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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 


22 × 28 cm, 304 pages 

570 illustrations, hardcover 


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. 

4 Architecture 5 

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 


24 × 16 cm, 480 pages 

aprox. 1000 illustrations, hardcover 


2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-195-1, German 

EUR 49.90 GBP 39.90 USD 74.90 

6 Landscape Architecture 7 

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 



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 

8 Architecture/Urban Planning 9

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 



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. 

10 Architecture/Urban Planning 11 

NEW

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 


16,5 x 24 cm, 352 pages 


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 


21 × 29.7 cm 

22 transparent slides in folder, 

brochure, 16 pages 


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. 

12 Architecture/Urban Planning 13 

NEW

Jack Masey and Conway Lloyd Morgan 

COLD WAR CONFRONTATIONS 

US Exhibitions and Their Role in the Cultural 

Cold War 


16,5 × 24 cm, 400 pages 


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. 

14 

Federico Neder 

FULLER HOUSES 

R. Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Dwellings 

and other Domestic Adventures 

With a preface by Mark Wigley 


16,5 × 24 cm, 240 pages 


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.– 

Architecture/Design 15

BUCKMINSTER FULLER REPRINTS 

Edited by Jaime Snyder 


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. 

16 Architecture/Society 17

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 


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 


15 × 21 cm, 160 pages 


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. 

18 Architecture 19


HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL BERLIN 

Photographs by Héléne Binet and 

Lukas Wassmann 

Text by Peter Eisenman and Hanno Rauterberg 


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. 


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 


16,5 × 24 cm, 575 pages 


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. 


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 


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. 



THE FORMAL BASIS OF 

MODERN ARCHITECTURE (1964) 


29 × 30,5 cm, 384 pages 


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 


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 


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 


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. 


AS FOUND, THE DISCOVERY 

OF THE ORDINARY 

British Architecture and Art 

of the 1950s 

Edited by Claude Lichtenstein and 

Thomas Schregenberger 



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 


10,5 × 21,7 cm, 164 pages 


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 


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 


18,5 × 28 cm, 320 pages 


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. 


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 



21 × 33 cm, 128 pages 


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 


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 



24 × 30 cm, 128 pages 


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 


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/ 


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. 


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 




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 


page 51 

30 Design 31 

NEW

«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 



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. 


NEW

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 




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. 


NEW

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 




2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-203-3, French 

EUR 49.90 GBP 45.– USD 69.90 

INTÉGRAL RUEDI 

BAUR AND PARTNERS 


Intégral Ruedi Baur 

16.5 × 24 cm, 480 pages 


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. 

36 Design 37

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 




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. 


NEW

DISORIENTATION/ORI- 

ENTATION 1 

Edited by Design2 

context, Ruedi Baur 

Design: R. Baur, 

P. Taylor, U. Felsing 

16.5 × 24 cm, 264 pages 


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 


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 


NEW

BRAKIN 

Brazzaville – Kinshasa 

Visualizing the Visible 

Design: Harrisson, 

Sarah Infanger, 

Filiep Tacq, Richard Vijgen 

12 × 26 cm, 320 pages, 


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 



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. 


NEW

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 


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 


14.8 × 21 cm, 96 pages, 120 illustrations, softcover 


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 


14.8 × 21 cm, 128 pages, 120 illus., softcover 


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. 


POSTER COLLECTION 20 

HELP! 

Appeals to Social Conscience 

Edited by the Museum of Design Zürich 

With an essay by Sønke Gau and 

Katharina Schlieben 


16.5 × 24 cm, 96 pages 


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. 


HEAD TO HEAD 

Edited by the Museum of 

Design Zürich 

With an essay by 

Thomas Macho 


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 


OTTO BAUMBERGER 



With an essay by Martin Heller 


16.5 × 24 cm, 96 pages 


ISBN 978-3-03778-129-6, Eng/Ger 

EUR 24.90 GBP 22.– 

USD 29.90 


PHOTO GRAPHICS 




Nanni Baltzer 


16.5 × 24 cm, 96 pages 


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. 



COMIX! 

