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Founded by Noëmi Mollet and Reto Geiser, MG&Co. is a Houston-based design practice that develops spatial strategies from the book to the house.

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Architectural practice and architectural writing are too often treated as separate domains. This anthology by prolific architect and educator Carlos Jiménez challenges this divide, presenting drawing, building, and writing as three interrelated forms of a single creative identity. Assembling texts written over the course of a forty-year career, Writing, Drawing, Building maps the forces, places, and figures that have shaped Jiménez’s distinct architectural vision. Organized chronologically, twenty-six essays, drawn from a body of more than a one hundred published texts, are complemented by contemporaneous project drawings and photographs of built work. The book’s design, typography, trim size, and materiality support a literary reading experience. Texts enter into dialogue with photographs and drawings of projects that were developed in parallel with the writing. While the book’s format is intended to bring its texts to the fore, the drawings and building photographs serve as loosely associated insights into the architect’s state of mind at particular moments along his path. The visual thread they unspool offers a secondary narrative while reinforcing the idea that writing, drawing, and building are distinct yet parallel practices.

Carlos Jiménez
Writing, Drawing, Building: A Life in Archtiecture
Edited and Introduced by Reto Geiser
Designed by MG&Co.
Published by Arquine
Hardcover
122 x 200 mm, 336 pages
ISBN 978-607-8880-30-0

Also available in a Spanish language edition.

Join us for the official launch as part of the Mextrópoli festival, at Laguna (Calle Dr Erazo 172, Doctores, Cuauhtémoc, CDMX) on Saturday, September 19, at 4:00 pm. taken in Mexico City by @molletgeiser

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Six years ago we had the opportunity to design the identity for our very own Noemi Mollet‘s micro bakery Wunderloaf (@wunderloaf_bakes). What a treat, when the passions for design and food, along with the ambition of sustainable, locally sourced goods and products, amalgamate in one project! It’s been a privilege to see Wunderloaf grow and strive in its local community, and to continue contributing to its identity. Happy birthday! taken in Houston, Texas by @molletgeiser

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Book in progress. taken in Houston, Texas by @molletgeiser

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“2026 Rice Architecture Dissertation Colloquium” event poster, inspired by Eric Zimmerman’s Black Cat, Dark Room, Not There (2012), hand-crafted in-house. Black-and-white digital print, duplexed on yellow construction paper, circular cuts executed with a Zünd flatbed cutter. Dependent on location and light condition, a yellow glow from the paper reflection highlights the holes.

Please join us at the Rice School of Architecture on Friday and Saturday, March 6 and March 7, for a colloquium of international doctoral students discussing new research in the history and theory of architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, and design as approached through the lens of architectural methodology. As political boundaries shift and national identities evolve, as economic dependencies grow more volatile, as the scale of globalization expands in concert with ever more intensive resource extraction and planetary warming, reference frames within architectural history are also shifting and, with them, the discipline’s approaches to methodology, epistemology, and practice. The colloquium will address these pressing issues by presenting new research in architectural history—in its broadest sense—while also rethinking the field’s narratives, periodization, geographic reach, and methods for collecting historical evidence. An open platform for the exchange of ideas and questions about architectural methodology, the colloquium will illuminate how internal and external disciplinary forces not only advance but shape the field’s historiography. With the ambition to address and further strengthen the position of architectural history as an amalgamating force within humanistic research across different schools and departments at Rice University, this two-day event offers an international group of doctoral students a forum to present new research in the history and theory of architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, and design. taken in Rice University School of Architecture by @molletgeiser

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“Under Construction” has crossed the Atlantic to the Rhode Island School of Design. This adaptation of the exhibition, first presented at the Solar Observation Tower at Collegium Helveticum, Swiss Institute for Advanced Study in Zurich, highlights construction sites as an ephemeral and often neglected stage in the documentation of the built environment. Curated by Reto Geiser, the installation presents works by contemporary photographers Tibor Bielicky, Federico Farinatti, Stefano Graziani, Marianne Mueller, and David K. Ross, along with a selection of Geiser’s research materials, to reflect the building site as a pivotal moment in architecture at the intersection between the invisible and the visible.

The installation is on view through October 16, 2025 at the Architecture Department of the Rhode Island School of Design, Bayard Ewing Building, 231 S Main St, Providence, RI.

Special thanks to Stephanie Rae Lloyd and Michael Kubo (RISD), Igor Marjanović (Rice University), Philip Ursprung (ETH Zurich), Sebastian Bonhoeffer and Mario Wimmer (Collegium Helveticum, Swiss Institute for Advanced Study, Zurich), Hanan Traiba, Noëmi Mollet.

Details of artworks shown are copyright by the artists.

