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  • The Public Interior as Idea and Project
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    The Public Interior as Idea and Project (second edition)

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    The Public Interior as Idea and Project
    The Public Interior as Idea and Project (second edition)
    The Public Interior as Idea and Project (second edition)
    The Public Interior as Idea and Project (second edition)
    The Public Interior as Idea and Project (second edition)
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    The Public Interior as Idea and Project (second edition)

    Mark Pimlott

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    Architecture / Landscape | Nature / Photography / Theory / Urbanism

    ISBN

    978-94-90322-52-6

    Editor

    Eleonoor Jap Sam

    Graphic designer

    Studio Joost Grootens, Joost Grootens, Silke Koeck, Simon Ruaut

    Number of pages

    302

    Book size

    17 x 24 cm

    Binding

    Softcover

    English

    Release date: October 2016. Second edition: May 2022.

    This publication is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL. 

    This publication was made possible with the support of Delft University of Technology.

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  • The Space of Technicity
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    The Space of Technicity

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    The Space of Technicity
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    The Space of Technicity

    Theorising Social, Technical and Environmental Entanglements

    Robert Gorny, Stavros Kousoulas, Dulmini Perera, Andrej Radman [eds.]

    €39.95

    Architecture / Bookazines / Series / New titles / Theory

    ISBN 978-94-93329-14-0
    Price € 39.95
    Series editors Stavros Kousoulas, Andrej Radman, Heidi Sohn, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft
    Volume editors Robert A. Gorny, Stavros Kousoulas, Dulmini Perera, Andrej Radman
    Copy editor Heleen Schröder
    Layout editor Lena Galanopoulou 
    Cover image Marc Boumeester
    Number of pages 268
    Book size 16,8 x 24 cm
    Binding Softcover
    Printer ORO Grafisch Project Management
    Language English 
    Release date 1 juni 2024
    Publisher Jap Sam Books, TU Delft OPEN Publishing

    The Ecologies of Architecture Book Series is published by TU Delft OPEN Publishing and Jap Sam Books in collaboration with the Architecture Philosophy and Theory Group, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft.


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  • The Thinking Foot
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    The Thinking Foot

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    The Thinking Foot

    A Pedestrian Study of Paving

    Thomas A P Van Leeuwen

    €39.95

    Architecture / New titles / Theory / Urbanism

    ISBN 978-94-93329-01-0
    Price € 39,95
    Author Thomas A P Van Leeuwen 
    Editor Helen I. Jessup
    Proofreading  Eleonoor Jap Sam, Giorgia Rota
    Design Joseph Plateau Grafisch Ontwerpers / Eliane Beyer
    Number of pages 248
    Book size 24 x 28 cm
    Binding hardcover
    Language English
    Printer Veldhuis Media
    Release date November 2023
    Publisher Les Éditions du Malentendu, www.malentendueditions.nl

    Les Éditions du Malentendu is an imprint of Jap Sam Books. The Foundation 'Les Éditions du Malentendu' publishes studies in the field of art and culture that are of an outspoken artistic and scholarly inspiration, but for which no immediate commercial interest is offered. Yet the work should be of such global urgency that the world is thrilled with expectation.

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  • The university is now on air, broadcasting modern architecture
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    The university is now on air, broadcasting modern architecture

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    The university is now on air, broadcasting modern architecture
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    The university is now on air, broadcasting modern architecture

    The university is now on air, broadcasting modern architecture

    Joaquim Moreno

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    Architecture / Awarded / Theory / Urbanism

    ISBN

    978-94-92852-01-4

    Editor-in-charge

    Claire Lubell

    Editorial assistance

    Geneviève Godbout, Federico Ortiz, Ushma Thakrar

    Graphic designer

    (Studio) Jonathan Hares, Clément Gicquel

    Number of pages

    362

    Book size

    17 x 24 cm

    Illustrations

    152 bl&w, 168 fc illustrations

    Binding

    Paperback

    This book is published by Jap Sam Books in cooperation with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)

    English

    LES PLUS BEAUX LIVRES SUISSES / MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOK 2018

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  • The World as Project
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    The World as Project

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    The World as Project

    A Political Theory of Design

    Friedrich von Borries

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    Awarded / Design / Theory

    ISBN

    978-94-92852-23-6

    Graphic designer

    Ingo Offermanns

    Number of pages

    48

    Book size

    210 x 303 mm

    Binding

    Softcover - Stitch binding (Singer)

    English

    Translation: Ian Pepper. Proofreading: Aaron Bogart, Eleonoor Jap Sam. Printed by Graphius, Belgium.

