Life in the digital economy of information and images enriches us but often induces a sense of being overwhelmed. "Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts" considers the impact of technology by exploring ways it was addressed in the pract...

The way we live is rapidly changing under pressure from multiple forces – financial, environmental, technological, geopolitical. What we used to call home may not even exist anymore, having transmuted into a financial commodity of which the square me...

Over the now more than forty-five years that he has been studying and exploring photography, Christian Vogt has discovered new visual vocabularies again and again. In his new work, consisting almost exclusively of contrasting pairs of pictures, he co...

"100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design" takes a fresh look at Swiss typography and photo-graphics, posters, corporate image design, book design, journalism and typefaces over the past hundred years. With illuminating essays by prominent experts in the fi...

The international touring exhibition "Die gute Form" was conceived by Max Bill on behalf of the Swiss Werkbund and was shown for the first time in 1949 at the Basel Mustermesse trade fair. The exhibition consisted of 80 display panels, designed by Bi...

Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo exhibited at the Venice Biennial in 2004 and 2008, and was honored by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 2012. That same year she won a gold medal for her life's work at the Milan Triennial, and has b...

OfficeUS, the U.S. Pavilion for the 2014 International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, reframes the history of U.S. architecture through the lens of export in two interrelated constructs: "The Office" and "The Repository". The "Repo...

Seemingly immobile and durable, architecture remains a challenge in the modern world of collecting and exhibiting. From the late eighteenth century onward, divergent conventions of display have been confl ated with urgent discussions of how material...

Since the 1970s Wolfgang Weingart has exerted a decisive influence on the international development of typography. In the late 1960s he instilled creativity and a desire for experimentation into the ossified Swiss typographical industry and reflected...

Developed as a parallel research project of Fundamentals – the exhibition at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Rem Koolhaas – the book offers insights on Venetian facades, stairs, corridors, floors, ramps, ceilings, doors, hearths, win...