The ELEMENTAL studio, headed by artistic director Alejandro Aravena and based in the capital of Chile, Santiago, is untraditionally composed of people with a variety of skills and abilities. Their analytical approach to architecture and urban plannin...

Social design is design for society and with society. As social innovation and on the basis of dialogue and participation, social design strives for a new networking of the individual, civil society, government, and the economy. Social design is thus...

Contrary to the common "Don't Touch – Just Look" approach, the exhibition "Phenotypes / Limited Forms" encourages visitors to pick their favorite subjects out of a total of several hundreds of displayed photographs, rearrange them, name their sequenc...

This publication is the first monograph on the Japanese-born, constructive-concrete artist Shizuko Yoshikawa. Her work combines the rational concepts of European modern art with the poetry and ease of the intuitional Japanese Zen tradition. As a memb...

In "The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture" the internationally acclaimed US-American architect Peter Eisenman – world famous for his Holocaust Memorial in Berlin (2005) – confronts historicism with theory and the analysis of form, whose distinguish...

"Two Journeys" is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of Michael Webb, an artist and trained architect, who operates at the intersection of the two disciplines. The publication assembles sixty years of Webb's work into a continuously evolvi...

"Protest." presents and reflects on present and past forms of protest and looks at marginalized communities' practices of resistance from a wide variety of perspectives. The publication shows how protest draws on irony, subversion, and provocation fr...

Self-Promotion, the 30th edition of the Poster Collection series, features a compilation of posters the Museum fur Gestaltung in Zurich has commissioned over the years to promote their own exhibitions. Most of them were designed by Swiss designers, t...

The beloved children's book "Click", said the camera., first published in 1997, is available again. It features animal portraits by photographer Balthasar Burkhard, who started the series in 1995. The twenty animals meet for the photographer's beaut...

The Anarchitecture group show at the fabled 112 Greene Street gallery – an artistic epicenter of New York's downtown scene in the 1970s – in March 1974 has been the subject of an enduring discussion, despite a complete lack of documentation about it....