This hugely revealing journey through the mind and memory of one of architecture’s great poets is told in Tadao Ando’s own words. A very personal volume, it traces five decades of prolific creativity, gathering over 750 sketches, models, and technical drawings that reveal the essence of his practice. From the...
In this issue: PETER SHIRE crafts a technicolor universe where humor, joy, and play reign; MARIAH NIELSON stewards JB BLUNK’s legacy while shaping her own; RAFI AJL’s sculptural designs gesture towards the ineffable; color, material, and sensory perception converge in YUNHEE MIN’s luminous abstractions; with WAKA WAKA, SHIN OKUDA...
Through stills, film and interviews, Nyberg's unfinished biography on Sigurd Lewerentz shatters his prevailing image as the "silent architect"
Before his death in 1978, Bernt Nyberg had been working on the first biography of Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975), through film and interviews captured on a build site. This special...
Josef Frank (1885-1967) ranks among Europe's most significant architects of the twentieth century, and his designs for furniture and textiles have made him one of the eminent figures of modernist interior design. Though there have been many studies of Frank's architecture previously, Josef Frank--Spaces is the first comprehensive book to...
This publication looks back on the last thirty years of EOOS and documents its evolution from a classic, internationally renowned design studio to an organization that redefines the role of design and strives to inspire upcoming generations of designers. In the early 2010s, EOOS closed a successful chapter of shop...
This building monograph depicts a small summer house designed by the highly respected but hitherto scarcely researched architect Axel Kandell (1916—2003). Located in the southern part of the Stockholm Archipelago, the ‘Master Carpenter’s Cabin’ captures the essence of Kandells limited but meticulously elaborated architectural oeuvre. The book includes an essay...
An extraordinary work of bookmaking, this is the first and only book from one of the most sought-after architecture and design ateliers in the world.
Known for their discretion, Studio Sofield publishes for the first time here many of its most important houses and retail settings. The firm has originated identities...
The re-release of this highly acclaimed title demonstrates the continual fascination, from both fans and collectors, with the life and work of Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass. The designer's work is popular and influential in equal measure, from his designs for Olivetti (such as the striking, bright red, manual...
Monocle, eds. | Berlin, Germany | gestalten, 2019 | Hardbound | 7 x 9.25 in. | 304 pp | Color & B/W illsutrations
Monocle’s latest book unpacks what makes a perfect shopping experience and offers tips on how to launch, design and run your own store. A must-have guide.
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This issue will transport you across countries and continents where craft and culture converge. Evocative travel portfolios reveal Japan's elegant restraint, Peru's sacred churches ablaze with color, and striking architecture in a fading Addis Ababa. Inspiring minds from the late Giorgio Armani to Nikolai von Bismarck spark curiosity, while exclusive...
Brutalist Interiors offers a rare and richly documented exploration of the concrete spaces that define many of the world’s most significant Brutalist works. Moving beyond the façade, this volume presents a global narrative of Brutalist interior architecture—from sacred structures and civic monuments to private dwellings and contemporary reinterpretations—through new photography and original critical essays.
The iconic designs that are still handcrafted today by the Auböck workshop, now in its fourth generation in Vienna, were ahead of their time from the beginning and shaped Austrian design across generations.
The book and exhibition focus on the defining era of the interwar and post-war periods and also...
The third volume in the Bau Kunst series, ‘Fake Designs of Japanese Architecture’ turns the research focus inward to Japan and investigates pre-modern wooden architecture. The study questions the apparent harmony of structure and space in medieval Japanese buildings, suggesting that it may in fact be a carefully constructed illusion...
Since The 1950s, Egypt Has Developed A Dozen New Towns In The Desert Outside Of Cairo. Intended To Alleviate A Growing Demand For Housing In The Capital, Most Have Never Been Completed. Edited By Marc Angélil And Charlotte Malterre-barthes, This Book Presents The First Systematic Exploration Of These Cities, Analysing...
An investigation into the complex politics of data centers, through photographs and essays.
Often hidden in plain sight, data centers are the backbone of our internet. They store, communicate and transport the information we produce and access daily along invisible pathways. The industry of data centers comes entwined with an...
Shares Milan-based collective Park Associati's commitment to adaptive reuse for sustainable architecture.
In Reinventing Heritage, Park Associati--a Milan-based interdisciplinary collective of architects, designers, and researchers--explores the transformative potential of adaptive reuse in architecture as a key strategy to address environmental, social, and economic challenges. Rather than demolishing and rebuilding, adaptive reuse...
How architecture must learn to coexist with bacterial life, from the authors of the bestselling Are We Human?
This provocative book is a manifesto for an alternative architectural philosophy. It treats bacteria as the real architects, construction workers, maintenance crews and inhabitants of buildings. Spanish American architectural historian Beatriz Colomina and New Zealand–born architect Mark Wigley draw on the latest research to rethink the past and possible futures of the built environment, exploring the intimate entanglements of the microbes within bodies and buildings over the last 10,000 years, culminating in the antibiotic philosophy of contemporary architecture. Hostility to bacteria must give way to new forms of hospitality from a more symbiotic architecture that learns from bacteria, embracing them and reconnecting with soil, plants and other species. The main goal of the book is to rethink the very idea of shelter in terms of forms of inclusion rather than prophylactic forms of exclusion.
In an era of high-tech and climate extremes, we are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. Enter Lo—TEK, a design movement building on indigenous philosophy and vernacular infrastructure to generate sustainable, resilient, nature-based technology. With a...
Plunge into the ancestral water wisdom that could reshape all our futures. This spell-binding book reveals how Indigenous innovations--like floating farms, tidal fish traps, and aquifer recharge systems--have sustained civilizations for millennia by working with nature, not against it. Far from relics, these systems offer dynamic, adaptable solutions for the...
Fuchs' documentation of historical haylofts in the Austrian countryside casts these functional, private spaces in an uncanny light.
Walther König's seventh book published with Bernhard Fuchs (born 1971), Hayloft, features a series of hidden hayloft spaces in farms and barns around the photographer's home in Upper Austria, taken between 2018...
The Austrian typographer and graphic designer Helmut Schmid (1942–2018) was acknowledged globally as a master of his craft. Schmid put his own spin on Emil Ruder’s teachings while remaining faithful to his principles of clarity, simplicity and elegance. Living in Osaka, Vancouver and Germany (where he worked for the German...
Graphic Languages is a visual journey through the world’s most influential writing systems—developed in collaboration with international type designers and script experts. At its core is the visual essence of each script: its distinctive forms, cultural expression, and power as a fundamental tool of human communication. With a strong focus...
Robert Earl Paige is one of the most iconic artists and designers from Chicago’s South Side. A multidisciplinary artist and arts educator, he works across textile design, painting, collage, and sculpture. During the 1970s, he brought West African–inspired patterns to U.S. shoppers through the Dakkabar fabrics collection available at Sears,...
Since the 1960s, the act of walking has provided a way for artists and musicians to escape the formality of the concert hall or institutional venue, engaging with shifting public spaces, natural environments, and the social and...