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Furthering its mission to support the development and exchange of ideas about architecture and design, the Graham Foundation announces the award of 36 grants to organizations. These projects include exhibitions, publications, digital initiatives, and other public presentations led by organizations based in cities such as Accra, Buenos Aires, Colombo, London, New York, St. Louis, Toronto, and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based. Together, these organizations support the work of architects, artists, designers, critics, curators, scholars, and others, to explore new possibilities for the field and engage practitioners and publics worldwide.
The new grantees join a global network of organizations and individuals that the Graham Foundation has supported since its founding in 1956. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than $42 million in direct support to nearly 5,000 projects by organizations and individuals.
Learn more about each project by clicking the links below to explore a dedicated project page here.
EXHIBITIONS
a83 (New York, NY)
Architectural Image-Making in 1980s New York: The John Nichols Printmakers & Publishers Collection
Anyone Corporation (New York, NY)
Model Behavior
Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Himali Singh Soin: Static Range
The Arts Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Rathin Barman: Unsettled Structures
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (Culver City, CA)
Harpers Ferry: An Interpretive Epicenter
Counterpublic (St. Louis, MO)
Counterpublic 2023
Disponible (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Making Architecture Available, 2022–23 Program
Floating Museum (Chicago, IL)
Floating Monuments: Mecca Flats
LIGA—Space for Architecture (Mexico City, Mexico)
Arquitectura Para Dioses (Architecture for Gods)
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, at the Schindler House (West Hollywood, CA)
Seeking Zohn
Museum of Design Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip—Hop Architecture
Queens Museum (New York, NY)
Charisse Pearlina Weston: of [a] tomorrow: lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust.
Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL)
Echo, 10th Anniversary Ragdale Ring: Reconnecting to Our Roots
Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, NY)
On The Ground
Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH)
Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective
FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS
The Architectural League of New York (New York, NY)
Seeing the Whole: Design for Climate, Biodiversity, and Justice in a Complex and Dynamic World
Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (New York, NY)
New Angle: Voice
Society of Architectural Historians—Race and Architectural History Affiliate Group (Chicago, IL)
I Pity the Countries: Comparative Spatial Histories of Settler Colonialism, Race & Podcast
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL)
2022 Design Matters Conference
Mobile Makers Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Interdisciplinary and Intergenerational Design Summit
PUBLICATIONS
African Futures Institute (Accra, Ghana)
FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, Volume 3: 19.8
Bracket (Toronto, Canada)
Bracket [On Sharing]
California College of the Arts—Architecture Division (San Francisco, CA)
Reviewing Design Book Review
Concordia University Press (Montreal, Canada)
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical Playgrounds
The Experiment (New York, NY)
Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City
Faktur (University Park, PA)
Faktur: Documents and Architecture, Issues No. 4 and 5
Geoffrey Bawa Trust (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Drawing from the Geoffrey Bawa Archives
Goldsmiths College, London University—Centre for Research Architecture (London, United Kingdom)
Research Architecture: Provocations, Practices, and Propositions
Manifest Institute of the Americas (New York, NY)
Manifest: A Journal of the Americas, Issues 4–5
MAS Context (Chicago, IL)
MAS Context 34: AIR
New York Review of Architecture (New York, NY)
New York Review of Architecture, 2022
STUDENT-LED PUBLICATIONS
Paprika! (New Haven, CT)
Paprika! Volume VIII
Rice University—School of Architecture (Houston, TX)
PLAT 12.0
Texas Tech University—College of Architecture (Lubbock, TX)
CROP 10: YIELD
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles, CA)
POOL, Issue No. 08
University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (Chicago, IL)
Fresh Meat Journal 14
Upcoming Grant Application Deadlines
2023 Grants to Individuals: September 15, 2022
2023 Carter Manny Award: application available September 15, 2022; due November 15, 2022
2023 Grants to Organizations: application available January 13, 2023; due February 25, 2023
The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 56 new grants to individuals exploring new ideas—across disciplines—that expand contemporary understandings of architecture. Selected from an open call that resulted in nearly 500 submissions, the funded projects include research, exhibitions, publications, films, podcasts, digital initiatives, and other inventive formats that promote rigorous scholarship, stimulate experimentation, and foster critical discourse in architecture. The funded projects are led by 81 individuals, including established and emerging architects, artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, historians, and photographers, based in cities such as Buenos Aires, Argentina; Beijing, China; Buffalo, NY; Cape Town, South Africa; Kathmandu, Nepal; Lagos, Nigeria; New York, NY; Porto, Portugal; Praia, Cabo Verde; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based.
The new grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported since 1956. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than 42 million dollars in direct support to almost 5,000 projects by individuals and organizations. Learn more about each grantee project by clicking the links below.
EXHIBITIONS
Albert Brenchat-Aguilar (London, United Kingdom)
“As Hardly Found” in the Art of Tropical Architecture
Imani Jacqueline Brown (London, United Kingdom)
What remains at the ends of the earth?
Sarah Hearne (Los Angeles, CA)
Print Ready Drawings
Sophie Leddick and Edgar Orlaineta (Los Angeles, CA and Mexico City, Mexico)
Sack, mask and stick
Temitayo Ogunbiyi (Gwynedd, PA)
You will wonder if we would have been friends
Ala Tannir (New York, NY)
The Small Old House by the Sea
Krista Thompson (Evanston, IL)
Antonius Roberts: Art, Ecology, and Sacred Space
FILM, VIDEO, AND NEW MEDIA PROJECTS
saay/yaas: Anna Nnenna Abengowe, Patricia Anahory, and Mawena Yehouessi (Abuja, Nigeria; New York, NY; Paris, France; Praia, Cabo Verde)
her(e), otherwise
Helene Kazan (London, United Kingdom)
Frame of Accountability
Laila Kazmi (Elk Grove, CA)
Reaching New Heights: Fazlur Rahman Khan and The Skyscraper
Catalina Mejía Moreno and Huda Tayob (Cape Town, South Africa; Hove, United Kingdom)
Architectures of the South: Bruising, Remembering, Repairing
Mona Minkara (Boston, MA)
Planes, Trains, and Canes
PUBLICATIONS
Emanuel Admassu and Anita N. Bateman (Houston, TX and New York, NY)
Where is Africa
Ashley Bigham (Columbus, OH)
Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire
Marshall Brown (Princeton, NJ)
The Architecture of Collage
Louise Emily Carver and Angela Rui (Berlin, Germany and Milan, Italy)
Aquaria. Or the Illusion of a Boxed Sea
Jean-Louis Cohen (New York, NY)
Russia's Architecture 1861–1991: Poetics and Politics
Gustavo Diéguez, Felipe Mesa, and Ana Valderrama (Buenos Aires, Argentina; Champaign, IL; and Phoenix, AZ)
Design-Build Studios in Latin America: Teaching through a Social Agenda
Chris Dingwall, David Hartt, and Daniel Schulman (Chicago, IL; Hamtramck, MI; and Philadelphia, PA)
Black Designers in Chicago
David Escudero (Madrid, Spain)
Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy
Oxana Gourinovitch (Berlin, Germany)
National Theatre: Architecture of Soviet Modernism and Nation Building
Freyja Hartzell (New York, NY)
Richard Riemerschmid's Extraordinary Living Things
Renata Hejduk, Steven Hillyer, Kim Shkapich, and Jim Williamson (Lubbock, TX; New York, NY; Scottsdale, AZ; and Wellfleet, MA)
The Ethical Mirror: Architecture, Dissidence, and the Radical Imagination
Blair Kamin and Lee Bey (Chicago, IL)
Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago
Pamela Karimi (New Bedford, MA)
Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice
Indra Kagis McEwen (Montreal, Canada)
All the King's Horses: Vitruvius in an Age of Princes
Marina Otero Verzier (Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Evanescent Institutions: On the Politics of Temporary Architecture
Adair Rounthwaite (Seattle, WA)
This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb
Ozayr Saloojee and Jamie Vanucchi (Ithaca, NY and Ottawa, Canada)
Design Research for Uncertain Futures
Joel Sanders (New York, NY)
Stalled!: Inclusive Public Restrooms
Robin Schuldenfrei (London, United Kingdom)
Objects in Exile: Modernism across Borders, 1930–1960
Mark Shepard (Buffalo, NY)
There Are No Facts: Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (New York, NY)
Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement
Susan Slyomovics (Los Angeles, CA)
Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage
Gregor Stemmrich (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Dan Graham—Some Rockin’
Jo-ey Tang (San Francisco, CA)
arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified
André Tavares (Porto, Portugal)
Architecture Follows Fish
Beth Weinstein (Tucson, AZ)
Architecture + Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space, and Time
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Riff Studio: Rekha Auguste-Nelson, Farnoosh Rafaie, and Isabel Strauss (Cambridge, MA; New York, NY; and Northridge, CA)
Architecture of Reparations—Case Study House
Michelle Barrett and Chris Daemmrich (Kansas City, MO and New Orleans, LA)
Emergent Grounds for Design Education
Kimberly Juanita Brown (Manchester, CT)
Black Elegies
Fernanda Canales (Mexico City, Mexico)
If Women Made Cities: Expanding Coexistence
Dane Carlson, Sonam Lama, and Yungdrung Tsewang (Elsah, IL; Jomsom and Kathmandu, Nepal)
Landscape is Change: Doing the Work of Making Landscape across Time
Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Mengfan Wang, and Chen Zhan (Beijing, China and London, United Kingdom)
Ripple Ripple Rippling
Tonia Sing Chi (Oakland, CA)
Storytelling Spaces of Solidarity in the Asian Diaspora
Coleman Collins (New York, NY)
The (De)Ontological Oblique
Sharmyn Cruz Rivera and Danny Giles (Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Josephine's
Aria Dean (New York, NY)
Abattoir, U.S.A!
Marco Ferrari and Elise Misao Hunchuck (Milan, Italy)
Sky River
Joseph Giovannini (New York, NY)
Zaha: A Biography
Joseph R. Hartman (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Eye of the Hurricane: Politics of Art, Architecture, and Climate in the Modern Caribbean
Sara Hendren (Cambridge, MA)
The “Ideas Team” at Cherry Road: Day Centers, Cognitive Disability, and Reimagining the Art Therapy Encounter
Kelley Lemon (Champaign, IL)
Connections through the Black Agricultural Landscape
Nifemi Marcus-Bello (Lagos, Nigeria)
Africa—A Designer's Utopia
Sonal Mithal and Arul Paul (Ahmedabad and Mangalore, India)
Queering Nawabi Lucknow: Architecture and the Colonial Archive
Dahlia Nduom (Washington, DC)
Tourism, Tropicalization and the Architectural Image
Image: Yungdrung Tsewang, "Silt Deposits and Floodwaters in Lubra," 2022. Photograph, 3 x 5 in. Courtesy Yungdrung Tsewang From the 2022 individual grant to Dane Carlson, Sonam Lama, and Yungdrung Tsewang for "Landscape is Change: Doing the Work of Making Landscape across Time"
As 2021 comes to a close, we have been taking stock of all of the amazing work Graham Foundation grantees have continued to produce during these challenging times. As our grantees push the boundaries in almost every direction imaginable to introduce new stories and perspectives on architecture and design, we are extremely grateful for their intelligence, fortitude, and courage to change the field.
Their work comes in all forms: research, exhibitions, films, performances, publications, and new experimental modes of inquiry. As a sample of the abundance of projects produced by our grantees, we want to share the 100+ publications published by Graham grantees over the course of the last two years. To explore these titles visit our home page: grahamfoundation.org. We hope that they inspire you, provoke conversation, and spark even more ideas.
From everyone at the Graham Foundation we wish you a safe and happy new year and we look forward to sharing more grantee news with you in 2022.
Join us in congratulating the grantees that released new publications in 2020 and 2021: Stan Allen; Anyone Corporation; ar/ge kunst; The Architectural League of New York; Iwan Baan and Silvia Benedito; Daniel A. Barber; Bard Graduate Center Gallery; Juliana Rowen Barton, Michelle Millar Fisher, Zoë Greggs, Gabriella Nelson, and Amber Winick; Erin and Ian Besler; Anna Bokov; Andrea Branzi and Elisa C. Cattaneo; Larry D. Busbea; Canadian Centre for Architecture; Sara Jensen Carr; Michael Carriere and David Schalliol; Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, and Mabel O. Wilson; Lawrence Chua; Alison J. Clarke; Joseph L. Clarke; Columbia University—Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Kenny Cupers, Catharina Gabrielsson, and Helena Mattsson; Roberto Damiani; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum; Teresa Fankhänel; Fenester; Flat Out Inc.; Giulia Foscari; The Funambulist; Kersten Geers, Stefano Graziani, Joris Kritis, and Jelena Pancevac; Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, and Niloufar Tajeri; Prem Krishnamurthy with Céline Condorelli, Femke Herregraven, Grace Ndiritu, and Liz Jensen; Joseph Giovannini; The Green Lantern Press; Janina Gosseye, Naomi Stead, and Deborah van der Plaat; Vanessa Grossman and Ciro Miguel; Harvard University—Graduate School of Design; Haus der Kulturen der Welt; Jane King Hession; Jeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff; Ron Hunt, Matthew Stuart, and Andrew Walsh-Lister; Infranet Lab; Sharon Irish; Matthew Kennedy and Pep Avilés; Seng Kuan; Lampo; Lars Müller Publishers; Nana Last; Johana Londoño; Manifest; Alex Martínez Suárez; MAS Context; Brian McGrath and Sereypagna Pen; MIT Future Heritage Lab; Sarah M. Miller; The Museum of Modern Art; New York Review of Architecture; Office for Political Innovation (Andrés Jaque); Paprika!; Places Journal; Vikramaditya Prakash; Pricegore (Dingle Price and Alex Gore) and Yinka llori; Primary Information; Todd Reisz; Rice University—School of Architecture; The Richard H. Driehaus Museum; David K. Ross; Erin Eckhold Sassin; The School of Architecture; Christina Schwenkel; Steve Seid; Elisa Silva; Giovanna Silva; Katherine Smith; Society of Architectural Historians; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Penny Sparke; Standpunkte; Despina Stratigakos; Candacy Taylor; Thames & Hudson; Neyran Turan; University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design; University of Florida—Graduate School of Architecture; University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts; University of Maryland, College Park—School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; University of Miami—School of Architecture; University of Toronto—John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design; University of Utah—School of Architecture; Jessica Vaughn; WAI Architecture Think Tank (Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia); Folayemi Wilson
You can also learn more about a decade of grantee projects—nearly 1,000 projects—on their dedicated grantee pages by going to grantee projects in the menu on grahamfoundation.org
We are pleased to highlight a number of exhibitions currently open around the world that are supported by the Graham Foundation:
Alvaro Urbano: The Great Ruins of Saturn
On view at Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York) through February 26, 2022
The Architects Collaborative 1945–1995: Tracing a Diffuse Architectural Authorship
On view at pinkcomma (Boston) through February, 2022
Counter Gravity: The Films of Heinz Emigholz
On view at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) through December 20, 2021
DAAR Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti: Stateless Heritage
On view at The Mosaic Rooms (London) through January 30, 2022
The Design of Carpets That Design Us
On view at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal) through February 20, 2022
Florian Hecker: Resynthesizers
Organized by Equitable Vitrines and on view at Fitzpatrick-Leland House, MAK Center for Art and Architecture (Los Angeles) through March 13, 2022
Heather Hart: Afrotecture (Re)Collection
On view at The University at Buffalo Art Galleries (Buffalo) through May 21, 2022
Interior Landscape Residency: Twin Projects, Can I Hug You?
On view at Space P11 (Chicago) through February 28, 2022
Justice is Beauty: The Work of MASS Design Group
On view at National Building Museum (Washington, DC) through September 25, 2022
Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock
On view at Cranbrook Art Museum (Detroit) through March 20, 2022
Our Silver City, 2094
On view at Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham) through April 18, 2022
Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow
On view in New Orleans through January 23, 2022
SAY IT LOUD: NOMA 50th Exhibition
Organized by the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and on view at Detroit Historical Society (Detroit) through January 9, 2022
Image: Heather Hart, Sweet Lorraine, 2021, installation view, Heather Hart: Afrotecture (Re)Collection, 2021, University at Buffalo Art Galleries. Courtesy of the artist and Davidson Gallery. Photo: Nando Alvarez-Perez
Awarding innovative doctoral dissertation writing and research by emerging scholars of architecture and design
The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the 2021–22 Carter Manny Awards for outstanding doctoral dissertations on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. Caroline E. Murphy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning; History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art) is the recipient of the Carter Manny Writing Award, and Danya Epstein (Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts; Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture) is honored with the Carter Manny Research Award. These projects were selected by an external panel of scholars in addition to six citations of special recognition.
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Carter Manny Award program which has awarded 41 awards, 122 citations, and $936,000 since its establishment in 1996. The program—named for architect Carter H. Manny (1918–2017) and his contributions to the Graham Foundation, as founding trustee 1956, director 1993–71, and director emeritus—is the only pre-doctoral award dedicated to architectural scholarship and supports projects that are poised to impact how architecture is studied and practiced.
Panelists for the 2021–22 awards included: Jiat-Hwee Chang (Associate Professor and Deputy Head, Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore); Ateya A. Khorakiwala (Assistant Professor, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation); and Stephanie Whitlock (Executive Director, Architectural Heritage Center).
Below is the full list of the 2021–22 Carter Manny Award recipients and citations of special recognition. Learn more about the history of the award and browse a list of past winners here.
Caroline E. Murphy
Waters and Wealth: Rivers, Infrastructure, and the Territorial Imagination in Grand Ducal Tuscany, ca. 1549–1609
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning, Department of Architecture
History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art
Danya Epstein
Archival Ruins: Dennis Numkena and Hopi Art History
Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts
Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture
Seçil Binboğa
Scaling the Region: Visuality, Infrastructure, and the Politics of Design in Cold War Turkey
University of Michigan, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Architectural History and Theory
Carter Manny Writing Citation
Amy Chang
Architecture at the Edges of Empire: Seville, Manila, and the Formation of Spanish National Architecture, 16–17th Centuries
Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture
Carter Manny Research Citation
Chuan Hao (Alex) Chen
Biocontainment Architecture: Constructing Race at the Border of Emerging Diseases and the American Nation
University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology
Carter Manny Research Citation
Matthew Slaats
Infrastructures of the Marvelous: Exploring contemporary, Black grassroots social transformation in the Southern United States
University of Virginia, School of Architecture
Constructed Environment
Carter Manny Research Citation
Y. L. Lucy Wang
Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894–1949
Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Modern Architecture
Carter Manny Research Citation
Zhiyan Yang
Reinventing Architectural Culture in Post-Socialist China, 1979–2006
University of Chicago, Department of Art History
Modern and Contemporary Art, Asian Art
Carter Manny Writing Citation
Upcoming Deadline
2022–23 Carter Manny Award: November 15, 2021
Image: Gherardo Mechini, Map of the Chio Valley in Castiglion Fiorentino showing the Celone and Vingone Rivers, ca. 1580–1620. Ink and watercolor on paper, 345 x 470 mm. Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Piante dei Capitani di Parte Guelfa, Cartoni, XX/20. Courtesy the Ministero della Cultura, Archivio di Stato di Firenze. From the 2021–22 Carter Manny Writing Award dissertation, “Waters and Wealth: Rivers, Infrastructure, and the Territorial Imagination in Grand Ducal Tuscany, ca. 1549–1609,” by Caroline E. Murphy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning, Department of Architecture)
Deadline: November 15, 2020
The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2021 Carter Manny Award. PhD students must be nominated by their department to apply for the Carter Manny Award. The award is open to students officially enrolled in schools in the US and Canada, regardless of citizenship.
For the award guidelines, eligibility information, and application, click here.
The Graham Foundation is honored to announce the award of 52 new grants in support of critical projects that tackle contemporary issues, broaden historical perspectives, and explore the future of architecture and the designed environment through research, exhibitions, publications, films, digital initiatives, and other inventive formats. Selected from an open call for ideas that resulted in over 600 submissions last fall, the 2020 grantee cohort includes individuals working worldwide in cities such Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Bogotá, Columbia; Cape Town, South Africa; Lahore, Pakistan; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and US cities such as Atlanta, Georgia; Newport News, Virginia; and Chicago, Illinois, where the Graham Foundation is based.
As the Graham approaches 65 years of grantmaking and public programming in 2021, the Foundation seeks to continue to support diverse and challenging ideas about architecture by individuals working around the world. The international open call for applications is now live on the Graham Foundation’s website. Individuals must submit an inquiry form by September 15, 2020 to be considered for a 2021 grant.
To learn more about the 2020 grants to individuals, browse new grantee project pages here or go to the homepage of grahamfoundation.org.
Image: Photograph of Ethel Madison Bailey Furman (1893–1976) with fellow architects at the Hampton Institute’s “Negro Contractors’ Conference,” Richmond, Virginia, 1928. Courtesy the Ethel Bailey Furman, Papers and architectural drawings, 1928–2003, Accession 41145. Personal Papers Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. From the 2020 Individual grant to Jay Cephas for Black Architects Archive.
GRAHAM FOUNDATION GALLERIES AND BOOKSHOP TEMPORARILY CLOSED
Out of an abundance of caution, and in order to ensure the safety of our community and staff, the Graham Foundation galleries and bookshop are temporarily closed due to COVID-19. Additional updates will be posted on our website.
We encourage all to follow guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH). The Graham looks forward to your visit at a later time and have extended our current exhibition, Poured Architecture: Sergio Prego on Miguel Fisac, through July 25, 2020 in order to welcome future visitors and offer additional engagement opportunities.
Though the Madlener House is closed, please continue to connect with us on Instagram, Facebook (@GrahamFoundation), and Twitter (@GrahamFound). Read more about grantee projects, public programs, and grantmaking online and write to us at info@grahamfoundation.org.
The Graham wishes health and safety for all.
As 2019 comes to a close, the Graham Foundation celebrates an ambitious year. We awarded 126 grants to individuals and organizations globally—over $1M in funding—in addition to presenting three exhibitions and over 50 multidisciplinary events at the Madlener House in Chicago.
We are thrilled to share the more than 100 projects supported by our grantmaking program that were presented to the public around the world this year. Exploring questions about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society, these projects expand our understanding of the field by tackling diverse subjects and challenging conventions in formats such as exhibitions, events, films, performances, and publications.
Exhibitions currently on view:
...and other such stories, 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial
Curated by Yesomi Umolu, Graham Foundation Artistic Director; Sepake Angiama; and Paulo Tavares
Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Sep 19, 2019–Jan 5, 2020
Building for Us: Stories of Homesteading and Cooperative Housing
Nandini Bagchee and Marlisa Wise (2019 Grantees)
Interference Archive
New York, NY
Oct 17, 2019–Feb 2, 2020
Continental Divide
Curated by Matthew Coolidge and Aurora Tang
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (2018 Grantee)
Los Angeles, CA
Dec 6, 2019–Mar 15, 2020
Economy of Means
Curated by Éric Lapierre
Lisbon Architecture Trienniale (2018 Grantee)
Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia
Lisbon, Portugal
Oct 4, 2019–Jan 13, 2020
Hydrographic Auscultation Circuit
PANÓSMICO (Manolo Larrosa and Mariana Mañón)
LIGA–Space for Architecture (2019 Grantee)
Mexico City
Nov 28, 2019–Mar 1, 2020
In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury
Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Sheila Hicks, Clara Porset, and Cynthia Sargent
Curated by Zoë Ryan
Art Institute of Chicago (2019 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Sep 6, 2019–Jan 12, 2020
Julia Fish: bound by spectrum
Curated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm
DePaul Art Museum (2018 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Sep 12, 2019–Feb 23, 2020
Made in Tokyo: Architecture 1964–2020
Curated by Atelier Bow-Wow (Momoyo Kaijima and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto)
Japan Society (2018 Grantee)
Oct 11, 2019–Jan 26, 2020
A Receding Coast: The Architecture and Infrastructure of South Louisiana
Virginia Hanusik (2017 Grantee)
PhotoNOLA 2019
New Orleans, LA
Dec 14, 2019–Jan 5, 2020
Ruth Adler Schnee: Modern Designs for Living
Curated by Ian Gabriel Wilson
Cranbrook Art Museum (2019 Grantee)
Bloomfleld Hills, MI
Dec 14, 2019–Mar 15, 2020
Smuggling Architecture
Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow (2019 Grantees)
S AM Swiss Architecture Museum
Basel, Switzerland
Nov 16, 2019–Mar 15, 2020
Soft Schindler
Curated by Mimi Zeiger
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, at the Schindler House (2018 Grantee)
West Hollywood, CA
Oct 12, 2019–Feb 16, 2020
2019 Exhibitions:
Aquí vive gente: Museum of History and Community of Puerta de Tierra (Building Cycles series)
Brigada Puerta de Tierra (BPDT)
Curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy
Storefront for Art and Architecture (2019 Grantee)
Jun 1–Sep 7, 2019
Ashley Hunt: Degrees of Visibility
Ashley Hunt (2018 Grantee)
Pitzer College Art Galleries
Claremont, CA
Sep 14–Dec 6, 2019
Assaf Evron & Claudia Weber
Elmhurst Art Museum (2019 Grantee)
Elmhurst, IL
Feb 16–Apr 14, 2019
An Atlas of Commoning: Spaces of Collective Production
Curated by Stefan Gruber (2018 Grantee), Anh-Linh Ngo, Christian Hiller, Mirko Gatti, Max Kaldenhoff, and Elke aus dem Moore
Miller Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Jun 29–Sep 22, 2019
Attending Limits: The Constitution and Upkeep of the US–Mexico Border
Nathan Friedman (2017 Grantee)
Bibliowicz Gallery, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Mar 6–Apr 11, 2019
A Certain Kind of Life
Curated by Jimmy Carter, Abigail Chang, Francesco Marullo, and Agata Siemionow
School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago (2019 Grantee)
Cartuxa de Laveiras, Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Lisbon, Portugal
Oct 3–Dec 2, 2019
Colour Palace, Dulwich Pavilion 2019
Pricegore (Dingle Price and Alex Gore) and Yinka llori
Dulwich Picture Gallery (2019 Grantee)
Jun 12–Oct 20, 2019
Dark Matter: Celestial Objects as Messengers of Love in These Troubled Times
Folayemi (Fo) Wilson (2019 Grantee)
Curated by Allison Peters Quinn
Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
Mar 31–Jul 14, 2019
Directory of Portrayals
Sahra Motalebi (2019 Grantee)
Curated by Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley
Whitney Biennial 2019
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
Jul 10–Jul 23, 2019
¡El horizonte es nuestro!
Pedro&Juana
LIGA–Space for Architecture (2019 Grantee)
Mexico City, Mexico
Mar 7, 2019–May 31, 2019
Enough: The Architecture of Degrowth, Oslo Architecture Triennial 2019
Curated by Maria Smith, Matthew Dalziel, Phineas Harper, and Cecilie Sachs Olsen
Oslo Architecture Triennale (2019 Grantee)
Oslo, Norway
Sep 26–Nov 24, 2019
2019 Exhibit Columbus Exhibition
Landmark Columbus Foundation (2019 Grantee)
Columbus, IN
Aug 24–Dec 1, 2019
Geometry of Light
Luftwerk (Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero) with Iker Gil (2019 Grantees)
Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain
Feb 10–Feb 17, 2019
Farnsworth House, Plano, IL
Oct 11–Oct 13, 2019
How To Build a Lagoon with Just a Bottle of Wine?, 2nd Lagos Biennial
Curated by Antawan I. Byrd, Oyindamola Fakeye, and Tosin Oshinowo
Àkéte Art Foundation (2019 Grantee)
Independence House
Lagos Island, Nigeria
Oct 26–Nov 23, 2019
Interim Urbanism: Youth, Dwelling, City
N H D M (Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon) (2019 Grantees)
Curated by Jaeyong Lim and Francisco Sanin
Donuimun Museum Village, Collective City, 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism
Seoul, South Korea
Sep 7–Nov 10, 2019
Is This Tomorrow?
