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stack on global modernisms available in store and online 🎬 www.p-u-n-c-h.ro PUNCH HQ open today 11-16 📍Piata Pache Protopopescu 13, 3rd floor, intercom 04 AFRICAN MODERNISM - THE ARCHITECTURE OF INDEPENDENCE HYBRID MODERNISM - MOVIE THEATERS IN SOUTH INDIA by Haubitz + Zoche CHANDIGARH FURNITURE CASABLANCA ART SCHOOL - A POST-COLONIAL AVANT-GARDE AUGUSTIN HERNANDEZ PRAXIS (rare & out of print section) BV DOSHI KAMALA HOUSE (rare & out of print section) MINISTRY OF HIGHWAYS - A GUIDE TO THE PERFORMATIVE ARCHITECTURE OF TBILISI (rare & out of print section) THE CHIPS - UKRAINIAN NAIVE MOSAICS OF THE 1950s-1990s TARA THEN AND NOW NOW, HERE AND THERE - ARCHIVES AND PRACTICES OF THE EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN BUREAU IN VILNIUS 1960-1980 CONSUMER CULTURE LANDSCAPES IN SOCIALIST YUGOSLAVIA #punchbucharest #artbook #artbooks #artbookshop #artbookstore

just in: CRUISING PAVILION - ARCHITECTURE, DISSIDENT SEX AND CRUISING CULTURES available in store & online 🐖 www.p-u-n-c-h.ro PUNCH HQ open Today 14-18 Saturday 11-16 📍Piata Pache Protopopescu 13, 3rd floor, intercom 04 Cruising Pavilion: Architecture, Dissident Sex and Cruising Cultures examines the influence of cruising cultures on architecture and urban life, unfolding a typology of spaces produced by sexual—primarily gay—subcultures. From the appropriation of sites such as parks, public restrooms, and streets to purpose-built spaces like sex clubs, bars, and bathhouses, as well as the new form of virtual dérive generated by geosocial dating apps, cruising has subverted the libidinal cartography and use of the modern metropolis. The book considers these spatial practices through the lens of artistic avant-gardes that have emerged at the intersection of sex, art, and architecture. It follows the eponymous curatorial project initiated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Rasmus Myrup, Octave Perrault, and Charles Teyssou, which traveled from Paris to Venice and on to New York, Fire Island, and Stockholm. Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou are a Paris-based curatorial duo. Their recent projects include Paris Orbital, a series of events at the Pinault Collection – Bourse de Commerce, and the Conversations series for Paris+ par Art Basel in October 2023. #punchbucharest #artbook #artbooks #artbookshop #artbookstore

new arrivals from @spectorbooks available in store & online 🌊 www.p-u-n-c-h.ro PUNCH HQ open Today 14-18 Friday 14-18 Saturday 11-16 📍Piata Pache Protopopescu 13, 3rd floor, intercom 04 THE WORD FOR WORLD IS WATER - WORLDBUILDING AND CREATIVE RESISTANCE THROUGH LIQUID ALLIANCES SEEDS - RECLAIMING ROOTS, SOWING FUTURES CRUISING PAVILION - ARCHITECTURE, DISSIDENT SEX AND CRUISING CULTURES DEGREE ZERO IN ARCHITECTURE - FORM, VALUE, AUTHORSHIP WASTE - A READER ABOUT GLOBAL ROUTES OF RUBBISH SCIENCE/FICTION - A NON-HISTORY OF PLANTS NOTES ON LIVING - REFLECTIONS ON UKRAINE TODAY BUILDING CRITIQUE - ARCHITECTURE AND ITS DISCONTENTS JONAS MEKAS - I SEEM TO LIVE. NEW YORK DIARIES VOL. 1&2 ALEXANDER KLUGE - PLURIVERSE ALEXANDER KLUGE - THE SNOWS OF VENICE ECOTONES - INVESTIGATING SOUNDS AND TERRITORIES PAN DAIJING DESIGN FOR ALL? INCLUSIVE DESIGN TODAY #punchbucharest #artbook #artbooks #artbookshop #artbookstore

