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2 Architecture
23 Art
33 Photography
47 Theory & Essays
49 Graphic Design
52 Fashion & Textile
55 Interior & Product Design
57 Popular Culture
59 Decorative Arts
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62 Index
64 Representation
Architecture Architecture
El Croquis 194: Brandlhuber+ 1996–2018 a+t 50: Complex Buildings – Learning Systems
El Croquis, El Escorial 2018 a+t architecture publishers, Vitoria-Gasteiz 2018
This instalment features the work of Arno Brandlhuber, one of the It is commonly understood that school buildings house complex
most intriguing European architects today. Known for his various systems. From the kindergarten to the university faculty, the
collaborative practices involving an array of people – architects, art- journey through the levels of learning consists of an accumulation
ists, writers, filmmakers, musicians – and an oeuvre rich in cultural of vital experiences arising from the interaction between these
references, Brandlhuber stands for a discursive practice. He brings systems. The educational function now builds its environments
together individuals who represent the new creative class, which has with new paradigms that reflect and respond to an increasingly
become increasingly crucial for cities everywhere, and he believes in diverse and complex social agenda. Javier Mozas analyses these new
their ability to develop new, more diverse and flexible lifestyles. educational models, which also includes projects by C.F. Møller, NL
272 p, ills colour & bw, 25 × 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English Architects, Aleph Zero, OMA, Gigon/Guyer, Studio Velocity, and
ISBN 9788494775420 COBE Architects. ISBN 9788409018673
Euro 60,30 120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 32 cm, pb, Spanish/English Euro 26,20
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Founded in 2006 by Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke, Carmody The magazine returns to examine the public realm through the
Groarke has developed a reputation for working internationally on ‘Strategy’ series, which began in 2010 with the aim of highlighting
a wide range of arts, cultural, heritage, and residential projects. and naming the strategies underlying each project. This new cycle
This instalment offers an overview of the London-based practice’s of the series begins with “Activators” – projects capable of adding
work from 2009 until the present, and includes an interview with new dynamics to the public space through the incorporation of facili-
the architects and David Chipperfield. More than 20 projects of all ties for leisure, sports, or recreational learning. Featured are works
scales are profiled, from the Regent’s Place Pavilion, West Sussex by MVRDV, Jaja, Adept, Nendo, Vaumm, Wowhaus, and Ola, among
Gallery, and an artist studio in Hoxton, to an extension at the others.
Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. 120 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 32 cm, pb, Spanish/English
254 p, ills colour & bw, 25 × 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English ISBN 9788494775444 ISBN 9788409049295
Euro 60,30 Euro 26,20
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Bringing together material published on the Portuguese architect In featuring the Flemish practice of Jan De Vylder, Inge Vinck,
duo of Aires Mateus from 2002 until the present, this volume fea- and Jo Taillieu, this edition of ‘Archives’ provides an opportunity
tures more than 40 buildings and projects. From the Lisbon Central to highlight the importance of context and drawing. Context is a
Library and Santa Maria Lighthouse Museum, to an Islamic Centre concept which appears constantly in their conversations and writ-
in Bordeaux, multipurpose building in Dubai, Santo Tirso call ings, one that the architects explain is not as limiting a term as
centre, thermal baths in Serra da Estrela, and numerous residences many might think. The drawings herein offer precise analyses of the
and homes, it covers a broad range of scales and typologies. In addi- projects the office has undertaken, represented in different forms,
tion, the publication includes two interviews with Aires Mateus and through various mediums, layered drawings and paperwork. It is an
essays by Juan Antonio Cortés and Luis Martínez Santamaría. example of how their work is continually developing.
536 p, ills colour & bw, 25 × 34 cm, hb, Spanish/English ISBN 9788494775437 336 p, ills colour & bw, 16 × 24 cm, pb, Spanish/English ISBN 9788494767821
Euro 105,75 Euro 25,80
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Architecture Architecture
Akihisa Hirata – Discovering New Eileen Gray: E.1027 – House by the Sea
Toto, Tokyo 2018 Éditions Imbernon, Marseille 2015
This monograph presents work by Japanese architect Akihisa ‘L’Architecture vivante’, the French-language magazine for
Hirata and is divided into three parts: Discovering New Form, avant-garde architecture, was published from 1923 to 1932. In 2006
Discovering New Nature, Discovering New Commitment. According Éditions Imbernon published the first reissue of a famous special
to the architect, new things are an essential part of life. Yet his con- edition of the magazine, the 1929 winter issue devoted to E.1027
cept of “new” is not meant as something that is completely unknown, House by the Sea, the iconic villa designed by Eileen Gray. At the
without any connection to the past. Rather, he intends to actualise time this was within the context of the rescue and restoration of
things that already exist but remain hidden, and in the process the villa. This second reissue, published in 2015 and with English
discover the essence of living through architecture as a new form of translations of the original French texts, marks a new phase for the
nature, imbued with a previously unseen wildness. site as it is opened to the public.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 23 × 30 cm, hb, Japanese/English ISBN 9784887063730 136 p, ills colour & bw, 23 × 27 cm, pb, French/English ISBN 9782919230099
Euro 54,40 Euro 34,40
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Tsuyoshi Tane: Archaeology of the Future* La Cellule Le Corbusier: L’Unité d’habitation de Marseille
Toto, Tokyo 2018 Éditions Imbernon, Marseille 2015
The first anthology of work by Tsuyoshi Tane, an architect based The most famous example of the modernist residential housing
in both Paris and Japan, covers no less than seventeen of his major design principle developed by Le Corbusier is located in Marseille
works. Among these is the Estonian National Museum – his debut and was built between 1947 and 1952. In 2006 Jean-Marc Drut
international project with Dorell Ghotmeh Tane (DGT) co-founders began to meticulously restore an apartment he had purchased in the
Lina Ghotmeh and Dan Dorell – a stunning wedge of glass built on building to its original state, a project which aroused interest among
a former Soviet airbase near Tartu. The book also includes his most fans of Le Corbusier’s work. The idea then emerged to deepen the
recent project in Tokyo, the Todoroki House in Valley. Each work is graphic analysis of the apartment’s material reality and details, and
analysed in three chapters: concepts, images, and drawings. to publish the results of this research.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 23 × 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English 104 p, ills colour & bw, 23 × 27 cm, pb, French/English
ISBN 9784887063761 ISBN 9782919230082
Euro 49,75 Euro 34,40
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Ryūji Fujimura – The Form of Knowledge Frank Lloyd Wright Between USA and Italy
Toto, Tokyo 2018 Corraini Edizioni, Mantova 2018
Ryūji Fujimura approaches his field as creative relationships Curated by Jennifer Gray, the exhibition ‘Frank Lloyd Wright
between knowledge and form, thereby examining and exploring all Between USA and Italy’ is devoted to the drawings and designs of
aspects of design as the prototype of architectural thinking. This the famous American architect. Wright first visited Italy in 1910;
volume features his recent architectural designs and essays, tracing there he would elaborate the ideals of a democratic architecture,
his attempts to redefine architecture as a dynamic intellectual tool closely connected to nature, that inspired his work and that of many
for the realisation of more tolerant societies that appreciate diver- Italian architects. This exhibition catalogue details the relationship
sity. It is set against the background of today’s social context, where between Wright and Italy, from prairie houses and skyscrapers to
people fluctuate between democracy and populism, while algorithms public projects.
and artificial intelligence handle an ever-increasing volume of 144 p, ills colour & bw, 15 × 20 cm, pb, Italian/English
information. ISBN 9784887063747 ISBN 9788875707170
456 p, ills colour & bw, 13 × 19 cm, pb, Japanese/English Euro 38,30 Euro 24,20
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MASSX: Neil Denari Architects 2000–2017 Eduardo Souto de Moura Architectural Guide
AADCU, Beijing 2018 A+A Books, Lisbon 2018
This monograph of Neil M. Denari Architects can be viewed as a This small yet densely packed guide revisits and reconsiders more
point of departure for examining architecture’s role in the con- than 70 built works by Eduardo Souto de Moura, selected by the
temporary world. It contains an accumulation of material that has architect himself. Intended as a reference book, it also shows how
evolved over time, and offers both a rich history of projects and his architecture changes from north to south in Portugal. Each
an in-depth examination of the firm’s practice. The book arranges project is given with objective data as a complement to the reader’s
selected projects, buildings, concepts, references, arguments, and journey, such as the circumstances of the commission, stages of the
sensibilities chronologically, from the beginning of the century until design process, simultaneous projects, construction contingencies,
the present, and its content must be understood as a mix of media and even subsequent changes to the project.
types that are split between the real and the imaginary. 208 p, ills colour & bw, 14 × 19 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
778 p, ills colour & bw, 22 × 27 cm, hb, English ISBN 9780692917947 ISBN 9789899846265
Euro 119,95 Euro 34,50
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Lautner A-Z. Odyssey along 144 Built Works* Architecture Monogram 2: Anouk Vogel, Soliloquy*
ArtEZ Press, Arnhem 2018 Ruby Press, Berlin 2018
Through no fault of his own, John Lautner’s contributions to modern ‘Architecture Monogram’ is a series on emerging architects, land-
architecture have been widely recognised only in the last ten or fif- scape designers, photographers, and writers from Belgium and the
teen years. Even so, he remains an enigma for some critics. We still Netherlands in which the designers reveal the personal obsessions
have more to learn and understand about how he expanded archi- and motivations that stimulate their design process. In this second
tecture’s boundaries. The result of years of research, this book is an issue of the series, Swiss-Dutch landscape architect Anouk Vogel
invaluable resource for our understanding of Lautner. It contains reflects upon ten years of independent practice in the form of short
a description of the research and visits to all of his built residential conversations with her alter ego that reveal the way in which she
works, including profiles and photographs of these houses. explores the margins of the discipline.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 24 cm, pb, English 136 p, ills colour & bw, 14 × 20 cm, pb, English
ISBN 9789491444418 ISBN 9783944074269
Euro 39,90 Euro 25,80
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Dominique Perrault: Portrait of a Project 1988–1998 Hugh Strange – Footnotes, Backgrounds, Sheds
HYX Editions, Orleans 2018 Perimeter Editions, Melbourne 2018
This weighty volume presents the spectrum of ideas, concepts, and It is the seemingly peripheral details and gestures that anchor
methods that architect Dominique Perrault imagined to design this collection of images. Like the building they document, these
and build a 21st-century library of an “entirely new” kind: the photographs of the Drawing Matter Archive at the Shatwell Farm
Bibliothèque nationale de France. The essential questions of the in Somerset are reflections of the project’s backgrounds, contextual
memory of history, culture, and the development of our spheres of minutiae, and footnotes. Taking the form of a three-way conversa-
knowledge were raised by the project at a moment when forms of tion between Hugh Strange (the archive’s architect), photographer
knowledge appropriation and dissemination beyond the book were Max Creasy, and academic Elizabeth Hatz, this book offers a subtly
emerging in the form of the digital universe. The monograph gath- poetic and expansive examination of the building, the collection it
ers documents on the building’s genesis and development process. houses, and its place in the surrounding farm.
456 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 30 cm, hb, English ISBN 9782373820003 72 p, ills colour, 24 × 29 cm, pb, English ISBN 9780648262855
Euro 48,40 Euro 30,00
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Giò Ponti and Milan: A Guide to the Works 1920–1970* a.mag 13: BAST | GENS
Quodlibet, Rome 2018 a.mag Editorial, Porto 2018
This book presents a collection of the works of architecture designed Established in Toulouse in 2013, Bureau Architectures Sans Titre
by Giò Ponti in Milan between 1925 and 1971, numbering around (BAST) operates through research-led work with an “anonymous
40 buildings. Apart from a few works that have undergone radi- approach”. Despite this deliberate lack of attribution, every BAST
cal alterations, these houses, churches, and offices have been left project has a distinct character. The GENS group, founded in 2009
as they were, a delightful heritage for the Milanese citizens who and currently with offices in Nancy and Paris, defines itself as seek-
have been living and working in them, or simply admiring them ing to exploit what it calls the “economy of the project”. These two
for almost a century. The book contains a map of Milan with all of offices represent the new generation, and their production reflects
Ponti’s buildings. how collective work is valued.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 14 × 19 cm, pb, English 178 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/French/English
ISBN 9788822901729 ISBN 9789895409808
Euro 23,65 Euro 37,50
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Sincere by Design: The Architecture of Sou Fujimoto a.mag 14: Adjaye Associates*
Toto, Tokyo 2018 a.mag Editorial, Porto 2018
This diminutive but insightful book features one of Japan’s most Through a selection of 21 projects that includes pavilions with dif-
sought-after architects, Sou Fujimoto. It comprises an interview ferent uses, realities, programmes, and materials, this instalment
with the architect by Noriko Takiguchi in which subjects range gives special insight into the work of Adjaye Associates, a global
from specific projects, dealing with clients, and how current trends practice founded by Sir David Adjaye in 2000, with offices in London
in architecture relate to his work, to the pros and cons of working and New York. Renowned for an eclectic material and colour palette
alone versus being open to ideas from others and collaboration. The and a capacity to offer a rich civic experience, the buildings the firm
in-depth conversation also covers how, despite starting out with a produces differ in form and style, yet are unified by their ability to
strictly small aesthetic, commissions from around the world have generate new typologies and reference a wide cultural discourse.
spurred him to adapt a larger scale. 224 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/French/English
96 p, ills bw, 11 × 15 cm, pb, English ISBN 9784887063709 ISBN 9789895409815
Euro 10,55 Euro 42,90
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Zevi’s Architects: History and Counter-History of Italian a+u Special Issue: Architectural Spaces with Washi II
Architecture 1944–2000 – Eriko Horiki
Quodlibet, Rome 2018 Shinkenchiku-Sha, Tokyo 2018
The catalogue for an exhibition at MAXXI, this book is an homage Part of the fascination of washi (traditional Japanese paper) is
to Bruno Zevi, the notable architect, historian, lecturer, critic, politi- that its natural shading creates a changing visual effect known as
cian, and designer. Moreover, it is a reflection on the contemporary ‘utsuroi’. Designer Eriko Horiki brings the emotions and feelings
Italian architectures that Zevi supported and promoted during that have been nurtured in traditional Japanese architecture alive in
his 50-year career through his extensive writing and criticism. contemporary architectural spaces – whether commercial, renova-
Featuring 35 architects, the book’s drawings, models, and other tion, domestic, or entrances – through her innovative application and
visual materials clarify the key role Zevi played in the post-war use of washi in interior spaces.
architectural debate in Italy, highlighting the importance of the 152 p, ills colour & bw, 22 × 22 cm, pb, Japanese/English
relationship between architecture and politics.
