Architecture / urbanism

The fourth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry.

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.

How architecture powered European energy politics in the postwar era and paved the way for today's dependency on coal, steel, and nuclear power.

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.

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.

Jesús Aparicio develops his concept of architecture by exploring four major buildings around the notion of the wall, through drawing and words.

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.

A large-format board-book sequel to Homma's seminal photobook Tokyo Suburbia.

A photographic exploration of the architecture, history and people of Naples at the time of the fervent Scudetto celebrations.

A publication compiled, edited and designed by Danish graphic artist Anni's, based on research into the uses of the grid.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.).

For the fourth book in the In Practice series, Dyvik Kahlen architects explore the design process of the Villa Ruba, located near Utrecht.

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.

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.

The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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".

The collaborative project conceived in New York by the world's most celebrated French interior designer Jacques Grange and gallerist Kamel Mennour.

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.

An in-depth study of Peter Märkli's work through an extensive body of 700 drawings by the Swiss architect, with eight essays.

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.

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.

A revisiting of the singular urban planning project of the residential district of Milano San Felice.

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.

An multidisciplinary approach of the war by its traces.

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.

The reference book in French on the Global Tools design movement linked to the Italian radical architects of the 1970s.

The first issue of the Dongola Architecture Series, dedicated to the most iconic contemporary architects of Arab culture, dives into the transdisciplinary perspective of Jordanian architect, artist and anthropologist Ammar Khammash.

New monograph, centered around a temporary work in situ by Daniel Buren, allowing to further explore the close relationship that the artist weaves with architecture, landscape but also points of view.

This book explores, through the eyes of six young researchers, issues of normativity in architecture during the twentieth century, questioning the ability of architects to circumvent or even transgress them.

A reflection on the approach of the Italian-based architectural office Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli based on the the peculiarities of places, from two important public buildings in South Tyrol, photographed by Armin Linke.

After a previous focus on questions of historiography and the archive, In Medias Res #2: Architecture in Motion continues Fluentum's ongoing investigation into the history of its grounds with a focus on its architecture and surrounding material culture, both past and present.

A project by architects Hamed Bukhamseen and Ali Karimi questioning geopolitical strategies related to the development of Kuwait's global oil distribution.

The 11th issue of the journal of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Bretagne, on the theme of new fictions for architecture: how does fiction renew itself in contemporary architectural issues and approaches?

The use of art and architecture to develop practical solutions to economic and ecological crises.

A reflection by the architects of Fagart & Fontana on the renewal of the city from within and more specifically on the processes of transformation and adaptation of existing collective housing to new needs and lifestyles.

An iconographic work on the modern architecture of Abidjan which aims to offer a photographic survey of thirty buildings representative of the chosen moment of architecture that followed independence.

Voyages en Sardaigne (Travels in Sardinia) is a collection of unconventional thematic guides on the island in the middle of the Mediterranean. This first part proposes an itinerary through the mining landscapes of Sulcis-Iglesiente, exploring soil, excavations, incisions, mutations, transpositions and silence of this territory marked by an industrial history.

A research work by the artist Lara Almarcegui on the "Maisons Castors" housing complex in Villeurbanne, which originated from a collaborative self-building movement of the 1940s, through which groups of families built their dwellings by pooling their skills.