Application Deadline: February 25, 2019

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2019 Grants to Organizations. Since 1956, the Graham Foundation has fostered the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

The application for the organizational grant cycle is available online. Organizations with eligible projects are invited to apply for a Production and Presentation Grant for projects that begin after September 15, 2019.

For more information about our grant programs, to learn if a project is eligible for funding, and to access the application, please see our grant guidelines.

In 2018, the Graham Foundation awarded more than $600,000 for 53 projects by organizations from around the world. These grants provided direct support for the development and presentation of publications, exhibitions, films, and other public programs. You can browse these and other recently funded projects here.

 

Image: David Graham, Best Products Company Showroom Façade, 1981, featuring the project by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. (1978). Courtesy of the artist. From the 2018 organizational grant to Canadian Centre for Architecture for the exhibition Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths.

 

2018 Design Matters Conference
Association of Architecture Organizations (2018 Grantee)
Center for Architecture & Design
Seattle, WA
Nov 14–17, 2018

Alfred Caldwell and the Performance of Democracy
Illinois Institute of Technology—Graham Resource Center and Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program (2017 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Performance of Democracy: Thomas Dyja, lecture
Mar 28, 2018
Promontory Point: Sunset Performance: Fred Jackson Jr., performance
Sep 27, 2018
Caldwell Archives and Events Farm Visit
Oct 8, 2018
Democracies at Promontory Point: Kim Soss, lecture
Nov 5, 2018

Chicago Design: Histories and Narratives, Questions and Methods
University of Illinois at Chicago—School of Art & Art History (2017 Grantee)
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Nov 8–10, 2018

Everywhere All the Time
Seán Curran and David Skidmore with Diana Balmori (2017 Grantees)
Premiere
Alys Stephens Center for the Performing Arts
Birmingham, AL
Oct 5, 2018
Next Wave Festival
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn, NY
Oct 24–27, 2018

LAMPO 2018 Concert Series
Lampo (2018 Grantee)
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Chicago, IL

 

Image: Seán Curran and David Skidmore (Third Coast Percussion), Everywhere All the Time, 2018. Set design by Diana Balmori. From the 2017 individual grant to Seán Curran and David Skidmore for Everywhere All the Time

 

Concrete Spring: Oscar Niemeyer, Algeria, and the Architecture of Revolution
Jason Oddy (2017 Grantee)
Oddy, Jason. "The Revolution will be Stopped Halfway." FAKTUR, 1:1 (2018).

The Dictator's Dreamscape: Building Machado's Cuba
Joseph R. Hartman (2018 Grantee)
Hartman, Joseph R. “Race, Gender, Giants: Consensus and Dissensus in Cuban Cultural Politics.” Cultural Politics, 14:2 (2018): 174–197.

Le Corbusier’s Response to World War II: Les Maisons Murondins
Mary McLeod (2015 Grantee)
McLeod, Mary. “‘To make something with nothing’: Le Corbusier’s proposal for refugee housing—Les Constructions ‘Murondins’.” The Journal of Architecture, 23:3 (2018): 421–447.

The Ship of Theseus: Identity and the Barcelona Pavilion(s)
Lance Hosey (2001 Grantee)
Hosey, Lance. “The Ship of Theseus: Identity and the Barcelona Pavilion(s),” Journal of Architectural Education, 72:2 (2018): 230–24

Terra Infecta
Andrea Bagnato (2017 Grantee)
Bagnato, Andrea and Anna Positano. “Arrivederci ad Arborea.” Migrant Journal 5 (2018): 94–103.