202 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 24 cm, pb, English ISBN 9788822902085 ISBN 9784900212244
Euro 25,80 Euro 35,15
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Architectural Ethnography Arcipelago Italia: Projects for the future of the country’s
Toto, Tokyo 2018 interior territories
Quodlibet, Rome 2018
Modernisation in the 20th century has deeply transformed Japanese ‘Arcipelago Italia’ is the theme of the Italian Pavilion at the 2018
society. This transformation has been increasingly questioned in Venice Biennale of Architecture. It is an idea that shifts architec-
recent years, and finds expression in architectural projects. The ture’s attention away from the major cities and toward the physi-
catalogue for the Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Architecture cal space of Italy, where towns and communities are historically
Biennale, curated by Momoyo Kaijima, one of the founders of Atelier expressed in a different relationship between urban dimension
Bow-Wow, this volume examines the role of architectural draw- and territory, in their cultural vivacity and the way people manage
ings in this reappraisal, as they form the basis on which a common spaces. This catalogue is a manifesto, the goal of which is to indicate
approach in the design of individualised yet shared environments in possible paths to be undertaken, aimed at bestowing value and
today’s globalised society can be formulated. importance on architecture.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English ISBN 9784887063716 288 p, ills colour & bw, 21 × 31 cm, pb, Italian/English ISBN 9788822901774
Euro 20,00 Euro 37,65
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Infinite Places: Constructing Buildings or Places? Somewhere Other: John Wardle Architects
Éditions B42, Paris 2018 URO Publications, Melbourne 2018
The French Pavilion at the 2018 Architecture Biennale in Venice Established in Melbourne in 1986, John Wardle Architects has
addresses the shift towards seeking out alternative places, explor- grown from designing small dwellings to working on university
ing and paving the way to new uses, and extending the premise of buildings, museums, and commercial projects. The office is known
third places. “Infinite” because they are open to possibilities, pos- for its material craft, lightness of touch, spatio-temporal playful-
sess potential, and are unfinished. This book sheds light not only on ness, and social engagement. This book details its practice through
the processes, the different ways they are managed and run, and the several notable works, including the Melbourne Conservatorium
commitment of the participants, but also on the underlying philo- of Music and the Learning and Teaching Building at Monash
sophical and political issues relating to their emergence. University, among others. Reflections on the firm’s proposal for the
356 p, ills colour & bw, 16 × 22 cm, pb, French/English 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice offer a common
ISBN 9782490077014 thread. ISBN 9780994396631
Euro 30,10 152 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 24 cm, pb, English Euro 24,00
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Case Design is a Mumbai-based architecture and design office Reflecting daily life in Slovenia, ‘Living With Water’ is the catalogue
working on diverse projects, such as the Avasara Academy. Located for the Slovenian Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture
above a small village in western India, this residential school for Exhibition. From rivers, glacial lakes, and waterfalls, to bogs, karst,
young women is a work in process. With attention to both physical disappearing lakes, and thermal springs, water is one of the most
and social environments, the school is evolving through a process potent and decisive factors determining both the country’s land-
focused on inclusion and engagement. A diverse group of build- scapes and its supply of drinking water. A multidisciplinary team of
ers, designers, farmers, craftsmen, and artists has been involved thirteen architects, landscape architects, urban planners, research-
in making the school, showing the potential and possibilities of an ers, and strategists rethink water management and the protection
architectural practice based on collaboration and empathy. of water resources.
118 p, ills colour, 21 × 30 cm, pb, English ISBN 9782970113218 304 p, ills colour & bw, 20 × 27 cm, hb, English ISBN 9789616669498
Euro 37,40 Euro 30,10
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AV Monographs 203/204: Spain Yearbook 2018 C3 Special: Transcendental Architecture
Avisa, Madrid 2018 C3 Publishing, Seoul 2018
As in every year since 1993, the yearbook of ‘AV Monographs’ Inherent in the brief for a place of worship is the requirement to
gathers the best buildings completed in Spain over the past twelve create a powerful, transcendental experience for the user, a place of
months, taking stock of its characteristic high quality despite the refuge and peace. This ephemeral demand in turn requires unusual
crisis that still affects the field. The year that saw the Pritzker go to sensibility and creative genius of the architect, yet also makes the
the Catalan studio RCR Arquitectes, and the establishment of the architect’s task particularly intriguing. This special issue analyses
Norman Foster Foundation in Madrid, also witnessed important the elements architects have at their disposal to conceive tran-
inaugurations like that of the Botín Centre in Santander by Renzo scendental places and sanctuaries conducive to contemplation and
Piano, the Convention Centre in Palma by Francisco Mangado, and prayer.
the new stadium of Atlético de Madrid by Cruz y Ortiz. 232 p, ills colour & bw, 23 × 30 cm, pb, Korean/English
256 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English ISBN 9788409009145 ISSN 20925190
Euro 56,85 Euro 31,00
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It has been one hundred years since the birth of Jørn Utzon Architecture by its nature is destined to take physical advantage
(1918–2008), the visionary Dane who was only 38 years old when over space, meaning its objects remain. Temporal stratifications
he won the competition to build the Sydney Opera House. ‘AV admit the memory of the past as a starting point for developing this
Monographs’ marks the occasion covering his legacy, featuring space. It is a matter of defining the relationship between new and
six canonical works along with six articles by international crit- old through an operation of addition and historical stratification.
ics. Richard Weston ponders the sources of inspiration in Utzon’s By way of minimal and focused interventions, subtle additions and
creative process, Marja-Riitta Norri contributes a Nordic approach modifications, the featured projects – such as Aalto University Main
to the courtyard houses, and Rafael Moneo, who worked with Utzon Building by ALA Architects, Len Lye Centre by Pattersons, and
in 1961, writes about his two Mallorca houses. more – demonstrate the care and mindfulness with which architects
118 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English ISBN 9788409009862 approach memory and history. ISSN 20925190
Euro 34,10 232 p, ills colour & bw, 23 × 30 cm, pb, Korean/English Euro 31,00
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LAN (Local Architecture Network), based in Paris, was founded With a well chosen selection of projects covering the related areas of
in 2002 by Benoît Jallon and Umberto Napolitano. Encompassing architecture, urban design and landscape architecture, C3 is a well
social and urban issues as well as debates on form and environmen- documented, high quality monthly magazine with an international
tal and economic factors, LAN’s work seeks going beyond the vital perspective.
cycle of users through the studied indetermination of the structures 190 p, ills colour & bw, 23 × 30 cm, pb, Korean/English
in their buildings, which are in this way able to adapt to possible
changes of function throughout the years. This line of research can C3 395: Culture for Resistance / Learning Cities Idea Code 18244
be found in the 20 projects included in this issue, almost all of them C3 396: Brand and Identity Idea Code 18404
built in France.
126 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English ISBN 9788409010912 ISSN 20925190
Euro 35,50 Euro 31,00
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Cabin Fever Make it Anew
Information Office, Vancouver 2018 The Architecture Observer, Amsterdam 2018
‘Cabin Fever’ traces the course of the cabin in North America Architecture builds upon history. Even the avant-gardist creed
– from the simple architecture of colonial settlements to contem- to “make it new” still assumes a past. It is impossible to imagine
porary interpretations – showing how this humble typology has novelty without an awareness of what existed before. This is even
been appropriated for its symbolic value and helped shape a larger more true for the reuse and appropriation of existing structures,
cultural identity. Acknowledging the cabin’s pervasive influence, the where designers take a stance relative to the past. In its transforma-
book offers a historical survey of the typology over the past three tion projects the office of diederendirrix architects retells stories of
centuries. Its three parts (Shelter, Utopia, Porn) map the formal buildings and sites – by paraphrasing part of the story, by recasting
evolution of the cabin typology within a changing set of social and central actors, by making architecture speak in other words. In so
cultural desires. doing, they make it anew.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 18 × 24 cm, hb, English ISBN 9781988860008 160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 24 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789492058065
Euro 41,00 Euro 25,00
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A huge number of residential buildings in Europe were built Our cities consist of buildings that are introverted and not mixed
between 1945 and 1975, not only renewing but also significantly with urban life. They are closed. How can they be opened? How can
expanding housing stock in this short period. In eliminating the we introduce pockets for encounters, for circulation flows, for green
post-war housing shortage, the state and institutions in the public areas, for cooling systems...? What logics can be implemented in
sector had a unique opportunity to realise political ideals. How could towers to allow for openness? Every hypothesis leads to a series of
a fundamental modernisation of living and its architectural imple- interventions. We can only go so far before the tower collapses or
mentation succeed against this background? This study is based becomes unaffordable. Together, these series form an army of tow-
on 70 examples from seven cities: Athens, Brussels, Cologne, Lyon, ers that contributes to a more porous city.
Oslo, Porto, and Zagreb. 300 p, ills colour & bw, 15 × 21 cm, pb, Dutch/English
504 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 30 cm, pb, English ISBN 9783038630388 ISBN 9789462084599
Euro 80,65 Euro 29,95
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Everyday Wonders – Luigi Caccia Dominioni and Milano Architectural Element Vol. 1–3
Corraini Edizioni, Mantova 2018 Damdi, Seoul 2018
The exhibition installation designed by Cino Zucchi Architects for Architecture is a mixture of individual elements. Some have been
the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice becomes around for thousands of years, while others are much more recent,
the occasion for a series of thematic readings on the works of the emerging from today’s cutting-edge technologies. To explore the
Milanese architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni. The architect’s multi- elements of architecture in depth, Damdi offers a sweeping, three-
functional building complex in Corso Italia, a “silent masterpiece” part survey of contemporary case studies from around the world.
which impacted contemporary architectural thinking, unfurls a 480 p, ills colour, 24 × 29 cm, hb, Korean/English
complex spatial narration from the scale of the city to that of mate-
rial and detail. The book examines this reality through documents Entrance Vol. 1 ISBN 9788968010743
from the LCD archive, photography, and 3D reconstructions. Stairs Vol. 2 ISBN 9788968010750
128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 24 cm, pb, Italian/English ISBN 9788875707248 Roof Vol. 3 ISBN 9788968010767 Euro 94,60 each Volume
Euro 26,90
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City Made* Atlas of the Copenhagens
nai010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2018 Ruby Press, Berlin 2018
This book documents realisations of urban factory facilities in This publication explores the urban territories of Copenhagen, often
Flanders designed by the up-and-coming architecture studio identified as the world’s most sustainable and liveable city. Such
TRANS. Three recently built factories showcase the potential of claims position it as an opportune site to engage in a wider debate on
bringing manufacturing back into the city. Architecture critic and contemporary urban ideals, prompting questions about the nature of
educator Nina Rappaport (Yale University) and architect Job Floris sustainability and liveability. Yet the increasing authority attributed
(Monadnock) contextualise these projects designed by Ghent-based to city-ranking metrics prompts a second line of inquiry. How are
architects TRANS. the territorial and conceptual limits of a city drawn to define it as an
128 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 32 cm, pb, English object of measurement, and how does this impact our understanding
of something as complex and manifold as a city?
ISBN 9789462084582 480 p, ills colour & bw, 16 × 24 cm, pb, English ISBN 9783944074245
Euro 34,95 Euro 47,30
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‘Real Urbanism’ is a book for and by lovers of cities. Eleven authors This book examines the enclosed garden as an expression of the
(urban designers) wrote the stories of places in the world that can ‘genius loci’. How can this be made accessible in the contemporary
be considered examples of successful urban planning. This large metropolitan landscape? Included are analyses of the spatial, senso-
volume contains projects in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, New York, rial, and narrative craft patterns of metropolitan gardens ranging
Tokyo, São Paulo, Venice, Barcelona, London, Edinburgh, and Saint from traditional Japanese masterpieces to contemporary European
Petersburg. Four young urban designers made the drawings for landscape architecture. The metropolitan garden provides an alter-
each chapter, while new photography by Theo Baart and graphic native way to access the landscape horizon, references to nature,
design by Irma Boom lead to a unique presentation in book form. and connections to the underlying landscape, providing a new per-
304 p, ills colour, 23 × 34 cm, pb, English spective on two quintessential themes: nature and place.
