Spread

Book design & around it

Part / Whole

Urban projects for Bangkok, Hong Kong and Shanghai

Catalogue / National University of Singapore / 2020 / Asma Khawatmi, Nirmal Kishnani (eds.) / Paperback with flaps / 180 x 250 mm / 248 pages / Colour / English edition / ISBN: 978-981-14-5675-6 / A compilatory display of three years’ projects for the MSc ISD on town planning, public space, mobility and sustainability of three megalopolises in South East Asia. The theme of scale runs throughout the book to organise its composition and measure the various graphic elements. System and hierarchy are the guiding principles of the layout.

Silicon Singapore

Urban Projects for Hybrid and Resilient Innovation Districts

Catalogue / Basheer, National University of Singapore / 2020 / Oscar Carracedo (ed.) / Hardback / 165 x 245 mm / 168 pages / Colour / English edition / ISBN: 978-981-14-3882-0 / This edition compiles town-planning and public space projects undertaken by students of the university’s Urban Design MA.

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Fuudokei (climatic landscape)

Mashiko Landscapes Project

Catalogue / KOBUFUJI Architects (Yoshihide Kobanawa, Kaoru Fujii), Akira Ito (Social design studio-Toyo University) / 2020 / Stapled binding / 181 x 256 mm / 24 pages / Colour / Japanese edition / A document in the form of a notebook to publicise the project of transitional development of the Mashiko landscapes  (in the prefecture of Tochigi), a Japanese town known for its traditional ceramics, its history and natural surroundings. This publication, intended to raise awareness of the need to preserve local landscapes and promote sustainable tourism, hopes to offer all inhabitants of the area a long-term view of the strategy.

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Manual Thinking

Luki Huber - Gerrit Jan Veldman

Catalogue / Luki Huber / Empresa Activa / 2015 / English, German, Spanish, Dutch and Japanese editions / 240 x 165 mm / 160 pages and a sheet of stickers / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-941836-0-7 (english) / Manual Thinking is a new tool and instructions manual for team thinking in visual terms made by product designers Luki Huber and Gerrit Jan Veldman. Besides designing the publication, Spread has collaborated with the authors on workshops and practical sessions with students, professionals and collectives in the creative field.

on-a

Emotion-Architecture

Monography / on-a / Artpower / 2016 / English and Chinese edition / 185 x 240 mm / 456 pages / Color / ISBN: 978-988-18769-6-6 (English) / “The architecture of on-a —relevant for its connections, models, and structures of complex organic forms— recreates a source of inspiration that extends to the network of existing ecosystems whose adaptation to architecture becomes a constant dialogue with the environment. The formal and linguistic autonomy of the resulting architectural object  seeks to stimulate emotions and the ability to define itself sometimes as a non-transferable benchmark of the fragmented, orderly and at the same time irregular character of nature.” on-a (excerpt of the back cover) / Design in collaboration with Bet Puigbò.

Small Houses

Contemporary Japanese dwellings

Catalogue / Claudia Hildner / Birkhäuser / 2011 / English and German editions / 165 x 240 mm / 160 pages / Color / ISBN: 978-3-0346-0744-5 (anglès) / “The courage to experiment: when Japanese architects design small houses, they play with the limits of space, use unusual materials and develop new concepts for domestic life. The buildings reveal the creativity of Japanese architects, as well as their ability to organize even the smallest corner. Over the years, the short life of residential buildings has led to a huge architectural market and this book documents current approaches.” Claudia Hildner. (Excerpt from the back cover.)

Convergent Flux

Arquitectura contemporània i urbanisme a Corea

Catalogue / Birkhäuser / 2012 / Jinhee Park, John Hong (ed.) / English edition / 220 x 280 mm / 176 pages / Color / ISBN: 978-3-0346-0806-0 / “A remarkable synthesis of history, culture, and innovative design, contemporary architectural and urbanistic interventions in South Korea take shape in the context of great density and rapid societal change. This book examines 32 projects in detail; six essays address topics such us the fusion of tradition and modernity, the redefining of so-called social spaces, and the country’s special topographic condition». Park-Hong. (excerpt from the back cover) / Design in collaboration with Clara Compte.

