November 2025

Lake Verea

Modern Barragán

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Architecture, Art, Books, Lake Verea, Luis Barragán

A loving and intense photographic approach

Modern Barragán is a personal book that unfolds and recounts multiple encounters the contemporary Mexican artists Lake Verea have had with Luis Barragán’s oeuvre since 2006. This book unveils photographic depictions of the architect’s work and private spaces as a tribute and a celebration, an anthem of love and admiration. While spending time in his private home, as enthusiastic aficionados enchanted by the elements of his house, the game unfolds. Read More …

October 2024

Reyner Banham

A Set of Actual Tracks

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Architecture, Books, Reyner Banham

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This book brings a contemporary critical lens to the work of Reyner Banham, one of the most prescient architectural and design critics of the 20th century. Thirteen of the acerbic historian’s essays and book chapters have been selected by contributors, ranging from classics such as The Great Gizmo to lesser-known texts such as The Wall, an intimate confession he penned in hospital shortly before his death. Each is accompanied by a contemporary response that contextualises Banham’s writing, drawing out reflections on what the critic’s work means today.

November 30, 2023

From Within

The Architecture of Helena Arahuete

ArtEZ

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Architecture, Books, Frank Lloyd Wright, Helena Arahuete, John Lautner, Louis Sullivan

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Amidst the pressing environmental issues facing the construction industry today From Within: The Architecture of Helena Arahuete focusses on Helena Arahuete, a special architect who involves the natural world in her work in an exceptionally sensitive way.

October 2023

Alma Allen: Nunca Solo

Kasmin Gallery

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Alma Allen, Architecture, Art, Books, Karla Niño de Rivera, Mauricio Rocha

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Kasmin Books is pleased to present Alma Allen: Nunca Solo, a catalogue accompanying the artist’s exhibition at Museo Anahuacalli, Diego Rivera’s iconic museum in Mexico City. With translations in both English and Spanish, this volume delves into Allen’s ongoing engagement with time, form, and hybridity through twenty-six newly commissioned sculptures installed among the volcanic architecture and grounds of the museum.

June 20, 2023

Skylab

The Nature of Buildings

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Architecture, Books, Jeff Kovel, Skylab

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From highly crafted residences to impactful cultural projects, this uniquely designed book—conceived as a double vinyl album—offers a detailed look at Skylab’s innovative work.

Skylab: The Nature of Buildings is the first monograph of the Portland, Oregon-based architecture and design studio. Founded by Jeff Kovel in 1999, Skylab has emerged as a leading creative force in the Pacific Northwest and North America. At the vanguard of innovative and sustainable design, the practice is known for a range of spectacular residences designed for leading creatives, as well as distinctive music venues, resorts, and other high-profile projects, including the N M Bodecker Foundation, Nike’s Serena Williams Building, and the Columbia Building. Presenting more than two decades of work, the story of Skylab is told by several influential contributors through reflective essays, interviews, conversations, and anecdotes, as well as extensive project photography and illustrations that detail the firm’s design process.

February 10, 2023

Episodes: Powerhouse Company

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Architecture, Books, Gay Gassmann, Hans Ibelings, Powerhouse Company

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With 18 projects ranging from a chair to high-rise buildings, this book offers a cross section of the recent work of Powerhouse Company, which is based in Rotterdam, Munich, and Oslo. These projects are episodes in the success story of an architectural office that only completed its first building, a villa, in 2007. In three essays, Mimi Zeiger, Hans Ibelings, and Gay Gassmann share their insights on the work and the motivations of Powerhouse Company. Episodes traces how Powerhouse Company’s architecture has evolved while retaining what sets it apart: its attention to craftsmanship and innovation, its generosity, its comfort, and its resolute beauty.

January 8, 2023

Full Spectrum

Colour in Contemporary Architecture

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Architecture, Books, Jasmine Benyamin

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Colour is architecture’s sharpest tool in the box. It has indexed everything from the feminine, cosmetic and vulgar to the pure, intrinsic and embodied.

Attitudes to colour are constantly shifting. They have played a central role in the history of architecture: from the polychromy of the ancients to the great white interiors of high modernism; the figurative flourishes of postmodernism to the embodied sublime of contemporary building systems and facades.

March 28, 2023

Barbara Kasten: Architecture & Film (2015–2020)

Considering the spatial and cinematic dimensions of Kasten's transmedia creations

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Architecture, Art, Barbara Kasten, Books, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Humberto Moro, Irena Haiduk, Stephanie Cristello

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Since the 1970s, Barbara Kasten (born 1936) has developed her expansive photographic practice through the lens of sculpture, painting, theater, textile and installation. Well known within photographic and contemporary art discourse, the Chicago-based artist has recently begun to be reconsidered within the broader context of architectural theory. This survey contextualizes Kasten’s investigations into how moving images and light play within and through architectural forms.

May 31, 2021

The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design

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Architecture, Books, Design, Fleur Watson

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The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design examines the challenges inherent in exhibiting design ideas. Traditionally, exhibitions of architecture and design have predominantly focused on displaying finished outcomes or communicating a work through representation.

In this ground-breaking new book, Fleur Watson unveils the emergence of the ‘new curator’. Instead of exhibiting finished works or artefacts, the rise of ‘performative curation’ provides a space where experimental methods for encountering design ideas are being tested. Here, the role of the curator is not that of ‘custodian’ or ‘expert’ but with the intent to create a shared space of encounter with audiences.

Spring 2021

Mise-en-Scène

The Lives and Afterlives of Urban Landscapes

ORO Editions

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Books, De Nichols, Julia Czerniak, Mike Belleme, Sara Zewde

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Mise-en-Scène is an immersive exploration of the social lives of urban landscapes—the actors and actions that compose the daily theater of urban life. Conceived as a unique collaboration between an urbanist, Chris Reed, and a photographer, Mike Belleme, the book combines photo essays, original maps and drawings, newly commissioned essays, excerpts from historical writings, and interviews with residents. The result is a rigorous and artful examination of the social, cultural, environmental, and economic challenges of life in American cities today. Read More …