ISBN 9789461400628 432 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 24 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789461400611
Euro 49,50 Euro 45,00
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Thirty years after the Japanese edition by Fumihiko Maki and his In 1974, Reinjan Mulder placed a coarsely-woven grid on top of a
team, an English-language version of this book is finally available. map of the Netherlands and set off to photograph the 52 resulting
The original was based on a commissioned study on “The Desirable intersections. His aim was to capture the objective reality of the
Living Environment” and examined Japanese urban spaces in the country, uncoloured by traditions, accessibility, and ideals of beauty.
context of Tokyo’s rapid change and the city’s distinctive aesthetic The project was exhibited at the Rijks-museum in Amsterdam 42
consciousness. In particular, the concern for surface layers, micro- years later, and was re-photographed by Cleo Wächter. Working
topographies, and small spaces in the metropolis received special with unparalleled precision, she succeeded in contributing her own
focus. With the ever-growing and new global metropolises emerging artistic perspective. This book combines the two photo series.
today, fundamentally different attitudes toward public domains are 224 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 28 cm, pb, Dutch/English
revealed. ISBN 9784306046610 ISBN 9789462084643
176 p, ills bw, 15 × 21 cm, pb, English Euro 30,35 Euro 34,95
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Architecture Architecture
Kees Christiaanse – Textbook Architecture in the Netherlands Yearbook 2017–2018
nai010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2018 nai010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2018
Kees Christiaanse has been one of the most influential forces in For over 30 years, ‘Architecture in the Netherlands’ has provided
urban design over the last half-century. ‘Textbook’ spans 30 years an indispensable overview of Dutch architecture for everyone with a
of this urban designer and architect’s thinking about cities. He professional or more general interest in the subject. The yearbook is
has been responsible for large urban projects, including Hamburg the international showcase for Dutch architecture. The three editors
HafenCity, Rotterdam’s waterfront revitalisation, and London’s select special projects that have been completed in the preceding
Olympic Legacy Plan. The collected texts range from charting the year and describe the most important developments that influence
influence of the bicycle on his ideas about future mobility to the Dutch architecture, paying particular attention to new types of
examination of dominant concepts and projects in the contemporary housing, the circular economy, and the public role of architecture in
built environment. times of privatisation.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 11 × 18 cm, pb, Dutch/English ISBN 9789462084421 176 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 32 cm, pb, Dutch/English ISBN 9789462084308
Euro 19,95 Euro 39,95
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Since the late 20th century, political regulations, internationalisa- Space is as vital a resource as air and water. Yet architects seldom
tion, and rapid digitalisation are only a few factors that have signifi- address the question of land ownership. Moreover, there is no
cantly transformed the environments within which European insti- alternative but to politicise land, which means first developing a
tutions of architectural education operate. In adapting and adhering political economy of the city and showing that the current situation
to such changes, schools of architecture strive to develop innovative, is anything but natural. This issue of ‘ARCH+’ aims to help change
didactic, programmatic, or spatial models that are distinguishable. how we view urban land and encourage land law reform, to return
This book highlights tendencies in architectural education beyond land governance to the local level.
academia through eighteen case studies. 248 p, ills colour & bw, 23 × 30 cm, pb, English
142 p, ills bw, 20 × 29 cm, pb, English
ISBN 9783038630302 ISBN 9783931435462
Euro 29,15 Euro 22,10
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Handbook of Methods for Architecture and Urban Design Mirroring Effects: Tales of a Territory*
Triest Verlag, Munich 2018 Ruby Press, Berlin 2018
A follow-up to the original German edition published in 2013, this ‘Mirroring Effects’ analyses political and economic practices con-
English edition offers a new foreword by Oya Atalay Franck, who cerning environment-making in the contemporary world. Written
writes, “Perhaps it is precisely the deceitful nature of architectural as real-life tales, the presented case studies explore the relationship
problems that make the profession so interesting, that lets archi- between urbanisation processes and capitalism. They chart the
tects find new answers to the seemingly same questions time and ongoing restructuration of built and lived spaces in diverse regions
again.” This guide permits two levels of reading. Firstly, it offers of the Global North and Global South, tracing the course of capital-
a selective interrogation of specific methods in real-world applica- led development in settings such as Addis Ababa, Mumbai, Cairo,
tions. Secondly, it is an examination of the methods themselves. São Paulo, Berlin, Paris, and Shanghai. The stories told, if casu-
176 p, ills colour & bw, 13 × 19 cm, pb, English ally overheard, could just as easily be misconstrued as the stuff of
ISBN 9783038630319 incredible fables. ISBN 9783944074290
Euro 25,10 960 p, ills colour & bw, 15 × 22 cm, hb, English Euro 51,60
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a+u Magazine Promontorio: Architecture of Leisure
Shinkenchiku-Sha, Tokyo 2018 A+A Books, Lisbon 2018
176 p, ills colour & bw, 22 × 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English Promontorio, founded in Lisbon in 1990 as an experimental practice,
has since grown into a multidisciplinary team of planners, landscape
a+u 571: San Francisco Urban Transformations Idea Code 18172 architects, and interior and graphic designers. ‘Architecture of
a+u 572: Adolf Loos Residences Idea Code 18212 Leisure’ summons the idea of holidays, travelling, and well-being –
a+u 573: Adolf Loos From Interior to Urban City Idea Code 18300 places that are designed to indulge our senses, bringing us pleasure
a+u 574: Aires Mateus Idea Code 18387 and comfort. This monograph features projects the office has devel-
a+u 575: selgascano Idea Code 18430 oped over the past decade in hospitality and interior design, which
a+u 576: Sustainability in Australia Idea Code 18458 ranges from five-star hotels and conference centres, to apartments,
restaurants, and furniture.
ISSN 03899160 408 p, ills colour & bw, 21 × 28 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789899846272
Euro 27,55 Euro 44,95
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Architecture Art
Volume 53: Civic Space Batia Suter – Radical Grammar
Archis, Amsterdam 2018 ROMA Publications, Amsterdam 2018
If public space is in retreat, under pressure from decades of neo- The imagery in Batia Suter’s ‘Radical Grammar’ revolves around
liberal policies, how is shared space evolving? Civic space becomes radial shapes and concepts. The book uses two separate layers
activated according to time, in a synaptic negotiation between a va- of black ink, allowing Suter to create double images and merge
riety of actors that include people, administrations, and technology. patterns and screens. Departing from pages scanned from her col-
In this instalment a variety of authors investigate these physical and lection of second-hand books, she freely manipulates and reorders
virtual spaces, as well as the kinds of agency used to negotiate them, them within the space of this volume, which can be seen as a con-
through the lenses of institutions and the public. densed exhibition on paper. It is a journey along visual phenomena
40 p, ills colour & bw, 20 × 27 cm, pb, English that reconnects us with the endless curiosity and patience of our
younger selves leafing through an encyclopaedia, sensitive to its
ISBN 9789077966631 visual correspondences. ISBN 9789492811233
Euro 19,50 296 p, ills colour & bw, 23 × 30 cm, pb, French/English Euro 38,00
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Log 43* Chikako Watanabe – Netting Air from the Low Land
Anyone Corporation, New York 2018 Hehe, Tokyo 2018
A special section guest edited by architectural designer and educa- Chikako Watanabe attended art school in Kyoto and later also in
tor Cameron Wu responds to the many geometries seen in contem- Amsterdam, where she currently lives and works. The consistent
porary forms. How do we reanimate geometry as a design protag- theme of her art is local communication. The purpose of her projects
onist rather than a mere design enabler or incidental outcome? The is to stimulate social interaction and create new communication
responses from architects include Peter Carl’s interest in rhythm, opportunities for people within modern society. Small questions and
Iman Fayyad’s perspectival anomalies, Patrik Schumacher’s advo- curiosity for daily life are her primary inspiration. She draws paral-
cation of tectonism, George L. Legendre’s form haiku, and Andrew lels between isolated communities in the Netherlands and Japan,
Witt’s concept of “grayboxing”. compares handmade fishing nets in Asia, and conceives a folly for
128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 24 cm, pb, English canines on an old Dutch estate.
ISBN 9780999237311 144 p, ills colour, 17 × 24 cm, hb, Japanese/English ISBN 9784908062216
Euro 15,05 Euro 38,00
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The importance of the client in shaping our built environment, This book accompanies an exhibition of work by the inventive
whether it comes to buildings, neighbourhoods, or entire cities, is American artist Lee Lozano in Edinburgh. A major figure in the
not sufficiently included in urban and architectural discourse, and New York art scene of the 1960s and early ’70s, Lozano took a radi-
thus largely forgotten, underestimated, and neglected. This issue cal approach to art and life. Her systematic refusal to engage with
is dedicated to investigating the topic in depth, to discover clients’ the institutions and support structures of the art world led to her
values, objectives, fears, and motivations, and the consequences of work being neglected and gradually less well known, but recently
all of this for cities and buildings. this has begun to change. By bringing together paintings, drawings,
132 p, ills colour & bw, 20 × 27 cm, pb, English language pieces, and notes on making paintings that have only just
come to light, the book furthers the reassessment of her oeuvre.
ISSN 18603211 160 p, ills colour & bw, 16 × 19 cm, pb, English ISBN 9781908612502
Euro 15,00 Euro 19,20
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Diego Tonus – The Presidents’ Hammers Ai Weiwei – Fan-Tan
ROMA Publications, Amsterdam 2018 Manuella Editions, Paris 2018
Within his artistic practice, Diego Tonus focuses on reproduction ‘Fan-Tan’ is the catalogue of Ai Weiwei’s exhibition at the Mucem in
as a tool of investigation to question control systems and power Marseille, which gathers ready-mades from the artist’s New York
structures. This book deals with issues arising from the silence of period and new works. In 1914 the Chinese Labour Corps offered
the original gavels used by the heads of commissions of emancipa- the Allies a tank, named “Fan-Tan”, which arrived in Europe at
tory and revolutionary groups. He investigated their controversial Marseille. Ai Weiwei’s father, the Chinese poet Ai Qing, also arrived
nature as objects belonging to socio-democratic groups, which in at the city’s harbour in 1929. Through his own works and historical
turn led to a detailed remaking of these peculiar objects through documents from the Mucem collections, Ai Weiwei questions both
drawing, carving, and varnishing, to exhibit them for the first time the historical relationships between China and Europe and his own
outside the archive. autobiographical connections with the city of Marseille.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 24 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789492811271 136 p, ills colour, 20 × 28 cm, hb, French/English ISBN 9782917217993
Euro 30,00 Euro 34,00
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Looking at the play between memory and forgetfulness, ‘Mike Sae Honda is an Amsterdam-based jeweller who collects plastic
Kelley: Fortress of Solitude’ brings together a range of key works rubbish on the street and melts it down into a unique artificial rock.
from across the artist’s career. Whether using found stuffed animals She observes the qualities of each rock and then cuts and polishes
as emotional effigies of long lost traumatic memories or evoking them to create plastic gemstones. The inspiration for the project was
the psychic existential homelessness of Superman in the form of sparked by a new kind of rock discovered in Hawaii, which contains
his ‘Kandor’ series, Kelley explores the dark underbelly of post- plastic fragments. It is said that the rock cannot erode, but will
war American culture. This publication accompanies the exhibition remain in the ground until perhaps future generations discover it.
which took place at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece. Honda’s imagination took this a step further, leading her to create
96 p, ills colour, 17 × 22 cm, pb, English rocks that contain memories of today.
ISBN 9789492811196 156 p, ills colour, 11 × 15 cm, pb, Japanese/English ISBN 9784907562137
Euro 17,50 Euro 32,90
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In creating her large-format paintings, British artist Rose Wylie For Chihiro Mori, the world is an endlessly chaotic place filled with
takes inspiration from a variety of sources: history, the everyday, wonder and contradiction. With her critical view of mainstream
comics, mass media, anecdotes, cinema, and sports. Although society, the artist turns inward, exploring dreamlike visions fraught
she has been painting for decades, her work only began to attract with self-doubt and scepticism toward institutions of power, author-
widespread recognition in 2010. She paints in a manner that seems ity, and indoctrination. Taking fragments of urban life as its build-
deliberately awkward and remarkably spontaneous, which leads ing blocks, her work incorporates signs and symbols from our daily
many to think that she is younger. This catalogue, published on lives and the darker visions from our sleepless nights. Her paint-
the occasion of her first exhibition in Spain, presents a selection of ings, drawings, and sculptures enlist surrealist techniques to blur
nearly 30 works. the line between nightmare and reality.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 25 × 28 cm, hb, Spanish/English ISBN 9788494813221 108 p, ills colour, 19 × 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English ISBN 9784907562113
Euro 51,70 Euro 26,80
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Ria Pacquée – Slammm, Ramble, Perform Nigel Peake – SIDES
Occasional Papers, London 2018 Nigel Peake, London 2018
‘Slammm, Ramble, Perform’ is Ria Pacquée’s first monograph, shed- ‘SIDES’ showcases a selection of works by Nigel Peake from the last
ding light on her extensive, tireless, and relevant oeuvre. Pacquée few years gathered around the theme of “landscape”. Fields viewed
herself dug deep into the archives, so the book includes many from a train, airport tarmacs, Japanese gardens, trees, and hori-
previously unknown photographs and documents, alongside her own zons all appear in this variety of drawings, paintings, and painted
short, poetic statements. The main chapters focus on the perfor- wooden objects.
mances (1974–2017), the stories of ‘Madame and It’ (1982–1995) and 230 p, ills colour, 12 × 18 cm, pb, English
the ‘ongoing archives’ series.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 22 × 28 cm, pb, English
This book is published retrospectively as part of the exhibition Villa Savoye, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, is
‘Rita McBride: Explorer’ at Wiels in Brussels, which included her presented here in a selection of drawings by Nigel Peake that were
major new installation ‘Guide Rails’. While McBride is undoubt- inspired by his visit there in the summer of 2017. His visualisations
edly a sculptor, her work has never been limited to one discipline. evoke a place where the trees creaked as if doors, the shadows cast
Her artistic practice explores structures within publicness, social half an angle onto the columns, the pillar either made a void or
interaction, and society. The book also chronicles the simultaneous started one, and old Japanese ladies murmured as they looked on.
activity of ‘Something Stronger Than Me*’, a project that draws 38 p, ills colour, 17 × 23 cm, pb, English
upon a central aspect of her work: teaching and conversations with
students.