Curated by Lydia Yee, Trinidad Fombella, and Cameron Foote
Whitechapel Gallery (2018 Grantee)
London, United Kingdom
Feb 14–May 12, 2019
Alserkal Arts Foundation
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Nov 6–23, 2019
Jonathas de Andrade: One to One
Curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2018 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Apr 13–Aug 25, 2019
Karthik Pandian & Andros Zins-Browne: Atlas Unlimited (Acts V–VI)
Karthik Pandian and Andros Zins-Browne (2018 Grantees)
Curated by Yesomi Umolu
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Feb 1–Mar 17, 2019
Learning from Ice
Susan Schuppli
Curated by Tairone Bastien and Candice Hopkins
The Shoreline Dilemma, Toronto Biennial of Art (2019 Grantee)
Toronto, Canada
Sep 21–Dec 1, 2019
The Lie of the Land
Curated by Fay Blanchard, Tom Emerson, Niall Hobhouse, Sam Jacob, Gareth Jones, Anthony Spira, and Claire Louise Staunton
MK Gallery (2018 Grantee)
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Mar 16–May 26, 2019
Martin Puryear: Liberty/Libertà: US Pavilion, 58th International Art Exhibition
Curated by Brooke Kamin Rapaport
Madison Square Park Conservancy (2019 Grantee)
Venice, Italy
May 11–Nov 24, 2019
Ministry for All (Building Cycles series)
Carla Juaçaba and Marcelo Cidade
Curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy
Storefront for Art and Architecture (2019 Grantee)
New York, NY
Sep 21–Dec 14, 2019
Now What?! Advocacy, Activism, and Alliances in American Architecture since 1968
Curated by Lori A. Brown, Andrea J. Merrett, Sarah Rafson, and Roberta Washington
ArchiteXX (2019 Grantee)
Co-Prosperity Sphere
Chicago, IL
Sep 13–Oct 2, 2019
Oscar Tuazon: Water School
Curated by Steven L. Bridges
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (2018 Grantee)
East Lansing, MI
Jan 26–Aug 18, 2019
Robert Hutchison: Memory Houses (Casas de la Memoria)
Robert Hutchison (2019 Grantee)
Curated by Salvador Macias
Casa Luis Barragán
Mexico City, Mexico
Aug 10–Sep 30, 2019
Serpentine Pavilion 2019 by Junya Ishigami
Curated by Amira Gad and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Serpentine Galleries (2019 Grantee)
London, United Kingdom
Jun 21–Oct 6, 2019
Shoreline: Remembering a Waterfront Vision
Curated by Bryan Lee and Barbara Campagna
El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera (2019 Grantee)
Buffalo, NY
Oct 4–Nov 16, 2019
tórax
Escobedo Soliz
LIGA–Space for Architecture (2019 Grantee)
Mexico City, Mexico
Jul 25–Oct, 25 2019
Unit 1: 3583 Dubois Street
Anders Herwald Ruhwald (2016 Grantee)
Detroit, MI
Jun 22–Oct 15, 2019
về Huế
Cyril Eberle, Phi Yen Nguyen, Huong Dieu Pham, and Hoanh Tran (2018 Grantees)
Huế Museum of Fine Arts, Huế, Vietnam
Jul 20–Jul 29, 2019
Common 9, Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam
Aug 16–Aug 31, 2019
2019 Events:
Alfred Caldwell and the Performance of Democracy
Graham Resource Center and Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program, Illinois Institute of Technology (2017 Grantee)
S. R. Crown Hall, Chicago, IL
Emanuele Coccia, lecture
Mar 4, 2019
Architecture in Motion
Diane Simpson (2018 Grantee)
FD13 residency for the arts, Minneapolis, MN
Jun 1, 2019
Black Futurism: Creating a More Equitable Future, Black in Design Conference 2019
African American Student Union, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (2019 Grantee)
Gund Hall, Cambridge, MA
Oct 4–6, 2019
BlackSpaces: Brownsville
BlackSpace (2018 Grantee)
Playbook launch, Brownsville Heritage House, New York, NY
Dec 10, 2019
The Climavore Centre
Cooking Sections: Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe (2018 Grantee)
Celebratory Climavore Lunch
Jun 1, 2019
Curatorial Forum
Independent Curators International (2019 Grantee)
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Chicago, IL
Sep 18–21, 2019
Design Matters 2019 Conference
Association of Architecture Organizations (2019 Grantee)
Chicago Architecture Center, Chicago, IL
Nov 6–9, 2019
LAMPO 2019 Concert Series
Lampo (2019 Grantee)
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, IL
Pita, Mar 16, 2019
James Hoff, Apr 27, 2019
Anthony Pateras, Jun 8, 2019
Roc Jiménez De Cisneros, Nov 9, 2019
Catherine Lamb & Rebecca Lane, Dec 14, 2019
Caterina Barbieri, Nov 18, 2019
Copresented with the Chicago Architectural Biennial
Chicago Cultural Center
Metro Test Zones
The Extrapolation Factory: Elliott P. Montgomery & Chris Woebken (2019 Grantee)
The Shed, New York, NY
Aug 17, 2019
Notes on Territory
Anna Martine Whitehead (2019 Grantee)
Green Line Performing Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Nov 22–24, 2019
Plan the Planet, AA Events Open Seminar
Organised by John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog (Territorial Agency)
Architectural Association (2014 Grantee)
Climate Summit, Oct 4, 2019
Session 1: How to think with others?, Oct 7, 2019
Session 2: Can we control the planet?, Oct 14, 2019
Session 3: What is a state of nature? - Green is not a colour, Oct 21, 2019
Session 4: Anthropocene: when are we?, Nov 4, 2019
Session 5: What is a revolution?, Nov 11, 2019
Session 6: How do we confront a world on fire? - Design and The Green New Deal on a
Warming Planet, Nov 18, 2019
Session 7: Is law from the Holocene?, Nov 25, 2019
Session 8: Climate Peace, Dec 2, 2019
Re: Housing: Detroit
A. Alfred Taubman College Of Architecture And Urban Planning, University Of Michigan (2019 Grantee)
A. Alfred Taubman Wing Commons, Ann Arbor, MI
Sep 12–13, 2019
2019 Films:
Don’t let me sw[EAT]
François Roche (2019 Grantee)
MEDIUM Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts and Design
Bratislava, Slovakia
May 24–28, 2019
Fields of Neutrality: The Last Interview with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Dani Gal (2019 Grantee)
Weissenhof City: The History and Present of the Future of a City
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Jun 7––Oct 20, 2019
Fly Me To the Moon
Esther Figueroa and Mimi Sheller (2016 Grantees)
University of the West Indies
Mona, Jamaica
Nov 9, 2019
Last Night I Saw You Smiling
Davy Chou and Kavich Neang (2018 Grantees)
IFFR, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Jan 23, 2019
Leaving Delhi
Etienne Desrosiers (2015 Grantee)
Montréal International Festival of Films on Art
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Montreal, Canada
Mar 22, 2019
The New Bauhaus
Alysa Nahmias, Petter Ringbom, Marquise Stillwell & Erin Wright (2018 Grantees)
Architecture & Design Film Festival, New York, NY
Oct 16, 2019
Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Oct 17, 2019
2019 Online Publications:
Future Archive
Places Journal (2014 Grantee)
Jeffrey Kastner, “The Domestication of the Garage”
Garrett Dash Nelson, “An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning”
2019 Podcasts:
The Funambulist Podcast
Produced by Léopold Lambert (2015 Grantee)
Podcast 128: Fatma Tounsi And Marie Northroup, “A Resistance Movement Against
the Racist Danish ‘ghetto’ Laws”
Podcast 129: Tshepo Madlingozi, “There Is Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation In South
Africa”
Podcast 130: Madonna Thunder Hawk And Marcella Gilbert, “A Recent History of
Indigenous Resistance in Turtle Island”
Podcast 131: Nadia Ben Youssef, “Spreading the Decolonial Spirit of Bandung from
Tunisia to Turtle Island”
Podcast 132: Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, “Diasporic Archives vs. Colonial Archives”
Night White Skies
Produced by Sean Lally (2017 Grantee)
Episode 055: Chris Mcalorum, “The Enabled Landscape”
Episode 056: Bradley Cantrell, “AI and Wildness”
Episode 057: Catherine Bliss, “Sociogenomics”
Episode 058: Perry Kulper, “Architecture Black Box”
Episode 059: Edward Tenner, “The Efficiency Paradox”
Episode 060: Rachel Armstrong, “Far From Equilibrium”
Episode 061: Mark A. Cheetham, “Land Art / Eco Art”
Episode 062: Neil M. Denari, “Career Arcs”
Episode 063: Nancy Y. Kiang, “The Color Of Plants On Other Worlds”
Episode 064: Alexander Eisenschmidt, “The Good Metropolis”
Episode 065: Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, “How Emotions Are Made”
Episode 066: Jo Lindsay Walton, “Strange Economics”
2019 Carter Manny Award Dissertation:
Modernism’s Politics of Land: Settlement Colonialism and Migrant Mobility In the German Empire, from Prussian Poland to German Namibia, 1884–1918
Hollyamber Kennedy (2016 Grantee)
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
2019 Publications:
Aldo Rossi and the Spirit of Architecture
Diane Yvonne Ghirardo (2018 Grantee)
Yale University Press
...and other such stories, 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial
Edited by Yesomi Umolu, Graham Foundation Artistic Director; Sepake Angiama; and Paulo Tavares
Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019 Grantee)
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Architecture as Measure
Neyran Turan (2018 Grantee)
Actar Publishers
Architecture of Appropriation: On Squatting as Spatial Practice
Edited by René Boer, Marina Otero Verzier, and Katía Truijen
Het Nieuwe Instituut (2017 Grantee)
Art for People′s Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965–1975
Rebecca Zorach (2015 Grantee)
Duke University Press
An Atlas of Commoning: Places of Collective Production
Edited by Stefan Gruber (2018 Grantee)
Arch+ & Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. (ifa)
Bodybuilding
Edited by Charles Aubin and Carlos Mínguez Carrasco
Performa (2017 Grantee)
Building for Us: Stories of Homesteading and Cooperative Housing
Edited by Nandini Bagchee and Marlisa Wise (2019 Grantees)
Interference Archive
Building Subjects
De Peter Yi (2016 Grantee)
Standpunkte
Buildings and Almost Buildings: nARCHITECTS
Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang (2018 Grantees)
Actar Publishers
Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style, 1860–1945
Charles L. Davis II (2015 Grantee)
University of Pittsburgh Press
The City of Broken Windows
Hito Steyerl (2018 Grantee)
Skira
Constructing Imperial Berlin: Photography and the Metropolis
Miriam Paeslack (2015 Grantee)
University of Minnesota Press
Dictator's Dreamscape: How Architecture and Vision Built Machado's Cuba and Invented Modern Havana
Joseph R. Hartman (2018 Grantee)
University of Pittsburgh Press
Faktur: Documents and Architecture, Issue No. 2
Edited by Matthew Kennedy and Pep Avilés (2019 Grantees)
Faktur
FOLIO: Journal of African Architecture, Volume 2: Noir Radical
Edited by Lesley Lokko
Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg (2018 Grantee)
Fresh Meat Journal, Issue X (FM X): Towards a Familiar Architecture
Edited by Henry Prendergast and Isabelle Reford
College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago (2018 Grantee)
The Good Metropolis: Between Urban Formlessness and Metropolitan Architecture
Alexander Eisenschmidt (2015 Grantee)
Birkhäuser
Gordon Matta-Clark: Physical Poetics
Frances Richard (2018 Grantee)
University of California Press
Gross Ideas–Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture
Edited by Edwina Attlee, Maria Smith, and Phineas Harper
Oslo Architecture Triennale (2019 Grantee) in collaboration with the Architecture Foundation and the Oslo Region alliance
Imagining Eurasia: Visualizing a Continental History
Kyong Park (2017 Grantee)
L Nour Editions
Imagining the Modern: Postwar Urbanism and Architecture in Pittsburgh
Edited by Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo, and Rami el Samahy (2018 Grantee)
The Monacelli Press
Improvised Cities: Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru
Helen Geyger (2017 Grantee)
University of Pittsburgh Press
In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury
Edited by Zoë Ryan (2018 Grantee)
Yale University Press
Inside the Matrix: The Radical Designs of Ken Isaacs
Susan Snodgrass (2019 Grantee)
Half Letter Press
Is This Tomorrow?
Edited by Lydia Yee
Whitechapel Gallery (2018 Grantee)
Jacques and Jacqueline Groag, Architect and Designer: Two Hidden Figures of the Viennese Modern Movement
Ursula Prokop
DoppelHouse Press (2018 Grantee)
Jonathas de Andrade: One to One
José Esparza Chong Cuy
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2018 Grantee)
(Copublished with Penguin Random House & DelMonico Books)
Julia Fish: bound by spectrum
Edited by Julie Rodrigues Widholm
DePaul Art Museum (2018 Grantee)
Junya Ishigami: Serpentine Pavilion 2019
Edited by Amira Gad and Natalia Grabowska
Serpentine Galleries (2018 Grantee) and Walther König
The Lie of the Land
Edited by Fay Blanchard, Gerrie van Noord, and Anthony Spira
MK Gallery (2018 Grantee)
Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, Issues 45, 46, and 47
Edited by Cynthia Davidson
Anyone Corporation (2018 Grantee)
Martin Puryear: Liberty/Libertà
Brooke Kamin Rapaport
Madison Square Park Conservancy (2019 Grantee) and Gregory R. Miller & Co.
Memory Houses (Casas de la Memoria)
Robert Hutchison (2019 Grantee)
Arquine
A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change
Marco Ferrari, Elisa Pasqual, and Andrea Bagnato (2019 Grantee)
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City & ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
A *New* Program for Graphic Design
David Reinfurt (2018 Grantee)
Inventory Press
New Geographies 10: Fallow
Edited by Michael Chieffalo and Julia Smachylo
Harvard Graduate School of Design (2018 Grantee) and Actar Publishers
The Number of Inches Between Them
Gordon Hall (2018 Grantee)
MIT List Visual Arts Center
Oblique Time with Claude Parent
Mai Abu ElDahab, Claude Parent, and Benjamin Seror (2016 Grantee)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews
Allyson Vieira (2017 Grantee)
Soberscove Press
The Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Candacy Taylor (2015 Grantee)
Abrams
Paprika! Volume V
Edited by Camille Chabrol, Deo Deiparine, Helen Farley, and Michael Glassman
Paprika! (2019 Grantee)
Poetry Jazz: Wax and Gold
Edited by Olafur Eliasson, Eric Ellingsen, and Christina Werner (2015 Grantees)
Institut für Raumexperimente
POOL, Issue No. 4: Nostalgia
Department of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles (2018 Grantee)
Powerhouse: The Life and Work of Judith Chafee
Christopher Domin and Kathryn McGuire (2018 Grantees)
Princeton Architectural Press
PRAXIS, Issue 15: Bad Architectures
Edited by Amanda Reeser Lawrence, Ashley Schafer, and Irina Verona
Praxis, Inc. (2019 Grantee)
Projects and Their Consequences
Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto (2015 Grantees)
Princeton Architectural Press
The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s
Larry D. Busbea (2019 Grantee)
University of Minnesota Press
The Revolution will be Stopped Halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria
Jason Oddy (2017 Grantee)
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction at Fifty
Edited by David B. Brownlee and Martino Stierli
The Museum of Modern Art (2019 Grantee)
Ruth Adler Schnee: Modern Designs for Living
Edited by Ian Gabriel Wilson
Cranbrook Art Museum (2019 Grantee)
Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side
Lee Bey
Northwestern University Press (2019 Grantee)
Space Settlements
Fred Scharmen (2018 Grantee)
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research
Edited by Janina Gosseye, Naomi Stead, and Deborah van der Plaat (2018 Grantees)
Princeton Architectural Press
WASH Magazine, Issue 003
Edited by Jessica Martin, Nelson Schleiff, Michael Simmons, Jan Sobotka, and Michele Yeeles
The School of Architecture at Taliesin (2019 Grantee)
X-Ray Architecture
Beatriz Colomina (2016 Grantee)
Lars Müller Publishers
The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 54 new grants to organizations that support projects internationally. Grantee projects include exhibitions, publications, films, and public programs that tackle urgent contemporary questions, illuminate historic work with new perspective, promote experimental research, and support critical conversations in and around architecture. These organizations are located in cities such as Berlin, Lagos, London, Oslo, São Paulo, Zurich, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based. The innovative projects are led by eminent and emerging architects, artists, curators, filmmakers, historians, and scholars, among others.
The new grantees join a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 63 years. In that time, the Foundation has awarded more than 4,600 grants in its role as one of the most significant funders in the field of architecture.
To learn more about the 2019 Grants to Organizations, click on any grantee name below to visit their online project page, or go here.
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EXHIBITIONS (19)
Àkéte Art Foundation (Lagos, Nigeria)
ArchiteXX (Syracuse, NY)
Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Chicago Architecture Biennial (Chicago, IL)
Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
Elmhurst Art Museum (Elmhurst, IL)
El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera (Buffalo, NY)
Equitable Vitrines (Los Angeles, CA)
Landmark Columbus Foundation (Columbus, IN)
LIGA–Space for Architecture (Mexico City, Mexico)
Madison Square Park Conservancy (New York, NY)
Materials & Applications (Los Angeles, CA)
National Building Museum (Washington, DC)
National Trust for Historic Preservation—Farnsworth House (Plano, IL)
Oslo Architecture Triennale (Oslo, Norway)
Serpentine Galleries (London, United Kingdom)
Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, NY)
Toronto Biennial of Art (Toronto, Canada)
University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (Chicago, IL)
FILM/VIDEO/NEW MEDIA PROJECTS (4)
Architectural Association School of Architecture (London, United Kingdom)
The Funambulist (Paris, France)
MASS Design Group (Boston, MA)
University of Chicago—South Side Home Movie Project (Chicago, IL)
PUBLIC PROGRAMS (6)
Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL)
Harvard University—Graduate School of Design—African American Student Union (Cambridge, MA)
Independent Curators International (New York, NY)
Lampo (Chicago, IL)
New Architecture Writers (London, United Kingdom)
University of Michigan—A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (Ann Arbor, MI)
PUBLICATIONS (25)
Anyone Corporation (New York, NY)
ETH Zurich—gta exhibitions (Zurich, Switzerland)
Flat Out Inc. (Chicago, IL)
Harvard University—Graduate School of Design—New Geographies (Cambridge, MA)
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, Germany)
Instituto Bardi/Casa de Vidro (São Paulo, Brazil)
The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
Northwestern University Press (Evanston, IL)
Paprika! (New Haven, CT)
Places Journal (San Francisco, CA)
PRAXIS, Inc. (Boston, MA)
Produzioni Nero Scrl (Rome, Italy)
REAL foundation (London, United Kingdom)
Rice University—School of Architecture (Houston, TX)
The School of Architecture at Taliesin (Scottsdale, AZ)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY)
Southern California Institute of Architecture (Los Angeles, CA)
Standpunkte (Basel, Switzerland)
The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY)
Terreform (New York, NY)
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles, CA)
University of Florida—Graduate School of Architecture (Gainesville, FL)
University of Maryland, College Park—School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (College Park, MD)
University of Miami—School of Architecture (Coral Gables, FL)
Yale University Press (New Haven, CT)
Image: Heinz Emigholz, still from Goff in the Desert (Goff in der Wüste): 2002–03. Copyright Heinz Emigholz and Filmgalerie 451. From the 2019 Graham Foundation Organizational Grant to Haus der Kulturen der Welt for the publication Counter Gravity: The Architecture Films of Heinz Emigholz
November 2019
Real Review 8
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REAL Foundation 2019 / $12.50
Softcover
To be against from within is to identify critical concentrations of power, become experts in their internal logic, then develop methods for inhabiting and altering their operations. It is to pursue strategies that instrumentalise the oppressors in service of the oppressed. It is by no means a clean path. Trojan Horse attitudes pose many questions about authenticity, autonomy, agency and honesty. Some contexts demand total stealth. However, without ideological transparency, there is little hope of systemic change. This requires a masterful control of seduction, desire and incentive; guiding by stages towards a radical idea. To play the game is now to game the system.
October 2019
Aldo Rossi and the Spirit of Architecture
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Diane Y. F. Ghirardo / Yale University Press 2019 / Graham Funded / $65
280p, ills 135 color & 5 b/w, Hardcover, English
This crucial reassessment of Aldo Rossi’s (1931–1997) architecture simultaneously examines his writings, drawings, and product design, including the coffeepots and clocks he designed for the Italian firm Alessi. Diane Ghirardo explores different categories of structures—monuments, public buildings, cultural institutions, theaters, and cemeteries—drawing significantly on previously unpublished archival materials and always keeping Rossi’s own texts in the forefront. By delving into the relationships among Rossi’s multifaceted life, his rich body of work, and his own reflections, this book provides a critical new understanding of Rossi’s buildings and the place of architecture in postwar Italy.
Buildings and Almost Buildings
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Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang, nARCHITECTS (eds.) / Actar 2019 / Graham Funded / $39.95
400p, ills color, Softcover, English
Is architecture inherently complete? Or is it a state of incompletion and seeming inadequacy that incites us to imagine architecture as an armature for an ever-changing daily life? Buildings and Almost Buildings explores the work of nARCHITECTS as a single project – an anti-monograph with a subtle manifesto about the open-ended, incomplete, and ambiguous in architecture. Structured around a variety of modes of representation specially prepared for the book, Buildings and Almost Buildings reveals the ways in which the celebrated New York office led by Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang addresses contemporary issues of a world in flux. Across a range of buildings, public spaces, and ephemeral installations, nARCHITECTS argues for the formal and social potential of an architecture that remains somehow incomplete and ambiguously perceived—or in the authors’ words, Almost Buildings.
Decoding Dictatorial Statues
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Bernke Klein Zandvoort (ed.) / Onomatopee 2019 / $35
192p, ills 210 bw, Paperback, English
In the words of Hannah Arendt, “Half of politics is image-making, the other half is the art of making people believe the image.” From South Africa to Charlottesville, heated discussions over statues, their removal and their vandalism frequently make the news. Decoding Dictatorial Statues, a project by Korean graphic design researcher Ted Hyunhak Yoon, is a collection of images and texts exploring the visual rhetoric of statues in public space. How can we decode statues and their languages, their objecthood and materiality, their role as media icons and their voice in political debates? The book responds to urgent concerns about the representation of our heritage by not only asking us to examine what history gets put on a pedestal, but also to consider the visual rhetoric of the statue itself.
Para-Platforms: On the Spatial Politics of Right-Wing Populism
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Markus Miessen and Zoë Ritts (eds.) / Sternberg Press 2019 / $24.95
208p, ills 11 color 25 bw, Paperback, English
Para-Platforms investigates the social, spatial, and material reality of right-wing populism. Three case studies—presented in a symposium organized by Markus Miessen at the Gothenburg Design Festival in November 2017—form the core from which this collection of essays has grown: journalist Hannes Grassegger on Trump and Brexit; architectural theorist Stephan Trüby on spaces of right-wing extremism in Germany; and Christina Varvia on Forensic Architecture's investigation of the murder of Halit Yozgat, a young German man of Turkish descent, at the hands of a far-right group in 2006. The presentations are reproduced along with the ensuing conversations with Miessen and the audience members.
Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People
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Mateo Kries, Jolanthe Kugler, Khushnu Hoof (eds.) / Vitra Design Museum & Wüstenrot Foundation 2019 / $85
400p, ills 450 color, Hardcover English
Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People presents the first comprehensive survey of this groundbreaking architect’s oeuvre in over 20 years. With a complete overview of all of Doshi’s projects, it provides insights into the inspiration behind his work and the background to his projects through essays written by outstanding experts in the field. The richly illustrated book is further supplemented by an interview with the architect, an illustrated biography and new photographs that document the impressive timeliness of the Indian master's buildings.
August 2019
São Paulo A Graphic Biography
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Felipe Correa / University of Texas Press 2018 / $65
348 pgs, 420 color and b&w ills, English
This extensively illustrated, bilingual English-Portuguese volume traces the physical development of Brazil’s largest city and presents a blueprint for transforming its aging industrial areas into mixed-use affordable housing districts.
W E B Du Bois's Data Portraits
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Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Britt Rusert / Princeton Architectural Press 2018 / $29.95
144 p, ills color, hardcover, English
The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois offered a view into the lives of black Americans, conveying a literal and figurative representation of "the color line." From advances in education to the lingering effects of slavery, these prophetic infographics —beautiful in design and powerful in content—make visible a wide spectrum of black experience.
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits collects the complete set of graphics in full color for the first time, making their insights and innovations available to a contemporary imagination. As Maria Popova wrote, these data portraits shaped how "Du Bois himself thought about sociology, informing the ideas with which he set the world ablaze three years later in The Souls of Black Folk.
Eileen Gray - Jean Badovici: E1027 House By The Sea
Editors / Editions Imbernon 2015 / $46
136 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 27 cm, pb, French/English
L’Architecture vivante’, the French-language quarterly magazine for avant-garde architecture, was published in France from 1923 to 1932. In 2006 Editions Imbernon published the first identical reissue of a famous special edition of the magazine, the 1929 winter issue devoted to E.1027 House by the Sea, the iconic villa designed by Eileen Gray. At the time this was within the context of the rescue and restoration of the villa, initiated by the Fondation Le Corbusier and the French Ministry of Culture, among others. This second reissue, published in 2015 and with English translations of the original French texts, marks a new phase for the site as it is opened to the public.
Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson / University of Texas Press 2018 / Graham Grantee / $45
336 pages, 161 b&w photos, 20 b&w maps
Presenting the first English translation of Burle Marx’s “depositions,” this volume highlights the environmental advocacy of a preeminent Brazilian landscape architect who advised and challenged the country’s military dictatorship.
Amie Siegel Ricochet
Ulrike Groos and Sven Beckstette (eds.) / Prestel 2019 / $38.84
192 p, pb, English
This book presents the film, performance, and works on paper of Amie Siegel from her two exhibitions, Black Moon and Ricochet, at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.
Harvard Design Magazine 47 Inside Scoop
Jennifer Sigler (ed.) / Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2019 / $16
240p, ills color & bw, Paperback, English
The 47th issue of Harvard Design Magazine is a renewed call to expand the architectural imagination to the interior. We go inside to consider the interior’s equipment and furnishings; its textures, colors, and atmospheres; its relationships with the body and the senses; and its potential to organize and influence human behavior, health, and everyday life.
Highlighting and reflecting on Harvard Design Magazine’s archive, and presenting innovative approaches to interior spaces past and present, “Inside Scoop” opens up the magazine as an interior itself, one housing vital objects of thought.
A+U 582 19:03 Alvaro Siza And Eduardo Souto De Moura
Shinkenchiku-sha 2019 / $38.50
192 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
Eduardo Souto de Moura was still an architecture student in 1974 when he became more closely acquainted with Álvaro Siza. The completion of their first project together shortly thereafter marked the start of a lasting friendship. Souto de Moura worked with Siza until 1979, when the opportunity arose for him to devote himself to his own projects. Both had learned the possibility of rethinking the legacy of modernism in a critical way. But in revisiting 20th century architecture, Siza tended towards organicist preferences, while Souto de Moura’s path reflected more rationalist tendencies. This issue examines a number of recent works by both architects, plus three recent collaborations.
