The bestselling volume on the multifaceted career of one of the leading figures in Italian Modernism, now in English. Gio Ponti (1891-1979) was a giant of Italian Modernism, contributing to a multitude of fields: architecture, industrial design, fur...

Muji's art director shares his own personal creative process. Kenya Hara inspires the world with his impeccable design, from the subtle atmospheres and environments he creates as the art director of Muji and his ethereal exhibition designs to his si...

Working from a conceptual atlas, Felzmann's photographs of California counties combine the natural with the cultural. Swiss photographer and Stanford University professor Lukas Felzmann (born 1959) takes a two-part approach to California's geography...

At once fitting into and standing out from their surroundings, Moeller's sculptures provide a welcome break from workaday life. Renouncing his former self-designation as a "media architect", Christian Moeller (born 1959) created a series of large-sc...

Inverting "Learning from Las Vegas" to build a new dialogue between two of the world's most opulent cities. When architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi published Learning from Las Vegas in 1972, they revolutionized architecture by claiming...

Switzerland is well-known as one of the safest countries on earth and as a prime example of efficiency and efficacy. One of the central reasons that such a country exists is the development of a culture based on protection, which is supported by the...

A beautiful photographic investigation of the interrelationships between water, energy and community. This photobook bridges the topics of energy and water, taking the Emosson Dam – a hydroelectric dam development located in Switzerland in the canto...

In what he called his "illustrated guide to modern architecture", which starts off the Bauhausbucher series, Gropius gives an overview of the international architecture of the mid-1920s. A preface by the author explores, briefly but in detail, the gu...

Although Piet Mondrian was not an active member of the Bauhaus, his name is often mentioned in connection with the art school. Starting with a philosophical foray in which he describes art as a figurative expression of human existence, Mondrian embed...

Moholy-Nagy's efforts to have photography and filmmaking recognized as means of artistic design on the same level as painting are propounded and explained at length. The use of artistic instruments is thus radically reformed. The Hungarian artist mak...