Architecture / urbanism

 
 
Felicity D. Scott - Disorientation – Bernard Rudofsky in the Empire of Signs - Critical Spatial Practice 07
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
Felicity D. Scott reconsiders the learnings of Bernard Rudofsky on vernacular architecture in the light of his relation with Japan.
Carlo Mollino - Giappone 1970
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Carlo Mollino's photographs of a Japan in between tradition and modernity during the 1970 Universal Exposition.
Parachute - The Anthology (vol. 4) – Painting, Sculpture, Installation, and Architecture
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Fourth and final volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on painting, sculpture, installation, and architecture.
Luigi Snozzi - L\'architecture inefficiente
2016
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
currently out of stock
Conversations between Swiss architect Luigi Snozzi and the philosopher Fabio Merlini.
Andrée Putman - Andrée Putman at the CAPC by Heinz Peter Knes
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
35.00 10.00 €
German photographer Heinz Peter Knes offers a new photographic perspective on the furnishing of the CAPC museum of contemporary art in Bordeaux, one of the famous interior designer Andrée Putman's most accomplished projects and a milestone in the history of design.
Brandon LaBelle - Room Tone
2015
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
The publication documents a project developed by artist Brandon LaBelle which attempts to instigate conversations between sound and architecture through a set of audio recordings of the artist's apartment in Berlin.
Tobias Engelschall - Zustände - A Topography of Architectural Transformations in Berlin / Eine Topografie architektonischer Transformationen in Berlin
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A topographical book by architect Tobias Engelschall that gathers photographs of 100 Berlin buildings, capturing their transformation through time.
Sarah Entwistle - Please send this book to my mother
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
22.00 11.00 €
An ambiguous portrait and evocative rendition of Clive Entwistle's life, the artist's grandfather and architect. Halfway between biography and monograph, this publication reaches beyond these genres to resemble an artist's book of poetry and prose fiction.
Claude Patriat - Résidence en résistance - Voyage dans les coulisses d\'Antipodes
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Salon Moderne
2015
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
The art of hair salon window-dressing in Switzerland.
Philippe Weisbecker - Structure Series
2015
no text
Nieves
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.
Eyal Weizman - The Roundabout Revolutions - Critical Spatial Practice 06
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
How did an urban apparatus put in the service of authoritarian power became the place of its undoing: the roundabout revolutions, from South Korea to recent Arab Spring.
 Studio Labics - Labics: Structures
2015
English edition
Nero
Labics: Structures covers an installation of 50 architectural models realized by the studio Labics between 2014 and 2015.
Furniture of the Fogo Island Inn
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This unique publication, filled with annotated images, presents an inventory of design, furniture, and textiles produced for Fogo Island Inn. Each piece is a collaborative effort between artisans and craftspeople living on the island and designers from various parts of the world who were invited to engage with the history and communities of Fogo Island and Change Islands in Newfoundland, Canada.
 Weinberg & Co - Haussmann für Weinberg
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A celebration of nearly a quarter century collaboration between the family-run, specialty fashion store Weinberg and the design and architect duo of Trix + Robert Haussmann.
Francesca Berardi - Detour in Detroit
2015
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
(last copies available!)
The decay of Detroit and its people's resistance in words and photographs (photographs by Antonio Rovaldi).
Turning Inward
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A selection of texts by international artists, critics, and curators, which aims to renegotiate the relationship between centers and peripheries in contemporary art worlds.
Giovanna Silva - Foxtrot Gate - Cyprus
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A portrait of a divided Nicosia.
Carlo Scarpa - L\'art d\'exposer
2015
French edition
JRP|Editions - Lectures Maison Rouge
The never-before-published selection of Carlo Scarpa's writings and illustrations (photographs, architectural plans, sketches, etc.): an invaluable tool to understanding exhibition history and the importance of the architectural conception of exhibitions.
Rudy Ricciotti - En vain
2015
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A compilation of Rudy Ricciotti's opinion pieces about 59 artists and personalities.
Rudy Ricciotti - En vain - Limited edition
2015
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A compilation of Rudy Ricciotti's opinion pieces about 59 artists and personalities, with an original artwork signed by Ricciotti.
Yona Friedman - Blvd Garibaldi - Variations on Yona Friedman (book / DVD)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French), DVD in original version with English / french subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Variations on...
Box set including a book and a film on DVD.
Esteban Restrepo Restrepo - (anti)Chambres - Les architectures fragiles dans l\'œuvre de Samuel Beckett
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
A reading of Samuel Beckett's work from its architectures.
