Instagram story viewer> @molletgeiser> Tagged

MG&Co.

@molletgeiser

2.5K

followers

1462

following

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.

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

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!

183

8

“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

421

4

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

#architecture #architecturalhistory #translation #translationpractice #networks #historiography #history
@ricearch
@riceuglobal
@riceuniversity
@esala_edinburgh
@aht_esala_edinburgh
@edinburghcollegeofart
@edinburghuniversity_global
@anderson.richard.patrick
@molletgeiser

315

8

What an unforgettable afternoon amalgamating conversations on art and books—moderated by Jamal Cyrus—with a recorded reading by David Grubbs and an auditory performance by David Dove, and hosted by Edwin Smalling and Laura Hughes on the occasion of the closing of John Sparagana‘s exhibition Projectile at Basket Books & Art.

166

1

These posters for Leonid Furmansky’s exhibition „Carbon Copy” on view at the Wright Gallery at the Texas A&M University Langford Architecture Center from November 4, 2024 to January 16, 2025 just came in!

We superimposed Leonid’s stunning pictures of Le Corbusier’s Couvent de La Tourette (1953) and one of its American brutalist “carbon copies,” Carlin, Millard, Pozzi’s New Haven Central Fire Headquarters (1961), with the typographic interpretation of the exhibition information. Keep an eye out for this short-run poster, set in (brutalist) Replica, and screen printed in a split-fountain shifting from purple to deep black by master printer Patrick Masterson.

#poster #posterdesign #architecture #architecturephotography #brutalism #brutalistarchitecture #lecorbusier #latouretteconvent #leonidfurmansky #tamu

242

7

MG&Co. is an AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2023 winner! We are honored that two of our projects have been recognized as 50 Books winners this year: “Inhabited Machines” and “Cite 104: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston.”

The 40th anniversary issue of Cite celebrates the journal as a communal anchor and a unique platform for Houston, connecting scholarship with public advocacy around critical urban, societal, and environmental issues. Guest edited by Reto Geiser, the first part of the publication contains an illustrated oral history with founding members of the Rice Design Alliance. This section is printed in two colors, with the yellow gradually fading out. In the second part fifty voices join the conversation and reflect openly on Houston in words and images. Broken into three subsections, this part covers areas that have shaped the city in the past and continue to do so as we move forward. While the book is based on a rigid grid, different content categories are distinguished with specific typographic voices and character. Density and openness, spacious and playful title pages, images ranging from illustration to full bleed, and immersive photo essays, are modulated throughout the book to create a pace of reading that engages the reader. The book is printed on extremely light, yet voluminous paper, which gives it an unexpected soft feel,

Congratulations also to @chris_ortiiz who joined our design team for this project, to @dza.druck for their impeccable production, to all the amazing contributors, including @_leonidfurmansky who contributed the iconic cover photograph and @dance_at_opening who contributed stunning photography inserts, and to the whole team at the Rice University School of Architecture (@ricearch)—especially @archigor and @nance_dance_pants —and to @marianicanor and @yhprumkcaj who invited us to redesign the journal for issue 102.

#AIGA5050 #aigadesign #bookdesign #book #architecturebook #AIGADesign #designcompetition, #designcontest, #booklover, #bookcovers, #books, #bookcover, #bookstagram, #graphicdesign #designinspo, #designers #creatives #designlover #designcommunity,

281

14

MG&Co. is an AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2023 winner! We are honored that two of our projects have been recognized as 50 Books winners this year: “Cite 104: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston” and “Inhabited Machines.” The jury, chaired by Rob Giampietro and including JP Haynie, Roanne Adams, Lisa Maione, and Chloe Sultan carefully considered over 542 entries from 28 countries. “In the end,” @giampietrorob said, “we felt we found some of the best of this year’s offerings, books that in every case seem to show what design can do to bring the experience of reading to riskier-yet-more-rewarding places.”

Inhabited Machines (Birkhäuser, 2023) by Moritz Gleich, is the first volume of the new peer-reviewed Exploring Architecture book series. The project is conceived as a modular series design, consisting of two typefaces GT America (main text) and GT Sectra (folio and running head), a typographic cover composition in black and one spot color, and an image-based back cover. Compared to typical scholarly publications, the text size is held at a slightly larger size to improve reading comfort. The volume opens with a cinematic visual sequence composed of details taken from key illustrations in the book. It offers a preview of some of the main materials discussed. Each section transition continues as a sequence of immersive visual sources and is marked with a black title page that can also be traced in the section of the book.

