Lars Müller Publishers 2014 /2015

ArchitectureDesignPhotographyArtSociety

Our program for 2014/15 is devoted to the professional preparation of relevant themes, the presentation of groundbreaking ideas, and the fostering of the book as a precious object.

With the series for OfficeUS, the US Pavilion, and the book Elements of Venice, we were part of the architectural event of the year 2014, the Venice Architecture Biennal, and are contributing to the future reflections on the topics, exhibited there. The unique collection of trees in the image library Neubau Forst Catalogue is veritable graphic poetry and also provides a considerable number of practical applications for architects and landscape architects; with SQM: The Quantified Home, 100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design, and 100 Years of Swiss Design we are looking back and ahead; and in publications such as Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts and Max Bill’s View of Things we discover a new, surprising approach to the work of two of the greats in the fields of design and art. That landscape architecture can be visualized in a beautifully written storybook, proves Günther Vogt. Landscape as The Cabinet of Curiosities.

The publications from our backlist, whose relevance and timeliness has not lessened since their release, prove that the book is and will remain a durable medium for conveying pertinent information. Allow yourself, as we have done, to be infected by the assiduous research, the enthusiasm, and the critical perspectives of our authors. You will discover up-to-the-minute topics, ideas, and modes of thought.

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Giulia FoscariELEMENTS OF VENICE

With a foreword written by Rem Koolhaas

Design: Giulia Foscari and Integral Lars Müller12 × 16.7 cm, 4 ¾ × 6 ½ in, 696 pages1200 illustrations, paperback2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-429-7, EnglishEUR 29.– GBP 24.– USD/CAD 39.–

Developed as a parallel research project of Fundamentals—the exhibition at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Rem Koolhaas—the book offers insights on Venetian façades, stairs, corridors, floors, ramps, ceilings, doors, hearths, windows, balconies and walls. “Product not [only] of the mind but of societal organization” the elements are isolated from their picture-perfect context and from the postcard view of Venice that is impressed in our retinas, introducing the reader—through a combination of collages, drawings, photographs, paintings, film stills and quotes—to a radically new way of seeing Venice. Like a camera obscura photograph cuts through the often irrelevant embellishments of architecture to reveal the underlying skeleton of a building (i.e. its elements), this guide will allow the reader to better understand the fundamental transforma-tions that have shaped Venice during the past ten centuries. This city, which for many is—architec-turally speaking—permanently frozen in time, has in fact often been at the forefront of challenging the architectural conventions and underwent an unprecedented urban transformation.

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OFFICEUS

OfficeUS, the U.S. Pavilion for the 2014 Interna-tional Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, reframes the history of U.S. architecture through the lens of export in two interrelated con-structs: “The Office” and “The Repository”. The “Repository” presents 1000 projects designed by 200 US offices working abroad in a chronological archive of the last 100 years. Collectively these projects tell multiple, imbricated stories of U.S. firms, typologies, and technologies, as well as a broader narrative of modernization and its global reach. The “Office” engages these projects, revis-iting their premises and conclusions over the course of the Biennale. It functions as a labora-tory staffed by a diverse group of resident design partners collaborating with outpost offices and a rotating cast of visiting experts. Together, these two halves of OfficeUS create both an historical record of the U.S. contribution to global architec-

tural thought, and a petri dish in which that record is submitted to contemporary agents of disruption and critique.

OfficeUS is curated by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Ana Miljački and Ashley Schafer and produced by Storefront for Art and Architecture, PRAXIS Jour-nal, students from MIT’s Department of Architecture and the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University, Leong Leong, Pentagram: Nata-sha Jen, CASE, Lars Müller, Architizer, and CLOG.

OFFICEUS MANUAL OFFICEUS NEW WORLDwill be available in January and April 2015.

Design: Pentagram16 × 24 cm, 6  ¼ × 9  ½ in, 272 pagesapprox. 640 illustrations, paperback2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-437-2, EnglishEUR 25.– GBP 22.– USD/CAD 30.–

OFFICEUS AGENDA (CATALOGUE)

Edited by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Ana Miljački, Ashley Schafer, Michael Kubo, Amanda Reeser Lawrence

OfficeUS Agenda documents the work of the U.S. architectural offices and their global influence over the past one hundred years, and sets new terms in the debate surrounding the architecture and urbanism of tomorrow. Scholarly articles reveal new histories of the expertise, exchange, and export of architectural production and trace a century of U.S. architectural practice and work in a globalized world.

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Double includes a group of artists, architects, critics, historians and theorists, discussing the effects, desires and implications in the act of doubling and replicating. Almost as an instinctual impulse towards originality, the desire and need for constant innovation has been protected throughout history. This compilation of manifestos explores the possibilities embedded in the act of copying, opening a path for learning by copying, and ultimately copying better.

Struggles to escape form as a manifestation of various norms and constraints are as old as architecture itself. But the formless is also increas-ingly in the air today, explicitly as in discussions of the “formless” quality of the city. No doubt part of its appeal lies in the fact that the formless is frequently found at the intersections between architecture and other fields, from art to ecology or engineering. The formless has not yet been theorized rigorously in architecture. This book represents a first step toward this articulation.

FORMLESSStorefront for Art and Architecture Manifesto Series 1

Design: Pentagram12.5 × 19.5 cm, 5 × 7 ½ in, 188 pages, 107 illustrations, paperback2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-346-7, eEUR 15.– GBP 12.– USD / CAD 20.–

DOUBLEStorefront for Art and Architecture Manifesto Series 2

Design: Pentagram12.5 × 19.5 cm, 5 × 7 ½ in, 164 pages, 402 illustrations, paperback2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-345-0, eEUR 15.– GBP 12.– USD /CAD 20.–

OFFICEUS ATLAS (REPOSITORY)

Edited by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Ana Miljački, Ashley Schafer, Michael Kubo

The OfficeUS Atlas collects the research in an archive of nearly 1000 architectural projects. Organized according to individual firm histories, the Atlas documents the development of U.S. architectural offices working abroad from 1914 to the present. Offices and their projects are illus-trated by an abundance of photographs and architectural drawings.

Design: Pentagram16 × 24 cm, 6 ¼ × 9 ½ in, 1216 pagesapprox. 2000 illustrations, paperback2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-438-9, EnglishEUR 50.– GBP 45.– USD/CAD 70.–

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Edited by ETH Studio Basel

Nairobi has grown to be one of the most varied and international cities of our contemporary world. In the context of Nairobi’s complex political trajectory from colonialism to independence, migration has reinforced ethnic, spatial, and economic differ-ences, leading to the formation of multiple power structures. This process is evident in the city’s radi-cally different urban patterns. The book documents specific neighborhoods, showing how different cultures of urban life constitute the city today.

Shadi Rahbaran and Manuel HerzNAIROBI, KENYAMigration Shaping the City

Design: ETH Studio Basel and Integral Lars Müller17.5 × 24 cm, 6 ¾ × 9 ½ in, 176 pages, 211 illustrations, hardcover2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-375-7, eEUR 24.– GBP 20.– USD /CAD 32.–

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Edited by Manuel HerzIn cooperation with ETH Studio Basel

From Camp to City examines the theme of the refugee camp in the context of urbanism and architecture. Using the examples of the refugee camps in the Algerian desert in which Sahrawis originally from the Western Sahara have been living for 35 years, the book looks at the “urban” aspects of these settlements.

THE INEVITABLE SPECIFICITY OF CITIES

Edited by ETH Studio Basel

Design: Integral Lars Müller17.6 × 24 cm, 6 ¾ × 9 ½ in, 320 Seitenapprox. 300 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-374-0, EnglishEUR 50.– GBP 40.– USD/CAD 65.–

What is a city? What defines its specificity? What comprises its characteristics? Many people interact in the urban space, instigating trans-formational processes whose objectives often seem irreconcilable. Thus, the development of a city today is not linear and the process of global urbanization does not produce one, single homogenous space. Using the categories of “territory,” “power,” and “difference,” The Inevita-ble Specificity of Cities investigates various cities and urban areas, pointing out different features of their physical and social existence.

