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...

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...

"Call Ampersand Response" is a collaborative artwork made through an exchange of images via email. Between 2011 and 2017 Michael Dumontier and Micah Lexier conceived this activity as a way to share with each other their mutual interest in found image...

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...

From the celebrated MUJI designer and bestselling author of "100 Whites and Designing Japan", a compact and beautifully designed guide to the art of cleaning. Cleanliness is a core value of societies around the globe. With beautiful photography and...

In 1960, Brasilia was celebrated as the realization of an urban planning vision based on designs by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. At the same time, the sectoral city of Chandigarh was rising according to plans by Le Corbusier. The "test tube city"...

The most "African" of the Brazilian villages in the south of Bahia bears a Swiss name: Helvecia. It was founded 200 years ago by Swiss and German colonists, and the coffee grown on its vast estates produced great wealth for them. This would not have...

"My own use of the camera began in 1954 as I started to think about what a new building in New York – the Seagram building – could be. While in Rome during Easter, through the lens of a camera I had hardly used, I began to observe the quality of buil...

A doomed painter on his last walk, a barefoot girl in front of a school blackboard, a charismatic politician as an advocate for the simple life: "99 Photographs" presents images that touch, seduce or confuse. Since 1971 the Fotostiftung Schweiz has b...

Poverty, in its universality, seems immediately understandable and yet, as a global problem, its dissolution remains highly complex.To illustrate what it means to live at the poverty line, Stefen Chow and Huiyi Lin visited thirty-six cities on six co...