Carter Manny Award dissertation:

 

An American City: Volume I & II
Edited by Michelle Grabner
FRONT Exhibition Company (2017 Grantee)

An Anatomy of Influence
Thomas Daniell (2015 Grantee)
Architectural Association Publications

Automatic Architecture: Motivating Form after Modernism
Sean Keller (2016 Grantee)
University of Chicago Press

The Black Flame of Paradise
Zachary Cahill (2018 Grantee)
Mousse Publishing

Bogdanović by Bogdanović: Yugoslav Memorials through the Eyes of their Architect
Vladimir Kulić (2018 Grantee)
The Museum of Modern Art

Catherine Wagner: Archæology in Reverse
Rudolf Freiling and Catherine Wagner. Edited by Stephanie Hanor
Mills College Art Museum (2018 Grantee)

Counter-Signals 3: (All the Way) Down with Platforms
Edited by Other Forms: Jack Henrie Fisher and Alan Smart (2018 Grantee)

Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson (2017 Grantee)
University of Texas Press

Design as Learning: A School of Schools Reader
Edited by Jan Boelen
Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (2018 Grantee)
Valiz

The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids
Alexandra Lange (2016 Grantee)
Bloomsbury Publishing

Dimensions of Citizenship: Architecture and Belonging from the Body to the Cosmos
Edited by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Ann Lui, and Mimi Zeiger
School of the Art Institute of Chicago and The University of Chicago (2018 Grantees)
Inventory Press

Downward Spiral: El Helicoide's Descent from Mall to Prison (Urban Research Volume 12)
Edited by Lisa Blackmore and Celeste Olalquiaga
Terreform Inc. (2016 Grantee)

The Eternal Internet Brother/Sisterhood
Angelo Plessas (2017 Grantee)
NERO

Exhausted Geographies II
Zahra Malkani and Shahana Rajani (2018 Grantees)

Extraction Empire: Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada's Global Resource Empire, 2017–1217
Edited by Pierre Bélanger and Nina-Marie Lister (2016 Grantees)
MIT Press

Flat Out 3 (Fall 2018)
Edited by Penelope Dean
Flat Out Inc. (2017 Grantee)

Frida Escobedo: Serpentine Pavilion 2018
Edited by Joseph Constable and Rebecca Lewin
Serpentine Galleries (2018 Grantee)
Koenig Books and Serpentine Galleries

The Funambulist, Issue Nos. 15–20
Edited by Léopold Lambert
The Funambulist (2016 Grantee)

Future Archive series
Edited by Nancy Levinson and Josh Wallaert
Places Journal (2014)

Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment
Edited by Design Earth: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy (2017 Grantee)
Actar Publishers

Giedion and America: Repositioning the History of Modern Architecture
Reto Geiser (2017 Grantee)
gta Verlag/ETH Zurich

Global Tools 1973–1975: When Education Coincides with Life
Edited by Valerio Borgonuovo and Silvia Franceschini (2018 Grantees)
NERO Editions

Goodbye, World! Looking at Art in the Digital Age
Omar Kholeif (2017 Grantee)
Sternberg Press

Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus
Lori Waxman (2016 Grantee)
Sternberg Press

LA Forum Reader: From the Archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
Edited by Rob Berry, Chava Danielson, Joe Day, Thurman Grant, Victor Jones, Duane McLemore, Michael Sweeney, and Mimi Zeiger
Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design (2013 Grantee)
Actar Publishers and the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Le Corbusier: The Built Work
Jean-Louis Cohen and Richard Pare
Richard Pare (2015 Grantee)
The Monacelli Press

The Letters of Colin Rowe: Five Decades of Correspondence
Edited by Daniel Naegele (2012 Grantee)
Artiface

Letters to the Leaders of China: Kongjian Yu and the Future of the Chinese City (Urban Research Volume 8)
Edited by Terreform Inc. (2016 Grantee)

The Location of Justice series
Edited by Mariana Mogilevich and Olivia Schwob
The Architectural League of New York (2017 Grantee)

Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, Issues 42–44
Edited by Cynthia Davidson
Anyone Corporation (2017 Grantee)

Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions
Edited by Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey (2017 Grantees)
Lars Müller Publishers

Making LA Modern: Craig Ellwood—Myth | Man | Designer
Edited by Michael Boyd (2016 Grantee)
Rizzoli

The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century
Mark Lamster (2010 Grantee)
Little, Brown and Company

