Architecture / urbanism

Artist's book (a tribute to the beauty of the greenhouse).

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 overview of the work of the Swiss artist duo, between art, architecture, and design.

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).

The compilation contains the magazines best contributions during the past five years, including features on Architecture, Photography and Design and printed in b/w.

Special "traveling" issue, with Yukinori Maeda, Takashi Homma, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Anne Daems, Susan Cianciolo, Els Beusen, Elein Fleiss, Yoshimi, Yayako Uchida, Takako Minekawa, Yurie Nagashima, Bless.

First retrospective monograph devoted to the Swiss artist, famous for her soft sculptures and latex molds of architectural fragments or whole spaces.

First monograph.

Site Specific Sound documents a series of sound installations from 1998 to 2002 by sound-artist and writer Brandon LaBelle, exploring the relationship between sound and space.

This anthology aims to exploit the psychological associations of space and the psychological reactions to it.

At a time when questions of “place” are active in dialogues around globalization, cultural identities, and the loss of public space, how are artists, theorists, and architects imagining space? “Surface Tension” examines the conversations that occur as negotiations between cultural production and the place of its reception.

Catalogue.

An anthology focusing on architectural and acoustic space, sound sculpture, field/environmental investigation and recording, and site-specificity, featuring writings, visual works, interviews and artist projects by leading experimental composers, sound-artists, architects, contemporary authors, cartographers, and ecologists.

The most complete monograph available on Armajani's work until 1994.

How to exhibit the architecture? Two Swiss architects answer this question (a conversation with Rémy Zaugg).

In his influential 1986 text, 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 (available in English edition)

A selection of photographs by Lucien Hervé on Le Corbusier and his buildings, with texts and sketches by Le Corbusier, especially around Ronchamp and Chandigarh.

A selection of photographs by Lucien Hervé on Le Corbusier and his buildings, with texts and sketches by Le Corbusier, especially around Ronchamp and Chandigarh.

The legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record (available in English edition).

An exploration of the "swampy" zone between the human and the other forms of life that make up his ecosystem and his environment, at the intersection of art, architecture and philosophy, in the perspective of a posthumanist ecology.

How a pre-architectural world became a central object of study by architectural historians and architects in the aftermath of world historical events.

Initiated by Tunisian artist, architect and scenographer Chedly Atallah, whose practice explores geopolitical changes in the Arab world through history, architecture and mythological narratives, Matar, Matar, Matar is an artistic investigation into the time of representation and memory, with water as a metaphor for remembrance.