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Architectural Design A—D, 95:2, December 2025
Axiomatic Editions
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Founded in 1930, Architectural Design A—D is a leading forum for contemporary architectural discourse, bringing together emerging ideas, critical voices, and experimental practices from around the world. Acknowledging that architects have designed some of the most iconic items of furniture, this issue of A—D, features contemporary protagonists of the subdiscipline. Does a single piece of wood offer limited or limitless possibilities? “From Static to Dynamic” explores simple designs that challenge typically held notions of timber materiality. While motion is not often considered present in a cut piece of wood, the essay argues that vitality is present the moment wood grain is revealed as an active component and in this, there is the potential for dynamism.
The New Heliomorphism
Architectural Design A—D, 96:3, Summer 2026
Axiomatic Editions
Contributing Editor
This issue of A—D examines the relationship between progressive practices that have emerged in over the past decade: critical solar performance, thermal self-regulation, and circular economies of biogenic materials. Guest editors are Salmaan Craig, Charles Waldheim, Seok Min Yeo.
Reimagining Architectural Drawing: Print and Process
Architectural Design A—D, 95:3, Summer 2025
Axiomatic Editions
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Tradition and precedent inspire invention, architectural drawing, and media practice. This issue of A—D presents a series of encounters with printed drawings, leading to their transformation and reimagination. Archival media from the John Nichols Printmakers & Publishers Collection, located at the A83 gallery in New York City becomes the foundation for a series of new works by contemporary architects.
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Occupation: Boundary; Art, Architecture, and Culture at the Water
ORO Editions, 2022
Book Design: Office of Luke Bulman
Co-Author with Cathy Simon
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This book examines the social, political, and cultural factors that have influenced the evolution of the urban waterfront. Reaching beyond the disciplines of architecture and urban design, Occupation : Boundary sheds light on the dual roles art and culture have played as mediums that both record and instigate change at the threshold of the city and the sea. Developing a close working relationship with Cathy Simon and learning of her life experiences, in particular those as a young female architect beginning practice in the 1970s, was integral to successful storytelling.
[TRANS-] FICTION
[Trans-] Journal, volume 6, CAPLA, 2020
University of Arizona, College of Architecture, Planning, & Landscape Architecture
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Architecture may be said to originate from fictitious realms; imagined forms and abstract marks of representation materialize in space and time to tell stories through the distillation of ideas, by establishing perspectives, transforming information, and mapping cultural concerns. In its sixth iteration, [Trans-] Journal explores the relationship between fiction and architecture. This issue assumes an elastic definition of architecture as media that critically engages with design practice and the spatial realm. “Fiction Hoax Fiction” is a comparison of the untruths that emerge in the design process to those that emerge in contemporary crises, namely the 2020 pandemic and climate change.
A Scheme to Annihilate Magnificent Distances
AXIOMATIC EDITIONS, an Imprint of ORO EDITIONS, 2026
Author: Carolee Thea
Book Designer: MTWTF
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How does one emancipate herself when the constrictions of society and family are too great
to bear? This book, authored by artist Carolee Thea, is both a memoir and a reflection of an era of unrest. Thea’s memories of post-World War II Brooklyn emerge in poetry-like texts. Simultaneously, she describes breaking into the male-dominated New York art scene and later produces critical rhetoric for the art world in which she was so immersed.
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Imaging Heaven
ORO EDITIONS, 2026
Author: Arthur Becker
Book Designer: Mike Tully
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A compilation of 150 photographs by Arthur Becker leads readers on a journey through painted church ceilings from the Proto-Renaissance to the Baroque. The claim is that the ceiling is a monumental canvas where artists engaged the ultimate challenge: illustrating the unseen reality of heaven. These works are presented as visual record of a profound shift in human understanding of the cosmos, of the self, and of the divine, an argument supported by writing from Princeton University School of Architecture professor, Daniel Sherer.
