And Now the Ensemble! is intended as a challenge to architects, their clients, and commissioning authorities to understand and create urban development as a dynamic and collective work of art; in shor
The beauty of interferences presented as a book and on an included CD. In this book, Carsten Nicolai explores the moire effect--a phenomenon that can be created by the overlay of lines. Although such
"Molecular (ISTANBUL) is a breathtaking installation by Serge Spitzer in a former synagogue in the Istanbul district of Haskoy. The artist (born 1951 in Romania and living in New York since the 1980s)
In 2009, Ruedi Baur, Design2context, and the renowned Elisava School of Design in Barcelona launched a call for "Questions on Design" in order to create a typographical wall in the entrance area of El
Authoring: Re-placing Art and Architecture challenges traditional assumptions about therelationship between art and architecture. From 2008 through 2010, David Adjaye, along with Marc McQuade, taught
The art of Kris Martin (b. Kortrijk, 1997s; lives and works in Ghent) conveys an intense experience of the finitude of life. Time is essential to this artist, whose relentless engagement with mortalit
Previously unpublished new projects are thematically integrated into the evolution of Baur's oeuvre. The book thus reveals a conceptual and design constant, or even fascination, in the work of Ruedi B
"Since the 1960s, sculptors have used materials such as latex, felt, fabric, and even hair. Regarded as low-value and perishable, such ingredients refer the beholder to his own body and bring a profou
Timo Nasseri (b. Berlin 1972 to a German mother and Iranian father; lives and works in Berlin) launched his career in the arts as a photographer. In recent years, however, he has systematically built
"Portfolio Berlin 02" surveys seven important positions staked out by internationally renowned artists who live and work in Berlin: Monica Bonvicini, Bjorn Dahlem, Olafur Eliasson, Alicja Kwade, Via L
The Austrian artist Elfie Semotan (b. 1941; lives and works in New York and Vienna) also works as a photographer, creating portraits of models, artists, landscapes, and studios that have earned her in
This publication highlights the era between 1948 and 1970 as a turning pont for Swiss graphic artists, especially those stationed in Milan, as well as other great moments in design history. Equipped w
"When I read, I see pictures, and when I draw, I see texts. I cannot conceive one domain without the other," Brigitte Waldach (b. Berlin, 1966; lives and works in Berlin) says about her approach to ar