just in: WHEN WORDS FAIL - KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION THROUGH PRACTICE BASED ART, DESIGN AND EDUCATION available in store & online 👉 www.p-u-n-c-h.ro PUNCH HQ open this week Thursday 14-18 Friday 14-18 Saturday 11-16 📍Piata Pache Protopopescu 13, 3rd floor, intercom 04 The visual and textual contributions in this volume take shape from a series of questions that place at the center of reflection the role of artistic and design practices in the production of knowledge. What tools can we adopt when words are no longer sufficient to describe what surrounds us? How can we construct new languages and new imaginaries capable of giving form to experience, uncertainty, and the complexity of our present? What does it mean today to produce knowledge through practice, at a historical moment when the boundaries between discipline and action, between theory and project, between art and life are becoming increasingly blurred? How do artists and designers use the tools of their practices to question reality, deconstruct dominant narratives, and propose alternative perspectives? The volume gathers and weaves together the works and writings of more than one hundred artists, designers, scholars, and thinkers who, through different approaches, languages, and sensibilities, explore the possibility of generating knowledge through image, gesture, form, and action. The aim is to shed light on how visual practices can not only represent the world but also have an impact on it, activating processes of situated, critical, and transformative knowledge. Introduced and edited by Giulia Cordin, with contributions by Nida Abdullah, Matteo Antoniazzi, Noemi Biasetton, Nitzan Cohen, Silvio Lorusso, Simone C Niquille, Kseniia Obukhova and Francesca Verga #punchbucharest #artbook #artbooks #artbookshop #artbookstore

news in the writing department available in store & online 👯‍♀️ www.p-u-n-c-h.ro PUNCH HQ open Thursday 14-18 Friday 14-18 Saturday 11-16 📍Piata Pache Protopopescu 13, 3rd floor, intercom 04 THE LESBIAN BODY by Monique Wittig AN EROS ENCYCLOPEDIA by Rachel James SMALLTOWNNOVELLA by Ronald M. Schernikau ARTHUR'S WHIMS by Herve Guibert INFORMATION AGE by Cora Lewis NOTES ON NOTHING. THE JOYS OF BEING NOBODY by Anonymous STRANGE BIOLOGY by Charlotte Strange EINAR by Elfriede Jelinek A FIELD COMPANION FOR WANDERING (2025 edition) CHAOS BREAKS OUT SPECIAL PAYOUT by Claude Closky #punchbucharest #artbook #artbooks #artbookshop #artbookstore

just in: GERMAINE KRULL - CHIEN FOU. SELECTED WRITINGS available in store & online 🌐 www.p-u-n-c-h.r PUNCH HQ open today 11-16📍Piata Pache Protopopescu 13, 3rd floor, intercom 04 The career of avant-garde photographer and activist Germaine Krull (1897–1985) took her across the world over a turbulent century. After growing up around Europe, Krull studied photography in Munich during the First World War. There she acquired her nickname or alter-ego ‘Chien fou’ (Mad Dog), which provides the chronological and thematic starting point for this volume of writings drawn from the course of Krull’s extraordinary life, most published here for the first time. The selected texts range from artistic manifestos to political essays to memoirs, written between the 1920s and ’80s in a wide variety of places and circumstances. They narrate Krull’s life among the creative communities of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and interwar Paris, her participation in the French Resistance in Brazil and Equatorial Africa, and her later decision to settle in Thailand, then India. Illustrated throughout with Krull's celebrated photographs and archival materials, this collection offers a compelling account from the front lines of artistic innovation in the twentieth century and introduces a unique literary stylist. #punchbucharest #artbook #artbooks #artbookshop #artbookstore

stack on magic, folklore and mythology available in store & online 👹 www.p-u-n-c-h.ro PUNCH HQ open Today 14-18 Friday 11-16 QUEER ANCIENT WAYS - A DECOLONIAL EXPLORATION by Zairong Xiang MAGIC - DOCUMENTS OF CONTEMPORARY ART REVOLUTIONARY DEMONOLOGY by Gruppo di Nun THE TAROT OF LEONORA CARRINGTON MIZNA 24.3 MYTH AND MEMORY THE SLEEPING HERMAPHRODITE RITUAL AND DISPLAY reader COLLAPSED MYTHOLOGIES- A GEOFINANCIAL ATLAS ESTELLE HANANIA - GLACIAL JUBILEE (rare & out of print section) SACRED PLANTS IV SPIKE 58 - MAGIC JANEK SIMON - SYNTHETIC FOLKLORE #punchbucharest #artbook #artbooks #artbookshop #artbookstore