With essays by Roger Diener, Mathias Gunz, Manuel Herz, Jacques Herzog, Rolf Jenni, Marcel Meili, Shadi Rahbaran, Christian Schmid, and Milica Topalovic.

FROM CAMP TO CITYRefugee Camps of the Western Sahara

Design: ETH Studio Basel and Integral Lars Müller17.6 × 24 cm, 7 × 9 ½ in, 512 pages1172 illustrations, hardcover2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-291-0, eEUR 50.– GBP 45.– USD / CAD 65.–

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Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo LOOSE ENDS

Edited by Sara Marini in collaboration with aut. architektur und tirol

With texts by Raoul Bunschoten, Pippo Ciorra, Marco de Michelis, Rainer Köberl, Sara Marini

With photographs by Hélène Binet, Armin Linke, and Giulia Bruno

Design: Maria Giuseppina Grasso Canizzo and Integral Lars Müller16.8 × 24 cm, 6  ½ × 9  ½ in, 412 pages, 206 sheets877 illustrations, box2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-451-8, EnglishEUR 40.– GBP 35.– USD/CAD 50.–

Despite the amount of awards Maria Giuseppina has won and been nominated for, she’s still con-sidered an insider’s tip. Grasso Cannizzo’s special design methods are based on her analyses of the urban context and the landscape, as well as her examination of the specific “story” behind each project. She translates the knowledge gained into minimal, self-aware, and sometimes radical con-cepts, which are ultimately always open to any changes that life and the passage of time may bring. At the same time, this first comprehensive monograph is also a conceptual manifesto by Grasso Cannizzo. Collected in a black box, loose prints provide insight into her most important buildings and make it possible to see the archi-tect’s general design methods.

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Ma YansongSHANSHUI CITY

Design: Kenya Hara17.8 × 31 cm, 7 × 12  ¼ in, 208 pages99 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-457-0, EnglishEUR 49.– GBP 39.– USD/CAD 65.–

Shanshui City, the latest book from MAD Architects’ founder and principal partner, Ma Yansong, received an international release in October 2014. The publishing of the book coincides with the 10th anniversary of the founding of MAD Architects.

Ma’s poetic, yet precise language details the development and practice of design philosophy “Shanshui City”, at the core of which is the idea that, “architects should delineate a new ideal for the city of the future, to gradually construct an urban environment that embodies both the conve-nience of the modern city and the ancient Eastern affinity for the natural world.”

“Shanshui” is an idealized worldview developed by Chinese through extended contact with the natural world, a worldview that integrates the ever-yday life of humanity with the impulse to seek spiritual refuge in nature. This “Shanshui City” is not simply an eco-city, or a garden-city, nor does it imply modeling the city’s architecture on natural forms such as mountains. It represents humanity’s affinity for the natural world, and our quest for inner fulfillment, as expressed in philosophies of the East.

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Stefan Gandl NEUBAU FORST CATALOGUEUrban Tree Collection for the Modern Architect & Designer

Developed and edited by Neubau

Design: Neubau24 × 28 cm, 9  ½ × 11 in, 384 pages765 full-color illustrations(315 HD-bitmap tree masks, 51 HD vector trees, 72 illus. of bark, 144 documentary illus.), hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-435-8, EnglishEUR 50.– GBP 45.– USD/CAD 70.–

Neubau Forst Catalogue is a collection of detailed silhouettes of urban trees and separate tree sculp-tures. In years of manual work, using a method developed especially for this project, these details have been digitally removed from their original urban surroundings in Berlin. The materials are distinguished by their extent, outstanding quality of detail, and excellent resolution of the usual autotraced digital tree library.

Over a period of time, from 2009 to 2013, these trees were systematically photographed, docu-mented, and catalogued in the summer and winter seasons. Neubau’s process of selection and distil-lation gives the trees a timeless validity, and they can be used universally in future images. Addition-ally, so-called “tree modules” were removed from existing separate trees. They can be set in front of both dark and light backgrounds of any kind. There are endless combinations of ready-to-use trees and different modules.

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Using a typological structure (landscape, park, square, garden, promenade, etc.), Günther Vogt describes the theoretical foundation on which the successful projects of Vogt Landscape Archi-tects are based. In recent years the office has realized international projects in Europe and the United States, including a new type of city park for the Tate Modern in London (with Herzog & de Meuron).

Günther VogtMINIATURE AND PANORAMAVogt Landscape ArchitectsProjects 2000–12

Design: Integral Lars Müller16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in, 608 pages, 1250 illustrations, paperback2012, ISBN 978-3-03778-233-0, eEUR 58.– GBP 50.– USD / CAD 85.–

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Günther Vogt and his landscape designers bring a lot of passion to their research and to their search for ways to transform undesigned sites or unspecified tracts of land into landscapes. The results of their “field trips,” research projects, and practical implementations are collected in this publication.

GÜNTHER VOGTLANDSCAPE AS THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIESQuestions Towards a Position

Edited by Rebecca Bornhauser and Thomas Kissling, Chair Günther Vogt, Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich

Design: Integral Lars Müller12 × 19 cm, 4 ¾ × 7 ½ in, 228 pages64 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-304-7, English2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-303-0, GermanEUR 24.– GBP 20.– USD/CAD 32.–

Picking up on architecture’s tradition of teaching professional experience to students through conversation, this book provides insight into the ideas, methods, and memories of Günther Vogt, and questions the attitude that this innovative landscape architect adopts towards his profession.

With reference to five different locations, Günther Vogt speaks about current themes of landscape architecture and its relationship to architecture and the city, about his teaching at the ETH Zürich, and about the work of Vogt Landscape Architects; he describes his perception of the lanscape as a cabinet of curiostities, tells how he collects vari-ous phenomena and individual elements, relates them to each other and rearranges them. And in the reader’s mind’s eye unfolds a cosmos, in which the lack of wholeness of "the landscape" seems to be a gain rather than a loss.

Alice FoxleyDISTANCE & ENGAGEMENTWalking, Thinking and Making Landscape

Design: Integral Lars Müller24 × 16.5 cm, 9 ½ × 6 ½ in, 456 pages, 1000 illustrations, hardcover2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-196-8, eEUR 50.– GBP 50.– USD / CAD 80.–

“... Just a while ago I stood in a land-scape while it was raining and came to the conclusion that the importance of the sun is overvalued. A landscape in the rain is far more atmospheric than in the sunlight. But we rarely allow our perception to expand in this way.”Günther Vogt

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NICHOLAS HAWKSMOOR: LONDON CURCHES

Edited by Mohsen MostafaviPhotographs by Hélène Binet

Design: Integral Lars Müller24 × 30 cm, 9 ½ × 11 ¾ in, 168 pages119 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-349-8, EnglishEUR 38.– GBP 30.– USD/CAD 50.–

British architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (approx. 1661–1736) is recognized as one of the major contributors to the traditions of British and Euro-pean architectural culture. Nevertheless, there is insufficient visual documentation and analysis of his work. Nicholas Hawksmoor: London Churches reconsiders his architecture in relation to urbanism. The publication focuses on a series of important London churches the architect designed during the early part of the eighteenth century. The key distinguishing features of these churches are their spires, each designed with different qualities and motifs. While Hawksmoor was inspired by the ancient history of architecture, his work was con-sidered radical and contemporary in its day.

