Alex Farrar - Notes on Happiness

Jap Sam 2023 ISBN 9789493329003 Acqn 34181

Pb 7x14cm 184pp ills £21

'Notes on Happiness' is a book project by artist Alex Farrar. The book is a long reflective text,
based on conversations that Farrar had with people around him about happiness. The design is a
collaboration between Farrar and graphic designer Chantal Hendriksen. The book is a limited-
edition publication bound with several different covers, cut from one single drawing by Daniel
Jacoby.'

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Jan van de Pavert - Collected Works
Jap Sam 2023 ISBN 9789492852786 Acqn 34180
Hb 17x24cm 328pp col ills £30

This richly illustrated book covers Jan van de Pavert's impressive body of work and central
themes from the past years. Starting from his early sculptures that made use of architectural
elements, he went on to work on films and computer animations with a focus on murals. He then
worked on watercolours for computer animated films in the 1990s, representing the avant-garde
movements and the political left in the 1990s. The Dutch visual artist also created many paintings
focused on youth, the 1960s, the 1970s, and the idea of freedom, executing large scale murals
for the first time in 2013 for an exhibition at Art Centre De Appel in Amsterdam.

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EURASIA - An Atlas
Jap Sam 2023 ISBN 9789492852762 Acqn 34182
Pb 17x24cm 400pp col ills £21

The concept of 'Eurasia' evokes myriad different ideas across geological, ideological, cultural,
and artistic paradigms. Housing three quarters of the world's population (as well as three quarters
of the world's energy resources), the Eurasian supercontinent is also home to a great plurality of
cultures. It is a space where historical, contemporary and futuristic visions coexist, interact, and
mutate. The publication 'EURASIA -An Atlas' is a reader surveying the cultural and conceptual
landscape of the Eurasia. Structured around approximately twenty keywords, it compiles texts
from a variety of authors, historical documentation, and texts on the artistic practices of visual
artists.

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Footprint 32 - Rethinking the Architecture of Dwelling in the Digital Age
Jap Sam 2024 ISBN 9789492852847 Acqn 34236
Pb 19x26cm ills £21.50

Footprint 32 looks into the many ways the digital turn has impacted the architecture of dwelling.
The issue originates from a simple observation: After the digital turn, the house as a paradigm for
the discipline seemed to have gone missing from architecture debates. Recent theorisations of
the digital in architecture have almost exclusively focused on new methods of production and
notions of materiality alongside profound changes to the urban and social dimensions of the built
environment. The question of dwelling after the digital turn leads to scrutiny of the history of the
digitisation of the house and the shifting nature of domesticity, and to an exploration of involved
motivations and values, oscillating between a techno-utopianism to a techno-capitalism. While the
boundaries between real and virtual realms are blurred, the house and dwelling find a
reconceptualisation in ecological and relational terms, thereby dissolving the house as a discrete
object or entity. Privacy, autonomy, and physicality are in need of a rebalancing.

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