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Official catalog of the National Pavilion of Lebanon at the 19th Venice biennale of Architecture, The Land Remembers invites us to explore alternative ways of healing and preserving the natural environment by harnessing local knowledge and the land intelligens. The content of this catalog confronts the deliberate destruction of Lebanon's ecosystems and societies, drawing(...)
Contemporary Architecture
September 2025
The land remembers: A Collective exploration into the possibilities for regeneration
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Official catalog of the National Pavilion of Lebanon at the 19th Venice biennale of Architecture, The Land Remembers invites us to explore alternative ways of healing and preserving the natural environment by harnessing local knowledge and the land intelligens. The content of this catalog confronts the deliberate destruction of Lebanon's ecosystems and societies, drawing on the soil's memory as a testament to resilience and renewal. The format of the memory box is an archive of the land's richness, challenges, and potential, asking: How can we heal the land to build for future generations? The catalog combines expert analysis, personal stories, and diverse perspectives on destruction, regeneration, and coexistence. From ecological restoration to regenerative architecture and preservation of Lebanon's biodiversity, it underscores the urgent need for a symbiotic relationship between people and nature. By counter-mapping environmental destruction, reflecting on modern warfare's impacts, and embracing innovative solutions, this collective work envisions a legacy for future generations—one rooted in resilience, learning, and hope.
Contemporary Architecture
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Comment imaginer, en se promenant dans le parc Père-Marquette à Montréal, qu'autrefois s'y trouvait un trou béant creusé par l'homme? La rue des Carrières toute proche devrait toutefois nous donner un indice. Pierre de taille, pierre de maçonne, calcaire pour produire la chaux ou encore pierres concassées et gravier, l'édification des rues et des bâtiments de la métropole(...)
Une histoire des carrières de Montréal
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Comment imaginer, en se promenant dans le parc Père-Marquette à Montréal, qu'autrefois s'y trouvait un trou béant creusé par l'homme? La rue des Carrières toute proche devrait toutefois nous donner un indice. Pierre de taille, pierre de maçonne, calcaire pour produire la chaux ou encore pierres concassées et gravier, l'édification des rues et des bâtiments de la métropole s'est d'abord faite à même les matériaux disponibles sur place. Guy Gaudreau invite à parcourir 150 ans d'exploitation des carrières montréalaises, en remontant jusqu'au milieu du XIXe siècle. Il en dresse l'évolution de l'exploitation et il insiste sur les temps de rupture pour mieux apprécier le travail de tous les travailleurs, appelés à une certaine époque des «Pieds-Noirs», ainsi que le rôle des propriétaires de carrière et, du même coup, les représentations iconographiques qu'ils nous ont laissées en prenant à témoin quelques grands sites d'exploitation, comme celui de la carrière Miron et de sa célèbre cheminée, qui fait désormais partie de l'imaginaire collectif montréalais.
Architecture de Montréal
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Plunge into the ancestral water wisdom that could reshape all our futures. This book reveals how Indigenous innovations—like floating farms, tidal fish traps, and aquifer recharge systems—have sustained civilizations for millennia by working with nature, not against it. Far from relics, these systems offer dynamic, adaptable solutions for the climate crisis of today.(...)
Lo-TEK Water: A field guide for TEKnology
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Plunge into the ancestral water wisdom that could reshape all our futures. This book reveals how Indigenous innovations—like floating farms, tidal fish traps, and aquifer recharge systems—have sustained civilizations for millennia by working with nature, not against it. Far from relics, these systems offer dynamic, adaptable solutions for the climate crisis of today. Structured to bridge past and future, the author Julia Watson dissolves the divide between technology and ecology, between ancestral wisdom and digital innovation. The TEKnological Renaissance it celebrates redefines water as an intelligent force that can shape resilient cities and landscapes. Aquatic infrastructure is reframed—from extractive and industrial into regenerative and evolving—designed to sustain life for generations.
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Terra Infecta
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In ''Terra Infecta'', Andrea Bagnato tells an unfamiliar story about a well-known place. Since the early days of tourism, the cities and landscapes of Italy have been bywords for beauty and grandeur. But, at home and abroad, the same places have also been haunted by associations with disease and uncleanliness, often more to do with politics than conditions on the(...)
Terra Infecta
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In ''Terra Infecta'', Andrea Bagnato tells an unfamiliar story about a well-known place. Since the early days of tourism, the cities and landscapes of Italy have been bywords for beauty and grandeur. But, at home and abroad, the same places have also been haunted by associations with disease and uncleanliness, often more to do with politics than conditions on the ground. In this gripping narrative study, Bagnato shows how the modern quest for sanitation shaped Italy’s urban and rural landscapes, propelling major transformations from the draining of the wetlands around Venice, to demolitions and replanning in Naples, to the expulsion of the inhabitants of ancient Matera. He argues that current north–south inequalities are founded on spurious medical narratives, and focuses on the real impact on the people caught in their ministrations. Ranging from Italian unification to the aftershocks of Covid-19, and drawing on architectural records, medical history, and the author’s own travels, ''Terra Infecta'' reveals the lived realities of grand schemes, traces of vanished communities, and forgotten histories of collective organisation and resistance.
Architectural Theory
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Through stills, film and interviews, Nyberg's unfinished biography on Sigurd Lewerentz shatters his prevailing image as the "silent architect" Before his death in 1978, Bernt Nyberg had been working on the first biography of Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975), through film and interviews captured on a build site. This special volume of 2G revisits this(...)
