in Lebanon.

An interdisciplinary exploration of Bolzano's complex and dissonant architectural heritage.

A research project exploring the relationship between the ordinary and architecture, in everyday architecture, featuring the work of sixty-one architectural offices from across Italy, accompanied by reflections of scholars and professionals.

Modernist architecture and the urban transformation of Maputo, Mozambique, between history and modernity.

The third installment in the Dongola Architecture Series explores the provocative and often polarizing practice of Lebanese architect Bernard Khoury through an intimate lens rooted in Beirut.

The Um Slaim School forms part of a propositional pedagogy for contemporary urbanism in Riyadh, expanding on the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia at the Biennale Architettura 2025, and the work of Riyadh-based practice Syn Architects (Sara Alissa and Nojoud Alsudairi).

The architecture of disaster: Eyal and Ines Weizman trace the history of the before-and-after image from 19th-century photography to contemporary satellite images.

An artist's book by architect, forester and refuge keeper Wim Cuyvers, examining the changing climate and the very definition of architecture through a photographic investigation of the landscape.

The result of a collective reflection undertaken at the Canadian Center for Architecture, this publication is the second volume of a periodical series wishing to explore urgent issues in today's curatorial practices.

Index# 6 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from October–November 2024. It includes contributions from 82 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic digressions that index the arts.

Full-scale reproduction of the 1974 book by Ken Isaacs (1927-2016): a manual for creating various modular structures around the concept of the "matrix", it also provides an opportunity to immerse oneself in the philosophy of this pioneering architect, whose thinking in many respects resonates strongly with our own times.

The photographic album of a trip to Yemen by one of the great architects and designers of the twentieth century.

An architectural cookbook featuring recipes that range from the technical to the fictional to the historic (official catalog of the National Pavilion of United Arab Emirates at La Biennale di Venezia).

A collection of reflections on various architectural practices from the Arab world and beyond, on the occasion of the first AlMusalla Prize (2025 edition), an international architectural competition awarded for the design of a musalla in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Maxime Voidy presents a series of photographs of houses with shutters closed along the Brittany coast. Drawing up an iconographic landscape of a France of second homes, this book poetically highlights the issues of urban planning and the social balance of housing in the region.

An invitation to think collectively about the ideas and forms of repurposing materials and objects from our everyday lives, confronted with formal and cultural ambitions that are more firmly rooted in the history, present and future of architecture.

The architectural fields of exploration in the coming decades will be linked to heritage renovation, thermics and natural materials. This study presents a new perspective on insulation, combining prospective and experimental visions.

Mai-Thu Perret, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Genesis Tramaine, Mathieu Malouf, Tom Allen, Orson Gillick Morris, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Laurie Simmons, Mark Leckey, Andrew Power, Josh Smith, Annette Messager, Larry Johnson, Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Ramsay McPhillips, Sarah Rapson, Michael Roy, Tom Burr, Mike Kelley, Sturtevant, Pierre Huyghe, Alexandre Singh...