Japan In Architecture - Genealogies Of Its Transformation
$60
324 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, hb, Japanese/English
As in the eponymous exhibition at Mori Art Museum, this volume examines the characteristics of ancient and classical Japanese architecture in a very ambitious attempt to elucidate the major currents of the nation’s architecture from the perspectives of how its genealogies have spread internationally, the pioneering figures in the process, and the mechanisms behind the continued expansion of these genealogies today. It documents 100 projects across nine thematic sections, including materials, models, documents, and interactive installations. Nine stories which are ultimately hypothetical ones, in hopes that they will lead to new discussions and visions for the future of Japan.
JA113 Reprint Edition Expo '70
Shinkenchiku-sha 2019 / $35
176 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
In the midst of the turbulent 1960s, when the world was undergoing radical shifts in cultural values, Expo ’70 was conceived, planned, and executed in Osaka. The master plan for the site was created by Kenzo Tange and Uzo Nishiyama. They were aware of the imminent transition from an industrial to an information society, and the emphasis changed from hardware exhibits to software-inspired environments. The question arose whether architecture can function as a communication media, or even if it should. In a few years, Osaka will host World Expo 2025. This issue looks back at selected articles originally published in ‘Shinkenchiku’ (May 1970) and in ‘JA’ (May/June English edition).
Architectural Logos
Counter-print (ed.) / $13
108 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 15 cm, pb, English
'Architectural Logos' contains a wonderful selection of logos, trademarks, and symbols from around the world formed of architectural elements such as houses, buildings, windows, stairs, and doors. The book is a collection of work from some of the most talented designers around the world including Anagrama, Bond Creative Agency, Civilization, Fuzzco, Garbett, Grand Deluxe, Stefan Kanchev, Lundgren+Lindqvist, Richard Robinson Design, and many more.
Brick Index
Patrick Fry (ed.) / Centrecentre 2019 / $34.50
190p, ills color & bw, Paperback, English
'Brick Index' is a collection of named bricks and the unseen makers' marks stamped by brickworks from across the UK. It celebrates the humble brick, relishing the textures, colours and graphics debossed into their 'frogs'. This collection serves to rethink a ubiquitous material and honour the graphic stamps hidden all around us. The book features 155 beautifully photographed bricks, printed at actual size, accompanied by an index that states the time, place, and maker of each brick. Featuring an introduction from David Kitching, a brick historian and an essay from Professor Rick Poynor. Photography by Inge Clemente.
Eugenics in the Garden: Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity
Fabiola López-Durán / University of Texas Press 2018 / $29.95
312 pages | 7 x 10 | 132 b&w photos
The first book to link eugenics with urban planning and the built environment, this volume traces how the “science” of race improvement spread from medicine to architecture as Latin Americans pursued a utopian project of modernization.
July 2019
Design Issues Vol 35 No 3, Summer 2019
MIT Press 2019 / $18
122p, ills, Paperback, English
The first American academic journal to examine design history, theory, and criticism, Design Issues provokes inquiry into the cultural and intellectual issues surrounding design. Regular features include theoretical and critical articles by professional and scholarly contributors, extensive book and exhibition reviews, and visual sequences. Special guest-edited issues concentrate on particular themes, such as design history, human-computer interface, service design, organization design, design for development, and product design methodology.
Sun Ra. En algún lado y en ninguno. Poemas
Sun Ra, Mariana Castillo Deball, Tania Islas Weinstein and Alberto Ortega / Bom Dia Books & ArtsLibris 2019 / $29.99
96p, ills b&w, Softcover, English & Spanish
En algún lado y en ninguno is a compilation of poems by the jazz musician and poet Sun Ra (Alabama 1914 – Birmingham 1993), selected and translated into Spanish by Mariana Castillo Deball, Tania Islas Weinstein and Alberto Ortega.
Leonor Antunes: the last days in chimalistac
Adam Syzmczyk (ed.) / Bom Dia Books & Kunsthalle Basel 2016 / $35
56p, ills color, Paperback, English
This publication--accompanying an exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel in 2013--focuses on the visual representation of Leonor Antunes’s work, and points out the fragility and beauty of the material itself. An essay by Kunsthalle Basel director and curator Adam Szymczyk introduces the backdrop, the hidden protagonists, among other Clara Porset, Anni Albers or Lina Bo Bardi, and talks about the practice of Antunes, how she reconstructs basic ideas and highlights not only the form but the politics that come with it.
Eleven Poems
Valentina Jager / Bom Dia Books 2018 / $9
32p, ills color, Glued, English
Eleven Poems is a collection of 11 poems printed on single sheets that can be used as page markers to interrupt whatever else you are reading. Each poem is based on descriptions of natural phenomena, to talk about everyday situations of human social behavior. Valentina Jager’s work is primarily related to the world of actions approached via sculpture, written and spoken word, furniture design, and installation.
Rosetta
Elena Reygadas / Bom Dia Books & sextopiso 2018 / $52
352p, ills color, Hardcover, English
Rosetta is one of the most popular restaurants in Mexico City. Since its doors first opened in 2010, it has reinvented what a Mexican restaurant can be: through sincere, ingredient-based cuisine that both revives and challenges tradition; through its commitment to serving local and seasonal produce grown by small-scale, sustainable producers; and through its location and attention to detail, creating a vibrant and welcoming atmosphere. The first book by Elena Reygadas, chef and owner of Rosetta, is more than a cookbook. For one thing, she shares a selection of her recipes from the present and the past. But she also offers a series of reflections on many different topics: from the social and environmental impact of industrialized food, to personal recollections, to the history of little-known Mexican ingredients.
BOM DIA Bag
BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE / $22
Size: approx. 50 × 50 cm
BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE logos in black or pink silkscreened on top of sustainable rice, corn or sugar bags from Mexico. Patterns and dimensions vary.
Other Scales of Prosody
Tanaz Modabber / Bom Dia Books 2017 / Edition of 500 / $36
108p, ills color & bw, Leporello, English
This publication, in form of a leporello, captures a singular sixty-meter-long (one-hour) drawing by artist Tanaz Modabber. Conceived with the core idea that the piece would shift form, scale, and tone through multiple stages of translation, the work’s latest transition manifests as this artist-annotated publication with accompanying essay by Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch. Activated by varying means, the scroll-like drawing has been read as a score as well as, in this format, the basis for an expanded referential mapping. Along the length of the published piece a collection of images suggests potential relationships between prosody in poetry, music, architecture, and politics in Iran. In 2014 an hour-long video of the meandering drawing was displayed as notation for a prize-winning sound composition performed by Modabber and sound composer Pierre Mourle within the Tokyo Experimental Festival Vol. 9. The visual composition remains open to interpretation in future texts, sounds, and spatial arrangements.
Cloudility
Olga Lewicka / Bom Dia Books 2016 / $26.50
88p, ills color & bw, Stapled, English and German
In this artist’s book Olga Lewicka experiments with the image of the cloud as a self-contained argument and leverage point for visual forms of critical analysis. In sometimes experimental, sometimes meticulously composed collages she exposes the wealth of relationships that the visual and cultural history of clouds maintains with consequential historical lines and structures of capitalist and neo-liberal society.
L.A. Collects L.A.
Jesse Lerner, Rubén Ortiz Torres (eds.) / Bom Dia Books & the Vincent Price Art Museum, L.A., with the Assistance of the Getty Foundation 2017 / $42.99
224p, ills color and b&w, Hardcover, English
Photographs by Rubén Ortiz Torres document the wide range of Latin American art in the collections of Carl Baldwin’s Velvetería, April and Ron Dammann, E. Michael ‘Baltazar’ Díaz, Betty Duker, Armando and María Durón, Alonso Elías and Patricia Fontes Rosas de Elias, Lêda Leitão Martins, Nicholas Pardon, Tom Patchett, Sammy Sayago, Dan Segal, Enrique Serrato, Billy Shire, Esperanza Valverde, Elisabeth Waldo, Richard and Rebecca Zapanta, the Stendahl Gallery, and Bill London’s Pedorrero Muffler repair shop. Six essays explore the cultural, political, and social histories of Latin American art and artifacts in Southern California collections, including Matthew H. Robb’s sleuthing on the pre-Columbian as MacGuffin in mid-century Los Angeles, Ana Elena Mallet on Taxco Silver in California, Jesse Lerner on the meeting of ancient and modern in the Arensberg collection, Selene Preciado on Chicano art collections and collectors, Rubén Ortiz Torres on the Pedorrero, and Amy Sánchez-Arteaga and Misael Díaz on the Elías Fontes collection.
June 2019
Macguffin 5: The Cabinet
Editors / MacGuffin Publishers 2018 / $21
232 p, ills colour & bw, pb, English
Issue N° 5 opens up the curious life of the cabinet, where intimate stories are hidden away, kept and inevitably shown. Revealing enlightened DIY shelves, immaculate celebrity closets, whimsical cocktail bars, socialist kiosks, classic cubes and cabinets that beat you at a game of chess.
Macguffin 4: The Sink
Editors / MacGuffin Publishers 2017 / $21
216 p, ills colour & bw, pb, English
Issue Nº 4 delves into the alluring lives of the sink, the object that speaks volumes about who we are and how we live. Featuring mesmerizing inox sinks, sinks for genever drinkers, pathologists and butchers, ‘kommunalka’ sinks, sitcom sinks, and bottomless sinkholes into which everything disappears.
Macguffin 3: The Rope
Editors / MacGuffin Publishers 2018 / $20
224 p, ills colour & bw, pb, English
Issue Nº 3 explores the fascinating life of the object that binds together pieces of furniture, K2 climbers, redneck cars, Japanese eggs and Mars rovers, inspiring a community of flax spinners, biennale curators, bondage lovers and sailing enthusiasts: Rope.
Addis Ababa. A Manifesto On African Progress
Dirk E. Hebel (e.a.) / Ruby Press 2018 / $39.50
244p, ills color & bw, Paperback, English
This publication is centred around twelve manifesto points towards a people-centred urbanism and an architecture of belonging in times of rapid global urbanisation. Based on the authors’ eleven-year research experience, the book draws conclusions from Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, as its case study. It contains essays on the historic development and the current housing situation of the city by local experts and numerous project examples. Adressing policy makers, architects and urban planners alike, the manifesto gives a series of clues and guidelines for a sustainable urbanisation of contemporary African metropolis.
Massx: Neil M. Denari Architects 2000-2017
Neil M Denari / Aadcu 2017 / Graham Funded / $162.50
778p, ills color & bw, Hardcover, English
This formidable monograph of Neil M. Denari Architects can be viewed as a point of departure for examining architecture’s role in the contemporary world. It contains an accumulation of material that has evolved over time, the majority of which has never been published, and offers both a rich history of projects and an extraordinarily in-depth examination of the firm’s practice. The book arranges selected projects, buildings, concepts, references, arguments, and sensibilities (all together classified as “things”) chronologically, from the beginning of the century until the present, and its content must be understood as a mix of media types that are split between the real and the imaginary.
The Form Of Knowledge, The Prototype Of Architectural Thinking And Its Application
Ryuji Fujimura / Toto 2018 / $50
456p, ills color & bw, Paperback, Japanese/English
Tokyo-based architect Ryūji Fujimura approaches his field as creative relationships between knowledge and form (the materialisation of knowledge), thereby examining and exploring all aspects of design as the prototype of architectural thinking. This volume features Fujimura’s recent architectural designs and essays, tracing his attempts to redefine architecture as a dynamic intellectual tool for the realisation of more tolerant societies that appreciate diversity. It is set against the background of today’s social context, where people fluctuate between democracy and populism, while algorithms and artificial intelligence handle an ever-increasing volume of information.
Archaeology of the Future
Tsuyoshi Tane / Toto 2018 / $65.50
320p, ills color & bw, Paperback, Japanese/English
The first anthology of work by Tsuyoshi Tane, an architect based in both Paris and Japan, covers no less than seventeen of his major works. Among these is the Estonian National Museum – his debut international project with Dorell Ghotmeh Tane (DGT) co-founders Lina Ghotmeh and Dan Dorell – a stunning wedge of glass built on a former Soviet airbase near Tartu. The book also includes his most recent project in Tokyo, the Todoroki House in Valley. Each work is analysed in three chapters: concepts, images, and drawings. The anthology reveals Tane’s thought process and approach, through which he materialises the ‘Archaeology of the Future’ in the form of architecture.
El Alto
Peter Granser / Edition Taube 2017 / $24
20p, ills color, Paperback, English
Peter Granser’s photographic series presents a selection of buildings by self-taught Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre. Since 2005, Mamani and his firm have completed more than sixty projects in El Alto, Bolivia.
Nasa - Graphic Design Guide
Christopher Bonanos / Editions Empire 2018 / $31.50
164p, ills color & bw, Paperback, French/English
The binder containing NASA's visual identity guidelines is a strange object. This original visual communications system designed and augmented by Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn from 1975 on, was rescinded in 1992. It has resurfaced on the internet these last years in blogs, and was made available to the public by NASA as a PDF document before being reprinted in an expanded deluxe edition by Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth in 2015. It is an exhaustive presentation of visual identity – from letterheads to the markings on the space shuttle Discovery—and thus allows the reader to apprehend the different formal, political and technical scales of the use of signs.
Sonic Acts 2019 – Hereafter
Mirna Belina (ed.) / Sonic Acts Press 2019 / $26
320p, ills color & bw, Paperback, English
Celebrating 25 years of the Sonic Acts festival, this publication is dedicated to the theme of “Hereafter”. Both a reality check and an urgent call to rethink and act on the significant problems we are facing today, more than 120 artists and theorists addressed the theme, invited to share their visions and thoughts on the possibilities for survival beyond our current neo-liberal catastrophe in the epoch of the Anthropocene. The festival “reader” collects a selection of these contributions from conference speakers, performers, filmmakers, and various participants. Rather than “looking back” on a quarter century of the festival, it is devoted to confronting the concerns raised by its numerous participants.
Dirty Furniture 4/6: Closet
Anna Bates, Elizabeth Glickfeld (eds.) / Dirty Furniture 2018 / $15
160 p, ills color & bw, Paperback, English
The fourth issue of the independent design magazine that focuses on uncovering the relationship between people and the things we live with takes the closet as its theme. It considers things like decluttering, moths, fashion, modularity, and coming out, but also questions the need for storage when goods and items are constantly available and in flow. Through contributions by Alice Twemlow, Jeremy Atherton Lin, Philippa Snow, Rob Gallagher, Brian Dillon, and Clare Lyster, time capsules are excavated, portals are entered, and avatars are dressed. Additionally, the issue features an interview with an archivist and a storage hunter.
Architectures of the Unforeseen: Essays in the Occurrent Arts
Brian Massumi / University of Minnesota Press 2019 / $30
240p, ills 27 bw, Paperback, English
Bringing the creative process of three contemporary artists into conversation, Architectures of the Unforeseen stages an encounter between philosophy and art and design. Its prose invites the reader to think along with Brian Massumi as he embodies the work of these artists, walking the line that separates theory from art and providing nurturing sustenance for practicing artists and working philosophers.
Grey Room 75
Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Lucia Allais, Eric C.H. de Bruyn, Noam M. Elcott, Byron Hamann, John Harwood, Matthew C. Hunter (eds.) / MIT Press 2019 / $21
128p, ills bw, Paperback, English
Grey Room brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns. Publishing some of the most interesting and original work within these disciplines, Grey Room has positioned itself at the forefront of current aesthetic and critical debates. Featuring original articles, translations, interviews, dossiers, and academic exchanges, Grey Room emphasizes aesthetic practice and historical and theoretical discourse that appeals to a wide range of readers, including architects, artists, scholars, students, and critics.
Dictator’s Dreamscape: How Architecture and Vision Built Machado's Cuba and Invented Modern Havana
Joseph R. Hartman / University of Pittsburgh 2019 / Graham Funded / $55
408, Hardcover, English
Joseph Hartman focuses on the public works campaign of Cuban president, and later dictator, Gerardo Machado. Political histories often condemn Machado as a US-puppet dictator, overthrown in a labor revolt and popular revolution in 1933. Architectural histories tend to catalogue his regime’s public works as derivatives of US and European models. Dictator’s Dreamscape reassesses the regime’s public works program as a highly nuanced visual project embedded in centuries-old representations of Cuba alongside wider debates on the nature of art and architecture in general, especially in regards to globalization and the spread of US-style consumerism. The cultural production overseen by Machado gives a fresh and greatly broadened perspective on his regime’s accomplishments, failures, and crimes. The book addresses the regime’s architectural program as a visual and architectonic response to debates over Cuban national identity, US imperialism, and Machado’s own cult of personality.
Improvised Cities: Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru
Helen Gyger / University of Pittsburgh Press 2019 / Graham Funded / $55
456p, Hardcover, English
Beginning in the 1950s, an explosion in rural-urban migration dramatically increased the population of cities throughout Peru, leading to an acute housing shortage and the proliferation of self-built shelters clustered in barriadas, or squatter settlements. Improvised Cities examines the history of aided self-help housing, or technical assistance to self-builders, which took on a variety of forms in Peru from 1954 to 1986. While the postwar period saw a number of trial projects in aided self-help housing throughout the developing world, Peru was the site of significant experiments in this field and pioneering in its efforts to enact a large-scale policy of land tenure regularization in improvised, unauthorized cities.
The Neocolonialism of the Global Village
Ginger Nolan / University of Minnesota Press 2019 / $7.95
80p, Paperback, English
This book excavates the violent history, originating with techniques of colonial rule in Africa, that gave rise to the concept of the global village. Reassessing Marshall McLuhan’s media theories in light of their entanglement with colonial and neocolonial techniques, Nolan implicates various arch-paradigms of power (including “terra-power”) in the larger prerogative of managing human populations.
Hitler at Home
Despina Stratigakos / Yale University Press / Graham Funded / $40
384p, ills 13 color 71 bw, Hardcover, English
Stratigakos’ book examines Adolf Hitler’s propagandized persona in relation to a series of home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. Specifically, the dictator’s domestic dwellings—the Old Chancellery in Berlin, his apartment in Munich, and the Berghof, his mountain home on the Obersalzberg—were publicized to foster the myth of the Führer as a morally upstanding and refined man. At the height of the Third Reich, media outlets around the world showcased Hitler’s homes to audiences eager for behind-the-scenes stories. These polished and dignified domestic scenes stood in stark contrast to Hitler’s actual character epitomized by bigotry and state-sanctioned violence. After the war, fascination with Hitler’s domestic life continued as soldiers and journalists searched his dwellings for insights into his psychology. The book’s rich illustrations, many previously unpublished, offer readers a rare glimpse into the decisions involved in the making of Hitler’s homes and into the sheer power of the propaganda that influenced how the world saw him.
Quaderns #271 About Buildings & Food
Xavier Monteys (ed.) / Quaderns 2019 / $39
148p, ills 135 color, Paperback, English
This issue of Quaderns, Catalonia’s renowned architectural magazine, examines the relationship between architecture and food. A series of articles addresses how food—including supply, waste, the growing popularity of prepared food delivered at home, fast food and eating on the street—influences public and domestic architecture.
Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions
Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey (ed.) / Lars Müller 2018 / Graham Funded / $40
368p, ills 345, Paperback, English
Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions is a collection of essays by a group of scholars, which examine Breuer’s approach and way of working, his strategies and his signature buildings. These essays draw on an abundance of newly available documents held in the Breuer Archive at Syracuse University, which are now accessible online.
Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System
Risa Puleo (ed.) / Contemporary Arts Museum Houston 2019 / $34.95
464p, ills 138 color 39 bw, Softcover, English
Walls Turned Sideways accompanies the largest museum presentation to investigate the criminal justice system in the US. What is the social role and responsibility of the artist in times of political urgency? What functions can only art and artists fulfill in the political landscape? This catalog discusses the work of more than 30 artists from across the nation, with works spanning the past 40 years, who address the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex. The book’s title derives from a quote by political activist and author Angela Davis: “Walls turned sideways are bridges.” Artists featured include Josh Begley, Zach Blas, Luis Camnitzer, James Drake, Chris Burden, Martin Wong, Andrea Fraser, Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia, Titus Kaphar, Kapwani Kiwanga, Autumn Knight, Deana Lawson, Shaun Leonardo, Glenn Ligon, Lucky Pierre, Mark Menjivar, Trevor Paglen, Anthony Papa, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Dread Scott and Rodrigo Valenzuela. The book comes with two inserts: a poster by Ashley Hunt on the prison industrial complex, and a pamphlet of comics by various artists.
The Object of Zionism: The Architecture of Israel
Zvi Efrat / Spector 2019 / Graham Funded / $70
1000p, ills color & bw, Hardcover, English
The Object of Zionism: The Architecture of Israel is a critical study of Zionist spatial planning and the architectural fabrication of the State of Israel from the early decades of the twentieth century to the 1960s and 1970s. It scrutinizes Israel as a singular modernist project—unprecedented in its relative scope and rates of growth, its political and ethical circumstances, and its hyper-production of spatial and structural experiments. This project entailed the molding of a new terrain, the construction of dozens of new towns and hundreds of new rural settlements, and the appropriation of post-war architectural trends, especially Brutalism and Structuralism, as signifiers of national vigour and cultural ingenuity. Contrary to common belief, the State of Israel was not born of emergency routine or speculative ventures, but rather with the objective of designing an instantaneous model state.
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The M.V.M. Cappellin Glassworks and the Young Carlo Scarpa 1925-1931
Marino Barovier, Carla Sonego (eds.) / Skira 2019 / $85
560p, ills 2520 color, Hardcover, English
From transparent glass to milky glass, from delicate simple shapes to Phoenician designs, in over 400 pages and 900 images, The M.V.M. Cappellin Glassworks and the Young Carlo Scarpa tells an essential chapter in the history of Murano glassmaking. In 1925, Giacomo Cappellin (1887–1968) broke with V.S.M. Cappellin Venini & Co. to become one of the most important glass companies in Italy, in no small part thanks to its collaboration with the young architect Carlo Scarpa (1906–78). The entire output of M.V.M. Cappellin from 1925 to1931, when the glassworks was forced to close, is documented in this gorgeous volume. The M.V.M. Cappellin Glassworks and the Young Carlo Scarpa offers a wealth of information for scholars, collectors and art lovers, including, in addition to its images, information on the production and exhibition of Cappellin Glassworks in the United States and France.
Figures in Air: Essays Toward a Philosophy of Audio
Micah Silver / Inventory Press 2019 / $20
96p, ills, Paperback, English
Emerging artist and theorist Micah Silver elaborates on the impact of audio on human behavior and social space. Silver’s research ranges from Meillassoux and a triangulation of audio’s trans-substance, to Yves Klein’s Air Architecture, through La Monte Young’s Dream House, and culminates in a discussion of historically significant audio systems and their importance as ephemeral social architectures made of air.
The Legacy of Transgressive Objects
Katja Müller-Helle (ed.) / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig 2019 / $29.95
180p, Paperback, English
The Legacy of Transgressive Objects traces the afterlife and historicization of the concept of transgression in the art, architecture, technology, music and psychedelic practices of 1968 and its legacy, by looking at the objects, materials and images that originally shaped these ideas. These decades saw the fertile cross-pollination of rebellious political and artistic energies: radical architecture suggested a whole new organization of society, artistic practices enthusiastically dissolved boundaries between art and life, and music festivals staged gleeful opportunities for transgression. The material heritage of this historical moment is ambivalent—though often ephemeral and deteriorating, the objects associated with these ideas still function as repositories of time and as evocative physical objects. Against this background, this book traces the historical index of these objects that promised to change the world and now open up to the future horizons of the recent past.
Craft
Tanya Harrad (ed.) / MIT Press 2018 / $24.95
240p, Paperback, English
“Craft” is a contested concept in art history and a vital category through which to understand contemporary art. Through craft, materials, techniques, and tools are investigated and their histories explored in order to reflect on the politics of labor and on the extraordinary complexity of the made world around us. This anthology offers an ethnography of craft, surveying its shape-shifting identities in the context of progressive art and design through writings by artists and makers as well as poetry, fiction, anthropology, and sociology. It maps a secret history of craft through lost and overlooked texts that consider pedagogy, design, folk art, the factory, and new media in ways that illuminate our understanding of current art practice.
The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production
Joan Livingstone and John Ploof (eds.) / MIT Press 2007 / $40.95
422p, ills 134 color 98 duotones, Hardcover, English
The Object of Labor explores the personal, political, social, and economic meaning of work in the context of art and textile production. The ubiquity of cloth in everyday life, the historically resonant relationship of textile and cloth to labor, and the tumultuous drive of globalization make the issues raised by this pubication of special interest today.
One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity
Miwon Kwon / MIT Press 2004 / $25.95
232p, ills 51, Paperback, English
One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated with its many permutations. Informed by urban theory, postmodernist criticism in art and architecture, and debates concerning identity politics and the public sphere, the book addresses the siting of art as more than an artistic problem. It examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the era of late capitalism.
Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus
John R. Blakinger / MIT Press 2019 / $55
504p, ills 43 color 163 bw, Hardcover, English
Gyorgy Kepes (1906–2001) was the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of László Moholy-Nagy and a self-styled revolutionary artist. But by midcentury, transplanted to America, Kepes found he was trapped in the military-industrial-aesthetic complex. In this first book-length study of Kepes, John Blakinger argues that Kepes, by opening the research laboratory to the arts, established a new paradigm for creative practice: the artist as technocrat. First at Chicago's New Bauhaus and then for many years at MIT, Kepes pioneered interdisciplinary collaboration between the arts and sciences—what he termed “interthinking” and “interseeing.” Kepes and his colleagues—ranging from metallurgists to mathematicians—became part of an important but little-explored constellation: the Cold War avant-garde.
Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars
Paul Stirton / Yale University Press 2019 / $35
272p, ills 80 color 20 bw, Paperback, English
This handsome volume offers a new understanding of Jan Tschichold’s design work, and of the underlying theories of the artistic movement he helped to form, by analyzing his collections: illustrations, advertisements, magazines, and books by well-known figures, such as Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and László Moholy-Nagy, and lesser-known artist-designers, including Willi Baumeister, Max Burchartz, Walter Dexel, and Piet Zwart. This book also charts the development of the New Typography, a broad-based movement across Central Europe that included “The Ring,” a group formed by Schwitters in 1927. Tschichold played a crucial role in defining this movement, documenting the theory and practice in his most influential book, The New Typography (1928), still regarded as a seminal text of graphic design.
Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965–1981
Klara Kemp-Welch / MIT Press 2019 / $49.95
480p, ills 36 color 198 bw, Hardcover, English
Throughout the 1970s, a network of artists emerged to bridge the East-West divide, and the no less rigid divides between the countries of the Eastern bloc. Originating with a series of creative initiatives by artists, art historians, and critics and centered in places like Budapest, Poznań, and Prague, this experimental dialogue involved Western participation but is today largely forgotten in the West. In Networking the Bloc, Klara Kemp-Welch vividly recaptures this lost chapter of art history, documenting an elaborate web of artistic connectivity that came about through a series of personal encounters, pioneering dialogues, collaborative projects, and cultural exchanges. Countering the conventional Cold War narrative of Eastern bloc isolation, Kemp-Welch shows how artistic ideas were relayed among like-minded artists across ideological boundaries and national frontiers.
Garage
Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela / MIT Press 2018 / $21.95
224 p, ills 52 color, Paperback, English
A secret history of the garage as a space of creativity, from its invention by Frank Lloyd Wright to its use by start-ups and garage bands.
