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This bookstore brings together our print and electronic publications—two components of our efforts to catalyze dialogue in contemporary debates about architecture—alongside selected titles from other publishers we are following.
AP205 Amancio Williams: Readings of the Archive by Studio Muoto, Claudia Shmidt, and Pezo von Ellrichshausen
AP205 Amancio Williams is dedicated to the work of Argentinian architect Amancio Williams (1913‒1989), one of the key figures of modern architecture in Latin America. The vast output of projects and proposals produced by his office from the 1940s‒1980s is...
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Alina, Barbara, Halina, Helena, Zofia
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Alina, Barbara, Halina, Helena, Zofia
Aglaia Konrad’s work often takes the form of a book, each conceived as an edited archive of the ways in which she uses photography to investigate urban landscapes. Two of her book projects were part of The Lives of Documents—Photography...
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ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui / Towards Home: Inuit and Sámi Placemaking
ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ (angirramut) in Inuktitut or ruovttu guvlui in North Sámi mean “towards home.” To move towards home is to reflect on where Sámi people and Inuit find home, on what their connections to their lands means, and on what these relationships could...
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Alina, Barbara, Halina, Helena, Zofia
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Alina, Barbara, Halina, Helena, Zofia
Aglaia Konrad’s work often takes the form of a book, each conceived as an edited archive of the ways in which she uses photography to investigate urban landscapes. Two of her book projects were part of The Lives of Documents—Photography...
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Toyo Ito with Koji Ichikawa and others – Meanwhile in Japan
In this new volume of the CCA Singles presenting the Meanwhile in Japan conversations, Toyo Ito sat with a group of young architects and academics to discuss how his early work of the 1970s and 1980s took a radical approach...
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Hiroshi Hara with Mikio Wakabayashi and others - Meanwhile in Japan
In the fifth volume of the CCA Singles series, Hiroshi Hara is in conversation with Mikio Wakabayashi. He revisits his publications from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s on architectural principles—“porous body” theory, “floating architecture,” and “homogeneous space”—and on the...
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Building a new New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture
Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. In Building a new New World, Jean-Louis...
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Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War
Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War documents the extensive contribution of architecture to the Second World War, and considers how it questioned architectural methods and fundamental structures, and lead to the supremacy of modernism.This publication...
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Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960
Tracing the origins of Americanism back to the late nineteenth century, Scenes of the World to Come focuses on the European discovery of the American city—with its grand hotels, skyscrapers, and massive industrial plants, its new-found sense of efficiency and...
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Architectural Botany: A Conversation with William Balée on Constructed Forests
Environmental Histories of Architecture presents the work of eight researchers who each analyze specific environmental relations, crises, and reforms and demonstrate how society and the environment have been co-constructed, represented, and lived in their respective geographies. While their essays are...
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Interspecies Encounters: Design (Hi)stories, Practices of Care, and Challenges
Environmental Histories of Architecture presents the work of eight researchers who each analyze specific environmental relations, crises, and reforms and demonstrate how society and the environment have been co-constructed, represented, and lived in their respective geographies. While their essays are...
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Circulating Asbestos: The International AC Review, 1956–1985
Environmental Histories of Architecture presents the work of eight researchers who each analyze specific environmental relations, crises, and reforms and demonstrate how society and the environment have been co-constructed, represented, and lived in their respective geographies. While their essays are...
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Carrousel confessions, Confusion 1: René Heyvaert, Luc Deleu, Dominikus Böhm
In this series of books curated by Zürich-based Studio Jan De Vylder, international architects reflect on important buildings, gardens, books and moments in their lives and careers. The first set in this series includes three zines, with Jan De Vylder...
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Melting landscapes: Site and sound observations of the Morteratsch Glacier
Collective long-term documentation of the rapidly melting Morteratsch glacier in the Swiss alps through underwater and contact field recordings, and analogue photography. Recorded during the summers and winters of 2015-2018. Rapid ice melt has been profoundly shaping the alpine region...
