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Lars Müller Publishers
2009/2010
Architecture
Design
Photography
Art
Society

Our aim is that, taken together, the new publications
of any one year should give a more or less clear picture
of the spectrum of our program. This year the picture
is crystal clear: In all subject areas we have achieved
a selection that does full justice to our guiding principle
of pinning down facets of cultural debates and revealing
social contexts. The new titles provide insights into
seminal themes of our times ( Ecological Urbanism, page 3,
The World of Giving, page 91 ), discuss design processes
( Flexible Identities, page 39 ), social questions ( Cotton
Worldwide, page 89), cultural phenomena ( White, page 31 ),
and they document outstanding positions in design and
art ( amongst others, Intégral Ruedi Baur, page 37, Windfall
Light — The Visual Language of ECM, page 69, Unimark
International, page 33 ). These are specialties that are not
only for experts, but for an interested audience that shares
our fascination with multifaceted and quality debate.
Lars Müller
Windfall Light, The Visual Language of ECM, page 68

Architecture
Our publishing house focuses on the integration of architectural
themes into contexts of future-oriented discussion. Planning,
process, method, and examples are the keywords of our current
publications; we do not document works or ephemeral whims of the
zeitgeist. We cooperate with the Canadian Center for Architecture,
Montreal, The New Museum, New York and the Harvard University
Graduate School of Design.
Bestsellers
SNOEHETTA WORKS
Günther Vogt
MINIATUR AND PANORAMA
2
Herzog & de Meuron
NATURAL HISTORY
Peter Eisenman
THE FORMAL BASIS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE
SHIFT
SANAA AND THE NEW MUSEUM
ECOLOGICAL URBANISM
NEW
Edited by Mohsen Mostafavi with
Gareth Doherty
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
With contributions by Homi Bhabha, Stefano
Boeri, Chuck Hoberman, Rem Koolhaas, Sanford
Kwinter, Bruno Latour, Nina-Marie Lister, Mohsen
Mostafavi, Matthias Schuler, Sissel Tolaas,
Charles Waldheim, among others
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16.5 × 24 cm, 640 pages
approx. 1000 illustrations, hardcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-189-0, English
EUR 39.90 GBP 31.90 USD 59.90
While climate change, sustainable architecture,
and green technologies have become increasingly
topical, issues surrounding the sustainability
of the city are much less developed. The premise
of the book is that an ecological approach is
urgently needed both as a remedial device for the
contemporary city and as an organizing principle
for new cities. Ecological Urbanism approaches
the city without any one set of instruments and
with a worldview that is fluid in scale and disciplinary
approach. Design provides the synthetic
key to connect ecology with an urbanism that is
not in contradiction with its environment. The
book 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.
Architecture/Urban Planning 3

The first book of Snøhetta describes the collective
methodes used when exercising the search
for solutions to complex realities and shows
Snøhetta’s architecture as a sels-referential art
within the uncertainties generated by the influence
of our contemporary society.
SNØHETTA
CONDITIONS
Architecture. Interior.
Landscape.
17 × 24 cm, 136 pages
98 illustrations,
softcover, 2007,
ISBN 978-3-03778-118-0, Eng
EUR 24.90 GBP 23.–
USD 34.90
SNØHETTA WORKS
Edited by Snøhetta
Design: Integral Lars Müller
22 × 28 cm, 304 pages
570 illustrations, hardcover
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-147-0, English
EUR 49.90 GBP 45.– USD 74.90
Snøhetta is a leading team of architects with
offices in Oslo and New York. This first-ever
publication to document their work presents the
most important projects of these architects, who
have been active internationally for fifteen years.
These projects include the Library of Alexandria
(2002), the New Opera House in Oslo (2008), and
the Gateway Project in Ras Al-Khaimah, Dubai
(2011), and the National September 11 Memorial
Museum Pavilion. Snøhetta’s works and projects
revolve around a collaboration and interchange
between various disciplines. Each of their projects
is freshly observed and discussed according
to the fundamental aspects of site, landscape,
and context, in order to enable solutions to be
discovered and developed. In this interweaving of
disciplines Snøhetta involves locally and internationally
renowned artists in the development of
their projects. Working together with artists early
on is also an expression of the curiosity and
creative openness on the part of this internationally
successful office, which is respected for its
progressive working conidtions.
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NEW

Günther Vogt
MINIATURE AND
PANORAMA
Page 21
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. They
don’t want to depend just on knowledge acquired
from books. They venture out into the landscape
at all times of the day and year and interrogate
what they see there. They make room for art and
science in their studies and use the same tools
to turn their landscape designs into reality.
Their “field trips” begin out of curiosity based on
something they’ve seen, heard, or read. Against
this backdrop, they explore, among other things,
fortifications in France, the Upper Rhine in
Switzerland, and national parks in England. The
results of their “field trips,” research projects,
and practical implementations are collected in
this publication. Distance and Engagement takes
up where Miniature and Panorama left off and
shows the results of projects by Vogt Landscape
Architects and offers readers insights into his
working methods.
Günther Vogt, Alice Foxley
DISTANCE AND ENGAGEMENT
Landscape Thinking – Model Making
Design: Integral Lars Müller
24 × 16 cm, 480 pages
aprox. 1000 illustrations, hardcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-196-8, English
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-195-1, German
EUR 49.90 GBP 39.90 USD 74.90
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NEW

THE WORLD’S FAIREST CITY
YOURS AND MINE
Features of Urban Living and Quality
Edited by Ruedi Baur, Carmen Gasser Derungs,
Andrea Gmünder, Martin Jann, Philipp Krass,
Trond Maag, Ursula Tgetgel, Marcel Zwissler,
Design2context
Design: Andrea Gmünder
12.8 × 18 cm, 184 pages
120 illustrations, softcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-186-9, English
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-185-2, German
EUR 19.90 GBP 15.90 USD 29.90
Soon, more than two thirds of all human beings
on the planet will live in cities, and the number of
increasingly mobile people who shuttle effortlessly
between major cities is constantly growing. Every
year, various city rankings choose the “top ten”
cities in the world. But what makes a city really
livable? The answer to this question, as offered
by the rankings, is anything but satisfactory. Their
economically oriented, quantitative criteria are
often taken out of context. But personal eperience
is much more complex than this.
Design2context began by studying established
city rankings, then analyzed scenes from everyday
urban life, and developed criteria that make it
possible to rationally examine urban quality of life
from “softer” and emotional perspectives. The
result is fifty criteria and a questionnaire that
invites the reader to actively reflect on his or her
own personal criteria for urban quality of life.
Essays by the researchers illuminate the scientific
background of the study.
«...we ended up wondering whether it might
not be more exciting, instead of reinventing
the classification, to come up with some
means for everybody to establish their own
ranking according to personal preferences,
and to define in this way every one’s own, very
personal best or fairest city in the world. The
city of one’s desires, the city of one’s dreams,
fit to be one’s haven for a while or for life –
legally or illegally, seeing that the world order
and that of countries does not provide for the
basic right of living wherever one pleases.»
Ruedi Baur
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SHIFT
SANAA and the
New Museum
Page 18
SOME IDEAS ON
LIVING IN LONDON
AND TOKYO
Stephen Taylor,
Ryue Nishizawa
Page 19
THE SANAA STUDIOS
Learning from Japan:
Single Story Urbanism
Edited by Florian Idenburg and Princeton
University, School of Architecture
With photographs by Iwan Baan
Design: Geoff Han
21.6 × 28 cm, 144 pages
120 illustrations, softcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-190-6, English
EUR 29.90 GBP 27.– USD 44.90
During three spring seasons between 2006 and
2008, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa taught
at the School of Architecture at Princeton. The
SANAA Studios explored Japan’s contemporary
society as a context for architecture and considered
its particular perspective on space, personal
and public space. Design studies were situated
within the specific demographics and social variables
of three distinct sites in Japan.
This book forms an attempt to capture the
atmosphere in which the studios were conducted
and register some of the findings gained out of
exploring the office, its methods and its context.
As an overall thematic it asks: What can we learn
from SANAA? It tries to frame SANAA’s compassionate
search for new architectures within
a larger societal context. It combines analyses,
essays, documentary, design proposals and
“objets trouvé” within one book. For this publication,
Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan,
has revisited the three sites in Japan to capture
the spirit of its context and the SANAA buildings
in use.
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SENSE OF THE CITY
Edited by Mirko Zardini and the Canadian Centre
of Architecture CCA, Montréal
With texts by Constance Classen, David Howes,
Norman Pressmann, Emily Thompson and Mirko
Zardini
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 x 24 cm, 352 pages
200 illustrations, hardcover
2005, ISBN 978-3-03778-060-2, English
EUR 42.06 GBP 38.– USD 60.–
Sense of the City was published on the occasion
of the exhibition of the same name in the autumn
2005 in the renowned Canadian Centre for
Architecture in Montréal. These everyday discoveries
were collected over a long time and then
categorized according to their relationship with
each other. The wide range of cities from which
the examples were taken is reflected in the use of
different languages. Without claiming completeness,
this collection represents a pictorial archive
documenting two very different kinds of expeditions
through large and small cities of the world.
NOCTURNAL CITY
SEASONAL CITY
SOUND OF THE CITY
SURFACE OF THE CITY
AIR OF THE CITY
Petra Kempf
YOU ARE THE CITY
Observation, Organization and
Transformation of Urban Settings
With contributions by Catherine Ingraham
and Keller Easterling
Design: Integral Lars Müller
21 × 29.7 cm
22 transparent slides in folder,
brochure, 16 pages
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-159-3, English
EUR 29.90 GBP 27.– USD 49.90
Today’s cities are hybrid entities based on multilayered
and sometimes contradictory organizing
principles. As complex networks of geographic,
economic, political and cultural segments, they
are caught up in a constant process of differentiation.
How are we to understand such dynamic
processes, especially the complex connections
between individuals, whose movements and
interactions leave traces in the urban landscape?
This publication offers architects, urban planners
and general readers interested in city design
and growth a novel approach, a mapping tool that
creates a framework for understanding the continually
changing configuration of the city. With
the aid of themed transparencies, the tool allows
one to superimpose various realities in layers
in order to create new urban connections, thus
inviting readers to immerse themselves in the
complexity of our cities.
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NEW

Jack Masey and Conway Lloyd Morgan
COLD WAR CONFRONTATIONS
US Exhibitions and Their Role in the Cultural
Cold War
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 400 pages
200 illustrations, hardcover
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-123-4, English
EUR 19.90 GBP 18.– USD 29.90
World’s Fairs and International Exhibitions have
always had a political as well as a commercial
and cultural context. This was particularly true
during the Cold War between America and the
Soviet Union.
Jack Masey served with the United States Information
Agency from 1951 to 1979, for many years
as Director of Design. He commissioned numerous
American architects and designers including
R. Buckminster Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames,
George Nelson, Peter Blake, Ivan Chermayeff and
Thomas Geismar to design the US presence at
major world Expos including Expo ’67 in Montreal
and Expo ’70 in Osaka.
This important new book draws on Masey’s
recollections, recently declassified documents,
unpublished memoirs and photographs, interviews
with surviving members of U.S. design
teams, and others, to detail the significant role
played by architects and designers in shaping
America’s image during the cultural Cold War.
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Federico Neder
FULLER HOUSES
R. Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Dwellings
and other Domestic Adventures
With a preface by Mark Wigley
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 240 pages
170 illustrations, softcover
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-141-8, English
EUR 29.90 GBP 27.– USD 39.90
With the publication of the Dymaxion House
in 1929, Buckminster Fuller became an overnight
sensation in the world of American architecture.
It was an uncompromising design and spectacularly
novel. The living areas were hexagonal and
attached around a central supply tower, and the
multistory interior was fully climate-controlled.
The house was conceived as completely self-sufficient
– all the necessary supply modules were
contained in the tower. The rooms were equipped
with the most modern furnishings and fixtures.
The approximately 150 m 2 house weighed just
3 tons, cost no more than a car, and was
designed to be constructed and dismantled anytime
and anywhere. The house reflected Fuller’s
basic technological principle, his determination to
achieve the greatest possible utility at the smallest
possible cost in terms of energy and materials
by making use of everything that science and
technology have to offer. The author examines
and compares Fuller’s Dymaxion House in the
context of the international development.
YOUR PRIVATE SKY
R. BUCKMINSTER
FULLER
Discourse
Edited by J. Krausse and
C. Lichtenstein
16,5 × 24 cm, 320 pages
20 illus., hardcover, 2001
ISBN 978-3-907044-94-0, Eng
ISBN 978-3-907044-95-7, Ger
EUR 39.– GBP 34.–
USD 45.–
YOUR PRIVATE SKY
R. BUCKMINSTER
FULLER
Design Art Science
Edited by J. Krausse and
C. Lichtenstein
16,5 × 24 cm, 524 pages
600 illus., hardcover,
1999
ISBN 978-3-907044-88-9, Eng
EUR 24.90 GBP 23.–
USD 65.–
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BUCKMINSTER FULLER REPRINTS
Edited by Jaime Snyder
Design: Integral Lars Müller
IDEAS I AND
NEW
INTEGRITIES
I
A Spontaneous
Autobiographical
A
Disclosure
D
Reprint, R original 1963
12 1 × 18 cm, 416 pages
50 5 illustrations in b/w,
softcover, s 2010
ISBN I 978-3-03778-198-2, Eng
EEUR
24.90 GBP 19.90
UUSD
29.90
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 being published
again, 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 interpretation
of his visionary ideas.
