The Institut de l’Environnement (1969–1971) was a school in Paris with an interdisciplinary orientation. Founded in the heated atmosphere generated by worldwide student protests and by a growing awareness of the threat posed to the environment, this research and training center set out to redefine the way architecture and design are taught and the role that research plays in the process. The focus of the Bauhaus Lab 2024 was on the institute’s teaching and research activities and the cultural context in which it operated. Out of this has emerged a publication that examines the fragmented history of the institute by exploring the question “What is the environment?”

Rafael Amato is a graphic designer and researcher, based in Belo Horizonte. Felix Bell is a spatial designer, based in Rotterdam. Elena Falomo is a designer, engineer, artist, based in Berlin/London. Or Haklai is an architect and design researcher, based in Tel Aviv. Teresa Häußler is an exhibition designer and researcher, based in Berlin. Louise Mazet is a design researcher, based in Hasselt. María Soledad Paszkiewicz is a curator and architect, based in Pamplona. Jie Shen is an architectural historian, based in Tokyo.

2026, Leipzig / Dessau | paperback | 175 pp. | 14 x 10 cm | ISBN 978-3-95905-918-3 | English

The realm of finance has its own eco-logics. Hecto­corns offer behemoths poison pills, whales take fledglings to the moon, ­disappear into dark pools, and form fraudulent daisy chains with one another. This book examines slang terms used by traders and other financial profes­sionals, transporting us to a landscape both real and supernatural. Between what these terms mean and the ecological world they refer to, Benjaminsen and Casey detect a rich mythological history. Unpacking this seductive language reveals the absurd (super)natural ‘fictions’ that materially and violently shape our worldly ecology.

Eline Benjaminsen is an artist making lens-based, follow-the-money narratives. Dayna Casey is an artistic researcher and designer essaying, narrating and composing visual languages. Amy Bride is a PhD in Gothic Finance. Sami Hammana is an artist and writer. Marie Storli is a journalist and economist. Alexis Wright is a Gulf of Carpentaria novelist.

2025, Leipzig | softcover | 344 pp. | 22 x 14 cm | ISBN 978-3-95905-849-0 | English

American publisher and DIY architect Lloyd Kahn made a name for himself in the 1970s with publications on the self-build movement. As an eclectic meta-manual, Shelter Cookbook explores the content of these now iconic publications and relates their ways of thinking and working to the contemporary practices of Swiss architect Leopold Banchini and curator Lukas Feireiss. Shelter Cookbook is intended as a document recording a personal search for unexpected relationships and networks tied in with historical documents and contemporary architectural projects. The volume includes interviews and photo spreads and follows lines of mycological investigation. 

Swiss architect Leopold Banchini explores the limits of spatial design using local materials and traditional building methods. 

Berlin curator Lukas Feireiss is an educator working internationally across disciplinary boundaries in the fields of art, culture, and contemporary reflexivity. 

Lloyd Kahn is a publisher and DIY architect from California who has been influential in the self-build movement in the US and around the world since the 1970s. 

Dylan Perrenoud is an architectural photographer from Geneva.

2025, Leipzig | softcover | 112 pp. | 36.5 x 28 cm | ISBN 978-3-95905-490-4 | English

Debrisphere is a yet-unnamed stratum of Earth's crust, a supra-stratum of the Lithosphere. It contains the worldwide man-made landscapes: the artificial mountains of Germany, the “blooming deserts” of Israel, the military coral reefs of China and the United States, and other similar constructions around the world resulted from, or still serving, conflict and war. The artist's book by Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan is published as an extension to their eponymous installation, presented for the first time in the frame of “Natural Histories. Traces of the Political” exhibition at MUMOK Vienna in 2017. Alongside the artists' case studies, which include Ariel Sharon Park, Teuflesberg, Diego Garcia, Johnston Atoll and the Spartly Islands, the publication includes four republished texts by Andrew Chubb, Hito Steyerl and Eyal Weizman, and newly commissioned texts by Noit Banai, Maja & Reuben Fowkes and Raluca Voinea. 

2018, Punch | pb | 144 p | 20 x 14 cm | ISBN 978-606-94300-3-3 | English

Spanning fiction and theory, this collection of texts brings words into dialogue with an aesthetic proposition. What does it mean to acknowledge one’s closeness to, involvement in, or even kinship with the material world? And what does it mean to question family structures and dwell in other possibilities of kin-making? ‘The Material Kinship Reader’ addresses material extraction histories and social relations that frame much of contemporary life. From colonial conquest to climate collapse, these are toxic and tender stories of interdependence among all creatures. With contributions by Sara Ahmed, Kim TallBear, Steven Millhauser, Hana Pera Aoake, Ursula K. Le Guin, and more.

2020, Onomatopee | pb | 480 p | 16 x 11 cm | ISBN 978-94-93148-78-9 | English

While ecology has received little systematic attention within art history, its visibility and significance has grown in relation to the threats of climate change and environmental destruction. By engaging artists' widespread aesthetic and political engagement with environmental conditions and processes around the globe—and looking at cutting-edge theoretical, political, and cultural developments in the Global South and North— Decolonizing Nature offers a significant, original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics.

2026, Sternberg Press | paperback | 296 p | 21 x 15 cm | ISBN: 9783956790942 | English