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The Whole Earth Catalog was a cultural touchstone of the 1960s and 1970s. The iconic cover image of the Earth viewed from space made it one of the…

Robert W. Irwin (born September 12, 1928) is an American installation artist who has explored perception and the conditional in art, often through…

Lightly, Carefully, Gracefully...2012

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) is one of the most influential artists of the 1970s, whose work has continued to be a noted influence of both…

With admirable resolve and a sincere desire to change the planet for the better, from the onset of their existence the Japanese company Muji has…

Ideally our cities become exciting, sexy, and profitable places to live, play, and work – that’s the most important part. When people have no…

Portable Classic. Ancient Greece to Modern Europe (Venice, May 9–September 13) is an exhibition curated by Salvatore Settis and designed by OMA for…

Books about architecture used to be rather straightforward and were not that numerous. Historical writing had few, if any illustrations and…

When climate change is the focus of both fiction and nonfiction, dystopia tends to rule. A notable exception is the prize-winning work of Kim Stanley…

An Article and Interview with Tim Power in Bravacasa Indonesia focusing on the unique approach of TP/A, in a discussion covering Design, Interiors,…

Walter De Maria’s six-decade career made lasting and profound contributions to contemporary art. A vanguard force within four major twentieth-century…

POWER challenges participants to think about how infrastructure relates to life across a series of intersecting concerns, including democratic…

Now or never, we need to be radical. We need to rise up. And we need to rebel.

In this book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based…

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave...2013

Era il 1957 quando questa “piccola architettura da tasca”, scritta e plasmata da Gio Ponti in ogni suo dettaglio iconografico e tipografico, venne…

Tim Power presented recent Tim Power Architects studio work and research in a multimedia presentation entitled ‘From the Spoon to the City … to the…

On January 20th, 2011 Tim Power lectured to a Course of Masters students at the renowned French industrial Design School ‘ENSCI – Les Ateliers’ in…

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It’s not about carbon – it’s about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this…

In her new book of essays, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Tolentino writes about how social media shapes identity, public discourse and…

This Conversation between Tim Power and Ivana Riggi, conducted in Italian on the 16th of April 2011, discusses various aspects of the practice of…

The Hidden City is a project drawing from the narrative tradition of Palermo and focusing on one of the singular aspects of Manifesta 12, the…

Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928 – February 12, 1994) was an American artist associated with minimalism (a term he nonetheless stridently…

Seasonal Greetings from TP/A.

Il nome di Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) è intrinsecamente legato alla storia dell'arte, al gusto e alla museografia del XX secolo, tanto che negli anni…

This book, published for the occasion of Manifesta 12 and the collateral event 'The Hidden City', exposes the forgotten stories, events and details…

… Over the span of the past half-decade or so, Tim Power Architects has consciously enlarged the focus of their research and production from…

Tim Power has been an active blogger at the David Report since it’s inception in 2006. David Report is an influential blog and online magazine that…

The Restoration Economy describes a huge, fast-growing new growth frontier for entrepreneurs, investors, & organizational leaders, not to mention…

Blue and Orange and Grey to Purple movie Watercolour and pencil on paper 51,4 x 61 cm Photographer: Jean Vong

Critical Path is a book written by US author and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller with the assistance of Kiyoshi Kuromiya. First published in 1981, it…

The WorkPlace Environment, where the majority of adults pass more than half of our wakening lives, is undergoing a new wave of notable…

The game changing and vital text on what makes a city work, focusing on the street and public space, is a must read. A direct and fundamentally…

Avalanche was a New York–based art magazine founded and edited by Willoughby Sharp and Liza Béar from 1970 to 1976. The magazine was unique in its…

The Medium is the Massage is a unique study of human communication in the twentieth century, published in Penguin Modern Classics Marshall McLuhan is…

Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, The Society of the Spectacle (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated…

Italy, The New Domestic Landscape  is the show that changed the world of Design, and this is the book that brought that change to the world. Italy,…

Ettore Sottsass (14 September 1917 – 31 December 2007) was an Italian architect and designer during the 20th century.

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture, urban design, and community livability. It was authored by…

Design Boost envisions a holistic approach as a condition for sustainable design. To fulfil this vision the belief is in upgrading design competence…

A conversation with Jerszy Seymour, Stephen Burks and Yoichi Nakamuta

Together with Designers Janine Wunder, Keiji Takeuchi, Brandon Gien, Hans Tan and other illustrious member of the international design community, Tim…

Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is a utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. The society described in the book…

The work of TP/A … our work … concurrent to our research and design, explores the ability of Architecture, Objects, Services, Landscape Design, etc.…

Arch. Tim Power was invited as a special guest for an event organised by Compasses during Milano Design Week 2018.