Beyond the Collaboration
Sterling Ruby and Raf Simons / Sternberg Press & Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2019 / $16
68p, Paperback, English
How do you tell the story of a friendship? How do you trace the roots of one of the most significant cross-disciplinary unions in fashion today? Artist Sterling Ruby and fashion designer Raf Simons did just that when they sat on stage with curator Jessica Morgan at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Offering complimentary perspectives on a bond that has matured over the span of a decade, and a body of work that transcends boundaries, Ruby and Simons spoke with mutual respect, trust, and a deep investment in the future. This is a story, and an exchange, that is beyond collaboration.
Harvard Design Magazine 46 No Sweat Fall/Winter 2018
Jennifer Sigler (ed.) / Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2018 / $16
228p, ills color & bw, Paperback, English
This issue of Harvard Design Magazine is about the design of work and the work of design. “No Sweat” challenges designers to speculate on the spaces of work in an accelerated future, and to imagine a world in which a novel ethics of labor can emerge. What scenarios and spaces can we imagine for the next generation of work? How can we anticipate and formulate work environments and experiences that are productive, humane, and ecologically responsible?
Migrant Issue 6: Foreign Agents
Justinien Tribillon, Michaela Büsse, Dámaso Randulfe (eds.) / Migrant Journal 2019 / $25
192p, ills color, Paperback, English
In the sixth and final issue of MIGRANT JOURNAL, you will follow the journeys of Diamond Painting across China, the real-life utopia of Esperanto, the bedazzled domes of Jerusalem and the digital landscapes of Poland, an exploration of Freud's 'uncanny' and Borges's labyrinths, but also buddae jjigae and fusion-style Polish carp among many other stories.
The Funambulist #23 Insurgent Architectures
Léopold Lambert (ed.) / The Funambulist 2019 / $13.50
62p, ills color, Paperback, English
When we decide to approach architecture as “the discipline that organizes bodies in space,” countless texts can be commissioned and written about how architecture materializes various forms of political violence. Yet, it is much harder to articulate a tactical ‘positive’ discourse about political architectures as we propose to do throughout this issue, as part of our 2019 series dedicated to various dimensions of political struggles. Insurgent Architectures are architectures that fundamentally challenge the dominant order, materializing a resistance against imperialism (Feda Wardak), border enforcement (Merve Bedir, Noora Aljabi), capitalism (Niloufar Tajeri, Santiago Cirugeda), and/or patriarchy (Feminist Architecture Collaborative, Alina da Porciuncula Paias). Student projects are designed by Mohamad Nahleh, Ida Razak, and Terrence Mkhwanazi.
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Samuel R. Delany / New York University Press 1999 / $26
203p, ills b/w, Paperback, English
Samuel R. Delany sees a disappearance not only of the old Times Square, but of the complex social relationships that developed there: the points of contact between people of different classes and races in a public space. In Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Delany tackles the question of why public restrooms, peepshows, and tree-filled parks are necessary to a city's physical and psychological landscape. He argues that starting in 1985, New York City criminalized peep shows and sex movie houses to clear the way for the rebuilding of Times Square. Delany's critique reveals how Times Square is being "renovated" behind the scrim of public safety while the stage is occupied by gentrification. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue paints a portrait of a society dismantling the institutions that promote communication between classes, and disguising its fears of cross-class contact as "family values." Unless we overcome our fears and claim our "community of contact," it is a picture that will be replayed in cities across America.
May 2019
Shoplifters 8: New Type Design
100 typefaces by over 60 designers / Actual Source 2019 / $45
600p, Hardcover, English
Shoplifters is a bi-annual publication featuring the work of contemporary artists, photographers, designers, illustrators etc,. Shoplifters doesn’t have a single identity, it’s size, paper, typography, and tone changes each time it’s published.
Issue 8 features:
—Facit AB–Z (Excerpt) by Our Polite Society
—"Tools" by Dinamo
—Intro written by Kris Sowersby
Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park Detroit
Danielle Aubert, Lana Cavar, and Natasha Chandani (eds.) / Metropolis Books 2019 / $29.95
304p, illustrated throughout, Paperback, English
Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies was originally published in 2012, two years before the city of Detroit entered into the largest municipal bankruptcy in the country. The 2019 edition of Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies includes a revised introduction and two new texts by Lafayette Park residents, and authors, Marsha Music and Matthew Piper. Music and Piper reflect on the changes the neighborhood underwent between 2012 and 2018, when the city went through and emerged from bankruptcy and entered into a new phase, as a desirable place for real estate investment.
To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror
Darby English / Yale University Press 2019 / $35
148p, ills 70 color, Hardcover, English
By turns historical, critical, and personal, this book examines the use of art—and love—as a resource amid the recent wave of shootings by American police of innocent black women and men. Darby English attends to a cluster of artworks created in or for our tumultuous present that address themes of racial violence and representation idiosyncratically, neither offering solutions nor accommodating shallow narratives about difference. For English, the consideration of art is a paradigm of social life, because art is something we must share. Powerful, challenging, and timely, To Describe a Life is an invitation to rethink what life in ongoing crisis is and can be—and, indeed, to discover how art can help.
The Good Metropolis: Between Urban Formlessness and Metropolitan Architecture
Alexander Eisenschmidt / Birkhauser 2019 / Graham Funded / $68.99
240p, ills 83, Hardcover, English
Architecture has always been engaged in a dialogue with its context, i.e. the city—a relationship often dominated by tension. The architectural avant-garde in particular is commonly understood in its opposition to the existing metropolitan terrain: it positioned the form of the individual building against an – assumed - urban formlessness. The publication explores this dichotomy and analyzes the works of important urbanists, ranging from August Endell, Karl Scheffler, Ludwig Hilberseimer and Reyner Banham to Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi. Thus The Good Metropolis develops a theoretical and historical framework for understanding the complex relationship between architecture and the city.
Cloud Service
Batia Suter / Printed Matter 2019 / $17
104p, ills colour & bw, Paperback, English
As with Batia Suter’s previous projects, Cloud Service is primarily interested in the visual dialogue that emerges with the simple act of placing images in new relations to one another. Drawing from her vast personal library of natural history reference books, encyclopaedias, and other flea market finds, Suter assembles a mix of “non-art” images, adapted and reoriented in intuitive and often profound ways. The set of appropriated images comprising this book is a monographic index of clouds and cloud-suggestive forms. Placed in the right sequence, these images resonate in new and complex ways, manipulate each other, and take on new depths of meaning with a sort of synaptic leap.
Abraham Lincoln
Rachel Harrison / Printed Matter 2011 / $30
268p, ills color, Paberback, Edition of 1000
Comprised of entirely Googled images of Abraham Lincoln, Rachel Harrison's book shows our sixteenth president sequentially turning his famous profile from right to left. Harrison’s hefty collection of images encapsulates the obscurities of our digital age, a parade of absurd representations attesting to the over-commodification of American history. Among the more traditional portrait-style depictions of Lincoln, are peculiar appropriations– a Lincoln toe ring, a Lincoln cake, a Lincoln egg, a Lincoln coffee mug, a Lincoln emoticon, a Lincoln pillow, a Lincoln hulk. It begs the question, what prompts us to venerate our cultural heroes in such ways?
Printer Prosthetic: Futura
Federico Pérez Villoro, Christopher Hamamoto / Printed Matter 2017 / $15
240p, b/w, Paperback, English
Printer Prosthetic: Futura is conceived as an “experimental reprint” of artist, publisher, and printer Hansjörg Mayer’s seminal Futura (1965–1968), a series of twenty-six artworks each published as a folded, single-page pamphlet. Using this collection of Concrete and Fluxus works as a starting point, Printer Prosthetic: Futura re-interprets the poems by means of mechanical mediation, outputting the originals through a set of controlled and chance operations.
Design As Learning: A School Of Schools Reader
Jan Boelen (E.a.) / Valiz 2018 / Graham Funded / $26
208p , ills color & bw, Softcover, English
Why do design? What is design for? These are forward-looking questions for a creative discipline that seems more slippery to define than ever. In a world of dwindling natural resources, exhausted social and political systems, and an overload of information there are many reasons to reimagine the design discipline, and there is a growing need to look at design education. We need new proposals for how to organize society, how to structure our governments, how to live with the planet, how to sift fact from fiction, how to relate to each other, and frankly, how to simply survive. The 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, and this publication ask: can design and design education provide these critical ideas and strategies?
Unlearning Exercises, Art Organizations As Sites For Unlearning
Binna Choi, Annette Kraus (E.a.) / Valiz 2018 / $26
232 p, ills colour & bw, Paperback, English
Learning is the accumulation of knowledge, skills, and behaviour and is often progress-oriented and institutionally driven. In contrast, unlearning is directed towards embodied forms of knowledge and the (un)conscious operation of ways of thinking and doing. Unlearning Exercises shares a set of exercises as propositions to be useful for and adapted within other specific (institutional) contexts in and beyond the arts. These exercises range from daily practices like ‘Cleaning Together,’ to unresolvable issues of collective authorship and fair wage. They also offer insights into the lively and long-term collective unlearning process.
The Art Collection: The Cabinet of Ramon Haze
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg (ed.) / Spector Books 2019 / $100
80p, ills 30 color, Hardcover, English-German
The Art Collection the Cabinet of Ramon Haze is the legacy of an art detective, collector, and artist who rediscovered the art of the twentieth century. The collection itself is a post-historical fiction, created in the mid-1990s, compiled by artists Holmer Feldmann and Andreas Grahl and originally shown in the basement of a disused factory in Leipzig. Of all the fictions that artists have created in recent years, that of Ramon Haze and his (future) cabinet of art of the twentieth century is probably the most disconcerting. The annotated catalogue raisonné designed by Markus Dreßen in the year 1999—and the first book to have the Spector logo on its cover—is published in conjunction with the exhibition The Cabinet of Ramon Haze. It appears in a new expanded edition, supplemented by four positions and photographs of the installations in the Museum Abteiberg.
On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews
Allyson Vieira / Soberscove Press 2019 / Graham Funded/ $30
272p, ills 16 color, Paperback, English-Greek
As the restoration of the Acropolis enters its final phases, this book of interviews explores the workers’ craft, techniques, training, and specific roles within the restoration in their unique and deeply personal voices. On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews brings together ancient building practices, the teaching of traditional craft, changes in the practice of architectural restoration, and the social and class dynamics within the restoration site. Concurrently, the book considers Greece’s political and economic crisis from the workers’ position. Amidst crippling unemployment, work on the Rock continues, despite radical cuts. How has the Greek crisis affected the technicians’ thoughts about their craft, jobs, and citizenship? On the Rock explores the intersection of these issues.
Image Factories: Infographics 1920-1945: Fritz Kahn, Otto Neurath Et Al.
Helena Doudova, Stephanie Jacobs & Patrick Rössler (eds.) / Spector Books 2018 / $35
176p, ills 80 b/w 40 color, Softcover, English
Image Factories is dedicated to the pioneering infographics of Austrian physician and illustrator Fritz Kahn (1888–1968) and German philosopher Otto Neurath (1882–1945), who both worked with graphic designers to realize their groundbreaking information visualizations. Presenting historical material and imagery designed between 1920 and 1945 alongside contemporary infographics, with a series of essays by Helena Doudova, Stephanie Jacobs, Patrick Rössler, Image Factories offers a fascinating account of the early development of the infographic.
X-Ray Architecture
Beatriz Colomina / Lars Müller 2019 / Graham Funded / $40
200p, ills 277, Hardback, English
Beatriz Colomina explores in this book the technologies on the formation, representation, and reception of modern architecture. It challenges the normal understanding of modern architecture by proposing that the architecture of the early twentieth century was shaped by the dominant medical obsession of its time: tuberculosis and its primary diagnostic tool, the X-ray.
Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture
Andrew Atwood / Applied Research & Design 2018 / $29.95
256p, ills 200 color, Paperback, English
Not Interesting proposes another set of terms and structures to talk about architecture, without requiring that it be interesting. This book explores a set of alternatives to the interesting and imagines how architecture might be positioned more broadly in the world using other terms: boring, confusing, and comforting. Along with interesting, these three terms make up the four chapters of the book. Each chapter introduces its topic through an analysis of a different image, which serves to unpack the specific character of each term and its relationship to architecture. In addition to text, the book contains over 50 case studies using 100 drawings and images. These are presented in parallel to the text and show what architecture may look like through the lens of these other terms.
Tania Bruguera: Talking to Power / Hablándole Al Poder
Lucía Sanromán, Susie Kantor (ed.) / Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2018 / $25
200p, ills 80 color 6 duotone 5 b/w, Paperback, English
The work of Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (born 1968) researches and performs the ways in which art can be applied to collective everyday life, focusing on the transformation of emotion into political action. Talking to Power / Hablándole al Poder surveys Bruguera’s artworks for the public sphere created between 1985 and 2017, all of which position art as a resource for social change. This collection of works offers the reader a deep understanding of the artist’s strategies for intervening in power. Richly illustrated and including rarely seen documentation of Bruguera’s actions, this volume features texts by José Luis Falconi, Grant Kester, Suzanne Lacy, Cuauhtémoc Medina and Peggy Phelan.
Swimming to Suburbia and Other Essays
Craig Hodgetts (author), Todd Gannon (ed.) / ORO Editions 2018 / Graham Funded / $24.95
220p, Paperback, English
Widely known for his award-winning design work, the Los Angeles-based architect Craig Hodgetts has distinguished himself as one of the key voices of his generation through trenchant commentary and visionary speculation on architecture and design. This volume gathers an array of theoretical polemics on buildings and cities, critical assessments of major projects and personalities, and other writings that showcase Hodgetts’ unique position as both a central figure in the discipline of architecture and a tireless advocate of technological opportunities developed at the fringes of the field. Contextualized with a critical introduction by historian Todd Gannon and illustrated with rare materials from Hodgetts’ archive, this collection cuts a revealing cross-section through a turbulent period during which architecture’s confidence in the Modernist project was shaken, its intellectual energies redirected, and its cultural agenda re-imagined in the face of environmental challenges, technological opportunities, lingering disciplinary traditions, and revolutionary new ideas.
Ellsworth Kelly: Color Panels for a Large Wall
Christine Mehring / Matthew Marks Gallery 2019 / $45
88p, ills 52 color 12 b/w, Cloth, English
In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building underway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly responded with one of his most ambitious artworks to date, Color Panels for a Large Wall, an 18-panel painting executed in two versions. The larger, at over 125 feet wide, was the biggest painting he had ever made, and its trajectory would pass through not just Cincinnati but also Amsterdam, New York and Munich before ending up at its permanent home, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where it has been prominently installed in the I.M. Pei–designed East Building since 2004.The smaller version, over 30 feet wide, remained in the artist's possession. This catalog tells the complete story of these two remarkable paintings.
Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow
Eszter Steierhoffer, Justin McGuirk (eds.) / The Design Museum 2019 / $49.95
308 p, ills 220 color 40 b/w, Paperback, English
Home Futures brings together a range of leading contemporary curators, designers, architects, critics and academics to consider projects by designers such as Ettore Sottsass, Alison and Peter Smithson, Superstudio, Enzo Mari, Archigram, Dunne & Raby, OMA, Joe Colombo, Absalon, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Atelier Van Lieshout, Yona Friedman, Buckminster Fuller, Richard Hamilton, Hans Hollein, Haus-Rucker-Co, Industrial Facility, Jan Kaplický, Frederick Kiesler, Linder, Enzo Mari, OpenStructures, Ugo la Pietra and many more. Looking back on more than a century of speculative design, Home Futures proposes that we are already living in yesterday’s tomorrow—just not in the way anyone predicted.
And Now: Architecture against a developer presidency
James Graham, Alissa Anderson, Caitlin Blanchfield, Jordan Carver, Jacob Moore, Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt (eds.) / Columbia Books on Architecture and the City 2017 / Graham Funded / $20
256p, Paperback, English
The election and inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the president of the United States of America have provoked an unprecedented intensity of reflection in virtually all academic disciplines. The professions of architecture and planning, faced with the phenomenon of a self-proclaimed “builder-in-chief,” have found themselves facing a series of fundamental questions, both old and new. How should we think, teach, and practice under a developer presidency? What sort of walls will we and won’t we choose to build? What are our commitments of critical thought, and what obligations should we turn our energies toward? The essays gathered in And Now explore the nature of architecture’s many long-standing complicities. This fundamental reality of architectural practice need not inspire either nihilism or defensiveness but should rather be understood, quite simply, as the terrain we navigate. Naming these complicities and the injustices they perpetuate is a first step toward addressing them.
Is This Tomorrow?
Lydia Yee (ed.) / Whitechapel Gallery 2019 / Graham Funded / $30
186p, ills 100 color, Spiral Bound, English
For a major new presentation in 2019, Whitechapel Gallery in London is taking as a model its groundbreaking 1956 exhibition This Is Tomorrow. Organised by architect, writer and sculptor Theo Crosby, This Is Tomorrowfeatured 37 artists, architects, designers and writers who worked together in 12 small groups. At its core was the Independent Group, the proto-pop collective comprised of (at various stages) Reyner Banham, Lawrence Alloway, Nigel Henderson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, William Turnbull and John McHale. Is This Tomorrow? also features 12 groups of contemporary architects, artists and other cultural practitioners to highlight the potential of collaboration, address key issues we face today and offer a vision of the future. They include Adjaye Associates, Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Marina Tabassum Architects, David Kohn, Rana Begum, Cecile B. Evans, Simon Fujiwara and Kapwani Kiwanga.
Walks to Paradise Garden: A Lowdown Southern Odyssey
Phillip March Jones (ed.) / Institute 193 2019 / $45
352 p, ills 100 color 80 b/w, Hardcover, English
Walks to the Paradise Garden is the last unpublished manuscript of the late American poet, photographer, publisher, Black Mountain alumnus and bon viveur Jonathan Williams (1929–2008). This book chronicles Williams' road trips across the Southern United States with photographers Guy Mendes and Roger Manley in search of the most authentic and outlandish artists the South had to offer. The majority of these road trips took place in the 1980s, a pivotal decade in the development of Southern "yard shows," and many of the artists are now featured in major institutions. This book, however, chronicles them at the outset of their careers and provides essential context for their inclusion in the art historical canon. Taking its name from the famous artwork by Howard Finster, Walks to the Paradise Garden brings to light rare images and stories of Southern artists and creators who existed in near anonymity during the last half of the 20th century.
Gordon Matta-Clark: Physical Poetics
Frances Richard / University of California Press 2019 / Graham Funded / $45
560p, ills 20 b/w 32 color, Hardcover, English
Bringing a poet’s perspective to an artist’s archive, this highly original book examines wordplay in the art and thought of American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978). A pivotal figure in the postminimalist generation who was also the son of a prominent Surrealist, Matta-Clark was a leader in the downtown artists' community in New York in the 1970s, and is widely seen as a pioneer of what has come to be known as social practice art. Blending close readings of Matta-Clark’s visual and verbal creations with reception history and critical biography, this extensively researched study engages with the linguistic and semiotic forms in Matta-Clark’s art. Examining notes, statements, titles, letters, and interviews in light of what they reveal about his work at large, Frances Richard unearths archival, biographical, and historical information, linking Matta-Clark to Conceptualist peers and Surrealist and Dada forebears. Gordon Matta-Clark: Physical Poetics explores the paradoxical durability of Matta-Clark’s language, and its role in an aggressively physical oeuvre whose major works have been destroyed.
The Funambulist #22
Léopold Lambert / The Funambulist 2019 / $14
Publishing the Struggle constitutes an introspection for us, questioning the contents and forms of political publications. As such, it features articles about historical/canonical and contemporary publications that serves directly or indirectly a specific political movement.
In the Forest LP
Karl Fousek / Second Editions 2019/ Related Graham Exhibition / $27.50
Serving as a score for David Hartt's film of the same name about the Habitat Puerto Rico project by Moshe Safdie, In The Forest finds Fousek at his most focussed and controlled. These five pieces/chapters move with precision and intent. With subtlety and curiosity. Shrouded in ambiguity. And while Fousek works much more restrained here than on previous releases, by paying attention to every detail, he creates an intruiging work of sonic storytelling.
Texte Zur Kunst Issue 113
Discrimination
Texte zur Kunst March 2019 / $25
Paperback, English-German
For issue 113 TZK investigates the structures within the arts and cultural spheres where racism and discrimination are practiced, performed, and reproduced. This special issue concentrates specifically on the context of Germany, and includes discussions and texts from artists and theorists throughout the country who have dedicated special attention to current and ongoing political and social crises; specifically the challenges these crises pose for the language and terms of art criticism. How can criticism mount an appropriate response to the discrimination and injustices that pervade all levels of society?
Log 45
Cynthia Davidson (ed.) / Anyone Corporation 2019 / Graham Funded / $18
Paperback, English
From Pritzker Prize laureate Wang Shu on Song dynasty landscape paintings to Elizabeth Diller on orchestrating an opera on the High Line, architects thinking transformatively and reflecting critically are at the heart of Log 45. In this open issue, architects, curators, and critics observe the world at both the large and small scale, from Paola Antonelli on curating “Broken Nature” at the Milan Triennale, to Peter Trummer on an inoperable Anthropocene window; from Stephan Trüby on right-wing reconstruction efforts in Germany, to Patrick Templeton on “Adjacencies” at Yale. This issue also features reviews of a number of recent books.
Design Issues Vol 35, No. 2
Bruce Brown, Richard Buchanan, Carl DiSalvo, Dennis P. Doordan, Kipum Lee, Victor Margolin, and Ramia Mazé (eds.) / MIT Press 2019 / $18
112p, ills, Paperback, English
The first American academic journal to examine design history, theory, and criticism, Design Issues provokes inquiry into the cultural and intellectual issues surrounding design. Regular features include theoretical and critical articles by professional and scholarly contributors, extensive book and exhibition reviews, and visual sequences. Special guest-edited issues concentrate on particular themes, such as design history, human-computer interface, service design, organization design, design for development, and product design methodology.
Grey Room 74
Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Lucia Allais, Eric C.H. de Bruyn, Noam M. Elcott, Byron Hamann, John Harwood, Matthew C. Hunter (eds.) / MIT Press 2019 / $21
128p, Paperback, English
Grey Room brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns. Publishing some of the most interesting and original work within these disciplines, Grey Room has positioned itself at the forefront of current aesthetic and critical debates. Featuring original articles, translations, interviews, dossiers, and academic exchanges, Grey Room emphasizes aesthetic practice and historical and theoretical discourse that appeals to a wide range of readers, including architects, artists, scholars, students, and critics.
Library Paper, No. 9
Library Paper / 2018 / $20
Edition of 500, 60p, Full Color Print, Softcover, English
24 Page Zine ‘Ocean Size’ by Peter Sutherland
Adam Ridgeway, Alexis Mark, Alessandro Simonetti, Amardeep Singh, Ben Rayner, Bryan Rivera, Carla and Karlis, Chadwick Tyler, Clint Soren, Colin Smight, Daniel Regan, Darren Oorloff, David Linchen, Emily Shaffer, HARD, Ignored Prayers, Jack Belgrove, Jeremy Dean, Joseph Barrett, Justin Hager, Kaj Jefferies, Kingsley Ifill, Lola & Pani, Matt Borgia, Mikey Joyce, Office Ultra, OWVBICS, PLAYLAB INC., Reginald Sylvester II, Rob Cordiner, Santi de Hita, Sedition Magazine, Tim Barber, Vance Wellenstein, Wrong Studio, Yotam Hadar, Zachary Harrell Jones AND Cali Thornhill Dewitt, Peter Sutherland, Omar Almufti.
Mies in London
Jack Self (ed.) / REAL 2018 / $110
160p, ills 28 color, Paperback, English
A book about modernist architect Mies van der Rohe's only design for the UK, a bronze tower and grand plaza in the heart of London. After decades of struggle, Mies' plans for Mansion House Square were scuppered. In Thatcher's Britain, popular opinion turned against modernism, Prince Charles criticised the work, and the government feared new public spaces. Stopped dead by an Inquiry, and mired in controversy, Mies' masterpiece was all but erased.
Macguffin Magazine 06: The Ball
K. Algera, E. Van Der Hoeven (eds.) / Macguffin 2018 / $21.50
224 p, ills color & bw, Paperback, English
Keep your eyes on the ball this autumn with MacGuffin 6. Dedicated to the perfectly shaped object that is the dream of every visionary architect, but a source of great distress to the unsporty among us: the ball. MacGuffin kicks off with spinning ballboys, tumbling plants, rolling meatballs, bouncing planets, utopian bubbles, and the inventor of the smiley, Mr. Harvey Ball himself. Featuring Adania Shibli, Veronique Patteeuw, Jack Self, Scheltens & Abbenes, Paul Gangloff, and many more.
“ ” quotation mark quotation mark #2 James Hoff / Marian Kaiser
Adam Gibbons, Eva Wilson (eds.) / Nero 2018 / $15
80p, Softcover, English
In a white cottage at the edge of what is often mistakenly referred to as the Vigeland Park, Oslo, in early January 2016, artist James Hoff and writer Marian Kaiser discuss sounds, images, language, and the events that produce them: distribution channels; anecdotes; heavenly rays; Stuxnet; ghosting; feedback; riots; mission creep; Amok as a colonial construction. How did the culture-bound syndrome cross the Atlantic? Is the book still the endgame?
Name, Thing, Thing: A Primer in Parallel Typographies
Gerardo Madera / Printed Matter 2018 / $18
First Edition, 1000 copies, 176p, Hardcover, English
Name, Thing, Thing is a compilation of thoughts, quotations, fragments, on and around typographic intervention as resistance against the colonial embeds of typographic tradition—a pursuit analogous to strategies long used by people of color to subvert or reclaim defined historical narratives and traditions as a means of survival. Cultural remapping, hybrid and subversive form-making and discursive histories are tactics explored in Name, Thing, Thing to locate potential channels of articulation in decolonizing typography.
Post-Digital Print, The Mutation of Publishing since 1984
Third Edition / Alessandro Ludovico / Onomatopee 2018 / $28
192p, Paperback, English
In this book, Alessandro Ludovico re-reads the history of the avant-garde arts as a prehistory of cutting through the so-called dichotomy between paper and electronics. Ludovico is the editor and publisher of Neural, a magazine for critical digital culture and media arts. For more than twenty years now, he has been working at the cutting edge (and the outer fringes) of both print publishing and politically engaged digital art.
mono.kultur #46 Francis Kéré
Francis Kéré / mono.kultur 2018 / $7
48p, Softcover, English
The small room where I wait for the architect Francis Kéré in his Berlin office is filled with models, representations of his work spilling from the shelves onto the table. When Kéré arrives, he takes one look at the setup and decides that it is wrong. We’ll go instead to a nearby restaurant, where he is greeted warmly, but before that he insists on showing me through a space in the process of renovation, just across the courtyard from Kéré Architecture. His office will shortly expand into this space, he explains with breathless, infectious enthusiasm.
Forms of Practice: German-Swiss Architecture 1980-2000
Irina Davidovici / gta publishers 2019 / $85
340p, ills 74 color 106 halftones, Paperback, English
During the 1980s and 1990s, German-Swiss architecture gained worldwide acclaim on account of its structural and aesthetic coherence. Its precision, rigor and sobriety were, however, only outer manifestations of a deeper ethical orientation, reacting against formal arbitrariness and postmodern relativism. Swiss architects resorted to the discipline of concepts and formal reductionism in order to recover a sense of stability, normality, and cultural continuity. In Forms of Practice, Irina Davidovici provides an in-depth analysis of their work during the last decades of the twentieth century, discussing its cultural and theoretical conditions as facets of one artistic and cultural phenomenon. Richly detailed case studies and conceptual frameworks are brought up to reveal, behind the seductive appearance of Swiss architecture, the implicit conflicts between shared values and individual expression, artistic integrity and economic interest.
