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"How to Live from Fire to Fire" brings together two closely linked texts by Olivier Marboeuf. The volume opens with Marboeuf's latest work, "How to Live from Fire to Fire," written as a new commission, and is followed by the first English translation of his earlier text "The Night Just Before the Fire," originally published in French in 2025 by Atlantiques(...)
How to live from fire to fire
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"How to Live from Fire to Fire" brings together two closely linked texts by Olivier Marboeuf. The volume opens with Marboeuf's latest work, "How to Live from Fire to Fire," written as a new commission, and is followed by the first English translation of his earlier text "The Night Just Before the Fire," originally published in French in 2025 by Atlantiques déchaînés. Written as if in the same breath, the two texts follow one another in a fevered, relentless movement. In "The Night Just Before the Fire," Marboeuf reworks Bernard-Marie Koltès's play La Nuit juste avant les forêts (Éditions de Minuit, 1977), transforming it into the delirious, unbroken monologue of a man with dark blue skin calling out to another man in the streets of a major European city. Through this act of rewriting, the echo of past revolts becomes the spark for future insurrections. Next time, a riot.
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Building Biospheres
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The Belgian pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2025 presented a radical experiment that challenges the relationship between nature, technology and architecture. Curated by landscape architect Bas Smets in collaboration with neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso, Building Biospheres explored how plant intelligence can shape the built environment, creating self-regulating(...)
Building Biospheres
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The Belgian pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2025 presented a radical experiment that challenges the relationship between nature, technology and architecture. Curated by landscape architect Bas Smets in collaboration with neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso, Building Biospheres explored how plant intelligence can shape the built environment, creating self-regulating microclimates that redefine our human notions of comfort and control. For centuries, architecture has sought to control and isolate us from the natural world, engineering environments that prioritize human comfort over ecological collaboration. "Building Biospheres" proposed a new paradigm: rather than resisting nature, can we design with it? This book expands on the questions raised by the exhibition, bringing together perspectives from architecture, neurobiology, artificial intelligence, botany and philosophy. Through essays, interviews and visuals, it hints at the possibility of an architecture of natural intelligence – one where plants, humans and buildings enter into new forms of co-existence.
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Kazuo Shinohara’s (1925–2006) book Residential Architecture is considered one of the most significant pieces of writing on Japanese architecture of the late twentieth century. First published in Japan in 1964 as Jutaku kenchiku, the book was mandatory reading for generations of students of architecture in Japan and has deeply influenced many of the best-known Japanese(...)
Architectural Theory
May 2026
Residential architecture: Kazuo Shinohara
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Kazuo Shinohara’s (1925–2006) book Residential Architecture is considered one of the most significant pieces of writing on Japanese architecture of the late twentieth century. First published in Japan in 1964 as Jutaku kenchiku, the book was mandatory reading for generations of students of architecture in Japan and has deeply influenced many of the best-known Japanese designers, such as Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, and others. Translated by architectural historian David B. Stewart (1942–2025) and architects Shin-ichi Okuyama (born 1961) and Kenichi Nakamura (born 1958), Shinohara’s reflections on housing are available in English for the first time, making multifaceted insights into the fundamentals of his outstanding work accessible to a global audience. In the first of three chapters, Shinohara writes about traditional Japanese architecture, thus explaining the foundation of his theory and practice, followed by a description of his design method, which he further illustrates through the examples of his first seven designs for homes.
Architectural Theory
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« Ce livre nous rappelle que mettre fin à l'itinérance n'est pas un rêve naïf. » – Valérie Plante, mairesse de Montréal (2017-2025) « Ce livre propose des moyens pratiques et concrets de commencer à réparer ce filet de sécurité. » – Tim Richter, président de l'Alliance canadienne pour mettre fin à l'itinérance « Des idées rares et personnelles, présentées par des(...)