Debunking the myth of a laggard State at odds with a dynamic private sector, this book reveals in case study after case study that in fact the…

Founded in 1945, Oluce is the oldest Italian design company in the illumination sector still in operation today. The design qualities of the lamps…

A new Book by Moby, know best as a musician, exposes his sensibility to territory and the transient relationships between us and the places we…

All Things Come To Those Who Wait 1(dated) A patient seeker will be satisfied in due time; patience is a virtue. Usage notes •This version of the…

Together with Designers Michael Young of Michael Young Ltd, Naoto Fuskasawa of Naoto Fukasawa Design, Priscilla Tsu-Jyen Shunmugam, Hans Tan and…

The Shakers' dedication to hard work and perfection has resulted in a unique range of architecture, furniture and handicraft styles. They designed…

In a lecture entitled 'Halfway to Infinity', Tim Power presents the work of TP/A, passing thought the connections of scale between Design,…

Troublemakers unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. The film features a cadre of renegade New York artists…

Traditional cultures understood the fragile nature of our Earth without technology, but modern culture was able to do so only with distance, scale…

California Plants is an essential resource for outdoor enthusiasts. This definitive guide features more than 500 species, along with detailed…

The planetary trajectory of increased urbanization in the third millennium is transforming the ways in which the we inhabit our territory, our…

Our research often leads us to question place, continuity and change … This little video does so as well.

Beyond the life sustaining qualities that trees and plants supply the planet via the cyclical process of photosynthesis, trees have a secret life of…

With his project ‘Maria del Camino’, Architect Bruce Tomb furthers his research and personal love affair with all things American. In Bruce’s own…

The mission statement of the CLUI is to "increase and diffuse knowledge about how the nation's lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived."[3]…

Invited guest lecturer Tim Power presented the works of TP/A in the Symposium ’30 years of Teaching and Research in International Architecture’ at…

In this video, recorded in his New York-studio, the iconic artist shares his life-long love of drawing and thoughts on his artistic expression, which…

As long as you’re going to make a sculpture, why not make one that competes with a 747, or the Empire State Building, or the Golden Gate Bridge?…

Last night Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, opened the series of events scheduled for the Workshop on ‘Management…

Alamak! in the Triennale

Tim Power, director of TP/A, worked with Superstudio  for 2 years on the late 1980's. His experience with Superstudio ( 1986-1987 ) and Ettore…

Titled succinctly with the capital letter “K,” this exhibition is to be understood as a story, not unlike a parable, about the “darkest concerns of…

With this book Paul Virilio inaugurated the new science whose object of study is the "dromocratic" revolution. First to use the concept of speed as a…

In this book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based…

Books about architecture used to be rather straightforward and were not that numerous. Historical writing had few, if any illustrations and…

Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, The Society of the Spectacle (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated…

Ettore Sottsass (14 September 1917 – 31 December 2007) was an Italian architect and designer during the 20th century.

The Restoration Economy describes a huge, fast-growing new growth frontier for entrepreneurs, investors, & organizational leaders, not to mention…

In her new book of essays, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Tolentino writes about how social media shapes identity, public discourse and…

This book, published for the occasion of Manifesta 12 and the collateral event 'The Hidden City', exposes the forgotten stories, events and details…

On January 20th, 2011 Tim Power lectured to a Course of Masters students at the renowned French industrial Design School ‘ENSCI – Les Ateliers’ in…

Il nome di Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) è intrinsecamente legato alla storia dell'arte, al gusto e alla museografia del XX secolo, tanto che negli anni…

Lightly, Carefully, Gracefully...2012

Beyond the life sustaining qualities that trees and plants supply the planet via the cyclical process of photosynthesis, trees have a secret life of…

Walter De Maria’s six-decade career made lasting and profound contributions to contemporary art. A vanguard force within four major twentieth-century…

Last night Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, opened the series of events scheduled for the Workshop on ‘Management…

When climate change is the focus of both fiction and nonfiction, dystopia tends to rule. A notable exception is the prize-winning work of Kim Stanley…

All Things Come To Those Who Wait 1(dated) A patient seeker will be satisfied in due time; patience is a virtue. Usage notes •This version of the…

Debunking the myth of a laggard State at odds with a dynamic private sector, this book reveals in case study after case study that in fact the…

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It’s not about carbon – it’s about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this…

Our research often leads us to question place, continuity and change … This little video does so as well.

