Winner of the Photobook Week Aarhus Dummy Award 2018. Stijn van der Linden's photobook is an exploration of how spaces become spaces and how photography can influence this process, presenting...
The Modernist is dedicated to modernist architecture and design. Issue 39: Killer, focuses on buildings designed for taking the lives of our fellow human beings. Introduced by guest editors Alex Boyd &...
As our everyday lives become increasingly entangled with data technologies, the book addresses the utopian fantasy that surrounds the Cloud, as transcending physical presence or resourcing. By bringing the physical...
All of us want to see Manhattan from above, but very few can do it from their own living room. Private Views is here to satisfy our incessant curiosity about...
During the past fifty years, documentary photography and architecture have become increasingly interdependent, blurring the disciplinary boundary between the two. Seamless looks at the work of a new generation of...
Rewriting Architecture explores and embraces the potential of place. The book claims that the idea of ‘tabula rasa’, or creating from scratch, is no longer a viable option. It considers...
While much has been written about how photography serves architecture, this book looks at how fine-art photographers frame constructed space – from cities to single anonymous rooms. It analyses various...
Ar/KATE Mannheim is a specific guidebook connecting architecture and skateboarding. The pocket guide contains ten different urban locations with photographs and a map where a variety of skate spots can...
Leopold’s Legacy is a reflection on both the visible representations of colonialism in present-day Belgium, and the hidden traces of its gruesome past. Oliver Leu (DE) presents an eclectic collection...
Habitation is more than a functional roof over one’s head: the term “habitat” bundles the debates of post-war modernism around a readjustment of architecture. The Bauhaus Magazine No. 12 is...
During the post-war years the North of England saw the building of some of the most aspirational, enlightened and successful modernist architecture in the world. For the first time, a...
Pavilion Books’ Lost series traditionally looks at the cherished places of a city that time, progress and fashion have swept aside. However, using the new expanded 176-page format of the...
The Modernist is dedicated to modernist architecture and design. Issue 38: Kitchen, focuses on a room where modernist design informs all our lives. Guest-edited by Matt Retallick, a curator and writer...
Explores different perspectives on the value of architecture Looks at inherent cultural and historical value and how to link to economic value Sparks the discussion on heritage with new content...
Models, tools and ideas for the design of healthy cities How urban research by design addresses urgent problems such as climate change, inequality, and large-scale migration The future of humanity...
The House of Common Affairs (HOCA) is a new, smashing journal about the Fourth Estate Utopias. It provides an opportunity to challenge the niche and yet popular field that exists...
The Modernist is dedicated to modernist architecture and design. Issue 37: KINO explores the interaction between cinema and modernism. Guest-edited by Jason Wood, Creative Director of Film and Culture at Manchester’s...
Adolf Meyer was Walter Gropius’s right-hand man, his planner and close confidant. As early as 1910, they jointly created the Fagus Factory, one of the most important modernist buildings. The...
Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence—they reflect day-to-day implementation of...
Food and urban farming as a source of spatial, social and economic renewal With 35 inspiring examples from Western Europe, North America, Japan and Australia Farming the City explores the...
A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable. In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city...
There is much to discuss regarding what kinds of changes and shifts the coronavirus pandemic might bring to cities. Some of these could be spatial, subtle changes triggered by social...
In view of the current climate crisis and looming ecological catastrophe, environmentalism has become a key driver to rethink the architectural discipline. The publication 'Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture' aims...
To achieve truly climate-friendly architecture means not just switching to sources of renewable power, but building with materials that produce zero carbon emissions, use no fossil fuels, and create no...
As a complex urban system, the city constantly seeks balance. The rise of new ways to co-create or experience cities is breaking down traditional urban planning dichotomies. Interactive maps, mixed...
Too often a design or architecture degree is seen as a means to an end (a job in an established practice). But imagine for one moment that there are no...
In this strange year of a global pandemic, race riots, and an increasingly toxic discourse in politics and society, our new issue couldn’t come more timely, featuring Eyal Weizman, the outspoken...
