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Globetrotter

 
Every journey leaves a trail of souvenirs, memories, impressions, notepads and digital shots. Hence, the Globetrotter series brings together other potential forms of travel, ranging from architecture to town-planning, from botany to cookery, grand tours to alternative guides, as well as artistic and archive research. A kaleidoscope which eludes any precise definition and which welcomes all possible forms of the journey.
 
Temples for Industrious Lombards – Architecture by Mario Galvagni in Inveruno / Templi per lombardi laboriosi – Architetture di Mario Galvagni a Inveruno
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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The extravagant villas designed between the 1960s and 1980s by Italian architect Mario Galvagni (1928-2020) for prosperous Lombard families.
The Aquarium is a Listening Glass
2024
English edition
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The glass as a listening device.
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach - Project of a Historical Architecture
2024
English edition
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The facsimile and English-language reprint of the volume published in 1721 by Austrian architect and historian Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, a historical and theoretical work covering all architectural periods and styles, from Stonehenge to Chinese imperial arches, which had a considerable influence throughout Europe.
 Fosbury Architecture - Spaziale - Everyone belongs to everyone else / Ognuno appartiene a tutti gli altri
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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The volume "Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else" brings together the voices of all the protagonists involved in the Italian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Michele Mari - Le copertine di Urania
2023
Italian edition
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A journey through the history of the pioneering Italian science fiction magazine Urania since the early 1950s.
 Civil Architecture - Foreign Architecture / Domestic Policy
2022
English edition
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A project by architects Hamed Bukhamseen and Ali Karimi questioning geopolitical strategies related to the development of Kuwait's global oil distribution.
Francesco M. Cataluccio - Non c\'è nessuna Itaca - Viaggio in Lituania
2022
Italian edition
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The return to Lithuania of Francesco Cataluccio.
 Space Caviar - Dixit Algorizmi - The Garden of Knowledge
2022
English edition
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Dixit Algorizmi. The Garden of Knowledge sets out to question the origin myths and narratives surrounding modern technologies, using the lens of contemporary artistic practices to explore their forgotten roots and overlooked resonances with distant places, times and cultures (catalogue of the Uzbekistan's pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, 2022).
Editorial - An Exhibition in Words
2022
English edition
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Ten contemporary Italian writers dialogue with the works displayed in the exhibition inaugurating Luca Lo Pinto's program at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome.
Marco Sammicheli - Danish Diaries
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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A singular history of cultural encounters between Italy and Denmark.
Carlo Levi a San Costantino Albanese - Archivi della Basilicata – Vol. 2
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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Three multidisciplinary essays—from cultural anthropology to photography analysis—based on visual archives documenting the visit of writer, painter and politician Carlo Levi to an Albanian community in Southern Italy (second volume in the series “Archivi della Basilicata”).
La Bonifica di Bradano e Metaponto - Archivi della Basilicata – Vol. 1
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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The first in a series of publications dedicated to the exploration of the archives of the Italian region of Basilicata from an artistic perspective. This volume focuses on areas affected by the reclamation of the water system.
Aesthetics and Politics of Logistics
2019
English edition
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Aesthetics and politics of architecture of logistics.
Neither Nor / Né altra né questa - The challenge to the Labyrinth / La sfida al Labirinto
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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The catalogue of the Italian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale investigates and develops the theme chosen by the curator Milovan Farronato for the exhibition: the labyrinth.
Hämatli & Patriæ
2018
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
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Catalogue documenting an eponymous exhibition project which interprets contemporary issues such as migration, nationalism, populism and identity, using the symbolism in the Flemish painting of 1570 by Simon de Myle entitled Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat.
Hercule Florence - Le Nouveau Robinson
2018
English edition
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Through a series of scientific contributions and archives, this publication recounts the extraordinary character that was Hercule Florence—an explorer, an inventor and an artist, considered one of the inventors of photography.
Cloe Piccoli - Palazzo Abatellis Palermo
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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sold out
A contemporary narrative, an artist's book, a surprising journey into a place that we thought we knew.
Salento Moderno - An Inventory of Private Houses
in Southern Puglia /  Inventario di abitazioni private nel sud della Puglia
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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sold out
A photographic inventory.
 Studio Julia - Habitats
2018
English edition
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sold out
A compilation of Lina Bo Bardi's tenure as director of Habitat, a publication self-dubbed “the magazine of the arts in Brazil”. Between 1950 and 1954, Habitat documented Bo Bardi's early thoughts on Brazilian culture, as well as reflecting her very personal take on modernism. Edited and designed by Julia, with contributions by Tamar Guimarães, Claudia Leisinger, Tony de Marco, Lara Viana and Tuca Vieira.
Hercule Florence - Le Nouveau Robinson
2017
French edition
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Through a series of scientific contributions and archives, this publication recounts the extraordinary character that was Hercule Florence—an explorer, an inventor and an artist, considered one of the inventors of photography.
Ernesto Schick - Railway Flora
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
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A decade (1969-1978) of observation, classification and illustration of the abusive vegetation infesting the grounds of the international railway station in Chiasso, Switzerland, by botanist Ernesto Schick.
Francesca Berardi - Detour in Detroit
2015
English edition
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The decay of Detroit and its people's resistance in words and photographs (photographs by Antonio Rovaldi).
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