In Ideas and Integrities, Buckminster Fuller describes
the revolutionary designs and concepts he has
pioneered—among them the geodesic dome, the
Dymaxion world map, the Dymaxion 4-D house
sets forth his amazing and challenging ideas for
the world of the future—ideas that would revolutionize
everything from university education to bathroom
design, ideas that, above all, demonstrate how
we can and must make far more imaginative and
efficient use of the resources now available to us
in order to survive and to ensure a better standard
of living for all men.
EDUCATION NEW
Buckminster Fuller’s prophetic 1962 book Educa-
AAUTOMATION
tion Automation brilliantly anticipated the need
Comprehensive Learning to rethink learning in light of a dawning revolution in
ffor
Emergent Humanity informational technology. Along with other essays
Reprint,
on education, including “Breaking the Shell of Per-
originals 1962–1979 mitted Ignorance,” and “Children: the True Scien-
12 × 18 cm, 224 pages tists,” this volume presents a powerful approach for
50 illustrations in b/w, preparing ourselves to face epochal changes on
softcover, 2010
spaceship earth: “whether we are going to make it
ISBN 978-3-03778-199-9, Eng or not ... is really up to each one of us; it is not
EUR 24.90 GBP 19.90 something we can delegate to the politicians—what
USD 29.90
kind of world are you really going to have?”
OPERATING MANUAL
FOR SPACESHIP
EARTH
Reprint, original 1969
12 × 18 cm, 152 pages,
softcover, 2008
ISBN 978-3-03778-126-5, Eng
NEW:
ISBN 978-3-03778-188-3, Fr
EUR 14.90 GBP 13.50
USD 19.90
UUTOPIA
OR OBLIVION
TThe
Prospects for
HHumanity
RReprint,
original 1969
112
× 18 cm, 448 pages
332
illustrations, softcover
22008
ISBN I 978-3-03778-127-2, Eng
EUR E 24.90 GBP 23.–
USD U 29.90
AND A IT CAME TO PASS –
NOT N TO STAY
Reprint, R original 1976
12 1 × 18 cm, 192 pages,
softcover, s 2008
ISBN I 978-3-03778-132-6, Eng
EUR E 14.90 GBP 13.50
USD U 19.90
One of Fuller’s most popular works, Operating
Manual for Spaceship Earth is a brilliant synthesis
of his world view. In this very accessible volume,
Fuller investigates the great challenges facing
humanity. How will humanity survive? How does
automation influence individualization? How can
we utilize our resources more effectively to realize
our potential to end poverty in this generation?
He questions the concept of specialization, calls
for a design revolution of innovation, and offers
advice on how to guide “spaceship earth” toward
a sustainable future.
Utopia or Oblivion is a provocative blueprint
for the future. This comprehensive volume
is composed of essays derived from the lectures
Fuller gave all over the world during the 1960s.
Fuller’s thesis is that humanity—for the first time
in its history—has the opportunity to create a
world where the needs of 100 percent of humanity
are met. “This is what man tends to call utopia.
It’s a fairly small word, but inadequate to describe
the extraordinary new freedom of man in a new
relationship to universe - the alternative of which
is oblivion.” R. Buckminster Fuller
And it Came to Pass – Not to Stay brings
together a selection of Buckminster Fuller’s lyrical
and philosophical best, including seven “essays”
in a form he called his “ventilated prose” which
address global crises and his predictions for
the future. These essays, including “How Little
I Know,” “What I am Trying to Do,” “Soft Revolution,”
and “Ethics,” put the task of ushering in
a new era of humanity in the context of “always
starting with the universe.” In rare form, Fuller
elegantly weaves the personal, the playful, the
simple, and the profound.
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SHIFT
SANAA AND THE NEW MUSEUM
Edited by Joseph Grima and Karen Wong
With photographs by Dean Kaufman
Design: Mevis & Van Deursen
24 × 30 cm, 136 pages
144 illustrations, softcover
2008, 978-3-03778-140-1, English
EUR 32.90 GBP 30.– USD 39.90
The new building for the New Museum of Contemporary
Art, which opened in December 2007,
houses the first museum developed from the
ground up in Lower Manhattan. The seven-story
building, with a total floor area of 60,000 square
feet, was designed by the renowned architectural
duo SANAA – Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue
Nishizawa. This book presents the design and
building of the new museum in a series of interwoven
stories, documents, and dialogues. The
building expands the museum and its distinct
role within the city and at the same time testifies
to an important moment in the history, art,
and life of the city. The photographs by Dean
Kaufman emphasize the dynamics of the life of
the building, whose unpredictability and disorder
seem to be in conflict with minimalist form and
order.
Stephen Taylor, Ryue Nishizawa
SOME IDEAS ON LIVING
IN LONDON AND TOKYO
Edited by Giovanna Borasi
and the Canadian Centre for Architecture
Design: Integral Lars Müller
15 × 21 cm, 160 pages
160 illustrations, softcover
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-150-0, English
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-152-4, French
EUR 19.90 GBP 18.– USD 29.90
“... a small but enormously useful volume...”
Toronto Star
The book reconsiders the theme of living in a
city by exploring new approaches that reveal a different
way of integrating projects into the existing
city. Due to their scale, extensive built environment,
and efforts to grow the city from within,
London and Tokyo face similar urban development
issues but occupy cultural contexts in which
themes of proximity, privacy, community, and public
space take on different meaning. The housing
projects of Nishizawa and Taylor show how inhabitants
can live in a house, and, at the same time,
enlarge the scale of their living to the neighbourhood
and the city. The book contains statements
by Nishizawa and Taylor framing their approaches
and ideas, accompanied by images and explanation
of their projects and a discussion between
them, as well as essays by Giovanna Borasi focusing
on the relevance of this topic today, and by
Peter Allison framing the architect’s approaches in
a historical perspective and within the two cultures.
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Peter Eisenman
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL BERLIN
Photographs by Héléne Binet and
Lukas Wassmann
Text by Peter Eisenman and Hanno Rauterberg
Design: Integral Lars Müller
24 × 30 cm, 120 pages, 65 illlustrations, hardcover
2005, ISBN 978-3-03778-056-5, English
2005, ISBN 978-3-03778-059-6, German
EUR 22.90 GBP 21.– USD 34.40
2700 concrete blocks flow unassertively over
the enormous field and invite visitors to immerse
themselves in them. The monument cannot be
interpreted in any one specific way, it is not
suitable for acts of state, and does not follow the
rules of ceremonial, which is what makes it so
spectacular. This publication was created in close
co-operation with Petern Eisenman and records
the memorial with photographs by Hélène Binet
and Lukas Wassmann.
Moshe Safdie
YAD VASHEM
The Architecture
of Memory
24 × 30 cm, 136 p.
90 illus., hardcover,
2006
ISBN 978-3-03778-070-1, e
EUR 39.90 GBP 36.–
USD 65.–
YAD VASHEM, the museum, its architecture, and
its series of interior spaces with their carefully
designed exhibition facilities are documented in
an indepth photo essay and are illustrated with
texts and plans.
Günther Vogt
MINIATURE AND PANORAMA
Vogt Landscape Architects
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 575 pages
950 illustrations, hardcover
2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-069-5, English
2006, ISBN 978-3-03778-068-8, German
EUR 49.90 GBP 45.– USD 64.90
Miniature and Panorama offers a look at projects
since 2000 by the firm Vogt Landscape architects,
Zurich/Munich, which is internationally active.
With photographs, plans, and explanatory texts,
this volume sets forth the intellectual foundation
on which the projects of Vogt Landscape
architects are based. In words and pictures, it
describes and illuminates thirty projects, organized
according to the exterior typologies of
landscape, park, square, garden, cemetery, courtyard,
promenade, and interior. Among them are
the exterior spaces of the Allianz Arena in Munich,
various projects on Novartis Campus in Basel,
and the Masoala Rain Forest Hall at the Zurich
Zoo.
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CONSTRUCTION SITE
Metamorphoses in the City
Edited by Marie Antoinette Glaser,
ETH Wohnforum
Design: Haeberli Winkelmann
23 × 28 cm, 144 pages, 137 illustrations, hardcover
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-112-8, English
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-111-1, German
EUR 39.90 GBP 36.– USD 54.90
The building site has been a popular metaphor
for the patchwork plans of contemporary life.
With authoritative information and reflection from
a variety of perspectives, some quite surprising,
the building site is presented as an extraordinary
place in the city and as a microcosm that operates
under heavy pressures of time and costs.
The book includes essays on specific building
sites such as the megaproject Sihlcity in Zurich
or the La Défense building site in Paris, interviews
with architects and construction managers, and
impressive illustrations.
THE IMAGE AND THE REGION
Making Mega-City Regions Visible
Edited by Alain Thierstein and Agnes Förster
Design: Valerie Kiock
16,5 × 24 cm, 288 pages
203 illustrations, softcover
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-131-9, English
EUR 29.90 GBP 27.– USD 44.90
Mega-city regions are currently a frequent topic
of discussion. Researchers are exploring the
fundamentals for understanding the role of metropolitan
regions and their social, economic, and
cultural developments on a national and European
basis. The responsible decision makers
in politics and business are calling for new measures
for greater urban areas. But that is just
the start of the problem: Europe seems to lack
an awareness for metropolitan regions. For the
majority of politicians, planners, institutions,
and residents the features of mega-city regions
remain invisible. They are scarcely charted; there
are no concepts for representing them or any
direct sensory understanding of them in everyday
life. The book is based on the understanding that
the visual depiction of mega-city regions is fundamental
to identifying, acting, and developing
within existing concentrations of urban populations.
Through essays from various disciplines the
book approaches the phenomenon and discusses
the necessity to visualize mega-city regions.
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Peter Eisenman
THE FORMAL BASIS OF
MODERN ARCHITECTURE (1964)
Design: Integral Lars Müller
29 × 30,5 cm, 384 pages
300 illustrations, hardcover
2006, ISBN 978-3-03778-071-8, English
EUR 49.90 GBP 45.– USD 69.90
In 1963 at the University of Cambridge, Peter
Eisenman – world famous for his Holocaust
Memorial in Berlin (2005) – wrote a dissertation
on the formal basis of modern architecture. In it,
the architect confronts historicism with theory
and the analysis of form, whose distinguishing
features he regards as the foundation of architectural
composition. Eisenman illustrates his observations
with numerous, extremely precise hand
drawings. This striking document fully deserves to
be published here, for the first time, in a faithful
reproduction of the original.
In an afterword (2006), Peter Eisenman discusses
this remarkable starting point of his practical and
theoretical work.
Matthias Sauerbruch, Louisa Hutton
SAUERBRUCH HUTTON ARCHIVE
Design: Hendrik Schwantes
24 × 30 cm, 384 pages
650 illustrations, hardcover
2006, ISBN 978-3-03778-083-1, Eng/Ger
EUR 59.90 GBP 50.– USD 79.–
This book is the first comprehensive monograph
of sauerbruch hutton: 60 projects, 8 texts, and
a complete register of projects document the
architects’ rise to one of the leading practices
concerned with a sustainable environment in the
post-industrial city. This allows one to trace the
development of their architectural thinking
through the vehicle of realised projects, their
texts, and a considerable number of unrealised
works. The book will reveal Sauerbruch and
Hutton’s understanding of their profession as
an ongoing process of research. The theme
of sustainability surfaces throughout the book
as an integral part of the architects’ language.
Herzog & de Meuron
NATURAL HISTORY
Edited by Philip Ursprung and the Canadian
Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 472 pages, 800 illus., softcover
2003, ISBN 978-3-03778-049-7, English
2005, ISBN 978-3-03778-50-3, German
EUR 35.50 GBP 27.50 USD 48.–
“This book is an invitation to a wild journey:
anyone who reads Natural History will feel they
are on an association meter passing through
the Basel architects’ world of ideas.”
Hochparterre
Herzog & de Meuron’s interest in surface and
material, opacity and transparency, and the function
and variability of images makes architecture
speak – not just in quotations and typologies,
but by continually redefining raw materials. Their
buildings seem to exist simply to present those
mysterious and beautiful moments when material
is transformed into meaning.
Gramazio & Kohler
DIGITAL MATERIALITY IN ARCHITECTURE
Design: Integral Lars Müller
19,5 × 30 cm, 112 pages, 157 illus., hardcover
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-122-7, English
EUR 34.90 GBP 32.– USD 44.90
Robots build! At their program in architecture
and digital production at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology in Zurich, the architects
Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler have
installed a research facility that is unique in the
world. It is based on a computer-controlled industrial
robot that produces construction elements
directly from design data. The robot works flexibly
with a tremendous range of tools and materials.
In this way they probe the exciting potential
of digital design, construction, and manufacturing
techniques. First structures using robots have
already been built, for example the installation
at the Swiss Pavilion at the 11th Biennale Architecture.
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AS FOUND, THE DISCOVERY
OF THE ORDINARY
British Architecture and Art
of the 1950s
Edited by Claude Lichtenstein and
Thomas Schregenberger
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 320 pages, 300 illus., hardcover
2001, ISBN 978-3-907078-43-3, English
2001, ISBN 978-3-907078-40-2, German
EUR 29.50 GBP 27.– USD 44.90
British art and architecture of the 1950s are of
extraordinary topicality today. This applies particularly
to the Independent Group which included
artists such as Richard Hamilton, Eduardo
Paolozzi and Magda Cordell, the photographer
Nigel Henderson, critics Reyner Banham and
Lawrence Alloway as well as architects such as
Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling and
Colin St. John Wilson.
