With the Olympic Games held in Tokyo in 1964 and 2020 at its centre, this exhibition catalogue compares and contrasts the similarities and differences between architects Kenzo Tange (1913–2005) and Kengo Kuma, their work for the Tokyo Games, and their involvement with the city of Paris. In addition, it explores...
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...
An unparalleled artistic view into the items, stories, and individuals that have powered Porsche through decades of competition and success until today. Curated, researched, and photographed within the secretive sites of Porsche, in Flacht, Weissach, and in restricted storage facilities, Artifacts: Porsche Motorsport presents a thrilling insight into the iconic...
A critical biography of the quietly inventive Renaissance architect.
Filippo Brunelleschi is at once the most famous and most misunderstood architect of the Renaissance. The founding architect of the movement that led the way to modernity, his originality was not expressed in words or theory but in the materials he used,...
A major exploration of the work of American architect Bruce Goff, including the paintings, objects, and ephemera often overshadowed by his architectural legacy
Celebrated as one of the most innovative and daring architects of the twentieth century, Bruce Goff (1904-1982) imagined a truly independent modern American architecture throughout his six-decade-long...
This volume comprises an extremely accurate case study of Mariavall, a Benedictine abbey in Tomelilla, Sweden, wherein monk, architect and theorist Dom Hans van der Laan examines the building, unravelling the design process in a step-by-step, detailed analysis, the likes of which have never before been published. Prior to his...
Bernard Rudofsky's work in Japanese. No English text.
Sustainable structures from New York-based architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi.
In an era when the dual challenges of climate change and social isolation loom large, Drifting Symmetries emerges as a pivotal exploration of architecture's role in shaping a sustainable and connected future. Weiss/Manfredi's groundbreaking work transcends the boundaries between landscape, infrastructure, and architecture...
As one of the most volcanically active terrains in the world, Japan’s islands gush with more than 30,000 naturally occurring hot springs of various temperatures, colors and mineral compositions. As such, they have functioned as sites of communal gathering, ritual and relaxation across the country’s history and have become a...
An exclusive look at one of the 21st century's most iconic and distinctive American filmmakers, replete with archival materials and contributions from beloved Hollywood voices.
An archive is always a time machine, but the archives of Wes Anderson take us on a journey not just through time, but through layers...
Autumn / Winter 2025–26
Featuring: Noreen Masud on Charleston House, Louis Fratino, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Zizipho Poswa, Valerie Giampietro & Alessandro Cicoria, Ignasi Monreal, Graciela Iturbide, the Lijadu Sisters, Takashi Homma, Simon Costin, Christian Kerez, Isamaya Ffrench, Moki Cherry’s Schoolhouse, Konstantin Kakanias & Joe Pickman, Anita Vitale, and Lourdes Castro.
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ARK JOURNAL VOLUME XIII contemplates the quiet force of obsession, a power that fuels creation and transformation, that drives to protect, preserve and perfect.
Obsession can be a love that nourishes, that pushes boundaries and brings ideas to fruition. In those who embrace it, obsession becomes a bridge to understanding, elevating the creator and the creation to something timeless, profound and beautifully enduring.
In this issue, Ark Journal celebrates the journeys of individuals across music, art, design, interiors and architecture whose passion and authenticity are united by the force of obsession.
A historical record of the U.S. contribution to global architectural thought
The OfficeUS Atlas collects the exhibition research in an archive of nearly 1000 architectural projects. Organized according to individual firm histories, the Atlas documents the development of U.S. architectural offices working abroad from 1914 to the present. Offices and their...
The OfficeUS Agenda, the catalogue for the U.S. Pavilion, serves simultaneously as a guide and counterpoint to the exhibition. Organized into stories of expertise, exchange, and export, the Agenda frames the narratives that have projected the organizational structures and branded identity of U.S. architecture firms internationally from 1914-2014. The Agenda...
OfficeUS, the U.S. Pavilion for the 2014 International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, reframes the history of U.S. architecture through the lens of export in two interrelated constructs: The Office and The Repository . The Repository presents 1000 projects designed by 200 US offices working abroad in a chronological...
Between the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and the start of Reform and Opening Up policies in 1979, architecture played a key role in shaping China’s vision for socialist modernity. The book reconsiders the architectural production of China during this period as a site of innovation,...
The most “African” of the Brazilian villages in the south of Bahia bears a Swiss name. Helvécia was founded 200 years ago by Swiss and German colonists, and the coffee grown on its vast estates produced great wealth for them. This would not have been possible without exploitation: in the...
Architecture has always been found in the space between its economic and cultural values. Unlike the visual and performing arts, literature and music, architecture's values are often seen to be compromised by, or contingent upon, forces outside of the discipline--property prices, real estate markets and the vicissitudes of economies. These...
An intersectional take on design history and discourse, with feminist, decolonial, anti-racist, activist, non-Western and Indigenous perspectives
Critically assessing the complicity of design in creating, perpetuating and reinforcing social, political and environmental problems, Design Struggles upends the discipline by problematizing Western notions of design, fostering situated, decolonial and queer-feminist modes...
On design's complicity in systems of oppression: critique and exit strategies from the author of The Politics of Design
Our current economic system could not exist without the number systems, coins, banknotes, documents, advertisements, interfaces, typefaces and information graphics that graphic designers have helped to create. Even speculative design and social...
There are no perfect public spaces. Public space is constantly changing, shifting, never quite fixed. It is formed by laws, by regulations, by private ownership, and by city management. Public spaces are influenced both by the people who oversee them and by those who use them. And because of these...
A beautifully illustrated exploration of Arts and Crafts buildings across the United States, showcasing the movement’s wide reach and regional variations.
After the Arts and Crafts movement coalesced in Britain at the end of the nineteenth century, it made its way quickly to the United States. Architects and artisans embraced...
In the recent history of contemporary design and architecture, no company has had more influence than Vitra. From the 1950s to the present day, Vitra has worked with succeeding generations of designers – from Ray and Charles Eames to Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid, to Ron Arad, Jasper Morrison, and...
The first-ever English translation of Bruno Munari’s classic treatise on creativity, replete with new contextualizing annotations
“But isn’t imagination also fantasy? And can’t fantastic images also assume the form of sounds? Musicians speak of sonic images, sound objects. How does one invent a fish tale, an air-cooled engine, a new plastic? ... fantasy, invention, creativity think; imagination sees.”
Never before translated into English, Bruno Munari’s Fantasy, originally published in Italian in 1977, invites the reader to explore their own imagination, creativity and fantasy through a journey into Munari’s mind and work. His theory of creativity, developed in conversation with the Reggio Emilia Approach (a self-guided approach to education) and the work of Jean Piaget (a Swiss developmental psychologist who proffered a theory termed “genetic epistemology”) foregrounds the book’s journey through Munari’s design processes, both working for clients and teaching design principles to children. By turning both life and work into a classroom, Munari unlocks a path through imagination in order
to access his, and in turn the reader’s, deepest sense of play.
Borrowing its title from a short story by Edmondo de Amicis, this volume includes 77 photographs taken by Gabriele Basilico (Milan, 1944-2013) between 1978 and 2012, virtually spanning the Milanese photographer’s entire career. Reprising the title of a well-known short story by the italian writer Edmondo De Amicis, this...
The first English translation of an important and evocative interview-turned-book project in Marguerite Duras' illustrious oeuvre
"I could talk for hours about this house, this garden. I know it all, I know where every old door is, everything, the walls of the pond, all the plants, the location of every...
When Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World presents a selection of these images by the celebrated author, many of which have never been published before, to consider how her imaginary worlds enable us to re-envision our...