Society

“Two Sides of the Border” is a feat of imagination as much as it is a diligent study: under the direction of Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao, thirteen architecture studios and students challenged the dominance of the US/Mexican border. The result is a compendium of essays, interviews, projects, maps and photos by Iwan Baan that looks beyond arbitrary and artificial boundaries to imagine a region shared rather than divided. #architecture #border #mexicanborder #usborder #usmexicoborder…

Reprinted in its original design and in English translation, the 4th volume of the Bauhausbücher is dedicated to Oskar Schlemmer’s utopian vision of theater. Transfigured human bodies and mechanized stages came together in a total synthesis that dropped the curtain on traditional theater. #Bauhaus #Bauhausbücher #bauhausbooks #architecturebooks #bauhausdesign #design #designbooks #theater #waltergropius #gropius #lazlomoholynagy #moholynagy #oskarschlemmer #outnow #newpublication

How can finance enable a secure future for all? “Financing Our Common Future in the Time of Covid-19” makes the case for one path to a better world: through public development banks and sustainable finance. With text by Régis Marodon and illustrations by Ruedi Baur, the book explains this important topic in a concise, appealing and thorough manner. #finance #PublicDevelopmentBanks #sustainability #sustainablefinance #sustainablefuture #outnow #newpublication

The digital is not as disembodied as it seems. It is dependent on infrastructure and shaped by borders and national politics. Taking Switzerland as its example, this book takes a critical look at data centers and the institutions that are involved in the creation, maintenance, and regulation of digital infrastructures. #data #datacenters #infrastructure #datasecurity #dataprotection #dataprivacy #cybersecurity #cryptocurrency #informationtechnology #digital #digitalization #Switzerland

American architecture has long been used to exclude and regulate African Americans. “In Search of African American Space” uncovers the practices through which African Americans have resisted these structures and claimed spaces of their own. In this anthology, historians, architects and artists trace these acts of creative resistance that push back against erasure and the fading of historical memory.

Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Between 2007 and 2014, it became the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an extra-legal and tenuous squat, that some have called a “vertical slum.” Urban-Think Tank, the authors of Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities, spent a year studying the physical and social organization of this ruin-become home. Richly illustrated with photographs by Iwan Baan…

Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Between 2007 and 2014, it became the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an extra-legal and tenuous squat, that some have called a “vertical slum.” Urban-Think Tank, the authors of Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities, spent a year studying the physical and social organization of this ruin-become home. Richly illustrated with photographs by Iwan Baan…

Lars Müller Publishers is an internationally renowned publishing house based in Zurich, Switzerland. The house has made a worldwide name for itself with carefully edited and designed publications on architecture, design, photography, contemporary art and society.

Lars Müller Publishers is an internationally renowned publishing house based in Zurich, Switzerland. The house has made a worldwide name for itself with carefully edited and designed publications on architecture, design, photography, contemporary art and society.

Lars Müller Publishers is an internationally renowned publishing house based in Zurich, Switzerland. The house has made a worldwide name for itself with carefully edited and designed publications on architecture, design, photography, contemporary art and society.