Bookstores are more than just places that sell books. They are focal points of communities, a warm welcome to a city, a place for first-time visitors and longtime residents alike...
One of the fundamental events of modernity was the conquest of the world as picture, a process in which movies were essential. Cinema was the single medium capable of capturing...
Caring Culture: Art, Architecture and the Politics of Public Health examines changing political uses of the concept of care in neoliberal democracies and asks how artists, architects, and designers both contribute...
The history of the avant-garde (in art, architecture, literature) can’t be separated from the history of its engagement with mass media. It is not just that the avant-garde used media...
In 1987, Peter G. Rowe published his pioneering book Design Thinking. In it, he interrogated conceptual approaches to design in terms of both process and form. Thirty years later, in a...
Shot over three days in the attic of Pelči Manor – a grand,19th-century, art nouveau structure in the small Latvian town of Kuldīga – the latest book by young Australian photographer Sarah Walker offers...
“The Treachery Of Architecture” collects images surrounding construction and demolition in urban spaces, to reflect on changing landscapes in modern society. This book is a part of the first releases...
Walter Niedermayr (born 1952 in Bolzano, Italy) is a notable European photographer in our time, with his sensitive visual language marked by its subtle blend of colours. Niedermayr become familiar...
A Sense of Place is a limited edition, hand-made art book, featuring agencies and designers from around the world, working with the idea of place. Modern technology can make our world feel...
In the words of the publisher Skira, "Thomas Demand has received widespread recognition for photography characterised by a continuous shifting between reality and fiction. Photography, sculpture and architecture are combined...
This introductory survey of twentieth- century architecture is divided into three main sections. The first part, “Confronting Modernity,” surveys four discrete domains of professional design activity in the period 1900...
Rethinking Density: Art, Culture, and Urban Practices considers new perspectives and discussions related to the category of density, which for a long time has been part of urban-planning discourses and...
A Clinic for the Exhausted: In Search of an Antipodean Vitality - Edmond & Corrigan and an Itinerant Architecture commences from a vision of a landmark Australian architectural icon, RMIT University Building...
In mono.kultur's most colourful issue yet, we step into the life and work of architect Francis Kéré, known in equal measure for his lighthearted and innovative architecture, his remarkable background, and...
In this volume, Cereal explores the subject of collecting, conversing with Pierre Yovanovitch and Daniel Buren, discussing curation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, and visiting the home of Phillip Lim. They travel to South Tyrol...
London, once known as the Metropole, was the mother city at the heart of a vast empire which at its peak encompassed a quarter of all land on the planet. Its...
Icon is one of the world’s leading architecture and design magazines. Every month Icon interviews the most exciting architects and designers in the world, visits the best new buildings, analyses the...
A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption is a long-term project that Cartagena started in 2009 when the opportunity to become a conscious citizen arose. A new overpass was to be...
Architecture Today brings you the latest goings-on and musings from the world of architecture since the late 80s, Architecture Today is a monthly UK based publication. Each issue takes a good...
Performing Matter: Interior Surface and Feminist Actions inquires about the material constitution of interiors as sites of political protest and ethical exchange. By forwarding feminist agency and a concern for the...
Architectural Aesthetic Speculations expands our understanding of the role of formal aesthetic criteria in twentieth-century artistic practices and reveals potentially transformative aspects in the art of architectural composition. The book...
This book addresses the London Underground in the context of architectural histories and theories. It aims to indicate that the subterranean transportation system of London, the first of its kind...
When Yoshi Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima of the Tokyo-based firm Atelier Bow-Wow arrived at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design as guest professors, in the winter of 2016, they challenged...
The work presented in this book is an invitation to undertake an urgent architectural and political thought experiment: to rethink today’s struggles for justice and equality not only from the...
"The Observation of Trifles is like a foreigner trying to find their way in a new country and a new neighbourhood. I am an immigrant. Taking objects that encounter on...
