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Generously illustrated monograph on the works of the French NP2F architectural studio, which is known for its public projects, such as sports, housing, cultural buildings, or public spaces.NP2F is an architectural studio created in 2009 by François Chas, Nicolas Guérin, Fabrice Long and Paul Maitre Devallon and operating in various cities in France and abroad. The projects on which NP2F works are both architectural and urban and its areas of expertise are sport, housing, cultural and educational buildings, places of relaxation and restoration, and public spaces. The issue contains the most important works of the studio made to date, preceded by a pair of critical essays by the architect and professor Djamel Klouche and the Argentine architect Marcelo Faiden. A conversation with the Chilean architect Felipe De Ferrari complements the monograph.Text: Felipe De Ferrari. Photographs: Antoine Espinasseau.

The catalogue examine the relationship between gender, art and Modernism. It will focus on the question of what kinds of stylistic and visual imagery were developed by women artists in response to the social change, political upheaval and technical innovations of the first half of the last century. The works in the exhibition can be considered as not only bearing witness to rapidly advancing industrialisation, urbanisation and technological development but also reflecting the complexity and contradictions that came with emancipation and evolving gender roles. Featured artists include Gertrud Arndt, Louise Bourgeois, Claude Cahun, Benedetta Cappa, Elizabeth Catlett, Sonia Delaunay, Maya Deren, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Alexandra Exter, Leonor Fini, Trude Fleischmann, Erika Giovanna-Klien, Natalia Goncharova, Hannah Höch, Käthe Kollwitz, Lotte Laserstein, Tamara de Lempicka, Alice Lex- Nerlinger, Jeanne Mammen, Marlow Moss, Hanna Nagel, Alice Neel, Anton Prinner, Gazbia Sirry, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Dorothea Tanning, Charley Toorop, Toyen, Madiha Umar, Fahr-El-Nissa Zeid.

An essential reference text from one of the most important abstract artists of all time. This slim but powerful text is required reading for anyone interested in the history of 20th century art. The book, which Kandinsky claimed had been gestating for nearly a decade, elucidates his artistic theories and his valuing of expression and spirituality over naturalistic representation. With reference to and analysis of earlier masters such as Picasso and Matisse, Kandinsky calls for a spiritual revolution in painting in which artists to express their lives in abstract terms. The treatise also delves deeper into the psychology of colours, the language of form and the responsibilities of the artist.

An extraordinary document in the history of photographic criticism. Perhaps more than any other text, A Little History of Photography by the German-Jewish thinker Walter Benjamin has shaped the way in which we understand early photography and the photographic act. One of the first theoretical studies of visual culture, this essay laid the foundation for modern cultural criticism. Instead of regarding the artwork as a unique object, Benjamin emphasized the political and artistic potential of a new technology based on endless reproduction. A Little History of Photography was originally published in the German literary journal Die Literarische Welt in 1931 as three short essays reviewing several books dedicated to early photography. In this text, Benjamin introduced concepts that remain central to critical theory of the medium: the aura, optical unconscious, reproducibility, among other topics. It constitutes a remarkably prescient description of the limits and potentials of photography which remains thought-provoking today.

A founding member of the Black British Arts Movement, Claudette Johnson is considered one of the most significant figurative artists of her generation. For over 30 years she has created large-scale drawings of Black women and men that are at once intimate and powerful. Working in a variety of media, ranging from monochrome works in dark pastel to vast sheets brightly coloured in vibrant gouache and watercolour. Johnson's distinctive drawings of friends, relatives, and often herself seek, as the artist puts it, "to tell a different story about our presence in this country".Ed.: Elizaveta Shneyderman, Grace Storey.Text: Dorothy Price, Claudette Johnson and John Akomfrah.

Founded in 2005, adamo-faiden reformulated their role as architects in the new Argentinian social context upon their return to Argentina after the crisis. Among their first projects were residential and office buildings, others were added to this tried-and-true typology that have consolidated adamo-faiden as one of the reference studios in the Southern Cone. This issue includes their recent work, from single family houses to commercial buildings.Text: Bruther, Enrique Walker. Photographs: Javier Agustín Rojas.

This monograph includes the latest works built by the Barcelona studio of Víctor Rahola (also in his time in partnership with Jorge Vidal), from the expansion of the library of the Biology Faculty of the University of Barcelona, passing through the wineries in Mont-Ras to various hotels in the Balearic Islands. In addition to the works, three texts by the architect himself reflect on important issues contemporary architecture, specially in the Mediterranean area. Foreword by the critic Josep Quetglas.