Alison and Peter Smithson
AS IN DS
An Eye on the Road
Edited by Christian Sumi
Reprint, original 1983
10,5 × 21,7 cm, 164 pages
70 illustrations, softcover
2001, ISBN 978-3-907078-42-6, English
EUR 14.50 GBP 13.50 USD 21.75
An illustrated diary by the architects Alison and
Peter Smithson (representing the Independent
Group – see also As found) driving from their
London office through to their Wiltshire cottage,
their “Solar Pavilion” from 1961. The contrast of
their Citroën DS 19, streamlined and mechanically
advanced, with the luscious and picturesque
landscape links – thanks to the observing eye –
both the urban and the countryside in the most
sensitive manner. The book was conceived
as “A Sensibility Primer.” Reprint of the original
publication from 1983, edited by Christian Sumi,
architect, Zürich.
“The car had changed our relationship with
one another and how we observed our world
and twenty years later we can work with
this idea.”
Peter Smithson
Jacques Schader
FREUDENBERG
A Masterpiece of European Architecture
Edited by Claude Lichtenstein
With a film by Marc Schwarz
Design: Integral Lars Müller
14 × 12 cm, 194 pages
280 illustrations, softcover with DVD
2003, ISBN 978-3-907078-61-7, English/German
EUR 38.– GBP 35.– USD 55.–
This publication introduces a building of outstanding
status: Freudenberg, a school complex
from the western part of Zürich. Built by Jacques
Schader (born 1917), Freudenberg high school
is a major work of Swiss architecture of the second
half of the 20th century, and it is an outstanding
architectural achievement of European status.
Theo Hotz
ARCHITECTURE 1949–2002
With essays by Hubertus Adam, Ulrike Jehle
and Philip Ursprung
Design: Integral Lars Müller
18,5 × 28 cm, 320 pages
600 illustrations, hardcover
2003, ISBN 978-3-03778-002-2, English/German
EUR 29.50 GBP 27.– USD 44.90
Theo Hotz, born in 1928, is a leading contemporary
Swiss architect. His spectacular glass
buildings produced since the mid eighties in particular,
the EMPA in St. Gallen (1996) for example,
or Hall 1 at the Basel Fair (1999) have made an
international impact. With detailed plans and
numerous illustrations, this publication gives a
complete overview over all of his buildings from
1949 to 2002.
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Zaha Hadid
CAR PARK AND
TERMINUS
STRASBOURG
With texts by
Andreas Ruby
Design:
Integral Lars Müller
31 × 33 cm, 100 pages
70 illus., softcover, 2004
ISBN 978-3-03778-028-2,
Ger/Eng/Fr
EUR 14.90 GBP 13.50
USD 35.–
Zaha Hadid
SPACE FOR ART
Contemporary Arts
Center, Cincinnati
Photographs by
Hélène Binet and
Paul Warchol
Design:
Integral Lars Müller
21 × 33 cm, 128 pages
70 illustrations,
hard cover, 2004
ISBN 978-3-03778-005-3, Eng
EUR 37.38 GBP 34.–
USD 49.90
ARCHITECTURE OF
ZAHA HADID
In Photographs by
Hélène Binet
With a text by Hubertus
von Amelunxen
Design: Lars Müller
19 × 31 cm, 176 pages
90 illustrations,
hardcover, 2000
ISBN 978-3-907078-12-9, Eng
EUR 19.90 GBP 18.–
USD 29.90
The blurry interface of exurbia and suburbia represents
strange and alien territory for architects,
because the context is usually vague and the
space haphazardly organized. Zaha Hadid’s work
in Strasbourg capitalizes on the haphazardness
of its suburban setting. The car park and terminus
presented in this publication demonstrate Hadid’s
assumption that buses and the trams are a permanently
impermanent part of the station’s overall
organization and composition. Hadid treats the
cars that park here almost as natural phenomena
with their own diurnal rhythms.
Zaha Hadid’s design for the Rosenthal Center for
Contemporary Arts in Cincinnati is her response
to the city’s streams of traffic and passers-by,
conveying a feeling of dense urban and cultural
life. The street level rises vertically as an “urban
carpet,” the volumes become soaring, interconnected
exhibition spaces, accessed via striking
stepped ramps. This publication presents the
spectacular building in photographs by Hélène
Binet and Paul Warchol.
This volume brings together photographs of
the Vitra-Fire station and Landscape Formation
one – both in Weil am Rhein/G; Addressing
the Century, Hayward Gallery, London, 1998;
Blueprint /Interbuild Pavilion, 1995.
Catherine de Smet
Le CORBUSIER,
ARCHITECT
OF BOOKS
Design:
Integral Lars Müller
24 × 30 cm, 128 pages
100 illustrations,
hardcover, 2005
ISBN 978-3-03778-034-3, Eng
ISBN 978-3-03778-052-7, Ger
ISBN 978-3-03778-033-6, Fr
EUR 32.90 GBP 30.–
USD 50.–
Catherine de Smet
VERS UNE ARCHI-
TECTURE DU LIVRE
Le Corbusier: édition
et mise en pages
1912–1965
Design: Integral Lars
Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 304 pages
410 illustrations,
softcover, 2007,
ISBN 978-3-03778-067-1, Fr
EUR 28.34 GBP 26.–
USD 44.90
Arthur Rüegg
POUR LE CORBUSIER
– RENE BURRI,
JUNE 1962
Design: René Burri/
Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24,5 cm,
84 pages, 33 illustrations,
hard cover,
leporello, 2006
ISBN 978-3-03778-080-0,
Eng/Ger/Fr
EUR 34.90 GBP 32.–
USD 45.–
Le Corbusier’s buildings have long been part
of the inalienable canon of twentieth-century
architecture. But Le Corbusier’s work as a book
designer and author is scarcely known. He
planned and realized over 40 books in his lifetime.
Architect of Books shows that Le Corbusier
accorded great importance to books as an
essential part of his output. Catherine de Smet
traces the process by which these books
emerged and makes it possible to discover the
great construction architect as a book artist.
New images and in-depth analyses make Vers
une Architecture du Livre an indispensable complement
to Le Corbusier, Architect of Books.
In 1962 the young photographer René Burri,
a member of the renowned MAGNUM photo
agency, gave the architect Le Corbusier, whom
he greatly esteemed, a concertina fold he had
assembled of photographs he had taken of
Le Corbusier on various occasions since 1953.
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Design
Our publishing house makes no concessions to trends and fashion,
except in cases where we subject them to a thoroughgoing analysis.
We focus on researching complex subjects, interrogating process
and method, documenting historic milestones, and occasionally
facilitating insights into exemplary praxis. A long-term collaboration
exists between our house and the Museum of Design Zürich
and the Department of Design at the Zurich
University of the Arts.
Bestsellers
HELVETICA:
HOMMAGE TO A TYPEFACE
HELVETICA FOREVER:
GESCHICHTE EINER SCHRIFT
NATURE DESIGN
Naoto Fukasawa, Jasper Morrison
SUPER NORMAL
Kenya Hara
DESIGNING DESIGN
«Today, we seem to be experiencing a rationalisation
of the senses. The art of refinement
has been half-forgotten, and attentiveness to
detail, absorption, and slow engagement are
neglected. In his captivatingly light text on the
concept of “white,” Kenya Hara counters this
tendency. His personal journey through concepts,
objects, and practices such as emptiness,
paper, and the Japanese tea ceremony
not only opens up a field of heightened nuance
and refinement. By melding everyday observations
with reflections on Japanese aesthetics
and sensitivity, he also amplifies the need to
critically revise our understanding of the senses.
This important little book thus challenges
the simplifications that inform much presentday
thought concerning what can be felt,
experienced, and emotionally negotiated.»
Olafur Eliasson on “White”
Kenya Hara
WHITE
Design: Kenya Hara
13.5 × 19.5 cm, 64 pages
4 illustrations, hardcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-183-8, English
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-182-1, German
EUR 19.90 GBP 15.90 USD 29.90
White is not a book about color. It is rather
the author’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 Hara also sees his work as a designer as a
pure form of communication. Good communication
has the distinction of being able to listen to
each other, rather than to press one’s opinion
onto the opponent. Kenya Hara compares this
form of communication with an “empty container.”
In visual communication, there are equally signals
whose signification is limited, as well as signals or
symbols such as the cross or the red circle on the
Japanese flag, which—like an “empty container”—
permit every signification and do not limit imagination.
It is not only the fact that the Japanese
character for white forms a radical of the character
for emptiness that has prompted him to
closely associate the color white with the state of
emptiness.
This book offers a personal insight into the philosophy
of the successful designer and author of
Designing Design.
Kenya Hara
DESIGNING DESIGN
page 51
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«We have a responsibility to our clients, ourselves,
and the society in general to design things
that will not become obsolete. Obsolescence,
particularly planned obsolescence, is a social
crime whose ultimate goal is only profit for the
few over the masses. Designers should not be
part of this despicable conspiracy. »
Massimo Vignelli, Vice President, Unimark
Jan Conradi
UNIMARK INTERNATIONAL
The Design of Business
and the Business of Design
Forword by Massimo Vignelli
Design: Kevin Rau with Jan Conradi
19 × 26 cm, 250 pages
150 illustrations, hardcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-184-5, English
EUR 44.90 GBP 40.– USD 64.90
From the 1960s until the early 1970s, Unimark
International was a design and communication
agency with global reach, with eleven offices in five
countries. Its use of modern design approaches
and latest marketing methods quickly made it
famous and unrivaled. The clients were international
corporations like Gillette, Jaguar, Knoll International,
Olivetti, Pirelli, Ranx Xerox, Unilever, IBM,
as well as American Airlines and Ford.
Unimark was known for always using the latest
technological innovations and for using computers
long before anyone else thought of doing so.
With their visual outlook, Unimark designers have
had a defining influence on our brand environment,
and their practice and their theory have
left an enduring legacy. A distinctive hallmark of
Unimark design was the systematic use of the
Helvetica typeface for the corporate identity of its
client firms.
Even today, the success of Unimark International,
which is documented here for the first time, points
the way for designers and the marketing sector.
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HELVETICA FOREVER
Story of a Typeface
Page 59
UNIMARK
INTERNATIONAL
The Design of Business
and the Business
of Design
Page 33
CORPORATE DIVERSITY
Swiss Graphic Design and Advertising
by Geigy, 1940–1970
Edited by the Museum of Design Zürich,
Andres Janser, Barbara Junod
Design: norm
19.4 × 26.8 cm, 208 pages
385 illustrations, hardcover
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-160-9, English
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-161-6, German
EUR 39.90 GBP 36.– USD 49.90
The design studio of J. R. Geigy AG was the
launching pad for one of the great periods
of Swiss graphic design, in the 1950s and 1960s.
The open-minded corporate culture of the chemical
company in Basel combined product design
and corporate image in an exemplary way. The
design reveals a modernist formal idiom. There
was room in it for visual symbolism as well as the
acquisition of nonrepresentational art. Under the
leadership of Max Schmid, the studio employed
Roland Aeschlimann, Karl Gerstner, Jörg Hamburger,
Steff Geissbühler, and Nelly Rudin, among
others. Freelance designers such as Michael
Engelmann, Gottfried Honegger, Armin Hofmann,
Herbert Leupin, Warja Lavater were also used.
In the 1960s, the Basel office, under George Giusti
and Fred Troller, was involved in developing the
studios of the subsidiaries in the United States and
the United Kingdom, placing more emphasis on
advertising. This is the first comprehensive presentation
of Geigy design, an important Swiss contribution
to the international history of design, in all
its determination and independence.
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Ruedi Baur
RUEDI BAUR INTÉGRAL
NEW
Anticipating, Questioning, Inscribing,
Distinguishing, Irritating, Orienting, Translating
With contributions by Marco Baschera,
Clemens Bellut, Christine Breton,
André Vladimir Heiz, Stefanie-Vera Kockot, Bernhard
Stiegler, Sébastien Thiery
Design: Ruedi Baur, Heidi Abt,
Meriem Bouhara, Chantal Grossen
16.5 × 24 cm, 480 pages
200 illustrations, hardcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-134-0, English
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-202-6, German
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-203-3, French
EUR 49.90 GBP 45.– USD 69.90
INTÉGRAL RUEDI
BAUR AND PARTNERS
Design:
Intégral Ruedi Baur
16.5 × 24 cm, 480 pages
600 illus., hardcover,
2001
ISBN 978-3-907078-46-4,
Ger/Eng/Fr
EUR 24.90 GBP 23.–
USD 65.–
Ruedi Baur has chosen seven concepts
to describe his conceptual approach: anticipate,
question, inscribe, perplex, orient, differentiate,
and translate. They serve as the structure of his
book and the basis for seven dialogues between
him and conversation partners from various
disciplines. The practical implementation of these
concepts is presented using projects from his
Integral studio in Zurich und Paris. Previously
unpublished new projects are integrated thematically
into the evolution of Baur’s oeuvre. This
book captures the conceptual and design constants
of, and the fascination in, the work of Ruedi
Baur. Five years after the success of Ruedi Baur,
Intégral et associés, the author again takes stock
and manifests the principles of his design work
and attitude.
