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Macao, a Special Administrative Region of China, is among the most densely populated regions in the world and a thriving metropolis marked by a dynamic blend of contrasting urban typologies. The city’s urban complexity, resulting from rapid growth and high-density construction, cannot be simply characterized as the “Las Vegas of...

For Denise Scott Brown, who is among the most important architects of the postwar era, photography has long served as a critical medium through which to perceive, document and think about the world in which designers operate. Fascinated by the ephemeral and the everyday, Scott Brown took photographs for fun, research and teaching, and later as a component of design and planning projects. Through the lens of her Alpa camera she sought to penetrate the irreducible complexities of life around her – and to make a case for the architect and planner’s role in intervening within it.

Steven Holl has set up a documentation centre for the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (1859 –1952) on Hamarøy, in northern Norway. This unconventional building reflects the author's no less unusual personality. The centre in the barren landscape of Hamarøy, where Hamsun lived and worked, the silence and solitude, challenge visitors...

Neubau Forst Catalogue is the 432-page print catalogue of a digital collection of tree silhouettes and sculptures seen at different seasons. Working by hand, the Neubau designers digitally removed the trees from their original Berlin surroundings and thereby crafted a body of visual material whose scope, outstanding quality of...

In light of the reawakening interest in R. Buckminster Fuller’s works and thoughts, and of their growing importance for our technological world, it is time for a reedition of this comprehensive and legendary publication from 1999. The visual reader Your Private Sky examines and documents Fuller’s theories, ideas and projects,...

How our medical obsessions and the image of the body influence modern architecture. This book explores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic technologies on the formation, representation and reception of modern architecture. It challenges the normal understanding of modern architecture by proposing that the architecture of the early 20th...

As Art Director for Muji since 2002, Japanese graphic designer Kenya Hara (born 1958) and his aesthetic of pared-back, beautifully functional objects has taken the world by (quiet) storm. With Kenya Hara: Designing Japan, the designer presents his vision of how his industry can contribute to the future of his...

“The importance of a drawing is immense, because it’s the architect’s language,” famed architect Louis Kahn, one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, told his masterclass in 1967. While much of his built work...

KAHN, LOUIS | Lewis, Michael J. | Sue Ann Kahn, ed. | Zurich, Switzerland | Lars Müller Publishers, 2024 | Hardbound in slipcase, 2 Volumes | 6 x 8.25  in. | 128 pp | Color illustrations

Published in honor of...

Hara, Kenya | Zurich, Switzerland | Lars Müller Publishers, 2009 | Hardbound | 5.5 x 7.75  in. | 128 pp | Color illustrations

White is not a book about colors. It is rather Kenya Haras attempt to explore the essence of “White”, which he sees as being closely related...

Kazuo Shinohara (1925–2006) is one of the greatest and most influential architects of Japan's postwar generation. He created sublimely beautiful, purist houses that have reconfigured and enriched our understanding of domesticity, tradition, structure, scale, nature and the city. The underlying formalism in Shinohara’s architecture lends his work a poetic quality...

This volume, the first comprehensive assessment of the work of the Metabolic architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928–2011) in the English language, highlights his lifelong creation of a constantly evolving platform for living, floating above land and sea through pivotal works, from the late 1950s to today. Abundantly illustrated, the publication situates...

When architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi published Learning from Las Vegas in 1972, they revolutionized architecture by claiming that the lessons the American desert town had to offer equaled those of the Eternal City. “Las Vegas is to the Strip what Rome is to the Piazza,” they declared....

Zumthor, Peter | Zurich, Switzerland | Lars Müller Publishers, 1998 | Hardbound | 9.5 x 11.75 in. | 320 pp. | Color & B/W Illustrations

The first and long awaited monograph celebrating the work of well-known Swiss architect Peter Zumthor documents all of his built und unbuilt projects....

Tatiana Bilbao, ed. | Zurich, Switzerland | Lars Müller Publishers, 2020 | Softbound | 6.5 x 9.5 in. | 488 pp | Color illustrations

At a moment when migration has returned as a hot-button political issue and NAFTA is being renegotiated as the USMC, political discourse has exaggerated differences...

Renouncing his former self-designation as a “media architect,” Christian Moeller (born 1959) created a series of large-scale public art projects between 2004 and 2023, downplaying the role of information technology within his work to instead emphasize its pictorial and sculptural qualities.

This photobook bridges the topics of energy and water, taking the Émosson Dam―a hydroelectric dam development located in Switzerland in the canton of Valais―as a case study. Construction on the site began in 1967 and opened to the public in 1975. Fed by the waters of the Mont Blanc massif,...

From a practical tool to status symbol, the walking stick is a universal object that has been imbued with symbolism, craftsmanship, and innovation throughout its history. Across different cultures and eras it has taken on different uses and meanings, whether agricultural, religious, ceremonial, orthopaedic or sartorial. Eighteen designers ranging from...

After the successful conclusion of the centenary celebrations of Andrea Palladio's birth, there are still many unanswered questions about his work. Antonio Foscari retraces Andrea Palladio's life and offers new perspectives on the architects built and unbuilt work. The author reveals an image of Venice that differs from the one...

Windows Of Light By Renowned Lebanese-born Architect Lina Ghotmeh Is An Exploration Of Light As Both A Physical Phenomenon And A Social Connector. Presented As Field Notes, The Research Delves Into The Symbolism, Myths, And Innovations Surrounding Light, Illustrating Its Fundamental Role In Shaping Our Biological, Astronomical, And Architectural Environments....

Dominique Perrault's Aplix factory photographed by Andre Morin.

By what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appear in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial and error, individual craftsmanship, and an instinct to carve...

This monograph on the work of Austrian architect Carl Pruscha (born 1936) is divided into the three geographical areas into which his life and legacy falls: the United States, Kathmandu and Vienna. Following his study of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Pruscha spent the early 1960s at...

This fifth volume in Lars Müller’s Architect’s Studio series is dedicated to the Nairobi-based architects Cave_bureau. This acclaimed collective of architects and researchers—the first Kenyan firm to appear at the Venice Architecture Biennale, in 2021—explores the synergy between architecture, urbanism and nature, and curates performative events of resistance within...

Since the 1970s Wolfgang Weingart has exerted a decisive influence on the international development of typography. In the late 1960s he instilled creativity and a desire for experimentation into the ossified Swiss typographical industry and reflected this renewal in his own work. Countless designers have been inspired by his teaching...

idea is a renowned Japanese magazine on international graphic art and typography. Its 333th edition lent 226 pages to Emil Ruder, showcasing his work, influence and legacy in the world of typography and beyond. It brings together essays, discussions and appraisals from fellow designers, typographers and artists – yielding a...

Neue Grafik, the “International review of graphic design and related subjects”, was initiated by Swiss designer Josef Müller-Brockmann. It was published in eighteen issues between 1958 and 1965 by an editorial collective consisting of Müller-Brockmann, Richard Paul Lohse, Hans Neuburg und Carlo Vivarelli ( LMNV ). The complete volumes are...

During Salvador Allende’s tenure as president (1970–73), graphic and product design in Chile expressed powerful socialist messages of solidarity and social cohesion. This volume looks at a range of innovative items made in this era, from affordable objects designed for popular circulation such as TVs, record players and chairs, and...

Images of bodies operate as powerful signifiers and as cultural determinants. Normative ideas of the body and beauty in particular shape images of the self and the world; they produce bodies that create inequalities and reflect the prevailing relations of power and violence. Which bodies are represented and how? Whose...