Magazine
This month gta Verlag is publishing Values and Surfaces: Art, Economy, Architecture, the English translation and expansion of a collection of essays by art and architectural historian Philip Ursprung first published in German in 2017. Lynnette Widder, architect and professor at Columbia...
Vincenzo Latronico has written several novels in Italian, but Perfection, published by New York Review Books this week, is his first novel to be translated into English. The book follows the lives of two young digital “creatives” in Berlin and other parts of Europe. Lynnette Widder...
Owen Hatherley’s Walking the Streets, Walking the Projects proposes the theory that, “in the 1960s, a new ideology emerged in New York. It held that cities thrived through the spontaneous ‘ballet of the streets’ and died when the state erected sterile projects.” This premise is then...
Kirsty Bell’s The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is billed as a “hybrid literary portrait of a place [that] makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves,...