ArchiTangle

ArchiTangle is a Berlin-based independent publishing house and digital service provider in the archi

06/03/2026

One of those beautiful days: four books at different stages reach us at the same time from our printers, all heading into approvals for the next step. Always exciting to see books come alive. 📚✨

10/12/2025

BUTABU REMIX — Tomorrow our Kickstarter goes live!
We’d love your support. Please do spread the word and invite others to join us.
We’re thrilled to launch our first-ever Kickstarter for BUTABU REMIX — a landmark book where Lesley Lokko brings together James Morris’s breathtaking photographic archive of earthen architecture in West Africa with powerful new voices, emerging authors, and leading experts.
There are some beautiful ways to take part in the campaign:
✨ Be among the first 50 backers to preorder the book at a special early-backer price.
✨ Explore a selection of limited-edition original prints by James Morris, available exclusively through this campaign.
✨ And most of all, help us bring this important book into the world.
Thank you for supporting, sharing, and being part of this community — it means everything.
All photographs by James Morris.
Edited by Lesley Lokko, with contributions by David Adjaye, Ewa Effiom, Lois Innes, Francis Kéré, Nana Biamah-Ofosu, and Izabela Wieczorek. Book design by Julia Wagner
Our deepest thanks go to Lesley Lokko and AFI, whose vision and support have shaped this project in the most meaningful way — and of course to James Morris for his extraordinary work.
We’re also grateful to David, Francis, and Lesley for the film interviews and their ongoing support!

09/09/2025

🗓 Thursday, Sept 11, 2025
⏰ Doors open at 6 PM
🎉 Join us in Berlin to celebrate the launch of ’s
Saudi Modern – Jeddah in Transition 1938–1964.

The book, edited by Abdulrahman and Turki Gazzaz, explores the urban and architectural transformation of the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, since the discovery of oil—highlighting the city’s rapid modernization and societal change.
Over the last ninety years, Jeddah has transitioned from a modest walled city and pilgrimage hub into a sprawling modern metropolis. The complex urban morphology that characterizes it today can be credited to the port city’s role in the Saudi Arabian oil industry that arose after the discovery of natural oil reservoirs in 1938. The industry brought foreign companies and institutions, as well as workers and their families, from around the world. The city grew beyond its old walls. Moreover, interactions with modern technologies and development models launched a radical infrastructural and architectural reconfiguration of the urban fabric.

As a reaction to this dramatic shift, the language of the vernacular has become fetishized. Modernist developments post-1938 are today commonly considered inauthentic, and many of the buildings, streets, and neighborhoods that bear witness to the evolution of the city right after the discovery of oil have been demolished without formal archival documentation. In their place, new megaprojects have sprung up. Driven by global capital, Jeddah, along with other cities across the Persian Gulf, has entered yet a new phase of sweeping urban transformation.
Highlighting fifteen case studies, the book further combines scholarly essays with visual contributions, presenting unparalleled documentary research and historical contextualization of the city’s disappearing modernist heritage.

With contributions by Abdulrahman Gazzaz, Turki Gazzaz, Laurian Ghinițoiu, Safouh Naamani, Todd Reisz, Saudi Ethnographic Diary, Sumayya Vally, and excerpts from historical research by Abdulla Yahia Bokhari and Sameer Al Layali.
Book Design by

Thanks so much to our great contributors:

31/08/2025

The countdown is on! We are happy to share that the Aga Khan Award for Architecture book has been completed just in time for the upcoming announcement of the Award Winners this Tuesday!

With much appreciation, we extend our sincere thanks to the Master Jury—Lucia Allais, Azra Akšamija, David Basulto, Yvonne Farrell, Kabage Karanja, Yacouba Konaté, Noura Al-Sayeh Holtrop, Hassan Radoine, and Mun Summ Wong—for your dedicated and inspiring work in selecting the laureates and realising the book celebrating the shortlisted and winning projects.

We are grateful to the Steering Committee, chaired by His Highness the Aga Khan, and including Meisa Batayneh, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Farrokh Derakhshani, Lesley Lokko, Gülru Necipoğlu, Hashim Sarkis, and Sarah M. Whiting, whose vision and guidance have shaped this Award Cycle.

Finally, we celebrate the entire Aga Khan Award for Architecture team—you are the best! Your dedication made it possible to complete this book on time!

We eagerly await Tuesday’s announcement of the winners!

✨ Thank you all for making this journey extraordinary. .konate2019 .architects : our Editor of the book! : our book designer! .druck : our amazing printer!

28/08/2025

SAUDI MODERN: Thanks to Katarzyna and Andres we had the chance to get to know – and now they’re holding the book in their hands! These are the amazing stories! Back when Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska was still Director of the Goethe-Institut in Riyadh (before becoming the Artistic Director of the German Federal Cultural Foundation ), she and Andres visited Turki and Abdulrahman Gazzaz in their studio in Jeddah – and just look at what has grown out of that meeting!

Stay tuned for our SAUDI MODERN Book Launch & ArchiTangle Talk on September 11 at our publishing house in Berlin.

18/06/2025

Big thanks to our fabulous models Zhang Ke, Tina and Hans-Jürgen for showcasing our brand new bike bags at their world premiere! 💥🤣

28/05/2025

We’re live at in Berlin!

Bridging Architecture and Digital Society.

This year’s theme, „Generation XYZ,“ emphasizes intergenerational dialogue in our digital era. At ArchiTangle, we contribute to this conversation through our publications that intersect architecture, technology, our living environments and social justice.
A highlight is Visual Investigations: Between Advocacy, Journalism edited by Lisa Luksch and Andres Lepik. This work showcases how architectural tools and visual evidence can uncover human rights violations, from detention camps in Xinjiang to climate justice issues in the Pacific Islands.
The presence of our books underscores our commitment to exploring how design and digital tools can drive societal change.

09/05/2025

The first venue of the SAUDI MODERN book launch tour is happening today in Venice! Don’t miss the incredible initiative by , showcased in a captivating exhibition running until Sunday, May 10.
Come explore and be inspired!

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