Coup de dés

Architectural debates series

Catalogue / Docomomo Internacional, Fundació Mies van der Rohe / 2008-2012 / Xavier Costa, Ana Tostões (eds.) / Series of 5 titles / English edition / 135 x 200 mm / 96 pages / Color and spot inks / ISBN: 978-84-936901-4-4 / “The Fundació Mies van der Rohe organises a series of debates and lectures entitled ‘Coup de Dés’ that provide an opportunity to discuss some of the most significant architecture being produced, with the objective of offering a wide panorama of current architectural practice. The debates are generated by the presentation of various projects. Each presentation is followed by a dialogue between the architect and a critic who proposes an interpretation of the project and raises related questions.” Ivan Blasi. (Excerpt from the back cover.)

BR / RB

Barcelona Regional. Ring roads Barcelona

Catalogue / Barcelona Regional, Ajuntament de Barcelona / 2019 / Josep Bohigas (ed.) / Catalan, spanish and english editions / Box containing two volumes: Barcelona Regional (BR). Past and Present: Hardback with fabric on spine / 165 x 210 mm / 272 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-9156-206-1 (english); Ring roads Barcelona (RB). Present and Future: Spiralbound / 150 x 210 mm / 256 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-9156-206-1 (english) / BR celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the appearance of Barcelona’s Regional Urban Planning Agency starting from the projects carried out in Barcelona since the city hosted the Olympic Games in 1992. It has a uniform, descriptive and compilatory quality. RB is a monographic catalogue on the Barcelona Ring Roads (Rondes) in which four clearly distinct chapters present groups of data and specific projects and narratives on the subject. The wire-o binding, or twin loop,  allows users to interact with the publication. Each chapter has its own cover, that can also become the cover of the book as a whole. The volume includes photographs by Marta Torrent. / Designed in collaboration with Claudia Parra and Edith Stone.

Geography of Dreams

RCR arquitectes

Monography / RCR Arquitectes / TOTO / 2019 / RCR Bunka (ed.) / Japanese-english bilingual edition / Paperback with fabric on spine and jacket / 190 x 250 mm / 400 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-4-88706-377-8 / An extensive and retrospective survey of the work of the Olot architects who won The Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2017. This book is a balance of sobriety, order and subtle hierarchy à la Japonaise, harmoniously combined with photographs, plans and watercolours, where the different types of paper distinguish each part. The volume includes photographs by Hisao Suzuki and illustrations by the authors.

Mies Missing Materiality

Anna & Eugeni Bach

Monography / Anna & Eugeni Bach / Fundació Mies van der Rohe / 2019 / Ivan Blasi (ed.) / English edition / Swiss binding / 195 x 280 mm / 96 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-948820-0-5 / This book is intended to evoke a fragment of the actual Mies Van der Rohe Pavilion in which the architects worked. The object exudes absence, whiteness and a vinyl texture, elements that are present in the spatial intervention, with a subtle irregularity that can also be discovered in the layout of the inner pages. The volume is illustrated with photographs by Adrià Goula.

UA series

Denise Scott Brown Collection

Essay series / Universitat d’Alacant / 2019 / Enrique Nieto (ed.) / Spanish edition / Paperback / 115 x 200 mm / Colour / “a”: Arquitectura in-dependiente / José Maria Torres Nadal / 264 pages / ISBN: 978-84-9717-667-5; “b”: Algunos objetos de deseo / José Pérez de Lama, Remedios Zafra, Iván López Munuera, Ernesto Castro / / 120 pages / ISBN: 978-84-9717-666-8 / The Denise Scott Brown Collection is conceived as a compilation of heterogeneous academic essays. Chiefly designed as reading books, visually austere and typographically rigorous, the layout of their inner pages is enhanced by blank spaces to encourage footnotes. The poster-cum-dust jacket is at once a fragment that acts as a visual enticement and a separate souvenir.

Mies Award ’19

European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award

Catalogue / Fundació Mies van der Rohe / 2019 / Ivan Blasi, Anna Sala (eds.) / English edition / Paperback with flaps / 170 x 240 mm / 448 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-9488-201-2 / The structure of this extensive book is arranged in thematic units that include the works nominated for the award and those who have won it. All 383 projects unfold in the pages of the book in the form of plans and blueprints that, with extreme formal rigour, are scaled and geographically oriented in order to create a visual map of European architecture.