Edited by the Museum 

of Design Zürich 

With an essay by Pascal Lefèvre 


16,5 × 24 cm, 96 pages 


ISBN 978-3-03778-099-2, Engl/Ger 

EUR 24.90 GBP 18.90 USD 29.90 


ZÜRICH-MILANO 



With an essay by Hans Höger 


16,5 × 24 cm, 96 pages 


ISBN 978-3-03778-079-7, Engl/Ger 

EUR 22.90 GBP 16.90 USD 29.90 


CATHERINE ZASK 



With essays by Henri Gaudin 

and Catherine de Smet 


16,5 × 24 cm, 64 pages 


ISBN 978-3-03778-054-1, Engl/Ger/Fr 

EUR 19.50 GBP 14.50 USD 20.– 


MICHAEL ENGELMANN 



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.– 


BREAKING THE RULES 



With an essay by Martin 

Jaeggi and Peter Schweiger 


16,5 × 24 cm, 96 pages 


ISBN 978-3-03778-094-7, Engl/Ger 

EUR 24.90 GBP 18.90 USD 29.90 


TYPO CHINA 




Eva Lüdi Kong 


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 


HANDMADE 




Claude Lichtenstein 


16,5 × 24 cm, 96 pages 


ISBN 978-3-03778-053-4, Engl/Ger 

EUR 23.– GBP 16.50 USD 29.90 


RALPH SCHRAIVOGEL 

Edited by the museum 


With an essay by Robert Massin 

16,5 × 24 cm, 64 pages 


ISBN 978-3-03778-016-9, Engl/Ger 

EUR 19.50 GBP 14.– USD 20.– 


BLACK AND WHITE 



With an essay by Lars Müller 

16,5 × 24 cm, 80 pages 


ISBN 978-3-03778-014-5, Engl/Ger 

EUR 20.– GBP 14.50 USD 22.– 


VISUAL STRATEGIES 

AGAINST AIDS 



With an essay by Nigel Barley 

16,5 × 24 cm, 96 pages 


ISBN 978-3-907078-90-7, Engl/Ger 

EUR 23.– GBP 16.50 USD 26.– 


HORS-SOL 



Essays by Bettina 

Richter and André Heiz 

16,5 × 24 cm, 96 pages 


ISBN 978-3-907078-54-9, Engl/Ger 

EUR 23 GBP 16.50 USD 26.– 


DONALD BRUN 



With an essay by Jean Charles 

Giroud 

16,5 × 24 cm, 64 pages 


ISBN 978-3-907078-53-2, Engl/Ger 

EUR 19.50 GBP 14.– USD 20.– 


ARMIN HOFMANN 



With an essay by Steven Heller 

16,5 × 24 cm, 80 pages 


ISBN 978-03-03778-004-5, Engl/Ger 

EUR 20.– GBP 14.50 USD 22.– 


TYPOTEKTUR 



With an essay by Andres Janser 

16,5 × 24 cm, 64 pages 


ISBN 978-3-907078-89-1, Engl/Ger 

EUR 19.50 GBP 14.– USD 20.– 


POSTERS FOR 

EXHIBITIONS 1980–2000 



With an essay by Stuart Bailey 

16,5 × 24 cm, 96 pages 


ISBN 978-3-907078-55-6, Engl/Ger 

EUR 23.– GBP 16.50 USD 26.– 


REVUE 1926 




Hans U. Gumbrecht 

16,5 × 24 cm, 64 pages 


ISBN 978-3-907078-52-5, Engl/Ger 

EUR 22.– GBP 16.– USD 20.– 


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 


16,5 × 24 cm, 320 pages 


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 


Design: Kenya Hara 

16,5 × 24 cm, 472 pages 


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. 


Olafur Eliasson 

YOUR MOBILE EXPECTATIONS: 

BMW H 2 R PROJECT 

Design: Michael Heimann, 

Hendrik Schwantes, Studio Olafur Eliasson 

14,7 × 21 cm, 336 pages 


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 


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. 


Karl Gerstner 

DESIGNING PROGRAMMES 

Edited by Harald Geisler and Jonas Pabst 

Revised reprint, original 1964 

Design: Karl Gerstner 

19,5 × 25 cm, 120 pages 


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 


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. 


Claude Lichtenstein 

PLAYFULLY RIGID 

Swiss Architecture, Graphic Design, 

Product Design, 1950–2006 



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 


16,5 × 24 cm, 128 pages 


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 


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 


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 


15,5 × 21 cm, 112 pages 


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 


30 × 22 cm, 

224 pages, 450 illus., 

softcover, 2001 

ISBN 978-3-906700-21-2, 

German 

EUR 58.– GBP 52.– 

USD 65.– 


Naoto Fukasawa, Jasper Morrison 

SUPER NORMAL 

Sensations of the Ordinary 


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 


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 



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. 


HELVETICA 

Homage to a Typeface 


12 × 16 cm, 256 pages 


2005, ISBN 3-03778-046-6, English 

EUR 14.95 GBP 13.50 USD 20.– 

“Helvetica is the perfume of the city.” 


“A declaration of love of a particular kind in 

a small but elegant format. No design library 

should be without it.” 

Novum 


Bruno Munari 

FAR VEDERE L’ARIA — AIR MADE VISIBLE 

Edited by Claude Lichtenstein, Alfredo Häberli 

and the Museum of Design Zürich 


16 × 24 cm, 288 pages 


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. 


JOSEF MÜLLER-BROCKMANN 

Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design 


19 × 27 cm, 262 pages 


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 


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. 


Pierre Mendell 

POSTERS FOR THE OPERA 

Design: Pierre Mendell Design Studio 

15,5 × 22 cm, 157 pages 


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 


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 


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. 


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 


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 



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? 


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 


24 × 16 cm, 240 pages 

approx. 160 illustrations, hardcover 



EUR 49.90 GBP 42.99 USD 74.90 

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NEW

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 


18.5 × 26 cm, 480 pages 

approx. 1300 illustrations, softcover 



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. 


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 


19 × 26 cm, 320 pages 


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. 


NEW 

“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 


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. 


NEW

Christian Lutz 

PROTOKOLL 


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. 


WATERS IN BETWEEN 

With marginalia by Angelus Silesius 

and John Berger 




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. 


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 


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 



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 


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 


24 × 30 cm, 120 pages 


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 


Klaus Merkel 

THE READING OF TIME 

IN THE TEXT OF NATURE 


24 × 30 cm, 96 pages 


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 



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 


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 


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. 


�� 

Jean-Benoît Lévy 

HANDBOOK 

� � � � 

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 


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 



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 


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 




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 


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 



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 


16.5 × 24 cm, 224 pages 



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 


Anne Hoffmann Graphic Design, Zürich 

13 × 19.5 cm, 136 pages 



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 


19 × 26 cm, 320 pages 




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 



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. 

90 Society 91 

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THE FACE OF HUMAN RIGHTS 

Edited by Walter Kälin, Lars Müller, 

and Judith Wyttenbach 


16,5 × 24 cm, 720 pages 


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 


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 


16,5 × 24 cm, 536 pages 




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 


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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