"Closer to Things: Drawing Practices as Spatial Research" examines drawing as a critical research methodology in architecture and the spatial disciplines. Moving beyond drawing's conventional role as a prescriptive design tool, the publication addres...

Albania is a young democracy, home to three million people. The country sits at the heart of the Mediterranean; its geographic location has long shaped the country's cultural exchanges and built environment. From Ottoman rule to Italian occupation,...

Donald Judd (1928-1994) was an American artist known for reductive forms and a strident rejection of imposed meanings. Though largely absent from art historical accounts of his life, Judd had a varied and complex relationship with Iceland, which star...

Over the past decade, Refik Anadol Studio has redefined the possibilities of media art at the intersection of aesthetics, data and machine intelligence. Since its founding in 2014, the studio has pioneered the use of custom artificial intelligence mo...

In 1980 Josef Muller-Brockmann laid the cornerstone for a uniform visual identity for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) with his legendary Visual Information System at Train Stations and Stops. In view of Switzerland's multilingualism, the manual prop...

Initially proposed for the US Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal, Buckminster Fuller's World Game was played for the first time in 1969 in New York. Over the next decade the World Game evolved and expanded. Across its different manifestations the World...

"Architecture Connecting: Memoryscapes", the second volume in this book series in collaboration with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, examines the pivotal role of human narratives in shaping the spaces of tomorrow. Focusing on the relationship bet...

Advancements in generative AI are transforming the way we conceptualize consciousness. Using the Japan Pavilion exhibition at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale as a starting point, this publication offers a thought-provoking dialogue between arch...

Through a series of essays, photographs, and archival content, this book highlights the diverse young and old diaspora communities of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) around the world. Drawing on topics from the ten-year archive of Brownbook m...

Switzerland is well-known as one of the safest countries on earth and as a prime example of efficiency and efficacy. One of the central reasons that such a country exists is the development of a culture based on protection, which is supported by the...