Photographer Hélène Binet was specially commis-sioned to document the various aspects of the seven remaining London churches. Her immaculate black and white photographs demonstrate the beauty of Hawksmoor’s architecture with special attention to the variety of scales, sites, interiors, textures, and materials.

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Deane SimpsonYOUNG-OLDUrban Utopias of an Aging Society

Design: Studio Joost Grootens17 × 24 cm, 6  ¾ × 9  ½ in, 576 pagesapprox. 270 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-350-4, EnglishEUR 40.– GBP 35.– USD/CAD 50.–

Young-Old examines contemporary architectural and urban mutations that have emerged as a consequence of one of the key demographic transformations of our time: population aging. Distinguishing between different phases of old age, it identifies the group known as the “Young-Old” as a remarkable petri dish for experimental forms of subjectivity, collectivity, and environment. In investigating this field of latent urban and architectural novelty, Young-Old asserts both the escapist and emancipatory dimensions of these practices.

Richly illustrated with drawings, maps, and photographs, the volume documents phenomena ranging from the continuous, golf cart accessible urban landscapes of the world’s largest retirement community in Florida and the mono-national urbanizaciones of “the retirement home of Europe” on Costa del Sol, to the Dutch-themed residential community at Huis Ten Bosch in the south of Japan.

Edited by Jochen Becker, Katrin Klingan, Stephan Lanz, and Kathrin Wildner Religious communities inscribe themselves into the cityscape not only socially and politically, but also acoustically and architecturally. Global Prayers examines the mutual influence of religion and urbanism, looking at how various forms of faith manifest themselves in the cities of the world. Photo essays, interviews, reports, and scientific texts inquire into the making of urban religion and the production of religious urbanity.

GLOBAL PRAYERSContemporary Manifestations of the Religious in the City

Design: Image Shift16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in, 656 pages, 410 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-373-3, eEUR 35.– GBP 28.– USD /CAD 46.–

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Edited by Stephen Phillips

Catapulted to fame by the international media in the 1980s the so-called L.A. Ten emerged to define the future of Los Angeles architecture. In this book, L.A. Ten architects Neil Denari, Frederick Fisher, Ming Fung, Craig Hodgetts, Coy Howard, Franklin Israel ( posthumously ), Wes Jones, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, and Michael Rotondi offer a witty retrospective on the characters, environment, and cultural history of L.A. architecture as they remem-ber it through a series of oral history interviews.

Kenneth FramptonA GENEALOGY OF MODERN ARCHITECTUREA Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form

Edited by Ashley Simone

Design: Integral Lars Müller24 × 16.5 cm, 9 ½ × 6 ½ in, 320 pagesapprox. 500 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-369-6, EnglishEUR 36.– GBP 30.– USD/CAD 45.–

A Genealogy of Modern Architecture is a refe-rence work on modern architecture by Kenneth Frampton, one of today’s leading architectural theorists. Conceived as a genealogy of twentieth century architecture from 1924 to 2000, it compiles some sixteen comparative analyses of canonical modern buildings ranging from exhibition pavilions and private houses to office buildings and various kinds of public institutions. The buildings are compared in terms of their hierarchical spatial order, circulation structure and referential details. The analyses are organized so as to show what is similar and different between two paired types, thus revealing how modern tradition has been diversely inflected. Richly illustrated, A Genealogy of Modern Architecture is a new standard work in architectural education.

L.A. [ TEN ] :Interviews on Los Angeles Architecture1970s –1990s

Design: Cal Poly L.A. Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design with Stephen Phillips Architects ( SPARCHS )15.2 × 22.9 cm, 6 × 9 in, 256 pages194 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-409-9, eEUR 29.– GBP 25.– USD / CAD 35.–

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PLACE AND DISPLACEMENTEXHIBITING ARCHITECTURE

Edited by Thordis Arrhenius, Mari Lending, Wallis Miller, Jérémie Michael McGowan

Design: Integral Lars Müller16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in, 248 pages82 illustrations, paperback2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-416-7, EnglishEUR 40.– GBP 35.– USD/CAD 50.–

Seemingly immobile and durable, architecture remains a challenge in the modern world of col-lecting and exhibiting. From the late eighteenth century onward, divergent conventions of display have been conflated with urgent discussions of how material culture is handed down, distributed, appropriated, and evaluated.

Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture investigates historical and con temporary practices of displaying architecture, whether in full scale or as fragments, models, or two- dimensional rep-resentations. Exploring questions of circulation and temporality, issues of institution and canon, and the discourse and politics of architectural spaces on exhibit, the book’s essays discuss the ambiguous status of architecture as an object of display. Contributions from leading scholars in the new research field of architectural exhibitions reveal the centrality of the exhibition in defining and redefining the notion of architecture and its history.

With essays by the editors and Felicity D. Scott, Martin Braathen, Helena Mattsson, Natalie Hope O’Donnell, Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Barry Bergdoll, Lothar Diem, Wenche Volle, Victor Plathe Tschudi, Ines Weizman, Adam Lowe, Jorge Otero-Pailos

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Inge Gobert and Johan Van LooverenTHOUGHTS ON DESIGNING INFORMATION

Design: Inge Gobert and Johan Van Looveren22 × 29 cm, 8 ½ × 11 ½ in, 192 pagesapprox. 230 illustrations, paperback2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-436-5, EnglishEUR 25.– GBP 20.– USD/CAD 35.–

Eighteen internationally reputed designers were interviewed by the editors Inge Gobert and Johan Van Looveren. All are active in the broad field of information design: interactive, editorial, and environmental design, data visualization, way-finding, typography, cartography. . . This book contains reflections on the field of information design and its boundaries, working methods, client-designer relations, attitudes, dreams, and frustrations. Special emphasis is placed on how future information designers can be effectively prepared to work in a world that is supposed to provide constant access to information.Interviews with: Johannes Bergerhausen, Peter Crnokrak / The Luxury of Protest, Brendan Dawes, Rose Epple, Tim Fendley / Applied, Joost Grootens / Studio Joost Grootens, Fernando Gutiérrez / Studio Fernando Gutiérrez, Joe Malia / BERG, Joris Maltha / Catalogtree, Morag Myerscough / Studio Myerscough, Maria da Gandra & Maaike van Neck / MWMcreative, Mark Porter / Mark Porter Associates, Lizá Ramalho & Arthur Rebelo / R2, Andréas Uebele / Büro Uebele Visuelle Kommuni kation, Gerlinde Schuller / The World as Flatland, Karsten Schmidt, Andrew Vande Moere, Marius Watz.

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100 YEARS OF SWISS GRAPHIC DESIGN

Edited by Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Christian Brändle, Karin Gimmi, Barbara Junod, Christina Reble, Bettina Richter

Design: NORM21.6 × 32.4 cm, 8 ½ × 12 ¾ in, 352 pagesapprox. 600 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-399-3, English2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-352-8, GermanEUR 55.– GBP 45.– USD/CAD 70.–

100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design takes a fresh look at Swiss typography and photographics, posters, corporate image design, book design, journalism and typefaces over the past hundred years. With captivating illustrations and illumi-nating essays by prominent experts in the field, this book, designed by the Zurich studio NORM, presents the diversity of contemporary visual design while also tracing the fine lines of tradition that connect the work of different periods. The changes in generations and paradigms as manifested in their different visual languages and convictions are organized along a timeline as well as by theme. The various fields of endeavor and media are described, along with how they relate to adver-tising, art, and politics. Graphic design from Switzerland reflects both international trends and local concerns. High conceptual and formal quality, irony and wit are its constant companions. A new, comprehensive reference work on Swiss design.

