Architecture / urbanism

 
 
Tools - To Weave
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The second issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to weaving.
 Destroyers/Builders - Rooted Flows
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
This book is dedicated to the work of Destroyers/Builders (Linde Freya Tangelder), as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers.
Ronny Hardliz - Non-Construction - Architectural Gestures in Artistic Research
2022
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
By defining a concept of architecture based on the tactile experience and not on construction, this book allows us to explore both discursive practice as the study of architectural art and the integration of architectural art as a discourse of spatial practice.
Bruno Queysanne - Sur la projettation - Pour une pragmatique architecturale
2022
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
Through a careful reading and etymology of architectural treatises, from Vitruvius to Vittone, Bruno Queysanne reveals a little-known aspect of these "classical" texts, in which architects leave aside their learned and dogmatic rhetoric to give us pragmatic advice about the realization of the architectural work.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Point de vue sur l\'architecture - Dialogue. Protopiro et Didascalo
2022
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Fondamenta
The first French edition of the theoretical dialogue of the Italian architect and engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), one of the most radical texts in the history of modern architectural theory.
Offline
2022
French edition (texts in English)
Offline
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
The 11th issue of the biannual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), inaugurating its new formula, with NORM, Feng Li, Marco De Mutiis, Zachary Lieberman, Maïwenn, Lionel Baier, Abel Ferrara...
Sherill Tippins - Dans le palais des rêves - La vie et l\'époque du légendaire Chelsea Hotel de New York
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A fascinating exploration of the utopian origins and tumultuous 130-year history of the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the world.
Pier Vittorio Aureli - Less is Enough - Sur l\'architecture et l\'ascétisme
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
A reflection on asceticism in architecture.
David Klemmer - Dixit - On process
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dixit
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Dixit
The fourth issue of the critical review Dixit, in which the words of the architects Jan Kinsbergen and David Klemmer confront each other, in the format of a dichotomous visual atlas, around the theme of the process.
Myr Muratet - Manuel d\'écologie urbaine
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
Al Dante - Architecture
This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.
Décor - Vulgaire
2022
French edition
Décor
École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
The second issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, devoted to the question of the vulgar, explores through creations, portfolios, interviews, fictions and theoretical texts the polysemy of this word which embodies all the tensions of our time.
Sherill Tippins - Dans le palais des rêves - La vie et l\'époque du légendaire Chelsea Hotel de New York
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A fascinating exploration of the utopian origins and tumultuous 130-year history of the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the world.
Augures - Laboratoire des nouvelles pratiques architecturales
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
The catalog of the exhibition at the first Biennale of Architecture and Landscape.
 Space Caviar - Dixit Algorizmi - The Garden of Knowledge
2022
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
Dixit Algorizmi. The Garden of Knowledge sets out to question the origin myths and narratives surrounding modern technologies, using the lens of contemporary artistic practices to explore their forgotten roots and overlooked resonances with distant places, times and cultures (catalogue of the Uzbekistan's pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, 2022).
Bernard Quirot - Simplifions
2022
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
currently out of stock
In this writing, French architect Bernard Quirot carries a reflection on his theoretical foundations and evokes, through his architectural journey, a critical vision of the increasing complexity of the world.
Olivier Duport - Fiat Lux
2022
no text
Flee
A wide-ranging photographic survey of contemporary and modern sacred architectural constructions in the Puglia region of Italy through nearly 200 cataloged brutalist, modernist or simply eccentric buildings.
Architecture évolutive / réversible - Formes et dispositifs
2022
French edition
ENSAB (Brittany National College of Architecture) - Books
A collective reflection on the imperatives of sustainability and reversibility to which architecture must respond today, in connection with contemporary societal and environmental issues.
Frog
2022
texts in English and French
Frog
9 interviews (Carroll Dunham, Genesis Belanger, Jonathan Gardner, Djamel Klouche, Yorgos Sapountzis, Elizabeth Glaessner...), 9 exhibitions and places in pictures (Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, César, Sarah Lucas, Richard Hamilton's house in Cadaqués...), some artists special projects and texts (Ashley Bickerton, Sean Landers, Lily Van der Stokker, Peter Halley, Heidi Bucher), exhibition reviews, and chronicles.
 OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen - Dixit - Still Life / Nature Morte
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dixit
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Dixit
The third issue of the critical review Dixit in which the words of the architectural practice OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen and the Brussels artist Richard Venlet confront each other around the theme of "Still Life".
Gianni Pettena - 2/5
2022
no text
Captures - 2/5 Series
Four artist's posters.
 Trix + Robert Haussmann - A Life with Art and Artists / Ein Leben mit Kunst und Künstler:innen
2022
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A portrait of the Swiss architect-designer couple that reveals their intimate universe and their relationship to art.
Global Tools - When Education Coincides with Life – 1973–1975
2022
English edition
Nero
Global Tools 1973–1975 documents and narrates the story of the eponymous experience of Radical Design and its multidisciplinary school program "without students or teachers."