Zwischen 1927 und 1991 wechselten die Sprachen von 25 Millionen Menschen im Sowjetimperium bis zu dreimal das Alphabet. Dieses interaktive musikalische Klangbuch bietet Kindern wie Erwachsenen eine Reise durch die ABCs im ehemaligen Sowjetreich.

BAST have taken a proactive attitude to research in order to experiment with the diverse potentialities of each project. At each step of the design phase, they propose multiple different solutions. As a result, they do not follow a set formal method; instead, their projects go through an evolutionary process. BAST's architecture practice is located in Toulouse, France. The architects recall ideas of modern assemblage and montage: the structural unit is challenged by the superposition of logics, façade layers, colliding structures, sections. The overall logic derives from resemblances, things that look like something else, but are not exactly what we expect. These elements are mixed together. Controlling the resulting combination requires a very clear idea, because otherwise the building site can soon descend into chaos. The structural principle provides the logic, and the design sequence drives together these elements. Once the design principle has been defined, regardless of whether the window frame is here or there, the catalyst is already in place. The fragments can then be assembled with an eye to a promising future.Conversation with Jo Tailleau and Tiphaine Abenia. Photos by BAST.

Dank Marcel Duchamp wissen wir, dass alles zu Kunst werden kann und dem Denken hier keine Grenze gesetzt ist. Die erste umfassende Ausstellung seit zwei Jahrzehnten zeigt Duchamps Werke aus allen Schaffensphasen der Jahre 1902 bis 1968 zeigt. Über sein Frühwerk postimpressionistischer Gemälde, seine Karikaturen und Auseinandersetzung mit dem Kubismus bis zu seinen ikonischen Readymakes offenbart sich das Denken Duchamps. Er schuf mit einer ihm eigenen beharrlichen Genauigkeit und eigensinniger Anarchie Werke, die erst durch uns als Betrachtende ihre Vollendung finden. So verändert sich das Werk mit uns und in der Zeit.

Carla Juaçabas Büro arbeitet derzeit sowohl an öffentlichen als auch an privaten Projekten, vorwiegend Wohnungs- und Kulturbauten. Zu ihren ersten Arbeiten gehören eine Reihe von Häusern - Rio Bonito (2005), Varanda (2007), Minimal (2008) und Santa Teresa (2014) -, einige Ausstellungsdesigns und der ephemere Pavillon Humanidade in Rio de Janeiro, den sie zusammen mit der Bühnenbildnerin und Theaterregisseurin Bia Lessa entworfen hat. Mit dem Projekt Ballast wurde sie zur Architekturbiennale von Venedig 2018 eingeladen. Internationale Aufmerksamkeit erhielt Ihr Bau einer Kapelle Im Vatikan.

Aline Bouvy's catalogue takes the form of loitering, in that it is as much about sexual vagrancy and police patrols as stray dogs and queer flirtations.On the horizon of this poetic, transgressive deviation, we spy the utopia of a fluid sexuality which the visual artist assimilates less with pragmatic LGBT militancy than a permanent critique of the aesthetic and health codes which society uses to keep our bodies in check and contains its desires. Anticipating the end of mortifying inhibitions, her artistic approach undertakes an unbridled eroticisation of our environment by incorporating rundown materials, decadent postures and disused territories. Her multidisciplinary palette, alternating thermoformed Plexiglas, inlaid linoleums and remote-controlled vehicles, surprises the public through its infringement of good taste and its disregard for taboos.

Arquitectura-G is a young architectural studio based in Barcelona run by Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes, Igor Urdampilleta that began its professional career in the midst of the economic crisis, when public architecture competitions in Spain were paralyzed and the private initiative for housing construction was frozen. Their first works were apartment renovations in Barcelona, the few opportunities that the market offered at the time, but for a few years they have begun to build new buildings, such as the Luz house, for which they received the Mies van der Rohe Award for Emerging Architecture in 2015. His work moves between references to the local architecture of the 1970s and 80s and a new version of hedonistic Mediterranean architecture. In addition to their works around Barcelona, they have also built four stores for the fashion brand Acne (Nagoya, Stockholm, New York and Paris) and are currently working on a residential project in Portugal.