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100 YEARS OF SWISS DESIGN

Edited by the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Christian Brändle, Renate Menzi, Arthur Rüegg

Design: NORM21.6 × 32.4 cm, 8 ½ × 12 ¾ in, 376 pagesapprox. 700 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-441-9, English2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-440-2, GermanEUR 55.– GBP 45.– USD/CAD 70.–

100 Years of Swiss Design offers a new perspec-tive of Switzerland’s achievements in furniture and product design. The book presents the essential historical designs in chronological sequence, from the regional roots of the early days around 1900 to the globalized network of today. Thirty essays by known experts shed light on themes typical of their times in word and image. Besides the design process, manufacturing techniques, distribution, and reception, the changing roles of the designer—from mediator between form and function, entre-preneur, social worker, to branding architect—are examined.

Featuring one hundred key works from the Designsammlung, the world’s largest collection of Swiss design, this reference work is the first to present and discuss a comprehensive show of Swiss designers’ achievements, from the anony-mous to the famous.

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MAX BILL’S VIEW OF THINGSDie gute Form: An Exhibition 1949

Edited by Lars Müller in collaboration with the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich

Design: Integral Lars Müller21 × 29.7 cm, 8  ¼ × 11 ¾ in, 160 pages107 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-372-6, English2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-339-9, GermanEUR 39.– GBP 29.90 USD/CAD 49.–

The international touring exhibition Die gute Form was conceived by Max Bill on behalf of the Swiss Werkbund and was shown for the first time in 1949 at the Basel Mustermesse trade fair. The exhibition consisted of 80 display panels, designed by Bill, presenting a selection of consumer goods from all over the world, chosen by Bill as examples of good design. The show caused some upset in Switzer-land and fuelled heated debates abroad. But it also exerted a wide-reaching influence – for example, upon the way in which consumer goods were perceived.

This publication documents Bill’s initiative in reproductions of the original display panels and layout plans for the venues visited by the exhibi-tion, and places Die gute Form in a theoretical context that considers its reception and impact within the history of design.

Peter ErniDIE GUTE FORMProgramm des Schweize rischen Werkbundes

Design: Lars Müller22 × 30 cm, 8 ½ × 12 in, 160 pages600 illustrations, hardcover 1983, ISBN 978-3-906700-01-4, gEUR 30.– GBP 28.–USD/CAD 45.–

A comprehensive analysis of product design based on the “Die gute Form” (Good Design) campaign by the Swiss Werkbund 1952–1968.

Die gute Form is the first book by Lars Müller, published in 1983.

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NEUE GRAFIKNEW GRAPHIC DESIGNGRAPHISME ACTUEL1958 –1965

Facsimile reprint of all 18 issues published, with commentary

Edited by Lars Müller

Design: Integral Lars Müller25 × 28 cm, 9 ¾ × 11 in, 1184 pages (reprints), 44 pages (commentary)18 paperback volumes in a slipcase2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-411-2, English /German / FrenchEUR 250.– GBP 285.– USD /CAD 375.–

Also available via www.newgraphicdesign-reprint.com or www.graphismeactuel.com

Neue Grafik, the “International Review of graphic design and related subjects,” was initiated by designer Josef Müller-Brockmann and published in eighteen issues between 1958 and 1965 by an editorial collective consisting of him, Richard Paul Lohse, Hans Neuburg und Carlo Vivarelli ( LMNV ). The complete volumes are now available in an excellent facsimile reprint from Lars Müller Publishers.

From a historical point of view, Neue Grafik can be seen as a programmatic platform and effective publishing organ of Swiss graphic design, an international authority in its field at the time. Pro-tagonists of the Swiss school and its rigorous Zurich faction lead an essential discourse on the foundations of current communication and con-structive design. The influence of this movement cannot be overstated. The Swiss school, also called “International Style,” became exemplary for the conceptual approach to corporate design of increasingly globally operating corporations and an influential precursor in the design of indivi-dual projects, such as posters, exhibitions, and publications.

Neue Grafik is an important point of reference in the recent history of graphic design. After the heights of the digital revolution now follows a renewed concern for matter-of-fact concepts and clear form languages. This explains the interest in the almost fundamentalist stance of the four Zurich-based designers, who were responsible for the content of the magazine.

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Jasper MorrisonTHE GOOD LIFEPERCEPTIONS OF THE ORDINARY

Design: Jasper Morrison and Integral Lars Müller17 × 23 cm, 6 ¾ × 9 in, 80 pages37 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-423-5, EnglishEUR 20.– GBP 18.– USD/CAD 29.–

Just what is it that catches the eye, and why? What’s the significance of a broken flowerpot, a pair of identical tables side by side, a garden hose wrapped around an old car wheel? In this collection of photo essays, the famous designer Jasper Morrison examines and imagines the life behind a series of seemingly ordinary situations.

Jasper Morrison Ltd. has studios in London, Paris and Tokyo and designs a wide range of house-hold, architectural and urban products, working with well-known international brands like Alessi, Cappellini, Flos, Kettal, Maruni, Marsotto and Vitra. Jasper Morrison has also published several books including Everything But The Walls, A World Without Words, Super Normal and The Good Life (Lars Müller Publishers).

In this compilation of objects the authors present a convincing portrait of the way in which “unobtru-sive” design slots into our everyday lives and affects our aesthetic sensibility. This type of design is natural and appro priate, the hallmarks of its quality. With their œuvre, both designers have an enduring impact on contemporary design dis-course.

Naoto Fukasawa, Jasper MorrisonSUPER NORMALSensations of the Ordinary

Design: Lars Müller14.8 × 20 cm, 5 ¾ × 7 ¾ in128 pages, 264 illustrations, paperback2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-106-7, eEUR 25.– GBP 25.– USD / CAD 35.–

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SQM: THE QUANTIFIED HOMEAn exploration of the evolving identity of the home, from utopian experiment to factory of data

Edited by Space Caviar (Joseph Grima, Andrea Bagnato, Tamar Shafrir)

Design: Folder17 × 24 cm, 6  ¾ × 9  ½ in, 304 pages140 illustrations, paperback2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-453-2, EnglishEUR 35.– GBP 28.– USD/CAD 45.–

The way we live is rapidly changing under pres-sure from multiple forces—financial, environmen-tal, technological, geopolitical—yet domesticity ceased to be a central preoccupation of architec-ture long ago. What we used to call home may not even exist anymore, having transmuted into a financial commodity measured in square meters. SQM: The Quantified Home charts the scale of this change using data, fiction, and a selection of homes and their interiors—from Osama bin Laden’s compound to apartment living in the age of Airbnb. This book is less about the house as a physical envelope, the mechanistic challenge of providing shelter, than it is about the extended notion of the home—that complex universe of overlapping cultural references, daily rituals, prac-tical needs, unspoken desires and aspirations in perpetual evolution that converge in architectural space. Through contributions from architects, designers, artists, and theorists, it examines how the place we live in could come to be so recogniz-able yet unfamiliar.

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Katrin TrautweinSCHWARZ BLACK

Design: Integral Lars Müller28.5 × 23 cm, 11 ¼ × 9 in, 64 pages text volume24 color charts, hardcover in slipcase2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-382-5, English/GermanEUR 98.– GBP 78.– USD/CAD 125.–

In this publication, color expert Katrin Trautwein allows subtle differences in a “black palette” to be experienced by means of 24 high-quality screenprints. Made using genuine, waterbased pigment paints, the screenprints show how rich and sensual black can be. They are accompa-nied by eight essays that place the topic in its creative, linguistic, architectural, and cultural contexts. Black is shown to be not the absence of light, but the means by which the features of white architecture are rendered most visible.