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FurkArt ephemera
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FurkArt ephemera
Conçu par Thomas Rodriguez, Furkart ephemera réunit des documents de communication édités par Marc Hostettler, galeriste à Neuchâtel et initiateur de Furkart. Cartes postales, communiqués de presse, programmes, dossiers de travail, l’ensemble est imprimé à l’échelle 1 et, suivant la...
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Ce que disent les pierres
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Ce que disent les pierres
Ce que disent les pierres ? Une fiction collective née de l'association de sept artistes suite à une catastrophe naturelle. Ou comment proposer, face à la désolation, un manifeste pour l'imaginaire.. En octobre 2020, la tempête Alex s'abattait sur le...
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Do glaciers listen? Local knowledge, colonial encounters, and social imagination
"Do glaciers listen?" explores the conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and cultural histories are objectively entangled in the Mount Saint Elias ranges. This rugged area, where Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory now meet, underwent significant...
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Reliefs n.18 : Glaciers
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Reliefs n.18 : Glaciers
" Quand la terre était de glaces " par Gilles Ramstein ; " La fonte des glaces " par Etienne Berthier ; " Une histoire humaine des glaciers " par Frédérique Rémy ; entretien avec Heïdi Sevestre Extraits littéraires illustrés...
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ARCH+ The business of architecture
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ARCH+ The business of architecture
This publication examines the economic conditions of architecture, which are all too often disregarded in the day-to-day life of people working in the profession. The focus is on contracts, jobs, and office structures, on profitability and phases in the construction...
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Architecture / Astrologie
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Architecture / Astrologie
Les chroniques écrites par Dan Graham pour la revue Domus en 2011-2012, dressant des portraits de ses architectes favoris sous l'angle de leur signe astral, traduites par Alexandra Midal, illustrées par des dessins de Mieko Meguro, compagne de l'artiste. « Je me suis souvent...
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Ruth van Beek: Dishes for dolls
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Ruth van Beek: Dishes for dolls
Dishes for Dolls is a sort of spin-off of The Oldest Thing. Based on this previous book, published in 2023 (now out of print), Ruth van Beek created a new selection of images from her archives, focusing on doll dishes....
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Le fantôme de l'architecte
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Le fantôme de l'architecte
L’histoire moderne de l’architecture, cette faiseuse de rêves, n’est pas seulement jalonnée d’icônes. Dans l’ombre des plus grands chefs‑d’œuvre, sont tapies de saillantes absences. Enquêtes documentaires au rendu sensible, histoires vraies aux touches romanesques, dix textes relatent ici les plus...
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Défendre le logement : Nos foyers, leurs profits
Contrairement à ce que l’on pourrait croire, la crise du logement n’est pas causée par le manque d’unités locatives, des taux d’intérêts élevés ou une conjoncture économique défavorable. C’est l’état normal du marché immobilier en régime capitaliste. Telle est l’idée...
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Pin-Up Magazine 37: Museum
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Pin-Up Magazine 37: Museum
The PIN–UP Museum Issue! In this first in a series of guest-edited issues, curators Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen pose two essential questions: is The Museum a space that can nurture and inspire the imagination; or is it a place...
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Falling in: Movement and becoming in curatorial research
Published within the context of the Frame Curatorial Research Fellowship, Falling In brings together curatorial essays addressing the field’s performative, activist and communal dimensions, and highlighting the substantial amount of research beyond traditional academic circles. The essays delve into...
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Modernism in Africa: the architecture of Angola, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa 1930-1970
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Modernism in Africa: the architecture of Angola, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa 1930-1970
Many African countries are home to extraordinary architecture that is virtually unknown. There are interpretations of Art Deco, International Style, Brutalism as well as of African vernacular architecture. Climate-responsive buildings with a fluidity of interior and exterior spaces play a...
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