MASS X: Precise Form for an Imprecise World, Selected Things 2000–2017, Neil M. Denari Architects
Neil Denari (2012 Grantee)
AADCU

Michael Webb: Two Journeys
Edited by Ashley Simone
Michael Webb (2014 Grantee)
Lars Müller Publishers

Montage and the Metropolis: Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space
Martino Stierli (2016 Grantee)
Yale University Press

New Geographies 09: Post-Human
Edited by Mariano Gomez-Luque and Ghazal Jafari
Harvard University—Graduate School of Design (2017 Grantee)
Actar Publishers and Harvard University Graduate School of Design

NYC Bronx Art Deco Architecture
Addison Thompson (1992 Grantee)
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship, and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA 1984/87
Esra Akcan (2017 Grantee)
Birkhauser-De Gruyter

Overgrown: Practice between Landscape Architecture and Gardening
Julian Raxworthy (2018 Grantee)
MIT Press

Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau: A 21st Century Show Home
Edited by Felix Burrichter, Simon Castets, and Karen Marta
Swiss Institute (2015 Grantee)

Phenotypes/Limited Forms
Peter Hanappe and Armin Linke
Peter Hanappe, Bruno Latour, and Armin Linke (2013 Grantees)
Lars Müller Publishers

PLAT 7.0 Sharing
Edited by Francis Aguillard and Samantha Schuermann
Rice University—School of Architecture (2017 Grantee)

POOL, Issue No. 3: Party
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (2018 Grantee)

Possible Mediums
Edited by Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, Adam Fure, and Kyle Miller (2018 Grantees)
Actar Publishers

Project: A Journal for Architecture, Issue No. 7
Edited by Alfie Koetter, Daniel Markiewicz, and Emmett Zeifman
Project: A Journal for Architecture (2017 Grantee)
Consolidated Urbanism, Inc.

Richard Rezac: Address
Edited by Solveig Øvstebø and Richard Rezac
The Renaissance Society (2017 Grantee)

Rifat Chadirji: Building Index
Edited by Mark Wasiuta and Akram Zaatari
Arab Image Foundation (2016 Grantee)
Kaph Books and Arab Image Foundation

Robert Irwin: Site Determined
Edited by Matthew Simms
California State University Long Beach–University Art Museum (2016 Grantee)
Prestel

Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism
Edited by Gareth Doherty (2014 Grantee)
Lars Müller Publishers

The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism
Joseph Becker and Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2018 Grantee)

Slab City: Dispatches from the Last Free Place
Charlie Hailey and Donovan Wylie (2016 Grantees)
MIT Press

Space Packed: The Architecture of Alfred Neumann
Rafi Segal (2012 Grantee)
Park Books

Spaces of Disappearance: The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition (Urban Research Volume 11)
Jordan H. Carver
Terreform Inc. (2016 Grantee)

The Spoils of Dust: Reinventing the Lake that Made Los Angeles
Alexander Robinson (2018 Grantee)
Applied Research + Design Publishing

Superhumanity: Design of the Self
Edited by Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, and Mark Wigley
e-flux Architecture (2017 Grantee)
e-flux Architecture, Graham Foundation, and University of Minnesota Press

Swimming to Suburbia and Other Essays
Todd Gannon and Craig Hodgetts (2015 Grantees)
ORO Editions

Take Shape no. 2: Commute
Edited by Nolan Boomer, Cole Cataneo, and Julia Llinas Goodman
Nolan Boomer, Cole Cataneo, Julia Llinas Goodman, and Sean Suchara (2018 Grantees)

Terms of Appropriation: Modern Architecture and Global Exchange
Edited by Amanda Reeser Lawrence and Ana Miljački (2016 Grantees)
Routledge

Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980
Edited by Martino Stierli and Vladimir Kulić
The Museum of Modern Art (2017 Grantee)

VORKURS: exquisite corpse
Edited by Kristel Bataku, Jamie Lindsey, Thiago Silvino, and Rachel Vuchinich
University of Florida—School of Architecture (2017 Grantee)

Zaha Hadid, Phaeno Science Centre
Edited by Greg Lynn
Archaeology of the Digital series
Canadian Centre for Architecture (2014 Grantee)

 

Image: Selection of publications released in 2018 with support from the Graham Foundation. Photo: Ava Barrett

 

The following exhibitions were supported by Graham Foundation grants and opened in 2018.