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LADISLAV SUTNAR – VISUAL DESIGN IN ACTION

Facsimile Reprint of the original book with the same title published in 1961

Edited by Reto Caduff and Steven Heller

21.5 × 31.5 cm, 8 ½ × 12 ½ in, 188 pagesapprox. 378 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-424-2, EnglishEUR 69.– GBP 49.– USD/CAD 85.–

Sutnar’s brilliant structural systems for clarifying otherwise dense industrial data placed him in the pantheon of Modernist pioneers and made him one of the visionaries of what is today called “information design.” Visual Design in Action is a snapshot of Sutnar’s American period (1939–1976), and includes graphics for Carr’s Department Store, advertisements for the Vera Neumann Com-pany, identity for Addo-X, and other stunningly contemporary works. He is best known for his total design concept for the Sweets Catalog Service and lesser known for introducing the parenthesis as a way to typographically distinguish the area code from the rest of a phone number.

Visual Design in Action is a testament to the histo-rical relevance of Modernism and the philosophical resonance of Sutnar’s focus on the functional beauty of total clarity. This reprint of Visual Design in Action (originally published in limited quantities in 1961) is as spot-on about the power of design and “design thinking” as it ever was.

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Wolfgang WeingartTYPOGRAPHYMy Way to Typography

Design: Wolfgang Weingart22.5 × 27.5 cm, 8 ¾ × 10 ¾ in, 520 pages600 illustrations, paperback2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-426-6, English/GermanEUR 40.– GBP 35.– USD/CAD 55.–

Since the 1970s Wolfgang Weingart has exerted a decisive influence on the international develop-ment of typography. In the late 1960s he instilled creativity and a desire for experimentation into the ossified Swiss typographical industry and reflected this renewal in his own work. Countless designers have been inspired by his teaching at the Basle School of Design and by his lectures. In Typography Weingart gives an unusual and frank narrative of his early life and development as a designer. For the first time he gives a compre-hensive survey of his works over the past forty years, most of which are unknown.

30 YEARS OF SWISS TYPOGRAPHIC DISCOURSE IN THE TYPOGRAFISCHE MONATSBLÄTTER TM RSI SGM 1960–90

Design: Louise Paradis21.5 × 31.5 cm, 8 ½ × 12 ½ in, 276 pages, 472 illustrations, hardcover2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-334-4, eEUR 50.– GBP 45.– USD /CAD 65.–

Edited by the Ecole Cantonale d’Art Lausanne ( ECAL ), Louise Paradis with Roland Früh and François Rappo

Typografische Monatsblätter is one of the most important journals to disseminate the phenomenon of “Swiss typography” to an inter national audience. The book examines the years 1960–90, which correspond to a period of transition in which many factors such as technology, socio-political contexts and aesthetic ideologies transformed the fields of typography and graphic design.

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White is not a book about color. It is rather Kenya Hara’s attempt to explore the essence of “white,” which he sees as being closely related to the origin of Japanese aesthetics—symbolizing simplicity and subtlety. The central concepts discussed in this publication are emptiness and the absolute void.

Kenya HaraWHITE

Design: Kenya Hara13.5 × 19.5 cm, 5 ¼ × 7 ¾ in64 pages, 4 illustrations, hardcover2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-183-8, e2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-182-1, gEUR 25.– GBP 20.– USD / CAD 30.–

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Kenya HaraDESIGNING DESIGN

Design: Kenya Hara16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9  ½ in, 472 pages389 illustrations, paperback2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-450-1, EnglishEUR 40.– GBP 35.– USD/CAD 55.–

Representing a new generation of designers in Japan, Kenya Hara (born 1958) pays tribute to his mentors, using long overlooked Japanese icons and images in much of his work. In Designing Design, he impresses upon the reader the importance of “emptiness” in both the visual and philosophical traditions of Japan, and its appli cation to design, made visible by means of numerous examples from his own work. In 2001, he enrolled as a board member for the Japanese label MUJI and has considerably moulded the identity of this successful corpo ration as communication and design advisor ever since.

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Annelies ŠtrbaNOONDAY

Edited by Lars Müller

Design: Integral Lars Müller17.3 × 24 cm, 336 pages296 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-388-7, English/GermanEUR 49.– GBP 39.– USD/CAD 65.–

The artist Annelies Štrba, best known for photo-graphs of her children, now brings us in Noonday pictures of her grandchildren. In this “noonday dream” (a reference to Emily Brontë), we encounter a host of fairytale creatures, playing, sleeping, or dreaming. The viewer is drawn in and becomes part of this reverie, which is interspersed with images of everyday family life, travel, and game-playing. While the images in the artist’s previous series, Shades of Time (1997), were raw and direct, Noon-day glows with the ease of a summer afternoon and yet still leaves us with the melancholy certainty that the days of childhood pass by much too fast.

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Christian VogtIT WAS ALWAYS THERE, IT’S JUST GROWN STRONGER

Design: Christian Vogt with Integral Lars Müller24 × 16.5 cm, 9 ½ × 6 ½ in, 148 pages, 128 illustrations, hardcover 2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-455-6, EnglishEUR 25.– GBP 20.– USD/CAD 40.–

Over the now more than forty-five years that he has been studying and exploring photography, Christian Vogt has discovered new visual vocabularies again and again. In his new work, consisting almost exclusively of contrasting pairs of pictures, he continues to question the relationship between visible reality and its photographic reproduction, between image and text, between seeing and knowing. Deliberately dispensing with digital photography and occasio-nally working with a pinhole camera, he deals with the “necessary nonsense,” with unifying opposites, with actual and supposed paradoxes, defining some things through exploration and allowing others to remain undefined.

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Oliver BotarSENSING THE FUTURE: MOHOLY-NAGY, MEDIA AND THE ARTS

Design: Integral Lars Müller21 × 29.7 cm, 8  ¼ × 11 ¾ in, 192 pages133 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-433-4, English2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-434-1, GermanEUR 35.– GBP 28.– USD/CAD 45.–

Finding a way to deal with the flood of digital information and images, the changing relationship between people and technology, and the accom-panying tendency toward progressive disembodi-ment are widely debated topics today. In his art and his experimental usage of new media the avant-garde artist and Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy (1895 –1946) anticipated today’s debates. As early as the 1920s he was convinced that people needed assistance in managing an environment increasingly dominated by techno-logy, overwhelming sensory stimuli, and—Moholy-Nagy’s foresight is nearly prophetic here—the advent of digital culture.

In Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts the author Oliver A. I. Botar examines the methods Moholy-Nagy explored in his work with technology, posing the question as to whether he might even be considered a pioneer of the digital. The book introduces younger readers to this groundbreaking figure, underscoring the relevance of Moholy-Nagy’s work for contemporary artists and art making.

TELEHORThe International Review New Vision

21 × 29.7 cm, 8 ¼ × 11 ¾ in, 138 pages, 69 illustrations, spiral binding ( reprint )21 × 29.7 cm, 8 ¼ × 11 ¾ in, 80 pages, 34 illustrations, paperback ( commentary )2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-253-8, English / German / French / Czech / Spanish / Mandarin / Russian / HungarianEUR 50.– GBP 45.– USD / CAD 65.–

Edited by Klemens Gruber and Oliver BotarFacsimile reprint and commentaryWith a text by Sigfried Giedion

In 1936 the first and only issue of the telehor was released in four languages, as a special edition on and by Lá szló Moholy-Nagy. The reprint makes the magazine accessible again in terms of its artistic and theoretical-historical dimensions. The commentary volume contains an editorial state-ment that places the magazine, telehor, in the context of the art and media of the 1920s and 1930s.

