Architecture / urbanism

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Thrid sixth of the series Taccuini d'Architettura, dedicated to the architectural office ErranteArchitetture.

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

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.

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.

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

La ville pour tous is a collection of writings by the great architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, offering an overview of his work and of Brazilian society in the second half of the twentieth 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.

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.

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.