PLUS:

A 48-page photographic journey from West to East to Southern Africa with Iwan Baan

ALSO IN THE ISSUE:

A photographic meditation on the color blue by photographer Johann Clausen with Daniel Sannwald; designer Stephen Burks’ narrative objects; Spanish architect Miguel Fisac’s seriously playful Modernist adaptations; DIS collective’s surreal showroom performance at the New Museum Biennial; architect Valerio Olgiati’s neo-brutalist holiday home in Portugal; artist Justin Berry’s unsettling virtual landscapes; artist Mame Diarra-Niang’s photographic analysis of home country Senegal; a celebration of Pierre Paulin’s design legacy; kissing Columbus, Indiana awake with the help of Jonathan Hale Nesci; tracing Atang Tshikare’s evolving compositions; Spanish architecture duo Selgas Cano, who do more with less; Frida Escodebo’s sedimentary architecture; the potential of fire with ceramicist Anders Ruhwald; as well as a visit to the recently opened Museum of Shit near Milan, designed by Luca Cipelletti. And essays by Alessandro Bava on Tropical Architecture and Koyo Kouoh on the multiple forms of designing the social in Africa.