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Ulrike Felsing
DYNAMIC IDENTITIES
IN CULTURAL AND PUBLIC CONTEXT
Edited by Ulrike Felsing, Design2context
Design: Ilka Flora, Ulrike Felsing
16.5 × 24 cm, 256 pages
200 illustrations, softcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-163-0, English
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-162-3, German
EUR 34.90 GBP 33.99 USD 54.90
This publication studies methods for creating
flexible looks for public and cultural institutions.
The classic logos normally used by companies
are the result of a unique process of compression
and abstraction. By contrast, flexible looks do
not conceal their diverse components of identity
in a logo, forming instead a complex family of
symbols from them. In the combination of a basic
logo and a family of symbols, the look is in a
position to represent the fundamentals (the philosophy
of the institution, its program) and the
specifics (e.g., temporary exhibitions and events).
The author describes the effect and potential of
looks and offers the criteria that distinguish fully
developed, dynamic looks. Case studies of
famous designers such as Karl Gerstner and
Ruedi Baur enhance the analysis.
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DISORIENTATION/ORI-
ENTATION 1
Edited by Design2
context, Ruedi Baur
Design: R. Baur,
P. Taylor, U. Felsing
16.5 × 24 cm, 264 pages
300 illus., softcover, 2008
ISBN 978-3-03778-133-3,
Eng/Ger/Fr
EUR 29.90 GBP 27.–
USD 44.90
Designers, graphic artists, architects, and urban
planners are now confronted with the tasks of
signage, route management, and information and
orientation systems. With this book they can profit
from a broad view of phenomena related to disorientation
– disorientation in scientific disciplines,
in our environments. On the one hand, this should
make it possible to benefit from attitudes to the
topic derived from experience and to move from
confusion to visual reflection. On the other, it will
enable scholarly disciplines to explore the formation
of categories that can move things forward.
DISORIENTATION/ORIENTATION 2
Edited by Design2context, Ruedi Baur
Design: Ruedi Baur, Clemens Bellut,
Megan Hall
16.5 × 24 cm, 384 pages
50 illustrations, softcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-158-6, Eng/Ger/Fr
EUR 29.90 GBP 24.90 USD 44.90
With contributions by C. Bellut, E. Blum,
St. Bogen, A. Bosshard, G. Bringolf, B. Cadet,
E. Chmielewska, Ch. Dell, Ph. Gauthier, A. Gleiniger,
Ch. Hoelscher, A. Hornbacher, G. Jacques,
S.-V. Kockot, T. Kotnik, S. Leblanc, T. Maag,
Y. Milev, F. d. Oudsten, S. Proulx, A. Richter,
D. Rioux, U. J. Ruetschi, I. Schipper, F. Schultheis,
D. Skopec, P. Teufel, S. Thiery, C. Westermann,
H. Ziezold, N. Zurawski
In graphic design, instructions, city planning, and
other creative disciplines, complex tasks related
to orientation and disorientation are on the rise.
Disorientation/Orientation 2 is an academic
investigation into phenomena, representations,
and stagings of orientation and disorientation.
The design research institute Design2context,
under the direction of Ruedi Baur, invited academics
from various fields to discuss both categories.
While the first volume offered a predominantly
pictorial treatment of the topic, this one
addresses the phenomenon with solidly
researched texts. The thematically organized
anthology highlights the areas in which the concepts
of orientation and disorientation are applied
and sets in motion a critical analysis in various
fields.
Institute Design2context
Zürich University of the Arts
LARS MÜLLER PUBLISHERS
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BRAKIN
Brazzaville – Kinshasa
Visualizing the Visible
Design: Harrisson,
Sarah Infanger,
Filiep Tacq, Richard Vijgen
12 × 26 cm, 320 pages,
372 illus., softcover, 2006
ISBN 978-3-03778-076-3, English
EUR 24.90 GBP 19.90
USD 32.90
BRAKIN: Visualizing the Visible is a research
project of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht.
A group of scholars studied the various manifestations
of public space using the example
of the booming capitals Brazzavile and Kinshasa.
BRAKIN is documented through everyday phenomena
such as “Architectural Manifestations
of the Diamond Trade,” “The UN Presence,”
“The River Congo,” “Street Children,” “Mobile
Phone Advertising,” “Conflicts over Property
Ownership,” and so on.
Metahaven
UNCORPORATE IDENTITY
Emblem and Void
Edited by Marina Vishmidt and Metahaven
Design: Vinca Kruk, Daniel van der Velden,
Jan van Eyck Academie
17 × 23 cm, 400 pages
200 illustrations, hardcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-169-2, English
EUR 44.90 GBP 41.– USD 67.40
In Uncorporate Identity: Emblem and Void,
design studio and think tank and think tank
Metahaven embark on a parabolic survey that
links geopolitical conflicts to branding, imaginary
nations to ’star architecture’, flexible governance
to the iron-cast law of value, and the totalitarianism
of the standard to online social networks.
Uncorporate Identity is at once an artistic manifesto
for design under globalization and a workbook
of essays, narratives and truisms investigating
the ambiguous state of identity and branding
today. The book is devised as a concept album
crafted in lines of inquiry around Metahaven’s
landmark projects, as well as essays, interviews
and fiction by China Miéville, Keller Easterling,
Boris Groys, Dieter Lesage, Pier Vittorio Aureli,
Mihnea Mircan, Chantal Mouffe, David Grewal.
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A5 SERIES
Edited by Jens Müller, labor visuell
at the University of Applied Sciences
Düsseldorf, Department of Design
NEW
The A5 series is intended as a growing archive
on graphic design. Each volume introduces
outstanding personalities and important themes
from the history of international graphic
design, with numerous illustrations, essays
and interviews.
HANS HILLMANN
The Visual Works
Design: Jens Müller
14.8 × 21 cm, 128 pages
120 illustrations, softcover
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-179-1, Eng/Ger
EUR 19.90 GBP 18.– USD 29.90
Hans Hillmann, (b. 1925), studied under Hans Leistikow
at the Werkakademie in Kassel. He started
to design film posters while he was still a student,
and by 1974 he had produced over 150 of them
for the Neue Filmkunst distribution company,
attracting international commendations, including
the Grand-Prix-Toulouse-Lautrec. He was
appointed to a chair in Kassel in 1961, and made
a major contribution to shaping the character of
the Kassel poster school. He worked for the cult
magazine twen as an illustrator, then later for the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin. He illustrated
numerous books, including his version of the
Dashiel Hammett thriller Fly paper (1982). Hans
Hillmann lives in Frankfurt am Main.
PHILIPS – TWEN
Realism Is the Score
Design: Jens Müller
14.8 × 21 cm, 96 pages, 120 illustrations, softcover
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-180-7, Eng/Ger
EUR 19.90 GBP 18.– USD 29.90
The first edition of twen appeared in 1959.
This magazine designed by Willy Fleckhaus did
not just strike the right note with a whole generation,
it also set new standards internationally
in the magazine design field that still count as
exemplary today. But something that has been
forgotten is a series of about seventy long-playing
records published between 1961 and 1968,
as a joint venture with the Philips record label.
A record appeared monthly with each issue,
featuring jazz, classical music, radio plays,
world music or pop. In his role as art editor, Willy
Felckhaus engaged graphic designers such as
Heinz Edelmann to create the sleeves, but sometimes
designed then himself, including modern
art by Karl Gerstner and Max Bill.
CELESTINO PIATTI AND DTV
The Unity of the Program
Design: Jens Müller
14.8 × 21 cm, 128 pages, 120 illus., softcover
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-178-4, Eng/Ger
EUR 19.90 GBP 18.– USD 29.90
In 1961, eleven German publishing houses joined
forces to create the Deutscher Taschenbuch
Verlag, exclusively to publish paperbacks. The
publishers wanted to the corporate image of the
company and all the book jackets to be designed
by the same hand. This was a commission that
remains unique to the present day, and it went to
the Swiss designer Celestino Piatti (1922–2007).
Piatti gave dtv its unique look for over 30 years,
and created the image, still unforgotten, of these
white paperbacks with their right–justified Akzident
Grotesk typeface and characteristic cover
illustrations. He became the most productive
book designer of all times, producing over covers
of over 6300 books that sold in a total print run
of over 200 million copies.
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POSTER COLLECTION 20
HELP!
Appeals to Social Conscience
Edited by the Museum of Design Zürich
With an essay by Sønke Gau and
Katharina Schlieben
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16.5 × 24 cm, 96 pages
120 illustrations, softcover
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-174-6, English/German
EUR 24.90 GBP 23.– USD 34.90
NEW
Thanks to their public effectiveness, posters are
an ideal vehicle for addressing global and urgent
ethical appeals to the populace. This publication
presents international posters since 1980 that
urge us to take responsibility for humanity and
the planet. While posters designed by artists
to serve their own purposes tend to reflect a
desire to enlighten and inform, posters for human
rights and environmental organizations and relief
agencies are direct attempts to stir individuals
into action. In recent years, however, commercial
enterprises have also discovered social and
ecological engagement as a marketing tool and
as a means of cultivating their image. This book
illuminates the broad range of visual strategies
and the visual-rhetorical communication of social
messages in posters. For posters are as varied
in their content, form, and expression as are the
motivations and intentions of the clients who
commission them.
POSTER COLLECTION 19
HEAD TO HEAD
Edited by the Museum of
Design Zürich
With an essay by
Thomas Macho
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16.5 × 24 cm, 192 pages
120 illus., softcover, 2009,
ISBN 978-3-03778-130-2, Ger
ISBN 978-3-03778-151-7, Eng
EUR 29.90 GBP 27.–
USD 39.90
POSTER COLLECTION 18
OTTO BAUMBERGER
Edited by the Museum of
Design Zürich
With an essay by Martin Heller
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16.5 × 24 cm, 96 pages
120 illus., softcover, 2008
ISBN 978-3-03778-129-6, Eng/Ger
EUR 24.90 GBP 22.–
USD 29.90
POSTER COLLECTION 17
PHOTO GRAPHICS
Edited by the Museum of
Design Zürich
With an essay by
Nanni Baltzer
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16.5 × 24 cm, 96 pages
120 illus., softcover, 2008
ISBN 978-3-03778-128-9, Engl/Ger
EUR 24.90 GBP 22.–
USD 29.90
Politicians are omnipresent in our society. How
they present themselves depends on historical
context as well as on the prevailing form of
government and cultural environment. Vital
components of political work are image building.
The exchange between politicians and the people
is marked by a complex disparity. While politicians
seek to rally broad sectors of the population
behind their programs, they engage only sporadically
in a genuine exchange with individuals. This
publication illuminates historical roots, epochmaking
election campaigns, recurrent patterns in
political public relations, and defining figures
such as Lenin, Che Guevara, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, and Yulia Tymoshenko.
Otto Baumberger (1889–1961) was one of the
first Swiss “poster designers.” Baumberger was
ahead of his time in recognizing fundamental
aspects of consumer goods advertising and his
designs helped to modernize the medium. His
poster designs employed a reduction tending
towards abstraction, in which graphic and textual
elements underwent an increasingly potent synthesis.
Baumberger’s work embodies and exemplifies
the history of Swiss poster art in the first half
of the twentieth century, as the painterly artist
poster gradually evolved toward graphically oriented
corporate design.
The effective interplay of photography, graphic
arts, and typography marks the beginning
of modern graphic design. Illuminated here are
eight selected approaches that both engage with
tradition and consciously distinguish themselves
from it in order to achieve fruitful reinterpretations.
Tension-filled mixtures of images and text
express contemporary trends.
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POSTER COLLECTION 16
COMIX!