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FUTEBOL – URBAN EUPHORIA IN BRAZIL

With photographs by Leonardo Finotti and Ed Viggiani

With texts by Luis António Jorge and Alfonso Celso Gárcia Reis

Design: Integral Lars Müller17 × 23 cm, 6 ¾ × 9 in, 64 pages32 illustrations, hardcover2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-431-0, EnglishEUR 20.– GBP 18.– USD/CAD 29.–

In Brazil soccer is more than just a sport. It is hope for a better future, a distraction from drab everyday life, creator of identity and community, something that makes sense. Soccer marks the soul of the Brazilian people, as well as the image of city and landscape. Even though there may be a lack of meeting places, parks, or village cen-ters, there is always a campo de pelada. In this volume, two Brazilian photographers seek and find soccer in places where one might not expect to find it. Leonardo Finotti creates a kind of inventory, showing pictures from his series Campos Sagra-dos, for which he traveled through all of Brazil, to neighborhoods rich and poor, to take photographs from an elevated standpoint of temporary and “real” soccer fields and their surroundings. In his photo series Brasilieiros Futebol Clube Ed Viggiani accompanies his fellow countrymen everywhere where soccer is played or a team followed.

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The design process of Chinese architect Wang Shu always begins with an intense study of the location, followed by the production of drafts in the form of hand-drawn sketches. Imagining the House follows this process in various buildings.

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Edited by Christoph a. Kumpusch

The book features large format images and graphic documentation of Steven Holl’s recent works realized in China alongside critiques and analyses offered by a new generation of theorists.

URBAN HOPESMade in China by Steven Holl

Design: Christoph a. Kumpusch with restmuell /Christof Lang and Integral Lars Müller17 × 17 cm, 6 ¾ × 6 ¾ in, 288 pages 166 illustrations, hardcover2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-376-4, eEUR 40.– GBP 35.– USD / CAD 49.–

Edited by Florian Hertweck and Sébastien Marot Critical Edition, original 1977

In the manifesto The City in the City – Berlin: A Green Archipelago, Oswald Mathias Ungers and a number of his colleagues from Cornell University presented the first concepts and intellectual models for the shrinking city. This critical edition contains a reproduction of the Ungers-manifesto and a previously unpublished version by Rem Koolhaas.

Oswald Mathias Ungers, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Riemann, Hans Kollhoff, Arthur OvaskaTHE CITY IN THE CITY – BERLIN: A GREEN ARCHIPELAGO

Design: Integral Lars Müller21 × 29.7 cm, 8 ¼ × 11 ¾ in176 pages, 226 illustrationshardcover2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-326-9, e 2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-325-2, g2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-329-0, fEUR 40.– GBP 35.– USD / CAD 50.–

WANG SHUIMAGINING THE HOUSE

Design: Integral Lars Müller24 × 29.7 cm, 9 ½ × 11 ¾ in168 pages, 68 drawings15 photographs, paperbackJapanese binding2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-314-6, eEUR 50.– GBP 45.– USD / CAD 65.–

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TORRE DAVIDInformal Vertical Communities

Edited by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, Urban-Think Tank Chair of Architec-ture and Urban Design, ETH Zürich

Photographs by Iwan Baan

Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Until 2014, it was the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an extra-legal and tenuous squat, that some have called a “vertical slum.” The authors of this thought-provoking work investigate informal vertical communities and the architecture that supports them.

Design: Integral Lars Müller16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in, 416 pages406 illustrations, hardcover2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-298-9, eEUR 45.– GBP 38.– USD / CAD 60.–

Design: Integral Lars Müller16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in, 656 pages1000 illustrations, hardcover2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-189-0, eEUR 50.– GBP 40.– USD/CAD 60.–

e-book2012, ISBN 978-3-03778-330-6, eEUR 14.99 GBP 11.99 USD / CAD 19.99

ECOLOGICAL URBANISM

Edited by Mohsen Mostafavi with Gareth DohertyHarvard University Graduate School of Design

While climate change, sustainable architecture, and green technologies have become increasingly topical, issues surrounding the sustainability of the city are much less developed. Ecological Urbanism brings together design practitioners and theorists, economists, engineers, artists, policy makers, environmental scientists, and public health specialists, with the goal of reaching a more robust understanding of ecological urbanism and what it might be in the future.

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Tim BentonLC FOTOLe Corbusier Secret Photographer

In LC FOTO: Le Corbusier Secret Photographer Tim Benton reflects on the famous architect’s use of photography. The book provides dramati-cally new insights into Le Corbusier’s visual imagination, his changing attitudes towards nature and materials in the 1930s, and his distrust of progress. The publication contains QR codes to enable readers to access seven film sequences shot by Le Corbusier.

Design: Integral Lars Müller16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in, 224 pages201 illustrations, hardcover2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-305-4, e2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-293-4, g2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-328-3, fEUR 40.– GBP 35.– USD / CAD 50.–

Catherine Dumont d’Ayot, Tim BentonLE CORBUSIER’S PAVILION FOR ZURICHModel and Prototype of an Ideal Exhibition Space

Edited by the Institute of Historic Building Research and Conservation, ETH Zürich

Le Corbusier’s Pavilion for Zurich explains for the first time the significance of the pavilion, which differs strongly from the beton brut of Le Corbusier’s late work, in terms of its position as one of the architect’s central and forward-looking works.

Design: Integral Lars Müller24 × 16.5 cm, 9 ½ × 6 ½ in, 416 pages970 illustrations, hardcover2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-344-3, eEUR 48.– GBP 39.– USD / CAD 65.–

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IDEAS AND INTEGRITIESA Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

Reprint, original 1963, 12 × 19 cm, 4 ¾ × 7 ½ in, 416 pages, 50 illustrations in b/w, paperback2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-198-2, eEUR 25.– GBP 20.– USD / CAD 30.–

EDUCATION AUTOMATION Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity

Reprint, originals 1962–1979, 12 × 19 cm, 4 ¾ × 7 ½ in, 224 pages, 15 illustrations in b/w, paperback2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-199-9, eEUR 25.– GBP 20.– USD / CAD 30.–

OPERATING MANUALFOR SPACESHIP EARTH

Reprint, original 1969, 12 × 19 cm, 4 ¾ × 7 ½ in152 pages, paperback2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-126-5, e2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-188-3, fEUR 15.– GBP 15.– USD / CAD 20.–

Buckminster Fuller Reprints

Edited by Jaime Snyder

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 –1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his comprehensive perspective on the world’s problems in numerous essays, which offer an illuminating insight into the intellectual universe of this renaissance man. These texts remain surprisingly topical even today, decades after their initial publication.

Long out of print, they are now republished, together with commentary by Jaime Snyder, the grandson of Buckminster Fuller. Designed for a new generation of readers, Snyder prepared these editions with supplementary material providing background on the texts, factual updates, and inter-pretation of Buckminster Fuller’s visionary ideas.

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The Air from Other Planets is a book nostalgic for the future, rooted in the belief that the architect’s greatest attributes lie in the execution of the imagi-nation, through speculations and projections of worlds and environments yet to exist.

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Architecture’s shape ( the physical edges that control a person’s movement, the spatial typologies that organize activities, and the aesthetic qualities conveyed ) is created through a dialogue between the building materials used and the human body’s ability to detect the boundaries those materials produce. Particles and waves of energy produce gradients of intensity, requiring the human body’s sensory perception to be sensitive enough to detect and respond to the properties of those more blurred edge conditions. The shape of this architecture is a result of a precise calibration between the senses of the human body and the material energies that the body can perceive and come into contact with.

m AT e r i A l e n e r g i e s create gradient boundaries.

A r c h i T e c T u r e ’ s s h A P e is a dialogue between the material energies and the body’s sensorial envelope.

s e n s o r i A l e n V e lo P e s detect the gradient boundaries.