Mettre fin à l'itinérance au Canada
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« Ce livre nous rappelle que mettre fin à l'itinérance n'est pas un rêve naïf. » – Valérie Plante, mairesse de Montréal (2017-2025) « Ce livre propose des moyens pratiques et concrets de commencer à réparer ce filet de sécurité. » – Tim Richter, président de l'Alliance canadienne pour mettre fin à l'itinérance « Des idées rares et personnelles, présentées par des spécialistes autochtones. » – Chef Terrance Paul, Première Nation de Membertou (Cap-Breton, Nouvelle-Ecosse) Plus de Canadiens que jamais n'ont pas de domicile. Presque chaque ville ou village a maintenant des résidents en situation d'itinérance. Les municipalités se démènent pour fournir des refuges, et les politiciens locaux débattent du bien-fondé de mesures visant à empêcher les gens de dormir sur les terrains vacants et dans les parcs. Mettre fin à l'itinérance au Canada s'éloigne des solutions symboliques conventionnelles. Des collaborateurs de partout au Canada décrivent leur expérience de travail sur les causes de l'itinérance ainsi que les solutions et pratiques qui contribuent à sa prévention.
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''Totems'' brings together ten texts by architect, historian, and critic Irénée Scalbert. Written between 2001 and 2025, they reflect nearly three decades of critical engagement with architecture and its cultural contexts. Ranging in length and register—from concise meditations to extended analytical essays—the collection captures the evolution of Scalbert’s thinking as a(...)
Totems: Selected essays on architecture
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''Totems'' brings together ten texts by architect, historian, and critic Irénée Scalbert. Written between 2001 and 2025, they reflect nearly three decades of critical engagement with architecture and its cultural contexts. Ranging in length and register—from concise meditations to extended analytical essays—the collection captures the evolution of Scalbert’s thinking as a critic, teacher, and participant in architectural discourse. Organized thematically into sections on buildings, cities, and the environment, ''Totems'' traces a loosely autobiographical arc. Earlier pieces echo Scalbert’s formative years in London during a period of architectural ferment are marked by the work of James Stirling and Norman Foster, influential figures from Europe such as Aldo Rossi, as well as his close association with a generation of contemporaries including Peter St John (Caruso St John Architects), and Tom Emerson and Stephanie Macdonald (6a architects). Later texts expand outward, both geographically and conceptually, as Scalbert brings a speculative and at times personal lens to questions of urbanism, nature, and meaning in contemporary architecture.
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''Staging Ground: infrastructures, performance, and bodies'' in movement assembles on-site investigations, critical reflections, and performance scores offering new ways to think, make, and inhabit mobility infrastructures. Grounded in the metropole of Grand Paris, they aim to offer strategies to be staged anywhere that infrastructural transformations are shifting urban(...)
Staging ground: Infrastructure, performance, and bodies in movement
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''Staging Ground: infrastructures, performance, and bodies'' in movement assembles on-site investigations, critical reflections, and performance scores offering new ways to think, make, and inhabit mobility infrastructures. Grounded in the metropole of Grand Paris, they aim to offer strategies to be staged anywhere that infrastructural transformations are shifting urban grounds. The book stems from a residency programme hosted by Theatrum Mundi in Grand Paris as part of the LINA European Architecture Programme. From 2023 to 2025, it invited six LINA fellows – emerging spatial practitioners and artists – to move and think in the changing landscapes of north-eastern Paris and Plaine Commune. Accompanying their work, four commissioned essays and a photo series frame the urgency of new tools able to bridge infrastructural and bodily scales, and reflect on the learnings offered by the residency projects. A design concept by Athens-based practice Typical Organization draws on and subverts the visual language of the French road sign system.
Desired Essays Journal 01
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“Editing 'Desired Landscapes' has always been a long conversation, as I have been particularly interested not only in professional writers, but also in the rawness and unique viewpoints of creatives, amateurs, and tourists. We would spend hours defining the topic, crafting the angle, and refining the structure, searching for the most fitting way to convey a sense of(...)