Design, Create, Thrill

The power of graphic design to spark emotions

Essay / Sara Caldas / Hoaki, Elisava / 2019 / English and Spanish editions / Paperback with flaps / 190 x 250 mm / 184 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-17656-02-7 (english) / The content of this book is divided into two halves, fifty per cent is text and the other fifty per cent are images. In other words, pages designed only to be read alternate from beginning to end with exclusively visual pages, creating a sustained and balanced rhythm halfway between the essay and the visual formats. «Design, Create, Thrill is meant to be used as a tool to create successful emotion-driven design and to help designers to harmonize concepts, thoughts and ideas to touch someone’s heart. The book presents twenty-three principles which […] are grouped into chapters according to the level of emotions that they elicit. The reader will find timeless design pieces from all over the world and from distinct points in time, as well as brief interviews and conversations with some of the mentioned authors». Sara Caldas. (Excerpt from the back cover).

Muntadas. Asian Protocols

Antoni Muntadas

Two monographies series / Antoni Muntadas / Esteban Andueza (ed.) / Three editions: Asian Protocols. Muntadas [China] / Centre d’Estudis i Recerca [Arxiu/AM], Three Shadows Photography Art Centre / 2018 / Bilingual edition English-Chinese / Box containing an explanatory leaflet, an elastic band and a digital code to download the catalogue / 180 x 240 mm / Colour / ISBN: ND; Asian Protocols. Muntadas [Japan] / 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Institut Ramon Lllull / 2016 / Trilingual edition English-Japanese-Catalan / Paperback / 180 x 240 mm / 128 pages / Colour / ISBN: ND; Asian Protocols. Muntadas. Round-table transcripts / 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Institut Ramon Lllull / 2016 / Bilingual edition English-Chinese / Paperback / 180 x 240 mm / 112 pages / BN / ISBN: ND /Asian Protocols is an attempt to deal with images and codes as part of visual experiences, with contrasting approaches: more versus less, near versus far, etc. By sharing stories about China, Korea and Japan and tracing their different paths of development we get a glimpse of moments of agreement and disagreement.” Antoni Muntadas. (Excerpt from the back cover.) The ‘Chinese volume’ is an object apparently devoid of content – a box, without its corresponding catalogue – intended to challenge that Asian country’s latent censorship. Through a conveniently readable QR code, the contents of the exhibition can be digitally downloaded. The ‘Japanese volume’ is structured in fragments, packets of texts, essays, graphs and images. In terms of design, the graphics of each different block start from a coded colour to create contrasts between densities and rhythmical readings.

Re-Visions

Metropolitan Barcelona. Public space 2013-2017

Catalogue / Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona / 2018 / POCH (ed.) / Catalan, Spanish and English editions / Hardback (catalan) and flexibound (spanish and english) / 235 x 270 mm / 304 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-87881-22-0 (english) / This book is at once a compilation of projects and a celebration of twenty-five years of work dedicated to public space around Barcelona, forming a visual landscape and creating a space for reflection. Over and above the catalogued structure of its themes, the book provides keys for cross-readings adding tags to facilitate surfing the website.

Plans i projectes per a Barcelona

2011—2015

Catalogue / Ajuntament de Barcelona, Actar / 2015 / Vicente Guallart, Ricard Gratacós, Carles Bárcena (eds.) / Catalan and English editions / Flexibound / 240 x 310 mm / 440  pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-1-940291-72-7 (english) / Barcelona City Council has been publishing this series of ‘Plans and Projects for Barcelona’ for more than thirty years, under different political cycles. The various projects and theses on the condition of the city are described in terms of town planning, architecture and public space, of the present and of the future. The complex contents are visually and organically arranged, comprehensible at different scales thanks to a strict hierarchy and range of graphic styles that unite the book as a whole. / Designed in collaboration with Bet Puigbò.

Disseny per viure

99 projects for the real world

Catalogue / Museu del Disseny de Barcelona / 2015 / Oscar Guayabero (ed.) / Catalan, Spanish and English editions / Paperback with flaps / 165 x 230 mm / 208 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-9850-682-2 (english) / Disseny per viure (Design for Living) was the first exhibition produced by Museu del Disseny de Barcelona and its graphic design developed in the catalogue, the display and the communication campaign. The publication describes ninety-nine designs in a sequence arranged according to a person’s life and the influence they exert over it at each different moment. This linear structure is interrupted by thematic breaks that are enhanced by texts by reputed authors. The design is multiplied in order to meet the content requirements of each piece on display. The volume includes photographs by Xavier Padrós. The exhibition was awarded the City of Barcelona Prize in 2015. / Designed in collaboration with Claudia Parra and Bet Puigbò.