    This publication has been made possible with the support of HFBK Hamburg. www.hfbk-hamburg.de/en/

    Date of release: May 2020. First edition in English. Previously published in German as Weltenwerfen: Eine politische Designtheorie, Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016.

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  • Tju|Ho
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    Thoughtful ways of making and walking / ǂ’Ang |’an ko tca ju oo dua
    kota ku nǂhaoh

    Catherine Willems, Festus Soroab, Anca Ușurelu [eds.]

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    Art / Design / Fashion / Landscape | Nature / Theory / Upcoming

    ISBN 978-94-93329-42-3
    Price € 29,95
    Editors Catherine Willems, Festus Soroab, Anca Ușurelu
    Text contributions Flora Blommaert, Andreas Muronga, Fransina Ghauz, Cguni Rebecca Komtsa, Catherine Willems, Dori Tunstall, ǂOma ǀKunta, ǀKunta Boo, Festus Soroab, Megan Biesele, Nina Maritz, Bob Hitchcock, Kileni Fernando, Erasmus !Nani, |Koce Ghau
    Photography Komsta Kashe, N!haokxa Tsamkxao, |Kun Kunta, David Willems, Kristiaan D’Août, Willem Vrey, Chadia Guerti, Marcel Lennartz
    Drawings Phillemon Ngeni, Andreas Muronga Nina Maritz Daqm Debe
    Translation |Ai!ae Fridrick |Kunta, Cwi Charlie Nqeisji
    Design Marcel Lennartz
    Printing & binding Graphius
    Numbers of pages 252
    Book size 17 x 24 cm
    Language English / Ju|'hoan
    Release date Spring 2025
    Publisher Jap Sam Books
    Publishing partner KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT-Howest) and Future Footwear Foundation

    Made possible with the support of KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT - Howest) Affiliated with the research cluster 'the body plural'. 

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  • Tools for Collective Learning
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    Tools for Collective Learning

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    Tools for Collective Learning

    The Name Change Initiative of Kunstinstituut Melly, the institution formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art

    Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, with Rosa de Graaf, Jessy Koeiman, Jeroen Lavèn, and Vivian Ziherl [eds.]

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    Art / New titles / Theory

    ISBN 978-94-92852-69-4
    Price € 19,50
    Editors Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, with Rosa de Graaf, Jessy Koeiman, Jeroen Lavèn, and Vivian Ziherl
    Texts Veronica Babayan, Teana Boston-Mammah, Tayler Calister, Boutaina Hammana, Yahaira Brito Morfe, Callum Dean, Rosa de Graaf, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Michiel Huijben, Wooseok Jung, Stijn Kemper, Alex Klein, Jessy Koeiman, Prem Krishnamurthy, Nina Schouten, Alexander Tanazefti, Emily Turner, Rolando Vázquez Melken, Aqueene Wilson, Yan Zhihan, Vivian Ziherl
    Translation Louise Schoondergang, James Hannan, Milou van Lieshout, Jet van den Toorn
    Graphic design Julie Peeters
    Number of pages 288
    Book size 17 x 24 cm
    Binding softcover
    Printer Vier-Türme GmbH, Benedict Press
    Language English
    Release date November 2022
    Publisher Jap Sam Books

    Kunstinstituut Melly is supported by the city of Rotterdam and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands. Additional support is provided by the Hartwig Art Foundation.

    This publication is part of Kunstinstituut Melly's Name Change Initiative, which is in part supported by stichting Droom en Daad, Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie, BankGiro Loterij Fonds, DOEN Foundation, Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds, J.E. Jurriaanse Foundation, Volkskracht, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

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  • Tools voor collectief leren
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    Tools voor collectief leren

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    Tools voor collectief leren

    Het initiatief tot naamsverandering van Kunstinstituut Melly, voorheen bekend als Witte de With Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst

    Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, with Rosa de Graaf, Jessy Koeiman, Jeroen Lavèn, and Vivian Ziherl [eds.]

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    Art / New titles / Theory

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    ISBN 978-94-92852-70-0
    Price € 19,50
    Editors Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, with Rosa de Graaf, Jessy Koeiman, Jeroen Lavèn, and Vivian Ziherl
    Texts Veronica Babayan, Teana Boston-Mammah, Tayler Calister, Boutaina Hammana, Yahaira Brito Morfe, Callum Dean, Rosa de Graaf, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Michiel Huijben, Wooseok Jung, Stijn Kemper, Alex Klein, Jessy Koeiman, Prem Krishnamurthy, Nina Schouten, Alexander Tanazefti, Emily Turner, Rolando Vázquez Melken, Aqueene Wilson, Yan Zhihan, Vivian Ziherl
    Translation Louise Schoondergang, James Hannan, Milou van Lieshout, Jet van den Toorn
    Graphic design Julie Peeters
    Number of pages 288
    Book size 17 x 24 cm
    Binding softcover
    Printer Vier-Türme GmbH, Benedict Press
    Language Dutch
    Release date November 2022
    Publisher Jap Sam Books

    Kunstinstituut Melly is supported by the city of Rotterdam and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands. Additional support is provided by the Hartwig Art Foundation.