#architecture #construction #underconstruction #buildingsite #photography #architecturalphotography #mockup #reverseruins #ruins taken in RISD Architecture by @molletgeiser

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This exhibition of contemporary photography highlights construction sites as an ephemeral and often neglected stage in the documentation of the built environment. Curated by Reto Geiser, the installation at the Sonnenturm (solar observation tower) presents works by Tibor Bielicky, Stefano Graziani, Marianne Mueller, and David K. Ross to reflect the building site as a pivotal moment in architecture at the intersection between the invisible and the visible. The installation is on view through July 11, 2025 at Collegium Helveticum, Swiss Institute for Advanced Study, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 25, 8092 Zürich, Opening hours Mon–Fri, 12:30–16:30, admission is free. taken in Collegium Helveticum by @molletgeiser

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It’s been a rewarding fortnight teaching a master class at the Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design at TU Delft. We engaged the history of the architecture book and its role as a messenger of architectural theories and ideas through lectures and engaged reading discussions of relevant literature. Participants were introduced to the theoretical foundations of graphic design, rooting the book in a larger disciplinary and cultural context, and providing alternative takes on the book as a mode of architectural discourse. Oscillating between theory seminar and hands-on workshop, we explored such topics as the organization of information, fundamentals of composition, typography—including a field trip to the Plantin Moretus Museum in Antwerp—, and production—culminating in a visit of Wilco printers and binder in Amersfoort—, which were all applied in short design experiments. In the second part of the class, students analyzed György Kepes’s canonical Vision + Value series, researching its context and design, and creating a text-free illustrated book to offer a new perspective on the material. They then used these insights to design and construct a small architectural publication inspired by Italo Calvino’s “Six Memos for the Next Millennium,” with each participant focusing on one of the memos and acting as editor, designer, and producer. We wrapped up the week with a collective conversation about architecture books that included the participants of the class, Zurich-based graphic designer and publisher Gregor Huber, and Salomon Frausto, director of studies at the Berlage. The work produced in this course is on display at the TU Delft Central Library (through June 27, 2025), emphasizing the development of critical, editorial, and bookmaking skills, with the aim of producing books that communicate primarily through visual means.

Acknowledgments in comment. taken in The Berlage by @molletgeiser

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Please join us for this one-day symposium, which re-examines the international networks and media through which ideas and concepts that shape the built environment travel. Attending to the idiosyncrasies of language, we consider the impact of translation in the dissemination of architectural thought and assess how ideas have been received, adopted, discussed, and challenged globally. By assembling translators and scholars of architectural history concerned with questions of cultural exchange, this event emphasises the importance of linguistic plurality as well as the continuing need for widely accessible, and accurate translations to enrich an inclusive architectural historiography and discourse.

Organised by Richard Anderson (University of Edinburgh) and Reto Geiser (Rice University)
This symposium is made possible with the generous support of the Rice-Edinburgh Strategic Collaboration Awards

PROGRAMME

9:30–10:00 Introduction
Richard Anderson and Reto Geiser

TRANSLATION PRACTICES
10:00–10:30 Iain Boyd Whyte (University of Edinburgh)
10:30–11:00 Claudia Hopkins (University of Edinburgh)
11:30–12:00 Katie Lloyd Thomas (University of Newcastle)

TRANSLATION NETWORKS

13:30–14:00 Daniel Talesnik (University of Bath)
14:00–14:30 Helena Čapková (Ritsumeikan University)
15:00–15:30 José Tavares Correia de Lira (Universidade de São Paulo)
15:30–16:00 Andres Kurg (Estonian Academy of Arts)

16:30–18:00 Final Roundtable

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@molletgeiser taken in The University of Edinburgh by @molletgeiser

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A house is a house is a house… or: Bunker Archeology in the port of Napoli. This monolithic house, without details, cast in concrete is a witness and a reminder of a dark period in European history. taken in Port of Naples, Italy by @molletgeiser

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Hands down the best facade in Napoli: Novello da San Lucano, Chiesa del Gesù Nuovo, 1470. taken in Naples, Italy by @molletgeiser

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Whatever happened to kerning?

#milanoinzurich #signage #environmentalgraphics #typography #type #kerning #typcrime taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @molletgeiser

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"Found in Translation" symposium poster on press this afternoon at Siebdruck27 in Zurich. Deep black silkscreen, recto and verso on hyper-thin 40gsm pharma paper (yes, the kind typically used for your medication leaflets). Beautiful ghosting on both sides. Thanks @julian.kaser for a perfect job!

#silkscreen #posterdesign #graphicdesign #foundintranslation #architecturalhistory #riceuniversity #edinburguniversity #mg&co taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @molletgeiser

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