EPRIS Journal
Independent international journal and cultural platform exploring contemporary art, architecture, interior design, artists, designers and cities in context.
Latest articles
- Sandra Kantanen: Beyond the Lens of Traditional Photography: Finnish artist Sandra Kantanen approaches photography as a gateway to the imagined, rather than a tool for capturing objective reality. Her
- Emily Kraus: Rhythm of the Moment: Inside the Canvas Cube, Emily Kraus Paints the Rhythm of the Present Moment
- Against the Right Angle: Five buildings that talked their way out of the grid – and the software, the metal, the money and the sheer nerve it took to build them.
- Polish Design: Woven From Memory: How does the sensetivity of Polish designers towards cultural heritage shape the design scene
- Tadao Ando: Architecture beneath the tangible
- Art that makes you smile: I believe that when you introduce playful objects into an environment, it expands the boundaries of the mind. It gives you non-verbal permis
- Five Rooms, One Signature: A dalmatian dot, a slab of burl, three portraits of the same painted dog, and one small cone that keeps reappearing where you least expect i
- The Sacred Spring: A Portrait of the Vienna Secession: In 1897 a handful of Viennese artists walked out on the establishment, raised a white temple crowned with a dome of gilded leaves, and decla
- The Heart of EPRIS: Maria Is Now a Bachelor of Architecture: On July 7th, Mariia Ivanova, EPRIS's editor-in-chief, officially became a Bachelor of Architecture. To mark the day – a heart built from the
- The Threshold of Time: Door restoration is an act of archaeological tenderness. From the carved portals of Tbilisi to Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise – a journey thro
- Home Away From Home: A pied-à-terre always catches the irreplaceable light in your eyes, but it can also spark them.
- Rooms That Watch You Back: Glass once promised freedom, honesty and light. Then the walls learned to collect data. An essay on transparent architecture, controlled vis
- In Conversation with Chora Practice:: Founders of a Lisbon-based decor studio on the art of listening to your inner self, importance of resilience and favorite places in the city
- Where We Meet Ourselves - interview with Keisuke Azuma: Artist Keisuke Azuma on washing paint back off the canvas, the Japanese aesthetics of shadow and emptiness behind his work, and why art has
- Museo Nivola: A Museum, a Village and the Memory They Share: Costantino Nivola left a Sardinian village of masons for New York, worked with Le Corbusier, Sert and Saarinen, and never stopped coming bac
- Souv: The Souvenir That Doesn't Forget: Matej Petrić and Antonio Šeparović on turning an ordinary fridge magnet into the entrance to a traveler's own photos, why nobody actually wa
- Nick Dahlen - A Contemporary Take on Modernism: An artist who transforms the beauty of everyday life into striking illustrations within his own visual world.
- Soft Modernism: Bryn and Ellefsen's Physics Building at Blindern: They won the competition with a Roman temple, went to look at what Europe was building, and came home to strip their own drawing bare. What
- Where the Warmth Lives: How Two Traditions Measured the Turn from Summer to Autumn: Autumn does not make the light warmer. Measured region by region, two canvases of the same field show the sky staying where it was while the
- The Picture Is Finished Before the Shutter - interview with Roland M Schwerdtfeger: Architectural photographer Roland M Schwerdtfeger on planning a picture until it is finished before the camera comes up, the single coloured
- Neobarocco: Five Buildings That Confess What They Want You to Believe: No seventeenth-century architect ever had to build a case for absolute power. The power was already absolute, and the architecture only had
- Built to a Score: Three Buildings Where Music Wrote the Architecture: Most buildings host music: a stage, walls, a program, good acoustics. A handful of buildings do something stranger, and let a piece of music
- The Seam That Isn't There: Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate: Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate has no front, no seam and, its maker insists, no fixed subject beyond the skyline and the crowd currently caught i
- Abbie Downey: Collected, Not Coordinated: The founder of Feather&Fossil on visual rhythm, the difference between layered and chaotic, and why a home should read as continued rather t
- Eighteen Inches of Sky: The Interiors of the World Trade Center: Twenty five years on, the towers are remembered as a silhouette. Inside they were three buildings stacked on each other, a lobby seventy fou
- Where the Souls Become Cranes: Nataliia Maloh, painter and curator, on her anniversary exhibition at ArtLab, the space she built from nothing on the shore of Lake Maggiore
- Architecture That Listens: How multi-layered context shapes identity across three projects by US Architecture Studio, from a steppe town, through rolling hills, to a s
- Nothing Fallow About It: The Harvest Behind France's Novels and Italy's Golden Lion: A Roman mosaic already knew what September was for. Two thousand years later France still times its book industry to it, and Italy still tim
- Diana Aleshchenko: Safety Comes From Openness: A new architecture graduate on a rehabilitation centre without right angles, a student campus built for wartime, and a courtyard that keeps
- Oksana Dzhuman: A Self-Portrait in 5,500 Sticks: The Valencia-based artist on turning used tobacco sticks into mosaic portraits, painting each one by hand, and showing the work to the publi
- A Cow Made of Broken Tile: A family workshop on turning mosaic, a material invented never to move, into furniture that ships across oceans, and why a table with a cow
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