Edited by the Museum
of Design Zürich
With an essay by Pascal Lefèvre
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 96 pages
100 illus., softcover, 2008
ISBN 978-3-03778-099-2, Engl/Ger
EUR 24.90 GBP 18.90 USD 29.90
POSTER COLLECTION 14
ZÜRICH-MILANO
Edited by the Museum
of Design Zürich
With an essay by Hans Höger
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 96 pages
117 illus., softcover, 2006
ISBN 978-3-03778-079-7, Engl/Ger
EUR 22.90 GBP 16.90 USD 29.90
POSTER COLLECTION 12
CATHERINE ZASK
Edited by the Museum
of Design Zürich
With essays by Henri Gaudin
and Catherine de Smet
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 64 pages
54 illus., softcover, 2005
ISBN 978-3-03778-054-1, Engl/Ger/Fr
EUR 19.50 GBP 14.50 USD 20.–
POSTER COLLECTION 10
MICHAEL ENGELMANN
Edited by the Museum
of Design Zürich
With an essay by Anita Kühnel
16,5 × 24 cm, 96 pages
80 illus., softcover,2004
ISBN 978-3-03778-039-8, Engl/Ger
EUR 23.– GBP 16.50 USD 20.–
POSTER COLLECTION 15
BREAKING THE RULES
Edited by the Museum
of Design Zürich
With an essay by Martin
Jaeggi and Peter Schweiger
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 96 pages
104 illus., softcover, 2007
ISBN 978-3-03778-094-7, Engl/Ger
EUR 24.90 GBP 18.90 USD 29.90
POSTER COLLECTION 13
TYPO CHINA
Edited by the Museum
of Design Zürich
With an essay by
Eva Lüdi Kong
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 64 pages
78 illus., softcover,2006
ISBN 978-3-03778-078-7, Engl/Ger
EUR 19.90 GBP 14.90 USD 24.90
POSTER COLLECTION 11
HANDMADE
Edited by the Museum
of Design Zürich
With an essay by
Claude Lichtenstein
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 96 pages
140 illus., softcover, 2005
ISBN 978-3-03778-053-4, Engl/Ger
EUR 23.– GBP 16.50 USD 29.90
POSTER COLLECTION 09
RALPH SCHRAIVOGEL
Edited by the museum
of Design Zürich
With an essay by Robert Massin
16,5 × 24 cm, 64 pages
70 illus., softcover, 2003
ISBN 978-3-03778-016-9, Engl/Ger
EUR 19.50 GBP 14.– USD 20.–
POSTER COLLECTION 08
BLACK AND WHITE
Edited by the Museum
of Design Zürich
With an essay by Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 80 pages
107 illus., softcover, 2003
ISBN 978-3-03778-014-5, Engl/Ger
EUR 20.– GBP 14.50 USD 22.–
POSTER COLLECTION 06
VISUAL STRATEGIES
AGAINST AIDS
Edited by the Museum
of Design Zürich
With an essay by Nigel Barley
16,5 × 24 cm, 96 pages
130 illus., softcover, 2003
ISBN 978-3-907078-90-7, Engl/Ger
EUR 23.– GBP 16.50 USD 26.–
POSTER COLLECTION 04
HORS-SOL
Edited by the Museum
of Design Zürich
Essays by Bettina
Richter and André Heiz
16,5 × 24 cm, 96 pages
139 illus., softcover, 2001
ISBN 978-3-907078-54-9, Engl/Ger
EUR 23 GBP 16.50 USD 26.–
POSTER COLLECTION 02
DONALD BRUN
Edited by the Museum
of Design Zürich
With an essay by Jean Charles
Giroud
16,5 × 24 cm, 64 pages
70 illus., softcover, 2001
ISBN 978-3-907078-53-2, Engl/Ger
EUR 19.50 GBP 14.– USD 20.–
POSTER COLLECTION 07
ARMIN HOFMANN
Edited by the Museum
of Design Zürich
With an essay by Steven Heller
16,5 × 24 cm, 80 pages
80 illus., softcover, 2003
ISBN 978-03-03778-004-5, Engl/Ger
EUR 20.– GBP 14.50 USD 22.–
POSTER COLLECTION 05
TYPOTEKTUR
Edited by the Museum
of Design Zürich
With an essay by Andres Janser
16,5 × 24 cm, 64 pages
85 illus., softcover, 2003
ISBN 978-3-907078-89-1, Engl/Ger
EUR 19.50 GBP 14.– USD 20.–
POSTER COLLECTION 03
POSTERS FOR
EXHIBITIONS 1980–2000
Edited by the Museum
of Design Zürich
With an essay by Stuart Bailey
16,5 × 24 cm, 96 pages
150 illus., softcover, 2001
ISBN 978-3-907078-55-6, Engl/Ger
EUR 23.– GBP 16.50 USD 26.–
POSTER COLLECTION 01
REVUE 1926
Edited by the Museum
of Design Zürich
With an essay by
Hans U. Gumbrecht
16,5 × 24 cm, 64 pages
91 illus., softcover, 2001
ISBN 978-3-907078-52-5, Engl/Ger
EUR 22.– GBP 16.– USD 20.–
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NATURE DESIGN
From Inspiration to Innovation
Edited by the Museum of Design Zürich,
Angeli Sachs
With essays by Barry Bergdoll,
Dario Gamboni and Philip Ursprung
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 320 pages
318 illustrations, softcover
2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-98-5, English
2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-100-5, German
EUR 29.90 GBP 27.– USD 39.90
Nature has always been a source of inspiration
for the design of the human environment, but in
recent years this relationship has grown even
more intense. “Nature as model” has influenced
the most diverse possible concepts and developmental
processes and is revealed in a large spectrum
of forms and functions. Nature Design
brings together projects and objects from design,
architecture, landscape architecture, photography,
and art that have been inspired by nature to
develop complex and innovative works. The protagonists
include Werner Aisslinger, Ronan and
Erwan Bouroullec, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid,
Herzog & de Meuron, Ross Lovegrove, Olaf Nicolai,
Francois Roche, Lars Spuybroek, and Günther
Vogt, among others. The book covers the historical
and theoretical fundamentals of the themes
sea, topography, plants, human beings, animals,
scent, and climate. Nature Design is intended to
reveal the diversity of possibilities for copying and
reinventing nature and to open up new perspectives.
Kenya Hara
DESIGNING DESIGN
Design: Kenya Hara
16,5 × 24 cm, 472 pages
389 illustrations, hardcover
2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-105-0, English
EUR 39.90 GBP 29.90 USD 49.90
“There is no way I can do justice to either the
beauty of this book or to the insightful text
by Hara or to the range of design displayed.
You have to see the book yourself to really
appreciate the fact that, of all the gorgeous
designs presented within–and there are scores
of them–none is more gorgeous than the book
itself. I think anybody in the book business
might want to take this book in hand and
peruse it as an example of what can be done
in book design.”
square.MAGAZINE
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 application
to design, made visible by means of numerous
examples from his own work: Hara for instance
designed the opening and closing ceremony
programs for the Nagano Winter Olympic games
1998. In 2001, he enrolled as a board member
for the Japanese label MUJI and has considerably
moulded the identity of this successful corporation
as communication and design advisor ever
since. Kenya Hara, alongside Naoto Fukasawa
one of the leading design personalities in Japan,
has also called attention to himself with exhibitions
such as Re-Design: the Daily products of
the 21st Century of 2000.
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Olafur Eliasson
YOUR MOBILE EXPECTATIONS:
BMW H 2 R PROJECT
Design: Michael Heimann,
Hendrik Schwantes, Studio Olafur Eliasson
14,7 × 21 cm, 336 pages
415 illustrations, hardcover
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-117-3, English
EUR 19.90 GBP 18.– USD 29.90
As part of its BMW H 2 R research project, Studio
Olafur Eliasson is preparing a dense publication
comprising extensive visual material; excerpts
from two seminars held in 2006/2007; and conversations
between Olafur Eliasson and a number
of distinguished artists and thinkers. In the
research project, Eliasson raises questions of
formgiving and materiality, mobility, temporality,
movement, and renewable energy.
In 2005 a BMW H 2 R hydrogen-powered vehicle
was delivered to Studio Olafur Eliasson and then
stripped bare of its outer shell. To create a new
skin several form studies have been carried out
in a temporary geodesic dome, constructed in
the yard of the studio. The final surface of the car
consists of layers of ice, frozen around two intricate
nets, mirrored plates and light. The “Climate
car” can only exist in a microclimate with a
temperature of minus 6 degrees Celsius or below.
Olafur Eliasson
and Kjetil Thorsen
SERPENTINE
GALLERY PAVILION
Design: Heimann
und Schwantes
17 × 24 cm, 128 pages
186 illus., hardcover,
2007
ISBN 978-3-03778-116-6, e
EUR 24.90 GBP 23.–
USD 34.90
Frédéric Dedelley
DESIGN DETECTIVE
Edited by Ariana Pradal
Design: Jocelyne Fracheboud
17 × 22 cm, 258 pages
210 illustrations, hardcover, 2008
ISBN 978-3-03778-137-1, English / French / German
EUR 29.90 GBP 27.– USD 39.90
The designer Frédéric Dedelley illustrates with
eight themes and exemplary projects the path
from discovering an image in everyday life, archiving
it, and reworking it until is transformed into
a new object. The book demonstrates in an entertaining
way the heart of design: seeing and perceiving.
It teaches how to see other images than
those shown in the media and encourages readers
to set up their own libraries of images to serve
as starting material for their projects. The book
serves as a source of inspiration and guideline
for designers and provides insight into the practices
of an experienced designer. A portrait by the
journalist and curator Ariana Pradal and a comprehensive
catalogue raisonné of Dedelley’s work
provides information on the famous designer.
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Karl Gerstner
DESIGNING PROGRAMMES
Edited by Harald Geisler and Jonas Pabst
Revised reprint, original 1964
Design: Karl Gerstner
19,5 × 25 cm, 120 pages
200 illustrations, hardcover
2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-093-0, English
2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-092-3, German
EUR 29.90 GBP 27.– USD 39.90
Karl Gerstner’s work is a milestone in the history
of design. Designing Programmes is one of his
most important works: in four essays, the author
provides a basic introduction to his design
methodology and suggests a model for design
in the early days of the computer era. The book
is especially topical and exciting in the context
of current developments in computational design.
With many examples from the worlds of graphic
and product design, music, architecture, and art,
it inspires the reader to seize on the material,
develop it further, and integrate it into his or her
own work.
Peter Erni, Martin Huwiler,
Christophe Marchand
TRANSFER
Design: Peter Erni, Martin Huwiler,
Christophe Marchand
19,6 × 27 cm, 416 pages
1500 illustrations, softcover
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-113-5, German
EUR 29.90 GBP 27.– USD 39.90
Design professionals of every discipline – architects,
product and graphic designers – are confessing
to certain difficulties in common: to transform
their knowledge and understanding of the
ecological, economic, technological and aesthetic
parameters of an enduring contemporary design
into the practice of their professions. It is a sentiment
echoed by decision-makers in the construction
field and other industries. The authors of
Transfer present a collection of documentary
illustrations and quotations which is both rigorous
and stimulating in composition and structure.
They have devised a method of making the critical
factors of innovative design vividly immediate
and usable in practice. transfer=convey: To transfer
means to put across. This book offers its
audience some approaches to a “grammar of
ecology,” conceiving itself as a mean to an end.
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Claude Lichtenstein
PLAYFULLY RIGID
Swiss Architecture, Graphic Design,
Product Design, 1950–2006
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 300 pages, 370 illus., hardcover
2006, ISBN 978-3-03778-090-9, English
2006, ISBN 978-3-03778-089-3, German
EUR 24.50 GBP 23.– USD 37.40
This broad selection of swiss architecture,
graphic design, and design from 1950 to 2006
demonstrates that playful humor and clarity
are by no means opposites, but a highly unusual
duo of qualities that mingle and interpenetrate.
The question addressed by this publication is:
are these examples from three professions,
various regions and languages, and a period
of more than fifty years bound together by a
common denominator?
Hans Richter
NEW LIVING
Edited by Andres Janser and Arthur Rüegg
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 128 pages
500 illustrations, hardcover
2001, ISBN 978-3-907078-22-8, English
EUR 44.– GBP 39.– USD 60.–
This publication includes detailed sequences
from the New Living film, as well as numerous
documents that illustrate the new style of
architecural modernism.
Hans Arp and El Lissitzky
THE ISMS OF ART 1914–1924
Reprint, original 1925
With an essay by Alois M. Müller
14,5 × 26,5 cm, 60 pages
75 illustrations, hardcover, 1990,
ISBN 978-3-906700-28-1, English / French / German
EUR 14.90 GBP 13.50 USD 30.–
This surprising collection of “isms” ranks among
the most important publications on avant-garde
art in the 1920s. Hans Arp and El Lissitzky
took a refreshing, frankly opinionated inventory
of artistic attitudes and movements from 1914
to 1924. Lissitzky’s exuberant design of the book
epitomizes the style of the times.
Peter Erni
DIE GUTE FORM
Programm des
Schweize rischen
Werkbundes
Design: Lars Müller
30 × 22 cm, 160 pages
600 illus., hardcover
ISBN 978-3-906700-01-4,
German, 1983
EUR 15.– GBP 13.50
USD 13.20
GEFESSELTER BLICK
25 profiles and articles on designers
in advertising
Edited by Heinz and Bodo Rasch
Reprint, original 1930
15,5 × 21 cm, 112 pages
140 illustrations, hardcover
1996, ISBN 978-3-907044-02-5, German
EUR 45.– GBP 40.– USD 60.–
Gefesselter Blick, the captivated gaze, is one
of the most important publications on the
state of commercial art in the late 1920s. The
Rasch brothers invited 25 designers to write brief
“monographs and contributions.” Their publication
launches a radical reversal of classic
advertising design. The most revolutionary
artists of the time are represented.
Annemarie Bucher
SPIRALE
Eine Künstler zeitschrift
1953–1964
Design: Lars Müller
30 × 22 cm,
224 pages, 450 illus.,
softcover, 2001
ISBN 978-3-906700-21-2,
German
EUR 58.– GBP 52.–
USD 65.–
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Naoto Fukasawa, Jasper Morrison
SUPER NORMAL
Sensations of the Ordinary
Design: Integral Lars Müller
14,8 × 20 cm, 128 pages, 264 illus., softcover
2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-106-7, English
EUR 24.90 GBP 23.– USD 34.90
Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have
compiled 204 everyday objects in search of
super normal design: alongside examples of
anonymous design, there are design classics
like by Jacobsen, Rams, Bill or Noguchi.
With products by Newson, Grcic, the Azumis,
and the Bouroullecs, it also represents the
generation to which Morrison and Fukasawa
belong. The phenomenon of the super normal
is located, beyond space and time; and point
to a future that has long since begun. The
super normal is lying exposed before us, it is
real and available: Fukasawa and Morrison
make it visible for us.
Jasper Morrison
EVERYTHING BUT THE WALLS
Design: Integral Lars Müller
22 × 28 cm, 256 pages, 300 illus., softcover
2006, ISBN 978-3-03778-064-0, English
EUR 39.90 GBP 36.– USD 49.90
The name Jasper Morrison stands for simple an
enduring form, functional, and doing justice to
its materials. He has developed an unmistakable,
excitingly modern formal language, and became
one of the best-known and most influential
European product designers. Jasper Morrison
is giving us an insight into his approach and way
of working, which he defines as “utilism.” His
succinct essays describe the development of
individual products from the idea to manufacture.