48 p, ills colour & bw, 22 × 15 cm, hb, English ISBN 9780995473027 ISBN 9780957213791
Euro 12,00 Euro 20,45
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It has been said that Stockholm-based visual artist Carin Ellberg The first comprehensive survey of Gemma Smith’s artistic practice
transgresses many of the boundaries that pertain to our traditional features work spanning her career, such as the large-scale paint-
attitude to art. Intimate corporeality, everyday life, and perishable ings and translucent acrylic sculptures for which she is best known.
and trivial things all find a place in her oeuvre. This substantial Combining bright, bold colours in her abstract paintings and the
artist’s monograph attests to her versatileness when it comes to “boulders”, as she calls her faceted three-dimensional objects, she
materials and the manner of expression in her intrinsically feminist plays with hard edges, soft curves, and amorphous forms in a mes-
production. Sensual forms are used to interpret the social lifeworld merising way, reflecting her keen sense of spatial relationships. The
and the intimate sphere alike, equating them to internal movements book is an immersive experience that provides detailed insight into
in the artist’s own self. Smith’s various works.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 21 × 28 cm, pb, Swedish/English ISBN 9789188031600 176 p, ills colour, 22 × 27 cm, hb, English ISBN 9780987526885
Euro 47,30 Euro 67,60
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Leo Copers – Dreams are Made of This Stijn Cole – entre terre et mer
Ludion, Antwerp 2018 Stijn Cole, Seloignes 2018
This monograph on the Belgian artist Leo Copers comprises a sur- Stijn Cole uses contemporary techniques to investigate recur-
vey of 50 years of artistic practice (1968–2018). It shows how Copers rent classical themes. Ostensibly a landscape artist, he expresses
has continually sought ways to connect seemingly incompatible himself exclusively in images of and derived from landscapes. This
elements, such as gas and fire, or water and electricity. This tension self-imposed limitation does not impact the coherence of his body
has been an essential element of his work up to the present day. The of work, nor the versatility of his output across different media:
book is arranged in themed sections – early works, gold, flowers, video, sculpture, installation, painting, graphic work, and mixed
fairy tales, site-specific, weapons – in an attempt to bring structure media. This publication documents several of Cole’s artistic projects,
to an eclectic and highly diverse oeuvre. such as ‘Colorscapes’, ‘Blue Prints’, and ’12 stops to Santiago’, and
352 p, ills colour & bw, 21 × 26 cm, hb, Dutch/English includes an interview with the artist.
ISBN 9789491819926 250 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 31 cm, pb, Dutch/English ISBN 9789090309491
Euro 39,90 Euro 30,00
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This ninth volume in Irene Kopelman’s ‘Notes on Representation’ Born in Kobe, artist Masanao Hirayama creates works that are
series is dedicated to Dr Marcel Wernand, a physical oceanographer disarmingly simple, with childlike lines and abstractly sketched
whose research deals with the Forel-Ule scale, a handheld index forms. “Mountain Quiz” comprises a series of untitled drawings of
developed in the 19th century to estimate the colour of natural bod- notable mountains. The only clue he gives as to their identity is the
ies of water such as lakes and seas. The book itself functions like elevation. From famous peaks like Everest, Kilimanjaro, Fuji, and
the Forel-Ule scale, reproduced as printed matter in solid, opaque the Matterhorn, to volcanoes such as Mauna Kea, Mount St. Helens,
colours. Kopelman, who is fascinated by natural processes and Vesuvius, and Krakatau, and a long list of lesser-known mountains,
whose work explores the relationship between art and science, also Hirayama diligently draws the most recognisable features of each
presents fragments of Wernand’s writings. landmark.
68 p, ills colour, 21 × 28 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789492811332 64 p, ills colour & bw, 25 × 19 cm, pb, English ISBN 9783906213224
Euro 22,00 Euro 15,00
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Lily van der Stokker – Friendly Good* Hans Gremmen – Lookout Point, The Grand Canyon of the
ROMA Publications, Amsterdam 2018 Yellowstone*
FW: Books, Amsterdam 2018
Lily van der Stokker is recognised for her exuberant and decorative Historically speaking, Moran Point in Yellowstone National Park is
murals. Her work is ostensibly about things like beauty, friendship, one of the earliest locations to be recognised as a scenic viewpoint.
and kindness, or about everyday activities such as tidying up or vis- It is named after the American painter Thomas Moran, whose mas-
iting the doctor – subjects seldom encountered in contemporary art. terpiece ‘The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone’ was inspired by this
Yet her conceptual approach gives these ordinary things an entirely stunning vista. Hans Gremmen explores what happens if different
new dimension. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Van perspectives and stories are used and rendered into a new reality.
der Stokker’s work at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, this book The centrepiece of this research is a series of oil paintings that were
presents the themes that have typified her work since the 1990s. created in recent years by Chinese painters who copied each other’s
224 p, ills colour, 24 × 31 cm, pb, Dutch/English work. In doing so, a new version of Moran’s painting emerged.
ISBN 9789492811349 16 p, ills colour, 22 × 28 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789490119683
Euro 40,00 Euro 10,00
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Rosie Heinrich – We Always Need Heroes The Serving Library Annual 2018/19 (Translation)*
FW: Books, Amsterdam 2018 ROMA Publications, Amsterdam 2018
We construct our reality by telling stories. When faced with some- The ‘Serving Library Annual’ comprises several “bulletins” organ-
thing that is inconsistent with our story, we most often find ways ised around a theme for an international audience of designers,
to reframe it, construe it to our convenience, or dismiss it. When researchers, writers, and artists. This year’s collection explores
the banking crisis hit Iceland in 2008, the country fell into a deep how translation is fast becoming a significant site for the negotiation
recession. Its citizens also found themselves in a “cultural crash”, as of identities and power dynamics in an increasingly Anglocentric
their collective reality turned out to be an illusion. Rosie Heinrich cultural scene. Departing from literature and the visual arts, the
constructs a meta-dialogue containing the building blocks of a story issue veers off into mathematics, music, architecture, religion, and
that she combines with a tangible cultural landscape: images of more. It is guest co-edited by Italian novelist Vincenzo Latronico
sand, clay, lava, rock, and pigment. and features contributions by Meehan Crist, Philip Ording, Katrina
136 p, ills colour & bw, 21 × 30 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789490119669 Dodson, Joseph Grigely, Minae Mizumura, and more. ISBN 9789492811318
Euro 30,00 208 p, ills colour, 21 × 30 cm, pb, English Euro 25,00
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In this publication Thomas Geiger gathers fellow artists who under- This publication is an unedited reprint of the catalogue originally
take “the brave and exciting work of exploring economic and distri- published by De Appel in 1980 as a follow-up to the international art
bution strategies outside of the art market”. He presents a selection manifestation ‘Works and Words’. The event sought to break with
of 20 artworks, ranging from drawings and sculptural objects to the one-way traffic of Western artists traveling to the East by invit-
digital, performative, and purely immaterial pieces. The diminutive ing artists from Eastern Bloc countries to Amsterdam. The invited
booklet features artists such as Donna Kukama, Nobutaka Aozaki, artists, theoreticians, film-makers, and art historians represented
Jonathan Monk, Antoanetta Marinov, Constant Dullaart, and more. a broad spectrum of practices, theoretical approaches, and develop-
48 p, ills colour, 8 × 11 cm, pb, English ments. The manifestation resulted in an active exchange of ideas,
new insights, and collaborations.
ISBN 9783945900154 92 p, ills bw, 21 × 30 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789492811295
Euro 5,40 Euro 20,00
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Dreaming Awake Olaf Nicolai: Foucault In [205 Words from Simeon Wade’s
Marres, Maastricht 2018 Manuscript Foucault in California]
ROMA Publications, Amsterdam 2018
‘Dreaming Awake’ is part of a series of exhibitions at Marres, Michel Foucault was invited to the University of California,
Maastricht, in which the building is used to show an all-encom- Berkeley, in 1975. During his visit, Simeon Wade persuaded him
passing single work of art. The project was developed by Brazilian to join him and his partner, Michael Stoneman, on a trip to Death
curator Luiza Mello and Marres director Valentijn Byvanck, in Valley, where Foucault took LSD for the first time. Wade wrote
collaboration with artists Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Daniel about this experience in his unpublished manuscript “Foucault in
Steegmann Mangrané, and Luiz Zerbini. The exhibition presents a California”. When Olaf Nicolai asked to use excerpts from the text
tropical rainforest peeled back in layers, opening up the connection for an artist’s publication, he was permitted a maximum of 250
between the sensory world and the dream – the experience of touch words. He selected 205 words from throughout the manuscript.
and the hypnotic pressure of an immersive environment. Although the broader contents can only be guessed at, this abbrevi-
180 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 23 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789082813418 ated text is itself a trip. No ISBN
Euro 20,00 124 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 22 cm, pb, English Euro 28,00
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Cross-dressers in Ukiyo-e Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train – The People’s View
Seigensha, Kyoto 2018 FW: Books, Amsterdam 2018
Cross-dressing has existed for a long time and across many cultures On June 8, 1968, amidst a year wracked by division and violence, the
in both the East and the West. In Japan, traditions of male perform- casket of assassinated Senator and presidential candidate Robert F.
ers in female costume and vice versa have been around since the Kennedy was transported on a funeral train from New York City to
Middle Ages. Kabuki theatre includes male actors who specialise Washington, DC. Hundreds of thousands of people united along the
in playing female roles, perfectly dressed as women. When it comes tracks in a spontaneous expression of grief. Visual artist Rein Jelle
to ukiyo-e, pictures in the ‘yatsushi-e’ and ‘mitate-e’ styles depict Terpstra diligently collected snapshots, film stills, and accounts of
historical persons and characters with genders switched. This book that muggy summer day, presenting a poignant photographic recon-
presents a broad overview of the Edo period’s culture and customs struction of the historic train journey in this beautifully designed
of crossing the gender boundary. and bound book.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 26 cm, pb, Japanese ISBN 9784861526534 152 p, ills colour & bw, 21 × 28 cm, hb, English ISBN 9789490119607
Euro 24,25 Euro 47,50
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London 1938 – Defending “Degenerate” Art Matt Eich – Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town*
Nimbus, Zurich 2018 Sturm & Drang, Zurich 2018
Against the background of acute political tensions, a great exhibi- With his long-term project ‘Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town’
tion of modern German art was shown in London in the summer Matt Eich documented life in Baptist Town, one of Greenwood,
of 1938: ‘Twentieth Century German Art’. It was not only the Mississippi’s oldest African American neighbourhoods, where the
first major retrospective of German modernist art in the English- legacies of racism continue to impact the people economically and
speaking world, it was also the first international response to the culturally. This volume is the culmination of seven years of pho-
Nazi campaign against so-called “degenerate art”. Published to tographic work and engagement with the residents of the Baptist
mark the eightieth anniversary of this important cultural event, this Town neighbourhood. Consisting of both documentary portraiture
catalogue tells the story of the exhibition. and landscape, Eich brings the long, twisted, and complicated his-
264 p, ills colour & bw, 23 × 29 cm, hb, German/English tory of Baptist Town into a contemporary context.
ISBN 9783038500490 136 p, ills colour, 25 × 25 cm, hb, English ISBN 9783906822228
Euro 32,00 Euro 53,80
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The Society Machine – The Industrial Age from the Perspective Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa – One Wall a Web
of Art ROMA Publications, Amsterdam 2018
Garret Publications, Helsinki 2018
‘The Society Machine’ problematises the picture of modern Sweden ‘One Wall a Web’ gathers together work from two photographic
as an unmitigated success story. This exhibition catalogue features series, ‘Our Present Invention’ and ‘All My Gone Life’, as well as two
artworks that explore the consequences of industrialisation, the cul- text collages made in and focusing on the United States. Through
tural revolution that provided the foundation for this Scandinavian a mixture of writing, portraiture, landscape, and archival images,
welfare state. It asks what kind of society is created by standardisa- the book describes encounters with fraught desire, uneven freedom,
tion and all-encompassing efficiency. Bringing together new essays irrational fear, and deep structural division, asking whether the
with documentation of the exhibition at Malmö Konstmuseum historical and contemporary realities of anti-black and gendered
curated by Lisa Rosendahl, the book features work by a diverse violence – when treated as aberrations – do not in fact serve to veil
spectrum of Swedish and international artists. violence’s essential function in the maintenance of “civil” society.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 16 × 24 cm, pb, Swedish/English ISBN 9789527222058 248 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 25 cm, hb, English ISBN 9789492811226
Euro 28,00 Euro 37,00
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Jim Campers – Forward Escape Into the Past Mary Frey – Real Life Dramas*
Art Paper Editions, Ghent 2018 Peperoni, Berlin 2018
This volume is published on the occasion of the first solo exhi- ‘Real Life Dramas’ is a time machine, its images transporting us 35
bition of Belgian photographer Jim Campers in Amsterdam. years into the past, transplanting our reality to an indeterminate
Countercultures of the 1960s and ’70s form the starting point of his place in the United States. Mary Frey’s hyperreal photographs
photographic series, in which he refers to anarchist social criticism capture charged banalities on large-format film, pictures of middle-
and theories about the history of psychedelics. Through his work, class children, adolescents, and adults that together seem less of
which uses photography to visualise prehistoric times, we realise a reportage than a psychogram. She offers drama, in the sense of
how topical these radical ideas might still be. Images of ancient interpretations of human experience that are cogent and valuable on
rocks, enigmatic technological objects, and desert landscapes their own terms, but not the dramatic.