Congratulations also to our clients and collaborators, @birkhauser_books #DavidMarold, @moritz_gleich, and @chris_ortiiz who joined our design team for this project.

#AIGA5050 #aigadesign #bookdesign #book #architecturebook #AIGADesign #designcompetition #designcontest #booklover, #bookcovers #books #bookcover #bookstagram #graphicdesign #designinspo, #designers #creatives #designlover #designcommunity

184

9

We started the year with a great collaboration on a series of exhibition posters with the artist John Sparagana. For the exhibition “Reviver” at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago, Sparagana deploys his meticulous process of cutting and remixing an image, disassembling a source to reassemble it into a new one. The works on view are based on Sparagana’s own work, sourced from the catalog of a previous exhibition, Themesong Variations (2016). As John Corbett describes, Sparagana transforms “one publication (the comics) into artworks (Themesong Variations) into another publication (the catalog) into artworks (Reviver).” Our poster design—a close collaboration with John Sparagana—reflects this working method. Representing multiple works of the „Themesong Variations,” and the “Reviver” series, along with a multidirectional typo-graphic composition of the palindromic exhibition title, set in a bold impactful grotesk typeface, we designed a new image sources to be cut and remixed by the artist in the same complex and labor-intensive collaging process. The suite of posters is comprised of two works (cropped), as well as the transformed exhibition announcement. The backsides are printed in a solid color, which reflects the color range of the works.

“Reviver“ will be on view at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago until March 9, 2024. If you are interested in a poster, you can pick one up at the gallery free of charge during the run of the exhibition.

138

1

Editorial poster design for a great job opportunity at the Rice University School of Architecture. The stunning aerial photograph of twenty-six lane Katy Freeway is by Alex S. MacLean (@landslides).

@ricearch invites nominations and applications for a tenure track faculty appointment at the rank of assistant professor of architecture with a focus on scholarship and design of cities and the built environment. Application deadline is 12/29/23.

197

1

Houston Talks is an exhibition at Basket Books & Art to celebrate the launch of Cite 104 and highlight the rich history of the Rice Design Alliance’s Cite magazine through its four decades run. The display includes archival artifacts, iconic covers, out of print issues, and exquisite photographic works by Leonid Furmansky, Paul Hester, and Marianne Mueller. These images, both past and present, represent some of the most recognizable spaces and places of Houston, in both its glory and folly.

The exhibition is on display at Basket Books & Art (115 Hyde Park Blvd., Houston) until the end of this week, Sunday, December 10, 2023.

Exhibition curated and designed by Reto Geiser.
Special thanks to Kyle Henricks, Laura Hughes, Edwin Smalling.
Photography by MG&Co. and Jason Chen.

252

10

Test print, 5-color (3 PMS, 2 process), for Michelle Chang‘s forthcoming book "Also Known As".

236

4

Cite 104, published through the Rice Design Alliance (RDA), and designed by MG&Co., is in production!

For fifty years, RDA has been the cornerstone of public programs and the outreach arm of the Rice University School of Architecture, and Cite has been the voice of Houston’s architecture and design community for four decades. This anniversary issue of Cite is guest edited by Reto Geiser, with contributions by Igor Marjanović, Kwong Von Glinow, Carlos Jiménez, Christian Ayala-Lopez, Maximilien Chong Lee Shin, Paul DeFazio, Herman Ellis Dyal, Andy Entis, Siobhan Finlay, Marlena Fleck, Stephen Fox, Gabriel Gomes Raymundo, Nonya Grenader, Paul Hester, Robin Hueppe, Peter Lin, Melvalean McLemore-Catina, Tasiana Paolisso, Danny Samuels, Drexel Turner, Bruce C. Webb, Gordon Wittenberg, Zee Zeng, Tibor Bielicky, Ellena Ehrl, Joy Horak-Brown, Michael C. Nichols, Eva Thibaudeau-Graczyk, Kathryn E. O’Rourke, Andrew Colopy, Deepa Ramaswamy, Curtis Davis, Mayra Guevara Bontemps, Jesús Vassallo, Marianne Mueller, Jeffrey S. Nesbit, Thomas Struth, Alison Weaver, Christof Spieler, Barrie Scardino Bradley, Peter K. Haff, Albert Pope, Stephen Fox, Scott Key, Enrique Ramirez, Michael Kubo, Judith K. De Jong, Alex Wall, Denise Markonish, Vincent Valdez, and Andrew Albers.

174

3