The architectural offices 51N4E and Rural Urban Framework operate at the seams of urbanization, with projects situated in transitional settlements in Ulaanbaatar, in the new vernacular of rural China, in the transforming centres of Western European cities and in Albania’s shifting public spaces. Comparing their research and design processes, The Things Around Us questions the extents and certainties of architecture against backdrops of unstable planetary urbanization, insecure economies and ecologies, and indeterminate notions of citizenship.

Edited by Francesco Garutti

Graphic design by NLF Team

Co-published with Jovis

Softcover, 248 pages

Related exhibition: The Things Around Us: 51N4E and Rural Urban Framework