Becoming a parent is not only about joy, happiness, and fulfillment. It can also trigger anger, despair, exhaustion, fear, and pain, as photographer Janine Bächle demonstrates in her long-term, autobiographical project, Becoming Parents. Bächle documented her pregnancy with an unvarnished lens, breaking taboos by showing unfiltered bodily details and functions. Through her sensitive yet shockingly honest photographs, Bächle documents her everyday family life, the changes in her body, and the emotional spectrum of becoming a parent. She deliberately sees her project as a realistic counterpoint to the romanticised images in relevant guidebooks and the perfect portrayals on social media. In addition to making care work visible, the book shows the struggle with feelings such as aggression, sadness, and fundamental doubts about parenthood. By juxtaposing her photographs with diary entries, lab results, and birth records, the narrative oscillates between control and collapse. The result is an indissoluble tension between image, word, and document that captivates viewers and allows them to experience the intensity and vulnerability of becoming a parent.
Text in English and German.
Louis Kahn: Continuity and Innovation offers a new, unusually open approach to the work of one of the most influential figures of 20th-century architecture. The view of Kahn is forward-looking: which of his ideas and concepts can today’s architects productively implement for timely designs that respond to the challenges of climate change and scarce resources?
The volume brings together voices from contemporary architectural practice. Their essays reflect on Kahn’s use of materials, light, and mass and highlight that many of his design strategies remain relevant to current debates on durability, re-use, and a socially engaged architecture. They are illustrated with little-known material from ETH Zürich’s gta archive as well as with newly commissioned photographs of Louis Kahn’s buildings in their current state. The book is rounded out with student designs for a visitor centre for the Louis Kahn Estonia Foundation in Tallinn that demonstrate how the next generation of architects are developing Kahn’s lasting legacy in their own designs.
A weed-based colour laboratory, costumes made of bones, guerilla bill-posting, or subversive alternative street-markings for parking areas: Käthe Wenzel works on the periphery of daily urban life, in urban wastelands and in city systems; she uses weeds, roadkill, and conversation. She explores urban landscapes and “Queer Ecologies” as a transdisciplinary border-crosser with a finely tuned sensory perception for new materials and technologies. She focuses on the adaptability of urban coexistence. Urban Organisms encompasses three groups of works—the Urban Ink Lab, works from Signs and Bones, and Sci-Fi Prototypes. In them, Wenzel hijacks urban spaces: she breaks down wasteland areas in Berlin into micro-localised colour worlds; endangered species live on in constructions made of linen and bones; and chopped-up visual vocabularies of the city are opened up for collective reuse.
Text in English and German.
What does it mean to be young? It is a time of becoming, a transient period in life, during which the innocence of childhood gradually fades as the joys and sorrows of adulthood begin to loom in the distance. It is a time of in-betweens and uncertainty, fragility and vulnerability; but it is also a time of hope and possibility, potential and promise.
In Being Young – Portraits of Becoming, photographer Wolfgang Strassl invites us to look closely and carefully at this fleeting yet formative chapter of life. Strassl’s lens does not intrude, but instead, with a quiet sensitivity and gentle admiration, holds back and simply observes. His subjects seem to be aware that they are being seen for who they truly are and feel no need to perform or pretend. In these momentary encounters their openness, insecurity and self-assuredness surface simultaneously.
This series of portraits is a visual poem–a compilation of features and postures, glances and gestures. And, like youth, it is truly captivating.
Introduction by Simon Hill.
A Long View explores the award-winning residential design of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson through the lens of fifteen private residences across the United States and Canada. With a curated selection of homes completed between 2016 and 2026, the book tells the story of how BCJ’s work has evolved across a wider range of geographical regions and fresh material expressions, led by an emergent group of design voices within the practice who are carrying forward its ethos of humane, deeply collaborative design. The homes presented here exist in diverse settings: from a rustic retreat in the wilderness of Ontario to the transformation of an existing Pittsburgh home into a container for light; a home embedded in a sagebrush-covered butte in Wyoming to a delicate wood framed guest cabin on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. Each resonates within its unique circumstances of client, place, and material.
Experience the serene world of renowned Belgian interior architect Nathalie Van Reeth. Known for her masterful minimalism and a sophisticated eye for authentic materials, Van Reeth captures the soul of space in this stunning new monograph.This book offers an exclusive journey through seven high-end residences spanning the rugged landscapes of Scotland, the sun-drenched shores of Spain, and the refined heritage of Belgium. Each project is a testament to timeless design, where every texture and line serves a purpose, creating a harmonious balance between architecture and emotion.
Captured through the lens of acclaimed photographer Alexander d’Hiet, this volume is more than a portfolio; it is an intimate look into a creative mind. Alongside breathtaking architectural photography, the book features Van Reeth’s personal sources of inspiration and evocative lifestyle imagery, offering a rare glimpse into the philosophy behind her work. Designed as a high-end, tactile object, the production of this book reflects the very quality it showcases. It is a must-have for connoisseurs of design, architecture, and the art of living well.
This comprehensive study of Tuscan wine begins with an exploration of the rich past of the region, illustrating how the contributions of ancient civilisations such as the Etruscans continue to shape the landscape of Tuscan viticulture. The role of the region’s famous families, such as the Antinori, Frescobaldi and Ricasoli is also examined. The many autochthonous, traditional and international grape varieties that have contributed to Tuscany’s rise to the apogee of Italian wines, are discussed, including a section highlighting the influence of the region’s most famous grape, Sangiovese. Eby explores the region’s geology and shows how the topography and soils have affected the evolution of appellations and DOC/Gs. Ancient, traditional and modern viticultural and vinification processes are examined, particularly through the lens of the region’s winemakers, many of whom are profiled in depth.
Recognised as one of the most influential voices among China’s new generation of image-makers, Hailun Ma turns her camera toward the gestures, styles, and relations that shape everyday life in Xinjiang. This book brings together recent series focused on family, youth, and daily style in Xinjiang. Moving between the staged and the spontaneous, Ma’s images reveal how people present themselves, and how culture is worn, shared, and reimagined. Ma’s work allows the images to speak before they are explained. Through her vibrant portraits, she has brought global attention to the style subcultures of ethnic minority and multicultural communities in contemporary China—bridging local identity and global fashion culture. Her work has been featured in New York Magazine, i-D, GQ China and Vogue.