Architecture / urbanism

In this essai, architect Jean-Patrice Calori offers us a remarkable display of curiosity and the ability to draw connections. He approaches the history of his discipline, not as an endless sea, but rather as material that can be manipulated, appropriated, reshaped and interpreted: he transforms history into the raw material of a project, into a living substance.

Edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz, this volume brings together for the first time in French some fifty texts written by Ettore Sottsass between 1945 and 2001—essays, columns, and literary narratives—that reveal a constantly evolving philosophy of design.

Prospective et futurologie, published in 1978 and republished here for the first time, is the first—and still unrivaled—overview of the experimental architectural movements of the 1960s and 1970s: through a reflection on alternative ways of living, Michel Ragon raises the question—more relevant than ever—of how architecture can adapt to the transformations of industrial society in the face of technological advances.

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

Italian photographer Toni Nicolini (1935–2012) captures the very essence of everyday life in 1970s Venice.

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

The Brazilian artist Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) revolutionized landscape architecture in the first half of the twentieth century by applying design principles from painting and music to nature. He also brought social and ecological questions to the forefront. This catalogue gives a broad audience insight into his interdisciplinary artistic cosmos.

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

A special edition bringing together three issues of the journal of architecture criticism under a single title: "Dixit: Switzerland!". Six prominent figures with links to Switzerland (Hélène Binet + Elli Mosayebi; Tiphaine Abenia + Alia Bengana; Carlotta Darò + Raphaël Kadid) are invited to discuss common and topical issues.

Taking the RAL colour chart as its starting point, Piovenefabi brings together a selection of projects produced by the architecture office over the past ten years.

A personal selection of remarkable architectural projects in Belgium.

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

A visual travelogue that critically captures the 2025 World Expo on Yumeshima, Japanese for "Island of Dreams," which took place from April to October 2025.

Anne-Marie Morice traces the "urban drift" carried out in the northern suburbs of Paris in the 1950s by members of the Lettrist International, and later by those of the nascent Situationist International, led by Guy Debord, and analyzes how this way of experiencing urban space influenced both their artistic practice and their theoretical work.

The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of blowing: an issue about breath, wind, lungs, pneumatics, instruments, birds, balloons, crystal, bouncy castles, and all kinds of other things that come to life with air.

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.

New monograph.

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 folk art and 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.

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.

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).