    This publication is part of Kunstinstituut Melly's Name Change Initiative, which is in part supported by stichting Droom en Daad, Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie, BankGiro Loterij Fonds, DOEN Foundation, Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds, J.E. Jurriaanse Foundation, Volkskracht, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

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  • Tracing the Lines
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    Tracing the Lines

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    Tracing the Lines

    Patterns from the African Diaspora

    Remy Jungerman

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    Art / Artist books / New titles / Theory

    ISBN 978-94-93329-26-3
    Price € 27.50
    Artist Remy Jungerman
    Texts Remy Jungerman, Allison K. Young, Tammi Lawson, Sally and Richard Price
    Editor Sara Carder
    Proofreading Aaron Bogart
    Final editor Eleonoor Jap Sam
    Graphic design Mainstudio (Edwin van Gelder)
    Photography Aatjan Renders, Veronica Fassbender, Jenny Gorman, Sara Carder, Pitkin Studio, Chris de Beet, Martha Cooper, Tammi Lawson
    Number of pages 128
    Book size 17 x 24 cm
    Binding softcover with American dust jacket
    Language English
    Printer & binding Graphius
    Lithography Alex Feenstra
    Release date September 28, 2024
    Publisher Jap Sam Books

    Made possible with the support of the Dr. A. H. Heineken Foundation for Art.

    Promotional images by The Book Photographer.

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  • UNFIXED. Photography and Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art
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    UNFIXED. Photography and Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art

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    UNFIXED. Photography and Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art

    Sara Blokland, Asmara Pelupessy [eds]

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    Art / Photography / Theory

    ISBN

    978-94-90322-29-8

    Graphic designer

    Yvonne van Versendaal

    Number of pages

    240

    Book size

    21 x 29,7 cm

    Binding

    Paperback

    English

    Release date: May 24th, 2012

    This publication is copublished with Stichting Unfixed Projects.

    UNFIXED is a multiplatform project that explores photography's relationship to ideas of ethnicity, culture and identity in contemporary art.

    This publication was made possible by the Mondriaan Foundation, Fonds BKVB, Gemeente Dordrecht, CBK Dordrecht.

    Pre-orderprice: € 24,50 instead of € 29,50 when you pre-order this publication before 24.05.2012

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  • Unruly Kinships
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    Unruly Kinships

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    Unruly Kinships

    Kris Dittel, Aneta Rostkowska [Eds.]

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    Art / New titles / Theory

    ISBN 978-94-93329-29-4
    Price € 30.-
    Editors Kris Dittel, Aneta Rostkowska
    Contributors  Alex Bailey and Krõõt Juurak, Kris Dittel, Clem Edwards, Alva Gotby, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Pauline Curnier Jardin and the Feel Good Cooperative, Anja Khersonska and Yin Aiwen, Sophie Lewis, Khanyisile Mbongwa and Li’Tsoanelo Zwane, Paloma Nana, Lola Olufemi, Lena Anouk Philipp, Liz Rosenfeld, Aneta Rostkowska, Selma Selman, Suzanna Slack, Jay Tan, Fran Trento
    Final & managing editor Kris Dittel
    Design Roxanne Maillet i.c.w. Hannah Baklien, Garance Hebrard
    Proofreading Kris Dittel, Thea Miklowski, Eleonoor Jap Sam
    German translations Anja Hellhammer, Anja Schulte
    German copy editing Gitte Moll
    Number of pages 288
    Book size 15.5 x 220 cm
    Printer Tallinn Book Printers
    Binding softcover with flaps
    Language English / German
    Release date Spring 2025
    Publisher Jap Sam Books / Temporary Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Art, Zeitgenössische Kunst, Cologne

    Made possible with the support of Stiftung Kunstfonds, Kunststiftung NRW, medienwerk.nrw and the Mondriaan Fund

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  • Urbanized deltas in transition
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    Urbanized deltas in transition

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    Urbanized deltas in transition

    Han Meyer, Steffen Nijhuis (eds.)

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    Architecture / Theory / Urbanism

    ISBN

    978-90-8594-054-8 [techne press]

    Graphic designer

    Linda Swaap, Accu grafisch ontwerpers

    Number of pages

    104

    Book size

    24 x 33 cm

    Binding

    Softcover

    English 

    Release date: May 2014

    Made possible by Delft University of Technology

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