Princeton Architectural Press

Princeton University School of Architecture

Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of the most innovative and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Best known as the inventor of the geodesic dome, Fuller sought out long-term, technology-led solutions to the world's most pressing social and environmental problems. His prodigious creative output-from visionary architectural works and experimental structures to expressive drawings and poetic musings-foreshadowed today's green design and prefab housing movements. R.Buckminster Fuller: World Man documents his never-before-published 1966 Kassler lecture at Princeton University School of Architecture. Delivered at the height of his career (Fuller had appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1964), he used the lecture to reflect on and synthesize his most significant concepts. In addition to a faithful facsimile of the lecture's typewritten transcript, the book includes an introductory essay on Fuller's work, a glossary of key terms and phrases, and an interview with Robert Geddes, the dean responsible for bringing Fuller to teach and lecture at the school.

World Man

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Virginia Woolf

Typography Papers is an occasional book-length publication from the Department of Typography at the University of Reading (England) with a broad international scope, publishing extended articles relating typography to adjacent disciplines.

Typography Papers 4

Typography Papers 2

The US presidential election in 2016 brought to a head myriad political activism around the world, around the rights of minorities, women, the LGBTQ community, and the environment. In the midst of this turmoil, nearly 300 designers from around the world answered the call to create this collection of 50 tear-out posters for people who want to make their voices heard in a time of unprecedented uncertainty and apprehension. A foreword by Avram Finkelstein, a designer for the AIDS art activist collective Gran Fury, looks at the crucial role of graphic activism in the current political climate.

Tear, Paste, Protest

Posters for Change

The Night Sky: 50 Postcards

An icon of American poetry, Emily Dickinson was also an avid gardener and botanist. Her knowledge of the natural world profoundly influenced her poetry, her gardens inspiring the language and metaphors of her poems. This stunning notecard collection contains four distinctive Emily Dickinson passages on the nature and passage of time, inspiring both sender and receiver to savor life's precious moments. The box and enclosed envelopes are made with prints from the beloved poet's pressed-flower albums, where she collected over four hundred specimens.

Emily Dickinson Notecards

Jeff Wall

Philip Ursprung

Cristina Bechtler

Jacques Herzog

Transcript of a Nov. 4, 2003 conversation between Jacques Herzog, Jeff Wall, Philip Ursprung and Cristina Bechtler.

A Conversation Between Jacques Herzog and Jeff Wall, Moderated by Philip Ursprung

Pictures of Architecture – Architecture of Pictures

Birkhauser

form, Zeitschrift fA1/4r Gestaltung, erscheint zweisprachig in Deutsch und Englisch und gehArt zu den fA1/4hrenden Design-Magazinen in Europa. Sechsmal im Jahr berichten renommierte Fachautoren A1/4ber Themen und Trends aus Industrie-Design, Grafik-Design und Interaction Design. Seit 1957 informiert und inspiriert form Gestalter, Unternehmer, Hochschullehrer und Studenten. Die international ausgerichtete Zeitschrift A1/4berzeugt durch sorgfAltig recherchierte Berichte, opulente Bildstrecken, ein lebendiges, klare Layout und hohe DruckqualitAt. Schwerpunkte dieser Ausgabe sind: The World of Papers/Patrick le QuA(c)ment/Dolls of Darkness

A Call for Papers

Form Papers

Franz Oswald

P. Baccini

Mark Michaeli

"Netzstadt stands for a model. It facilitates the differentiated portrayal of an urban development which has characterized cities and landscapes since the middle of the twentieth century. The model's foundation is the elucidation of criteria of durability and urbanity. Netzstadt stands for a transdisciplinary method by means of which urbanity can be analyzed and evaluated morphologically and physiologically, and redesigned in a process of modernization. Modernization means initiating an intelligent process in a democratic society in order to adapt the 'urban cultural landscape' to the needs of the future. Netzstadt is the title of a text book on designing cities. It addresses students and practitioners in the fields of city planning and city construction, in architecture, engineering and the natural sciences and the social sciences and economics"--Back cover.

Netzstadt

Terry Kirk

“Modern Italy”may sound like an oxymoron. For Western civilization,Italian culture represents the classical past and the continuity of canonical tradition,while modernity is understood in contrary terms of rupture and rapid innovation. Charting the evolution of a culture renowned for its historical past into the 10 modern era challenges our understanding of both the resilience of tradition and the elasticity of modernity. We have a tendency when imagining Italy to look to a rather distant and definitely premodern setting. The ancient forum, medieval cloisters,baroque piazzas,and papal palaces constitute our ideal itinerary of Italian civilization. The Campo of Siena,Saint Peter’s,all of Venice and San Gimignano satisfy us with their seemingly unbroken panoramas onto historical moments untouched by time;but elsewhere modern intrusions alter and obstruct the view to the landscapes of our expectations. As seasonal tourist or seasoned historian,we edit the encroachments time and change have wrought on our image of Italy. The learning of history is always a complex task,one that in the Italian environment is complicated by the changes wrought everywhere over the past 250 years. Culture on the peninsula continues to evolve with characteristic vibrancy. Italy is not a museum. To think of it as such—as a disorganized yet phenomenally rich museum unchanging in its exhibits—is to misunderstand the nature of the Italian cultural condition and the writing of history itself.

Visions of Utopia, 1900-Present - Volume 2

The Architecture of Modern Italy

Fifty Postcards

Ex Libris

A Journal for Bookish Types

Let Emily Dickinson bring beauty and grace to grocery lists and checklists! This lovely set of three notepads contains three distinctive designs, each embellished with a beloved quote and flowers from her legendary pressedflower specimens.

Emily Dickinson Notepads

The Cyanotypes of Anna Atkins

Sunprint Notecards

Matteo Thun, born in 1952, is renowned as one of the founder of Scottsass Associati and of Memphis. His highly individual path is presented here for the first time in the form of a monograph. Endowed with a quite striking, baroque formal language, he has cultivated in quite unparalleled manner the art of designing "anonymous" mass articles for industry. The combination of fun and seriousness, style and gag, content and façade continually challenge him. Yet his emphasis on the decorative, on surfaces, have made him a decidedly controversial figure. He works for companies such as AEG, Philipps, Martin Stoll, Campari, Swatch and many others in the areas of product and interior design, packaging and communication. Five internationally renowned authors, all authorities on his work, describe Matteo Thun, his person and his working methods.

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