Currently on view:

Folly/Function 2018: RRRolling Stones
Socrates Sculpture Park (2017 Grantee)
Long Island City, NY
Jul 12–Dec 31, 2018

Secret Cities: The Architecture and Planning of the Manhattan Project
Curated by G. Martin Moeller, Jr.
National Building Museum (2016 Grantee)
Washington, DC
May 3, 2018–July 28, 2019

Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980
Curated by Martino Stierli and Vladimir Kulić
The Museum of Modern Art (2017 Grantee)
New York, NY
Jul 15, 2018–Jan 13, 2019

 

Other 2018 exhibitions:

Archive and Artifact: The Virtual and the Physical
Curated by Steven Hillyer
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art—Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture (2017 Grantee)
The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery
New York, NY
Oct 23–Dec 1, 2018

FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
Curated by Michelle Grabner
FRONT Exhibition Company (2017 Grantee)
Cleveland, OH
July 14–Sep 30, 2018

Groundtruthing
Zahra Malkani and Shahana Rajani (2017 Grantees)
Gandhara Art Space
Karachi, Pakistan
Apr 19–May 10, 2018

Liverpool Biennial 2018: Ryan Gander, Holly Hendry, and Mae-ling Lokko Commissions
Curated by Kitty Scott and Sally Tallant
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art (2017 Grantee)
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Jul 14–Oct 28, 2018

Marching On: The Politics of Performance
Curated by Bryony Roberts, Mabel Wilson, Eva Franch i Gilabert, and Carlos Mínguez Carrasco
Storefront for Art and Architecture (2017 Grantee)
New York, NY
Apr 14–Jun 9, 2018

Mel Chin: All Over the Place
Curated by Laura Raicovich and Manon Slome
Queens Museum (2017 Grantee)
New York, NY
Apr 8–Aug 12, 2018

Privacies Infrastructure
Curated by Jia Gu and Aurora Tang
Materials & Applications (2017 Grantee)
Los Angeles, CA
Jul 21–Sep 30, 2018

Richard Rezac: Address
Curated by Solveig Øvstebø
The Renaissance Society (2017 Grantee)
Chicago, IL
Apr 21–Jun 17, 2018

Robert Irwin: Site Determined
Curated by Matthew Simms
California State University Long Beach—University Art Museum (2016 Grantee)
Long Beach, CA
Jan 29–Apr 15, 2018

Serpentine Pavilion 2018 by Frida Escobedo
Serpentine Galleries (2018 Grantee)
London, United Kingdom
Jun 15–Oct 7, 2018

Wooden Mosques: Islamic Architectural Heritage in Adjara, Georgia
Curated by Suzanne Harris-Brandts and Angela Wheeler (2017 Grantees)
Contemporary Art Space Batumi
Batumi, Georgia
Jan 19–Mar 19, 2018

 

Image: Gordon Hall, The Number of Inches Between Them, pigmented cast concrete and color poster multiple, presented at Steel House Projects and the Winter Street Warehouse, 2017 Rockland, ME. Performers: Mary Bok, Gordon Hall, Alan Crichton, Del Hickey, Susan Schor, Millie Kapp, and Chris Domenick. Courtesy of the artist. From the 2018 individual grant to Gordon Hall for The Number of Inches Between Them

 

Films premiered in 2018:

The Area
Directed by David Schalliol (2014 Grantee)
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, premier
Durham, NC
Apr 2018
Black Harvest Film Festival
Chicago, IL
Sep 14–27, 2018

Gropius Memory Palace
Directed by Ben Thorp Brown (2018 Grantee)
New York Film Festival, North American premier
Oct 4–6, 2018

 

New media projects—digital publications released in 2018:

Archaeology of the Digital series
Canadian Centre for Architecture (2014 Grantee)
Lynn, Greg (ed.). Zaha Hadid, Phaeno Science Centre

Future Archive series
Places Journal (2014 Grantee)
Long, Christopher. “Apostle and Apostate: Josef Frank’s Modernist Vision”
Penner, Barbara. "The (Still) Dreary Deadlock of Public Housing"
Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona. "Memorandum on the Plan for Jerusalem"

Location of Justice series
The Architectural League of New York (2017 Grantee)
Spaulding, Norman, W. “Due Process and the Enclosure of Justice”
Altman, Anna. “The People’s Court”
Mogilevich, Mariana. “Structures: Perspectives”
Urban Omnibus. “Siting Rikers’ Replacements”
Gold-LaGratta, Emily, Justin Barry, and Manuel Toscano. “Retrofit for Fairness.
Yes Loitering, “Yes Sitting, Yes Skating, Yes Music”
Graves, Kris, “Beacon/Bunker”
Knoblauch, Joy, “Do You Feel Secure?”
Made in Brownsville, “Stronger Together”
Ebo, Ifeoma, “Design Around the Edges”
Schwob, Olivia, “Walk the Walk”
Haffner, Jeanne, “The Happy Prison”
Burrington, Ingrid, “A Non-Exhaustive Taxonomy of Tools of Data-Driven Policing”
Burrington, Ingrid, “The CompStat Evangelist Consultant World Tour”
Burrington, Ingrid, “Policing Is an Information Business”
Ford, Elizabeth, “Where Care Meets Confinement”
Colon, Andrea, “Where School Meets Prison”
Kelley, Qawaisa, “Where Corrections Meets Connections”
Michael Carey, Eva Raison, John Bruce, Lara Penin, and Eduardo Staszowski. “Reentry: Start Here”
Story, Brett. “Coming Home”

 

New media projects—podcasts produced in 2018:

The Funambulist Podcast
Produced by Léopold Lambert (2015 Grantee)
Episode 127: Francesca Russelo Ammon, “Bulldozer Politics in Cold War US”

Night White Skies
Produced by Sean Lally (2017 Grantee)
Episode 30: Sarah Thomas Karle & David Karle, Conserving the Dust Bowl
Episode 31: Liam Young, Practicing Architect
Episode 32: Christopher Schaberg, Worlds World Worlds
Episode 33: Molly Wright Steenson, Architectural Intelligence
Episode 34: Bradford Bouley, Saintly Anatomy
Episode 35: Sheila Jasanoff, The Ethics of Invention
Episode 36: Fred Scharmen, Climates & Subjectivity
Episode 37: Christopher Hight, Resilience in Sci-Fi
Episode 38: Topical Interlude, Thanks, Larry
Episode 39: Kathryn Harkup, Frankenstein
Episode 40: Chris D. Thomas, Speciation
Episode 41: Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno, Live Models
Episode 42: Mario Carpo, No One Likes a Quitter
Episode 43: Graham Harman, OOO
Episode 44: Sing Yun Lee and Francis Gene Rowe, Ursula K. Le Guin
Episode 45: Bryan Norwood, Phenomenology
Episode 46: Rob DeSalle, Our Senses
Episode 47: Filip Tejchman, Depatterning
Episode 48: Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy, Geostories
Episode 49: Kiel Moe, Empire, State and Building
Episode 50: Paola Antonelli, Broken Nature
Episode 51: Ian Bogost, Cows Ate My Twizzlers
Episode 52: Muchaneta Kapfunde, Fashnerd
Episode 53: Adam Frank, Alien Anthropocenes
Episode 54: Chris Pak, Terraforming in SF
Episode 55: Chris Mc Alorum, The Enabled Landscape

 

Image: David Schalliol, a demolition in The Area, 2012, Chicago, IL. From the 2014 individual grant to David Schalliol for The Area

Photo: Assaf Evron  

 

February 2019


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.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

W E B Du Bois's Data Portraits

*Currently out of stock*

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."

