Architecture / urbanism

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...

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.

The future of architecture lies in the curatorial approach. This is the thesis put forward by architect Wilfried Kuehn and theorist Dubravka Sekulić in their book Curatorial Design: A Place Between, which brings together contributions from more than 30 authors working in the fields of architecture, art, and curatorial knowledge and practice.

A selection of photographs and architectural drawings of "joints" from Eastern Europe gathered and reinterpreted by Natasha Krymskaya, as part of a research project into architectural practices and craft culture.

An archeological inventory of the bizarre beauty of art brut, popular gardens and improbable architecture, palaces and tree castles, chapels and converted caves, concrete and matchstick models, rustic furniture and animal sculptures, caravans and flying bicycles, calvaries... and the last homes of creators of all kinds (mental patients, abbots, bistro owners or self-proclaimed artists), most of which now only exist on postcards from the period, around 1900.

61 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fifth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from August -September 2024, organized according to a "deviant taxonomy" of nine new categories: Is That All There Is?; What a Body Can Do; The Physicists’ Laugh; Dens, clubs, hives, and cells; The Tourist; Flickers; Promethean Shame; Proxies; and Inextinguishable Fires.

New interdisciplinary readings of contemporary urban metamorphoses.

This first collection of texts in French by Félix Candela (1910-1997), a major figure in twentieth-century modern architecture, brings together writings and interviews published in specialized journals, as well as lectures and speeches delivered on various occasions by the Mexican architect and engineer of Spanish origin between 1953 and 1994

The 14th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with interviews Brian Roettinger, Eliott Grunewald, Aurore Piedigrossi, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Mathilde Agius, Marvin Armand and Cécilia Poupon and a conversation between Erwan Bouroullec and Michel Roset.

At the crossroads of design, art, architecture and popular culture, Alexandra Midal investigates the techniques developed by artists, designers and revolutionaries to conceal information and messages, through the lens of the coded language of flowers.

An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.

The fifth issue of Dixit, the journal of architecture criticism features the words of architects Charlotte Truwant + Dries Rodet, Mio Tsuneyama + Fuminori Nousaku who confront each other around the theme of conditions.

Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture / Astrologie considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs.

64 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fourth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from June–July 2024, (re)arranged into 9 thematic chapters—ranging from sections on DIY and amateurism, on verbal domination, on contemporary resistance and organising efforts, and on our doomscrolling fatigue with the networked world.

A collection of more than 700 photos shot by Giovanna Silva during the last three years of walks through NYC.

An artist's book that raises the question of labour and working time.

Architect Patrick Bouchain's reading of the work and his friendship with Pierre Guyotat, as well as an analysis by Bouchain and numerous members of Guyotat's creative community of the power of the alliance between vision and word, image and poem, in the author's work.

The richness of cultural exchanges between Italy and Switzerland, especially in terms of architectural culture, is the framework within which this publication was conceived and structured. The editorial project retraces and expands some of the themes addressed during the first seven years of the Swiss Talks, born in 2017 as a cultural partnership between the Istituto Svizzero and the architecture magazine Casabella.

The extravagant villas designed between the 1960s and 1980s by Italian architect Mario Galvagni (1928-2020) for prosperous Lombard families.

In the spring of 1966, four illustrious travelers cross the United States from west to east, photographing America's architecture at its heyday.