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In Issue 75
Menna Agha resists the disciplinary protocols of maintenance by inviting us into the knowledge-making practice of cleaning her grandmother’s Nubian courtyard; Farzin Lotfi-Jam extends the tragedy of the present moment by interrogating the imperial systems used to wage war against Iran in realtime; Amelyn Ng questions who exactly Ring doorbells are protecting and how the technology deputizes residential space into an ever-expanding field of surveillance; and Cielo Saucedo takes us hiking through Kumeyaay land, reorienting our vision to the diffuse and bloody perimeters of the border wall.
Now Available
Everlasting Plastics
Edited by Tizziana Baldenebro, Lauren Leving, Joanna Joseph, and Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt
Mapping Malcolm
Edited by Najha Zigbi-Johnson
Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana
by Virginia Hanusik
Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds
by Nerea Calvillo
Deserts Are Not Empty
Edited by Samia Henni
Art after Liberalism
by Nicholas Gamso
Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound
edited by Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, and Niloufar Tajeri
Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality
edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt
Superpowers of Scale
by Andrés Jaque
In the Press
Alexander Luckmann, “Virginia Hanusik’s new photo book diverts our attention to the everyday impacts of climate crisis,” The Architect’s Newspaper, November 1, 2024.
Shameekia Shantel Johnson, “Charting a Better World Through Malcolm X’s New York,” Hyperallergic, September 17, 2024.
Michael Ando, “In Louisiana, a Photographer Charts Storms and Weather as Markers of Time,” Aperture, September 12, 2024.
Rachel Hunter Himes, “Malcolm was Here,” New York Review of Architecture vol 42, September 11, 2024.
Valerio Franzone x KoozArch, “The Many (Political) Lives of Air: Nerea Calvillo in conversation,” KoozArch, November 6, 2023.
Jaffer Kolb, “Nerea Calvillo’s Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds,” BOMB Magazine, June 1, 2023.
Ali Ismail Karimi, “Deserts Are Not Empty, edited by Samia Henni, explores the contested politics of supposedly empty terrain” The Architect’s Newspaper, April 6, 2023.
Available for Pre-Order
The Archival Exhibition: A Decade of Research at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, 2006–2016
Mark Wasiuta
This book both records the possibilities of the archival exhibition as a mode, method, and problem of architecture, and is itself a record of a decade-long curatorial project by Mark Wasiuta that sought to reframe the documents, authors, environments produced by and producing architecture.
Erasure by Design: Racial Protocols of Displacement, Demolition, and Extraction
V. Mitch McEwen
How has erasure formed the space around us? How do we come to know it, so that we can design differently? Erasure by Design tracks the methods, terms, and racial protocols that continue to do the work of displacement, demolition, and extraction into the present day.
Book Fairs
Libros Mutantes
Madrid Art Book Fair
April 24–26, 2026
La Casa Encendida
Madrid, Spain
Printed Matter
Los Angeles Art Book Fair
May 7–10, 2026
ArtCenter College of Design
Pasadena, California
Paris Ass Book Fair
June 5–7, 2026
Palais de Tokyo
Paris, France
Space Between #6: A KoozArch Podcast
CBAC Director Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt joins AJ Artemel and Cynthia Davidson in discussing the potential for various publication strategies, digital and print, to both challenge and advance architectural discourse across the field and its attendant institutions.
“The best book I’ve read in the past year is Deserts Are Not Empty, edited by Samia Henni. It’s an incredible collection of essays, conversations and poems that challenge the portrayal of deserts as barren, lifeless voids. The book explores the geopolitical implications of this narrative, revealing how colonial and imperial powers have weaponised the notion of emptiness to justify exploitation and control.”
Photo: Deserts Are Not Empty, edited by Samia Henni, Atkinson’s favourite recent read © Agathe Karsenti
Our recent title is a winner of AIGA Design’s 50 Books | 50 Covers awards of 2025. We want to extend a huge thanks and congratulations to Dave Run and Inyeong Cho of New Information who won in the cover category for Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss by Virginia Hanusik. Photo courtesy Scott Haven.
Work in Progress
States of Emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum
by Léopold Lambert
Material Variance
edited by Lola Ben-Alon
Insurgent Domesticites
Ana Gisele Ozaki, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Barbara Penner, Hollyamber Kennedy, Iulia Statica, Lilian Chee, Madiha Tahir, Malathi de Alwis, Miriam Ticktin, Natalie Swan Reinhart, Neferti Tadiar, Rishav Kumar Thakur, S. E. Eisterer, Sarover Zaidi, and Sharni Jayawardena
Disembodied Territories
edited by Menna Agha and Sara Salem
Further Readings and Resources
“Why Publish? Reframing the Stakes of Student Publications” is an open source record and archive of a workshop our office held at the end of July 2022 dedicated to reconsidering the limits and possibilities attendant to printed work. Now available for reading and reference, Why Publish? offers students the space to join us in reconsidering publishing as a collective project with collective consequences.
Nicholas Gamso, “Reorienting Toward Each Other: A Conversation with Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain,” in Art After Liberalism (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2021).
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