Six New Art and Architecture Books: From Kiefer Interviews to Futuristic Metropolis

Six new books cover a range of topics from Anselm Kiefer interviews to architecture criticism and futuristic city visions. Germano Celant's posthumous project "Anselm Kiefer – Paesaggi celesti" collects the artist's most significant interviews, including a 2015 conversation between Kiefer and Celant at Pirelli HangarBicocca. "Archivi esposti" edited by Massimo Maiorino, Maria Giovanna Mancini, and Francesca Zanella examines contemporary art and archives through critical debates, exhibition policies, and case studies. Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi's "Architetti d'Italia" compiles 109 profiles originally published on Artribune from 2017, offering provocative critiques of Italian architects. Mario Cresci's "Matrici" features eighty drawings derived from his photographs, accompanied by texts blending prose, poetry, biography, and self-criticism. László F. Földényi's "I luoghi della morte vivente" explores dehumanizing cities, referencing Auschwitz's functionalist design by Bauhaus graduate Fritz Ertl and SS officer Hans Kammler. Hugh Ferriss's "Metropoli del futuro" (originally 1929) anticipates technical and urban developments like glass skyscrapers and vertical forests, but also warns of psychological impacts; the book inspired Gotham City and is now reprinted by Pendragon.