Sternberg Press

Critical Spatial Practice

 
A critical spatial practice is a means of rethinking one's modes of action and codes of conduct. Edited by architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen, this series reinvents its internal structure according to the content of each volume: a toolbox that ranges from single-authored essays to conversations, manifestos, fiction, investigative journalism, historical studies, and artistic interventions, each accompanied by an artist contribution. The series follows the tradition of the discipline of architecture using the publication format as a testing ground for ideas.
 
Dennis Pohl - Building Carbon Europe - Critical Spatial Practice 13
Dennis Pohl
Building Carbon Europe – Critical Spatial Practice 13
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press
How architecture powered European energy politics in the postwar era and paved the way for today's dependency on coal, steel, and nuclear power.
Don\'t Follow the Wind - Critical Spatial Practice 12
Don't Follow the Wind – Critical Spatial Practice 12
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press
The twelfth volume of the Critical Spatial Practices series focuses on “Don't Follow the Wind,” the acclaimed collaborative project situated in the radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone.
Mark Wigley - Konrad Wachsmann\'s Television – Post-architectural Transmissions - Critical Spatial Practice 11
Mark Wigley
Konrad Wachsmann's Television – Post-architectural Transmissions – Critical Spatial Practice 11
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press
currently out of stock
In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann's legendary projects was dominated by the idea of television.
Nina Valerie Kolowratnik - The Language of Secret Proof – Indigenous Truth and Representation - Critical Spatial Practice 10
Nina Valerie Kolowratnik
The Language of Secret Proof – Indigenous Truth and Representation – Critical Spatial Practice 10
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press
This publication documents new spatial notational systems developed by architect Nina Valerie Kolowratnik to help Indigenous communities from New Mexico to protect and regain traditional lands.
Andrew Herscher - Displacements – Architecture and Refugee - Critical Spatial Practice 09
Andrew Herscher
Displacements – Architecture and Refugee – Critical Spatial Practice 09
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press
currently out of stock
An examination of intersections of mass-population displacement and architecture through the twentieth century and into the present (with visual contribution by Omer Fast).
Jill Magid - The Proposal - Critical Spatial Practice 08
Jill Magid
The Proposal – Critical Spatial Practice 08
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
The eighth volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series focuses on Jill Magid's “The Barragán Archives,” a multiyear project that examines the legacy of Pritzker Prize—winning architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988), and questions forms of power, public access, and copyright that construct artistic legacy.
Felicity D. Scott - Disorientation – Bernard Rudofsky in the Empire of Signs - Critical Spatial Practice 07
Felicity D. Scott
Disorientation – Bernard Rudofsky in the Empire of Signs – Critical Spatial Practice 07
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press
Felicity D. Scott reconsiders the learnings of Bernard Rudofsky on vernacular architecture in the light of his relation with Japan.
Eyal Weizman - The Roundabout Revolutions - Critical Spatial Practice 06
Eyal Weizman
The Roundabout Revolutions – Critical Spatial Practice 06
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press
How did an urban apparatus put in the service of authoritarian power became the place of its undoing: the roundabout revolutions, from South Korea to recent Arab Spring.
Mark von Schlegell - Ickles, Etc. - Critical Spatial Practice 05
Mark von Schlegell
Ickles, Etc. – Critical Spatial Practice 05
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press
Mark von Schlegell's fusion of theory and fiction puts the SF back in notions of “speculative aesthetics.”
Keller Easterling - Subtraction - Critical Spatial Practice 04
Keller Easterling
Subtraction – Critical Spatial Practice 04
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press
The urgency of building subtraction.
Beatriz Colomina - Manifesto Architecture – The Ghost of Mies - Critical Spatial Practice 03
Beatriz Colomina
Manifesto Architecture – The Ghost of Mies – Critical Spatial Practice 03
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press
Beatriz Colomina traces the history of the modern architecture manifesto, with particular focus on Mies van der Rohe, and the play between the written and built work.
Chantal Mouffe - The Space of Agonism - Critical Spatial Practice 02
Markus Miessen, Chantal Mouffe
The Space of Agonism – Critical Spatial Practice 02
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
A selection of conversations between Markus Miessen and political philosopher Chantal Mouffe.
What Is Critical Spatial Practice? - Critical Spatial Practice 01
What Is Critical Spatial Practice? – Critical Spatial Practice 01
2012
English edition
Sternberg Press
sold out
What, today, can be understood as a critical modality of spatial practice?
Spyros Papapetros - Pre/Architecture - Critical Spatial Practice 14
Spyros Papapetros
Pre/Architecture – Critical Spatial Practice 14
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press
forthcoming
How a pre-architectural world became a central object of study by architectural historians and architects in the aftermath of world historical events.
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