A product list since 1981 completes the lavishly
presented selection.
HELVETICA FOREVER
Story of a Typeface
Edited by Lars Müller and Victor Malsy
With contributions by Axel Langer
and Indra Kupferschmid
Design: Victor Malsy and Lars Müller
with Integral Lars Müller
19 × 26 cm, 160 pages, 150 illustrations, hardcover
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-121-0, English
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-120-3, German
EUR 29.90 GBP 27.– USD 39.90
Designed in 1957, the Helvetica font is an icon
of swiss graphic design. This publication retraces
Helvetica’s fifty-year history, compares it to the
well-known sans serif fonts of the twentieth century,
and examines the phenomenon of its unparalleled
spread. Numerous illustrations show a
multitude of ways the font has been used in five
decades from a wide variety of fields – from
signal design to party flyers.
Lars Müller
HELVETICA
Homage to a Typeface
Design: Integral Lars Müller
12 × 16 cm, 256 pages
400 illustrations, softcover
2005, ISBN 3-03778-046-6, English
EUR 14.95 GBP 13.50 USD 20.–
“Helvetica is the perfume of the city.”
Lars Müller
“A declaration of love of a particular kind in
a small but elegant format. No design library
should be without it.”
Novum
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Bruno Munari
FAR VEDERE L’ARIA — AIR MADE VISIBLE
Edited by Claude Lichtenstein, Alfredo Häberli
and the Museum of Design Zürich
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16 × 24 cm, 288 pages
490 illustrations, hardcover
1995, ISBN 978-3-907044-89-6, English
1995, ISBN 978-3-906700-94-6, German
EUR 45.– GBP 40.– USD 65.–
Bruno Munari (1907–1998) is an artist and
designer who is very little known north of the alps,
a state of affairs that is almost amusingly disproportionate
to his importance. For this reason,
this book wants to introduce Munari by looking
at some of the questions he asks and some
of his approaches. Indeed: Anyone who can work
as unaffectedly and substantially as Munari really
does know how to make the best of things.
Wolfgang Weingart
TYPOGRAPHY
My Way to Typography
Design: Wolfgang Weingart
22,5 x 27,5 cm, 520 pages, 450 illus., hardcover
2000, ISBN 978-3-907044-86-5, English / German
EUR 53.40 GBP 49.– USD 120.–
Since the 1970s Wolfgang Weingart has exerted
a decisive influence on the international development
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 comprehensive
survey of his works over the past forty
years, most of which are unknown.
Lars Müller
JOSEF MÜLLER-BROCKMANN
Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design
Design: Integral Lars Müller
19 × 27 cm, 262 pages
369 illustrations, softcover
1994, ISBN 978-3-906700-89-2, English
1994, ISBN 978-3-907078-59-4, German
EUR 39.90 GBP 36.– USD 49.90
«This is the first extensive monograph about
an epoch-making designer whose work
embodies a development that influenced the
second half of our century more strongly than
any other contemporary stylistic approach.»
Form
In his illustrated essay, Lars Müller traces the
history of “Swiss Graphic Design” from the 1930s
to the 1960s. Müller-Brockmann’s posters have
become world famous for their ability to convey
information with great visual tension, a sense
of drama, and an extreme economy of means.
Müller-Brockmann created a body of work in
which timeless principles of visual communication
are inscribed.
Mark Holt, Hamish Muir
8vo
ON THE OUTSIDE
Design: Mark Holt, Hamish Muir
16 × 12 cm, 532 pages, 395 illustrations, hardcover
2005, ISBN 978-3-03778-019-0, English
EUR 24.50 GBP 23.– USD 37.40
On the outside surveys 8vo’s work from 1984
to 2001, including Octavo, the international journal
of typography and its influence in the emergent
typographically-led design movement in the
UK and internationally during the late 1980s and
through the 1990s. The emphasis is on process:
trying to reveal how 8vo’s design got made rather
than simply showing finished jobs.
Written and designed by Mark Holt and Hamish
Muir, two of the founding principals of 8vo, the
story is told how it was – the everyday struggles
of working with clients, typesetters, printers,
and later on computers.
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Pierre Mendell
POSTERS FOR THE OPERA
Design: Pierre Mendell Design Studio
15,5 × 22 cm, 157 pages
97 illustrations, hardcover
2006, ISBN 978-3-03778-082-4, English / German
EUR 24.90 GBP 22.– USD 32.90
Pierre Mendell has been designing the posters for
the Staatsoper in Munich from 1993 to 2006. With
over a hundred motifs to his name, he has not
only successfully created an unmistakable identity
for the Munich opera, he has also linked this
opera house with a form of visual expression that
is unparalleled in its originality and immediacy.
Mendell’s simple, almost archaic, visual language
is admired over the world and his poster designs
are represented in leading collections such as the
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Pierre Mendell
AT FIRST SIGHT
Design: Pierre Mendell
24 × 30 cm, 149 pages
200 illustrations, hardcover
2001, ISBN 978-3-907044-49-0, English
2001, ISBN 978-3-907078-64-8, German
EUR 29.50 GBP 27.– USD 44.90
The design of Pierre Mendell (1929–2008) is characterised
by elements which are missing in large
part of contemporary graphic design: pithy impact,
communi cative force, poetry and humour. The
unfailing topicality and importance of his work
shows that visual communication based on idea
and context is more durable than those subject to
the dictates of electronics. Mendell’s cultural posters
and corporate design programs are timelessly
contemporary and modern. The publication aims
to encourage designers to trust in the power of
the idea and of simple forms and to see their work
as cultural expression of the wider society.
Pierre Bernard
MY WORK IS NOT MY WORK
Design for the public domain
Design: Reynoud Homan
16,5 × 24 cm, 320 pages
270 illustrations, softcover
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-087-9, English
2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-086-2, French
2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-104-3, Dutch
EUR 39.90 GBP 36.– USD 49.90
The French designer Pierre Bernard focuses
in his work—a comprehensive survey of which is
offered here for the first time—on the public
domain, on communication between governments
and citizens, on notification and orientation in the
public realm. A striking example is his concept for
the Louvre’s corporate identity in Paris. Bernard
is omnipresent in France with his design for the
distinctive seal of the French National Parks.
Since 1991 Pierre Bernard leads the Atelier de
Création Graphique in Paris.
Pars Foundation
FINDINGS ON ICE
Edited by Hester Aardse and
Astrid van Baalen
Design: Joost Grootens
20 × 27 cm, 190 pages, 126 illustrations, softcover
2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-125-8, English
EUR 29.90 GBP 27.– USD 44.90
The Pars Foundation was founded from the conviction
that art and science are both essentially
creative processes. Artists begin with an idea
that is ultimately expressed in the form of music,
images, or words. Scientists begin with a hypothesis,
sketch an idea, and then test and describe
it. Every year Pars invites artists and scientists
to make a contribution to creative thinking. The
book on the topic “Ice” demonstrates a variety
of different perspectives and ideas by artists and
scientists, and functions as a visual and textual
introduction.
62 Design 63

Per Mollerup
WAYSHOWING
A Guide to Environmental Signage
Principles & Practices
Design: Matilda Plöjel
17 x 32 cm, 336 pages, 450 illus., hardcover
2005, ISBN 978-3-03778-055-8, English
EUR 42.06 GBP 38.– USD 58.–
This book by acclaimed graphic designer and
author Per Mollerup looks for a more precise
visual language for what sign designers actually
do, which is to show the way. Unfortunately, as
Mollerup points out, many designers never master
the art of wayshowing themselves. For “wayshowing”
relates to “wayfinding” as writing relates to
reading and as talking relates to hearing: the purpose
of “wayshowing” is to facilitate “wayfinding.”
Mollerup examines international sign systems and
architectural landmarks in detail with his trademark
candour and good humour.
SIGNAGE DESIGN MANUAL
Edo Smitshuijzen
Design: Edo Smitshuijzen
16 × 26 cm, 456 pages, 800 illus., hardcover
2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-096-1, English
EUR 44.90 GBP 40.– USD 59.90
In an entertaining and straightforward way, Edo
Smitshuijzen’s Signage Design Manual leads the
reader step by step through the individual phases
of signal design. More than nine hundred illustrations
guides through this demanding process.
The combination of wide coverage and precise,
detailed information makes this book accessible
to a broad spectrum of readers, from information
and graphic designers to architects and professionals.
With the publication of Signage Design
Manual, the canon of signaletics finally has its
own textbook.
DAS GESETZ UND SEINE
VISUELLEN FOLGEN
Research project of the Hochschule für
Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) and Instituts
Design2context at the Zurich University
of the Arts (ZHdK)
Design: Severin Wucher
16,5 × 24 cm, 608 pages
650 illustrations, hardcover
2005, ISBN 978-3-03778-043-5, Ger/Fr
EUR 45.– GBP 40.– USD 69.90
Gerlinde Schuller
DESIGNING UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE
The World as Flatland – Report 1
Design: Information Design Studio /
Gerlinde Schuller
16,5 × 24 cm, 304 pages, 650 illus., hardcover
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-149-4, English
EUR 34.90 GBP 32.– USD 49.90
The development of modern communication and
information technologies like the Internet and
globalization have not only changed access and
spread of the available knowledge but also the
speed of collecting. The author examines collections
of knowledge such as archives, encyclopedias,
data collections, and libraries that make
knowledge accessible worldwide. Who is collecting
the world’s knowledge? How is it structured
and designed? Who determines the access
of knowledge?
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Photography
A meticulous and attentive treatment of the photographic image
is a primary concern of the publishing house in all program areas.
Additionally, the medium of photography has the status of an
independent discipline. Artistic positions are just as much of interest
as photo-journalism reportage. The criteria are authorship and
artistic independence.
Bestsellers
Andreas Seibert
FROM SOMEWHERE TO NOWHERE
Lukas Felzmann
WATERS IN BETWEEN
Christian Lutz
PROTOKOLL
Over a period of twenty years, the artist Barbara
Heé has photographed Lake Silser and Chaviolas
Island again and again. The resulting panoramas
present a subtle portrait of this mountainous
landscape in Switzerlands Upper Engadine valley.
The depth and composition of these black-andwhite
photographs are captivating. The doubling
caused by reflection in the lake and the everchanging
lighting create spaces of magical presence.
Precise observation of similar motifs opens
up a world of sculptural forms that goes beyond
the mere likeness. This volume of photographs
presents, in the sense of an artists book, the complete
series of photographs taken between 1987
and 2007, and which have been incorporated into
Barbara Heé’s artistic work as a sculptress,
painter, and draftswoman.
Barbara Hée
CHAVIOLAS
A landscape, so intimate and aloof
With an essay by Claudia Jolles
Design: Integral Lars Müller
24 × 16 cm, 240 pages
approx. 160 illustrations, hardcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-165-4, English
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-171-5, German
EUR 49.90 GBP 42.99 USD 74.90
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WINDFALL LIGHT
The Visual Language of ECM
Edited by Lars Müller
With contributions by Geoff Andrew,
Ketil Bjørnstad, Katharina Epprecht,
Lars Müller and Thomas Steinfeld
Design: Integral Lars Müller
18.5 × 26 cm, 480 pages
approx. 1300 illustrations, softcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-157-9, English
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-197-5, German
EUR 54.90 GBP 44.90 USD 82.40
Following the success of Sleeves of Desire (1996),
a second publication about the ECM label is now
devoted to its sleeve designs from 1996 to the
present. Since its founding in 1969, ECM (Edition
of Contemporary Music), has been dedicated
primarily to jazz and contemporary classical
music and is a leading international label in both
these fields. What distinguishes ECM are its
design aesthetics, which have always been an
integral part of its music productions. Manfred
Eicher’s collaboration with Barbara and Burkhart
Wojirsch, and Dieter Rehm up to 1996, and since
then with Sascha Kleis and alternating photographers
and artists has produced an aesthetics
of the cover that initiates a dialogue between
the mostly photographic image and the music.
This book takes the reader on an associative journey
through this visual world. In their texts, the
authors examine various aspects of this visual
language in greater detail. An illustrated catalog
of all of ECM’s releases since its founding completes
this publication.
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NEW

Yann Mingard, Alban Kakulya
EAST OF A NEW EDEN
European External Borders
A Documentary Account
With contributions by Ellie Barnavie,
Daniel Bolomey, John W. Donaldson,
Gianni Haver, Jon Levy, LUST, Ian Russell,
Laura Serani, Martino Pesaresi
Design: Integral Lars Müller
19 × 26 cm, 320 pages
150 illustrations, hardcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-176-0, English/French
EUR 59.90 GBP 74.50 USD 89.90
Europe’s new eastern borders stretch from the
Baltic Sea to the Black Sea: 1.600 heavily guarded
kilometers between former “fraternal countries.”
The photographers Yann Mingard and Alban
Kakulya spent a long time on the road; one of
them traveled down from the North and the other
up from the South in an effort to document the
places and landscapes that mark the end of the
Western world. On their journey, they photographed
the landscape as well as the border
posts with their soldiers and their refugees seized
at the frontier, and documented a reality defined
in faraway Strasbourg, Brussels, and elsewhere.
Explanatory maps and satellite images are juxtaposed
in this book with the striking photographs.
Articles by political scientists, security experts,
sociologists, human rights specialists, and philosophers,
as well as literary texts round out this
photographic survey of the EU’s Eastern European
external borders.