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July 2026
Desired Essays Journal 01
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“Editing 'Desired Landscapes' has always been a long conversation, as I have been particularly interested not only in professional writers, but also in the rawness and unique viewpoints of creatives, amateurs, and tourists. We would spend hours defining the topic, crafting the angle, and refining the structure, searching for the most fitting way to convey a sense of place. The aim was always the same: to bring together a personal, sometimes emotional, reading of the city with a critical take, all written in everyday language. After eight years of one-on-one editing, I felt that it was time to open up this process to our readers, and bring such conversations under an educational framework, because, to me, editing is a form of thinking. That’s how the Desired Essays online writing workshop was born.'' This first edition of ''Desired Essays'' is an anthology of the stories that sparked conversations during the online writing workshops in 2025.
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405 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm.
Vancouver, BC, Canada : Figure1 Publishing Inc.; Kleinburg, Ontario : McMichael Canadian Art Collection, [2023], [Berkeley, California] : Distributed internationally by Publishers Group West, Vancouver, BC, Canada : Printed and bound by Friesens, ©2023
Early days : Indigenous art from the McMichael / edited by Bonnie Devine, John Geoghegan, and Sarah Milroy.
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Vancouver, BC, Canada : Figure1 Publishing Inc.; Kleinburg, Ontario : McMichael Canadian Art Collection, [2023], [Berkeley, California] : Distributed internationally by Publishers Group West, Vancouver, BC, Canada : Printed and bound by Friesens, ©2023
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Between 1966 and 1989, Inken (born 1942) and Hinrich Baller (1936–2025) realized 25 buildings in (then West) Berlin and a private residence in Switzerland. Although most of these structures were designed and built within the narrow financial and regulatory framework of social housing, all of them offer more than the standard: filigree; brightness; large balconies,(...)
Visiting: Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, Berlin 1966-1989
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Between 1966 and 1989, Inken (born 1942) and Hinrich Baller (1936–2025) realized 25 buildings in (then West) Berlin and a private residence in Switzerland. Although most of these structures were designed and built within the narrow financial and regulatory framework of social housing, all of them offer more than the standard: filigree; brightness; large balconies, terraces and gardens; good natural lighting thanks to glass interior walls; generous floor plans; and complex spatial relationships across several storeys. With their unconventional designs, the Ballers created situations that continue to serve as models for high-quality and affordable housing, as well as exciting urban spaces. This book is the revised new hardback edition of a comprehensive survey of Inken and Hinrich Baller’s work, which was first published in 2022. It offers a detailed photographic documentation of their buildings in their current state, reproductions of original plans and drawings, historic documents, and construction site and aerial photographs. The rich visual material is rounded out by essays and conversations with the architects and with residents of the buildings.
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TUBE.PHOTO.DASH
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Depuis 2023, Théophile Calot invite des artistes comme Julie Carreyn, Bertrand Cavalier, Wade Guyton, Batia Suter, Rebecca Topakian ou Wolfgang Tillmans au sein de la librairie delpire & co dans le cadre d'une programmation d'exposition tournée vers les notions de verticalité et horizontalité de l'image. Chaque exposition est en lien avec un ou plusieurs livres, et la(...)
TUBE.PHOTO.DASH
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Depuis 2023, Théophile Calot invite des artistes comme Julie Carreyn, Bertrand Cavalier, Wade Guyton, Batia Suter, Rebecca Topakian ou Wolfgang Tillmans au sein de la librairie delpire & co dans le cadre d'une programmation d'exposition tournée vers les notions de verticalité et horizontalité de l'image. Chaque exposition est en lien avec un ou plusieurs livres, et la notion de publication et s'empare des murs, des tables, des tiroirs et de la façade du 13, rue de l'Abbaye. Toutes les œuvres présentées dans l'exposition « TUBE.PHOTO.DASH » sont reproduites dans la publication à l'horizontale, à l'échelle 1:1. L'image est donc à la taille réelle de l'œuvre. De ce fait, nombreuses d'entre elles sont tronquées sur un détail. L'exposition est documentée dans son intégralité, œuvre par œuvre, dans l'ordre conseillé de la visite. Les prises de vues ont été réalisées le 14 mai 2025, à la veille du vernissage, et ne montrent qu'une certaine réalité. En effet, pendant les cinq mois d'exposition, certaines œuvres vont évoluer, se dégrader ou disparaître. 7,5 x 11 cm
Theory of Photography