combine to form a narrative of both wonder and lament for a shared 128 p, ills colour, 29 × 25 cm, hb, English
past. ISBN 9789490800833 ISBN 9783941249271
172 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 29 cm, pb, English Euro 35,00 Euro 42,00
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Conceptual artist Julian Charrière bridges the realms of environ- Peter Dekens’s first memory of the First World War dates from
mental science and cultural history. His projects often stem from 1979. His cousin died while dismantling an old projectile. The
fieldwork in remote locations with acute geophysical identities. traces of the Great War have been almost completely erased from
Charrière’s new work traces the historical and geographical path the Belgian landscape, but human remains and projectiles are still
between Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which erupted in 1815, and found along the former front line in Ypres to this day. With ‘Shaky
the Alps. It follows the entangled threads of climate devastation, Ground’ Dekens tells the story of these remains and offers a reflec-
monocultural farming, and an imaginary in which apocalyptic eco- tion on the current European situation in which the awareness of the
logical threats find poetic utterance in the aesthetic of the sublime. importance of again unity stands on shaky ground.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 30 cm, pb, French/English 112 p, ills colour, 20 × 29 cm, pb, English
ISBN 9789492811264 ISBN 9789492051394
Euro 25,00 Euro 35,00
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Małgorzata Stankiewicz – Cry of an Echo Samuel and Henk Otte – Citizen of Two Worlds*
Lecturis, Eindhoven 2018 FW: Books, Amsterdam 2018
Białowieża Forest, which stretches through portions of Poland Brothers Samuel and Henk Otte follow in the footsteps of their
and Belarus, is one of the last and largest remaining parts of the great-grandfather, Rev. Gerrit Hendrik Kersten, an influential
immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Dutch Protestant minister who travelled to the United States in
Plain. In 2016, under the pretence of its protection, Poland’s 1939 to give emigrant members of his church encouragement and
Environment Minister approved extensive logging in the forest. In support. The book’s narrative is woven through archive photo-
‘Cry of an Echo’, Małgorzata Stankiewicz offers a haunting glimpse graphs and diary entries, resulting in a visual journey to the towns,
into the depths of this ancient and beautiful place, currently under families, churches, and farmsteads that Kersten visited. The book is
threat of being completely transformed, or even disappearing designed by Amsterdam-based graphic designer Hans Gremmen.
forever. 264 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 21 cm, hb, Dutch/English
96 p, ills colour & bw, 23 × 30 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789462262782 ISBN 9789490119652
Euro 29,95 Euro 37,50
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Paul Kooiker – Eggs and Rarities* Dana Lixenberg: Tupac Biggie*
Art Paper Editions, Ghent 2018 ROMA Publications, Amsterdam 2018
This ambitious but utopian project by Dutch photographer Paul This volume presents a visual history of Dana Lixenberg’s photo-
Kooiker reads like a sampler of genres: landscape, nude, still life, graphs of the legendary artists Tupac and Biggie, broadly consid-
and so on. To achieve this, he often employs clichés reminiscent of ered to have been the best rappers of their time. These photographs,
the propaganda of travel brochures or religious and political rhetoric commissioned by ‘Vibe’ magazine in 1993 and 1996, have been
in the media. Kooiker allows the personal to creep into his work appropriated over the years by innumerable admirers around the
in this “encyclopaedia of life” – a collection of 164 images in which world. Both shoots are shown here in their entirety, retracing the
intimate private photographs break through the seemingly objective unforeseen trajectory and ubiquity of these images. The images are
approach, allowing public and private space to bleed into each other. accompanied by an essay written by Robert Kenner and a poem by
172 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 31 cm, hb, English Kevin Powell, both renowned contributors to ‘Vibe’.
ISBN 9789490800918 96 p, ills colour, 24 × 34 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789492811325
Euro 48,00 Euro 22,00
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For a recurring feature in a Dutch newspaper, Thijs Wolzak visited Having built his reputation as a photographer of conflict, Ryo
people with extraordinary houses every week for six years. He Kameyama here turns his attention to the village of Yamakumata,
listened to their stories and considered how to capture it all in an located in the mountains of Japan’s Niigata prefecture. His pho-
image, depicting the residents’ values, with all their bravado, but tographs of everyday life there – hunting bears, traversing snowy
also their shortcomings. Wolzak, working from a documentary forests, fishing in rivers – seem completely out of time, but it is the
viewpoint, captured these encounters in exceptional quality, with a lifestyle of these people, in balance with nature, that attracts him.
sharp eye for the smallest details. The series offers an intimate view Observing how the villagers calmly face their reality and mortality,
of how people approach the world and their direct surroundings, we get a strong sense of life and death in the traditions that they
showing how far they go in the design of their own living space. have continued since ancient times.
120 p, ills colour, 29 × 38 cm, hb, Dutch/English ISBN 9789462262898 134 p, ills bw, 19 × 25 cm, pb, Japanese/English ISBN 9784909179012
Euro 29,95 Euro 35,40
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Lilia Luganskaia – Investigation of Love Ruth van Beek – How to do the Flowers
Lilia Luganskaia, Amsterdam 2018 Art Paper Editions, Ghent 2018
Amsterdam-based visual artist and photographer Lilia The repetition of images, visual sequences, accidental similarities
Luganskaia’s practice lies between photography and interdisciplin- and free associations form the alphabet of a mysterious language.
ary installations. In ‘Investigation of Love’ she explores whether Starting from her archive, Ruth van Beek makes collages and
photographs can function as proof for such an abstract notion as books. A large part of this archive finds its origin in old manuals.
love. Inspired by the application procedure for a Dutch residence Books that are made as a tool, an advisor for everyday occupations.
permit, which involved submitting photographs of her relationship The images in this book mainly show hands that demonstrate how
with her partner to an anonymous immigration officer for assess- something is supposed to be done. Hands that dig in the earth, make
ment, the book is a visual timeline of a relationship in a collection of dolls, arrange flowers, or cook.
objects and images. 484 p, ills colour, 15 × 21 cm, pb, English
240 p, ills colour, 16 × 23 cm, hb, English No ISBN ISBN 9789490800871
Euro 50,00 Euro 40,00
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Sybren Vanoverberghe – 2099 Erik Kessels – Human Zoo
Art Paper Editions, Ghent 2018 KesselsKramer, Amsterdam 2018
Sybren Vanoverberghe’s work is based on the translocation of places Erik Kessels delves into the zoological collection of the Museum
and people, and lends a personal perspective on the interchange- of the University of Latvia, Riga, purportedly to remind us that
ability of locations. Recurring motifs are elements of history, we, as humans, are also predators. Humans collect and catalogue
nature, and the legacy people leave behind. ‘2099’ contains images examples of their animal counterparts, immortalising them in death
of remembrance linked to the constant evolution of history and its for the education and enjoyment of human generations to come. In
repetitive character. From an associative basis, manipulated icons an abrupt switch, Kessels gives human animals “a taste of their own
and deconstructed places create a new overview of the present. It medicine” by juxtaposing found examples of our species with those
can be both a prophecy for the future as well as a desire for the past. from other animal categories: arthropods, birds, butterflies, coral,
92 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 30 cm, pb, English fish, insects, mammals, and reptiles.
ISBN 9789490800758 120 p, ills colour & bw, 13 × 18 cm, hb, English ISBN 9789934876042
Euro 30,00 Euro 20,00
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Designed as an artist book by Thomas Mailaender, ‘The Fun Lady Gaga, Diane Arbus, Vincent van Gogh, Kurt Cobain – the list
Archaeology’ presents a collection he envisioned. Over more than of ceative geniuses with mental health issues is familiar and long.
a decade he has gathered thousands of original documents, found But how do the two relate to one another? Can an mental illness also
at flea markets, charity sales, car boot sales, or on websites; a wide be seen as a superpower? To answer this question, Jan Hoek spent
range of materials, from war letters to pornography, family photo three months living in a psychiatric hospital in Brooklyn, collaborat-
albums to political leaflets. By arranging this body of images in ing with the hospital’s clients and other unique individuals he met in
sequence, Mailaender creates a very personal and impressive visual New York. This comic book is the result.
archaeology of the 20th century. More than 100 items were selected 88 p, ills colour & bw, 18 × 26 cm, pb, English
for this book, in which each one is captioned and recontextualised.
368 p, ills colour & bw, 22 × 28 cm, pb, English ISBN 9791090306745 ISBN 9789490800956
Euro 59,15 Euro 25,00
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Charlotte Dumas – The Horse in the Gourd Karlheinz Weinberger – Volume 2: Sports*
Sieboldhuis, Leiden 2018 Sturm & Drang, Zurich 2018
“A horse appearing from a gourd”. This Japanese saying is used Hardly known outside the famous images of young rebels and rock-
when something completely unexpected, even unbelievable, hap- ers are the sports images Karlheinz Weinberger shot starting in
pens. It refers to a legendary immortal being who owns a horse that the 1960s. This second book with images by the Swiss photographer
can be conjured as if by magic from a gourd – a reminder that, in presents a lesser known but truly captivating side of Weinberger.
life, the unexpected can happen. For Charlotte Dumas, this is an Working for various sports newspapers and magazines, he cov-
important principle. The book centres on the basic elements of life, ered athletes and contests in Switzerland and places such as East
its vulnerability and resilience, as Dumas brings myth, imagination, Germany. His fascination with the male physique was documented
and the transient nature of life together. at bike races, wrestling matches, and weight-lifting events.
114 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 22 cm, pb, Dutch/English 100 p, ills bw, 20 × 28 cm, pb, English
ISBN 9789082711134 ISBN 9783906822150
Euro 35,00 Euro 31,20
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Tim Coghlan – Hell’s Gates Marijn Bax – Mar*
Perimeter Editions, Melbourne 2018 FW: Books, Amsterdam 2018
Melbourne-based designer and publisher Tim Coghlan has built In 2017, at the age of 102, Mar passed away. Those close to her
his body of work around the results of both erratic and strategic knew her as a special woman who gave colour to life. Ten years ago,
searches using Google Images. Comprising lo-res, amateur, and Marijn Bax started to photograph Mar in her house, fascinated by
public domain photographs of burning churches found online, ‘Hell’s the fusion between her movements and the walls and furniture, as
Gates’ poses questions of iconography, typology, and the implica- well as by the colours and fabrics surrounding her. It soon grew into
tions of images. How does mythology affect the way we read images an intense collaboration and friendship. Mar would always say, “Do
and make meaning, and why are some images deemed impossibly something with this when I am no longer here.” The day that she
offensive, while others not? Coghlan searches for the limits of the passed, Bax knew precisely what that “something” should be: an
democracy of images in his work. artist’s book, not about Mar, but from Mar.
226 p, ills colour, 12 × 19 cm, pb, English ISBN 9780995358683 256 p, ills colour, 17 × 24 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789490119706
Euro 25,60 Euro 30,00
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‘The Believers’ investigates the act of religious ritual and wor- Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Polly Borland’s work
ship – the way people give up their authority to a higher power – to at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, this book provides
construct identity, to maintain relationships, and to gain power. The an incisive new perspective on the photographer’s explorations of
book is the “catalogue” for a multidisciplinary installation at the anthropomorphic soft-sculpture and abstracted portraiture. The
BredaPhoto Festival that bridges sound, video, and photography, series, produced in collaboration with model Sibylla Phipps, serves
tackling the human agenda of faith in relation to technology. Geert as a dramatic, almost surrealistic expansion of Borland’s visual lan-
van Kesteren has travelled the Middle East for 25 years, and is guage. The works that populate ‘Morph’ are poignantly human and
particularly interested in the Holy Land as a pilgrimage for both the pointedly not, and her images are at once tender and troubling.
traditional religions, and the new – the mighty “Algorithm of Data”. 92 p, ills colour, 22 × 29 cm, pb, English
192 p, ills colour, 8 × 16 cm, hb, English ISBN 9789082898903 ISBN 9780648262862
Euro 15,00 Euro 41,55
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In fields that produce carefully authored compositions, such as In ‘Bleu Melody’, the photographer Tony Frank brings together his
architecture, the chance arrangements of material grain, patinas, or complete archive of photographs and documents from 1971, when he
other traces of matter’s resistance to orderly control are sometimes shot the cover of Serge Gainsbourg’s most mythic album. Featuring
allowed an expression in the final work. In these instances they are contact sheets, slides and proofs, as well as accounts by Frank that
viewed as desirable features, or evidence of a work’s architectonic reveal the story behind the photo, the book sheds new light on an
authenticity. The outcome of a visual studies seminar by architect image that went on to become famous worldwide.
Andrew Zago, this volume gathers photographic evidence of myriad 96 p, ills colour, 16 × 20 cm, pb, French/English
instances of material happenstance, also called accidents.