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“A region between two worlds, at times at the
very center of Europe, at others a border area
at the empires’ farthest reaches, yet ever torn
asunder by centuries of treaties and Unions.
Today it is the East, the East of a New Eden.”

“There are hotels, and there are hotels, and,
having spent half my life in hotels with or
without porters, I am in search of the quintessential
quality that makes a hotel what it is
and which may possibly be found on the fault
line between luxury and poverty that I have
encountered on every continent in the course
of my many years of travel.
Let us make a first cautious attempt at a
definition. A hotel is a building (or sometimes
just part of a building) in which a traveler
can find safe refuge. Is that true? Not always.
Alright then, another attempt. A hotel is a
facility where you can sleep. You rent a space
(a room) for one or several nights, where you
can lie down to rest alone (or with a companion
of your choice). This room is thereafter
referred to as ‘my room’.”
Cees Nooteboom
Nadja Athanasiou, Michael Bühler,
Peter Lüem
THE DOLDER GRAND
With contributions by Judith Wyder
and Cees Nooteboom
Design: Peter Zimmermann
25 × 27 cm, 640 pages
approx. 400 photographs, hardcover
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-166-1, English
EUR 119.– GBP 108.– USD 179.–
In 2009, the Dolder Grand celebrated its first
birthday since reopening, following a four-year
remodelling carried out according to plans by
Foster+Partners. The photographers from the
Zurich studio nave, Nadja Athanasiou, Michael
Bühler, and Peter Lüem, documented the entire
project throughout every stage of the refurbishment,
charting in detail the scope of the hotel’s
metamorphosis. The resulting photographic
narrative is not simply a linear documentation,
but a rich and complex tapestry in which text and
image are interwoven with a lyricism that brings
the architecture to life on the pages of the book.
Journalist Judith Wyder’s texts provide a manyfaceted
insight and complement the photographs
with anecdotes and background information.
Dutch novelist Cees Nooteboom has contributed
an essay in which he describes the hotel as a
microcosm and a home away from home, musing
on how guests tend to take possession of the
hotels they stay in.
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Christian Lutz
PROTOKOLL
Design: Integral Lars Müller
30 × 24 cm, 90 pages, 54 photographs, hardcover
2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-110-4, Eng/Fr/Ger/Span
EUR 34.90 GBP 32.– USD 44.90
Over a period of three years the photographer
Christian Lutz accompanied a member of the
Swiss Federal Council on official occasions
throughout the world. He observes the mise-enscène
of authority within the hierarchies to which
the political decision makers and their delegations
are subjected and isolates the clichés that
rule the world. His images show a reality that
differs from the official photographic reports
and causes readers to alternate between laughter
and astonishment.
Lukas Felzmann
WATERS IN BETWEEN
With marginalia by Angelus Silesius
and John Berger
Design: Integral Lars Müller
19 × 27 cm, 320 pages, 161 photographs, hardcover
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-138-8, English
EUR 49.90 GBP 45.– USD 74.90
Felzmann discovers with his camera the hidden
charms of the Sacramento Valley, that seeming
nonplace. The photographs show the diversity
of the plane: the original landscape, the large
swaths put to agricultural use, the modern provincial
towns, and the transitional areas in between.
Photographs of water in all its facets run through
the book, just as water runs through the valley.
Lukas Felzmann
LANDFALL
Essay by Peter Pfrunder
13 × 18 cm, 144 pages,
70 photographs, hardcover,
2004
ISBN 978-3-907078-92-1,
English/German
EUR 28.–
GBP 25.– USD 35.–
Jules Spinatsch
TEMPORARY
DISCOMFORT
Design: W. Heininger
24 × 30 cm, 186 pages,
ca. 80 illus., hardcover
ISBN 978-3-03778-047-3,
2005, Eng/Ger
EUR 29.50 GBP 27.–
USD 44.90
JJules l SSpinatsch i h was at the h World W Economic
Forum in Davos and New York and also attended
the G8 summits at Davos and Evian. But rather than
street fighting and handshakes, Jules Spinatsch
shows winter nights in Davos, complete with
floodlighted barbed wire, containers being used
as barricades in Genoa, lonely TV reporters outside
broadcast vehicles and sleepy guards in New
York. Temporary Discomfort shows people waiting
for the big event, which is revealed as meticulously
planned down to the last detail.
Pete Davis
IN WILDWOOD
With a text by Conway Lloyd Morgan
Design: Integral Lars Müller
30 × 24 cm, 96 pages
72 photographs, hardcover
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-142-5, English
EUR 39.90 GBP 36.– USD 49.90
Forests, according to folklore, are places of mystery
and fear the haunts of fierce animals and
fiercer men. Yet for our ancestors the forests were
sources of food and fuel, managed spaces. In the
forests of Wales and Vermont the photographer
Pete Davis has been exploring the dichotomy in
forest fact and fable for over a decade, marking
the changes worked by time, weather and human
intervention.
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Andreas Seibert
FROM SOMEWHERE TO NOWHERE
China’s Internal Migrants
Design: Integral Lars Müller
19 × 26 cm, 316 pages, 228 photographs, hardcover
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-146-3, English
EUR 39.90 GBP 36.– USD 54.90
High-population centers of enormous size are
springing up in China with dizzying speed. With
them comes an increased demand for migrant
workers. The photographer Andreas Seibert
accompanied the workers in order to document
their everyday lives and their work. With its combination
of text and images, this volume conveys a
unique impression of the scale of this modern
migration of peoples.
“It’s a thoughtful, sometimes hopeful
masterpiece of stolen moments and stunning
portraiture.” Monocle
Jean-Luc Cramatte
POSTE MON AMOUR
Design: Marie Lusa
16.5 × 24 cm, 192 pages, 178 photographs,
hardcover
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-095-4, Eng/Ger/Fr
EUR 44.90 GBP 40.– USD 59.90
The post office – for those who live in Switzerland
a treasured and ubiquitous feature of daily
life – has developed in the cities into a complex
service center, while in the country it has often
become superfluous as a result of the changing
economy and new means of communication.
We find ourselves having to say good-bye to
many rural post offices, which have long been
not only one of the characteristic forms of Swiss
service but also a typical expression of the aesthetic
of our everyday lives. Jean-Luc Cramatte’s
photographs of numerous post offices, taken
after closing time, are cheerful and unpretentious
– the mail has already been sent or has already
arrived.
Thomas Flechtner
BLOOM
Design: Integral Lars Mülller
23 × 30 cm, 128 pages
82 photographs, hardcover
2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-091-6, English
EUR 29.50 GBP 27.– USD 44.90
With Bloom, Thomas Flechtner continues to go
his own way as an artist. In his internationally
acclaimed debut publication Snow, he took viewers
by surprise with a compelling visual metaphysics
of snow as the exploration of a psychological
state. After exhibitions in London, New
York, Bilbao, and Tokyo, Flechtner is now free to
pursue a new passion, the unbridled color and
movement of organic nature, which he examines
with lyrical lightness and tremendous precision in
these densely atmospheric studies of plants. As a
photographer, Flechtner goes in search of the
essence of nature, abandoning the ostensible
safety of distance and allowing proximity and for
the first time also movement.
Thomas Flechtner
SNOW
Design: Integral Lars Müller
24 × 30 cm, 120 pages
100 photographs, hardcover
2002, ISBN 978-3-907078-65-5, English
EUR 58.– GBP 23.– USD 39.90
In Thomas Flechtner’s photographs, snow
becomes a metaphor for timelessness, stillness,
peace, distance, and loneliness. Both civilization
and the untouched countryside succumb to the
gentle weight of this element. These images make
the viewer long for silence and transparency.
“Thomas Flechtner is a nomad, wanderer
and walker, in fact, a loner. He captures pure
beautyon quasi-solipsistic quests for prey:
ice-crystals of photography, poems from
water and air.”
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
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Klaus Merkel
THE READING OF TIME
IN THE TEXT OF NATURE
Design: Integral Lars Müller
24 × 30 cm, 96 pages
84 illustrations, hardcover
2000, ISBN 3-907044-97-5, English
1997, ISBN 3-907044-40-1, German
EUR 24.50 GBP 23.– USD 37.40
Klaus Merkel’s coupled photo graphs mirror the
physical and spiritual patterns of both natural
and architectural structures. They demonstrate
fundamental and uni versal formal laws in their
compelling revelation of inseparably intertwined
nature and culture. The pictures are grouped
according to such themes as Stratification,
The Crystalline, The Vegetative, and Outer World
and Inner World.
Klaus Merkel
ALBUM OF STONES
With an essay by Klaus Merkel
Design: Integral Lars Müller
24 × 30 cm, 160 pages, 110 illustrations, hardcover
2005, ISBN 3-03778-058-4, English
2005, ISBN 3-03778-062-2, German
EUR 24.50 GBP 23.– USD 37.40
The photographer and artist Klaus Merkel searches
for — and record in striking black-and-white
photographs — structures in nature and architecture
that, no matter where they are, exhibit overlapping
patterns and con figurations, significant
deviations and parallels, and resonate in juxtaposition.
In this extension of that program, he has
turned his attention to stones and rock landscapes
and their patterns. It is a process that he insists
takes patience, sometimes years, both in allowing
the force of the photograph to make itself felt over
time and in seeking the perfect pair, the photograph
that will reverberate with another in tandem.
Jean-Pascal Imsand
PHOTOGRAPHER
With essays by Dieter Bachmann,
Jean-Christophe Blaser, Martin Gasser,
Sylvie Henguely, Fabio Pusterla
Design: Integral Lars Müller
24 × 30 cm, 200 pages
120 photographs in b/w, hardcover
ISBN 3-03778-037-1, English
ISBN 3-03778-041-X, French
ISBN 3-03778-040-1, German
EUR 24.50 GBP 23.– USD 37.35
Jean-Pascal Imsand’s work eludes any attempt
at classification, and contains an apparent paradox.
While his photo-montages are much admired for
their aesthetic and narrative qualities, yet are often
political in nature, the precision of content demonstrated
in his socio-documentary reportages does
not exclude mythical interpretation.
Balthasar Burkhard and Markus Jakob
«KLICK!» SAGTE DIE KAMERA
Design: Integral Lars Müller
25 × 35 cm, 44 pages, 22 illus., spiral binding
1997, ISBN 978-3-907044-37-7, German
EUR 9.90 CHF 15.90 USD 14.90
The animals have come to be photographed
for a beauty contest. Markus Jakob tells the tale
of the illustrious rendezvous.
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Jean-Benoît Lévy
HANDBOOK
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Design: Jean-Benoît Lévy
12 × 16 cm, 256 pages
ca. 400 illustrations, softcover
2006, ISBN 978-3-03778-077-0, English
EUR 18.90 GBP 14.90 USD 20.–
Over the years Jean-Benoît Lévy has collected
hundreds of examples backing up his notion
of a worldwide system of hand-signs. The panoply
of hands presented in this publication includes
charming curiosities and lay-persons’ creations
as well as concepts by professional communicators
– confirming that hand signs constitute
a global, inter-cultural metalanguage. As a handbook
– or “manual” – this publication advances
our vision and invites us to observe our own
surroundings with a new curiosity and sense of
awareness.
Isabel Naegele and Ruedi Baur
SCENTS OF THE CITY
Design: Intégral Ruedi Baur
14 × 20 cm, 480 pages
1500 illustrations, softcover
2004, ISBN 978-3-03778-012-1, Eng/Fr/Ger
EUR 16.– GBP 12.50 USD 20.–
Scents of the City is a collection of small samples
and patterns from a wide range of the public
spaces in a city; it is the result of an obsession
of many years, an obsession to collect what
visually denotes the flavour of a city which is so
difficult to describe with words.
Luciano Rigolini
WHAT YOU SEE
Edited by the Fotostiftung Schweiz
With an essay by Peter Pfrunder
Design: Integral Lars Müller
12 × 16 cm, 160 pages, 107 photographs, hardcover
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-139-5, Ger/Eng/Fr/Jap
EUR 24.90 GBP 19.90 USD 34.90
The photographer and artist Luciano Rigolini
demonstrates that anonymous snapshots, freed
from their context, can convey a visual experience.
Rigolini pieces together his findings to create a
new work – a grammar of seeing and perception.
Consciously or unconsciously, we become
primarily aware of form and structure in the
snapshots, and content of the images becomes
inessential. This results in a fascinating aesthetic
play that questions our habits of seeing. In this
arranged sequence the photographs can no longer
be read as simply likenesses of reality.
SALIBA
Mazza – aus der feinen Küche Syriens
Edited by Elias Hanna Saliba
With photographs by Hans Hansen
Design: Pierre Mendell
15,4 × 21,6 cm, 176 pages, 49 illus., hardcover
1999, ISBN 978-3-907078-98-3, Ger/Arab
EUR 24.– CHF 38.– USD 39.90
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Art
The highly distinctive publications on contemporary art are
shaped by the personal preferences and friendships of the
publisher. Painting and drawing, photography, video, installations,
and new media are of interest as independent positions or in
combination with architecture and the environment.
Bestsellers
Pipilotti Rist:
CONGRATULATIONS!
KATHARINA GROSSE.
WISH I HAD A BIG STUDIO IN THE
CENTER OF THE CITY
KATHARINA GROSSE.
