Architecture / urbanism

The first issue of Classeur, a theoretical journal of architecture.

Seven buildings conceived by the Rennes architecture firm.

The present portfolio is a sampler of some various structural beam combinations from 20th Century edifices. It can be viewed as a book, spread by spread, or pinned on the wall, according to taste, the way a kid might stack up building blocks.

This publication documents a collective project conceived by artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Müller, and chef Antto Melasniemi, which takes the form of an experimental platform, working as the extension of an artistic community based in Thailand. This large-scale installation explores urbanization in a post-rural condition, the act of building as a collaborative process, and land as a concept that can exist outside of ownership.

A fluid narrative of Lacaton and Vassal's oeuvre based on the duo's lecture at Harvard University in 2015.

This book is the result of four years of collaborative work that focused on topics of affect, the return of history, ecology, and art and its markets in today's power law–based economies. It attempts to shift practices of thought toward both critical realism and new materialism.

Stephanie Kloss's photographs capture the mythos and utopianism of architecture in locations as diverse as Athens, Berlin, the United States, and Japan (catalogue / artist's book).

The decay of Detroit and its people's resistance in words and photographs (photographs by Antonio Rovaldi).

Mario Bellini and his “Kar-a-sutra” space-mobile take a wild photographic ride in America during the seventies.

This luxury monograph focuses on Xavier Veilhan's Architectones project, a series of interventions started in 2012 in which the artist invests major modernist's architectural sites.

An unpublished manuscript, La Ferme radieuse et le centre coopératif (“The Radiant Farm and cooperative center”) describes the country planning project conceived by Le Corbusier and Norbert Bézard in the 1930's.

A mapping of ephemeral architecture built during the siege of the Maiden Place in Kiev: a project by Bureau A, Leopold Banchini & Daniel Zamarbide (CH) with Burø, Sergey Ferley (UA), bewteen architecture, design, graphic design and political pamphlet.

This book excavates the notion of forensis (Latin for “pertaining to the forum”) to designate the role of material forensics in articulating new notions of public truth. The condition of forensis is one in which aesthetic practices, new technologies, and architectural research methodologies bear upon the legal implications of political struggle, violent conflict, and climate change.

A series of provocative projects by the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) that try to imagine “the morning after revolution.”

In his influential 1986 text, now translated into English for the first time, Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) laid out fundamental ideas on the art museum. For him, the museum is an everyday tool that enables the encounter between viewer and work—raising the question of the kind of architecture appropriate for such a space.

A manual for massive stone construction, by a pionneer in sustainable and ecological architecture.

A manual for massive stone construction, by a pionneer in sustainable and ecological architecture (available in English edition).

Avant-garde in Italy between 1968 and 1976.

A selection of conversations between Markus Miessen and political philosopher Chantal Mouffe.

A sprawling series of buildings designed by the artist in the northern Yucatán in Mexico: a pivotal work by Jorge Pardo, his most recent and expansive Gesamtkunstwerk to date.

Bouroullecs' drawing practice.

Mick Rock, Etienne Russo, Syd Mead, Claude Parent, Mas Yendo, Ricardo Bofill, Ferran Adrià, Aitor Ortiz, Geert Goiris, Etienne-Louis Boullée, Carlo Scarpa...

What, today, can be understood as a critical modality of spatial practice?

How ongoing transformations in social housing are reflected in the aspirations and practices of artists.

A study in which Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman discusses the way that forensic investigation and identification of Joseph Mengele's remains marks a transition, giving way to an "era of forensics", in which things—such as bones—act as the witnesses of past events.

First monograph dedicated to French architect's “avant-garde” vernacular projects with which he develops, since 1980, a sustainable and ecological architecture.

A project that presents and discusses contemporary design practices that engage with political and societal issues.

The sport center Z5 in Aix-en-Provence originated from the desire of football glory Zinédine Zidane. This publication documents its conception by architect Christophe Gulizzi. It features a humoristic text on the creation of the stadium by mankind by writer Jean-Michel Espitallier.

Six interviews.

The Earth, its surface, the transformation of matter, through time and cultures (with Pierre Gonnord, Šarūnas Bartas, Michael Nyman, Naoya Hatakeyama, Theo Angelopoulos, Eleni Karaindrou, Rick Owens, Mona Hatoum, Steve McCurry, Lawrence Durrell, Kenro Izu, Juliaan Lampens, Max Richter...)

The Nightmare of Participation calls for a format of conflictual participation—no longer a process by which others are invited “in,” but a means of acting without mandate, as uninvited irritant: a forced entry into fields of knowledge that arguably benefit from exterior thinking.

A new insight into Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec's creative process.

Artist's book (limited edition).

The chronological compilation of Yona Friedman's plans, sketches, drawings, models, collages, installations, etc., since 1945: a monumental publication which offers a complete overview of the work of one of the greatest artists-architects and urbanist theoreticians today, in its many dimensions (urban, economic, ecological, cultural, social and political).

New expanded edition of a pamphlet against the High Quality Environmental standard for sustainable buildings in France. Architect Rudy Ricciotti argues that this standard only serves the interests of liberal economy.

First publication devoted to the French architecture agency.

An artist's project, this publication gathers together drawings by Fabrice Gygi, bringing together the sketches, technical drawings, and 3D renderings of the artist's production.

Special "loneliness" issue, with contributions by Takashi Homma, Mike Mills, Bless, Elein Fleiss...

A study that conceptualizes, tests, and practically applies the spatial strategy for the European Kunsthalle.

A manual for what bears, sustains, and props, for those things that encourage, care for, and assist; for that which advocates, articulates; for what stands behind, frames, and maintains: a manual for those things that give support.

The artist book by Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber is based on an unpublished text by French philosopher and urbanist Henri Lefebvre which is printed as a facsimile and accompanied by essays from Ljiljana Blagojevic, Zoran Eric, Klaus Ronnberger, and Neil Smith.

An extensive essay, Varieties of Audio Mimesis is many things: an investigation of the metaphoric relationship between music and landscape, a study of the poetics of onomatopoeia, and a theory of sound in the arts.

The catalogue of the exhibition “I've heard about” by architectural firm R&Sie(n): a documentation on a collaborative project of an organic utopian city associating architecture and visual arts.

Special "Paris–Tokyo" issue of the graphic magazine by Japanese artist (with Yukinori Maeda, Takashi Homma, Mike Mills, Kim Gordon...).

The catalogue of the art & architecture festival in Anyang (South Korea).