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In ''Water of the Sky'', artist Miya Ando offers us a beautifully rich, bilingual visual dictionary for rain. Through a collection of 2,000 Japanese words, their English interpretations, and 100 drawings, Ando describes the breadth and diversity of rain’s many expressions: when it falls, how it falls, and how its observer might be transformed physically or emotionally by(...)
Water of the sky: A dictionary of 2000 Japanese rain words
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In ''Water of the Sky'', artist Miya Ando offers us a beautifully rich, bilingual visual dictionary for rain. Through a collection of 2,000 Japanese words, their English interpretations, and 100 drawings, Ando describes the breadth and diversity of rain’s many expressions: when it falls, how it falls, and how its observer might be transformed physically or emotionally by its presence. The words range from prosaic to esoteric, extending from the meteorological (mukaame, or “very fine rain that falls in spring”) to the mystical (bunryuu, or “rain that splits a dragon's body in half”) and from the minute (kisame, or “raindrops that fall off the leaves and branches of trees”) to the vast (takuu, or “blessed rain that quenches all things in the universe”).
Art Theory
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The book offers for the first time the translation of two surveys conducted by the leading Danish modern architect Kay Fisker and the students of his classes. The two texts are reproduced as a facsimile edition, so the scope has maintained the original layout along with critical examinations, diagrams, and an impressive quantity of comparative drawings. The book is not(...)
Copenhagen Housing Types (1936) Row-House Types (1941)
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The book offers for the first time the translation of two surveys conducted by the leading Danish modern architect Kay Fisker and the students of his classes. The two texts are reproduced as a facsimile edition, so the scope has maintained the original layout along with critical examinations, diagrams, and an impressive quantity of comparative drawings. The book is not solely the translation of the two analyses; it delves into the main features of Fisker’s works of architecture and the cultural context within which the explorations on housing types were conducted at the School of Architecture of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The systematic approach, the richness of selected examples, as well as the analytic content, make this book valuable beyond its historic and geographic limits. Due to the topical interest in the field of housing studies, the translation of Copenhagen Housing Types (1936) and Row-House Types (1941) will provide students and professionals a clear and useful instrument for comprehending the evolution of the cities, as well as for housing design from an architectural and urban perspective.
Residential Architecture
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This research by a+t research group proposes an alternative reading of the history of housing. Rather than being organised around architectural styles or movements, it is structured through five essential conditions that define the lived experience of inhabitation: Opulence, Precarity, Dignity, Prosperity, and Fraternity. Drawing on 178 case studies—ranging from the onset(...)
Housing Loops - Opulence, Precarity, Dignity, Prosperity and Fraternity
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This research by a+t research group proposes an alternative reading of the history of housing. Rather than being organised around architectural styles or movements, it is structured through five essential conditions that define the lived experience of inhabitation: Opulence, Precarity, Dignity, Prosperity, and Fraternity. Drawing on 178 case studies—ranging from the onset of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-eighteenth century to the second decade of the twenty-first—this critical chronology maps the evolution of collective housing in relation to the social demands of each historical period. The timeline identifies key patterns in housing design, recurring spatial loops that transcend eras, advances in construction technologies, and the transformation of the domestic unit as a nucleus of cohabitation.
Residential Architecture
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En 2004, à l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Nancy, naît la Semaine Architecture et Patrimoine consacrée à la création architecturale contemporaine dans l’existant, organisée en étroite collaboration avec les acteurs régionaux de l’architecture, du patrimoine et de l’urbanisme. Vingt années après sa création, le moment est venu de dresser un bilan des(...)
November 2025
Architecture Située : Apprendre et concevoir avec les patrimoines
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En 2004, à l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Nancy, naît la Semaine Architecture et Patrimoine consacrée à la création architecturale contemporaine dans l’existant, organisée en étroite collaboration avec les acteurs régionaux de l’architecture, du patrimoine et de l’urbanisme. Vingt années après sa création, le moment est venu de dresser un bilan des expériences menées au sein de cet enseignement et d’évaluer les acquis d’un dispositif pédagogique expérientiel. Mais au-delà de cette première visée rétrospective — illustrée par la série photographique réalisée à cette occasion par Ludmilla Cerveny — l’ambition de ce livre est de proposer une vision élargie et prospective des multiples enjeux liés aux patrimoines et à leur enseignement, appréhendés au travers d’entretiens de sept marraines et parrains architectes engagés en faveur d’une architecture située.
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This fourth book in a series of monographs on projects by h2o architectes looks back at the Chapelle Charbon urban development project in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, part of a major transformation of north-eastern Paris and, in particular, the area around Porte de la Chapelle. The project proposed by h2o aims to transform a former indus- trial and rail logistics(...)
h2o architectes 4: Sustainable Building at Chapelle Charbon
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This fourth book in a series of monographs on projects by h2o architectes looks back at the Chapelle Charbon urban development project in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, part of a major transformation of north-eastern Paris and, in particular, the area around Porte de la Chapelle. The project proposed by h2o aims to transform a former indus- trial and rail logistics site perceived as a nuisance into a new destination, in particular by connecting all the former dead-end roads to open up the site. The project is based on the creation of a large park of over 6 hectares, delivered in advance of the construction of new housing and roads.
