Architecture / urbanism

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look at Carlos Bunga's multifaceted practice through a number of essays and a rich iconography including previously unpublished photos that reveal his working process.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

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.

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...

A massive value shift for existing buildings, infrastructure, materials, unbuilt land, earth, and the labor that holds our world together.

This book accompanies the éponymous exhibition exhibition of the Moroccan Pavilion at the 19th Venice Biennale, marking its inaugural participation. Far more than a simple presentation of the scenographic installation, it provides insights into the Pavilion's central theme: construction techniques using local materials.

This book accompanies the éponymous exhibition exhibition of the Moroccan Pavilion at the 19th Venice Biennale, marking its inaugural participation. Far more than a simple presentation of the scenographic installation, it provides insights into the Pavilion's central theme: construction techniques using local materials.

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 English of Capolavori, the small (and immense) milestone, full of meaning and poetry, that the architect from Ticino wrote in 2006 just before his death.

A collection of photographs and interviews in the form of a journal, documenting the exploration of the Saint-Sernin and Arnaud-Bernard districts of Toulouse (France), which were invested as part of the third edition of the contemporary creation festival Le Nouveau Printemps 2025.

Keeping up the tension between exhibition catalogue and monograph, Impasse des Lilas explores the interweaving of theories, personal histories, objects and projects that define the architectural practice of MBL.

A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law.

A contemporary hommage of Jože Plečnik's oeuvre.

For its second issue, Flash Art's yearly review Flash Art Volumes invited Michael Abel and Nile Greenberg of the New York–based architecture practice ANY as guest editors. They have titled this edition "Crisis Formalism."

A historical investigation into why Leonardo da Vinci's plans for the Château de Chambord were censored.

An ethnographic approach to the zoo, revealing the tensions and contradictions of a cultural institution that inherited nature from the colonial exhibitions and has now entered the paradigm of biodiversity conservation.

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.

A philosophical reflection on the place of sound, from musical aesthetics to sound habitat, at the crossroads of sound, music and technology studies, and phenomenology.

On the relationship between architecture and design.