March 2019
The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century
Mark Lamster / Little, Brown and Company 2018 / Graham Funded / $35
The book lifts the veil on Johnson's controversial and endlessly contradictory life to tell the story of a charming yet deeply flawed man. A rollercoaster tale of the perils of wealth, privilege, and ambition, this book probes the dynamics of American culture that made him so powerful, and tells the story of the built environment in modern America.
An Anatomy of Influence
Thomas Daniell / AA Publications 2018 / Graham Funded / $75
292p, ills color, hardcover, English
This publication contains a wealth of texts and images that together elucidate the theory and practice of 12 leading Japanese architects. Rather than the usual array of exquisite yet autonomous buildings, this book focuses on the hitherto unexplored lives of their architects, and the febrile intellectual, social and political environment in which they worked. The cumulative result is not only a fascinating perspective on modern Japanese architecture, but a profound recasting of our understanding of the modern Japanese architect.
A House Is Not Just a House: Projects on Housing
Tatiana Bilbao / Columbia Books on Architecture and the City 2018 / $23
160 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
A House Is Not Just a House argues precisely this. The book traces Tatiana Bilbao’s diverse work on housing ranging from large-scale social projects to single-family luxury homes. Regardless of type, her work advances an argument on housing that is simultaneously expansive and minimal, inseparable from the broader environment outside of it and predicated on the fundamental requirements of living. The projects presented here offer a way of thinking about the limits of housing: where it begins and where it ends. Working within the complex and unstable history of social housing in Mexico, Bilbao argues for participating even when circumstances are less than ideal—and from this participation she is able to propose specific strategies for producing housing elsewhere.
Possible Mediums
Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, Adam Fure, Kyle Miller (eds) / Actar Publishers 2018 / $34.95
200 p, ills, pb, English
This publication presents a collection of sixteen speculative design mediums by emerging architects. Each chapter defines an active medium in contemporary architecture through descriptions, drawings, and objects. Possible Mediums arranges projects according to shared technical and aesthetic traits, creating a vibrant taxonomy of design. Descriptive texts explain the working principles behind each medium and introduce design concepts intended to inspire students and professionals alike. Through its many contributors, it establishes design as a collective endeavor propelled by the open exchange of ideas and techniques. It is not a systematic theory, a manifesto, or a banal survey; it is a projection of architecture and knowledge to come.
John Vinci: Life and Landmarks
Robert Sharoff and William Zbaren / Northwestern University Press 2017 / $65
272 p, ills color, pb, English
This publication is the first authoritative survey of the life and work of one of Chicago’s most acclaimed architects and preservationists. Long awaited by scholars as well as by architecture aficionados, John Vinci provides an intimate look at an architect whose portfolio spans half a century and includes the restoration of some of the city’s most important historic structures as well as numerous award-winning original projects.
Giedion and America: Repositioning the History of Modern Architecture
Reto Geiser / University of Chicago Press 2018 / $85
400 p, ills color, hardcover, English
In his study of Giedion’s life and work, Reto Geiser foregrounds the formative character of Giedion’s extended stays in the United States and their role as an inspiring laboratory to propel his scholarship. By challenging the presentation of a continuous line of developments, and revealing the ruptures and contradictions within Giedion’s work, Geiser questions a heroic account of modern architecture, turning instead to the less ideological and frequently overlooked facets of Giedion’s oeuvre. The book argues that, although Giedion’s position in between two cultural spheres created discontinuities in his work, it also facilitated a mutual exchange between the architectural impresario and his North American peers and thereby helped to shape the development and reception of the modern project on either side of the Atlantic.
The Hundreds
Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart / Duke University Press 2019 / $23.95
184 p, pb, English
The publication speculates on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint—each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long—amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social and conceptual ground. What's an encounter with anything once it's seen as an incitement to composition? What's a concept or a theory if they're no longer seen as a truth effect, but a training in absorption, attention, and framing?
Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture
Stephen J. Phillips / MIT Press 2017 / $39.95
384 p, ills color & bw, hardcover, English
In this book, Stephen Phillips offers the first in-depth exploration of Kiesler's innovative and multidisciplinary research and design practice. Phillips argues that Kiesler established a new career trajectory for architects not as master builders, but as research practitioners whose innovative means and methods could advance alternative and speculative architecture. Indeed, Kiesler's own career was the ultimate uncompromising model of a research-based practice.
The Practice of Everyday Life
Michel de Certeau, Steven Rendall (trns.) / University of California Press 2011 / $29.95
256 p, pb, English
In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws brilliantly on an immense theoretical literature to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.
The Spoils of Dust: Reinventing the Lake that Made Los Angeles
Alexander Robinson / Applied Research + Design Publishing 2018 / Graham Funded / $30
206 p, ills color, pb, English
Once the third largest lake in California, and among the world's greatest air pollution offenders, the deadened Owens Lake was for decades merely a catastrophic footnote to the most notorious water grab in modern history. Now, the lake has been re-assembled to exceed the value of what was lost - without refilling its shores and depriving Los Angeles of its water supply. In Spoils of Dust the lake's peculiar redemption is the backdrop for investigating contemporary relationships between landscape design, control, and perception. The lake-like terrain is the most intimate display of modern technocratic vision and exposes the limits of invention and control of infrastructural ecologies. Whether by observations of dust or scenery, it is as much the product of how we perceive and value landscape today. Answering its analysis, the book concludes with a visual atlas and proposal to induce more imaginative outcomes and perceptions.
Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories
Bernard Cache, Michael Speaks (Eds) / MIT Press 1995 / $24.95
175 p, pb, English
Earth Moves, Bernard Cache's first major work, conceptualizes a series of architectural images as vehicles for two important developments. First, he offers a new understanding of the architectural image itself. Following Gilles Deleuze and Henri Bergson, he develops an account of the image that is nonrepresentational and constructive—images as constituents of a primary, image world, of which subjectivity itself is a special kind of image. Second, Cache redefines architecture beyond building proper to include cinematic, pictoral, and other framings.Complementary to this classification, Cache offers what is to date the only Deleuzean architectural development of the "fold," a form and concept that has become important over the last few years. For Cache, as for Deleuze, what is significant about the fold is that it provides a way to rethink the relationship between interior and exterior, between past and present, and between architecture and the urban.
Centre Dental
Nora Schultz / Bom Dia Books / $24
64 p, ills color, pb, English
In her Centre Dental series, Nora Schultz turns to the dematerialization and activation of sculptures. Filmed with drone cameras and moved by hidden performers, the haptic quality of the sculptures recedes into the background in service of the overall appearance of the film, allowing the sculptures to become temporary actors in the film. Sequentiality and setting are decisive for this body of work, which has been reconstituted in the space of the Kunstverein’s evolving installation.
Zustände: Eine Topografie architektonischer Transformationen in Berlin
Tobias Engelschall / Bom Dia Books 2015 / $29.50
236 p, ills b/w, hardcover, English, German
More than anything else about architecture, Tobias Engelschall is fascinated by transformation. Between the regularity and randomness of architectural development, the new always emerges from what already exists. Every Zustand—every state of affairs, condition, configuration, every image in this book—attests only to the outcome of transformation. In their juxtaposition, Tobias Engelschall’s “Sehschule” presents what cannot be seen. With its thematic focus and careful selection, this topography includes mostly buildings that likely would never have appeared again in an architectural book after their initial publication. The book shows an exuberant multiplicity of formal languages, where one or another of them may effectively attain a new, unexpected quality.
Carlos Bunga
Serralves (eds) / Bom Dia Books 2014 / $27
236 p, ills, pb, English, Portuguese
This publication documents the special commission made by Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga for the Sonae/Serralves Project in 2012: a very large structure for the entrance hall of the Serralves Museum emphasizing the space’s verticality and functionality, in dialogue with Álvaro Siza’s architecture. Richly illustrated with Bunga’s projects in other artistic contexts ― as the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles or the Miami Art Museum, among others ― the book features texts by João Fernandes and Ricardo Nicolau, Adam Budak, Marta Jecu and an interview conducted by María Inez Rodríguez offering comprehensive insights into Bunga’s work.
Door Between Either and Or
Bart van der Heide, Saim Demircan (eds) / Bom Dia Books 2017 / $25
304 p, ills color, hardcover, English, German
Door Between Either And Or is compendium of a multifarious project initiated by Kunstverein München director Bart van de Heide in 2013/14, which included an exhibition at Kunstverein München and seminars and satellite events in Munich, London, and New York City. The goal was to reconsider binary distinctions in the early 21st Century, to confront how such oppositions operate at the foundations of capitalism, gender, sexuality, and our cultural institutions, and to survey how these divisions have increasingly eroded in our contemporary moment. Exploring the relation between artistic production, public institutions, and social change, the anthology examines a creative economy where contradictions are usually self-generated, and where contemporary practices roam across different formats and disciplines and display a certain self-awareness and criticality towards their institutionalization.
January 2019
An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures without Architecture
MOS architects / MIT Press 2018 / $85
1256 p. 1248 ills, hardcover, English
Architects draw buildings, and the buildings they draw are usually populated by representations of the human figure—drawn, copied, collaged, or inserted—most often to suggest scale. It is impossible to represent architecture without representing the human form. This book collects more than 1,000 scale figures by 250 architects but presents them in a completely unexpected way: it removes them from their architectural context, displaying them on the page, buildingless, giving them lives of their own. They are presented not thematically or chronologically but encyclopedically, alphabetically by architect (Aalto to Zumthor). In serendipitous juxtapositions, the autonomous human figures appear and reappear, displaying endless variations of architecturally rendered human forms.
A Real Living Contact with the Things Themselves
Irénée Scalbert / Park Books 2018 / $35
272 p, ills, pb, English
This publication selects nine essays written throughout the Scalbert’s career from the early 1990s to the present. Four of the essays are detailed studies of major buildings, including both critiques written at the time the buildings were made and comments on extant buildings that contributed to their rediscovery. Other pieces represent broader studies of historical movements and ideas, interpreting their significance within the context of contemporary architecture. All of the essays are based on direct experience, whether through quiet contemplation or candid interviews with architects, builders, or inhabitants. An architect by training, Scalbert writes with the purpose of illuminating the design efforts made and enriching the form of the architectures he describes, and his essays thus contribute to many key moments in the architectural history of the past three decades.
December 2018
Space Packed
Rafi Segal / Park Books 2018 / Graham Funded / $49
352 p, ills color, pb, English
Space Packed renews attention to pioneering architect Alfred Neumann who made a vast contribution to modern architecture and had a lasting impact on Israel’s broader architectural culture. Drawing on Neumann’s writings and close study of both built and unbuilt projects, Rafi Segal discusses the development of Neumann’s architectural theory and methodology and documents his built works from the 1950s and ’60s against the backdrop of contemporary architectural discourse and the demands of the newly created State of Israel. The book also features a complete, chronological catalog of Neumann’s buildings and designs, fully illustrated, including many previously unpublished photographs, drawings, and sketches.
Exposed Architecture: Exhibitions, Interludes, and Essays
Isabel Abascal, Mario Ballesteros (Eds) / Park Books 2018 / Graham Funded / $29
304 p, ills color, pb, English
This publication offers an overview of work by young architects in Latin America. Published in collaboration with LIGA, Space for Architecture in Mexico City, it is broken into three parts. The first documents, through images and brief texts, exhibitions that twelve firms from Argentina, Brazil/Uruguay, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and from Portugal created at LIGA’s exhibition space in Mexico. In the second part, six “Studio Interludes” shed light on practice and aesthetics in contemporary Latin American architecture. The third part comprises short essays by Latin American architects, along with two interviews with local figures, looking at key aspects and topics against a backdrop of the many challenges the region poses for the production and communication of architecture.
Wherever You Find People
Aberrant Architecture, David Chambers, Kevin Haley (Eds) / Park Books 2018 / Graham Funded / $39
176 p, ills color, pb, English
This publication tells the unusual story of the Integrated Centres of Public Education (CIEP), a radical but relatively unstudied public architecture initiative in Rio de Janeiro in 1982. Conceived by the world-renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer, the intellectual and politican Darcy Ribeiro, and state governor Leonel Brizola, the program addressed the massive urban migration that Rio de Janeiro was experiencing at that time, which spurred demand for new schools. As a result of the experimental program, over five hundred CIEP schools were built using a standardized system of simple concrete parts.
Bricks From The Kiln #3
Andrew Lister and Matthew Stuart / Bricks from the Kiln 2018 / $20
120p, ills color, pvc dust jacket and insert, English
A hand-drawn oblique, or forward slash (/) denotes a test sound used to indicate the start of each new segment in the issue. Title announcements and introductions for each segment are set in the typeface Make Do, and are "spoken" by an avatar model named Serena, rendered through the text-to-speech platform SitePal. Texts contained between asterisks (* *) throughout the issue should be read as stage directions/ descriptions/ instructions. Accompanying audio(visual) material to the issue can be found at www.b-f-t-k.info/#3
The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity
IÑAKI ÁBALOS / Park Books 2017 / $39
256 p, pb, English
What is the role of architecture if not to realize a shared vision of the “good life,” a vision that in the age of architectural modernism shaped—and was shaped by—a range of ideas about the home? With The Good Life, Iñaki Ábalos serves as our guide for a tour of seven iconic twentieth-century homes that represent various concepts for living.
Migrant No.5 Micro Odysseys
Justinien Tribillon, Michaela Büsse, Dámaso Randulfe (Eds) / Migrant Journal Press Limited 2018/ $25
128 p, ills color, pb, English
In this fifth and penultimate issue, we explore the microscopic in movement: from shooting stars to shifting sands, bacteria in Estonia and particles in Geneva, mosquitoes in fascist Italy and tuberculosis in Indian cities, micro-plastics floating in the Pacific Ocean, Roman weeds and their mysterious migration to Copenhagen.
Log 44
Anyone Corporation / Anyone Corportation 2018 / Graham Funded / $15
In the 15th anniversary issue of Log, number 44, architects representing diverse perspectives each question, in different ways, the place of architecture and architectural discourse in the world today.
An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises
Michelle Grabner (ed) / Cleveland Museum of Art 2018 / Graham Funded / $30
160 p, ills color, pb, English
The first edition of FRONT is an expansive program of 11 interconnected "Cultural Exercises" that address aesthetics in relation to political change and societal uncertainty. The exhibition interweaves critical approaches to museum exhibitions, public and educational programs, residencies, publications and research strategies in a multi venue presentation unfolding across Cleveland and its surroundings.
November 2018
Ziggurat:General Idea 1968-1994
AA Bronson / Mitchell-Innes & Nash 2018 / $60
80 p, ills color & bw, softcover, English
Published by Mitchell Innes & Nash to coincide with the exhibition Ziggurat (November, 2017 - January, 2018), this monograph catalogue contributes to the long lineage of artists’ books in the artist collective’s oeuvre. The book serves to illustrate the pervasion of the signature ziggurat form in their body of work. AA Bronson, the last living member of General Idea, was instrumental in creating this book, whose design in based on Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture, an influential publication from his childhood.
Aiding their semi-fictional “1984 Miss General Idea Pageant,” the ziggurat was a representation of progress, power, and success, repeated, coupled, and combined to express control through a basic form. The book consists of paintings that are fully illustrated in color alongside images of drawings, installation, sculptures, and other works that incorporate the ziggurat form, and is accompanied by a foreword written by Bronson and an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
The Funambulist #20
Léopold Lambert / The Funambulist 2018 / Graham Funded / $14.15
The issue proposes several facets of Indigenous struggles in Turtle Island. Most of them depict Native lives in spaces that are not the reservations where the colonial narrative usually situates them. Whether in large cities such as Los Angeles (Mapping Indigenous LA) or Saskatoon (Jaskiran Dhillon) or settler border towns in the periphery of reservations (Melanie K. Yazzie & Nick Estes, Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Joel Waters) the urban dimension of the first half of the dossier is omnipresent. In the second half is dedicated to various forms of Indigenous resistance through space-making (Nick Estes), anti-colonial solidarities (Palestinian Youth Movement), representative transgression (Leya Tess), or architecture researches/projects (Elsa Hoover, Geraldene Blackgoat, David Eslahi).
Goodbye, Oil
*Currently out of stock*
Harriet Russell / Corraini Edizioni 2018 / $29
36 p, ills color, pb, English
Oil, as we know, is a non-renewable resource. But where does it come from? How is it produced? And what if it will end up? 'Goodbye, Oil' is the latest illustrated book by Harriet Russell which presents the issue of energy saving and renewable sources to the public of children and grown-ups alike. From separate waste collection to thermal insulation, from recycling to pollution reduction, this story shows us that it is not true that we cannot change the world, because everyone can make a difference. A book to learn more about sustainability and today's problems, in a simple and ironic way.
Aftercast
Florian Roithmayr / Tenderbooks 2018 / $26.50
176 p, ills bw, pb, English
Aftercast is published in the context of the research and exhibition project the humility of plaster (2016-2018), initiated by Florian Roithmayr as a new partnership between the Museum of Classical Archaeology and Kettle’s Yard at the University of Cambridge, and Wysing Arts Centre.
Moulding and casting are widely used techniques in modern and contemporary art making. Their use and application can be found in many other areas of production and material transformation not immediately associated with art practices, and in times before casting became an acceptable form of sculptural production in its own right.
Plaster as a material remains the same: its inherent properties and qualities don’t change. Moulding and casting are ancient techniques of giving and taking form and shape to objects and sculptures, and they continue to do so. And yet the way casts are symbolised, the way meaning and values are attributed to these works cast in plaster, has often shifted.
ATHENE GALICIADIS , An Acrylic Glass Pyramid and Three Pendulums attached to a Triangle on a Table
Athene Galiciadis / Edition Patrick Frey 2018 / $47.50
176 p, ills color, pb, English
An Acrylic Glass Pyramid and Three Pendulums attached to a Triangle on a Table draws on the life and work of the artist Athene Galiciadis. This book does not follow in the wake of an exhibition, nor were the artworks in the book produced before the book. Created to stand alone as well as side by side, and along specific timelines — the timelines of the artist and of those who inspired her –, they are shown for the first time here. The book contains color reproductions, printed on graph paper, of figures, spirals, patterns and vases, a self-portrait of the artist as well as photographic documents inspired by Emma Kunz, an early 20th-century Swiss artist, healer and visionary. Kunz is chiefly known for her geometrical drawings, which she executed on graph paper with the aid of a pendulum. Based on Kunz’s precise empirical approach to producing knowledge and art, Galiciadis has produced a new series of drawings, whose configurations of shape and pattern draw us into her perceptions and interpretation of the world.
Real Review 7
Jack Self (editor) / REAL 2018 / $11.95
201 p, ills color, pb, English
You’ve been privatised, pathologised, indebted and exploited. Civil society is disintegrating, and hard-won freedoms are being undone. Yet from this maelstrom has emerged an intense clarity: a desire for sobriety, self-control, altruism, generosity, and the pursuit of mental and physical wellbeing. We are more aware, informed, engaged, and alert to social injustices – particularly of race, gender and geography. We are woke. But is this miraculous awakening to structural inequalities true or merely tokenistic? Is wokeness a fad, or a systemic, generational shift in social ethos?
TOO MUCH, Issue 8 Shelters
*Currently out of stock*
Yoshi Tsujimura (editor) / Editions OK FRED 2018 / $28.85
256 p, ills color, pb, English.
Shelters is about the shape of shelter, including Gordon Matta-Clark's legendary bodega-turned-kitchen called FOOD, which ran from 1971 to 1974 in New York. It was a restaurant that emerged from the broken infrastructure of the metropolis — a weird idyll in a rundown town where you could eat alchemical concoctions and drink cheap sake with the neighbourhoods' hungry artists.
PALAIS 27
Vincent Simon (editor) / Palais de Tokyo 2018 / $18.25
216 p, ills color, pb, English
PALAIS magazine is devoting its issue #27 to the exhibition “Another Banana Day for the Dream-Fish”, presented at the Palais de Tokyo from 22 June to 9 September 2018. This exhibition brings together creations by around 30 artists and craftspersons, based around the imaginary of childhood, its foundation myths and contemporary transformations. Constructed like a tale, with many levels of interpretation, the exhibition, with a dramaturgy conceived by the artist and filmmaker Clément Cogitore, transforms the Palais de Tokyo into a huge initiatory journey.
PALAIS 26
*Currently out of stock*
Camille Henrot / Palais de Tokyo 2018 / $22
192 p, ills colour & bw, pb, French/English
On the occasion of her carte blanche at the Palais de Tokyo from 18 October 2017 to 7 January 2018, French artist Camille Henrot is the guest editor-in-chief of this issue 26 of the magazine Palais, devoted entirely to the exhibition “Days are Dogs."
For this exhibition, Camille Henrot brings together an extensive group of her own works along with contributions from international artists with whom she maintains a productive dialogue. The invited artists are David Horvitz, Maria Loboda, Nancy Lupo, Samara Scott, and Avery Singer, as well as the poet Jacob Bromberg. The exhibition “Days are Dogs” explores the ways in which the invention of the seven-day week structures our relationship to time. It reveals the way the notion of the week reassures us—giving us routines and a common framework—just as much as it alienates us, creating a set of constraints and dependencies. Each of the seven parts of the exhibition is accordingly dedicated to a day of the week, an allegory for a series of emotions and activities associated with each day which the artworks reflect.
Recollecting Landscapes
*Currently out of stock*
Bruno Notteboom, Pieter Uyttenhove (editors) / Roma Publications 2018 / $49.50
228 p, ills color, pb, English
Botanist Jean Massart made a series of landscape photographs in Flanders between 1904 and 1911 to depict natural vegetation in the landscape and the relationship between agriculture and geography. In 1980 Georges Charlier re-photographed about 60 of Massart’s images, and in 2003 Jan Kempenaers was commissioned to re-photograph the same scenes. A fourth series was made by Michiel De Cleene in 2014. A varying emphasis on documentarian, artistic, and scientific aspects can be seen in each. The collection now serves research on urbanization and landscape mutations.
Lee Lazano: Private Book 4
*Currently out of stock*
Lee Lozano / Karma 2018 / $25
186 p, bw, spiral bound, English
This is the fourth volume in Karma's 11-volume facsimile printing of Lee Lozano's Private Book project. It is primarily a calendar of Lozano's personal, artistic and chemical interactions in 1969–70. A prolific writer and documenter of both her art and her relationships, the public and private, the painter Lee Lozano (1930–99) kept a series of personal journals from 1968 to 1970 while living in New York's SoHo neighborhood. In 1972 she rigorously edited these books, thus completing the project.
Lee Lazano: Private Book 5
*Currently out of stock*
Lee Lozano / Karma 2018 / $25
198 p, bw, spiral bound, English
This is the fifth volume in Karma's 11-volume facsimile printing of Lee Lozano's Private Book project. Eleven of these private books survive, containing notes on Lozano's work, detailed interactions with artist friends and commentary on the alienations of gender politics, as well as philosophical queries into art's role in society and humorous asides from daily life.
Contango Issue 2: Sanctions
Contango 2018 / $18
126 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
This second issue of Contango presents contributions from writers and artists whose work undermines dominant power structures through research, aestheticization, activism, and self reflection. It explores variations on the negotiation of power, the strategy behind legislation and the art of the bluff.
Overgrown
Julian Raxworthy / MIT Press 2018 / Graham Funded / $29.95
392 p, ills color, Hardcover, English
As a discipline, landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers. Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office, representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas gardeners work in the dirt, in real time, planting, pruning, and maintaining. In Overgrown, Raxworthy calls for the integration of landscape architecture and gardening. Each has something to offer the other: Landscape architecture can design beautiful spaces, and gardening can enhance and deepen the beauty of garden environments over time. Growth, says Raxworthy, is the medium of garden development; landscape architects should leave the office and go into the garden in order to know growth in an organic, nonsimulated way.
October 2018
Slab City
Charlie Hailey, Donovan Wylie / MIT Press 2018 / Graham Funded / $35
192 p, 41 color ills, pb, English
In a series of insightful texts and striking color photographs, Hailey and Wylie capture the texture of life in Slab City. They show us Slab Mart, a conflation of rubbish heap and recycling center; signs that declare Welcome to Slab City, T'ai Chi on the Slabs Every morning, and Don't fuck around; RVs in conditions ranging from luxuriously roadworthy to immobile; shelters cloaked in pallets and palm fronds; and the alarmingly opaque water of the hot springs.
Perspecta 51
Shayari de Silva, Dante Furioso and Samantha Jaff / MIT Press 2018 / $29.95
360 p, 140 color illus., 60 b/w ills, English
The study of medium is transscalar and transhistorical. Therefore, media are part of a continuum, and architecture is inseparable from medium. For this reason, Perspecta 51 does not focus exclusively on the “new media” of today or predictions about the future; instead, it presents a conversation among varied theories on medium set against a series of architectural case studies. These include articles about about images and digital commons, heating systems and thermostats, sea level rise and flood-monitoring apps, search lights and public space, media walls and megastructures, social media capitals and suburban sprawl, surveillance and library architecture. These stories are grounded in the theories of medium design, mediascapes, and media politics. Perspecta 51 provides new histories and fresh responses to the notion of medium that might illuminate possibilities for its productive use (and misuse) by architects.
September 2018
School: A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education
*Currently out of stock*
Sam Thorne / Sternberg Press 2017 / $28
384 pages, ills b/w and color, paperback, English
Sam Thorne’s School: A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education is a chronicle of self-organized art schools and artist-run education platforms that have emerged since 2000. Comprising a series of twenty conversations conducted by Thorne with the artists, curators, and educators behind these schools, the book maps a territory at once fertile and contested. Spanning projects in London, Lagos, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Ramallah, Berlin, and Saint Petersburg, among other locations, these critical dialogues respond to spiraling student debt, the MFA system, and the “pedagogical turn,” while offering proposals for the future of art education.
Radial Grammar
*Currently out of stock*
Batia Suter / Roma Publications 2018 / $55.50
296 p, ills colour & bw, pb, French/English
The imagery in Batia Suter’s ‘Radial Grammar’ revolves around radial shapes and concepts. The book uses of two separate layers of black ink, allowing Suter to create double images and merge patterns and screens. Departing from pages scanned from her collection of second-hand books on natural science, precision machinery, and art history, she freely manipulates and reorders them within the space of this volume, which can be seen as a condensed exhibition on paper. It is a journey along visual phenomena that reconnects us with the endless curiosity and patience of our younger selves leafing through an encyclopaedia, sensitive to its visual correspondences.
Accident
*Currently out of stock*
Andrew Zago / Art Paper Editions 2018 / $37
528 p, ills colour, paperback, English
In fields, such as architecture, that produce carefully authored compositions, the chance arrangements of material grain, patinas, or other traces of matter’s resistance to orderly control are sometimes allowed an expression in the final work. In these instances they are viewed as desirable features—even moral ones when touted as evidence of a work’s architectonic authenticity. Beyond this limited embellishment nature provides to otherwise determined technological assemblies, there are larger scale also embraced instances of matter’s random nature acting against, and in part undoing, such assemblies. The effects of weathering and the slouch or deformation of structures over time are often seen as endearing informal enhancements to the rigidity of precise compositions. A more extreme but equally well understood example is the classical ruin. In it, a technological assembly (a building) is undermined to a degree that the total final effect is coproduced by the original composition and its material disassembly. Since at least Romanticism such ruins—almost always in stone—have garnered a level of appreciation that can be considered connoisseurship.