Promopress / Hoaki

Covers, books, dummies, etc.

Selection of books / Promopress – Hoaki / 2013-… / A graphic collaboration with Promopress publishing house (Hoaki Books, since 2019) translated into cover designs, complete publications and smaller catalogues on architecture, fashion, design and art.

Phylosofar

Sebastià Jovani

Essay / Sebastià Jovani / Plec 22 / 2019 / Pere Torrell (ed.) / Catalan edition / Paperback with flaps / Digital printing / 105 x 180 mm / 104 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-94426-95-7 /

«After numerous furtive attempts, a highly dangerous conglomerate of media terrorism has succeeding in developing Phylosofar, a synthetic pharmacological substance which, injected, acts as a catalyst for a substance of high noetic concentration: polyscriptylene logos-diethylamide: [Σ(n-1 ΘxC20H25N3O].» Sebastià Jovani (Excerpt from the back cover.)

Diseños y esbozos para elBulli

Luki Huber

Catalogue / Planeta Gastro / 2018 / Luki Huber / Spanish edition / 155 x 215 mm / 320 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-08181-28-9 / For the first time, the entire object design developed by Luki Huber for Ferran Adrià’s elBulli restaurant is brought together in this book. Specific cooking utensils and a variety of artefacts are displayed in sketches, well-made photographs and short texts. The book’s rigorous cataloguing system is accompanied by a simple design, divested of all expression.

CoHousing Barcelona

Living the house in cooperation

Catalogue / CoHousing Barcelona SCCL / 2019 / Ingo von Sundhal (ed.) / Catalan and Spanish editions / Paperback / 165 x 235 mm / 96 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-09-14428-0 (spanish) / A brief monograph on cooperative housing that includes contributions by specialists. Yellow and green are corporate colours and run throughout the catalogue. The volume is illustrated by Tomoko Sakamoto.

Fab City

The mass of distribution of (almost) everything

Catalogue / Institute of advanced architecture of Catalunya (IaaC), FabLab Barcelona / 2018 / Tomás Díez (ed.) / English edition / Paperback / 150 x 210 mm / 224 pages / Color / ISBN: 978-84-948142-1-1 / «The book focuses on the power of human-centered technology to transform urban environments and our socioeconomic systems. It showcases the ideas of key thinkers from disciplines including science, design, architecture, urbanism, technology, and sociology, all offering insights from their theoretical experience on how to bring about systems change through the distribution of acces to tools and knowledge.» Tomàs Díez (excerpt from the back cover)

Mies Award ’17

European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award

Catalogue / Fundació Mies van der Rohe / 2017 / Ivan Blasi, Anna Sala (eds.) / English edition / Box containing two paperback-with-flaps volumes / 170 x 240 mm / ISBN: 978-84-941836-6-9 / Two volumes: The Compilation / 384 pages / BN; The Jury Selection / 176 pages / Colour / The structure of this extensive edition is arranged in two very physically different volumes. One of them, lightweight (offset paper) yet longer, is a compilation of the graphic material in the form of a sketchbook; the other, short yet heavy (coated paper) stands out for the photographs of the nominated and prize-winning works and is an elegant and sophisticated brochure. All 355 projects unfold in the pages of the first book, starting from extremely precise plans that are geographically scaled and oriented, shaping, as a whole, a visual map of European architecture. / Designed in collaboration with Claudia Parra.

Europe City

Lessons from the European Prize for Urban Public Space

Catalogue / Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Lars Müller Publishers / 2015 / Diane Gray (ed.) / English edition / 165 x 240 mm / 208 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-3-03778-474-7 / To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary  of the European Prize for Urban Public Space, created by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) and co-organised by several European architectural institutions. The design is conceived to enhance the legibility of the book over and above the lavish illustrations of the prized works. The graphic project shared with CCCB extends to an exhibition that has toured several countries in Europe and the United States and will be held every two years. / Designed in collaboration with Bet Puigbò.

Create!

Eduardo Arroyo

Monography / Eduardo Arroyo / Actar / 2014 / Amadeu Santacana (ed.) / English and Spanish editions / Hardback / 125 x 170 mm / 448 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-1-940291-05-5 (english) / This hybrid publication compiles texts and a monograph on Madrid architect Eduardo Arroyo that trace his professional career, illustrated with examples of works constructed and designed, drawings, thoughts and short stories. In the format of a small bible, structured in chapters and divided in a thousand and one verses, the end object is striking for its outer appearance, in particular for the texture of its dust jacket. / Designed in collaboration with Claudia Parra.