ZAHA HADIDHEYDAR ALIYEV CENTER

Photographs by Hélène Binet and Iwan Baan

Design: Integral Lars Müller21 × 33 cm, 8 ¼ × 11 in, 128 pages85 illustrations, hardcover2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-353-5, eEUR 40.– GBP 33.– USD /CAD 55.–

ARCHITECTURE IS LIFEAga Khan Award for Architecture 2013

Edited by Mohsen Mostafavi

Design: Integral Lars Müller16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in352 pages, 206 illustrationshardcover2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-378-8, eEUR 38.– GBP 30.– USD /CAD 50.–

Sean LallyTHE AIR FROM OTHER PLANETSA Brief History of Architecture to Come

Design: Integral Lars Müller11.7 × 16.5 cm, 4 ½ × 6 ½ in248 pages, 90 illustrationshardcover2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-393-1, eEUR 24.– GBP 20.– USD /CAD 32.–

Zaha Hadid: Heydar Aliyev Center is devoted to the new cultural centre in Baku designed by Zaha Hadid in the Azerbaijani. Hadid won the com-petition in 2007 to realise her design comprising a surface of fiberglass-reinforced concrete. Photo-graphs by Hélène Binet and Iwan Baan display the building in all its facets, making it possible to expe-rience its formal, haptic, and spatial qualities.

The richly illustrated book presents the 2013 shortlist for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and the award recipients. Numerous essays examine how architecture interacts with the life of people who inhabit it.

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Antonio FoscariFRESCOSwithin Palladio’s ArchitectureMalcontenta 1557–1575

Frescos within Palladio’s Architecture: Malcontenta 1557–1575 explores the superb fresco cycle of La Malcontenta in the context of key political and cultural events in Venice as well as the patrons’ family commitments between the late 1550s and 1570s. Antonio Foscari reveals ideological discrep-ancies in the iconography as well as themes that, until now, have been undecipherable, and sheds light on the stylistic evolution of Battista Zelotti, the artist who is the protagonist of the whole cycle.

Design: Integral Lars Müller15 × 24 cm, 6 × 9 ½ in, 298 pages270 illustrations, paperback2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-370-2, eEUR 40.– GBP 35.– USD / CAD 50.–

FELICE VARINIPLACE BY PLACE

Felice Varini—Place by Place is the latest publica-tion by the artist Felice Varini, constituting a re-examination of his complete oeuvre based on his most recent works. His fascinating spatial installa-tions make use of urban landscapes, walls, and rooms as “screens” for abstract graphical projec-tions, which the artist paints, draws, or fabricates from materials such as adhesive tape. Accompany-ing the numerous illustrations is a text by Doris von Drathen that situates the work in its art-histor-ical context, as well as an interview she conducted with the artist.

Design: Integral Lars Müller and Marie de Crécy30 × 24 cm, 11 ¾ × 9 ½ in, 402 pages615 illustrations, hardcover2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-405-1, e2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-406-8, fEUR 60.– GBP 50.– USD / CAD 80.–

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With a foreword by Fred Ritchin

Polish-born photographer Jurek Wajdowicz’s book luxuriates the viewer with both saturated and mini-malist images that float between abstraction and reality. The largeness of this limited- edition publica-tion, reminiscent of a gallery space, envelopes the reader and creates a pause for each image.

Edited by Sven Völker, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design HalleArt or design, designer or artist? Some Magazine from Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle tells of the intersection between these two fields. The editorial team has focused on the potential of visual forms of expression for the publication Some Book.

SOME BOOKGraphic Expressions between Design and Art

Design: Sven Völker16.5 × 21 cm, 6 ½ × 8 ¼ in272 pages, 199 illustrationshardcover2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-412-9, e /gEUR 30.– GBP 25.– USD / CAD 40.–

Edited by Gerd Blum and Johan Frederik HartleWith a foreword by Mike Guyer

First Cuts shows 15 photographic appropriations that artist Harald F. Müller realized in Switzerland’s tallest building: the Prime Tower in Zürich, designed by architects Gigon /Guyer.

FIRST CUTSHARALD F. MÜLLER

Design: büro uebele18 × 24 cm, 7 × 9 ½ in, 192 pages38 illustrations, paperback2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-408-2, e / gEUR 32.– GBP 27.– USD / CAD 42.–

LIMINAL SPACESJurek WajdowiczFotografie_75

Design: Jennifer Sterling29.5 × 38.1 cm, 11 ½ × 15 in 112 pages, 75 illustrationspaperback2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-410-5, e / polEUR 60.– GBP 50.— USD / CAD 80.–

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Ken MikiAPPLELearning to Design, Designing to Learn

With Apple, Ken Miki presents a complete basic course in visual communication — all based on a simple and familiar object: the apple. The apple is used to illustrate the topics of form, color, size, surface, texture, writing, line, body and text — the fundamental elements a designer works with. Addressing each theme based on this every-day object enables a playful approach that also makes for highly effective learning. The book offers inspiration for both, experienced graphic artists and those less familiar with the world of design.

DON’T BRAND MY PUBLIC SPACE!

Edited by Ruedi Baur and Sébastien Thiéry

A project of the research series by Design2context

Don’t Brand My Public Space! is a critical investi-gation of the visual strategies employed to brand political territories. Isn’t it about time to look at their often banal images as part of a crisis of political representation? In the context of a revival of xeno-phobic propaganda and the degradation of places into pure marketing products, it is possible to recognize an increasingly theatrical, unquestioned production of public signs and symbols.

Design: Ken Miki16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in, 164 pages224 illustrations, paperback 2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-386-3, eEUR 32.– GBP 27.– USD / CAD 42.–

Design: Ruedi Baur and Maria Roszkowska16.5 x 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in, 288 pages1669 illustrations, paperback2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-348-1, e2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-354-2, fEUR 40.– GBP 33.– USD / CAD 55.–

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POSTER COLLECTION 26Japan—Nippon

Edited by the Museum of Design ZürichWith an Essay by Kiyonori Muroga

Posters circulated in Japan simultaneously with the country’s swift reconstruction and economic revival after the Second World War. Until today, the Japanese poster functions most notably as a highly aesthetic image advertisement and indoor medium, presupposing the conception of the designer as an artist.

POSTER COLLECTION 25 Josef Müller-Brockmann

Edited by Museum of Design ZürichWith essays by Catherine de Smet and Lars Müller

Josef Müller-Brockmann’s graphics have left a lasting mark on Swiss visual communication. His posters demonstrate how a sober, formally reduced language works best for conveying a universal, timeless message. This book presents selected posters and places them in the context of their own time while also examining the validity of his solutions from today’s point of view.

Design: Integral Lars Müller16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in, 112 pages137 illustrations, paperback 2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-422-8, e / gEUR 28.– GBP 24.– USD/CAD 40.–

Design: Integral Lars Müller16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in, 96 pages114 illustrations, paperback 2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-392-4, e / gEUR 28.– GBP 24.– USD /CAD 40.–

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Design: Integral Lars Müller12 × 16 cm, 4 ¾ × 6 ¼ in, 256 pages400 illustrations, paperback2002, ISBN 978-3-03778-046-6, eEUR 19.– GBP 15.– USD / CAD 25.–

Lars MüllerHELVETICAHomage to a Typeface

“ Helvetica is the perfume of the city.”Lars Müller

This book sings the praises of this shift-worker and solo entertainer of typefaces, of its forgotten creator and all those who have contributed to its unparalleled international march of triumph over the past forty years.

Design: Victor Malsy and Lars Müller with Integral Lars Müller19 × 26 cm, 7 ½ × 10 ¼ in, 160 pages150 illustrations, hardcover2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-121-0, e2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-120-3, gEUR 30.– GBP 30.– USD / CAD 49.–

HELVETICA FOREVERStory of a Typeface

Edited by Lars Müller and Victor Malsy

Designed in 1957, the Helvetica font is an icon of Swiss graphic design. This publication retraces Helvetica’s history, compares it to the sans serif fonts of the twentieth century, and examines the phenomenon of its unparalleled spread. Illus trations show a multitude of ways the font has been used from a wide variety of fields — from signal design to party flyers.

