Ark Journal Vol. XIV spotlights a quiet yet powerful shift occurring in contemporary architecture and design – a new wave of architects and creatives that seeks not to erase the past, but to build on it. With deep respect for the histories embedded in buildings and honouring local crafts and traditions, they work with, rather than against, existing structures while valuing complexity over uniformity, continuity over rupture.  

In rural France, Pollet Pinet Architectes breathes new life into forgotten buildings, reviving vernacular traditions through local craft and subtle innovation. Step into Nata Janberidze’s apartment in Tbilisi, a powerful blend of history, culture and personal expression. In New York, experience how gallerist Suzanne Demisch and collector Jeffrey Graetsch live in spaces where time is not concealed, but embraced. We visit Bosco Sodi’s house and studios in Mexico that embody the raw synergy between architecture and art, and artist and food visionary Laila Gohar in her New York loft, an interior where creativity, design and storytelling merge. All these spaces exemplify another theme of this edition: home as a place of convergence, where old and new – material and metaphorical, personal and collective – shape who we are.  

The issue also includes a high point of French late modernism, Villa Weil is a pure expression of architecture, an abstract object that lies elemental in its rural landscape, preserved and shared as a cultural project.
And bent, folded and curved, the metal sculptural forms of Umberto Bellardi Ricci staged in a landmark New York penthouse, echo the angular matrix of the interior and the cityscape that inspired their shapes.

Ark Journal Vol. XIIl is a thought-provoking exploration of how spaces, objects, and artistic expression shape contemporary life.

Note: Issue Ark is available with 3 different covers and online orders will receive one of these covers depending on availability.

Cover: Soft cover
Language: English
Pages: 220
Size: 23,5 x 1,8 x 31,5 cm