Le répertoire des couleurs
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Nouvelle édition du répertoire publié en 1905 par la Société des chrysanthémistes. 1385 nuances réparties en 365 planches s'adressant par-delà les frontières à tous les amateurs de couleurs. Imaginez, en 1905, les membres de Société des chrysanthémistes en sévères habits noirs consacrant une énergie patiente et méticuleuse à la réalisation d'un répertoire complet(...)
Le répertoire des couleurs
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Nouvelle édition du répertoire publié en 1905 par la Société des chrysanthémistes. 1385 nuances réparties en 365 planches s'adressant par-delà les frontières à tous les amateurs de couleurs. Imaginez, en 1905, les membres de Société des chrysanthémistes en sévères habits noirs consacrant une énergie patiente et méticuleuse à la réalisation d'un répertoire complet des teintes que peuvent aborder les pétales des fleurs et les feuillages des arbres.Au-delà de la prouesse technique, l'objet réalisé est d'une modernité déconcertante. Ses 1385 nuances réparties en 365 planches s'adressent, par-delà les frontières à tous les amateurs de couleurs.
Colour Theory and Design
At home in the 17th century
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What household belongings did people own in the 17th century? ''At Home in the 17th Century'' opens the door to everyday domestic life and brings the reader closer to the people of the time—from everyday objects such as combs and brooms used for personal care and household chores, to wedding rings and christening gifts that marked important life events. Instead of(...)
At home in the 17th century
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What household belongings did people own in the 17th century? ''At Home in the 17th Century'' opens the door to everyday domestic life and brings the reader closer to the people of the time—from everyday objects such as combs and brooms used for personal care and household chores, to wedding rings and christening gifts that marked important life events. Instead of familiar idealized genre paintings, this book focuses on real life. Accompanying the eponymous exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, this book, designed by Irma Boom, includes commentary from several of the museum's curators delving into the world behind the paintings: the residents and the objects that surrounded them. What people left behind—furniture, utensils and even pottery fragments found in cesspools—gives a picture of how they furnished and used their homes. The result is an intimate look behind the front door of the 17th century—into a world that is sometimes surprisingly recognizable, but often radically different as well.
Design, Periods and Styles
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Where is sexuality, especially queer sexuality, in architecture? "The house is (not) a prison" approaches this question from a radically new position, looking not for a theory of queer architecture, but rather for a queer theory of architecture. Starting from a reconsideration of the foundational principles of architecture, Colin Ripley demonstrates how the division of(...)
The house is (not) a prison: On the queerness of architecture
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Where is sexuality, especially queer sexuality, in architecture? "The house is (not) a prison" approaches this question from a radically new position, looking not for a theory of queer architecture, but rather for a queer theory of architecture. Starting from a reconsideration of the foundational principles of architecture, Colin Ripley demonstrates how the division of space steals land from the commons and forces separations and categories. In the process, queerness is created as an indispensable outside to architecture’s disciplinary interior.
Architectural Theory
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Rooted in the expansive dream-work that shaped Zhao’s creative process, the book emerges from a series of artistic rituals shared between these three collaborators, through which Zhao’s cinematic storytelling, Buckley’s mesmerising writings, and Grzybowska’s haunting photographs were made. Brought together in this book, they conjure a parallel telling of the story of(...)
Photography monographs
December 2025
Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream
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Rooted in the expansive dream-work that shaped Zhao’s creative process, the book emerges from a series of artistic rituals shared between these three collaborators, through which Zhao’s cinematic storytelling, Buckley’s mesmerising writings, and Grzybowska’s haunting photographs were made. Brought together in this book, they conjure a parallel telling of the story of Hamnet, the son of William Shakespeare. "Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream'' unfolds as a quiet companion to the film: not a document of its making, but a powerful reimagining that exists somewhere in the threshold between the worlds of waking and dreaming, reality and illusion, life and death.
Photography monographs
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The book ''Archive of Dreams'' is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name that will open the ''Archiv der Avantgarden''. Marking the hundredth anniversary of the first surrealist manifesto and the founding of the Bureau of Surrealist Research in Paris in 1924, the volume is dedicated to the surrealist movement as well as the networks it engendered(...)
December 2025
Archive of dreams: A surrealist impulse
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The book ''Archive of Dreams'' is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name that will open the ''Archiv der Avantgarden''. Marking the hundredth anniversary of the first surrealist manifesto and the founding of the Bureau of Surrealist Research in Paris in 1924, the volume is dedicated to the surrealist movement as well as the networks it engendered and the artistic stimuli it provided in the twentieth century. The idea was for the Bureau to collect dream testimonies in whatever form, not only to preserve and analyse them but also to give active expression to them in artistic processes. The publication shows how the practices of the avantgardes blurred the boundaries between dream and reality, between the traditional, passive notion of the archive and the idea of active, innovative artistic experiment — and thus ultimately also between the past, the present, and possible futures. Works and documents from the period before, during, and after the Second World War shed light on the working methods of international artists and the global network they were involved in. They are complemented by diverse reflections on global protest movements and the traumas of war, thus connecting, too, to everyday experiences in a Europe beset by warfare.