Barragán’s houses evoke glamour and simplicity, modernity and nostalgia, respect for tradition and revolutionary turns. The influence of his childhood home, a former Mexican hacienda, is clear and yet contrasted with his bold use oaf colours. Five of his house designs are lavishly pictured here, both inside and...
This publication is based on an illustrated talk presented by architect and historian Fernanda Canales in June 2024 at the Vitra Design Museum as part of the Barragán Lecture series. It focuses on the Mexican architect Luis Barragán (1902–88), whose work occupies a permanent place in the canon of 20th-century...
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza says, “It is hard not to build what created the enthusiasm and pleasure of being an architect. But this is not wasted time.” In the unbuilt works collected in this publication, thought, conception, and the timeless heritage of architecture, as well as ideas that through...
Aldo Rossi was a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza and one of the most influential theorists of the twentieth century. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement,...
New York-based professor Lytle Shaw journeys to Italy in this adventurous exploration of the life and work of architect, designer, and photographer Carlo Mollino (1905–1973). In 1933 the young Mollino received a commission from Mussolini’s regime for his first building: an administrative centre in Piedmont. Later works include furniture...
A Garden Manifesto gathers radical visions rooted in the earth from artists, writers, gardeners and activists, among them Lubaina Himid, Derek Jarman, Jamaica Kincaid, Ana Mendieta, Dan Pearson and Wolfgang Tillmans. It’s a seed box for an uncertain future, packed with anarchic dreams of Eden-making and humming with resistance to...
Architectural research is in re/action to this climate crisis. “Transcalar Prospects in Climate Crisis” offers a vital compilation of research projects and essays reflecting the investigative efforts at EPFL Architecture. Addressing critical issues like material uses, land and soil degradation,...
Co-authored by Amica Dall, Introduction by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Photographs by Jess Gough
‘Our current modus operandi can’t support the kinds of futures we envision for ourselves and those to come. As architects, builders, and citizens, we must urgently rethink our relationship to the land and to each other to produce new forms of material practice, culture, and economy in solidarity with people and our landscapes.’
An unprecedented survey of more than 250 architects who continue to define one of the most polarizing yet celebrated of styles.
Brutalist architecture inspires a passionate response, be it adulation or contempt. There...
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If you have seen the film ‘Perfect Days’ by Wim Wenders, about a man who leads a tranquil life cleaning public toilets in Shibuya, you might recognize just how truly beautiful such places can be. In the...
Embark on a surprising and joyful visual tour of American mid-century modernism through hundreds of photographs, drawings, and pieces of ephemera organized by the art museum at Cranbrook, where the movement began. Essential figures such as Charles and Ray Eames, Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll, and Eero Saarinen are represented alongside...
This book accompanies the 'Materiae Palimpsest' exhibition at the Moroccan Pavilion’s debut in the 19th Venice Biennale. More than a showcase of the scenographic installation, it explores the Pavilion’s core theme: construction techniques using local materials. Extending this reflection through a multiscalar lens, it examines climate challenges, ecological responsibility, knowledge...
A series of portraits examines the minority quarters of six Mediterranean cities: Fez, Marrakesh, Trani, Tangier, Palermo, and Istanbul. Each chapter documents the architectural reminders of minority presence: the houses, churches, synagogues, shrines, legations, and other public spaces that have been abandoned or converted to other uses. Authors also examine...
Born from his fascination with ancient architecture and a personal rediscovery of its beauty through materials such as wood, stone, earth and thatch, the aspiring architecture student Yukio Futagawa set out in the mid-1950s to photograph ‘minka’, the traditional rural houses of Japan. This experience would be instrumental in shifting...
The story of a stool, from its origin as a necessary furniture to repopulate a disused park in East London to becoming an ubiquitous sight in international art centres and people's homes in New Zealand or Korea. Martino Gamper's Arnold Circus Stool accompanies its creator and the friends around him...
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...
‘Most arrangements are little noticed, yet some stop you in your tracks’. Originally published in 2003, Leonard Koren’s highly sought-after Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement utilises the language of rhetoric to portray visual arrangement as a ‘communicational act: its own language-like form of aesthetic expression’. Koren’s insightful meditation...
The Arizona Type Specimen is a five color, split-page, spiral-bound showcase of ABC Arizona. This new blue, green, purple, orange, and brown variation is the book's second edition, released in 2024.
Designed by Elias Hanzer, ABC Arizona is the first ever sans-to-serif Variable Font that packages its five looks —...