Editorial and graphic design with a strong bias towards concept and typography.
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Coppens Alberts is an Amsterdam-based design studio established by Christine Alberts (CH) and Patrick Coppens (NL).
Clients include MVRDV, PostNL, WBooks, Trancity, Uitgeverij d'jonge Hond, Museum De Paviljoens, Studio Piet Paris, Arnhem Mode Biennale, the Kröller-Müller Museum, SUN Publishers, NAi Publishers, Terra Lannoo, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Scholten & Baijings, Oomen Architecten, SUB office, de Architecten Cie, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts and Meeuwig & Zn.
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Kas Oosterhuis. Architecture Goes Wild
‘This book contains a selection of his texts from the early 1990s up to more recent ones varying from thoughts on architecture to transport. He asserts that all true architecture inevitably will be programmed to perform in real time. Computer programs speak the new instrumental language in which potential new worlds are described.’(Publisher’s text)
Book, 256 pages, 240x170mm
Commissioned by 010 Publishers, 2002
tags / books / architecture
Ideals in Concrete. Exploring Central and Eastern Europe
‘(...) the contradistinctions and similarities between East and West are subject to critical examination in a series of essays in text and image. Many of these subsidiary themes are associated with the city, since the impact of Communism is nowhere more evident than in this urban space. In the planning euphoria and the building of a completely new society on rational and scientific principles we can glimpse a mirroring of the ideas and views of Communist politicians, architects and urban planners.(...)’ (Publisher’s text)
Paperback with jacket, 184 pages, 170x240mm
Commissioned by NAi publishers, 2004
tags / books / architecture