528 p, ills colour & bw, 14 × 20 cm, pb, English
ISBN 9789490800796 ISBN 9791090306783
Euro 28,00 Euro 20,45
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Dafy Hagai – Spring Sanne van den Elzen – Today, too, I Experienced Something I
Perimeter Editions, Melbourne 2018 Hope to Understand*
FW: Books, Amsterdam 2018
In her latest zine, Israeli photographer Dafy Hagai captures the Sanne van den Elzen takes a closer look at the manner in which we
drag and gender fluid scene in her hometown of Tel Aviv. She adds greet one another, which is perhaps the most universal gesture of
a new layer of complexity and fluidity to the visual languages and all. What happens if we misinterpret our counterpart’s gestures?
queer motifs with which she has already established herself, with What role does intimacy play in possible misconceptions? For
portraits of young queens shot amid the marginal urban spaces that instance, in scrutinising the Dutch formality of three kisses on
punctuate Tel Aviv and Jaffa, interspersed with images from the the cheeks, one might begin to wonder about the elasticity of one’s
more lush surroundings of Sakhne (national park) and the Dead Sea. comfort zone. Van den Elzen invites the viewer to follow her playful
28 p, ills colour, 21 × 30 cm, pb, no text visual research method, focusing on the intervals and the inter-
spaces of the complex choreography that is the art of the gesture.
ISBN 9780648262831 128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 24 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789490119690
Euro 23,45 Euro 20,00
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Parallel to his personal photographic practice, which addresses This edition presents the ‘Room of Peace’, first shown as an instal-
sexuality and gender identity, Tiane Doan na Champassak explores lation at the 2014 Architecture Biennale in Venice. It is the first
anonymity, collecting material from a variety of sources, such as in a series of publications by Bas Princen, each dedicated to one
the Internet, family albums, and magazine excerpts. In his previous photographic project or installation. Here he photographs the Sala
book, ‘Siam Guy’s’, he paid tribute to the aesthetic of Thai erotic della Pace in Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico. By turning off the spotlights
magazines from the 1960s and ’70s. ‘Scraps’ is a continuation of this used to highlight Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s famous fresco panorama
project, and contains all the cut-out body parts from the nude photo- and opening the curtains to daylight, he realised that it is not simply
graphs used in the earlier book. Shown out of context, they take on a singular work of art. Rather, it is part of a painted architectural
an abstract form. order that fully covers the walls and ceiling.
336 p, ills bw, 11 × 18 cm, pb, English ISBN 9791090306752 24 p, ills colour, 23× 30 cm, leporello hb, English ISBN 9789492811257
Euro 23,65 Euro 45,00
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Claude Nori – Italian Holidays Carine Thévenau – Seasonal Abandonment of Imaginary Worlds
Sturm & Drang, Zurich 2018 Éditions Edizioni, Sydney 2018
Inspired by his travels along the Italian coastline with Luigi Ghirri This book comprises a photographic collection by Carine Thévenau
in the late 1970s, French photographer Claude Nori decided in 1982 of recently deserted playgrounds in rural Japan. Pictured during
to make snapshots at Italian beaches. A fascinated and passion- the winter, the snow-covered playgrounds might arouse a nostalgic
ate observer, he was interested in capturing the annual rituals of sensation, yet a more critical analysis reveals a portrait of a place
the Mediterranean lifestyle and its leisurely pastimes. This book and offers us a glimpse of space and time paused. Thévenau inter-
reflects a fun atmosphere of beach games, first kisses, seaside prets the emptiness within the playgrounds as a silence or tension
promenades, rows of Vespa scooters, splashing and swimming, and that our minds feel compelled to fill, akin to the pause in a musical
the exuberance of youthful cliques seeking to experience everything score or the interval of a theatrical play.
life has to offer in the short weeks of summer. 48 p, ills colour, 21 × 26 cm, hb, English
176 p, ills colour & bw, 23 × 28 cm, hb, English ISBN 9783906822211 ISBN 9780646982526
Euro 50,45 Euro 39,95
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Yann Morvan – Bobby Sands Belfast 1981* Nick Geboers: AÆUÅÆØ*
André Frère Éditions, Marseille 2018 ROMA Publications, Amsterdam 2018
On March 1, 1981, Bobby Sands began a hunger strike followed by The book’s cryptic title forms a sequence of Danish sounds, and
nine other political prisoners who were members of the IRA and the roughly translates to “I am out on an island”. Yet the precise nature
INLA. Their demands: to obtain the status of political prisoners. of the island to which Nick Geboers invites us remains undeter-
He died on May 5, 1981, at 1:17 in the morning. Those weeks, living mined. The images cannot be read as documenting an existing area,
in Derry and Belfast with the rioters of Catholic neighbourhoods, but rather as a poetic evocation of the concept of “island”. They
photographing the tension, despair, faith, and courage of the Irish explore the isolation and sense of seclusion specific to the islander’s
people, forever persuaded Yann Morvan of the validity of photo- existence. Each picture is an isolated fragment; the whole, an
graphic witness as an instrument of memory, emotion, reflection, unfathomable sequence.
and the guarantees of a free and democratic world. 48 p, ills colour, 24 × 33 cm, pb, English
236 p, ills bw, 24 × 30 cm, hb, French/English ISBN 9791092265712 ISBN 9789492811301
Euro 47,85 Euro 25,00
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Anne Geene and Arjan de Mooy: The Universal Photographer* Bert Teunissen – Dazzle
De Hef, Rotterdam 2018 FW: Books, Amsterdam 2018
Anne Greene and Arjan de Nooy offer a fresh, often humorous Bert Teunissen has created a distinctive series of photographs
way of looking at the world through their pseudoscientific work. while walking the streets of New York City and London. Using an
Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum analogue camera and a unique way of printing, his images become a
Den Haag, this volume is about a fictional photographer who lived collection of stripes and dots in which we see no faces, just gestures
from 1955 to 2010. Greene and De Nooy created this book based on and the patterns of clothes. People become the lively wallpaper of
this person’s work, which references various stylistic periods and the bustling city. This book brings Teunissen’s work together for the
art movements – an “encyclopaedia” of photography but also the first time in a jazzy sequence with an additional layer of highly pig-
personal life story of a universal photographer. mented white ink, in the process creating patterns within patterns.
420 p, ills colour & bw, 21 × 28 cm, pb, English It is a dizzying, dazzling, and vibrant abstract portrait of urban life.
ISBN 9789069060521 96 p, ills colour, 17 × 24 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789490119638
Euro 39,90 Euro 24,00
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Michael James Fox – Plastics Taco Hidde Bakker – The Photograph That Took the Place of a
Perimeter Editions, Melbourne 2018 Mountain
FW: Books, Amsterdam 2018
Plastic is a densely loaded material and concept. One of the great This diverse collection of writings by Taco Hidde Bakker addresses
scientific and industrial innovations of the late 19th and 20th centu- the philosophy, politics, and the art of photography, with topics
ries, plastic has become the all-pervasive staple of modern manu- ranging from the tension between artist and model to the land-
facturing, technology, and their speculative futures. In the same scapes of the American West and the predicament of transcultural
breath, plastic has become laden with a flood of negative connota- photography. Bakker selected and revised sixteen pieces of writing
tions; it is the talisman of environmental degradation, the detritus of from a variety of publications spanning the past decade of his jour-
the petrochemical industry, and a signpost of global ill health. New neys through photography and art. In addition, he penned four new
York photographer Michael James Fox’s ‘Plastics’ takes a very dif- pieces especially for this book.
ferent perspective on this most complex of materials and ideas. 162 p, ills colour & bw, 16 × 23 cm, pb, English
48 p, ills colour, 21 × 27 cm, pb, English ISBN 9780995358676 ISBN 9789490119621
Euro 26,80 Euro 25,00
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Unseen Magazine 2018 Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective*
Unseen, Amsterdam 2018 Valiz, Amsterdam 2018
Charting key developments at the forefront of contemporary ‘Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective’ focuses on the curato-
photography, ‘Unseen Magazine’ invites a selection of instrumental rial practice of exhibiting conceptual art. The fact that conceptual
voices to provide their take on the position of the medium today. works are not object-based creates challenges in exhibiting them.
With a bold redesign and a range of new features, the fifth issue 5 This book offers various perspectives on how to handle conceptual
reveals the important role that artists play in striving to make sense art in the context of the museum, based on three detailed case stud-
of the shifting world around us. Joshua Chuang examines how art- ies and an extensive introduction in which the paradox of conceptual
ists established themselves as indispensable gatekeepers of pictorial art is analysed. It also elaborates on the history of exhibiting con-
archives while Joanna L. Cresswell traces the endless spread of ceptual artworks, and the influence of curators in their canonisation.
plants throughout the photographic landscape. 272 p, ills bw, 17 × 24 cm, pb, English
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 20 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789082264234 ISBN 9789078088769
Euro 10,00 Euro 25,00
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‘Useful Photography’ features overlooked and underwhelming What is at stake in this book is an attempt to de-align the discussion
images taken for practical purposes. This issue presents the meticu- of international art practice from the rhetoric of globalisation and
lous work of the “script continuity supervisor” on a film set, where an exclusive focus on the contemporary. Instead, it seeks to trace a
details about every shot have to be recorded: lighting, weather, genealogy of trans-local practices, with histories and methods that
gestures, makeup, and wardrobe. A battle scene may take days to link to networks of friendship and solidarity, and of the visual arts
shoot, so the costumes of the actors and extras and their wounds are as participating in a longer history of contact between individu-
photographed to ensure they can be accurately recreated the follow- als motivated by shared interests and struggles. Visual art is not
ing day. Hence the pictures featured here, allowing a bloody glimpse limited to a discipline but rather thought of as a practice, able to
into this less glamorous side of a Hollywood production. generate encounters and historical narratives in a different register.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 21 × 30 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789070478490 192 p, ills colour & bw, 21 × 27 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789492095619
Euro 25,00 Euro 25,00
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The Magazine and the New Photography: Koga and Japanese Unlearning Exercises – Art Organizations as Sites for
Modernism Unlearning*
Kokushokankokai, Tokyo 2018 Valiz, Amsterdam 2018
The New Photography in Japan, influenced by surrealism and Learning is the accumulation of knowledge, skills, and behaviour,
Germany’s “Neue Sachlichkeit”, (New Objectivity), differed strik- and is often progress-oriented and institutionally driven. In con-
ingly from the pictorialism that had been the leading form of art trast, unlearning is directed towards embodied forms of knowledge
photography prior to 1930. ‘Koga’ was a small-press magazine that and the (un)conscious operation of ways of thinking and doing.
remained in print for less than two years, yet featured a number of ‘Unlearning Exercises’ shares a set of exercises as propositions
amateur photographers who became a driving force behind the New to be useful for and adapted within other specific (institutional)
Photography movement. This publication examines the influence contexts in and beyond the arts. These exercises range from daily
of foreign photographers on the New Photography and subsequent practices like “Cleaning Together” to unresolvable issues of collec-
modes of photographic expression in Japan. tive authorship and fair wage.
234 p, ills colour & bw, 23 × 31 cm, hb, Japanese/English ISBN 9784336062529 300 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 22 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789492095534
Euro 35,85 Euro 19,90
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Dear Howard – Tales Told in Letters Dutch Type*
Redstone Press, London 2018 Jan Middendorp, Berlin 2018
Written by antiquarian bookseller David Batterham, this collection Jan Middendorp presents a comprehensive overview of type design
of letters to the painter Howard Hodgkin introduces us to a richly and lettering in the Netherlands in ‘Dutch Type’, tracing its origins
bohemian world that we might otherwise never encounter. For sev- through type designers and lettering artists from the 15th to the
eral decades Batterham has scoured Europe and beyond in pursuit 20th centuries. Partly based on interviews, the book also offers
of the rare and the forgotten. Book dealing can be a solitary way of insight into the motives and methods of the first generations of digi-
life, and in these intimate letters he writes with mordant humour tal type designers, featuring published and unpublished typefaces
about his journeys from Venice to New York, from Copenhagen as well as sketches, studies, and samples of lettering work.
to Paris, and his encounters with proud book-dealing families, old 320 p, ills colour & bw, 23 × 28 cm, hb, English
actors, and mad professors.
ills bw, 13 × 20 cm, hb, English ISBN 9780995518100 ISBN 9783982003702
Euro 14,00 Euro 62,50
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Rebecca Katz Thor – Beyond the Witness The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2017
Art and Theory Publishing, Stockholm 2018 Federal Office of Culture, Bern 2018
In a time when the last surviving Holocaust witnesses will soon be Teo Schifferli was responsible for the design and typesetting of this
gone, a possible route for commemoration is to ask what testimony year’s roundup of the best of Swiss books. The catalogue can be
images can give. This book seeks to answer the question of how viewed as a list of characteristic elements drawn from each of the
images can bear witness, by examining them as multifaceted enti- recognised books from 2017. As a result, the reader is able to wit-
ties produced, reproduced, and resituated in conflicting political ness the design process in action: research, reproduction, photog-
and historical situations. The archival status, context, conditions raphy, image editing, text editing, image processing, type design,
for production, and means for representation are examined in three layout. Each of the eighteen awarded books is accompanied by the
archive-based films by Harun Farocki, Yael Hersonski, and Eyal jury review and a technical index, giving a complete picture of what
Sivan. makes them outstanding.
186 p, ills colour & bw, 18 × 24 cm, hb, English ISBN 9789188031617 384 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 32 cm, pb, German/French/Italian/ ISBN 9783909928477
Euro 25,30 English Euro 29,50
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The Future of the New – Artistic Innovation in Times of Social From Eastern Europe
Acceleration Counter-Print, London 2018
Valiz, Amsterdam 2018
In this book artists, theorists, and professionals working the art Featuring work by eighteen graphic design companies, this volume
field reflect on the role of the arts in a world that is speeding up heralds a celebration of creativity from Eastern Europe. It pays
and changing through the joint forces of globalisation, digitisation, particular attention to corporate identity projects from recent
commodification, and financialisation. Can artistic innovation still years in a selection of work spanning countries like Croatia, Czech
function as a source of critique? How do artists, theorists, and art Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Serbia, and Poland, highlighting the
organisations deal with the changing role of innovation and the changing visual and artistic tastes of this geographic area.
discourse around it? Should we look for alternative ways to innovate, 168 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 23 cm, pb, English
or should we change our approach and look for alternative ways to
talk about the new?