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.

Photo: Nathan Keay 

Please note our galleries and bookshop will be closed Thursday, November 22 through Saturday, November 24, 2018. Regular gallery hours, Wednesday–Saturday 11 a.m.–6 p.m., will resume on Wednesday, November 28. We apologize for any inconvenience.

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Carter Manny Award. Since the establishment of this award in 1996, the Graham Foundation has awarded over $815,000 in recognition of promising doctoral students whose dissertations represent original and advanced scholarship in architecture with exciting potential to move the field in new directions. The applications are reviewed by a diverse panel of recognized scholars within architectural discourse. Two Carter Manny Awards are given each year, one for dissertation research and one for writing. Additionally, this year three students received Citations of Special Recognition.

The winner of the 2018 Carter Manny Award for writing and a $20,000 award is Kylie R. J. Seltzer, a PhD candidate at University of Pittsburgh's Department of History of Art and Architecture. Seltzer's dissertation, Housing Identities: Displaying Race and Environment in Paris, 1870–1892, analyzes the intersection of race and architecture through the subject of housing in nineteenth-century Paris.

The winner of the 2018 Carter Manny Award for research and a $15,000 award is Emine Seda Kayim, PhD candidate in the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. Kayim's dissertation, Stasi as Architectural Producer: Surveillance and Scientific Management in the East German Built Environment, 1961–1989, explores the German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) Ministry of State Security—known as the Stasi—as an architectural producer to examine its largely unexplored involvement in the East German built environment, interrogating the multifaceted and coconstitutive operations of state surveillance and building industry between production and use.

Additionally, three students have been awarded Citations of Special Recognition for their dissertation projects. The list of citation winners follows below.

The award and citation winners were selected by an external panel after a competitive review of forty-eight applications from doctoral students throughout the US and Canada who were nominated by their departments to apply for the award.

This year’s review panelists were Alexander Eisenschmidt (Associate Professor, College of Architecture, Design and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago); Alison Fisher (Harold and Margot Schiff Associate Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Art Institute of Chicago); and Alona Nitzan-Shiftan (Associate Professor and Chair, Architecture Program, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology).

The Graham Foundation offers this annual award in honor of the memory of Carter H. Manny (1918–2017) and his long and distinguished service to the Foundation since its inception in 1956, first as a trustee, then as the Foundation’s third director from 1971–93, and as director emeritus in his retirement.

Applications for the 2019 Carter Manny Award are due November 15, 2018. To learn more, see the award guidelines here.

 

2018 CITATIONS OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

WRITING

Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Designing “Post-Industrial Society”: Settler Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Palm Springs, California, 1876–1973

RESEARCH

Nicholas Caverly
University of Michigan, Department of Anthropology
Restructured City: Demolition and Toxic Accumulations in Detroit

Rixt Woudstra
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
Minimal Needs, Minimum Standards: Housing, Welfare and Building Research in British Sub-Saharan Africa, 1945–1968

 

Image: Charles Garnier, Preparatory Watercolor of the Waterside, Iron Age, and German dwellings for History of Human Habitations, ca. 1888, Paris. Courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. From the 2018 Carter Manny Award for writing to Kylie R. J. Seltzer for her dissertation Housing Identities: Displaying Race and Environment in Paris, 1870–1892

 

The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce the award of $609,500 for grants to organizations including innovative projects led by eminent and emerging architects, artists, curators, filmmakers, historians, and publishers, among other professionals. Selected from over 200 proposals, the 53 awarded projects support work that continues to advocate for engaging original ideas that advance our understanding of the designed environment.

Grantee organizations hail from cities such as Bogotá, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Lisbon, London, Mexico City, Montréal, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Francisco, and Chicago, where the Graham Foundation is based. They join a worldwide network of individuals and institutions that the Graham Foundation has funded through the award of more than 4,450 grants over the past 62 years—including support for over 750 organizations—in its role as one of the most significant funders in the field of architecture.

