Kazuo Shinohara (1925–2006) was one of the greatest and most influential architects of Japan's postwar generation. More than anyone else, he laid the foundations for the rigor and vitality of architecture in Japan today. In placing Shinohara’s later, institutional-scale works, which have been overlooked until now, alongside the iconic houses of his earlier career, this book establishes the architect’s insistence on the equivalation between the house and the city. New scholarly essays, interviews with clients and collaborators, and translations of Shinohara’s key texts are complemented by previously unpublished archival drawings and personal travel photographs by Shinohara. The volume reframes his architectural achievements in terms of his oeuvre as a whole and situates them in the broader cultural and social context in Japan and globally.

edited by Seng Kuan
25 × 20,7 cm
320 pages, hardcover

The Happy Magazine explores the concept of happiness academically and intellectually, visually and creatively, both in-depth and bite sized. Through slow journalism and visual material from photography, design, art and text, it aims to create a space where many interesting insights and thoughts concerning happiness are freely exchanged while acknowledging that there is not one universal definition of happiness, but that its meanings are as diverse as people. This is highlighted by the multiplicity of voices and array of contributors all of which have come together with the aim to inspire and uplift readers.

project management by Amy Lynn
art direction by Martyna Lotkowska & Olivia Quebrada
editing by Isabel Hassan & Carys Thomas
illustration management by Alena Tarasova
21 × 29,7 cm
68 pages, softcover

Isolated Stories (pt.I) is the first part of an ongoing project uncovering people's personal experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. It shows a collection of virtual conversations held with people from several different locations and backgrounds. The aim of these conversations is to connect with people, gain insight into their thoughts in this period and see the pandemic's impact on people from a more personal point of view. 

16 × 23 cm
70 pages, softcover

Isolated Stories (pt.II) is the second part of an ongoing project uncovering people's personal experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. It shows a set of 16 postcards. They show extracts of conversations held with people from several different locations and backgrounds on one side, and illustrations of said extracts on the other side. The postcards give insight into people's thoughts during and about the pandemic from a more personal point of view. 

illustrations by Emanuela Frisari
9,7 × 13,7 cm
16 postcards, duplexed
printed in Risograph

Aufbruch ohne Ziel is the first publication dedicated exclusively to the little known photographs of Swiss photographer, writer and world traveller Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908–1942). Accompanying essays position her photographs in the history of photography and analyse the relationship between photography and literature.

edited by Nina Zimmer & Martin Waldmeier
19 × 26 cm
128 pages, softcover

Based on interrogative research at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) in the interdisciplinary urban design studio The Industrious City, the Zurich-based architecture studio Hosoya Schaefer presents this publication of the same name. Investigating ways in which production can be reintroduced to the city, this book explores how new synergies between production, services, leisure and living can be found using the example of the polycentric urban landscape of Switzerland – all against the backdrop of fundamental shifts in how urban industry is shaping our social, political, spatial and economic futures.

edited by Hiromi Hosoya & Markus Schaefer
16,5 × 24 cm
412 pages, softcover
available in German and English

Poster designed for an extract of the poem ‘Burnt Norton’, first of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. 

29,7 × 42 cm
Risograph Printing

Promotional poster series and speakers' gifts for the Publishing Innovation Event 2021 hosted by the MA Publishing at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. 

29,7 × 42 cm
Risograph Printing

Mutation and Morphosis looks at all the many aspects involved in the collective process of designing and shaping landscapes, from planning to implementation. The panorama that unfolds gives us insights into the broad context that landscape architects must consider in their work, exemplified by the outstanding projects realised by VOGT.

edited by Günther Vogt & Thomas Kissling
16,5 × 24 cm
784 pages, hardback
available in German and English

Living with Palladio in the Sixteenth Century investigates how the houses of architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) are designed to structure the life of a heterogeneous family of people. The book fills a decisive gap in research literature on the famous Italian architect by looking at how he prioritised the domestic functions of his private buildings.

author: Antonio Foscari
10,8 × 20,4 cm
128 pages, hardback

You Were Here starts from a research on aerial photography and leads into the fields of cartography and perspective. It is an attempt at confronting our human view-point and conventional representations by offering us a different viewpoint. It is an atlas which does not present us with a geographically accurate depiction of our world, instead it deprives us from the most important convention we use for orienting ourselves: the geographical coordinate. It is based on images saved in the cache of my computer, creating a personal archive generated as a result of my virtual trips on Google Earth. Lying on the border between fiction and reality, it is a reflection about the representations and visions of our world through satellite imagery and the continuous dialogue between analogue and digital.

atlas: 27,5 × 38,5 cm, 366 pages, softcover
essay: 10 × 14 cm, 16 pages
all handbound

The documentation of my degree project You Were Here containing three months of research on topics such as aerial photography, perspective, satellite imagery, perception, cartography etc. and the entire process of the final project.

16 × 23 cm
288 pages, softcover
handbound

Destruction Construction tells the story of William Richard Solomon’s life which was characterised by the two roles he carried in his life as a war soldier building bombs and a chartered architect rebuilding his shattered hometown. The book is read from both sides and has no beginning or end, representing the two contrasting elements and the infinite and natural cycle of destruction and construction.

leporello
12 × 21 cm
75 pages, hardcover
handbound

The Pigeon Photographer is a photo book telling the story of Julius Neubronner and his pigeons. In 1907 Mr Neubronner patented the design of a camera which could be attached to pigeons and would automatically take pictures during their flight in order to track their journey. His invention contributed to the development of aerial photography and can be considered the predecessor of today’s drones.

The publication won the historic book award at the Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, France and was exhibited at the Technikmuseum Berlin and foto-forum Bolzano.

book: 16 × 24 cm, 96 pages, hardcover
essay: 16 × 24 cm, 30 pages, softcover
newspaper: 24 × 32 cm, 48 pages

Christmas card designed for Landschaftsarchitekten VOGT on the occasion of their 20-year anniversary. The design is based on the 10-year anniversary card which used the annual growth rings to represent the years passed and the connection to the environment they cultivate throughout their work. 

21 × 14,8 cm

Especially adapted exhibition format of my BA degree project You Were Here for the photographic group exhibition You Are Here which took place on the Campus of the Zürcher Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften. 

70 × 100 cm
6 high quality photographic prints
mounted on handcrafted alu-dibond frames

Design of my personal visiting cards based on the concept of greeting when first meeting someone. The greetings come in all the languages I speak. 

Rejection is a poster designed for the movie Edward Scissorshands, a story that revolves around social exclusion and rejection.

manually cut matrix
50 × 70 cm
screen printed

Invisible Barriers is a photographic project visualizing psychosis, an often overlooked and physically invisible illness. By photographing through a glass prism, an object representing a sort of invisible barrier between the camera and reality, I created a series of delicately manipulated images depicting a distorted reality.

14,8 × 21 cm
32 pages, softcover
handbound

Commissioned catalogue and curation of the exhibition of student projects created during the artistic photography course at the Free University of Bolzano taught by Nicolò Degiorgis in 2015/2016. 

29,7 × 21 cm
80 pages, softcover

Commissioned exhibition catalogue for the artist Peter Senoner and his show Detroitanic.