The first anthology of work by Tsuyoshi Tane, an architect based in both Paris and Japan, covers no less than seventeen of his major works. Among these is the Estonian National Museum – his debut international project with Dorell Ghotmeh Tane (DGT) co-founders Lina Ghotmeh and Dan Dorell – a...
The second volume in an anthology on Tsuyoshi Tane’s evolving architectural practice. Featuring seventeen recent projects, including major commissions currently underway, such as the New Main Building of the Imperial Hotel Tokyo and the Sensoji Temple Treasure Museum, it highlights his ongoing investigation into “archaeological thinking”, a design approach rooted...
Attempting to form an overview of the experimentation that has gone into his efforts over the past two decades, Sou Fujimoto compiles a multifarious and richly illustrated collection of works – concepts, new ideas, and unrealised projects – that is remarkable both for its sprawling diversity and for its consistency...
This book is a collection of works by onishimaki+hyakudayuki / o+h, an architectural design firm led by the acclaimed young architects Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda. It introduces 15 works, including their debut work, "Double Helix House," the Prize of the Architectural Institute of Japan for Design 2023-winning "Shelter...
This research by a+t research group proposes an alternative reading of the history of housing. Rather than being organized around architectural styles or movements, it is structured through five essential conditions that define the lived experience of inhabitation: Opulence, Precarity, Dignity, Prosperity, and Fraternity. Drawing on 178 case studies—ranging from...
An intimate look into how small practices find their niche and pursue their passion in a field that is often perceived as aggressive and vigorous. Noorul Fadzlee Khamis, a Malaysian architect, and educator, with the support of Japan Foundation Asia Centre speaks to small practices based in both Kuala Lumpur...
Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U.S. nuclear weapons...
Deeply divided, with ethnic French dominating the south and a large, vibrant North African community in the north, the city of Marseille typifies the tensions stemming from problematic governance, a constant influx of migrants, the widespread privatisation of services, and rapid, profit-driven, and destructive post-industrial urbanisation. Examining this complex...
Jerusalem is not merely a city; it is an idea. For millennia, it has drawn visitors of all faiths and social classes, each seeking to engage with its sanctity. This enduring allure has sparked repeated cycles of violent struggle for control, often prompting the symbolic relocation of Jerusalem to places...
'The Course of Water' explores the environmental and social histories of California’s Owens Valley by attending to the implications of its peculiar hydrology. At the turn of the twentieth century, a lack of water resources threatened to stall the growth of Los Angeles. The city began diverting water from the...
'With Love. From an Invader. – Rhododendrons, Empire, China and Me' is an intensive field study. Every other day for a year, Yan Wang Preston (CN/GB) went to a particular love-heart-shaped 'Rhododendron ponticum' shrub and photographed it. In the process she also found a thriving ecology with the rhododendrons as...
With a changing climate, sea levels are expected to rise at an increasing rate over the next centuries, jeopardising populations living in smaller or larger urban communities along the coastlines. The extent and speed of this process is uncertain, which puts coastal cities in the difficult position of deciding which...
Architecture has historically functioned as both shelter and a tool for power that can establish dominance and exclusion, often failing to accommodate diverse needs and ways of being. In this second publication from Building Diversity, architectural establishments and norms are challenged. The editors examine who buildings and environments are...
‘De architectura’, written by Vitruvius in the first century BCE, is revered as the first treatise on architectural theory. Since its Renaissance resurrection, the enigmatic text has been adapted, refined, and redefined in subsequent iterations. ‘Vitruvius Without Text’ bypasses critical interpretations to focus on the material history of...
Inspired by Le Corbusier's 1925 Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau, the second exhibition in Swiss Institute's annual Architecture and Design series presents a prototype for the 21st-century home, simulating a living environment where the house moves beyond its physical confines and into the digital realm.
The Danish architect and industrial designer Poul Kjærholm has always been quietly revered in modernist design circles, but in recent years his work has attained cult status among a younger generation of designers and connoisseurs. This exquisite monograph presents a comprehensive retrospective view of Kjærholm's work, and also shows the...
Following on a landmark exhibition in Tokyo, ‘The Original’ features some 150 examples of product design from the 19th century to today, each one chosen by Naoto Fukasawa for its pioneering originality. The book’s chronological organisation clearly lays out the evolution of diverse product categories – from furniture and lighting...
Three Swiss companies manufactured type for typewriters between the 1940s and 1990s: Caractères SA, Setag, and Novatype. For over fifty years, they supplied leading office machine manufacturers in Europe and around the world, including Remington, IBM, Olivetti, Paillard-Hermes, and Triumph-Adler. These three companies, which held a major position on...
Cà phê (coffee), cà phê phin (coffee filter), atisô (artichoke), xi nê ma (cinema), căng tin (canteen), xi-măng (cement), ghế tô nê (Thonet chair): In the Vietnamese language, many words and names of everyday objects clearly show their French origins. Through cultural anthropology, epistemology of Vietnamese design, and the sociology...
"Palm Springs Art Museum, in collaboration with Espoo Museum of Modern Art, will showcase the work of Howard Smith for the first time in the United States since the 1980s. Smith (1928-2021) was an artist from New Jersey whose textiles and ceramics were produced by some of Scandinavia's biggest design...
This artist’s publication contains a sequence of unique letterpress monoprints, made by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens between 2014 and 2022. The prints, which are both highly geometric and brightly coloured, are reproduced in the book at their actual size. Textual elements accent the various abstract shapes and repetitions...
‘Typobiography’ is a visual monograph, which develops the questions that have guided Jost Hochuli’s practice over his six-decade career in several thematic sections, in particular his conception of design as an essential factor in the legibility of a text and the transmission of knowledge. Each part is abundantly illustrated with...