In all of these instances there is happenstance; the appearance of a complex, stochastic logic of matter—both its crystalline or organic growth and its complex degradation in its environment—that is outside of and contrary to our instrumental control, unraveling our intended arrangements. We may dress a rock in geometric form and name it ‘column,’ but eventually—if centuries later—it will return to its feral state and, if still functioning, may even cause a structure to collapse. This interplay of happenstance and control extends well beyond these familiar occasions and their attendant sensibilities. They are all accidents, and as such they represent only a small, historically aestheticized, subset of an interplay that (potentially) exists in every technological assembly.
Geostories
Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy / Actar Publishers 2018 / Graham Funded / $29.95
232p, Ills color, paperback, English
How do we make sense of the Earth at a moment in which it is presented in crisis? Geostories is a manifesto on the environmental imagination that renders sensible the issues of climate change and through geographic fiction invites readers to relate to the complexity of Earth systems in their vast scales of time and space. The book is organized into three sections–terrarium, aquarium, planetarium, each of which revisits such devices of wonder that assemble publics around representations of the Earth. The series of architectural projects becomes a medium to synthesize different forms and scales of knowledge on technological externalities, such as oil extraction, deep-sea mining, ocean acidification, water shortage, air pollution, trash, space debris, and a host of other social-ecological issues. Through design research, Geostories brings together spatial history, geographic representation, projective design, and material public assemblies to speculate on ways of living with such legacy technologies on the planet.
Jacobin #30: Childhood
Jacobin Summer 2018 / $12.95
128 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
The new Jacobin is about children - the future workers in our society, the easily oppressed, our most precious resource or a drain on parental income. Inside the new issue, the modern nature of childhood is discussed through articles which range from the effects of social spending on our kid's lives to the gulf between a normal birth and a Beyonce birth.
The Funambulist #19: The Space of Ableism
Léopold Lambert / The Funambulist 2018 / Graham Funded / $14.75
The Space of Ableism is the nineteenth issue of The Funambulist, which begins the fourth year of its existence as a magazine. This volume is dedicated to a political struggle that has been too seldom addressed throughout the pages of past issues and that nevertheless very much mobilizes “the politics of space and bodies” that The Funambulist proposes to discuss: the fight against ableism. Just like structural racism should be addressed through considerations about white supremacy, and homophobia through considerations about heteronormativity, we should not consider disabled bodies without the system that creates such a category in the first place, namely ableism. In other words, disability, as we understand it in this issue (and as some of us experience it) is not an anatomic, biological, or neurological condition but, rather, a political one.
The Ordinary: Recordings
*Currently out of stock*
Enrique Walker/ Columbia Books on Architecture and the City 2018 / $20
88p, color, softcover, English
The Ordinary articulates a potential genealogy for this practice and for the genre of books that derived from it. Organized around conversations with the authors of three seminal texts that document the city—Rem Koolhaas on Delirious New York, Denise Scott Brown on Learning from Las Vegas, and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto on Made in Tokyo—this volume traces the history of these “books on cities” by examining the material they recorded, the findings they established, the arguments they advanced, and the projects they promoted. These conversations also question the assumptions underlying this practice and whether in its ubiquity it still remains a space of opportunity.
Jennifer Packer: Tenderheaded
Solveig Øvstebø / The Renaissance Society 2017 / $35
100p, ills color, Hardcover, English
The first monograph devoted to Packer’s work, Tenderheaded includes documentation of the exhibition, a conversation between Packer and artist Kerry James Marshall, essays by Jessica Bell Brown and April Freely, a poem by Safiya Sinclair, and an introduction by curator Solveig Øvstebø.
Robert Grosvenor
Editors / The Renaissance Society 2018 / $40
160 pages, ills b/w and color, Hardcover, English
Grosvenor has made significant contributions as a sculptor over the past fifty years, but relatively few books have been published about his work. This monograph documents the Renaissance Society show and also features new scholarship considering Grosvenor’s work with a broad scope. Contributors include Yau, Bruce Hainley, Yve-Alain Bois, Susan Howe, and Solveig Øvstebø.
Between the Ticks of the Watch
The Renaissance Society 2018 / $35
216 p, ills b/w and color, paperback, English
Between the Ticks of the Watch is the catalog to the exhibition of the same name at the Renaissance Society. The show featured artists Kevin Beasley, Peter Downsbrough, Goutam Ghosh, Falke Pisano, and Martha Wilson, who together presented a platform for considering doubt as both a state of mind and a pragmatic tool. Between the Ticks of the Watch traces how doubt can eat away at the foundation of understanding itself, calling into question the very possibility of knowledge—or at least demanding recognition of its limitations.
Featuring two new in-depth essays, a poetic text, and contributions by the artists featured in the exhibition, this catalog further presents doubt as a critical means for identifying new avenues of inquiry. The texts open space for the germination of novel forms and concepts, or questioning structures of power that have long been in place
Black Is, Black Ain’t
The Renaissance Society 2013 / $45
192 p, ills color, Hardcover, English
Taking its title from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, exhibition Black Is, Black Ain't (April 20 – June 8, 2008) explored a shift in the rhetoric of race from an earlier emphasis on inclusion to a present moment where racial identity is being simultaneously rejected and retained.
Curated by the Renaissance Society's Associate Curator and Education Director Hamza Walker, the exhibition brought together works by twenty-seven black and non-black artists whose work collectively examines a moment where the cultural production of so-called "blackness" is concurrent with efforts to make race socially and politically irrelevant.
August 2018
Borrowed Lady: Martine Syms
*Currently out of stock*
Amy Kazymerchyk / SFU Galleries 2017 / $15
79 p, color, softcover, English
Borrowed Lady: Martine Syms is the third in SFU Galleries Critical Reader Series. Edited by Amy Kazymerchyk, the book expands from Syms' exhibition, Borrowed Lady, held at the Audain Gallery from October 13 to December 10, 2016.
This publication unfolds the formal and conceptual inheritances that are operative in Syms' practice. A new text by Christina Sharpe offers a close reading of the visual and aural gestures in the exhibition; a transcriptions of Syms' performative lecture, Misdirected Kiss, cites a range of borrowed artistic, literary and theoretical references for further study; and a poetic text by artist Diamond Stingily expresses her own familial inheritances and illustrate Syms' relational and dialogic methodology.
“Insert Complicated Title Here”
Virgil Abloh / Sternberg Press 2018 / $14
96 p, 25 b/w ills, softcover, English
“What’s my DNA?” Virgil Abloh asks to an overflowing auditorium at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Abloh goes on to provide his audience with a “cheat code”—advice he wishes he had received as a student. He then unpacks a series of “shortcuts” for cultivating a “personal design language.” Trained as an architect and engineer, Abloh has translated the tools and techniques of his student days into the world of fashion, product design, and music. His label, Off-White, works in seeming contradictions, marrying streetwear with couture, collaborating with brands like Nike, Ikea, and the Red Cross; musicians like Lil Uzi Vert and Rihanna; and “mentors” like Rem Koolhaas. Impervious to hurdles (“They literally don’t exist.”), Abloh takes us behind the scenes of his design process, sharing the essentials of editing, problem-solving, and storytelling. He paints a picture of his DNA, and then flips the question: What’s your DNA?
Richard Rezac: Address
*Currently out of stock*
Richard Rezac / The Renaissance Society 2018 / $40
168 p, hardcover, English
The title of Richard Rezac’s solo Renaissance Society exhibition, Address (Apr 21–Jun 17, 2018), plays on the multivalent quality of the word. As a noun, it recalls for the artist significant geographical contexts. As an action, it reflects the artist’s deliberate creation and selection of works in response to the Renaissance Society’s architecture, and also nods to the sculptures’ relationship to their presumptive audience.
This publication continues this kind of address, extending it to a greater audience of readers through a generous selection of images, a conversation between the artist and curator Solveig Øvstebø, and new texts by Jennifer R. Gross, James Rondeau, and Matthew Goulish.
What Is Different? Jahresring 64
*Currently out of stock*
Wolfgang Tillmans, Brigitte Oetker (Eds.) / Sternberg Press 2018 / $27
228 p, color ill., softcover, English
What Is Different? is the title of this year’s edition of the Jahresring, guest-edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans. Since the early 2000s Tillmans has been working on truth study centre, a cycle of works concerned with absolute claims of truth in social and political contexts.
Circling around contemporary issues of newly resurfaced right-wing populism, the phenomenon of fake news, and psychological findings such as the backfire effect, Tillmans, rather than analyzing the status quo, focuses on what has changed in the past ten, twenty, thirty, forty years. Why are societal consensus and institutions now under attack?
The Library Was
*Currently out of stock*
Sofia Niazi, Rose Nordin, Heiba Lamara (Eds) / Fehras Publishing Practices 2016
44pp, soft cover, English
The Library Was sees OOMK reimagining the function, aesthetic and user culture of the library. Opening in an austerity-stricken future in which all public libraries have closed, it goes on to assert the continued importance of libraries via interviews with London-based library enthusiasts, a profile of the revolutionary Cuban librarian Marta Terry González, a re-assessment of The Five Laws of Library Science, 1931, as they do and don't apply to the collection of contemporary zines, and an account of the stolen library of the late Saudi novelist Abd al-Rahman Munif. It also documents the publications donated to the Open School East Library during OOMK‘s Future Library Fair held in December 2015, and describes the work of a semi-fictional group of readers and activists, who have pooled their resources to establish The Library of Aimless Yet Meaningful Pursuit, a space for meeting and learning outside of the algorithmic ‘Grid’.
The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium
Isabelle Graw / Sternberg Press 2018 / $27
364 p, color ill., softcover, English
Painting seems to have lost its dominant position in the field of the arts. However, looking more closely at exhibited photographs, assemblages, installations, or performances, it is evident how the rhetorics of painting still remain omnipresent. Following the tradition of classical theories of painting based on exchanges with artists, Isabelle Graw’s The Love of Painting considers the art form not as something fixed, but as a visual and discursive material formation with the potential to fascinate owing to its ability to produce the fantasy of liveliness. Thus, painting is not restricted to the limits of its own frame, but possesses a specific potential that is located in its material and physical signs. Its value is grounded in its capacity to both reveal and mystify its conditions of production. Alongside in-depth analyses of the work of artists like Édouard Manet, Jutta Koether, Martin Kippenberger, Jana Euler, and Marcel Broodthaers, the book includes conversations with artists in which Graw’s insights are further discussed and put to the test.
July 2018
Unhoused
*Currently out of stock*
Matt Waggoner / Columbia Books on Architecture and the City 2018 / $18
114p, pb, English
Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling is the first book-length study of Theodor Adorno as a philosopher of housing. Treating his own experience of exile as emblematic of late modern life, Adorno observed that twentieth-century dwelling had been rendered “impossible” by nativism, by the decimations of war, and, in the postwar period, by housing’s increasingly thorough assimilation into private property. Adorno’s position on the meaning and prospects for adequate dwelling—a concept he never wrote about systematically but nevertheless returned to frequently—was not that some invulnerable state of home or dwelling should be revived. Rather, Adorno believed that the only responsible approach to housing was to cultivate an ethic of displacement, to learn “how not to be at home in one’s home.”
Unhoused tracks four figurations of troubled dwelling in Adorno’s texts—homelessness, no man’s lands, the nature theater, and the ironic property relation—and reads them as timely interventions and challenges for today’s architecture, housing, and senses of belonging. Entangled as we are in juridical and financial frameworks that adhere to a very different logic, these figurations ask what it means to organize, design, build, and cohabit in ways that enliven non-exclusive relations to ourselves, others, objects, and place.
Extraction Empire
Pierre Bélanger / MIT Press 2018 / Graham Funded / $55
800 p, 637 ills, pb, English
Extraction Empire examines both the historic and contemporary Canadian culture of extraction, with essays, interviews, archival material, and multimedia visualizations. The essayists and interviewees—who include such prominent figures as Naomi Klein and Michael Ignatieff—come from a range of fields, including geography, art, literature, architecture, science, environment, and business. All consider how Canadian life came to be mediated through mineral extraction. When did this empire emerge? How far does it reach? Who gains, who loses? What alternatives exist? On the 150th anniversary of the creation of Canada by Queen Victoria's Declaration of Confederation, it is time for Canada to reexamine and reimagine its imperial role throughout the world, from coast to coast, from one continent to another.
Bogdanovic by Bogdanovic: Yugoslav Memorials through the Eyes of their Architect
Vladimir Kulic, Wolfgang Thalerrli (Eds) / The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2018 / Graham Funded/ $40
128 p, ills color, hardcover, English
This book presents Bogdanovic’s built oeuvre through his own eyes, in a selection of nearly fifty colour photographs of his memorials, which the architect took soon after the completion of each project. Carefully staged and taken with professional medium- format cameras, these photos, many of them previously unpublished, are in themselves works of art that bespeak their author’s surrealist sensibility. The book includes an introduction by the architectural historian Vladimir Kulic, a preface by curator Martino Stierli, and a selection of Bogdanovic’s own thoughts on photography, excerpted from an unpublished interview that Kulicćconducted in 2005.
Dimensions of Citizenship
Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Ann Lui, Mimi Zeiger (eds) / Inventory Press 2018 / Graham Funded / $25
264 p, ills color, pb, English
Globalization, technology, and politics have altered the definition and expectations of citizenship and the right to place. Dimensions of Citizenship documents contributions from the seven firms selected to represent the United States in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. This paperback volume profiles and illustrates each of the US Pavilion contributions and contextualizes them in terms of scale. Drawing inspiration from the Eames’ Power of Ten, Dimensions of Citizenship will provide a view of belonging across seven stages starting with the individual (Citizen), then the collective (Civic, Region, Nation), and expanding to include all phases of contemporary society, real and projected (Globe, Network, Cosmos). Additional essays—by Ingrid Burrington, Ana María León, and Nicholas de Monchaux, among others—will offer essential and enquiring responses to these themes.
Michael Webb: Two Journeys
Michael Webb / Lars Muller Publishers 2015 / Graham Funded / $45
206 p, color, Hardcover, English
Two Journeys is the first comprehensive monograph on Webb’s oeuvre and assembles sixty years of the artist’s work into a continuously evolving narrative about the multifaceted relationships among the built environment, landscape, and moving vehicles. He investigates these relationships through the act of drawing using notions of time, space, and speed, which are artfully mediated by the precision of mathematics and tempered by abstraction.
Featuring nearly 200 drawings, this extensively visual monograph includes essays by Kenneth Frampton, Michael Sorkin, Mark Wigley, and Lebbeus Woods, whose critical perspectives alongside texts and commentaries by Webb shed light on an extraordinary body of work.
The Empire Remains Shop
Cooking Sections / Columbia Books on Architecture and the City 2018 / $32
304 p, pb, English
"Empire shops" were first developed in London in the 1920s to teach the British to consume foodstuffs from the colonies and overseas territories. Although none of the stores ever opened, they were intended to make previously unfamiliar produce and products—sultanas from Australia, oranges from Palestine, cloves from Zanzibar, and rum from Jamaica—available in the British Isles. The Empire Remains Shop speculates on the possibility and implications of selling back the remains of the British Empire in London today.
Distributed
David Blamey, Brad Haylock (eds) / Open Editions 2018 / $35
264 p, pb, English
Bringing together contributors from a variety of backgrounds, Distributed presents the act of distribution as a subject of significant social and economic importance and argues that it merits serious creative consideration. From the attention-seeking impulse of the “influencer” to the democratization of art via books, performances, videos or sound, the increased urge to disseminate is explored here as an elemental phenomenon of our time.
Monu 28: Client-shaped Urbanism
*Currently out of stock*
Publisher Board Publishers 2018 / $20
132 p, ills colour & bw, pb, English
The importance of the client in shaping our built environment, whether it comes to buildings, neighbourhoods, or entire cities, is not sufficiently included in urban and architectural discourse, and thus largely forgotten, underestimated, and neglected. This issue is dedicated to investigating the topic in depth, to discover clients’ values, objectives, fears, and motivations, and the consequences of all of this for cities and buildings. What kind of design methods should be developed for better partnerships and results? How can communication between clients and designers be advanced? Which projects might never have happened without an ambitious and creative client?
A+U 570: Make New History- After The Second Chicago Architecture Biennial
Shinkenchiku-sha 2018 / $37
200 p, ills colour & bw, pb, Japanese/English
Participants of the Chicago Architecture Biennial’s second edition included 140 artists and architects from 20 countries, under the theme ‘Make New History’, and this issue is guest edited by its artistic directors, Sharon Johnson and Mark Lee. The first part offers a retrospective look at the biennial together with architectural historian Michael Hays, in which what it shows about the qualified autonomy, framing, and partnerships seen in current practice is discussed. The second part introduces built work and projects selected with reference to the exhibition’s theme, as well as responses from the architects to questions about what this theme means to their thought and practice.
The Design of Childhood
Alexandra Lange / Bloomsbury Publication 2018 / $30
416 p, ills bw, hardcover, English
Design critic Alexandra Lange reveals the surprising histories behind the human-made elements of our children's pint-size landscape. Her fascinating investigation shows how the seemingly innocuous universe of stuff affects kids' behavior, values, and health, often in subtle ways. And she reveals how years of decisions by toymakers, architects, and urban planners have helped--and hindered--American youngsters' journeys toward independence. Seen through Lange's eyes, everything from the sandbox to the street becomes vibrant with buried meaning. The Design of Childhood will change the way you view your children's world--and your own.
June 2018
Drone
*Currently out of stock*
Ethel Baraona Pohl, Marina Otero, Malkit Shoshan (eds.) / dpr-barcelona 2018 / Graham Funded / $18
138 p, ills bw, pb, English
Drone brings together researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds whose work seeks to understand and represent the nature and extent of drone operations. The book investigates the relationship between drone technology, cultural production, and forms of surveillance and violence. It analyses and speculates upon how these technological developments affect life in cities. Design by Numa Merino Studio.
Drone is the the first volume of Unmanned. Architecture and Security Series, a research and publishing project which examines architecture's role in the construction of the contemporary security regimes. The series discusses the consequences of the civilian appropriation of military technologies, and sets an agenda for design professionals to engage on a technological, cultural, and political level by putting forward forms of resistance.
The Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood
Angelo Plessas / Nero Editions 2018 / Graham Funded / $50
316 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
A survey of the eponymous project, which materialized between 2012 and 2017 in different remote places around the world—an annual gathering initiated by artist Angelo Plessas for a community of cultural practitioners concerned with our post-technological life. In the book, unpublished material alternates with contents produced during the six editions of The Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood.
Jacobin 29: 1968
Jacobin Spring 2018 / $12.95
128 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
Between us we can change this rotten society. Now, put on your coat and make for the nearest cinema. Look at their deadly love-making on the screen. Isn’t it better in real life? Make up your mind to learn to love. Then, during the interval, when the first advertisements come on, pick up your tomatoes or, if you prefer, your eggs, and chuck them. Then get out into the street, and peel off all the latest government proclamations until underneath you discover the message of the days of May and June.
Stay awhile in the street. Look at the passers-by and remind yourself: the last word has not yet been said. Then act. Act with others, not for them. Make the revolution here and now. It is your own. C’est pour toi que tu fais la révolution.
— Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit, Obsolete Communism: The Left-Wing Alternative
Esopus 25
Tod Lippy (ed) / Esopus Foundation 2018 / $40
400 p, ills color & bw, pb with audio CD and inserts, English
The 25th issue of the award-winning arts annual includes artist's projects by Noriko Ambe, Paolo Arao, Tina Barney, John Edmonds, Elizabeth Ferry and Anish Kapoor; Francine Prose's reflections on an early Renaissance painting at the Metropolitan Museum (incorporating a poem by Zbigniew Herbert); brand-new installments of the regular series "Guarded Opinions," "Modern Artifacts" and “Public Access” (featuring never-before-seen items from the Vladimir Nabokov papers in the New York Public Library’s esteemed Berg Collection); materials reproduced in facsimile from the Ludlow Santo Domingo collection of psychedelia at Harvard University; lyrics and artworks by Lonnie Holley; and an audio compilation featuring musicians such as Andrew Silberman (The Antlers), Will Oldham and Katie von Schleicher, who have created a series of new songs inspired by jokes.
May 2018
Amalgam — Op.I
Pouya Ahmadi (ed.) / Amalgam 2018 / $20
160 p, ills bw, pb, English
Amalgam is an ad hoc transdisciplinary journal that explores the intersection of typography, language, and the visual arts. Op.I features Alexandru Balgiu, Philip Burton, Dinamo, Meaghan Ferrill, Devin King, Alice J. Lee, Gerry Leonidas, Paul McNeil, Peter O’Leary, Rouzbeh Rashidi, David Jonathan Ross, Gregory Vines.
Jill Magid: A Letter Always Arrives at Its Destination. The Barragán Archives - Jill Magid: Una carta siempre llega a su destino. Los Archivos Barragán
Jill Magid / Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo-UNAM 2018 / $19.95
140 p, ills color & bw, pb, English/Spanish
With text by Christopher Fraga, Cuauhtémoc Medina and Jill Magid, the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo catalog documents American artist Jill Magid's project in conversation with the legacy of Mexican architect Luis Barragán at MUAC in Mexico City, featuring photographs, letters and transcribed correspondence which illustrate Magid's exchange with the Barragán Archives. With this project, the MUAC opens up a political and ethical debate on the current and future conditions of the transferal of cultural heritage from a model of the nation-state to one of corporate institutions.
The Funambulist #17: Weaponized Infrastructure
Leopold Lambert ed. / Graham Funded / The Funambulist 2018 / $14.75
62 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
Weaponized Infrastructure examines the use of infrastructure (railroad, highways, pipelines, canals, land reclamation, etc.) as a political weapon.
Spells
Irena Haiduk, Karsten Lund (ed.) / Graham funded / Sternberg 2015 / $24
192 p, bw, pb, English
What is Human? What is Divine? The Divine not only can do things that The Human cannot imagine, The Divine can imagine things that The Human cannot imagine. It is in this space that Irena Haiduk’s work lives its perpetually challenged life: where that which we cannot imagine gets imagined. This art is a magnet that extracts psychic metal.—From the introduction by Matthew Jesse Jackson
Design by Till Wiedeck and Polina Joffe of HelloMe.
Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday
*Currently out of stock*
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, vol. 18 / Sternberg 2016 / $30
276 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
The power of the commons, this book suggests, does not reside in the promise of a coming together free of friction. As different dimensions of power organize the terrain of the social, social movements are often caught between competing agendas, and in the gap between aims and everyday life. It is precisely the sites of these struggles that the book calls spaces of commoning. As such, this study is part of a much wider recognition of the necessity to rethink and undo the methodological premises of Western sciences, arts, and architecture, and to raise unsettling questions on research ethos, accountability, and the entanglement of power and knowledge. Design by Surface.
San Rocco 14 “66”
Matteo Ghidoni ed. / San Rocco 2018 / $22
256 p, ills bw, pb, English
San Rocco Spring 2018. 1966 was a promising year. Aldo Rossi published "The Architecture of the City" and Robert Venturi came out with "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture". The stage seemed set for a productive critique of modernism and the development of a more mature approach to the intricacies of architecture. Architecture seemed on the verge of rediscovering its collective nature and about to redefine its knowledge by starting from the city.
Hyperobjects
*Currently out of stock*
Timothy Morton / Minnesota Press 2013 / Exhibition title / $24.95
240 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
The environmental emergency is a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls “hyperobjects”—entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place. In this book, Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist with one another and with nonhumans, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art.
Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology
*Currently out of stock*
T.J. Demos / Sternberg 2016 / $26
296 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
While ecology has received little systematic attention within art history, its visibility and significance has grown in relation to the threats of climate change and environmental destruction. By engaging artists’ widespread aesthetic and political engagement with environmental conditions and processes around the globe—and looking at cutting-edge theoretical, political, and cultural developments in the Global South and North—Decolonizing Nature offers a significant, original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics. T.J. Demos considers the creative proposals of artists and activists for ways of life that bring together ecological sustainability, climate justice, and radical democracy, at a time when such creative proposals are urgently needed. Design by Miriam Rech, Berlin.
A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
*Currently out of stock*
Dionne Brand / Vintage Canada 2002 / Exhibition title / $18
240 p, bw, pb, English
A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and poetic book of discovery.
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
*Currently out of stock*
bell hooks / The New Press 1995 / Exhibition title / $16
240 p, bw, pb, English
In Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting, and criticizing art and aesthetics in an art world increasingly concerned with identity politics. Always concerned with the liberatory black struggle, hooks positions her writings on visual politics within the ever-present question of how art can be an empowering and revolutionary force within the black community.
Lines: a brief history
*Currently out of stock*
Tim Ingold / Routledge 2016 / Exhibition title / $30.95
190 p, bw, pb, English
In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of interwoven or interconnected lines and lays the foundations for a completely new discipline: the anthropological archaeology of the line.
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis
Katherine McKittrick (ed.) / Duke Press 2014 / Exhibition title / $26.95
304 p, bw, pb, English
The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore race, the legacy of colonialism, and representations of humanness. Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis is a critical genealogy of Wynter’s work, highlighting her insights on how race, location, and time together inform what it means to be human. The contributors explore Wynter’s stunning reconceptualization of the human in relation to concepts of blackness, modernity, urban space, the Caribbean, science studies, migratory politics, and the interconnectedness of creative and theoretical resistances. The collection includes an extensive conversation between Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick that delineates Wynter’s engagement with writers such as Frantz Fanon, W. E. B. DuBois, and Aimé Césaire, among others; the interview also reveals the ever-extending range and power of Wynter’s intellectual project, and elucidates her attempts to rehistoricize humanness as praxis.
Black Square
Aleksandra Shatskikh / Yale Press 2012 / Exhibition title / $50
368 p, ills bw, hb, English
Kazimir Malevich’s painting Black Square is one of the twentieth century's emblematic paintings, the visual manifestation of a new period in world artistic culture at its inception. None of Malevich’s contemporary revolutionaries created a manifesto, an emblem, as capacious and in its own way unique as this work; it became both the quintessence of the Russian avant-gardist's own art—which he called Suprematism—and a milestone on the highway of world art. Writing about this single painting, Aleksandra Shatskikh sheds new light on Malevich, the Suprematist movement, and the Russian avant-garde. Translated by Marian Schwartz.
The Contemporary Condition: Notes on the Type, Time, Letters & Spirits
Dexter Sinister / Sternberg Press 2017 / $12
64 p, ills bw, pb, English
Three interconnected palimpsest essays recount (1) the backstory of a “meta” font recently updated by Dexter Sinister and used to typeset the Contemporary Condition book series, (2) a broad history of the rationalisation of letterforms that considers the same typeface from “a higher point of disinterest,” and (3) a pending proposal for a sundial designed to operate in parallel physical and digital realms. Along the way they contemplate the ambiguous nature of our shared idea of *time* itself.
This book is Vol. 6 in The Contemporary Condition series, edited by Geoff Cox and Jacob Lund, co-published with Aarhus University and ARoS Art Museum. Designed by Dexter Sinister.
Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing
Nicholas Thoburn / Minnesota Press 2016 / $30
392 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
Presenting what he terms “a communism of textual matter,” Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounter between political thought and experimental writing and publishing. He takes a “post-digital” approach to a wide array of textual media forms, inviting us to challenge the commodity form of books—to stop imagining books as transcendent intellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce.
Concrete Chicago Map
Iker Gil (ed.) / Blue Crow Media 2018 / $10
Edited by Iker Gil, with photography by Jason Woods, the Concrete Chicago Map presents concrete and Brutalist architecture across Chicago and its suburbs.
April 2018
Teaching for people who prefer not to teach
M. Bayerdoerfer and R. Schweiker eds. / ANDpublishing & Aldgate Press 2017 / $12
231 p, bw pb, English
Teaching For People Who Prefer Not To Teach is a manual that fits in your pocket. designed by M Huntley.