Phantom. Mies as Rendered Society

Andrés Jaque

Monography / Andrés Jaque / Fundació Mies van der Rohe / 2014 / English edition / Sewn binding / 195 x 280 mm / 40 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-936901-5-1 / This catalogue accompanied the installation created by architect Andrés Jaque at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. The covers of a limited edition of the publication include a fragment of the former red curtains of the pavilion. Besides the complex insertion of this element in the design, the inner layout suggests a double or  parallel reading of an historical-critical analysis of a descriptive text of the works on display.

Sistematúrgia

Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca

Catalogue / Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca / Arts Santa Mònica, Edicions Polígrafa / 2016 / Catalan, Spanish and English editions / Paperback with flaps / 165 x 235 mm / 228 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-34313-51-4 (english) / This book is an autobiography structured in five parts, each one of which describes the author’s life and artistic career from a different point of view and style. This is translated into different variations of the composition of the layout: a fictionalised version, like a ledger; a strict chronology of the works and projects; a glossary; technical credits of projects; and, concluding the volume, an exclusively visual chronology formed starting from photographs, illustrations and video frames. The illustrated index is a new way of describing its contents, presenting a gallery of characters who symbolise each of the periods in the author’s trajectory.

Ephemeral Architecture

100 projects, 1000 ideas

Catalogue / Promopress / 2016 / Adrià S. Vidiella (ed.) / English, Spanish and French editions / Hardback / 210 x 240 mm / 320 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-15967-70-5 (english) / In this book a thousand short excerpts of text accompany numerous images of the projects . Starting from a fixed graticule, the columns of text adapt to the wide range of formats and sizes of the images, enhancing the layout. / Designed in collaboration with Claudia Parra.

El artista ingenioso

Exploring Collage and Mixed Media Techniques

Catalogue / Víctor Escandell / Promopress / 2016 / Spanish, English, French and Italian editions / Hardback / 210 x 255 mm / 128 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-16504-62-6 (english) / This is a joint project carried out by illustrator Víctor Escandell, photographer Alicia Martorella and editor Montse Borràs, in close collaboration. The pages are arranged to resemble the artist’s desktop. Throughout much of the book, chapter by chapter, we may follow the construction of the collages as if were taking part in a workshop in progress. The layout reflects the organic quality of the creation of the works, revealing to readers an apparent disorder that is, however, balanced by the underlying graticule to bring rhythm and liveliness to the reading experience.

Mies Award ’15

European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award

Catalogue / Fundació Mies van der Rohe / 2015 / Ivan Blasi, Anna Sala (eds.) / English edition / Two volumes in paperback with flaps, wrapped in one extra cover / 170 x 240 mm / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-941836-0-7 / Two volumes: 420 / 496 pages; 5+1 / 128 pages / This catalogue is made up of two separate books published consecutively, one of which includes 420 nominated works and the other the winners and runners-up. The books, designed to complement each other, are packed together in one edition that includes computer graphics, maps, data and the visual description of the projects. As a whole, the design has been used in the graphic communication of the Award and for the subsequent touring exhibition. / Original design by Ramon Prat developed in collaboration with Lucía Bedia and Claudia Parra.

Naturbà

Barcelona Collserola

Catalogue / Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC) / 2014 / Adolf Sotoca, Oscar Carracedo (eds.) / Catalan and English editions / Flexibound / 240 x 310 mm / 440 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-96842-62-5 (english) / An extensive compilation of the projects submitted to the competition for developing the borders of Collserola, the natural mountain area north of Barcelona. One hundred and eleven projects organised in the form of chapters, essays and other contributions engage in a regular and systematic dialogue amidst a range of layouts. Designed in collaboration with Claudia Parra.

Elisava 50

50th Anniversary

Catalogue / Elisava / 2012 / Daniel Cid (ed.) / Trilingual edition Catalan-Spanish-English / Hardback with fabric in spine / 210 x 320 mm / 144 pages / Colour / ISBN: ND / Fifty items correspond to fifty concepts that define the Elisava School of Design and Engineering. The design of the fifty miscellaneous fragments is totally flexible and heterogeneous. The cover acts at once as a table of contents and as a foundational statement.

