Creating, traveling, drawing, and building: such is the DNA of the exuberant architect and designer Marcelo Joulia. Driven from his home country of Argentina by the 1976 military coup, this personal trauma gave him the strength to be a great builder. For thirty years, his agency Naço —‘intuition’ in the Guarani language—has been the laboratory of a global and inventive architecture, aiming to decompartmentalise genres and trades, and mixing knowledge, arts, and professional backgrounds together. Belonging to no specific school, and fiercely attached to his independence and freedom, he has imagined a unique creative space in which expertise and rigour both flourish within the domains of luxury, urban mobility, and major architecture. As an insatiable adventurer, he is able to take an interest in anything —large-scale buildings, design, furniture, bicycles, boats— while not denying himself anything. His passion revolves around teamwork and bringing talents together to conceive of new worlds. As an epicurean, a generous person passionate about art and gastronomy, Marcelo Joulia creates places in his image: unique, welcoming, and always dynamic.

This book showcases the vision of a man and an agency that has surrounded itself with the best and strived to bring to life a demanding and iconoclastic architecture, and carry it forth into the future.

Proof is a printed visual archive composed of video screenshots from ISIS propaganda films, captured directly from the Internet. It shows how, since 2014, cultural history was physically destroyed by special units ‘Kata’ib Taswiya’. Proof is a documentation of the last moments of those sculptures and monuments, during and just after their collapse and destructions. Technically the book operates like a pictorial cheque book and its pages are pre-cuted, allowing the readers to tear the pages if they want to.

Forthcoming issues:

n°31 — An Edition: The Serving Library. Interview with Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey by James Langdon — available
n°32 — A Graphic Designer and Illustrator: Bráulio Amado. Author: Manon Bruet — available
n°33 — Ligneous, tentacular forms: Decorative invasions and man eating plants. Author: Camille Pageard — available
n°34 — An award: What is a most beautiful book? Author: Thierry Chancogne — available
n°35 — An eye: artists’ view of the modern world 1911 – 1938. Author: Sonia de Puineuf — available
n°36 — Photography suspended: Herbert Bayer. Author: Remi Parcollet — available
n°37 — A polygraph: Georges Nelson. Author: Catherine Geel — available
n°38 — A debate: Jan Van Toorn / Wim Crouwel. Author: Thierry Chancogne — available
n°39 — A series of cards and performances: My Calling (Card) #1 #2 #3 by Adrian Piper. Author: Jérôme Dupeyrat — available
n°40 — A collaboration: Les Urbaines & Eurostandard. Author : Manon Bruet — available
n°41 — The Image of Fashion: Forget (fashion) photography? Author: Aude Felley — available
n°42 — 12 or 13 things I know about: F.R.DAVID. Authors: Victoire Le Bars et Benjamin Thorel — available

n°43 — A typeface: “Typographic writing”. Author: Thierry Chancogne — Forthcoming

n°44 — A conundrum: the visual communication of neuroscience. Author: James Langdon — Forthcoming
n°45 — Made Redundant. (4 templates). Author: Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey — Forthcoming