To learn more about the 2018 grants to organizations, click on any grantee name below to visit their online project page, or go here. You can also read about the announcement in an exclusive article published in the Architect's Newspaper.

Join us in congratulating our new grantees on social media: Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and use the hashtags #GrahamFoundation, #GrahamFunded, and #GrahamGrantee to share the news.

EXHIBITIONS (25)

Architectural Heritage Center (Portland, OR)
Bard Graduate Center (New York, NY)
Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montréal, Canada)
Center for Architecture (New York, NY)
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (Culver City, CA)
Chicago Architecture Center (Chicago, IL)
Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI) 
DePaul Art Museum (Chicago, IL)
Dia Art Foundation (New York, NY)
Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, United Kingdom)
Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, United Kingdom)
Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Art (Istanbul, Turkey)
Japan Society (New York, NY)
LIGA—Space for Architecture (Mexico, City)
Lisbon Architecture Triennale (Lisbon, Portugal)
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, at the Schindler House (Los Angeles, CA)
Michigan State University—Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (East Lansing, MI)
MK Gallery (Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago & The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Serpentine Galleries (London, United Kingdom)
Southern California Institute of Architecture (Los Angeles, CA)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico City, Mexico)
Whitechapel Gallery (London, United Kingdom)

FILM/VIDEO/NEW MEDIA PROJECTS (4)

The Architecture Exchange (London, UK)
Fieldwork Collaborative Projects (Chicago, IL)
IF INNOVATION FOUNDATION (Los Angeles, CA)
National Life Stories (London, United Kingdom)

PUBLIC PROGRAMS (5)

The Architectural League of New York (New York, NY)
Association of Architecture Organizations (Chicago, IL)
horizontal (Bogotá, Colombia)
Lampo (Chicago, IL)
Ragdale (Lake Forest, IL)

PUBLICATIONS (19)

Anyone Corporation (New York, NY)
Architectural Association School of Architecture—Landscape Urbanism (London, United Kingdom)
ar/ge kunst (Bolzano, Italy)
BlackSpace (New York, NY)
Columbia University—Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (New York, NY)
DoppelHouse Press (Los Angeles, CA)
The Green Lantern Press (Chicago, IL)
Harvard University—Graduate School of Design (Cambridge, MA)
Lars Müller Publishers (Zürich, Switzerland) 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Future Heritage Lab (Cambridge, MA)
Mills College Art Museum (Oakland, CA)
Primary Information (New York, NY)
University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design (Los Angeles, CA)
University of California Press (Oakland, CA)
University of Illinois at Chicago—College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts (Chicago, IL)
University of Illinois at Chicago—School of Architecture (Chicago, IL)
University of Johannesburg—Graduate School of Architecture (Johannesburg, South Africa)
University of Toronto—John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design (Toronto, Canada)
Yale University Press (New Haven, CT)

Image: Will Martin, Study for an Underground Restaurant, concept rendering, 1973. Courtesy of Bosco-Milligan Foundation collection. From the 2018 Graham Foundation Organizational Grant to Architectural Heritage Center for the exhibition The Artistic and Eclectic Will Martin

Deadline: November 15, 2018

The Graham Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2019 Carter Manny Award. Ph.D. 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.

The Carter Manny Award supports dissertation research and writing by promising scholars whose projects have architecture as their primary concern and have the potential to shape contemporary discourse about architecture and impact the field. Projects may be drawn from the various fields of inquiry supported by the Graham Foundation: architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; the visual arts; and other related fields. The award assists students enrolled in graduate programs in architecture, art history, the fine arts, humanities, and the social sciences working on architecture topics.

For the award guidelines, eligibility information, and application, click here.

Deadline: September 15, 2018

Since 1956, the Graham Foundation has fostered the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. As one of the few funders of individuals in the field of architecture, the foundation's grants provide important support for the work of emerging and established architects, scholars, writers, artists, designers, curators, filmmakers, and other individuals.

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, 2018.

For more information about the Graham Foundation's grants and to learn if your project is eligible for funding, please see our grant guidelines.