304 p, no ills, 14 × 21 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789492095589 ISBN 9780993581267
Euro 19,90 Euro 12,15
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Graphic Design Graphic Design
Leeds Postcards Back Office 2: Graphic Design and Digital Practices
Four Corners, London 2018 Éditions B42, Paris 2018
For the past four decades, independent postcard press Leeds ‘Back Office’ is an annual review that explores the creative pro-
Postcards has been making oppositional, inspiring images – activ- cesses at work in the diverse fields of contemporary media and digi-
ism by design. The name itself represents a defiant rejection of tal practices. Its second issue deals with the fundamental notions
the hegemony of London. The images cover a fascinating range of indexation, sorting, and representation of digital data. The
of domestic and international politics, causes, and campaigns in a computer as a principle upon which to base the organisation of the
graphically inventive way. Frequently humorous, over 100 cards tell world appears in the long history of memory media: writings, maps,
the story of the struggles as well as progressive political triumphs indexes, websites, journals, databases, online archives, blockchains,
from 1979 to the present, all capturing the cultural zeitgeist of their etc., all of which constitute attempts at inscribing the complexity of
time. the real.
152 p, ills colour & bw, 16 × 22 cm, hb, English ISBN 9781909829114 144 p, ills colour & bw, 19 × 28 cm, pb, French/English ISBN 9782917855980
Euro 15,35 Euro 21,50
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The binder containing NASA’s visual identity guidelines is a strange Tens of thousands of food products fight for our attention in super-
object. This original visual communications system was designed markets on a daily basis. It’s a miracle that we seem to effortlessly
by Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn from 1975 on. It has choose what we want from the overwhelming supply. Designers play
resurfaced on the Internet these last years in blogs, and was made a crucial role in this. They ‘package’ food and change it into products
available to the public by NASA as a PDF document before being that appeal, inform, and seduce us. As artisans of alienation, design-
reprinted in 2015. It is an exhaustive presentation of visual identity ers make up stories, create illusions, and dream images. ‘Food Is
– from letterheads to the markings on the space shuttle Discovery – Fiction’ places these stories in the context of the rise of the food
thus allowing the reader to apprehend the different formal, political, industry and contemplates the future of food.
and technical scales of the use of signs. 272 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 22 cm, pb, Dutch/English
164 p, ills colour & bw, 23 × 31 cm, pb, French/English ISBN 9791095991007 ISBN 9789462084674
Euro 30,00 Euro 22,95
Idea Code 18208 Idea Code 18370
Posters were introduced to Japan from Europe toward the end of This book celebrates the brand Claus Porto, but is actually the
the Meiji period, along with printing techniques and design concepts story of two companies: Claus & Schweder, established in Portugal
from which their modern-day counterparts evolved. This convenient, in 1887, gave rise to Ach. Brito in 1918, which in turn reclaimed
pocket-size collection presents more than 200 posters ranging in and revitalised the original brand’s legacy. Ferdinand Claus and
style from examples reminiscent of ukiyo-e ‘bijin-ga’ and featuring Georges Schweder started their soap and fragrance factory in
beautiful women, to colourful contemporary designs produced dur- Porto, a move which helped to democratise beauty products in the
ing the Taisho and early Showa periods, a time when visual design country, previously only accessible to the wealthy. The decorative
flourished in Japan. labels and packaging designs, many of which are reproduced here,
288 p, ills colour & bw, 11 × 15 cm, pb, Japanese/English drew upon the era’s ornate aesthetic.
ISBN 9784861526565 230 p, ills colour & bw, 24 × 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/English ISBN 9789892079257
Euro 15,80 Euro 64,50
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Fashion & Textile Fashion & Textile
Viktor & Rolf Fashion Artists 25 Years In and Out of Fashion
nai010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2018 ArtEZ Press, Arnhem 2018
In the course of their quarter-century career together, Viktor There’s no escaping fashion, and that means making choices, always
Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have carved out a surprising identity raising the same practical, strategic, political, or entirely irratio-
that pushes the boundaries between art and fashion. In contrast- nal question: of what to wear. In this guide, Karin Schacknat has
ing romance and rebellion, exuberance and control, classicism and found a new, comprehensive way to illustrate the developments in
conceptualism, the Dutch design duo has come to produce some of European clothing and apparel-related behaviour from antiquity
the most gorgeous imagery of our times. This large volume explores to the beginning of the 21st century. From the toga to Dolce &
their concept of “wearable art” and features some of their most Gabbana, from the 17th-century lace collar to Iris van Herpen. So
breath-taking and innovative works. much of what once went out of fashion has become hip again.
212 p, ills colour & bw, 27 × 39 cm, pb, English 368 p, ills colour & bw, 18 × 25 cm, pb, English
ISBN 9789462084384 ISBN 9789491444548
Euro 39,95 Euro 49,50
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One Thousand and One Handbags* Archive Species: Bodies, Habits, Practices*
Hester van Eeghen, Amsterdam 2018 Valiz, Amsterdam 2018
Hester van Eeghen, an acclaimed Dutch designer who has been ‘Archive Species’ is an inquiry into the representation of clothed
creating soulful bags, shoes, and wallets since 1988, teamed up with bodies in print media since the 1970s. Artist Joke Robaard and
American artist David A. Carter to make this special edition pop-up writer Camiel van Winkel have been reassembling and rereading
book. The expressive shapes and lively colours of her meticulously the vast archive of fashion and newspaper images that Robaard has
made designs celebrate life in all its forms. Carter, who has created collected since 1979. Together they selected images from the archive
over one hundred pop-up books which have been published world- and arranged them into dynamic series or cycles, generating new
wide, brings his particular expertise to the book, illustrating Van narratives and unexpected pathways of signification.
Eeghen’s handbags in a dynamic, vibrant, and amusing way. 496 p, ills colour & bw, 22 × 28 cm, pb, English
16 p, ills colour, 20 × 20 cm, hb, English
ISBN not yet known ISBN 9789492095435
Euro 39,50 Euro 39,00
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This catalogue is published as part of an eponymous exhibition at Costume designer Christine Birkle, who founded the Berlin-based
MAD – Brussels Fashion and Design Platform that explores the fashion label Hut up and passed away in late 2016, was a virtuoso
fashion and world of Belgian duo OWN. It is not a retrospective, but of the nuno felting technique, which incorporates a base fabric and
rather an invitation to discover a warehouse where diverse pieces is shaped and decorated through only felting specific areas. Her
can be found side by side, the traces of a personal fashion vocabulary garments have an organic appearance in their shaping and contours,
composed over the course of sixteen seasons. OWN invited a range creating soft, sophisticated pieces with richly detailed and under-
of creative actors to delve into their archives and reinvent them. It stated textures. Her deep love of nature and its colours is reflected
is a world in which different approaches to fashion are confronted, in these creations, which characteristically lack consistent thick-
examining notions such as the everyday and desire. nesses and straight edges.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 20 × 26 cm, pb, English No ISBN 192 p, ills colour & bw, 18 × 25 cm, hb, German/English ISBN 9783957634061
Euro 20,00 Euro 38,00
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Fashion & Textile Interior & Product Design
Dissolving the Ego of Fashion Art and Design – Dialogue with Materials
ArtEZ, Arnhem 2018 ADP, Tokyo 2017
‘Dissolving the Ego of Fashion’ presents an in-depth introduction This publication accompanies an exhibition of eye-catching and in-
to the vision and research themes that the Fashion Professorship novative objects at the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and De-
of ArtEZ University of the Arts sets out to explore in the coming sign. It offers an introduction to the world of modern design in four
years. Daniëlle Bruggeman aims to develop critical theories and sections, and focuses on materials and how they have transformed in
practices in order to explore, better understand, and rethink the recent years. Besides chapters on more familiar materials, such as
cracks in the fashion system and the role that fashion plays – and wood, leather, glass, ceramics, metals, fibres and textiles, and stone,
could potentially play – in relation to urgent sociocultural, environ- it also delves into the hi-tech realm of composites, polymers, and
mental, and political developments in contemporary society. plastics.
76 p, ills bw, 13 × 21 cm, pb, English 160 p, ills colour, 15 × 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English
ISBN 9789491444500 ISBN 9784903348506
Euro 9,95 Euro 15,20
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Each issue of ‘The Motif Magazine’ offers a new experience, a Achille Castiglioni’s passion for objects of anonymous design is
canvas entirely devoted to a single theme. The colour blue has been evidenced by the famous window in his studio, which exhibits things
chosen for its inaugural edition, which celebrates blue in all its collected throughout a lifetime. To celebrate his 100th birthday, the
incarnations. Encompassing illustration, photography, painting, Achille Castiglioni Foundation has asked 100 Italian and interna-
fashion, and short story, it offers a spectrum of interpretations of tional designers to donate their favourite anonymous objects. ‘100
this one small part of the visible spectrum, this singular expression x 100 Achille’ is the collection of these birthday gifts – and some
of energies. Creative director Jakob de Tobon enlists the expertise greeting cards – sent by colleagues, former university students, or
and insight of numerous photographers, writers, artists, and other designers inspired by his work.
contributors in the actualisation of this issue’s motif. 176 p, ills colour, 13 × 17 cm, pb, Italian/English
206 p, ills colour, 25 × 34 cm, pb, English No ISBN ISBN 9788875707071
Euro 24,75 Euro 26,90
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What if electronics emerged from knitting, weaving, crochet, and A collection represents its collector. This means that it can also be
embroidery? ‘Stitching Worlds’ blends the territories of textiles read as an ego document, a personal story. That story, for example,
and electronics by investigating textile techniques as controversial about the relationship between Benno Premsela’s own (strict) design
means for manufacturing electronic objects. Bringing together views and the things he collected, is the guiding principle of ‘Benno
the results of a four-year, arts-based research project, the book Premsela: Warrior & Seducer’. The book’s many illustrations first
challenges our assumptions and expectations about technology by and foremost show the functional context of his collections: his res-
revealing unexpected potentials of often undervalued knowledge idence, which witnessed numerous discussions about the displayed
and skills. objects, and the exhibitions to which he so generously contributed.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 19 × 25 cm, pb, English 100 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
ISBN 9783957634221 ISBN 9789462084483
Euro 27,00 Euro 22,95
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Interior & Product Design Popular Culture
Inside: Axelsson. Bohlin. Theselius. A Final Companion to Books from The Simpsons
Konstakademien, Stockholm 2018 Rollo Press, Zurich 2018
This is the catalogue to an exhibition at the Royal Academy of French graphic designer Olivier Lebrun follows on his previous
Fine Arts, Stockholm, which features three architects who do not publications documenting the books that appear in the popular car-
primarily design houses or buildings: Åke Axelsson, Jonas Bohlin, toon television series with this anthology of more than 330 images
and Mats Theselius. Rather, they build their environments from and titles. All have been captured with a black-and-white animation
the inside out, with sharp attention to detail and a comprehensive screenshot and catalogued in alphabetical order. Ostensibly the
view. Known as Sweden’s premiere furniture designers and interior final instalment of this highly personal project by Lebrun, this new,
architects, each occupied one of the three large exhibition halls at updated edition reflects countless painstaking hours spent scanning
the academy, in turn reflecting a unique temperament and aesthetic episodes, plus the contributions of a large community of fans and
in each space, yet merging nonetheless into a united whole. readers who provided tips over the years.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 21 × 27 cm, pb, Swedish/English ISBN 9789188135209 640 p, ills bw, 11 × 18 cm, pb, English ISBN 9783906213248
Euro 31,90 Euro 19,00
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Besides a cover featuring the magic of soap bubbles, the contents Ken Kagami’s work ranges from performances to installations,
of this issue include 50 crazy chairs inspired by manga and a love paintings, drawings, and publications, and is characterised by its
of Japanese design, Diller + Scofidio’s dissident ironed shirts, the simple expression of conflicting ideas. His take on pop culture pres-
“Minimal Baroque” of Elisabetta Di Maggio, photographer Gabriel ents a distortion of relatable materials and objects, and confronts
Orozco, and an analysis of “Arabesco”, an astonishing table design social taboos with a healthy dose of humour. With ‘Bartworks 2’
conceived by Carlo Mollino. Also, reportages on Eduardo Chillida, he adds even more comically distorted portraits of the famous boy
who trained as an architect but whose passion for art led him to character from ‘The Simpsons’ to an already existing repertoire.
focus on sculpture, and Italian artist Francesco Lo Savio, whose 36 p, ills bw, 14 × 20 cm, pb, no text
mathematical rigour foreshadowed minimal art.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 21 × 27 cm, pb, Italian/English ISBN 9788875707187 No ISBN
Euro 13,45 Euro 6,00
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This is the ninth edition in the series of ongoing research developed Lovers of cats and art are often one and the same, making this an-
by Atelier HOKO. “In spite of the plate’s supposed ubiquity, very thology all the more appealing. Gathering examples from the history
little is known and discussed of this practical tableware beyond fine of both Western and Japanese art – from paintings, etchings, and
craftsmanship or pretty decorations.” While their utilisation has sculptures, to plenty of ukiyo-e prints – it celebrates our multifac-
long since become part of our everyday, our interactions with plates eted relationship with these animals as expressed through feline
are often rather indifferent. We almost never need to touch it in the appearances in artworks.
course of a meal – especially not during one “dominated by presump- 198 p, ills colour & bw, 19 × 26 cm, pb, Japanese
tuous conversations around magnificent tableware that exists only
to impress…”
56 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 25 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789811163791 ISBN 9784861526633
Euro 18,00 Euro 24,25
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Popular Culture Decorative Arts
MacGuffin 06: The Ball Everyday Flower Arrangements in Kyoto Vol. 2
MacGuffin, Amsterdam 2018 Seigensha, Kyoto 2018
Keep your eyes on the ball this autumn with ‘MacGuffin 6’, ded- An integral part of everyday life in Kyoto, ikebana flower arrange-
icated to the perfectly shaped object that is the dream of every ments can be found gracing spaces from restaurants and inns to
visionary architect, but a source of great distress to the less sporty temples and art galleries. Although these unassuming presentations
among us: the ball. The Magazine kicks off with spinning ball are often not made by specialists, they speak to the origins of ike-
boys, tumbling plants, rolling meatballs, bouncing planets, utopian bana as sacred offerings while also reflecting the attitude of respect
bubbles, and the inventor of the smiley, Mr. Harvey Ball himself. toward the sacred and others that has been nurtured for hundreds
Featuring Adania Shibli, Veronique Patteeuw, Jack Self, Scheltens of years in this ancient capital. This book presents the traditional
& Abbenes, Paul Gangloff, and many more. spirit of Kyoto as it lives on through the seasons in flowers and
224 p, ills colour & bw, 21 × 28 cm, pb, English vessels selected for each unique context.