Roberto Masiero - Une machine à penser - La maison de Paros de Silvia Gmür et Livio Vacchini
2022
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
A reflection on the relationship between architecture, art, philosophy and politics based on the house of Paros by Silvia Gmür and Livio Vacchini, a real "thinking machine" offering a lesson of architecture.
Exercice(s) d\'architecture
2022
French edition
Exercice(s) d'architecture
ENSAB (Brittany National College of Architecture) - Exercice(s) d'architecture
The tenth issue of the journal of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Bretagne, on the theme of the never-finished city, in the context of the large-scale crises that overwhelm us and require us to imagine a new alliance of uses and forms to allow to think that the unforeseeable is possible.
Marcel Lods - Éduquer à l\'architecture moderne
2022
French edition
Athom
Transcripts of unpublished lectures and writings by the French architect-urbanist Marcel Lods (1891-1978).
Ian Strange - Disturbed Home
2022
English edition
Damiani - Photography
68.00 55.00 €
The first comprehensive survey of Ian Strange's architectural interventions exploring dislocation and social catastrophe.
Elke Mittmann - L\'architecture n\'est pas une image - Centre de création contemporaine Olivier Debré Tours (DVD)
2022
French edition (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
Seven films on the architecture of the Centre de création contemporaine Olivier Debré in Tours and on the exhibitions that have marked its recent history.
Jérôme Poret - Les hôtes (vinyl LP / booklet)
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
La Maréchalerie
A hybrid edition (a vinyl record with a newspaper and an insert) extending the artist's research on the links between sound, architecture and the history of spiritism.
Giovanna Silva - City, I Listen to Your Heart - Milan
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Giovanna Silva paints a sinuous, compulsive, dizzying and poetic portrait of the city of Milan through several hundred series of detailed photographs of modern and contemporary building facades.
Valerio Olgiati - Architecture Non-Référentielle
2022
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
French edition of Valerio Olgiati's and Markus Breitschmid's widely acclaimed manifesto for a new approach in architecture in a world free of ideologies and, therefore, references: a must-read for anyone interested in architecture today.
Roula Matar - L\'architecture selon Gordon Matta-Clark
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
The architectural proposals of Gordon Matta-Clark.
Francis Alÿs - As Long as I\'m Walking
2021
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph, centered on some of the Belgian-born Mexican-based artist's key motifs and features: his 30-year groundbreaking video practice; the importance of strolling and walking for his artistic method; his interest in children's games which he has filmed in various countries since 1999.
Francis Alÿs - As Long as I\'m Walking
2021
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph, centered on some of the Belgian-born Mexican-based artist's key motifs and features: his 30-year groundbreaking video practice; the importance of strolling and walking for his artistic method; his interest in children's games which he has filmed in various countries since 1999.
Stefano Graziani - Documents on Raphael
2021
English edition with Italian booklet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Documents on Raphael is not only a rediscovery project carried out on the five hundredth anniversary of Raphael's death, but above all an operation of re-visioning.
José Ignacio Linazasoro - La mémoire de l\'ordre - Les paradoxes du sens dans l\'architecture moderne
2021
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
First French translation of the essay of the Spanish architect José Ignacio Linazasoro.
Objects of Fascination
2021
English edition
Accattone
45 low tables imagined by as many architects / designers from personal objects of fascination.
Mauro Restiffe - Santo Sospir
2021
English edition
Lenz Press
currently out of stock
A series of images of Villa Santo Sospir in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, the "Tattooed Villa" transformed into an artwork by Jean Cocteau, whose Brazilian photographer Mauro Restiffe reveals the hidden details during a residency.
Stream - New Intelligences
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Stream
Architect Philippe Chiambaretta brings together thinkers, researchers and contemporary artists in the 5th edition of the exploration book-magazine Stream, which investigates the different forms of intelligence that must be considered, implemented and passed down to move beyond the Urbanocene.
Ludovico Quaroni - Roma 1968
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
The architect's photographic view of his native Rome.
Fosco Lucarelli - Database Network Interface
2021
English edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
In an age characterised by the increasing dematerialisation of cultural production and transmission, Database, Network, Interface explores architecture's historical role in representing and organising information and knowledge.
 Buero Kofink Schels - Buero Kofink Schels In Practice - T.I.A. House 1+2
2021
English edition
MER. B&L
In this book, Matthie Wellner and Buero Kofink Schels (architects Simon Jüttner and Sebastian Kofin) unfold the design process of T.I.A. House 1+2, a project they developed and built in the city of Almeria on the southern Spanish coast.
Laura Kurgan - Si loin, si proche - Cartographie, technologie et politique
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An analysis of the spatial representations using new digital location and mapping technologies, in the light of the political issues that accompany their multiple interpretations.
Tools - To Mold
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The first issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to molding.
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