Stream - Inhabiting the anthropocene
2014
English edition
Stream
The third issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, addresses our urban condition at the age of Anthropocene, with contributions by about forty renowned international contributors (Nicolas Bourriaud, Pierre Huyghe, Yann Moulier-Boutang, Pierre Musso, Neri Oxman, Christian de Portzamparc, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, Jean Viard...), in long and elaborate interviews.
Stream - Habiter l\'Anthropocène
2014
French edition
Stream
The third issue of the annual research book-magazine at the intersection of architecture, art and economy, addresses our urban condition at the age of Anthropocene (available in English edition).
Jozef Wouters - All Problems Can Never Be Solved
2014
English edition
various
A book about a fictional architecture office in a modernist social housing complex in Brussels, where real architects and locals worked together to make scale models: a reflection on scale models as spaces of negotiation, on maquettes as places where the desire of the architect is visible without the compromises of reality.
Mark von Schlegell - Ickles, Etc. - Critical Spatial Practice 05
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
Mark von Schlegell's fusion of theory and fiction puts the SF back in notions of “speculative aesthetics.”
Alessandro Mendini - Ecrits (architecture, design et projet)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Mendini's writings 1972-2011.
Keller Easterling - Subtraction - Critical Spatial Practice 04
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
The urgency of building subtraction.
Carlos Bunga -
2014
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Comprehensive monograph based on the special commission made by Barcelona-based Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga for the Sonae/Serralves Project in 2012.
Beatriz Colomina - Manifesto Architecture – The Ghost of Mies - Critical Spatial Practice 03
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
Beatriz Colomina traces the history of the modern architecture manifesto, with particular focus on Mies van der Rohe, and the play between the written and built work.
Transcultural Modernisms
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Based on the findings of an interdisciplinary research project, Transcultural Modernisms maps out the network of encounters, transnational influences, and local appropriations of an architectural modernity manifested in various ways in housing projects in India, Israel, Morocco, and China.
Tadashi Kawamata - Scheiterturm (book/ DVD)
2014
bilingual edition (German / French), German / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
The collaborative construction process of the “wood log tower” designed by Tadashi Kawamata in Ittingen Charterhouse, a former Carthusian monastery in Switzerland, developed with the architect Christopher Scheidegger.
Tadashi Kawamata - Workshop + Collective Folie +  Scheiterturm (box set 3 books / DVDs)
2014
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
54.00 45.00 €
Box set bringing together three books / DVDs devoted to Tadashi Kawamata's wood constructions: Scheiterturm (2014), Collective Folie (2014), and Workshop (2008).
Valérie Jouve - Repérages - Un film collectif sur une proposition de Valérie Jouve (+ DVD)
2014
French edition
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
A collective project initiated by Valérie Jouve.
Patrick Berger - Animal ?
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Also available in English edition.
Patrick Berger - Animal?
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
A manifesto for an organic architecture that provides a new reading of Patrick Berger's proposal for the Canopy of Les Halles in Paris, and of the main research and experiments undertaken by the Parisian architect during his career, by comparing architectural and biological structures.
Eyal Weizman - Architecture after Revolution
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A series of provocative projects by the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) that try to imagine “the morning after revolution.”
Andrea Pichl -
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Andrea Pichl's photographs, sculptures, and drawings to date, with two essays by Sven Beckstette and Gabriele Knapstein.
 Les Frères Chapuisat - Erratique
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
Artist's book / catalogue.
 Les Frères Chapuisat - In Wood We Trust
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
Artist's book / catalogue.
Xavier Veilhan - Rays
2014
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Artist's book.
Kirsty Bell - The Artist\'s House - From Workplace to Artwork
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Based on a series of interviews and site visits with living artists about the role of their home in relation to their work, Kirsty Bell looks at the house as receptacle, vehicle, model, theater, or dream space.
Tadashi Kawamata - Collective Folie (book/ DVD)
2014
bilingual edition (English / French), English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
The collaborative construction and deconstruction process of the tower designed by Tadashi Kawamata for the Parc de la Villette in Paris.
Pierre Laniau - Brisures... 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
2013
French edition
various
10.00 5.00 €
 Georges Heintz & Anne-Sophie Kehr - Ecluse de Kembs-Niffer - Bâtiment administratif et technique
2013
French edition
Al Dante - Architecture
(last copies available!)
This publication documents the architecture of the Kembs-Niffer lock in Alsace, conceived by Georges Heintz and Anne-Sophie Kehr. It also features the text of a performance from 2011 by Charles Pennequin.
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