Catalog autumn 2026

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This autumn catalog, like every catalog we do, is cut from the world around us. A tranche de vie in which ideas, cultural and artistic production, research and syntheses come together from the most diverse sources. And each time, surprising and new narratives emerge, not written by a single author but the result of a collective story, the result above all of listening and looking, being attentive to the world around you, and caring for it.

While compiling this catalog for fall 2026, what stands out is the many ways in which spatial and urban designers, professionals and researchers shape, harvest and invent ideas for the future of the city. The multitude of perspectives and creative energy we offer here is hopeful, inspiring, and also practical: you can get started with it right away. From the urban activism in The Activist City to a feminist perspective on social housing in By Women for Better Living. From human-centered urban design in Cities for Well-being to an investigation into the power of local perspectives in The Transformation of Great European Cities.

Complementing all these perspectives from the design disciplines, a glorious series of monographic art publications represents the subjects
central to all that design: people and other life forms. The inhabitants of cities and landscapes, looking back at us and showing us what they see and experience. And no one did this more with raw energy, vitality, and playfulness than Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken, for whom the city was his canvas. The monograph dedicated to his work, appearing alongside an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, contains the results of the first extensive research into his archive, now acquired and preserved by the Rijksmuseum together with the Nederlands Fotomuseum. An essential monograph of the most important Dutch photographer of the twentieth century. Alongside Van der Elsken, monographs of Ina van Zyl, David Bade, Philip Vermeulen, Willem de Kooning, and Fiep Westendorp populate this catalogue: artists and an illustrator whose lives and work are explored, presented and celebrated—people who add imagination to the designers’ city-making.

Eelco van Welie, director