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04. Photobooks
To conclude this issue, we invited the team at Ivorypress to curate a selection of photobooks that explore architecture through the lens of photography. Their choices bring together figures such as Giancarlo de Carlo, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Luigi Ghirri, revealing how these books do more than document buildings: they test ideas of context, typology, and perception, turning architecture into something to be read, compared, and reimagined.

Together, these books show how architecture can be reimagined through photography, publication, and the book as a space of interpretation.


Founded in Madrid in 1996, Ivorypress is an independent bookstore and publisher specialising in contemporary art, architecture, photography, and visual culture. Its carefully curated programme has made it a reference point for readers, artists, and collectors alike.



Experiments in Thickness: OFFICE (Walther Konig) 2024Giancarlo de Carlo
This book is part of the ‘Everything without Content’ series by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac and Joris Kritis, and it presents the work Giancarlo de Carlo built in Urbino in the 1960s and 70s, in the shadow of his involvement in Team 10 debates that challenged modernist doctrines on architecture and urbanism.

Giancarlo de Carlo first visited Urbino in 1951 to carry out a minor refurbishment of the offices of the rector of the University. This was the beginning of his lifetime engagement with the small town where he continued working over the next five decades. The eight buildings in this book are presented in drawings by students of the Academy of Architecture USI, Mendriso, and photographs by Stefano Graziani.


Welcome (To The Teknival) (B. Frank Books) 2017
Kasper Akhøj
Through his research-based work, the artist recorded the restoration and resurrection of this early modernist villa, one of the very few built by a female architect at the time. These photographs were taken over a period of six visits to E-1027 (in 2009, 2010, 2015 and 2017), yet each image is taken from a diverse view, allowing for the interchangeable nature of the villa to resonate through the documentation. The record of the successive occupants is confronted with each other, creating a gripping historical dialogue of conceptual storytelling.



Neues Haus Neue Welt.(Rudolf Mosse, Berlin)Erich Mendelsohn
Photographs , situations and illustrations with comments of the author, for the new architecture and furniture design of private houses. Photographs by Arthur Köster. 



Anonyme Skulpturen: A Typology of Technical Constructions (New York: Wittenborn and Co.) 1972
Bernd and Hilla Becher
The first monograph of the Bechers and often considered their magnum opus. Minimal and clean in design, the viewer is quietly immersed into the couple's distinctively stark style. "In this book we show objects predominantly instrumental in character, whose shapes are the result of calculation and whose processes of development are optically evident. They are generally buildings where anonymity is accepted to be the style. Their peculiarities originate not in spite of, but because of the lack of design." Roth 101, p. 194. (https://www.burnsiderarebooks.com/)





Italia in Miniatura(MACK) 2024Luigi Ghirri
This new book presents the entirety of Ghirri’s In Scala series, expanded with numerous previously unseen images, and places them in conversation with work by the park’s founder and designer, Ivo Rambaldi. Rambaldi’s maps, sketches, collages, and reference images, made on exhaustive research trips across Italy, offer an analogous exploration of the possibilities and paradoxes of miniaturisation. Their frank functionality resonates with Ghirri’s embrace of the perspective and tools of the ama-teur. From the dialogue between these meticulous works of representation and fabrication we discover the possibility that, in Ghirri’s words, ‘Perhaps it’s in this very space, one of total fiction, that truth is concealed’.



The Arquitect´s Album 02 (Actar) 2025 Denise Scott Brown
Here we present a selection of around 50 unpublished photographs that tell the story of her wedding journey with her first husband, Robert Scott Brown, in 1955: five weeks travelling in Illyria, a Balkan region between Albania and the former Yugoslavia, where a young architect-photographer shows us, through her camera, a country in transition, portraying aspects of rural and urban life, through places, people, animals, landscapes, streets and architecture that take us on a unique and transcendental journey, her Illyrian Honeymoon.


Carlo Scarpa's Tomba Brion (Hatje Cantz Verlag) 2011

Guido Guidi
Since 1995, Italian photographer Guido Guidi (born 1941) has trained his large-format camera on the Brion family’s memorial vault at San Vito d’Altivole. Designed by the great Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978), the burial site is explored over the years at different times of the day and in different seasons, building a remarkable portrait of place, time, creator and admirer.


 Luis Barragán (Phaidon) 2000 Rene Burri
One of the key figures in modern architecture, Luis Barragan’s (1902-88) influence has travelled far beyond his Mexican homeland, culminating in his reception of architecture’s most prestigious award, the Pritzker Prize, in 1980. His architecture represents a strongly personal vision. Inspired by the vernacular style of his native country, his passion for Moorish architecture and desire for spiritual beauty and harmony with nature, he set about creating serenity and enchantment in his buildings and gardens. Photographer Rene Burri visited Barragan and photographed his work on several trips to Mexico in the 1960s and 70s. Here Burri pays tribute to his friend, reflecting the spirit of the man, capturing the essence of his architecture, and creating the sense of peace and contemplation that is at the heart of his work.


Gabriele Basilico fotografa Aldo Rossi (Humboldt) 2026 Gabriele Basilico
Gabriele Basilico followed Aldo Rossi’s work for almost twenty years, accompanying his rise to become a leading figure in international architecture (winning the Pritzker Prize in 1990). His photographs reveal their deep professional affinity: the two shared Milanese origins, degrees from the Politecnico, an interest in social issues and urban transformation, and even more importantly, the moral compass with which they explored the world around them. Growing up in a Milan of which the industrial civilisation was by then in its death throes, they grasped the opportunity to create a new language still mindful of tradition. The volume brings together Basilico’s photographs of Rossi’s architecture for the first time, and is enriched by contributions from Chiara Spangaro and Pier Paolo Tamburelli, project notes by Rossi, as well as the writings that they dedicated to each other.