"Albania is a young democracy, home to nearly three million people. The country sits at the heart of the Mediterranean; its geographic location has long shaped the country’s cultural exchanges and built environment. Three decades after the collapse of the communist regime, Albania remains in transition – culturally, socially and architecturally. This ongoing renewal has placed architecture at the center of national discourse and created a specific opportunity for architects. “The Albanian Files” focuses on that transformation. This book brings together sixty international offices currently working in Albania, some of which have been active in the country since the early 2000s. Each office submitted a contribution with reflections on their experiences in Albania and on architecture built and proposed."

"“A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture” is an ongoing trilogy by one of the leading architectural photographers, Leonardo Finotti. This first volume presents roughly one hundred of Finotti’s photographs of previously unknown Latin American modern architecture taken between 2008 and 2016 and offers an important overview of the region. Known for his non-judgmental approach, Finotti allows the viewer to get an insight into the richness and variety of Latin American architecture – from stadiums, to public buildings and private housing. The photographs published in this volume were taken in Asunción, Montevideo, Belo Horizonte, Valparaiso, São Paulo, Bogotá, Lima, México City and Havana."

"As humanity grapples with the escalating challenges of climate change, the discipline of architecture finds itself at a critical juncture. The urgency of the situation demands that schools of architecture not only contribute to envisioning more serene futures but also equip the next generation of architects with the audacity to question, project, criticize, explore and imagine alternative solutions. Architectural research is in re/action to this climate crisis. “Transcalar Prospects in Climate Crisis” offers a vital compilation of research projects and essays reflecting the investigative efforts at EPFL Architecture. Addressing critical issues like material uses, land and soil degradation, environmental justice and circular urban flows, the book brings together diverse, entangled perspectives and transcalar vantage points. It navigates complex factors such as comfort, standards, profit and individual needs, across a wide ecological spectrum. The book is a must-read for architects, urban planners, designers, scholars, and anyone seeking knowledge and inspiration for climate action, urging a conscious and critical, transcalar response to one of the most pressing issues of our time."

"This new paperback edition of "Helvetica Forever" traces the typeface’s first fifty years. Designed in 1957, Helvetica quickly became a defining emblem of Swiss graphic design and a model for clear, functional communication worldwide. Its perceieved neutral form purposefully resists overt expression – a restraint that has made it both admired and contested, securing its lasting cultural presence. This now-classic volume situates the evolution of Helvetica alongside other seminal sans serif designs of the twentieth century and examines the forces behind its remarkable global reach. The publication draws on the legacy and archives of Alfred Hoffmann, former director of the Haas Type Foundry where Helvetica was developed in collaboration with Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann. From signage and corporate identity to editorial design and ephemeral print, the book reveals the many contexts in which Helvetica has shaped visual culture and demonstrates how a seemingly neutral typeface became one of the most influential design tools of the modern era."

"Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions is a collection of essays by a group of scholars, which examine Breuer’s approach and way of working, his strategies and his signature buildings. These essays draw on an abundance of newly available documents held in the Breuer Archive at Syracuse University, which are now accessible online. Often seen as a pioneer of a “brutalist modernism” of reinforced concrete, Marcel Breuer might best be understood through the lens of the changing institutional structures in and for which he worked. More recently historians, architects, and – with the reopening of the great megalith of his Whitney Museum as the Met Breuer in New York – a larger public are gaining new insights into the cities and large-scale buildings Breuer planned. Breuer (1902–1981) is celebrated as an architect, furniture designer and teacher who is known as a “formgiver” of modern American architecture. Originally from Hungary, Breuer was one of the first students at the Bauhaus before he emigrated to the USA in 1937."

"Prendre son élan et plonger sous la surface: c'est le thème que Météore a choisi pour poursuivre son exploration du photoreportage à l'heure de l'IA. La plongée au sens propre comme au figuré, que ce soit dans l'eau chlorée d'une piscine, au fond d'un lac, dans des systèmes de surveillance, dans des mondes virtuels ou encore dans une communauté locage. Autant d'expériences corporelles et mentales qui montrent que l'acte photographique est bien plus que la génération d'une image. Cette édition rassemble les œuvres de photographes genevois.e.s: Laura Gauch, Pascal Greco, Ulises Lozano et Fabien Scotti, ainsi que celles de la photographe hollandaise, Esther Hovers."

"From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy. When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined in its mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong? Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this vastly disruptive sector is that its vision of success requires an almost unprecedented amount of resources : the "compute" power of high-end chips and the processing capacity to create massive LLMs, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans "cleaning up" that data for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and the truly alarming usage of energy and water underlying it all. The truth is that we have entered a new and ominous age of empire : only a small handful of globally scaled companies can even enter the field of play. At the head of the pack with its breakthrough ChatGPT, how would OpenAI resist such temptations?..."

"In 2023, hundreds of AI luminaries signed an open letter warning that artificial intelligence poses a serious risk of human extinction. Since then, the AI race has only intensified. Companies and countries are rushing to build machines that will be smarter than any person. And the world is devastatingly unprepared for what would come next. For decades, two signatories of that letter — Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares — have studied how smarter-than-human intelligences will think, behave, and pursue their objectives. Their research says that sufficiently smart AIs will develop goals of their own that put them in conflict with us — and that if it comes to conflict, an artificial superintelligence would crush us. The contest wouldn't even be close. How could a machine superintelligence wipe out our entire species? Why would it want to? Would it want anything at all? In this urgent book, Yudkowsky and Soares walk through the theory and the evidence, present one possible extinction scenario, and explain what it would take for humanity to survive. The world is racing to build something truly new under the sun. And if anyone builds it, everyone dies."

"A longstanding photobook classic, and the work for which New York photographer is best known, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggle for intimacy and understanding between friends and lovers collectively described by Goldin as her "tribe". Her work describes a world that is visceral and seething with life. As Goldin writes: “Real memory, which these pictures trigger, is an invocation of the color, smell, sound and physical presence, the density and flavor of life."

"Slums, informal settlements, and other unplanned habitats are seen as the antithesis of the metropolis. Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, founders of the design practice urbz, explore how such neighbourhoods and their inhabitants have been unfairly dismissed when they should in fact be understood as partners in the story of cities and urban development."