Architecture / urbanism

The dimension of the transitory in the fields of architecture, urbanism and design, as a new horizon of thought and action concerning all aspects of urban life, in its economic and ecological complexity.

How does architecturecondition the emergence of sense?

Ian Kiaer's new monograph is based on a project that the artist began several years ago and whose configuration changes with the circumstances. Drawing on the notion of marginal endnotes in books, it references the utopian concepts of the Austrian American architect Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965).

First issue of the critical magazine published by Cosa Mentale, in which the words of the architecture practice Bruther and of Laurent Stalder, professor of architecture history at ETH, confront each other around the theme of “hypercomfort.”

New monograph / artists' book.

Alter Architecture Research Collective's manifesto (contributions by Andreas Rumpfhuber, Tiqqun, Mariapaola Michelotto, Giorgio Agamben and Julian Siravo).

First monograph.

Giovanna Silva explores the architectural heritage of the Philippines, illustrating the relationship between architecture and history, through the architectural exuberance of a power long marked by corruption and nepotism.

Architectural shape is the interface where form and meaning meet and communicate. In this perspective the research addresses the decoding of the shape of buildings, cities and landscapes.

A compilation of photographs of Mexican vigils, "casetas de control" or "casetas de vigilancia", taken from February to June 2018. These control booths, which were captured in the residential areas of Mexico City, govern free movement. This book is a true repertory which reveals an aesthetics of urban space and architectural functionalism.

The notion of “form” in architecture.

The sixth issue of the annual magazine mixing graphic design, publishing and architecture is devoted to the double theme of “Minimal & Maximal”.

The collection of works by artists related to architecture and architectural projects of the Frac Centre-Val de Loire, as story of the origins: a rereading of the foundations on which architectural experimentation has been built since the beginning of the 1950s.

It is a form of spiritual revolt that Spanish architect Carlos Martí Arís highlights through a transversal analysis of different artistic expressions that combine to enrich his reflection.

Rehousing is the title of a series of works by Peter Friedl which comprises a selection of individual, intricate, and true-to-scale models of houses. Collectively, these structures materialize as constructed environments that reflect the recent past, different biographies, and ideologies in diverse ways; they are “case studies for the mental geography of an alternative modernity.”

Photo documentary set in a deserted Geneva during the G8 counter-summit in 2003. The series stages the abandonment of the urban space and its transformation through the deployment of defense barricades.

This publication documents new spatial notational systems developed by architect Nina Valerie Kolowratnik to help Indigenous communities from New Mexico to protect and regain traditional lands.

This publication presents an extended interview with the French architect Claude Parent (1923–2016) by curator Mai Abu ElDahab and visual artist Benjamin Seror that took place between 2013 and 2015. It features a wide selection of drawings by Parent.

New catalogue.

The eighth issue of the journal of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Bretagne focuses on the relationship between heritage, ecology and creation.

The scenography of the project for the restructuring of the Besançon Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology by Architectures Adelfo Scaranello.

The 2 volumes of the catalogue documenting the project for the restructuring of the Besançon Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology by Architectures Adelfo Scaranello (special offer).

A new publication spotlights Gordon Matta-Clark's only extant architectural piece.

Catalogue of the artist's exhibition in the Portuguese pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale: a sculpture project engaging the heritage of post-war Italy's architecture and Italian vernacular craftsmanship.

First monograph devoted to the work of the French designer / scenographer, with a text by design historian Tony Côme, interviews, and an important iconography.

A multidisciplinary anthology—ranging from fiction and photography to academic essays—inspired by the provocative architectural theories of Madeline Gins and Arakawa.

A collection of 360 postcards of cities from all around the world, made with screenshots from 3D software Apple Maps and Google Earth.

A multidisciplinary investigation of the interrelations of space and time, memory, architecture and urban planning through and beyond Henri Lefebvre's concept of Rhythmanalysis.

A manifesto of the architecture of the air.

Exhibition catalogue.

Catalogue of the second Orleans Biennale of Architecture: a call for an archipelago of solitudes.

Publication documenting a series of workshops involving Raumlabor, a Berlin-based group architects, and the youths of Barca, a neighbourhood in outskirts of Turin. The project, which advocates for the re-appropriation of the public space, saw the development of a series of inhabitable environmental installations.

This monographs presents a decade of Wudtke's artistic work on gentrification in the city of Berlin.

The fifth issue of the annual magazine mixing graphic design, publishing and architecture questions these disciplines through the theme of obsession.

A transdisciplinary study that sheds new light on the birth of modern architecture in France through its relations with the printed text, vector of the diffusion of the architectural ideal at the scale of the nation, and the emergence of the public sphere between the end of the 17th century and the French Revolution.

In 2018, Italian photographer Giovanna Silva photographed the streets of Tehran and collected archival documents from the infamous American embassy in the capital of the Islamic Republic. The image-based work is part of a multilayered narrative that encounters the words of architect, researcher and educator Hamed Khosravi.

44 international artists deliver their vision of the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris.

Light Boiled like Liquid Soap is an immersive installation by Wilfrid Almendra featuring radio transmissions and a series of sculptural elements made of copper, plaster, and silicone in various states of dematerialization. Combining found and repurposed materials, the works attest to notions of desire, circulation, and flux, from protective spaces of retreat to global economies of exchange.

Interdisciplinary and cross-border collaboration between Belgian architect Inessa Hansch and German artist Susanne Kühn: a work that combines architecture and painting, around space and its representation, which questions the idea of the inside and the outside.

Aesthetics and politics of architecture of logistics.

New monograph: an overview of Andrea Pichl's sculptural, drawn and photographic work, with four essays.

New monograph.

A genealogy of modern architectural culture through an analysis of the project both theoretical and practical of the Italian architect, historian and critic of architecture Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994).

This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.

The catalogue for Francis Alÿs's first large-scale solo museum exhibition in China at the Rockbund Art Museum provides an insightful and critical look into Alÿs's practices.

Told by Charles Berling, the film by Gilles Coudert juxtaposes the director's experience as an adolescent growing up in the biggest project ever built by Le Corbusier in Europe, in Firminy, France with insights from several contemporary artists including architects, a choreographer, a filmmaker, a designer and a composer. Architectural historian Jean Louis Cohen provides comment as do several inhabitants and users of Le Corbusier's complex.

A rereading of the work of the Swiss architect.