from doomscroll to print: AMBER by @avocado_ibuprofen just in (only 300 copies, already sold out) available in store & online 🌀 www.p-u-n-c-h.ro PUNCH HQ open Thursday 14-18 Friday 14-18 Saturday 11-16 📍Piata Pache Protopopescu 13, 3rd floor, intercom 04 Amber is a book of texts I have gleaned and polished from material originally written for the Instagram account @avocado_ibuprofen over the past six years. Amber is an offline archive for these texts, as well as an autonomous publication that you can read without further knowledge of, or interest in, the account. Writing for the platform brought forth a certain register, a voice that was more the voice of an account than, strictly, my voice. The writing was shaped by Instagram’s algorithm: by what was popular, by what angered the users. The writing was cybernetic, gloopy and also a bit sad in that way. »—Jaakko Pallasvuo « Amber is an extraordinary achievement, drawn from the most ordinary materials of art making: long hours in the studio, battles for funding, exhibition mounting, doubt, indecision, intoxication, compulsory socialising. The book evokes a portrait of a humanistic cyborg as a young artist. A vertiginous thrill of exactitude runs through each piece, sustained by a precise commitment to its own necessity—at once inspiring and quietly life-supporting from page to page. I may never finish this book. It resists resolution, and its sense of time is poly-circular. That resistance is part of its comfort. Each time I open it, I find myself in another head-spin—mine or the author’s. Truth and the unverifiable collide. Reading it is a pleasure in itself: the pearl-shaped thoughts of Avocado Ibuprofen are stylish, witty, accelerated, evaporating before they have time to age. Neat and faintly apocalyptic, they are immediately quotable, like a choir of refrigerator magnets—something off of Patricia Lockwood’s fridge. I find myself laughing out loud, again today, at the same two words, still standing in the same position. »—Raimundas Malašauskas #punchbucharest #artbook #artbooks #artbookshop #artbookstore

stack on poetry available in store & online 🐦 www.p-u-n-c-h.ro PUNCH HQ open this week Thursday 14-18 Friday 14-18 Saturday 11-16 📍Piata Pache Protopopescu 13, 3rd floor, intercom 04 F LETTER - NEW RUSSIAN FEMINIST POETRY A LARGER REALITY by Ursula K Le Guin DUSK - ANTHOLOGY - CONTEMPORARY LEBANESE WOMEN POETS (rare & out of print section) THE ARAB APOCALYPSE by Etel Adnan NEW AND SELECTED POEMS OF CECILIA VICUNA HEAVY TRAFFIC 3 OTHER INFLUENCES - AN UNTOLD HISTORY OF FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE POETRY HOLY SMOKE by Fanny Howe I HAVE BROUGHT YOU A SEVERED HAND by Ghayath Almadhoun MOTHER, DAUGHTER, AUGUR by Mary Simmons GAY GIRL PRAYERS by Emily Austin THE IMPOSSIBLE PHYSICS OF THE HUMMINGBIRD by Kim Farrar EMBROIDERIES by Burcu Sahin SONNET(S) by Ulisses Carrion CHAOS BREAKS OUT SPECIAL PAYOUT by Claude Closky COOL DARK PLACES by Amber Autumn Leaves Huntsman OH, TONGUE by Simone Forti FIVEHUNDREDPLACES series #punchbucharest #artbook #artbooks #artbookshop #artbookstore

