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978-94-92852- 47-2

Sabine Krese

SJG (Joost Grootens, Julie da Silva, Carina Schwake)

296

12.5 x 19 cm

Softcover

English

Release date: March 2022

What is inspiration? What inspires you? 111 INCEPTION is a chain of inspiration, which involves 111 architects from around the world.

This book was not guided by theory, yet it grew out of a search for new ways to look at authorship, ideas and inspiration. The experimental and playful character of the project itself, with its unpredictable outcomes, allowed for a much needed change of perspective—away from the traditional approach to creation characteristic of modernity and towards inspiration—which does not respect borders.

The exhibition 100 Experiments. Inspiration in Design Processes was on show at AEDES Gallery, Berlin in 2019.

‘Design is not only what you see, but how it makes you feel today and how it creates your tomorrow.’ - Anna Bates

Just a century ago Theo van Doesburg, the leading representative of De Stijl, created the painting The Rhythm of a Russian Dance (1918). Van Doesburg worked not only as a versatile artist, but also as an editor of the magazine De Stijl. He contributed to various journals and was member of various artist societies. It was his strength, as a spider in the international web and an as a networker avant-la-lettre, to forge bonds between fellow artists, architects and graphic designers, to bring them together through congresses, lectures and artist groups to promote their work.

Eleven years later in 1929 this painting by Van Doesburg became an inspiration for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, for the German Pavilion at the 1929 World’s Fair in Barcelona. Van Doesburg’s geometrical abstraction helped to radically re-imagine the very idea of a building, gave freedom to space and quite literally brought down the walls of prior architectural conventions. The building was to become a major inspiration for the further development of modern architecture and an iconic example of the modernist aesthetic

How does inspiration move through the atmosphere? How do we inspire each other? And how does creative inspiration itself change through each person’s unique experience? To find out, Anna Bates set an experiment by tasking one architect to use the painting of Van Doesburg as a stimulus for creating his/her own work, which would then be passed on to other architects, who in turn would draw inspiration for their new work, and over time growing into a web of conversation, interplay and inspiration—a dance all on its own. In 2017 as a starting point of this project, American architect Gary Bates of Space Group was invited to create the first work in the chain of architects.

978-90-5973-116-5 [episode]

Ping-Pong Design | Meike Nip

452

22 x 19,5 cm

Paperback

Only available in Dutch

This publication has been made possible by the Municipality of the City of Rotterdam

special offer: now only € 12.50 (incl. 9% VAT) instead of € 25,00

978-90-5973-056-4 [episode]

Floor Koomen

224

21 x 14

doublepaperback

English

This publication has in part been made possible through the generous support of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, and drukkerij Mart Spruijt bv.

978-94-92852-41-0

Florian Schimanski

104

21.3 x 28.5 cm

Paperback (otabind)

English Dutch

Release date: September 2021

This book is published by Jap Sam Books in cooperation with Sieger White Fonds / Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and in conjunction with her solo exhibition at the Mini Galerie (3-5 September 2021). Sieger White Foundation Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

Photo portrait by Felicity van Oort. For more information about the artist Liesbeth Piena, www.liesbethpiena.nl

English

Translation: Michael Meert (Dutch/English)
Image editing: Sanneke Huisman, Marga van Mechelen, assisted by Maan Meelker
Glossary: Sanneke Huisman, Eleonoor Jap Sam, Alexandre Michaan, Marga van Mechelen, assisted by Zoë Spaaij
Printing, lithography and binding: robstolk®
Project coordination and publisher: Eleonoor Jap Sam

Published by Jap Sam Books and made possible with the generous support of the Creative Industries Fund NL, Mondriaan Fund, LIMA and V2_.

978-94-90322-40-3

Peter de Kan

544

17 x 23 cm

Bound with open spine

1304 grms 

English

Release date: Spring 2014 

For more information also see: www.richardsaxton.org www.M12studio.org

English

Edited by Manon Braat, Heske ten Cate, JLC Coburn, Eleonoor Jap Sam and Clara Ronsdorf. 

Editors Dutch publication: Manon Braat, Heske ten Cate, Lieneke Hulshof and Maurits de Bruijn. 

Translations: JLC Coburn, Manon Braat and Urgent Vertalen.

This publication was made possible through the support of BankGiro Loterij Fonds, Mondriaan Fund, Gemeente Den Haag and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.

978-94-90322-37-3

Mind Design - Niels Schrader

272

15,5 x 22 cm

Paperback

Date of Release: November 2012

English

In 2010 Jap Sam Books and Myvillages formed an editorial alliance to produce a new series of books.  This is the second publication in this series of books.

Translation NL-EN Kathleen van Overzee-McMillian

The research for this publication was supported by Fryslan 2018 and Villagers of Wjelsryp.

This publication was made possible by the Mondriaan Fund and the Netherlands Architecture Fund.