ISSN 24058203 168 p, ills colour, 15 × 21 cm, pb, Japanese/English ISBN 9784861526640
Euro 16,00 Euro 26,35
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Dirty Furniture 4: Closet* The Art of Hanamasa – Purveyors of Fine Flowers in Kyoto for
Dirty Furniture, London 2018 160 Years
Seigensha, Kyoto 2018
The fourth issue of the design magazine that focuses on uncovering Hanamasa is one of the oldest florists in Japan, having been estab-
the relationship between people and the things we live with takes lished in the Fushimi ward of Kyoto around 160 years ago to deliver
the closet as its theme. It considers things like decluttering, moths, flowers to the city’s famous shrines and temples. Since then, it has
fashion, modularity, and coming out, but also questions the need grown into a modern practice that nevertheless carefully preserves
for storage when goods and items are constantly available and in the traditions of ikebana, or Japanese flower arrangement. Fitting
flow. Through contributions by Alice Twemlow, Jeremy Atherton flowers to a particular room or space requires untold consideration
Lin, Philippa Snow, Rob Gallagher, Brian Dillon, and Clare Lyster, and patience. This book displays the results of Hanamasa’s meticu-
time capsules are excavated, portals are entered, and avatars are lous and beautiful work in all kinds of scales and contexts.
dressed. 166 p, ills colour & bw, 16 × 23 cm, pb, Japanese/English
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 23 cm, pb, English ISBN 9780993351136 ISBN 9784861526756
Euro 14,10 Euro 26,35
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O, Wonder! Magazine 2: Sounds Like Silence KWAB: Ornament as Art in the Age of Rembrandt
O, Wonder!, Amsterdam 2018 nai010 Publishers/Rijksmuseum, Rotterdam 2018
As the Swiss philosopher Max Picard argued in 1948, “Nothing has The auricular style is one of the most important and remarkable
changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence”. This loss Dutch contributions to the decorative arts in Europe. This book
of silence reflects the disastrous secularisation and progressively traces the history and meaning of the auricular style, with its
materialistic direction of life. Our living environment is filled with a fabulous organic shapes, from the work of the goldsmith Paulus van
rising din and a profusion of visual noise, creating a sea of distract- Vianen at the court of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, in Prague,
ing stimuli that is draining the world of its mystery and poetry. to that of his brother Adam in Utrecht and Johannes Lutma in
This issue explores the spectrum between silence and noise, in the Amsterdam. Their masterpieces were admired as high art by Rem-
interest of human well-being. brandt and his pupils, who produced auricular designs themselves.
72 p, ills colour & bw, 17 × 24 cm, pb, English 304 p, ills colour & bw, 22 × 28 cm, hb, English
No ISBN ISBN 9789462084285
Euro 10,00 Euro 40,00
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Gift Gift
The Joke Book: Collected by Seth Siegelaub Byobu Card Book: The Four Seasons in Japan
Kunstverein, Amsterdam 2017 Seigensha, Kyoto 2018
‘The Joke Book’ is the first printed edition of the complete jokes This book consists of twelve cards – one for each calendar month –
and messages file that was found on Seth Siegelaub’s computer by that can be displayed like Japanese folding screens. Pre-cut areas
his partner Marja Bloem. It contains jokes, quotes, and pieces of on each card result in surprising three-dimensional forms when they
advice that he collected since 1999 and regularly redistributed via are folded along the indicated lines. Share the beauty of the chang-
email amongst his friends. With contributions by Alex Alberto, ing seasons by making the cards a decorative aspect in your home,
John Baldessari, Marja Bloem, Myrna Bloom, Alan Kennedy, David or by writing a note on the reverse and sending them to friends or
Kunzle, Loren Miller, Kay Robertson, Seth Siegelaub, Joan Simon, loved ones. In addition, the book includes sixteen letter pads printed
Peter Sinclair, and Steven Wright, plus an introduction by Huan with Japanese-style motifs.
Hsu. 64 p, ills colour, 22 × 15 cm, pb, Japanese/English
216 p, no ills, 20 × 13 cm, pb, English ISBN 9789490629168 ISBN 9784861526589
Euro 15,00 Euro 16,85
Idea Code 18308 Idea Code 18350
There are so many things to say, but it’s often hard to find the right Illustrator Miroslav Šašek grew up in Prague and left his homeland
words. Thanks to ‘Communicado!’, this will be less of a worry. The in 1947 to find success drawing travel books designed for children.
set contains 30 large-format cards – many of them ready to be He lived in Paris but was often off globetrotting, gathering inspi-
personalised – that allow you to say exactly what you mean to your ration and making sketches for his illustrations. ‘Questa non è una
friends, family, colleagues, and the world at large. Display them in pietra’ is the particular account of one of his Roman holidays, where
your home or office, or mail them to a deserving recipient. Life is he imagines Moses taking a Vespa to reach the Sinai, Nero watching
tough, love is awkward, and communication can seem complicated, Rome burn on the television, Cicero addressing the major broadcast
but these cards will help simplify it all for you. networks, David in the act of mugging his next victim, and many
30 cards, ills colour, 16 × 22 cm, box, English other humorous graphic impertinences.
ISBN 9780995518117 64 p, ills colour & bw, 16 × 24 cm, pb, no text ISBN 9788822901743
Euro 20,00 Euro 15,00
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Harriet Russell – Goodbye, Oil Toshiyuki Fukuda & Tupera Tupera – Postcards
Corraini Edizioni, Mantova 2018 Seigensha, Kyoto 2018
Oil, as we know, is a non-renewable resource. But where does it come Japanese illustrator Toshiyuki Fukuda teamed up with art and
from? How is it produced? And what if it is used up? ‘Goodbye, Oil’ is design team Tupera Tupera to produce this book of simple, Rus-
the latest illustrated book by Harriet Russell presenting the issue of sian-themed postcards. Fukuda is a Tokyo-based illustrator who
energy-saving and renewable sources in a way children and grown- specialises in quirky prints which often feature animal motifs.
ups alike can appreciate. From separate waste collection to thermal His illustrations have an inherently childish quality, and his small
insulation, from recycling to pollution reduction, this story shows us realms, full of colour and detail, are in a way intrinsically nostalgic.
that it is not true that we cannot change the world, because everyone Tupera Tupera, also based in Tokyo, comprises the artists Tatsuya
can make a difference. Learn more about sustainability and today’s Kameyama and Atsuko Nakagawa. The pair is known for its humor-
problems in a simple and ironic way. ous, colourful, and highly original picture books and illustrations.
36 p, ills colour, 22 × 31 cm, pb, English ISBN 9788875706357 58 p, ills colour, 15 × 15 cm, hb, no text ISBN 9784861526763
Euro 21,50 Euro 15,80
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Index Index
100 X 100 Achille 55 Dekens, Peter 35 Koga and Japanese Modernism Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train
a.mag 9 De Mooy, Arjan 44 46 33
a+t 3 Denari, Neil 6 Kooiker, Paul 36 Russell, Harriet 60
a+u Magazine 20 de vylder vinck taillieu Kopelman, Irene 28 Šašek, Miroslav 61
Adjaye Associates 9 architecten 3 Kuma, Kengo 21 Science of the Secondary 56
Aires Mateus 2, 20 Dirty Furniture 58 KWAB 59 selgascano 20
ARCH+ The Property Issue 19 Dissolving the Ego of Fashion 54 LAN 2007–2018 12 Serving Library Annual, The 31
Architectural Element 15 Dreaming Awake 30 Lautner, John 6 Siegelaub, Seth 60
Architectural Ethnography 10 Dumas, Charlotte 38 Le Corbusier 5 Simpsons, A Final Companion to
Architecture in the Netherlands Dutch Type 49 Leeds Postcards 50 Books from The 57
Yearbook 19 E2A 20 Living With Water 11 Smith, Gemma 27
Archives 3 Eich, Matt 33 Lixenberg, Dana 37 Society Machine, The 32
Archive Species: Bodies, Habits, El Croquis 2 Lloyd Wright, Frank 5 Souto de Moura, Eduardo 7
Practices 53 Ellberg, Carin 26 London 1938 32 Spain Yearbook 2018 12
Arcipelago Italia 11 Everyday Flower Arrangements Loos, Adolf 20 Stankiewicz, Małgorzata 34
Arquitectura Viva 20 in Kyoto 59 Log 22 Stitching Worlds 54
Art and Design – Dialogue with Everyday Wonders 14 Lozano, Lee 23 Strange, Hugh 7
Materials 55 Food is Fiction 51 Luganskaia, Lilia 36 Strategy – Activators 3
Art of Hanamasa, The 59 Fox, Michael James 44 MacGuffin 58 Suter, Batia 23
Atlas of the Copenhagens 17 Frank, Tony 41 Mailaender, Thomas 38 Tane, Tsuyoshi 4
AV Monographs 12 Frey, Mary 35 Make it Anew 15 Terpstra, Rein Jelle 33
AV Proyectos 20 From Eastern Europe 49 McBride, Rita 26 Teunissen, Bert 45
Back Office 51 Fujimoto, Sou 8 Mirroring Effects 19 Thévenau, Carine 43
Bakker, Taco Hidde 45 Fujimura, Ryūji 4 Modern Japanese Posters 50 Tonus, Diego 24
BAST 9 Fukuda, Toshiyuki 61 MONU 22 Transcendental Architecture 13
Bax, Marijn 41 Future of the New, The 48 Mori, Chihiro 25 Tupera Tupera 61
Birkle, Christine 53 Geboers, Nick 45 Morvan, Yann 44 Unlearning Exercises 47
Borland, Polly 41 Geene, Anne 44 Most Beautiful Swiss Books, Unseen Magazine 46
Brandlhuber+ 2 GENS 9 The 49 Useful Photography 46
Byobu Card Book 61 Gray, Eileen 5 Motif Magazine, The 54 Utzon, Jørn 12
C3 Magazine 13 Gremmen, Hans 29 MVRDV 20 Van Beek, Ruth 37
Cabin Fever 14 Hagai, Dafy 42 NASA 50 Van den Elzen, Sanne 43
Caccia Dominioni, Luigi 14 Handbook of Methods for New Schools of Thought 18 Van der Stokker, Lily 28
Campers, Jim 34 Architecture and Urban Design Nicolai, Olaf 31 Van Eeghen, Hester 52
Carmody Groarke 2 18 Nori, Claude 42 Van Kesteren, Geert 40
Case Design 10 Heinrich, Rosie 30 OASE 21 Vanoverberghe, Sybren 38
Castiglioni, Achille 55 Hidden Landscapes 17 Objective Netherlands 17 Viktor & Rolf 52
Cats in Art 57 Hirata, Akihisa 4 One Thousand and One Handbags Vogel, Anouk 7
Champassak, Tiane Doan na 42 Hirayama, Masanao 29 52 Volume 22
Charrière, Julian 34 Hoek, Jan 39 Otte, Samuel and Henk 35 Wardle, John 11
Christiaanse, Kees 18 Honda, Sae 25 O, Wonder! Magazine 58 Watanabe, Chikako 23
City Made 16 Horiki, Eriko 9 Pacquée, Ria 26 Weinberger, Karlheinz 39
City with a Hidden Past 16 In and Out of Fashion 53 Peake, Nigel 27 Weiwei, Ai 25
Claus Porto 51 Infinite Places 10 Perrault, Dominique 6 Wolukau-Wanambwa, Stanley 33
Coghlan, Tim 40 Inside: Axelsson. Bohlin. Ponti, Giò 8 Wolzak, Thijs 36
Cole, Stijn 29 Theselius. 56 Porocity 15 Works and Words 31
Collection for the Poor Collector, Inventario 56 Practicing Art Internationally Wylie, Rose 24
The 30 It’s My Own 52 47 Zago, Andrew 40
Communicado! 60 JA 21 Premsela, Benno 55 Zevi’s Architects 8
Complex Buildings 3 Joke Book, The 60 Princen, Bas 43
Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Kagami, Ken 57 Promontorio: Architecture of
Perspective 47 Kameyama, Ryo 37 Leisure 21
Copers, Leo 28 Katz Thor, Rebecca 48 Real Urbanism 16
Cross-dressers in Ukiyo-e 32 Kelley, Mike 24 Remember in Architecture 13
Dear Howard 48 Kessels, Erik 39 Renewal of Dwelling, The 14
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