Hatje Cantz

What is architecture but a offer to be in the world?

“Some Kind. Any Kind” is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice .eu , designed as a „dream state“ inner dialogue between “Some Kind of Romance” and “Any Kind of Existence”: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice’s work and exploring path from Porto to the world.

Read together, these two parts are less about buildings than about a way of being in the world, offering an open narrative where architecture is presented as if in a chronicle, a journal.

In Albania, it traces a transformative engagement with urban regeneration and identity reconstruction in a context of rapid urban change.
In Portugal, it explores continuity through both rehabilitation and new construction, treating time, heritage, and landscape as active materials.

Together, these two dimensions reveal a practice shaped by persistence and risk, belonging and transformation, grounded in place yet open to reinvention.

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1,2: © Fernando Guerra
3: © Plomp
4,5: © Fernando Guerra

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📚Some Kind, Any Kind

Contributions by: Manuel Aires Mateus, Michel Rojkind, Amin Taha, Pedro Campos Costa, Mikkel Frost, Jaime Font, Nuno Melo Sousa, Eduardo Souto de Moura, João Luís Carrilho da Graça, Álvaro Siza, Vladimir Djurovic, Carme Pigem, Benedetta Tagliabue, Sofia Albrigo, Julien De Smedt, Mark Lee, Sam Chermayeff, Flora Lee, Pablo Bofill, Thomas Coldefy, Chad Oppenheim, Steven Holl, Roberto Bannura, Manuelle Gautrand, Jeanne Gang, Anton Garcia-Abril, Kengo Kuma, Rita T**a, Diogo Brito, Rodrigo Vilas-Boas, Julião Pinto Leite, Francisco Lencastre, João Jesus
Edited by: OODA
Graphic Design: The Royal Studio
Texts by: Ana Castanho

(English) ISBN: 978-3-7757-6285-4

Raymond Pettibon: Nervous Breakdown is the authoritative compendium of an artist who has shaped alternative culture like few others. For the first time, this volume gathers every album cover using Pettibon’s artwork since 1979—from Black Flag and Sonic Youth to the Foo Fighters and Lana Del Rey. Deeply rooted in the Southern California punk scene, his work combines biting satire with poetic reflections on American society. 

Published to accompany the exhibition at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, the book presents all covers—from LPs to cassettes—from the Stefan Thull Collection. In addition to a detailed catalogue raisonné, it features exclusive texts by experts and companions such as Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Max Dax, Robert Eikmeyer and Ulrich Loock. An indispensable reference for fans and collectors at the intersection of contemporary art and music history.

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📚Raymond Pettibon: Nervous Breakdown. Album Covers.

Artist: Raymond Pettibon
Texts by: Max Dax, Robert Eikmeyer, Kim Gordon, Astrid Ihle, Ulrich Loock, René Zechlin
(German) ISBN: 978-3-7757-6282-3

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