Can I Come Over to Your House?; The First Ten
Years of the Suburban: 1999-2009
Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam / Poor Farm Press 2009 / $40
1200 p, ills color, hb, English
This book documents in photographs the year-by-year exhibition history from 1999-2009 of the much-loved independent exhibition space, The Suburban, in Oak Park, Illinois on the outskirts of Chicago. With an essay by Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam, an essay by Michael Newman, and an introduction by Forrest Nash.
An Atlas of Rare and Familiar Colour
*Currently out of stock*
The Harvard Art Museums' Forbes Pigment Collection / Atelier Editions 2017 / $38
224 p, ills color, pb, English
The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums possesses over 2500 of the world’s rarest pigments. Visually and anthropologically excavating the extraordinary collection, Atelier Editions’ monograph examines the contained artefacts’ providence, composition, symbology and application. Whilst simultaneously exploring the larger field of chromatics, utilising a variety of theoretical frameworks to interpret the collection anew. An introduction to the monograph is authored by Straus Center Director Dr. Narayan Khandekar.
ICA: 1946-1968
Anne Massey / Institute of Contemporary Arts, London & Roma 2014 / $38.50
208 p, ills color & bw, hb, English
This publication is dedicated to the first two decades of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, presenting a thorough history of the organization’s roots in post-war Britain, its mission of providing a physical base for the avant-garde, and its laying the groundwork for a continuing contribution to the evolution of contemporary art. Anne Massey's account is comprehensive in its scope, emphasizing the ICA's being openly fluid and responsive to fluctuations in artistic culture with groundbreaking exhibitions and very personal approach. Besides a foreword by executive director Gregor Muir, the book includes numerous archival images and a detailed chronology. Design by Roger Willems.
Bengal Stream: The Vibrant Architecture Scene Of Bangladesh
Andreas Ruby ed. / Christoph Merian Verlag 2018 / Graham Funded / $104
448 p, ills color, hb, English
Bengal Stream' is devoted to the architecture of Bangladesh, which has gone largely unnoticed on the architectural world map to date. Thanks to a vibrant architecture movement with excellent works, this situation may change very soon. With imaginative spatial approaches and innovative detailed solutions, Bangladesh's architects demonstrate that architecture is able to provide responses to major societal, economic and ecological issues.
This richly illustrated publication brings together over sixty projects by established as well as emerging architects. Iwan Baan has photographically documented their work, and essays by Niklaus Gaber, Kazi Khaleed Ashraf, Syed Manzoorul Islam and Saif Ul Haque offer a view into the world of contemporary architecture in the Bay of Bengal.
Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry
Ingrid Schaffner ed. / ICA Philadelphia & Graham Foundation 2012 / Graham supported / $20
112 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
Anne Tyng (born 1920) explores the potentials of geometry through her architectural and teaching practices. Since the 1950s, when she worked closely with Louis Kahn and independently pioneered space-frame construction, Tyng has applied natural and numeric systems to built forms on all scales, from urban plans to domestic spaces. She believes that geometry is a metaphor for thought and the creative process--as a spatial demonstration of how the mind generates associations through the combination of pattern and chance. This volume documents a new project by the visionary architect and theorist. Commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Tyng has created an installation-scale model that realizes the ambition of all of her work: to inhabit geometry. Exploring her life-long fascination with the Platonic solids, the book also features related models and documentation of past projects, including Tyng and Kahn's never-built design for City Tower in Philadelphia (1952-1956). Text by Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Jenny Sabin, Alicia Imperiale. Contributions by Claudia Gould, Sarah Herda, William Whitaker, Ingrid Schaffner. Design by Project Projects.
Real Review 6
Jack Self ed. / Real Foundation 2018 / $13.95
104 p, ills color, pb, English
How do we design value? MARIANA MAZZUCATO reviews the metrics of innovation. Poet EMILY TODER reviews the movement of the robot, while TOYO ITO reviews medieval light and the symbolism of grief. US-based Jamaican author GARNETTE CADOGAN reviews walking while Black, and FEMINIST ARCHITECTURE COLLABORATIVE review artificial hymens. STEPHEN ARMSTRONG reviews DELIVEROO’s dark kitchens and ARMATURE GLOBALE review the contemporary European photographic identity, including work by SATOSHI FUJIWARA.
Also in the issue: JACK SELF reviews the digital playlist and the world of nootropic smart drugs. ADAM NATHANIEL FURMAN reviews the role of class in building preservation, with a related photographic essay by THEO SIMPSON. Architect ASSAF KIMMEL reviews being just in time, while ELEANOR PENNY reviews the state of dictatorships today. Artists TAUBA AUERBACH and ÉLIANE RADIGUE review patience, and TIM IVISON reviews American communes.
Artwork as Social Model: A Manual of Questions and Propositions
Stephen Willats / Research Group for Artists Publications (RGAP) 2012 / $26
336 p, ills color & bw, hb, English
Stephen Willats’ art practice addresses contemporary social and cultural issues. His polemic takes ideas beyond the norms and conventions of the object-based art world, to explore possibilities inherent within communal groups.
This manual, which includes texts, interviews and artwork from five decades of practice, is intended as a tool for any artist or practitioner looking to find a meaningful relationship with contemporary society. It proclaims, and argues for, a culture that promotes the fluid, transient, relative and complex society from which it stems.
Speech/Acts
ICA Philadelphia & Futurepoem 2018 / $25
The Speech/Acts exhibition catalog features reprints of seminal texts from Fred Moten and Harryette Mullen, and newly commissioned poetry by Morgan Parker, Simone White, and an essay from the exhibition curator, Meg Onli.
The exhibition features the work of Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Martine Syms. The artists in this exhibition use poetics as a tool to manipulate the conceptual and structural elements of language and the social contexts in which language is employed, appropriated, and abstracted. Design by Dante Carlos, River Jukes-Hudson and Stephen Serrato (Studio ELLA).
March 2018
365 Days of Invisible Work
Werker Collective, Marina Vishmidt, Lisa Jeschke / Spector Books 2017 / $30
780 p, ills bw, pb with tear-off pages, English
365 Days of Invisible Work contains 365 images collected and compiled by the Domestic Worker Photographer Network. Members of this open network took photographs of themselves and others as gardeners, dishwashers, domestic workers, mothers, interns, artists, and as (illegal) migrants, generating a collective and political representation of domestic space. 365 Days of Invisible Work depicts a critical view of domestic work and work at home, as seen through the eyes of contemporary amateur photographers. 365 Days of Invisible Work is the third edition of the Werker Magazine series initiated by the founders of the Werker Collective, Marc Roig Blesa and Rogier Delfos. It was conceived as part of the Grand Domestic Revolution, a “living research” project by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, that ran from 2009/10–12. The Werker Collective’s practice is inspired by the Worker Photography Movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Far from having a rhetorical approach, it looks into ways of reactivating the movement’s working methodologies, based on self-representation, self-publishing, image analysis, and collective learning processes.
The Artist as Curator: An Anthology
*Currently out of stock*
Elena Filipovic ed. / Mousse & Koenig Books 2017 / $29.95
416 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
This is an anthology of essays that first appeared in The Artist as Curator, a series that occupied eleven issues of Mousse from no. 41 (December 2013/January 2014) to no. 51 (December 2015/January 2016). It set out to examine what was then a profoundly influential but still under-studied phenomenon, a history that had yet to be written: the fundamental role artists have played as curators. Taking that ontologically ambiguous thing we call “the exhibition” as a critical medium, artists have often radically rethought conventional forms of exhibition making. This anthology surveys seminal examples of such exhibitions from the postwar to the present, including rare documents and illustrations.
Babel’s Present
Kyle Dugdale / Standpunkte Dokumente 2016 / $12
72 p, bw, pb with photo postcard, English
The Tower of Babel is known for its absence. A landmark of architectural self-doubt, it has survived not as a physical object but through its representation in text and image. But over the last century, the Tower has rematerialized in an enigmatic array of projects that invite reassessment. From Robert Koldewey's excavations in Mesopotamia, to full-scale reassemblies in Berlin, surrogate reconstructions by Saddam Hussein, and mock ruins built in upstate New York for the US Department of Defense, Dugdale plots this story against the background of recent conflict in Iraq, presenting Babel as a vital challenge to the politics of architecture's material presence.
Crisis on Crisis
Andrew Leach / Standpunkte Dokumente 2017 / $12
64 p, bw, pb with photo postcard, English
Manfredo Tafuri's 1966 book l'architettura del Manerismo nel Cinquecento europeo is an early and oft-overlooked instance of his decades-long inquiry into the architectural history of early modern Italy. Read today, it comes across as both an imperfect attempt at a scientific treatment of his subject and an engaged plea for a new orientation in the historiography of architecture. Leach presents brief guide to this book, acknowledging its relationship with more widely read works on the problem of doing history in the architectural culture of the nineteen-sixties and making the case for its importance for contemporary reflections on the relationship between architecture's past and present.
FOOTPRINT 21: Trans-Bodies / Queering Spaces
Robert Alexander Gorny & Dirk van den Heuvel eds. /Jap Sam & TU Delft 2017 / $tk
65 p, ills bw, pb, English
This issue of Footprint looks into the latest developments in queer theory and the related, emerging field of trans studies, and how they might inform and even reconceptualise architecture. Even though the introduction of queer theory into architecture dates back to the 1990s, there is still fairly little literature available specific to architecture. What could architecture do, if we would leave behind essentialist approaches? Would it be possible to ‘undo’ the body of architecture and architecture theory and to allow for new figurations of knowledge, to ‘queer’ our understanding of architecture as a field engaged in consistent transformation, the material interface of processes of becoming?
The Funambulist #16: Proletarian Fortresses
Leopold Lambert ed. / Graham Funded / The Funambulist 2018 / $14.75
61 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
Proletarian Fortresses is an issue that proposes a resolutely political reading of self-built neighborhoods, appropriated architectures, refugee camps, and worker quarters. Constructed against the humanitarian and romanticizing orientalist narratives, it insists that these urban forms exist in the tension of what they are prevented to be by various embodiment of state violence and what they succeed in being thanks to their residents’ daily resistance.
Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism
*Currently out of stock*
Gareth Doherty ed. / Lars Müller 2017 / Graham Funded / $30
288 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
This collection presents a dozen of Burle Marx’s lectures, most of which have never before been available in English. The lectures paint a picture of Burle Marx not just as a gardener, artist and botanist, but as a landscape architect whose ambition was to bring radical change to cities and society. The lectures are framed by photographs of Burle Marx’s projects realized all over Latin America – all taken by photographer Leonardo Finotti.
Sausage of the Future
Carolien Niebling / Lars Müller & ECAL 2017 / $30
156 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
Can we count on the sausage to provide a solution, in order to reduce the consumption of meat? And can the use of new ingredients increase the diversity of our diets? Can the sausage make a considerable contribution to a sustainable food culture? To answer these questions, a chef of molecular gastronomy, a master butcher and a designer have teamed up to look into sausage production techniques and potential new ingredients – like insects, nuts and legumes – to reinvent the sausage of the future.
Slavs and Tatars: Mouth to Mouth
*Currently out of stock*
Pablo Larios ed. / Koenig Books 2018 / $59.95
232 p, ills color & bw, hb, English
Mouth to Mouth is the first monograph of art collective Slavs and Tatars, designed by Heimann + Schwantes, and published in collaboration with the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art.
Defining an area “east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China” as their remit, Slavs and Tatars repeatedly creolize, craft and collide a political and imagined geography to topple our brittle notions of identity, language, and beliefs. Throughout their ten-year practice, the artists have turned to Turkic language politics, medieval advice literature, the relationship between Iran and Poland, and transliteration, to name but a few of their areas of research. A region sandwiched between empires (Russian, Byzantine, Persian, to name a few), ideologies (Communism and political Islam), not to mention the Abrahamic faiths, Eurasia becomes a foil to an understanding of ourselves as multiple subjectivities. The artists’ work — from sculptures to lecture performances, installations to publications — similarly overturn the traditional hierarchies of understanding, seeing, and listening. Slavs and Tatars are keen to free knowledge from the Enlightenment confines of the mind. Their “Kitab Kebab” series offers a digestive approach to reading as opposed to the strictly analytical. A sculpture often leads to a book to be read on a carpet that drops us off at the feet of an old man riding backwards on his donkey.
Supercommunity
*Currently out of stock*
Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle, Brian Kuan Wood eds. / e-flux & Verso 2017 / $29.95
480 p, bw, pb, English
Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present. Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on site from Venice. In essays, poems, short stories, and plays, artists and theorists trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life, in which art, the internet, and globalization have shed their utopian guises but persist as naked power, in the face of apocalyptic ecological disaster and against the claims of the social commons.
Texte zur Kunst 109: Art Without Rules?
Katharina Grosse & Yngve Holen eds. / Texte zur Kunst 2018 / $25
240 p, ills color & bw, pb, English & German
The March issue of Texte zur Kunst considers art’s relation to rules — or rather, the exceptions to them that art and its agents seem to claim. How can we speak of rules in the context of art, where transgressions are lauded even while traditional hierarchies (class, gender, race, sexuality) continue to assert their influence? And would we demand anything less of art than the promise of disobedience, rule breaking both in terms of formal restrictions and normative regulations? Therefore, in this issue we ask: by what rules does the art world play, and how are transgressions made visible/invisible therein?
White Paper: On Land, Law, and the Imaginary
*Currently out of stock*
Adelita Husni-Bey / Valiz with Beirut, Berlin; Casco, Utrecht; CA2M, Madrid 2017 / Graham Funded / $19
88 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
Conceived as an exploratory collection of materials, the content of this book revolves around the relationship that artist Adelita Husni-Bey explored between legislation, notions of property, and agency vis-à-vis the right to housing in Egypt, the Netherlands, and Spain. Each chapter presents itself as a reflection of the themes: Land, Law, Imaginary, that range from art historical perspectives to narrative fiction, collages and field-work notes. As such the book’s structure speaks to the project’s unfolding in time and its presence in radically distinct contexts, while also chronicling the multi-disciplinary approach and the wide range of formats and methodologies the project has brought to great effect.
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Absurd Thinking: Between Art and Design
Allan Wexler / Lars Müller 2017 / Graham Funded / $50
296 p, ills color & bw, hb, English
This book features projects, developed during the artist Allan Wexler’s forty-five-year career, which mediate the gap between fine and applied art using the mediums of architecture, sculpture, photography, painting, and drawing. Wexler's production can be broadly described as tactile poetry composed by re-framing the ordinary with the intention of sustaining a narrative about landscape, nature, and the built environment that highlights the intriguing and surprising characteristics latent in the elements and rituals that pervade daily life. His work demonstrates a commitment to re-evaluating basic assumptions about our relationship to the built and natural environments. Organized thematically across four categories―abstraction, landscape, private space, and public places―this publication is a richly illustrated cross section of Wexler’s multi-scale, multi-media work, featuring his own writings, narratives, and reflections.
Counter Signals 1: Militant Print / A Form Oriented Towards its Own Circulation
Jack Henrie Fisher ed. / Other Forms 2016 / $12
184 p, ills bw, pb, English
Counter Signals is a bi-annual journal addressing, in variable iterations, different aspects of the intersection of design, media, and politics. The first issue — Militant Print / A Form Oriented to Its Own Circulation — documents and theorizes forms of militant aesthetics in the history of self-organized print publishing, among other things. The issue includes contributions from Mladen Dolar, Katharina Stadler, Thomas Fisher, Emma Holmes, Danielle Aubert, Mary Ikoniadou, T’ai Smith, Lucy Mulroney, Eirik Steinhoff, Nasrin Himada and Denise Ferreira da Silva, Léo Favier, Nicolás Pradilla, Alan Smart, Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi, Josh Macphee, and Lewis Mumford.
Counter Signals 2: Hieroglyphs of the anti-commodity
Jack Henrie Fisher ed. / Other Forms 2017 / $12
184 p, ills bw, pb, English
The second issue of Counter Signals — Hieroglyphs of the anti-commodity — documents and theorizes forms of militant aesthetics in the histories of art, labor, and typography, among other things. The issue includes contributions from Alan Moore, Chris Reeves, Lucy Mulroney, T’ai Smith, Lisa Vinebaum, Eirik Steinhoff, Nane Diehl, Jennifer Scappettone, Francesco Marullo, John A. Tyson, David Bennewith, Charlotte Taillet and Joel Colover, Josh MacPhee, Christopher Burke, Chris Lee, Tom Fisher, Alexander Negrelli, Nellie Kluz, Juliette Cezzar, TXT-books, and Bertolt Brecht.
Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces
Alan Moore & Alan Smart eds. / Other Forms & The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest 2015 / $20
358 p, ills bw, pb, English
Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces is an anthology of texts on art, media and aesthetic practice in the context of squatting, occupation and urban space activism. It includes pieces by activist researchers working between the academy and the movements they write about, as well as journalistic first-person narratives by squatters, original photography, and interviews with artists, theorists and activists involved in struggles over urban space and creative production in the city. Focused primarily on the European context, its international relations and connection, this diverse collection of material is organized into sections by country so as to highlight the contrast between different voices and frames of reference. While many of these voices assert accounts of a cohesive, international squatter movement, or are committed to specific political projects, the anthology, when taken as a whole, tells a more complex story about constellations of movements and practices, intensely engaged with local conditions, that have developed — sometimes independently, sometimes in dialog with one another — as people have struggled to survive, express themselves, carve out zones of autonomy and resistance, and push back against the dominance of capitalism in the city.
Take Shape #1 Loft
Nolan Boomer, Cole Cataneo & Julia Goodman eds./ Take Shape 2017 / $18
80 p, ills risograph duotone, pb with color insert, English
Take Shape is a new publication charting the waters of architectural, legal, and political thinking. Its first issue takes up the topic of industrial reuse, with a focus on lofts. Lofts—residential spaces created from former commercial and manufacturing space—provide affordable housing and often serve as a respite from the profit-driven real estate market. Simultaneously, they can be co-opted by property developers and local officials to justify rising rents and increased policing in newly “safe,” “artistic,” and desirable neighborhoods. In this issue, we present all of these factors side by side, seeing them not as contradictions, but as essential components of how such spaces function.
March 2018
New & back in stock:
The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, Georgeen Theodore / Actor 2017 / Graham Funded / $49.95
480 p, ills color, hb with foldout map, English
Who gets to be where? The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion examines some of the policies, practices, and physical artifacts that have been used by planners, policymakers, developers, real estate brokers, community activists, and other urban actors in the United States to draw, erase, or redraw the lines that divide. The Arsenal inventories these weapons of exclusion and inclusion, describes how they have been used, and speculates about how they might be deployed (or retired) for the sake of more open cities in which more people have access to more places. With contributions from over fifty architects, planners, geographers, historians, and journalists, The Arsenal offers a wide-ranging view of the forces that shape our cities.
Forms of Aid: Architectures of Humanitarian Space
Benedict Couette & Marlisa Wise / Birkhäuser 2017 / Graham Funded / $59.95
192 p, ills color & bw, hb, English
The book highlights the architectural consequences of humanitarian actions on the basis of three case studies in Port-au-Prince, the West Bank, and Nairobi. Twelve projects are analyzed in terms of typology and construction. The authors investigate the far-reaching effects of such architectural aid and supply architects, town planners, and NGOs with useful advice for future planning and design.
Four Times Through the Labyrinth
*Currently out of stock*
Olaf Nicolai & Jan Wenzel / Rollo Press & Spector Books 2012 / $19
320 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
This book enlarges the traditional catalog of labyrinths "so much and so well, being itself labyrinthine,” remarked French deconstructionist philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy on the first edition of the text. The starting point for this transcript of four lectures is a public artwork that Olaf Nicolai installed in Paris in 1998. Nicolai, whose work has been shown at Documenta X and the 49th and 50th Venice Biennales, uses diverse media to question the ways in which we use our physical bodies to encounter the everyday environment. By exploring and combining a broad spectrum of topics related to the labyrinth theme, the book serves as both a reference system to Nicolai’s work and an independent source book dealing with labyrinthian matter, from the fable of the minotaur to the floor plan of IKEA. Translated from German by Sadie Plant.
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
Christina Sharpe / Duke University Press 2016 / $22.95
192 p, ills color & bw, English
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness—Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, and she delineates what survives despite such insistent violence and negation. Initiating and describing a theory and method of reading the metaphors and materiality of "the wake," "the ship," "the hold," and "the weather," Sharpe shows how the sign of the slave ship marks and haunts contemporary Black life in the diaspora and how the specter of the hold produces conditions of containment, regulation, and punishment, but also something in excess of them. In the weather, Sharpe situates anti-Blackness and white supremacy as the total climate that produces premature Black death as normative. Formulating the wake and "wake work" as sites of artistic production, resistance, consciousness, and possibility for living in diaspora, In the Wake offers a way forward.
Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus
*Currently out of stock*
Lori Waxman / Sternberg Press 2018 / Graham Funded / $29
292 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
Keep Walking Intently by Lori Waxman reveals the radical potential that walking holds for us all by tracing the meandering and peculiar footsteps of avant-garde artists as they moved through the city, encountering the marvelous, studying the environment, and re-enchanting the banal.
Please join us for a series of ambulatory performances at 6pm on March 19 for a Book Launch of Waxman's new Graham-funded book just out from Sternberg Press, Berlin and designed by Zak Group Office.
New Geographies 09: Posthuman
Mario Gomez Luque & Ghazal Jafari eds. / Havard GSD & Actar 2018 / Graham Funded / $29.95
208 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
New Geographies 09 investigates the urban landscapes shaping the posthuman geographies of the early 21st century, fostering a wide-ranging debate about both the potentialities and challenges for design to engage with the complex spatialities, more-than-human ecologies, and diverse forms and habits of life of a post-anthropocentric world.
Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism
Alice Twemlow / MIT Press 2017 / Graham Funded / $34.95
312 p, ills color & bw, hb, English
Product design criticism operates at the very brink of the landfill site, salvaging some products with praise but consigning others to its depths through condemnation or indifference. When a designed product's usefulness is past, the public happily discards it to make room for the next new thing. Criticism rarely deals with how a product might be used, or not used, over time; it is more likely to play the enabler, encouraging our addiction to consumption. With Sifting the Trash, Alice Twemlow offers an especially timely reexamination of the history of product design criticism through the metaphors and actualities of the product as imminent junk and the consumer as junkie.
February 2018
New releases in stock:
Automatic Architecture: Motivating Form After Modernism
Sean Keller / Chicago Press 2018 / Graham Funded / $45
208 p, ills bw, hb, English
In the 1960s and ’70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created. By focusing on design methods, and by examining evidence at a range of scales—from institutions to individual buildings—Automatic Architecture offers an alternative to narratives of this period that have presented postmodernism as a question of style, as the methods and techniques traced here have been more deeply consequential than the many stylistic shifts of the past half century.
Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability
Aime Hamraie / Minnesota Press 2017 / Graham Funded / $30
352 p, ills bw, pb, English
Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for designing the world with disability in mind. Illustrated with a wealth of rare archival materials, this book brings together scientific, social, and political histories in what is not only the pioneering critical account of Universal Design but also a deep engagement with the politics of knowing, making, and belonging in twentieth-century United States.
Kinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design
Zeynep Çelik Alexander / Chicago Press 2017 / Graham Funded / $55
336 p, ills color & bw, hb, English
Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-nineteenth-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of knowing, which Zeynep Çelik Alexander here dubs “kinaesthetic knowing.” In this book, Alexander offers the first major intellectual history of kinaesthetic knowing and its influence on the formation of modern art and architecture and especially modern design education.
2/22/18
New releases in stock:
Biography Of A Publishing House: Gaberbocchus Press 1948-2013
Walter van de Star / Huis Clos 2017 / $45.50
160 p, ills color & bw, pb, Dutch/English
In 1948 Stefan and Franciszka Themerson founded the Gaberbocchus Press in London. Over a period of three decades this publishing house went on to produce over 60 titles, and although the couple’s work clearly has roots in the international avant-garde of the interbellum, they maintained a high level of independence in all of their activities. Their publications are characterized by improvised techniques and materials, as well as by experiments with word and image. Eccentric, original, and expressive of the identity of its contents, each book contains a distinct combination of text, image, design, materials. This volume pays tribute to the rare phenomenon that was Gaberbocchus.
Design Thinking in a Digital Age
Peter G. Rowe / Sternberg Press & Harvard GSD 2017 / $14
128 p, bw, pb, English
In 1987, Peter G. Rowe published his pioneering book Design Thinking. In it, he interrogated conceptual approaches to design in terms of both process and form. Thirty years later, in a lecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Rowe offered a reappraisal of his earlier work, describing ways in which the capacities of the digital age have changed the way we perceive and understand creative problem solving in architectural design. In this new account of design thinking based on that memorable talk, Rowe charges that ideas about the “precision” and “incompleteness” of information have become exaggerated and made more manifest. He dives into the crucial role of schema theory and the heuristics that flow from it, but concedes that the “ineffable characteristics of design problems and of design thinking also appear to have remained.”
Design Thinking in a Digital Age is the fifth title in the book series The Incidents, based on uncommon events at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 1936 to tomorrow.
Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: the Art of the Art Assignment
*Currently out of stock*
Paper Monument & n+1 2012 / $16
128 p, ills bw, pb, English
This book examines the complex and often unruly state of art education by focusing on its signature pedagogical form, the assignment. Bringing together hundreds of assignments, anti-assignments, and artworks from both teachers and students from a broad range of institutions including: John Baldessari, William Pope.L, Mira Schor, Rochelle Feinstein, Bob Nickas, Chris Kraus, Liam Gillick, Amy Sillman, James Benning, and Michelle Grabner; Paper Monument hopes it simultaneously serves as an archive and an instigation, a teaching tool and a question mark, a critique and a tribute.
Guy De Cointet - The Complete Plays
Hugues Decointet, François Piron, Marilou Thiébault eds. / Paraguay Press 2017 / $56.50
448 p, ills color & bw, hb, English
French-born artist Guy de Cointet is known for his text and sculptural works, which were often combined as props and stage sets in theatrical performance pieces. This compendium of his plays builds on publications from the last ten years, the result of collaborations between critics, researchers, and the Guy de Cointet Society. The position of his oeuvre today is vastly different in comparison to a decade ago, having emerged from obscurity, while a careful reading of the notebooks he kept throughout the 1970s until his death in 1983 has spurred new insights. Included is a wealth of archival material, such as photos of performances and rehearsals, invitation cards and press articles.
I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette
*Currently out of stock*
Paper Monument & n+1 2009 / $10
568 p, ills bw, pb, English
Paper Monument’s first book, I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette, features contributions from 38 artists, critics, curators, and dealers on the sometimes serious and sometimes ridiculous topic of manners in the art world. The book asks: what is the place of etiquette in art? How do social mores establish our communities, mediate our critical discussions, and frame our experience of art? If we were to transcribe these unspoken laws, what would they look like? What happens when the rules are broken?
Macguffin 5: The Cabinet
Kirsten Algera & Ernst van der Hoeven eds. / Macguffin 2017 / $22.50
232 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
MacGuffin Magazine N° 5 opens up the curious life of the cabinet, where intimate stories are hidden away, kept and inevitably shown. Revealing enlightened DIY shelves, immaculate celebrity closets, whimsical cocktail bars, socialist kiosks, classic cubes and cabinets that beat you at a game of chess. Featuring Sam Jacob, Emily King, Les Lalanne, Ettore Sottsass, Slothouber & Graatsma, Wolfgang Tillmans, Yvonne Dröge Wendel, and many more.