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Making Better Places

Patsy Healey

Essay / Patsy Healey / Kajima Institute Publishing / 2015 / Kayo Murakami (ed.) / Japanese edition / 135 x 195 mm / 368 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-4-306-07318-0 / Japanese edition of an academic thesis written by town planner Patsy Healey. Its small format and a layout characterised by generous page margins allow readers – whether they be town planners or architects – to carry the book with them on their travels in order to jot down their thoughts and discoveries, thereby turning the object into a diary. The legibility of the book’s title is subtly and painstakingly challenged on the cover by means of computer graphics with information from the architectural examples mentioned inside.

Art is Trash

By Francisco de Pájaro

Catalogue / Art is Trash / Promopress / 2015 / English edition / 180 x 270 mm / 192 pages / Color / ISBN: 978-84-15967-34-7 / «Art is Trash is the nom de guerre of Francisco de Pájaro, the artist who has astounded passers-by in th streets of Barcelona, London and New York, but also bloggers, curators and gallery owners, eager to find straightforward, instinctive and honest artists. Leading urban art galleries such us Westbank Gallery in London and Base Elements in Barcelona have already exhibited his works. This is the first book to showcase the work, phylosophy and evolution of one of the most fascinating, groundbreaking and brave artists in the street-art scen today, through his street installations and his canvases in galleries». Montse Borràs (excerpt of the back cover) / Design in collaboration with Carla Bosch.

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Les variacions Sebald

Text, image, arts

Catalogue / Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) / 2015 / Jorge Carrión (ed.) / Bilingual Catalan-English and Spanish-English editions / 170 x 240 mm / 104 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-60657-02-6 (spanish-english) / This is a hybrid publication, halfway between an essay and an art catalogue. The layout reveals compositional variations according to content formats, and the small volume is a high quality publication. / Photos, 1, 3, 4: © Claudia Parra.

Arxiu Bolaño

1977 — 2003

Catalogue / Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) (2013), Casa del Lector, Madrid (2013), Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires (2014) / 2013-2014 / Juan Insúa (ed.) / Bilingual editions Catalan-English and Spanish-English / 170 x 240 mm / 176 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-89384-90-3 (Spanish-English) / This catalogue assembles critical texts and a range of graphic and literary material from the Chilean writer’s archive, published on occasion of the exhibition staged by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). The publication includes photographs by Adrià Goula.

Arts Santa Mònica

Art, Ciència i fotografia

Catalogues series / Arts Santa Mònica, Actar / 2010-2012 / Editions in Catalan, Spanish and English / 165 x 235 mm / Colour / This series of short monographs on art and science is a register of the respective exhibitions that were held at Arts Santa Mònica art centre in the heart of Barcelona, the Rambles. Although some of them are dedicated to solo shows and others to collective displays, all the volumes are very visual and aim to spark critical reflection.

Round Trip

Carlos Ventós

Catalogue / Carlos Ventós / Balkis Publishers / 2014 / Spanish-English bilingual edition / Hardback / 220 x 220 mm / 204 pages / Colour / ISBN: ND / Photo book of an imaginary journey that can be visually read in a continuous loop, i.e., the beginning is the end and vice versa.

Mies Award ’13

European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award

Catalogue / Fundació Mies van der Rohe / 2013 / Diane Gray (ed.) / English edition / Paperback with jacket / 170 x 240 mm / 288 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-936901-8-2 / The works nominated for the award and the runners-up are described and illustrated in this catalogue. The sequence of the layout systematically alternates between double page spreads with single images and a profusion of texts and images to create a regular rhythm of parallel readings throughout the book.

Elisava des de 1961

A history of the school

Catalogue / Elisava / 2014 / Daniel Cid (ed.) / Catalan, Spanish and English editions / Hardback / 205 x 310 mm / 320 pages / Colour / ISBN: 978-84-617-0936-5 (english) / This volume, large in size and classical in style, describes the narrated and illustrated history of Barcelona’s emblematic design school from 1961 to the present. However, the linear structure of text and narrative is interrupted by colour-page spreads  – full-bleed photographs printed on coated paper –that, rhythmically alternated, create visual pauses that can be read independently. The sequence of interspersed spreads offers two parallel readings of one and the same story. / Designed in collaboration with Claudia Parra.