2G essays: Sigurd Lewerentz and Bernt Nyberg: In dialogue
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Through stills, film and interviews, Nyberg's unfinished biography on Sigurd Lewerentz shatters his prevailing image as the "silent architect" Before his death in 1978, Bernt Nyberg had been working on the first biography of Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975), through film and interviews captured on a build site. This special volume of 2G revisits this unfinished project that ultimately views the reclusive architect through a curious and experimental lens.
Architecture Monographs
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''Buildings by Women: Rotterdam'' takes you on a journey through 50 architectural projects designed by female architects. From iconic landmarks like De Rotterdam and the Kop van Zuid to the modest yet iconic RVS apartment block — and plenty of lesser-known gems along the way —this guide shines a light on the often overlooked contributions of women in architecture.This(...)
Contemporary Architecture
June 2025
Buildings by women: Rotterdam
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''Buildings by Women: Rotterdam'' takes you on a journey through 50 architectural projects designed by female architects. From iconic landmarks like De Rotterdam and the Kop van Zuid to the modest yet iconic RVS apartment block — and plenty of lesser-known gems along the way —this guide shines a light on the often overlooked contributions of women in architecture.This city guide invites you to rediscover Rotterdam from a different perspective — because once you know who built the city, you’ll never see it the same way again.
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Kengo Kuma: Substance
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Kengo Kuma’s work masterfully engages experimentation, traditional Japanese design, and advanced technology. This results in highly innovative yet beautifully simple, evocative, and human-scaled structures. ''Kengo Kuma: Substance'' features thirty-five ambitious, small-scall projects, from around the world, ranging from captivating wood pavilions, ethereal metal(...)
Kengo Kuma: Substance
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Kengo Kuma’s work masterfully engages experimentation, traditional Japanese design, and advanced technology. This results in highly innovative yet beautifully simple, evocative, and human-scaled structures. ''Kengo Kuma: Substance'' features thirty-five ambitious, small-scall projects, from around the world, ranging from captivating wood pavilions, ethereal metal installations, and sculptural woven structures to experiential stone monuments, intricate bamboo tea houses, and luminous shape-shifting domes.
Architecture Monographs
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Georg Rauh (1906–1965) enhanced the Eastern Swiss architectural landscape with his work. His oeuvre, comprising around 100 buildings, is characterized by the considered placement of volumes, sensible floor plans and a subtle choice of materials. A clear programme is discernible: reduction and functionality, fully in the spirit of Bauhaus teaching. The trained carpenter(...)
Georg Rauh: Das Bauhaus in der Schweiz
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Georg Rauh (1906–1965) enhanced the Eastern Swiss architectural landscape with his work. His oeuvre, comprising around 100 buildings, is characterized by the considered placement of volumes, sensible floor plans and a subtle choice of materials. A clear programme is discernible: reduction and functionality, fully in the spirit of Bauhaus teaching. The trained carpenter studied at the Bauhaus Dessau under Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer, before graduating in 1932 under Mies van der Rohe. After returning to Switzerland, he worked as a teacher at a vocational school and subsequently as an architect for social housing. This catalogue of works documents his architectural heritage and its key buildings, which are portrayed by comparing the original plans, as well as in images and photographs by Ladina Bischof.
Architecture Monographs
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Erling Viksjø's buildings challenge our notions about what constitutes good architecture. His extensive use of concrete, modules and repetitive shapes has caused many to describe him as Norway's foremost Brutalist architect. Viksjø also went furthest in collaborating with visual artists. "Concrete in transition" examines the encounter between art and architecture in(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2025
Concrete in transition: The architect Erling Viksjø and his artist collaborators
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Erling Viksjø's buildings challenge our notions about what constitutes good architecture. His extensive use of concrete, modules and repetitive shapes has caused many to describe him as Norway's foremost Brutalist architect. Viksjø also went furthest in collaborating with visual artists. "Concrete in transition" examines the encounter between art and architecture in Viksjø's projects. How could one attain a unified design where art was no longer an addition to, or in competition with, the architecture? This publication discusses Viksjø's collaborations with well-established artists such as Hannah Ryggen and Kai Fjell, and young Modernists including Odd Tandberg, Carl Nesjar and Inger Sitter. In addition, it discusses the projects in which he collaborated with Pablo Picasso.
Architecture Monographs
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Entre lignes tendues et volumes généreux, le mobilier de Jean-Louis Avril occupe une place singulière dans le paysage du design français des années 1960-1970. Inspiré par l'architecture brutaliste, Jean-Louis Avril développe des meubles d'avant-garde, façonnés dans un matériau inédit : le celloderme. Son fauteuil Éléphant et sa lampe Lune comptent aujourd'hui parmi ses(...)
Jean-Louis Avril : Un architecte du carton
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Entre lignes tendues et volumes généreux, le mobilier de Jean-Louis Avril occupe une place singulière dans le paysage du design français des années 1960-1970. Inspiré par l'architecture brutaliste, Jean-Louis Avril développe des meubles d'avant-garde, façonnés dans un matériau inédit : le celloderme. Son fauteuil Éléphant et sa lampe Lune comptent aujourd'hui parmi ses pièces emblématiques. Visionnaire dans son approche éthique, il milite pour un design responsable, et ses œuvres qui sont à la frontière du fonctionnel et du manifeste artistique séduisent toujours les collectionneurs et amateurs. Cet ouvrage rend hommage à ce créateur fondamental, dont l'approche audacieuse évoque une autre histoire du design du XXe siècle.
Architecture Monographs