In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism
Lars Müller Publishers, 2020
Co-Editor with Jeffrey Hogrefe, Scott Ruff, and Ashley Simone
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If African American experience emerges from the structure of slavery, how does architecture relate to that experience? Rather than seek affirmation from a Eurocentric discipline that has regulated and excluded them from its study and practice, African Americans have claimed space in unexpected locations. Essays from varied voices—contemporary architects, artists, and historians—remain distinct even as they are synthesized in this anthology of consciousness-evoking practices.
With contributions by Tina M. Campt, Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson, Radiclani Clytus, J. Yolande Daniels, Jeffrey Hogrefe, Ann S. Holder, Walis Johnson, Elizabeth J. Kennedy, Rodney Leon, Scott Ruff, Marisa Williamson
Grow the Future: Visions of Biodesign
Biodesign Challenge, 2022
Co-Editor with Daniel Grushkin
Book Designer: Chris Allen
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“Biodesign is centuries old, and at the same time, it’s of the future," writes Paola Antonelli in her piece that appears in Grow the Future, the compilation of projects and ideas at the forefront of the emerging field of biodesign. These 40 profiled projects were realized as part of the Biodesign Challenge, which, since its inception in 2016, has mobilized a worldwide community of artists, designers, biologists, and students to imagine, create, and critique the future of biotechnology. Essays by leaders in the field structure the book, as they explore the future of biodesign and its role in shaping people’s identities, cultures, and relationships with the living environment.
Contributors include: Paola Antonelli, Jane Pirone, Orkan Telhan, Corinne Takara, Pia Interlandi, William Myers, Ani Liu, Todd Kuiken, Christina Cogdell, Nandita Baxi Sheth, Whitney Gaskins, and Heather Dewey Hagborg.
The July 2021 issue of Biodesigned, titled Interspecies, features writers such as Joyce Hwang, an architect who takes on animals of all species, including humans, as clients. Biodesigned is an independent, not-for-profit publication produced by Biodesign Challenge.
In the Round, On the Flat
Pratt Institute School of Architecture, 2022
Associate Editor
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This volume documents In the Round, On the Flat, an exhibition of architectural models in the age of the digital image when material ideation and visual consumption frequently are confined to the flat space of the screen. The featured work traces evolving attitudes toward making and signals a shift in the culture of architectural representation that reflects the preoccupations of a digitally immersed society. Contributions of emerging and established practitioners include manually fabricated constructs and those conceived using new technology.
Making and Meeting (Working Title)
AXIOMATIC EDITIONS, an Imprint of ORO EDITIONS,
publishing date forthcoming
Author: Michael K Chen Architecture
Editor
Informed by curiosity and a dedication to material expression, discourse, and making, MKCA challenges previously held notions of craft, collaboration, and practice. Themes that emerge in MKCA work speak to the firm’s values and therefore are difficult to parse or call out as distinct as they overlap and intertwine in a messy matrix. The book is not a monograph, although MKCA projects are starting points. Rather, by relying on multiple interdisciplinary voices, it offers direction to a new generation of makers.
Editorial Evaluation for the former Campus Architect
University of California Berkeley, 2023
Editor
Does a series of essays, some of which previously have been published, constitute a book? This is the question posed by this author and others who are embarking on a book exploration and request an editorial evaluation of their content. This particular author received feedback and suggestions that fell into the following categories: General Observations, Summaries of Texts, Overall Themes, Book Typologies, Images, and Notes on Style.
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At the Edge of Where God Built: Language. Concepts. Islamic Architecture
ACTAR, 2026
Author: L.E.FT Architects
Editor: Ashley Simone
Constructed Geographies: Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Casa da Arquitectura, 2024
Editors: Jean Louis Cohen, Vanessa Grossman, Ashley Simone
Frank Gehry: Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings, Volume One, 1954-1978
Cahiers D’Art, Staffan Ahrenberg, 2020
Author: Jean-Louis Cohen
Editor: Ashley Simone
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