No Style: Ernst Keller 1891-1968 Teacher And Pioneer Of The Swiss Style
Peter Vetter, Katharina Leuenberger, Meike Eckstein / Triest Verlag 2018 / $70
254 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
Graphic designer Ernst Keller taught at the School of Arts and Crafts in Zürich from 1918 to 1956. Frequently referred to as the “Father of the Swiss Style”, his many students established this particular current in graphic design and went on to make it world famous. His graduates also included protagonists of the New Graphic Design movement. This book presents Keller’s biography and extensive collection of work, including previously unknown projects. His fundamental contribution to the development of innovative, non-academic didactic principles in design education are also described. Keller’s teaching is considered one of the world’s first systematic programmes for graphic design.
Robert Irwin: Site Determined
Matthew Simms / Graham Funded / Prestel 2018 / $45
160 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
This book explores four decades of Robert Irwin’s outdoor environment projects through his drawings and architectural models. Over the course of a storied career, Robert Irwin has come to regard art as site determined, or something that works in and responds to its surroundings. This book opens with his projects on college campuses between 1975 and 1982. These are followed by Irwin’s major, yet never realized, commission for the Miami International Airport, where he proposed to transform the structure, parking lots, and roadways into a sequence of aesthetic and practical spaces that engaged directly with the South Florida environment. It then turns to one of Irwin’s most celebrated works, the Central Garden at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Finally, the book takes readers to the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and one of Irwin’s most ambitious works to date—a monumental artwork that brilliantly connects viewers to the land and sky.
The Serving Library Annual 2017/18
Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Angie Keefer, Lauren Mackler, David Reinfurt eds. /Roma Publications 2017 / $40
200 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
The Serving Library Annual comprises a number of individual “Bulletins” organized around a theme for an international audience of designers, artists, writers, and researchers. Newly published by ROMA Publications in a yearly format, this inaugural issue is realized in collaboration with Public Fiction, a journal and exhibition-maker based in Los Angeles. It deals with acts of civil disobedience and other forms of resistance, particularly in view of the relationship between entertainment and power. Contributors include Hilton Als, Tauba Auerbach, Anne Carson, Mark Leckey, Adrian Piper, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.
Social Medium: Artists Writing 2000-2015
Jennifer Liese ed. / Paper Monument & n+1 2016 / $28
544 p, bw, pb, English
Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015 is the first major anthology of 21st-century artist writing, including seventy-five groundbreaking texts by artist-writers from around the world. The works gathered here—essays, criticism, manifestos, fiction, diaries, scripts, blog posts, even tweets—chart a complex era in the art world and the world at large, weighing in on the exigencies of our times in unexpected and inventive ways. Editor Jennifer Liese (director of the Writing Center at Rhode Island School of Design, former managing editor of Artforum) provides an introduction and a clear structure for understanding the contributions of key figures such as Jimmie Durham, Hito Steyerl, Mike Kelley, Adam Pendleton, Ai Weiwei, Raqs Media Collective, Frances Stark, and Tania Bruguera.
And back in stock:
Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today
*Currently out of stock*
T.J. Demos / Sternberg 2017 / $26
96 p, color & bw, pb, English
Against the Anthropocene scrutinizes the proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch regarding climate change. In this slender but dense volume, cultural theorist T.J. Demos analyzes the biases within contemporary visual culture—popular science websites, remote sensing and SatNav imagery, eco-activist mobilizations, and experimental artistic projects—demonstrating that it does not merely describe a geologic period, but actively supports the neoliberal financialization of nature, anthropocentric political economy, and endorsement of geo-engineering as a preferred method of approaching climate change. To develop creative alternatives, Demos argues we need to carefully consider the underlying motives the Anthropocene thesis.
Words, Books, and the Spaces They Inhabit
Mari Shaw / Sternberg Press 2017 / $22
100 p, ills color & bw. pb, English
Words, Books, and the Spaces They Inhabit is the first of Mari Shaw’s series The Noble Art of Collecting. With examples of unexpected collectors and serendipitous outcomes, Shaw investigates the obscure desires that shape art collecting and the public goodwill that results from it. What was lost when the scrolls in the ancient library of Alexandria were destroyed? How did Catherine the Great’s collecting change the way we think? How do Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com expand our appreciation of books as objects? Though the ways we communicate live and vary, history has been created, recorded, and preserved in writing. Words and the spaces that contain them are crucial to an empathetic understanding of our world.
2/17/18:
New releases in stock:
THIRD Magazine, Issue 1
Allison Littrell ed. / THIRD 2018 / $20
142 p, ills color & bw with inserts, English
THIRD aims to denaturalize the rote narratives through which our society views art made by Others. For Issue #1, we found artists who tell stories from the perspective of those who were not on the winning side of history, but whose art flourished despite attempts to silence it. Issue #1 features: Martine Syms, Kandis Williams, Ruben Rodriguez, Marcel Alcalá, Peter Shire, Sara Grace Powell, Brandon Landers, Molly Matalon, Douglas Kearney, Adjustments Agency and more.
Each copy of THIRD Issue #1 includes two limited edition inserts: a #BrownUpYourFeed activity pamphlet by Mandy Harris Williams and an 11x17" art print by Marco Kane Braunschweiler.
Vestoj 8: On Authenticity
Anja Aronowsky Cronberg ed. / Vestoj 2017 / $36
240 p, ills color & bw, English
In consumer capitalism authenticity has taken on a supreme importance: in fashion it’s the holy grail. Terms like ‘artisanal,’ ‘heritage,’ ‘craftsmanship’ and ‘storytelling’ have become buzzwords, and conglomerates are fond of referring to their offices as ‘campus’ and co-workers as ‘family.’ But what are we getting at when associating these terms with fashion?
Issue 8 looks at our relationship to dress and appearance to reflect on questions like, Is there such a thing as a ‘real me’ or a ‘genuine self’? How does one live an authentic life? And is it possible to do so in fashion, an environment so characterized by the mood of the moment, so dependent on chameleon-like behavior. Are fashion and authenticity really antithetical, and if so, what can be learnt from looking at the relationship between the two?
2/14/18:
New release in stock:
Signals from the Periphery
*Currently out of stock*
Elisabeth Klement & Laura Pappa eds. / Estonian Academy of Arts Press 2017 / $20
174 p, ills color & bw, pb with accompanying fanzine, English
Signals from the Periphery brings together urgent developments in graphic design with a focus on works that surpass traditional forms and media of graphic design. All contributions in the book are authored by graphic designers or people whose practice is in one way or another linked to the discipline. Some of the topics covered in the book include education, self-organization, work, technology, storytelling and much more.
Back in stock:
In Defense of Housing
*Currently out of stock*
David Madden & Peter Marcuse / Verso Books 2016 / $26.95
240 p, bw, pb, English
In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.
2/8/2018:
New releases in stock:
Atlas of Forms
Eric Tabuchi / Poursuite Editions 2017 / $52
256 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
Atlas of Forms is a large book of images that documents every kind of shape found in architecture of all types. Within its 256 pages, are nearly 1500 photographs patiently collected from the Internet and classified according to the rudimentary criteria of geometry (circle, square, triangle, polygon) and their current state (construction site, completed, abandoned or in ruins). These categories mix and mingle without interruption.
Opening with a series of spherical structures, like small worlds under construction, and concluding with an image of an overturned bunker, this book proposes a long meandering, a sort of hypnotic chant with its recurrences and variants, its repetitions and ruptures, its harmonies and dissonances. More than a volume on architecture or photography, Atlas of Forms is primarily an elegy to diversity, every forms of diversity.
CURA. 26
Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin eds. / CURA 2017 / $12
240 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
In the issue a common thread connects the different sections as a sort of fil rouge: the “machine” is interpreted either as a possibility or as a threat, as a mechanism that makes up our present, as a device for reading the past or as a perspective for a future to come. Artists explore this theme in a multitude of ways, combining it with their own vision of human identity, natural environment and social relations.
This issue includes works by Todd von Ammon, Donatien Grau, Cecilia Alemani, Anthony Huberman, Michael Asher, Vincent Honoré, Ben Vickers, Pakui Hardware, Adriana Blidaru, Elizabeth Neilson, Margot Norton, Nicolas Deshayes, Piper Marshall, Liam Considine, Whitney Mallett, Arthur Fink, Loïc Le Gall and Frances Loefer.
HOW TO ACT?
La Criée Centre for Contemporary Art ed. / Onamotopee 2014 / $ 36
504 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
HOW TO ACT? is a dynamic extension of the A.C.T. Democ[k]racy project. It post-produces the exhibitions, conferences and residences fostering exchange of thought, inventing and representing the democratic changes of Europe in a nearby future through pan-European creative exchange. Living documentation consisting of photographs, critical and poetic texts, political cartoons and more, open up the project’s outcomes for artistic and civil acts to catalyzing inventive and collaborative democratic building, together with united art actors who are pushing for European action on the fringes of the art world in order to drum up a heartbeat of lively European cultural exchange.
Contributing, among other participants: Anca Simionca (RO), IRWIN (SL), Marko Stamenković (RS), Raša Todosijević (RS), Dan Perjovschi (RO), Charlie Jeffery (EN), Jeroen Doorenweerd (NL), Paul de Bruyne (NL), Joëlle Zask (FR), Julien Berthier (FR) and Larys Frogier (FR).
Library Paper, No. 8 2ND EDITION
Catalogue 2017 / $15
60 p, ills color & bw, pb, packet with bandana, English
Issue No.8 includes work by Alex Petty, Alex Shoukas, Alexis Gross, Anna Ottum, Boot Boyz Biz, B. Thom Stevenson, Casper Kenty, Chris Glickman, Chris Harnan, Chris Hound, Cody James, Collin Fletcher, Crowns & Owls, Deniro Elliot, Deutsche & Japaner, Dinamo, Doug Richard, Ed Phillips, Eric Elms, Eric Gilkey, Fahim Kassam, Gillian Steiner, Gustovo Eandi, Henrik Purienne, Jamie Humphrey, Knowlege Editions, Jason Nocito, Jerry Hsu, Jason Revok, Lqqk Studio, Michael Worful, Peter Sutherland, Ryan Willms, Shawn Carney, Super Impose Studio, Todd Jordon, The Kingsboro Press, Zeitype. ALSO Geordie Wood, Eric Hu & Braindead.
Second Edition of 100, New Cover Images by Geordie Wood.
mono.kultur #44
Trevor Paglan / mono.kultur 2017 / $7
24p, ills color, pb, English
Issue #44 of mono.kultur "THE EDGE OF TOMORORW" might just be our most adventurous yet: traveling from the deserts of New Mexico to the exclusion zone in Fukushima, from satellite orbits in space to the inner realms of Artificial Intelligence, our conversation with American artist Trevor Paglen is as expansive as his work is ambitious.
Pasolini’s Bodies and Places
Michele Mancini and Giuseppe Perrella / Edition Patrick Frey 2017 / $87
340 p, ills color & bw, hb, English, Italian
Entitled Pasolini’s Bodies and Places and translated by Ann Goldstein and Jobst Grapow, this new quasi-facsimiled edition in English is a first step towards an exploration of the original. Mancini and Perrella introduce their compilation of quoted images with a compilation of texts by Pasolini where he describes his own research of bodies and places for his films. These text were unpublished prior to Corpi e Luoghi. With Stephen Sartarelli’s translations in the present edition they now are fully available in English.
The book contains also the original text in Italian / contiene testo italiano.
Vivienne Westwood, Andreas Kronthaler, Juergen Teller
*Currently out of stock*
InOtherWords 2017 / $36
256 p, ills color, pb, English
The book Vivienne Westwood, Andreas Kronthaler, Juergen Teller celebrates and documents one of fashion’s most iconic collaborations, spanning a period of more than twenty years. Featuring pivotal campaigns, portraits, political satire, editorials and art projects created between 1993 and 2017, the book has been produced in close collaboration with Juergen Teller, with many of the images published for the first time. The book avoids chronology, instead focusing on the power of the double page spread, highlighting the contrasts in this rich and eclectic body of work. The result is 256 pages of confrontational image combinations, arranged into a spontaneous flow.
WHO TOLD YOU SO?! - THE COLLECTIVE STORY VS. THE INDIVIDUAL NARRATIVE
*Currently out of stock*
Freek Lomme ed. / Onomatopee 2012 / $43
332 p, ills color & bw, pb (with inserts and extras), English
40 artists, 10 writers, 4 poets and some others. Only accountable to ourselves, Who told you so?! - The collective story vs. the individual narrative - challenges states of social ambivalence within various levels of cohesion: government, organization, scene and family. Trying to find new challenges and widening perspectives, often double-tongued as well as hiding a secret agenda, this project looks for deeper relations. Forty artists, ten writers and four poets use their astute authors’ skills to offer a thought-provoking ambiguity. This bundle will offer conformists an insight into the restrictions of freedom they are responsible for, will inspire freethinkers who feel they lack something and try to find a position, and it will provide recognition to those who feel oppressed.
2/6/2018:
New releases in stock:
The Funambulist No. 15: Clothing Politics #2
*Currently out of stock*
Leopold Lambert ed. / Graham Funded / The Funambulist 2018 / $14.75
59 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
Clothing Politics #2 is the sequel of the third issue of The Funambulist, published two years earlier. The articles and projects presented in this issue feature instances of clothing that act as subversions of the gendered, colonial, racialized, and/or ableist normative contexts in which they are respectively worn. Ryme Seferdjeli (“The Veil in Colonial Algeria”), Wendy Matsumura (“A (Hi)story of Okinawan Clothes”), Alex Shams (“Afghan Miniskirts and the ‘War on Terror’”), and Venida Devenida (“Politics of the Bra”) link histories of settler colonialism, imperialism, and misogyny with their operative inertia in contemporary realities; Eric Darnell Pritchard (“Overalls”) and Mukhtara Yusuf (“Clothing as Healing”) engage with different aspects of clothing in relation to Blackness; Hoda Katebi discusses her work on the various imperialist and capitalist politics deployed against the hijab; and Lucia Cuba (“Articulo 6”) introduces the sartorial embodiment she created to address the memory of the Peruvian Government’s violent campaign of forced sterilization of indigenous women in the early 2000s. Finally, the three student projects created respectively by Joy Marie Douglas (“Rebranded”), Moira Schneider (“Worn”), Julia Lao, Claudia Poh, and Estee Bruno (“Unparalleled”) propose a more operative embodiment of the politics of social stigmatization, the norm, and ableism. As always, the issue also features guest columns addressing world political struggles against state violence and colonialism in Chiapas (Ruperta Bautista Vázquez), Tahiti-Nui (J. Vehia Wheeler), and West Africa (Bruno Boudiguet).
Francis Kéré: Serpentine Pavilion 2017
Melissa Blanchflower, Joseph Constable, eds. / Graham Funded / Koenig 2018 / $29.95
160 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
This publication documents 2017’s Serpentine Pavilion by Berlin-based architect Francis Kéré (born 1965). Inspired by the tree that serves as a central meeting point in his home town of Gando, Burkina Faso, Kéré designed a responsive Pavilion that connects visitors to nature. With text by David Adjaye, Jeanne Gang, Lesley Lokko, Francis Kéré, Kerry James Marshall, Mohsen Mostafavi, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Yana Peel.
Made Up: Design's Fictions
*Currently out of stock*
Tim Durfee, Mimi Zeiger / Actar D 2018 / $16
108 p, ills bw, pb, English
Through essays, interviews, and narratives by Bruce Sterling, Fiona Raby, Sam Jacob and other significant voices in the field, this volume questions the initial discourses around "design fiction"--a broad category of critical design that includes overlapping interests in science fiction, world building, speculation, and futuring. Made Up: Design's Fictions advances contemporary analysis and enactment of narrative and speculation as an important part of practice today.
Essays, interviews, and narratives by: Julian Bleecker, Benjamin H. Bratton, Anne Burdick, Emmet Byrne, Stuart Candy, Fiona Raby, Tim Durfee, Sam Jacob, Norman M. Klein, Peter Lunenfeld, Geo Manaugh, Tom Marble, m-a-u-s-e-r, Metahaven, China Miéville, Keith Mitnick, MOS, Susanna Schouweiler, Bruce Sterling, Mimi Zeiger. Co-published with Art Center Graduate Press.
Maxime Ballesteros: Les Absents
*Currently out of stock*
Caroline Gaimari, John Isaac / Hatje Cantz 2018 / $55
272 p, ills color & bw, hb, English
French photographer Maxime Ballesteros captures candid moments in a world where sexual freedom and exploration is celebrated and commonplace. Many of his analog images provide glimpses of only a fraction of a scene—a pair of legs in suspenders, or the intimate proximity of bodies in a bath—nonchalantly shot from the hip, as he follows his protagonists to wild parties, into private apartments, to the early morning beach. Little wonder that fashion and lifestyle magazines such as Purple, Numéro, Vice and 032c scramble to recruit the photographer. His debut book, Maxime Ballesteros: Les Absents, gives readers a unique view of the gritty, flawed, raw and sexualized world that exists around us.
Mies van der Rohe: Montage, Collage
*Currently out of stock*
Andreas Beitin, Wolf Eiermann, Brigitte Franzen, eds / Koenig Books 2017 / $55
264 p, ills color & bw, hb, English
Between 1910 and 1965, influenced by Dada, Constructivism and De Stijl, the German-American modernist polymath Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) created numerous montages and collages that endure as fascinating illustrations of the design principles of his architecture. However, these works—most of them large-format—are much more than sketches merely intended to assist his creative process as an architect. They are works of art in their own right that demonstrate van der Rohe’s compositional vision in its purest form. Abrupt changes of viewpoint, freedom from perspective, place and time, montages of found elements and a focus on mixed media places him in the same context as his contemporaries Kurt Schwitters, Theo van Doesburg, Hans Richter and László Moholy-Nagy. This volume celebrates his lesser-known accomplishments in this medium.Text by Barry Bergdoll, Lena Büchel, Dietrich Neumann, Holger Otten, Lutz Robbers, Martino Stierli, Adrian Sudhalter.
Size Matters! (De)Growth of the 21st Century Art Museum
Beatrix Ruf, John Slyce, eds. / Koenig Books 2018 / $17.50
224 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
The annual Verbier Art Summit provides an alternative approach to fostering and shaping a global dialogue on the visual arts. Verbier | Art Untold organizes the summit in partnership with a yearly rotating art institution. This book is the outcome of the 2017 edition of the summit, organized in cooperation with museum director Beautrix Ruf and her curatorial team at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Ruf chose the theme of the 2017 iteration, based on her personal experiences of institutions and their increase in scale, but also about issues that every museum is faced with, struggles with, reflects on how to address and considers in a self-critical way. Other contributors to the volume include Dave Beech, Daniel Birnbaum, Benjamin Bratton, Mark Fisher, Cissie Fu, Rem Koolhaas, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Tobias Madison, Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, Tino Sehgal, Nicholas Serota, Anneliek Sijbrandij and John Slyce.
Stan Brakhage: Metaphors on Vision
P. Adams Sitney ed. / Anthology Film Archives & Light Industry 2017 / $40
212 p, bw, pb, English
“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective … an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’” So begins Stan Brakhage’s (1933–2003) classic Metaphors on Vision. Originally published in 1963 by Jonas Mekas as a special issue of Film Culture, and designed by George Maciunas, it stands as the major theoretical statement by one of avant-garde cinema’s most influential figures, a treatise on mythopoeia and the nature of visual experience written in a style as idiosyncratic as his art. Long out of print, the volume is now available in this definitive edition from Anthology Film Archives and Light Industry, featuring Brakhage’s complete text in its distinctive original layout, as well as annotations by scholar P. Adams Sitney.
Where to Score
*Currently out of stock*
Jordan Stein, Jason Fulford, eds. / J&L Books & Kadist 2018 / $6.99
56 p, ills bw, pb, English
San Francisco Oraclewas a countercultural newspaper published in the city’s bustling Haight Ashbury neighborhood from September 1966 to February 1968, bookending the iconic “Summer of Love.” In 12 issues combining poetry, spirituality and speculation with revolutionary rainbow inking effects, the Oraclereached well beyond the Bay Area and spoke to a radical new American ethos.
Where to Score presents not the candy-colored prophecies of various gurus, but a quieter, more revealing corner of the paper—its classified section. There, surrounded by advertisements for drummers, carpenters and head shops, are the desperate pleas of parents seeking wayward children. “Will you trust me enough to call collect and let me know you’re alright?” Elsewhere, beat poet Michael McClure needs a harp and the Sexual Freedom League is hungry for recruits. The diminutive entries speak volumes to the times, showcasing an honest, immediate and lesser-known chapter in the era’s history.
Workac: We'll Get There When We Cross That Bridge
*Currently out of stock*
Amale Andraos & Dan Wood / Monacelli Press 2017 / $50
360 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
This book surveys the projects that define WORKac (WORK Architecture Company) as one of the most progressive and playful architecture firms in practice today.
WORKac: We'll Get There When We Cross That Bridge traces fifteen years of collaboration between architects Amale Andraos and Dan Wood. Structured as a conversation between the two partners, the book alternates between explorations of seminal projects and discussions framing a series of issues that are key to their work. The book follows the firm's career over the course of three Five-Year Plans ( Say Yes to Everything, Make No Medium-Sized Plans, Stuff the Envelope), examining the relationships between work and life, and the limits and opportunities of collaborative creativity and practice.
2/2/2018
New releases in stock:
Armin Linke: The Appearance of That Which Cannot Be Seen
Linda van Deursen, Jan Kiesswetter, Alina Schmuch, eds. / Graham Funded / Spector Books 2018 / $36
403 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
For more than 20 years, German photographer and filmmaker Armin Linke (born 1966) has been photographing the effects of globalization, the wholesale transformation of infrastructure and the networking of the post-industrial society via digital information and communication technologies. For The Appearance of That Which Cannot Be Seen, Linke invited scientists, philosophers and theoreticians to examine his picture archive. Ariella Azoulay, Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel, Mark Wigley, and Jan Zalasiewicz made a selection of images and in the process opened up Linke’s photos to a variety of different readings.
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2/1/2018
New releases in stock:
Superhumanity: Design of the Self
Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, and Mark Wigley, eds. / Graham Funded / Minnesota Press 2018 / $35
448 p, ills bw, pb, English
A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self, Superhumanity seeks to explore and challenge our understanding of “design” by engaging with and departing from the concept of the “self.” This volume brings together more than fifty essays by leading scientists, artists, architects, designers, philosophers, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, probing the idea that we are and always have been continuously reshaped by the artifacts we shape.
The Noise Of Being
Sonic Acts Press 2017 / $26
212 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
What does it mean to be human, to be part of a world that is an ever-changing network? Published on the occasion of the 2017 Sonic Acts Festival, this book endeavours to piece together the dissonance produced by the participants and spectators of the festival, whether at the conference or in the museums, clubs, and cinemas. This is the noise of technology, capitalism, hackers, bots, communication breakdowns, humanity, clouds, and so much more. With essays by Nina Power, Louis Henderson, Daniel Rourke, and Rick Dolphijn, interviews with Ytasha Womack, Jennifer Gabrys, Eyal Weizman, and Metahaven, plus contributions by Joey Holder, Ingrid Burrington, and more.
Jenny Holzer. Belligerent
Joshua Craze / Ivorypress 2017 / $71.50
7 posters, ills bw, box, English
‘Belligerent’ comprises an unpublished work by American neo-conceptual artist Jenny Holzer, commissioned by Ivorypress as the latest instalment in an ongoing series. While the book shares the same format as the others in the collection, a closer look reveals that this is not a traditional book, but a box with a magnetic closure. The box opens to reveal seven original works by Holzer that unfold into 60 x 79 cm posters, which can be kept in the box or framed and displayed. Her working material derives from redacted reports of the abuse of detainees in American military prisons. Holzer’s precise, cutting divulgences dare the reader to look. With an introduction by Joshua Craze.
Radical Utopias - Archizoom, Buti, 9999, Pettena, Superstudio, Ufo, Zziggurat
*Currently out of stock*
Pino Brugellis ed./ Quodlibet 2017 / $56
352 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
This volume is published in conjunction with an exhibition presenting the radical architects and architect groups who emerged in Florence in the late 1960s. It was a period characterised by crisis in the city, which extended to the wider political and social tension occurring throughout Italy. The related writings, drawings, and projects produced by these seven actors – Archizoom, Remo Buti, 9999, Gianni Pettena, Superstudio, UFO, and Zziggurat – have influenced generations of architects, historians, designers, and artists around the world. For the first time, all of their theoretical and visual work has been compiled in a single publication, giving renewed insight into their movement.
Richard Hollis: About Graphic Design (Reprint)
*Currently out of stock*
Richard Hollis / Occasional Papers 2012 / $25
296 p, ills bw, pb, English
Featuring a comprehensive selection of writings by renowned graphic designer, graphic design theorist and historian Richard Hollis, this densely illustrated book includes a wide array of interviews, essays, letters, articles and lectures. It covers virtually everything regarding the field and history of graphic design, from Soviet revolutionary posters and designers in Nazi Germany to Penguin book covers, New 'New' Typography, Max Bill and Nicolete Gray. Various texts on Robin Fior, Theo Ballmer, Uwe Loesch and Pierre Faucheux, among many others, add depth to this very thoroughly researched story of graphic design.
Volume 51: Augmented Technology
Arjen Oosterman ed. / Archis 2017 / $27
72 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
As recent technological advancement became more and more pervasive and sophisticated, its consequences became more dramatically evident. In this context, design takes on a new relevance, in organizing and managing spaces, individuals, relations and ultimately societies. But if this is clear, several questions have to be answered: Who is driving it, who are the participants, who are sitting around the table? Does spatial design currently have a say in this, and if not, how can it participate and intervene? Issue 51 comes in a new design by Irma Boom Office.
Monu 27: Small Urbanism
Board Publishers 2017 / $24
128 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
When it comes to urbanism, small things matter, and the various contributors to this issue illuminate this idea further in various ways. Liz Teston, for instance, captures the theme when she writes about the transient micro-urbanisms of protest architecture. Levi Bryant claims how we design things can make a real difference in our lives, both socially and physically. Our cities’ less visible infrastructure is exposed by Julian Oliver, reminding us of our dependence on a deeper physical reality, while Marco Casagrande shows how small-scale interventions can also serve as a design methodology, creating ripple effects and a transformation of the larger urban organism.
And back in stock:
The Form Of The Book Book
*Currently out of stock*
Sara De Bondt, Fraser Muggeridge ed. / Occasional Papers 2009 / $19
96 p, ills color & bw, pb, English
A collection of essays, analyses and examples regarding the theory and production of bound volumes, this small but dense publication includes contributions by Catherine de Smet, James Goggin, Richard Hollis, Sarah Gottlieb, Armand Mevis and Chrissie Charlton, and ranges in topic from the Matta-Clark Complex and Le Corbusier as book designer to the Most Beautiful Swiss Books in retrospect, modern typographer Herbert Spencer and essential notes for designers.
Caspar
Sebastian Cremers / Everyedition 2017 / $29
28 p, ills color, hb, English
Graphic designer Sebastian Cremers produces posters, books, and other illustrative or typographic work as part of Prill Vieceli Cremers, a three-person design studio established in 2001 and based in Zurich. In ‘Caspar’ he delivers a visual story about a true friendship. With a stripped-down style that employs only thick, colourful lines in red, blue, and green (and occasionally black) to animate the simple narrative, his forms nevertheless lend themselves to universal recognition. Whether describing gestures, emotions, sounds, energies, or physical things, the bold lines dance from one page to the next, weaving through and visualising the action of story from beginning to end.
Deadline: September 15, 2019
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To apply for an individual grant, applicants must submit an Inquiry Form—the first stage of a two-stage application process. The online Inquiry Form will be available on our website until the deadline on September 15, 2019.
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