Aoki, In-Between
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 architecture, artificial intelligence and humanity. Imagining a near future when AI technology has further advanced, the Japan Pavilion stages a dialogue between […]
Aoki, Complete Works
Comprehensive and beautifully produced book destined to become a standard reference work on this Japanese architect. Examines all works undertaken and those yet to be completed; from house, office and museum projects to the much documented series of showrooms for Louis Vuitton. Included also are site plans, sections, elevations and models, as well as essays […]
Koolhaas, A Great Leap Forward
A study by OMA and the Harvard Graduate School of Design on the Pearl River Delta, an area of China undergoing a maelstrom of modernization and set to become a megalopolis of 36 million inhabitants by 2020. Download Koolhaas_A Great Leap Forward.pdfKoolhaas_A Great Leap Forward.txt
Tegmark, Our Mathematical Universe
Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking […]
Trummer, The City as a Technical Being
The city is the largest human artifact. It is made by us, yet simultaneously it makes us, as well as all other nonhuman entities. The particular discourse to which this book on the city contributes is the discipline of architecture. It explores a simple question: How does the city effect the mode of existence of […]
Hollein, Alles ist Architektur
Hans Hollein (1934-2014) studierte in Wien, Chicago und Berkeley, unterrichtete an diversen internationalen Hochschulen und ist seit 1976 Professor an der Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien (seit 2002 emeritiert). Hollein begann seine Laufbahn an der Schnittstelle zwischen Architektur, Kunst und Design. Seine utopischen Fotomontagen und kleinen Ladenausbauten machten ihn in den 1960er Jahren international […]
Scott, Butler, Weed, The Question of Gender
A generation after the publication of Joan W. Scott’s influential essay, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” this volume explores the current uses of the term—and the ongoing influence of Scott’s agenda-setting work in history and other disciplines. How has the study of gender, independently or in conjunction with other axes of difference—such as […]
Rosiak, Sheaf Theory through Examples
An approachable introduction to elementary sheaf theory and its applications beyond pure math. Sheaves are mathematical constructions concerned with passages from local properties to global ones. They have played a fundamental role in the development of many areas of modern mathematics, yet the broad conceptual power of sheaf theory and its wide applicability to areas […]
Lautman, Mathematics Ideas and the Physical Real
Albert Lautman (1908-1944) was a French philosopher of mathematics whose work played a crucial role in the history of contemporary French philosophy. His ideas have had an enormous influence on key contemporary thinkers including Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou, for whom he is a major touchstone in the development of their own engagements with mathematics. […]
Kornbluh, Immediacy or the Style of too late Capitalism
Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of “disintermediation”: cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism demand […]