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Andri PolINSIDE CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research

With an essay by Peter Stamm and a text by Rolf Heuer

Design: Andri Pol and Integral Lars Müller20 × 27.5 cm, 7 ¾ × 10 ¾ in, 432 pages295 illustrations, paperback 2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-275-0, English2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-262-0, GermanEUR 50.– GBP 40.– USD / CAD 65.–

For most people, locations that hold a particular importance for the development of our society and for the advancement of science and technology remain hidden from view. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is best known for its giant particle accelerator. Here researchers take part in a diverse array of fundamental physi-cal research, in the pursuit of knowledge that will perhaps one day revolutionize our understanding of the universe and life on our planet. The Swiss photographer Andri Pol has mixed with this multi-cultural community of researchers and followed their work over an extended period of time. In doing so he has created a unique portrait of this fasci nating world.

An essay by writer Peter Stamm, who visited CERN and spoke to numerous scientists, completes the book alongside a text by Rolf Heuer, general direc-tor of CERN. This volume offers a unique glimpse of the human side of top-level research.

Andri Pol, born 1961, is an internationally acclaimed Swiss photographer who, in his work, seeks out the remarkable in the everyday. He has published several books, including the bestseller Grüezi—Seltsames aus dem Heidiland (2006) and Where is Japan (2009).

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Edited by NCCR Democracy, Hanspeter Kriesi, Lars Müller

Is democracy the best form of government? What are the hallmarks of a good democracy? Democracy: An Ongoing Challenge uses the power of images to complement text, resulting in a compendium of the history and development of democracy, and offering insight into contemporary debates.

DEMOCRACY: AN ONGOING CHALLENGE

Design: Integral Lars Müller16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in 528 pages, 340 illustrations hardcover2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-396-2, e2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-296-5, gEUR 45.– GBP 38.– USD / CAD 60.–

THE FACE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Design: Integral Lars Müller16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in720 pages, 500 illustrations2004, ISBN 978-3-03778-017-6, e (hardcover)EUR 45.– GBP 45.– USD / CAD 60.– 2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-114-2, g (paperback)EUR 30.– GBP 30.– USD / CAD 50.–

FOR CLIMATE’S SAKE!A Visual Reader of Climate Change

Design: Integral Lars Müller16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in 576 pages307 illustrations, hardcover2012, ISBN 978-3-03778-245-3, e2011, ISBN 978-3-03778-244-6, gEUR 45.– GBP 40.– USD / CAD 65.–

WHO OWNS THE WATER ?

Design: Integral Lars Müller16.5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in 536 pages, 301 illustrationshardcover2006, ISBN 978-3-03778-018-3, e2006, ISBN 978-3-03778-015-2, gEUR 45.– GBP 45.–USD / CAD 60.–

Edited by Walter Kälin, Judith Wyttenbach, and Lars Müller

“ All men are born free and have an equal right to freedom,” states the UN Convention on Human Rights. And yet reality looks rather different: everywhere people are tortured and executed. The Face of Human Rights attempts to present all aspects of human rights visually and make them tangible.

Edited by Lars Müller, Klaus Lanz, Christian Rentsch, and René Schwarzenbach

Industrialization and population growth have brought about a global water crisis. One billion people have no reliable access to clean drinking water; two billion live in precarious hygienic con ditions. Social, ecological, political, and economic conflicts obstruct efforts to resolve the global water crisis. Water is an instrument of power.

Edited by René Schwarzenbach, Lars Müller, Christian Rentsch, and Klaus LanzIn collaboration with the Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH Zürich

For Climate’s Sake! sets itself the goal of convey-ing the knowledge revealed by current climate research in a manner that is both concise and appealing.

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Takahiro KurashimaPOEMOTION 2

The interactive book object Poemotion 2 is a color sequel to Takahiro Kurashima’s popular title Poemotion from Lars Müller Publishers. The abstract graphic patterns in this slim volume start to move as soon as the reader overlays them with the special film enclosed: moiré effects create complex shapes, make circles start to spin, and set graphic patterns vibrating. The observer discovers playfully how optical overlaps between colorful figures and shapes come about, are set in motion, and then disappear again.

Takahiro KurashimaPOEMOTION 1

Inspired by Seesaw, an earlier book from Lars Müller Publishers, the Japanese designer Takahiro Kurashima has established with Poemotion 1 a link to the motif of a “School of Seeing” in a playful and at the same time minimalist way.

The bestseller is now available in a high quality hardcover edition.

Design: Takahiro Kurashima, Junji Hata17 × 23 cm, 6 ¾ × 9 in, 64 pages30 illustrations, hardcover with moiré film2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-407-5, eEUR 20.– GBP 15.– USD /CAD 25.–

Design: Takahiro Kurashima17 × 23 cm, 6 ¾ × 9 in, 64 pages30 illustrations, hardcover with moiré film2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-351-1, eEUR 20.– GBP 15.– USD /CAD 25.–

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FLOWERSFlower Works by Makoto AzumaPhotographed by Shunsuke Shiinoki

Edited by Kyoko Wada

Encyclopedia of Flowers is a visual exploration of the breathtaking floral arrangements by Makoto Azuma. With his photographs, Shunsuke Shiinoki exposes the flowers’ tenuous existence, continuous meta morphoses, and inevitable decay. The book immerses the reader in a universe of beauty while at the same time addressing dichotomies such as durability and vanity, artificiality and nature, hybrid culture and environmental change.

Design: Kenya Hara16.5 × 24.8 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ¾ in, 512 pages203 color illustrations paperback in transparent slipcase2012, ISBN 978-3-03778-313-9, EnglishEUR 58.– GBP 50.– USD / CAD 85.–

Design: Pierre Mendell15.4 × 21.6 cm, 6 × 8 ½ in, 176 pages49 illustrations, hardcover1999, ISBN 978-3-907078-98-3German /ArabicEUR 25.– GBP 25.–USD/CAD 40.–

SALIBAMazza – aus der feinen Küche Syriens

Edited by Elias Hanna Saliba

Hanna Saliba ranks among the most innovative restaurateurs in Germany. His restaurant Saliba in Hamburg is renowned far beyond the city’s borders. Hans Hansen, Pierre Mendell, and the publisher developed the concept for this book together with Saliba as an expression of their enthusiasm for Arab cuisine. Arabic calligraphy complements the feast for the eyes and makes the book much more than a collection of recipes.

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E-books for the iPadby Lars Müller Publishers

IMPERFECT HEALTHThe Medicalization of ArchitectureCo-published by CCA, MontréalEdited by Giovanna Borasi and Mirko ZardiniISBN 978-3-03778-287-3, EnglishISBN 978-3-03778-288-0, FrenchEUR 14.99 GBP 11.99 USD 19.99

ECOLOGICAL URBANISMEdited by Mohsen Mostafavi with Gareth Doherty, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

E-book available in 11 volumes:Volume 01− Why Ecological Urbanism? Why now? ISBN 978-3-03778-330-6, English Volume 02−Anticipate ISBN 978-3-03778-359-7, EnglishVolume 03 —CollaborateISBN 978-3-03778-360-3, EnglishVolume 04—SenseISBN 978-3-03778-361-0, EnglishVolume 05—CurateISBN 978-3-03778-362-7, EnglishVolume 06 —Produce ISBN 978-3-03778-363-4, EnglishVolume 07—Interact ISBN 978-3-03778-364-1, EnglishVolume 08 —Mobilize ISBN 978-3-03778-365-8, EnglishVolume 09—Measure ISBN 978-3-03778-366-5, EnglishVolume 10−Adapt ISBN 978-3-03778-367-2, EnglishVolume 11 —IncubateISBN 978-3-03778-368-9, English

EUR 2.49 GBP 1.99 USD 2.99

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