Dense observation of the landscape, climate, culture, and existing uses and patterns of the site were worked out in conversation with the client’s mission to mitigate environmental challenges; Faulkner Archi-tects brings together site and home both phenomenologically in the design and technologically through sustainable features and practices.
Technically a remodel,...
Founded in 2008 in São Paolo by Marina Acyaba and Juan Pablo Rosenberg, Acayaba + Rosenberg Arquitectos develops projects across a range of scales and programmes, from buildings to furniture, guided by a strong commitment to experimentation and precision in execution. The practice seeks to reconcile craftsmanship and ancestral...
The Berlin design firm AAS, founded in 1999 and helmed by Pierre Jorge Gonzalez and Judith Haase, has established a formidable global reputation. Their purist yet offbeat style has left its mark on built spaces around the world, from large-scale art installations to retail stores to luxurious private dwellings to...
The Paris-based architecture firm Experience is headed by Tristan Chadney, Laurent Esmilaire, and Éric Lapierre. They describe their approach towards architecture as cultural and typological, where they venture in search of the “marvellous”. Experience’s meditations on architectural form are so rational that they sometimes loop into the surreal, a...
This issue looks at continuity, disruption, and evolution in the works of Christ & Gantebein. For this Basel-based firm, founded in 1998 and headed by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein, constraints in site and programme are welcome opportunities to create spatial surprises. Whether through experimentations in the museum typology,...
For 26 years House + House Architects have created intimate, personal architecture. This new monograph documents the firm's recent residential work in California, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and examines their design process through exploratory sketches and exquisite photography. Cathi and Steven House's extensive travels throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America, with focused studies in the Mediterranean and Mexico, have molded them into architects with poetic insight into the use of light and shadow, movement and pause, place and embrace.
In their humane and handcrafted modernism, Cathi and Steven House carry forward the modernist questioning of the fundamental premises of architecture by embracing what the Mediterranean vernacular had to teach them about sensuous enjoyment and human dignity achieved in a life lived both privately and in conjunction with others, in the infinitude and wonder of shifting light, in the hand wrought detail and in the clarity and interconnection of built forms. What more could one ask of home than that it combine security with wonder, all the while fortifying what is most personal and most communal in our lives.
Over the past decade, Africa has experienced a tremendous political, economic and technological transformation. Spearheading this shift is a new generation of entrepreneurs and doers who have opened up a fresh view of this vast and diverse continent, using the Internet to make themselves visible. Developed in collaboration with renowned curator Okwui Enwezor, Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design embraces this new perspective, seeking to reveal the continent as a thinktank and investigating the intriguing possibility of a new understanding of design. It focuses on a generation of African designers, architects and artists who transcend the boundaries between design, art, photography, architecture and urbanism.
GREATNESS: Diverse Designers of Architecture is a compelling exploration of the contributions of diverse architects to the field of architecture.
This book delves into the essence of various architectural typologies, including residential, institutional, and master planning, through the lens of designers from varied backgrounds. It highlights the historical evolution of these...
Designing San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg shifts the focus...
After re-releasing Paris Living Rooms and New York Living Rooms, Apartamento is excited to launch the reprint of their sold-out publication Berlin Living Rooms, by Dominique Nabokov. Over the years they've developed a close relationship with Dominique, after featuring a selection of her beautiful interior photos from Paris Living Rooms...
New York Living Rooms is the first instalment in Dominique Nabokov’s holy trinity of interior photography works, re-issued by Apartamento Publishing more than two decades after it was first published in 1998. Originally commissioned as a photo essay for the
Apartamento is excited to re-release Paris Living Rooms almost two decades after it was first published in 2002. The second instalment in Dominique Nabokov’s holy trinity of interior photography works, it also follows the re-release of New York Living Rooms earlier this year. Nabokov calls these images her interior ‘portraits’...
This volume explores archives, documents and design processes from projects by the Space Design Department at HEAD, Geneva, through a series of essays by practicing architects and faculty members. Intentionally omitting the words "interior architecture," the book invites readers to reconsider the boundaries and multiple definitions of the discipline. What...
Essential lectures on the art of landscaping from Roberto Burle Marx, described by the New York Times as "the designer most responsible for our utopian impressions of the Brazilian built environment"
Roberto Burle Marx (1909–94) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history of the field, celebrated for...
In the south of the Netherlands lies the limestone plateau of the Sint-Pietersberg. As early as the Middle Ages, people started using limestone as a building material. Underground mining resulted in an immense network of caves, its corridor walls preserving a huge living archive, left behind by block breakers, tourists,...
A collaboration between LA-based photographers McIntosh and Muller in which they explore and document Tracy Hills--a new master-planned community being built near Tracy, in the central valley of California.
While Tracy Hills revisits some of the tropes of the New Topographics era, the work underscores the distinctly twenty-first-century ecological issues...
This strangely shaped object designed by Berlin-based studio HanLi features beloved Dinamo font classics as well as lots of unpublished work from deep down our drawers. It’s also the first to be designed in the DIN-AMO format.
The fifth issue of Typologie, a collection of design books about ordinary objects, is dedicated to the camping tent. A common motif in both rural and urban landscapes, the tent is a ubiquitous typology whose apparent simplicity is deceptive. Halfway between the architecture we manipulate and the furniture we live...
‘Unbound’ accompanies Karel Martens’ first solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, bringing together a wide-ranging body of work Martens made and collected over the entire span of his decades long career. Containing works from the show, collaged, overprinted, and juxtaposed with elements found around his studio, the book balances...
Wim Wenders collects in this volume twenty black and white photographs, taken between 1964 and 1984. They are scattered shots, captured in Algeria, England, Indonesia, Iceland, Australia, the United States and Russia. The subjects are the most diverse: panoramas of naturalistic landscapes, glimpses of everyday village or metropolitan life, lyrical...
In graphic designer and author Sam de Groot’s fable of modern parenting, psychoanalytic intrigue meets Aesopian Bildungsroman as we follow the tale of a boy and his fox. A story of soft orange paws and sharp teeth, Otto asks: How do we learn to understand our deepest emotion, what creatures...