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Part Rematriation manifesto, part anti-colonial propaganda pamphlet, part anti-imperialist exhibition catalog, From Land Grab to LandBack / LandBack Landscape Poems brings in print format calls, strategies, and prose against the ecological and social spoliation produced by different forms of colonialism.

Produced in two separate, continuous publications, From Land Grab to LandBack / LandBack Landscape Poems documents a year of texts, projects, and reflections by architects, artists, filmmakers, legal scholars, activists, poets, writers, and educators exploring calls for Land Back from Palestine to Vieques, from South Africa to the Great Plains.

The publication includes contributions Sikowis Nobiss and the Great Plains Action Society, Samia Henni,   Jason Mena, Pete Goche, Douglas Spencer, Colectiva Feminista en Construcción, Bibi Naniki Reyes Ocasio, Caney Orocovis, CAN Jibaro, Simphiwe Mlambo and students from the GSA Johannesburg, Papel Machete, Marakianí Olivieri, Dima Srouji, Mariana G. Iriarte Mastronardo, Peter Zuroweste, Hasan Shurrab, Nadia Huggins, Samiha Meem, Killian O’ Dochartaigh & Edward Lawrenson, Marili Pizarro, Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, Jonathan David Kane, Vashti Harrison, Audrey Jean-Baptiste and Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Alexandra Pagán Vélez,  Post-Novis, Hilary Wiese, Rose Florian, Christopher Rey Perez, Luis Othoniel Rosa, and WAI Architecture Think Tank / Nathalie Frankowski & Cruz Garcia.

De la destitución a la restitución ·
Poemario de paisajes de restitución

En parte manifiesto de rematriación, en parte panfleto de propaganda anticolonial, en parte catálogo de exposición antiimperialista, De la destitución a la restitución/Poemario de paisajes de restitución presenta en formato impreso llamados, estrategias y prosa contra el expolio ecológico y social producido por diferentes formas de colonialismo.

Producido en dos publicaciones separadas y continuas, De la destitución a la restitución/Poemario de paisajes de restitución documenta un año de textos, proyectos y reflexiones de arquitectos, artistas, cineastas, juristas, activistas, poetas, escritores y educadores que exploran los llamados a Land Back. desde Palestina hasta Vieques, desde Sudáfrica hasta las Grandes Llanuras.

La publicación incluye contribuciones de Sikowis Nobiss y Great Plains Action Society, Samia Henni, Jason Mena, Pete Goche, Douglas Spencer, Colectiva Feminista en Construcción, Bibi Naniki Reyes Ocasio, Caney Orocovis, CAN Jibaro, Simphiwe Mlambo y estudiantes de la GSA Johannesburgo. , Papel Machete, Marakianí Olivieri, Dima Srouji, Mariana G. Iriarte Mastronardo, Peter Zuroweste, Hasan Shurrab, Nadia Huggins, Samiha Meem, Killian O' Dochartaigh & Edward Lawrenson, Marili Pizarro, Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, Jonathan David Kane, Vashti Harrison, Audrey Jean-Baptiste y Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Alexandra Pagán Vélez, Post-Novis, Hilary Wiese, Rose Florian, Christopher Rey Perez, Luis Othoniel Rosa y WAI Architecture Think Tank / Nathalie Frankowski & Cruz Garcia.

A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education

A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education is an unprecedented tool that centers architecture and architectural education in the struggles against racism and the material legacy of white supremacy.

A valuable resource for designers, educators, students, and anybody who’s lives are affected by the built and destroyed environment, this anti-racist manual unveils how architecture and architectural education is shaped by the construction of race and outlines ways to imagine emancipatory architectures. Divided in three parts, the manual discusses economic, cultural, political, spatial, and historical hurdles that must be overcome before, during, and after school. An appendix presents an overview on the precarious labor of anti-racist education.

Through diagrams, analytical texts, and manifestos, A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education asks many questions about the current state of architecture and imagines a future centered on social and ecological justice.

Written, illustrated, and designed by  architects, educators, and authors Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski of WAI Architecture Think Tank, A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education is equally a tool for activism, design education, and worldmaking.

Universal Principles of Architecture: 100 Archetypes, Methods, Conditions,Relationships, and Imaginaries

Universal Principles of Architecture illustrates in 100 concepts the importance, possibilities, challenges, and roles that architecture plays in shaping the world.

Divided into Archetypes, Methods, Conditions, Relationships, and Imaginaries, each of the five sections in the book introduces in 20 principles architecture at different scales and stages of the design process. Through an inclusive and holistic approach, the book refers to initial design ideas, creative design approaches, reflections on the effects of the built and destroyed environments, and architectural desires and aspirations to transform the world and engage with the cosmos.

Because architecture is the converging point where many fields of knowledge, ideas, forms, approaches, methods, sensibilities, and materials meet, the book provides a flexible and dynamic space where the material, conceptual, and social take shape.  

Written, illustrated, and designed by critically acclaimed architects, educators, and authors Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski of WAI Architecture Think Tank, Universal Principles of Architecture combines accessible writing with otherworldly images like the ones they have displayed in exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou Metz, Museum of Modern Art New York, Neues Museum Nuremberg, and Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology Lisbon.

Intended as an intergenerational and transdisciplinary reference volume, the book presents an ambitious overview of what architecture has been and can be in a world full of urgent challenges and abundant opportunities for social and ecological responsibility, and design creativity.