just in: WATER WORKS - ECOSOCIAL DESIGN available in store & online 🌊 www.p-u-n-c-h.ro PUNCH HQ open Today 14-18 Saturday 11-16 📍Piata Pache Protopopescu 13, 3rd floor, intercom 04 Contributors: Mari Bastashevski, Janna Bystrykh, Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Yi-Fei Chen, Ştefan Constantinescu, Carolina Dominguez-Guzmán, Clemens Driessen, Shahnoor Hasan, Clara Sika Helbo, Ils Huygens, Mahmoud Khattab, Francesca Masoero, Coltrane McDowell, Mariana & Joana Pestana, Benedetta Pompili, Esha Shah, Mihnea Tănăsescu, Serina Tarkhanian, John Thackara, Daniela Tokashiki, Jennifer Veilleux, Henriëtte Waal, Ria Waal. Interviews with: Jon Ardern (Superflux), Atelier LUMA, John van Boxel, Natsai Audrey Chieza (Faber Futures), Ahmed Salem Dabah, Julien Fargetton, Sylvain Hartenberg (OOZE Architects), Anab Jain (Superflux), Zairah Khan, Rebecca Lave, Mary Maggic, Kent O. Miller, Mirko Nikolić, Roric Paulman, Eva Pfannes (OOZE Architects), Qanat Collective, Marjetica Potrč, Rimini Protokoll, Fernando Felipe Pérez Riojas, Sandrine Rozier, Rutger Schrijer, Susan Schuppli, Moreno Schweikle, Veronika Sedlmair, Islam Shabana, Brynjar Sigurðarson, Billy Tiller, Heidi Vogels, Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll), Thijs de Zeeuw. Water is a central concern in the ecological and social issues that we are faced with, and technical solutions do not suffice. We need a radically diverse approach that stages and cultivates relations. Without promising grandiose schemes to save the environment, ecosocial design fosters curiosity about the ways in which people draw on their experience and shared commitment to landscapes and ecologies. Through a collection of essays and case studies, Water Works shows over sixty careful responses to flooding, draught, pollution, extraction and other issues around freshwater. Divided into seven themes: Purity, Wild, Scale, Representation, Violence, Infrastructure and Commerce, Water Works allows us to learn from places and makers that build on the intricate relationships between people and other life forms, materials and (infra)structures. #punchbucharest #artbook #artbooks #artbookshop #artbookstore

stack on music available in store & online 🥁 www.p-u-n-c-h.ro PUNCH HQ open Today 14-18 Friday 14-18 Saturday 11-16 📍Piata Pache Protopopescu 13, 3rd floor, intercom 04 SYNTH HISTORY ZINE 5 BASTA NOW - WOMEN, TRANS & NON-BINARY IN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC RADIO BALLADS - SONGS FOR CHANGE ENGLAND'S HIDDEN REVERSE - A SECRET HISTORY OF THE ESOTERIC UNDERGROUND SACRED INTENT by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge DOUBLE LIVES IN ART AND POP MUSIC TEKLIFE / GHETTOVILLE / ESKI - THE SONIC ECOLOGIES OF BLACK MUSIC IN THE EARLY 21st CENTURY ASSEMBLING A BLACK COUNTER CULTURE COMMON TONES - SELECTED INTERVIEWS WITH ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS RECORD CULTURE mag issue 10 & back issues WE JAZZ magazine #punchbucharest #artbook #artbooks #artbookshop #artbookstore

just in: SIT, SITE, CHAIR, CHERRY by Aleix Plademunt available in store & online 🍒 www.p-u-n-c-h.ro PUNCH HQ open this week Thursday 14-18 Friday 14-18 Saturday 11-16 📍Piata Pache Protopopescu 13, 3rd floor, intercom 04 Photographer Aleix Plademunt is a photo-book alchemist. Working with a host of very different images, he creates a picture that is whole and complete. In his photo book Matter, which was published by Spector Books in 2022 and has won multiple awards, he moves between microcosm and macrocosm, between the sun and tiny particles of matter. Now, in Campus, he focuses on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, not far from Basel. Vitra is a project with many different facets and layers: a Swiss furniture company, a campus with buildings by important contemporary architects, including Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, and Álvaro Siza, a museum—the Vitra Design Museum—furniture collections, design and architecture estates and archives, gardens, publications, and people. Aleix Plademunt’s Campus combines all these motifs, supplemented by a number of historical photographs, to create an image of a place where you can sense the meaning and importance of design—as utopia and as everyday work. #punchbucharest #artbook #artbooks #artbookshop #artbookstore