… Over the span of the past half-decade or so, Tim Power Architects has consciously enlarged the focus of their research and production from…

Critical Path is a book written by US author and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller with the assistance of Kiyoshi Kuromiya. First published in 1981, it…

In this video, recorded in his New York-studio, the iconic artist shares his life-long love of drawing and thoughts on his artistic expression, which…

Blue and Orange and Grey to Purple movie Watercolour and pencil on paper 51,4 x 61 cm Photographer: Jean Vong

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave...2013

Italy, The New Domestic Landscape  is the show that changed the world of Design, and this is the book that brought that change to the world. Italy,…

This Conversation between Tim Power and Ivana Riggi, conducted in Italian on the 16th of April 2011, discusses various aspects of the practice of…

Titled succinctly with the capital letter “K,” this exhibition is to be understood as a story, not unlike a parable, about the “darkest concerns of…

Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928 – February 12, 1994) was an American artist associated with minimalism (a term he nonetheless stridently…

Design Boost envisions a holistic approach as a condition for sustainable design. To fulfil this vision the belief is in upgrading design competence…

The WorkPlace Environment, where the majority of adults pass more than half of our wakening lives, is undergoing a new wave of notable…

Together with Designers Michael Young of Michael Young Ltd, Naoto Fuskasawa of Naoto Fukasawa Design, Priscilla Tsu-Jyen Shunmugam, Hans Tan and…

The mission statement of the CLUI is to "increase and diffuse knowledge about how the nation's lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived."[3]…

The Shakers' dedication to hard work and perfection has resulted in a unique range of architecture, furniture and handicraft styles. They designed…

Traditional cultures understood the fragile nature of our Earth without technology, but modern culture was able to do so only with distance, scale…

As long as you’re going to make a sculpture, why not make one that competes with a 747, or the Empire State Building, or the Golden Gate Bridge?…

California Plants is an essential resource for outdoor enthusiasts. This definitive guide features more than 500 species, along with detailed…

The Whole Earth Catalog was a cultural touchstone of the 1960s and 1970s. The iconic cover image of the Earth viewed from space made it one of the…

The game changing and vital text on what makes a city work, focusing on the street and public space, is a must read. A direct and fundamentally…

Troublemakers unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. The film features a cadre of renegade New York artists…

The Medium is the Massage is a unique study of human communication in the twentieth century, published in Penguin Modern Classics Marshall McLuhan is…

With admirable resolve and a sincere desire to change the planet for the better, from the onset of their existence the Japanese company Muji has…

Together with Designers Janine Wunder, Keiji Takeuchi, Brandon Gien, Hans Tan and other illustrious member of the international design community, Tim…

Now or never, we need to be radical. We need to rise up. And we need to rebel.

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture, urban design, and community livability. It was authored by…

Alamak! in the Triennale

An Article and Interview with Tim Power in Bravacasa Indonesia focusing on the unique approach of TP/A, in a discussion covering Design, Interiors,…

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) is one of the most influential artists of the 1970s, whose work has continued to be a noted influence of both…

Tim Power, director of TP/A, worked with Superstudio  for 2 years on the late 1980's. His experience with Superstudio ( 1986-1987 ) and Ettore…

Era il 1957 quando questa “piccola architettura da tasca”, scritta e plasmata da Gio Ponti in ogni suo dettaglio iconografico e tipografico, venne…

Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is a utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. The society described in the book…

Arch. Tim Power was invited as a special guest for an event organised by Compasses during Milano Design Week 2018.

Invited guest lecturer Tim Power presented the works of TP/A in the Symposium ’30 years of Teaching and Research in International Architecture’ at…

A new Book by Moby, know best as a musician, exposes his sensibility to territory and the transient relationships between us and the places we…

A conversation with Jerszy Seymour, Stephen Burks and Yoichi Nakamuta

Avalanche was a New York–based art magazine founded and edited by Willoughby Sharp and Liza Béar from 1970 to 1976. The magazine was unique in its…

Seasonal Greetings from TP/A.

Tim Power presented recent Tim Power Architects studio work and research in a multimedia presentation entitled ‘From the Spoon to the City … to the…

Ideally our cities become exciting, sexy, and profitable places to live, play, and work – that’s the most important part. When people have no…

The planetary trajectory of increased urbanization in the third millennium is transforming the ways in which the we inhabit our territory, our…

With his project ‘Maria del Camino’, Architect Bruce Tomb furthers his research and personal love affair with all things American. In Bruce’s own…

Portable Classic. Ancient Greece to Modern Europe (Venice, May 9–September 13) is an exhibition curated by Salvatore Settis and designed by OMA for…

Robert W. Irwin (born September 12, 1928) is an American installation artist who has explored perception and the conditional in art, often through…

In a lecture entitled 'Halfway to Infinity', Tim Power presents the work of TP/A, passing thought the connections of scale between Design,…

POWER challenges participants to think about how infrastructure relates to life across a series of intersecting concerns, including democratic…

With this book Paul Virilio inaugurated the new science whose object of study is the "dromocratic" revolution. First to use the concept of speed as a…

Tim Power has been an active blogger at the David Report since it’s inception in 2006. David Report is an influential blog and online magazine that…

The work of TP/A … our work … concurrent to our research and design, explores the ability of Architecture, Objects, Services, Landscape Design, etc.…

Founded in 1945, Oluce is the oldest Italian design company in the illumination sector still in operation today. The design qualities of the lamps…

The Hidden City is a project drawing from the narrative tradition of Palermo and focusing on one of the singular aspects of Manifesta 12, the…