The titles in the Rockport Universal series offer comprehensive and authoritative information and edifying and inspiring visual examples on multidisciplinary subjects for designers, architects, engineers, students, and anyone who is interested in expanding and enriching their design knowledge.

Rockport Publishers

Hardcover
224 Pages

ISBN: 9780760380611

Dimensions: 8.50 in x 10.00 in / 215.90 mm x 254.00 mm

Published: Date October 31st, 2023

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The LOUDREADER

Issue no.1
2025

The LOUDREADER is a new digital and print journal published annually by Loudreaders Trade School. In the form of an antidisciplinary and multilingual publication, The LOUDREADER considers the Caribbean’s geopolitical, linguistic, historical pluriversality as it documents, disseminates, and thinks collectively about the future of social and ecological justice, reparations, repatriations, reconstructions, while accounting for incompatibilities, contradictions, ironies, and strategies of subversion and reinvention.  The LOUDREADER imagines the “becoming Caribbean of the world,” as the brutality of extraction and exploitation, that was the blueprint of the plantation (and its economies), has spilled out onto the rest of the world like organic matter.

Produced by Loudreaders Publishers, the Journal distributes to a planetary audience positions and discourses by Loudreaders. 

Loudreaders
Paperback
200 pages
Dimensions: 10 in x 8 in  or 254mm x 203.2mm
Weight: 0.51 kg or 1.12 lb

 

Capetillo Journal for Crafting Futures

Issue no.1
2025

Capetillo: A Journal for Crafting Futures is an interdisciplinary publication exploring space and culture, co-published by Women and Gender Studies at the Universidad de Puerto Rico and Loudreaders Trade School. This peer-reviewed journal addresses critical intersections of design, architecture, and spatial practice with Caribbean and planetary humanities.

    The journal’s name summons two conditions.  The first, relates to Capetillo, an area of the city adjacent to the Universidad de Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras, creating a link between the university and community. The second reconsiders the figure of Luisa Capetillo—Puerto Rican anarcho-syndicalist, feminist, and utopian organizer—who worked as a lectora (loudreader) in tobacco factories. There, she read aloud to workers from radical texts, transforming monotonous labor into collective education and forging transnational solidarity through shared emancipatory knowledge.

    Building on this legacy, Capetillo revives the practice of loudreading as a decolonial, anti-capitalist pedagogical model. It serves as a platform for speculative and liberatory spatial thought, rooted in planetary urgencies—from social and ecological justice to emancipatory worldmaking. Through critical essays, visual contributions, conversations, and collaborative research, the journal that loudreads voices and practices that imagine and build other possible worlds.

Loudreaders
Paperback Pamphlets
64 Pages + Inserts
Dimensions: 170mm x 255mm
Online ISSN: 3069-5643
Print ISSN: 3069-5635

What do the ideal cities of Le Corbusier, New Babylon of Constant, the first enclosed shopping mall, Brasilia, and Rem Koolhaas’ Delirious New York have in common? Is there a form of architecture devised to reveal the ideology hidden behind the design of buildings and entire cities? Is there a form of critical storytelling in architecture?

In the form of a Kynical Manifesto (a manifesto that bites), in Narrative Architecture Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski reconstruct six decades of the twentieth century to reveal the origins of one of the most powerful, misunderstood, and underutilized mediums of architectural critique, thinking, and representation.

Half historical storytelling, half graphic speculation, this vademecum in three parts weaves inseparable the ideological framework of Modernism, the post-war utopias of the present, and the narrative critiques post-1968. Mixing text with fifty collages (one for every year since the birth of Narrative Architecture), the book finds new relationships between the heroic, utopian, commercial, segregated, visionary, humorous, ironic and critical projects by Le Corbusier, Team 10, Constant, Yona Friedman, Salvador Dali, Victor Gruen, Lucio Costa, Minoru Yamasaki, Archizoom, Superstudio, Madelon Vriesendorp, and Rem Koolhaas.

Alluding to Diogenes of Sinope, the ancient Kynic who wandered with a lantern under plain daylight in search of an honest man, through narrative, archival, and provocative images and texts, Garcia and Frankowski lay out the groundwork in search of an honest architecture able to address the pressing challenges of our times.

Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski are architects, educators, co-directors of international studio WAI Architecture Think Tank, and authors of Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture.

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Shapes, Islands and Text: A Garcia Frankowski Manifesto

The artist's book Shapes, Islands and Text presents three fundamental working tools for the art collective Garcia Frankowski in the form of a visual essay. Like a conceptual tryptique, they are three spheres of equal importance. The vademecum presents: Shapes that are explored through multiple strategies –from monochromatic paintings to collages of pure geometries; conceptualIslands that are not only independent from any all-absorbing discourse but that one next to each other constitute theoretical archipelagoes; and Texts that sometimes are pure form and other times are independent like islands in the ocean. Although having the capacity to function autonomously, once placed on the same space these tools have the potential to create new narratives. Garcia Frankowski's visual essay is accompanied by texts by Paula V. Álvarez and Sophie Salamon.

Title / Issue number: Shapes, Islands, Text: A Garcia Frankowski Manifesto
Publisher: Vibok Works, 2014
Publication date: Fall 2014
Author: Cruz Garcia, Nathalie Frankowski
Design: Cruz Garcia, Nathalie Frankowski
Location: Beijing, China / Sevilla, Spain
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Size: 15 x 15cm
Number of pages: 80

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