WISH I HAD A BIG STUDIO IN THE
CENTER OF THE CITY
Edited by Katharina Grosse
With contributions by Georg Augustin,
Laura Bieger, Andreas Denk, Katharina Grosse,
Ulrich Loock, and Philip Ursprung
Design: Heimann und Schwantes, Berlin
17 × 23 cm, 144 pages
73 illustrations, hardcover
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-170-8, English
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-168-5, German
EUR 29.90 GBP 27.– USD 44.90
The artist Katharina Grosse has fulfilled her dream
of a tailor-made studio, a place large enough to
accommodate her large-scale works and where
an industrial atmosphere is combined with soft
light and neutral walls. In close cooperation with
the artist, the office of Augustin und Frank
Architekten planned the studio in Berlin’s Mitte
neighborhood and completed it in 2007. The result
is a compact, reinforced concrete cube containing
workrooms, storerooms, an archive, offices, and
living space. The contributors to this publication
use Grosse’s studio as a springboard to explore
the relationship between painting and architecture,
as well as the role that studios play in the
production of art. Numerous photographs show
the raw architecture of the new building and the
artist’s appropriation of the space.
Until a couple of years ago,
my idea was that
I had no need for a residence.
I spent most of my time in my studio
or traveling.
My apartment was just to sleep in.
Now I’m going to plant
a kitchen garden around the house.
Only one window opens,
and it’s violet.
Wish
I had a big studio in
the center of the city
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Katharina Grosse
Lars Müller Publishers

PIPILOTTI RIST: CONGRATULATIONS!
Edited by Richard Julin and Tessa Praun,
Magasin 3, Stockholm
Design: Fellow Designers
14,8 × 21 cm, 160 pages, 103 illus., hardcover
ISBN 978-3-03778-108-1, English
ISBN 978-3-03778-107-4, German
EUR 24.90 GBP 19.90 USD 34.90
Pipilotti Rist, one of the most acclaimed Swiss artists
of today, and Richard Julin, chief curator at
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall (Sweden), met for
a day in Zurich in connection with the preparations
for Rist’s solo exhibition Gravity, Be My Friend in
Stockholm in spring 2007. The resulting book Congratulations!
is a very personal and fascinating
conversation that reveals new dimensions of the
world of Pipilotti Rist, with anecdotes from the creation
process and reflections on life, art and food.
The richly illustrated book features images of the
major new piece, Tyngdkraft, var min vän, as well
as images of recent works such as Homo Sapiens
Sapiens, 2005, A Liberty Statue For Löndön, 2006.
Christian Moeller
A TIME AND PLACE
Media Architecture
Design:
Integral Lars Müller
12.5 × 19 cm, 240 pages
288 illustrations, e,
softcover
2004, ISBN 978-3-907078-91-4
EUR 19.50 GBP 18.–
USD 29.90
A Time and Place shows the extensive body of
work by the German artist Christian Moeller, who
lives in Los Angeles. It describes his fascinating
tightrope walk between analogue and digital
worlds. A monograph consisting of both internet
and book pages. Playing to the particular
strengths of each medium, A Time and Place
gives it readers a book that can be read at a computer.
PARADOXES OF APPEARING
Essays on Art, Architecture and
Philosophy
Edited by Michael Asgaard Andersen
and Henrik Oxvig
With contributions by Michael Asgaard Andersen
and Henrik Oxvig, Renaud Barbaras, Andrew
Benjamin, Olafur Eliasson, Sanford Kwinter, David
Leatherbarrow, Martin Seel, David Summers,
and Sven-Olov Wallenstein
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16.5 × 24 cm, 224 pages
60 illustrations, softcover
2009, ISBN 978-3-03378-192-0, English
EUR 29.90 GBP 27.– USD 44.90
The book contains a collection of essays
by scholars and artists from a range of different
fields, including art, art history, architectural
theory, and philosophy. The essays are based
on papers given at a symposium in Copenhagen
in June 2008 and refer to fundamental considerations
with regard to perception: When spectators
confront and designers invent works of art
and architecture, vital questions regarding their
appearance arise. These are not simply questions
about what appears, but also, and primarily,
what does not; in other words, what it is that
evades us when works are experienced and
created. How do we cope with this withdrawal,
with latencies that escape concretization? What
are the productive paradoxes associated hereto
and how do they influence the processes of
creation? Based on multiple discourses on these
subjects, contemporary positions in art, architecture,
and philosophy draw up new challenges,
especially with regard to creative practices.
Within and between these positions emerge
potentials for modes of thinking and doing with
a new sensitivity.
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Silvia Bächli
LIDSCHLAG
How It Looks
With an essay by Beate Söntgen
Design: Silvia Bächli and Lars Müller
22 × 28 cm, 304 pages, 211 illustrations
2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-115-9, Eng/Ger, softcover
EUR 29.90 GBP 21.90 USD 39.95
2004, ISBN 978-3-03778-013-8, Eng/Ger, hardcover
EUR 60.– GBP 45.– USD 90.–
Silvia Bächli’s art makes us feel unsure of ourselves.
It sends viewers on a tightrope walk
between banality and deliberate continuity. Her
art always concentrates on the minimum. We
see isolated arms or faces or eyes. No context is
provided at all. Despite the general trend in art
towards being ever more provocative, louder, and
more strident, Silvia Bächli has stuck to indian ink,
gouache, oil paint and thin, smooth white paper
for over twenty years. The effect is spectacular.
In 2009, Silvia Bächli designed the official contribution
for the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
This book provides a look inside her studio
and documents her preparations for the Biennale,
illustrating the artist’s working process with spatial
situations and snapshots that show her trying
out various constellations. Complementing all this
are photographs of her working stay in Iceland.
Silvia Bächli has developed her body of drawings
over the course of three decades, using varying
formats and techniques. Drawing, for her, is a
movement of seeing, of gentle deviations and displacements
within the gravitational field of an
aimless attentiveness to things and dreamlike
phenomena. This results in painterly moments;
the drawings often seem to capture, as if in film
stills, a cinematic look way of looking at bodies
and things, at landscapes, gestures, structures,
and processes.
Silvia Bächli
DAS
Edited by the Swiss Federal Office
of Culture, Bern
Design:
Anne Hoffmann Graphic Design, Zürich
13 × 19.5 cm, 136 pages
60 illustrations, softcover
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-155-5, Eng/Ger
EUR 22.90 GBP 21.– USD 39.90
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Society
An interest in culture and attention to the design of objects and
environment are privileges and an ression of social and material
security. Our publishing house’s focus is the overarching subjects
and issues in our society; we seek to express these in the most
effective way possible in words and images.
Bestsellers
THE FACE OF HUAN RIGHTS
WHO OWNS THE WATER?
FAITH IS.
Christina Kleineidam, Hans Peter Jost
COTTON WORLDWIDE
With essays by Christina Kleineidam
Photographs by Hans Peter Jost
With a preface by Pietra Rivoli
Design: Integral Lars Müller
19 × 26 cm, 320 pages
220 illustrations, hardcover
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-201-9, English
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-200-2, German
EUR 39.90 GBP 36.– USD 59.90
Cotton is grown on every continent, in a broad
range of environmental conditions, and under
widely disparate conditions of production. It is
an important raw material for a highly varied and
profitable value creation chain, and it is traded
on commodities markets throughout the world.
Cotton is at the center of the dispute surrounding
agricultural subsidies, and it is an important tool
in development aid. International chemical companies
have just as much interest in it as do the
advocates of ecological farming, since it consumes
more water, fertilizer, and pesticides than any
other crop. Cotton was already traveling around
the world from producer to consumer in colonial
times; all that has changed today is the routes
it follows. Thus in one common scenario, cotton
fibers from Texas are sent to China to be processed,
then wend their way to the fashion runways
of Paris, and finally travel as old clothes to Africa,
where they are worn as secondhand fashion.
Hans Peter Jost has created a photographic
portrait of cotton on his trips to India, China, Brazil,
America, Uzbekistan, Mali, and Tanzania, documenting
the lives and working conditions of cotton
farmers and the cultivation, harvesting, processing,
and marketing of cotton. Christina Kleineidam,
who accompanied the photographer on his travels,
describes what they saw and offers background
information on the specific problems of the individual
countries. In her foreword, the economist Pietra
Rivoli explains the global realities of the cultivation
and marketing of cotton.
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THE WORLD OF GIVING
Edited by the New Museum of
Contemporary Art
Design: Daniella Spinat, Daniel Koppich
16.5 × 24 cm, 256 pages
120 illustrations, softcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-181-4, English
EUR 29.90 GBP 24.90 USD 44.90
The last decade was largely defined by consumption
and greed. An untold story, however, is
the rise in benevolent giving seen in institutional,
public, and private sectors. Such characteristics
as altruism and duty are now as influential as
self-interest. The geography of aid has also
broadened; networks of NGOs now supplement
philanthropy and the global operations of official
channels. It has become a crucial counterpart
of authorized programs; agencies that provide
vital services rely on contributions to augment
official doctrines. The current recession threatens
these support structures, diminishing aid at
this critical moment when distress is increasing.
A new culture of giving that favors volunteering
and action, coupled with accumulated expertise
may enable imminent needs to be met. The World
of Giving presents aid's history as an index of
past and current relationships, indicating its indispensable
global role in the future.
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NEW

THE FACE OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Edited by Walter Kälin, Lars Müller,
and Judith Wyttenbach
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 720 pages
500 illustrations, hardcover
2004, ISBN 978-3-03778-017-6, English
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-114-2, German (softcover)
EUR 44.90 GBP 34.90 USD 50.–
The Face of Human Rights attempts to present all
aspects of human rights visually and make them
tangible. Over 500 photographs show human
rights infringements world-wide and the tireless
struggle to implement and preserve those rights.
The extensive selection of texts explores the
background and creates a dense network of links.
With contributions by Slavenka Drakulić, Carlos
Fuentes, Ryszard Kapus´ciński, Alexander Kluge,
Sima Samar, Susan Sontag, Wole Soyinka,
and Margrit Sprecher
“The editors have fulfilled their task
outstandingly. With their encyclopaedic
knowledge they have presented human
rights more powerfully than ever before.”
Der Bund
WHO OWNS THE WATER?
Edited by Lars Müller, Klaus Lanz, Christian
Rentsch, and René Schwarzenbach
With the support of EAWAG, the Swiss Federal
Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Design: Integral Lars Müller
Text: Christian Rentsch
16,5 × 24 cm, 536 pages
ca. 200 illustrations, hardcover
2006, ISBN 978-3-03778-018-3, English
2006, ISBN 978-3-03778-015-2, German
EUR 44.90 GBP 34.90 USD 60.–
Industrialization and population growth have
brought about a global water crisis. Nature can
no longer compensate the exploitation of our
freshwater and our oceans. One billion people
have no reliable access to clean drinking
water; two billion live in precarious hygienic
conditions. Famine, poverty, epidemics, and infant
mortality are closely linked with the water crisis.
Social, ecological, political, and economic conflicts
obstruct efforts to resolve the global water crisis.
Water is an instrument of power. The key question
reads: Is water a commodity or is free access to
water an inalienable human right? By approaching
water from a phenomenological perspective,
Who owns the Water? seeks to persuade the
reader that an element that is constantly flowing
and changing defies all claims to own it, be they
political or economic, and is instead the responsibility
of the entire international community.
ALL WE NEED
Edited by Holzer
Kobler Architekturen
and iart interactive
16.5 × 24 cm, 271 pages
255 illus., softcover
ISBN 978-3-03778-119-7,
Eng/Fr/Ger
EUR 29.90 GBP 22.90
USD 39.95
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FAITH IS.
The Quest for Spirituality and Religion
Edited by Lukas Niederberger
and Lars Müller
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 × 24 cm, 536 pages
250 illustrations, hardcover
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-144-9, English
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-143-2, German
EUR 39.90 GBP 31.90 USD 54.90
Following the successful formula of The Face
of Human Rights and Who Owns the Water?
this volume deals with the origin and significance
of human belief.
Religious phenomena such as the yearning for
transcendence, inwardness, the experience
of oneness, happiness, meaning in life, and rituals,
as well as for models that can help to explain
the origins and future of humanity and the world,
exist both inside and outside official religious
groups. With texts and a clear pictorial language,
this volume addresses the phenomenon of religion
belief, guiding the reader and viewer into the
world of the numinous and mysterious, while also
giving them a bit of critical orientation and existential
questions to take along with them on their
continued quest.
The publication also takes a critical look at the
traditional world religions, in order to help the
reader differentiate between the political, cultural,
and specifically religious roots of contemporary
conflicts.
SCIENCE SUISSE
An Initiative of SRG SSR idée suisse
Edited by Christian Eggenberger
and Lars Müller
With texts by the Nobel Prize laureate
Rolf Zinkernagel, Bertrand Piccard and
photographs by Andri Pol
Design: Integral Lars Müller
16,5 x 24 cm, 448 pages
250 illustrations, hardcover, with DVD
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-145-6, Ger/Fr/It/Eng (PAL)
2009, ISBN 978-3-03778-156-2, Ger/Fr/It/Eng (NTSC)
EUR 29.90 GBP 24.90 USD 44.85
Following the success of PHOTOsuisse,
SCIENCEsuisse deals with science in Switzerland,
with twenty-five textual portraits of selected
researchers, depicting their development,
career milestones, and outstanding research
projects from the vantage point of distinguished
science journalists. Two essays seek to situate
Switzerland as a research venue. Thirteen
critical theses deal with research and its general
conditions in Switzerland. The texts are illustrated
by an extensive photo essay on the researchers
and their work. Five aspects lead through the
entire publication: where we come from; the world
of tomorrow; our health; securing the energy
supply; preserving the biosphere.
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