As part of the celebrations for the tenth anniversary of our Time Travel series, until Sunday November 9, from 2 to 7 PM, we’ll be at settantaventidue-extension (settantaventidue) with a pop-up store featuring our full catalogue on sale. Come and say hi! Tuesday 4 – Sunday 9 November 2–7 PM Milano Via Lodovico Il Moro, 1 Exhibition design and photo credit zoll (zoll.studio) #humboldtbooks #timetravel #settantaventidue

Out now! INCOMPIUTO: The Birth of a Style / La nascita di uno Stile (New Edition) Alterazioni Video Almost ten years after its first publication, Incompiuto – defined by the authors as “the most important Italian architectural style from the post-war period to the present day” – has taken on growing cultural significance in the debate on the country’s architectural landscape. The result of over fifteen years of field research, the volume represents the first and only systematic investigation into a much-discussed but not yet fully recognised reality: the widespread presence throughout Italy of buildings and infrastructure whose construction has never been completed. This new edition updates and expands the project with additional visual material, an essay on the current state of the phenomenon and an updated census of unfinished works. INCOMPIUTO continues to be an invitation to observe our surroundings, recognising a potential grammar of the present in the absence of completion. Edited by Alterazioni Video (alterazionivideo) and Fosbury Architecture (fosburyarchitecture) Photographs: Alterazioni Video, Gabriele Basilico (gabriele.basilico) Texts: Alterazioni Video, Marc Augé, Marco Biraghi, Fosbury Architecture, Davide Giannella (davide_giannella), Filippo Minelli (filippominelli), Wu Ming, Leoluca Orlando, Antonio Ricci, Salvatore Settis, Robert Storr, Paul Virilio Design: Valerio Di Lucente (valeriodilucente) Photo credit francescospallacci incompiutosiciliano #humboldtbooks

See you in Turin during Artissima (artissimafair)! From Friday to Sunday, you’ll find us at the very first edition of phonetics (phonetics____), the new art publishing festival at Via Buscalioni 4, Turin. Come and say hi! #humboldtbooks #phonetics #artissima

On Saturday 1 November we’ll kick off the celebrations for the tenth anniversary of our Time Travel series. Join us at Triennale Milano (triennalemilano) at 2 PM for the talk “25 Time Travel: 10 Years of Journeys Through the Archives”, on the occasion of Milano Arch Week (milanoarchweek). Our editorial director, Giovanna Silva (giovannamuzzisilva), will be in conversation with Giovanna Calvenzi (ambrogina), who has been overseeing the Gabriele Basilico Archive (gabriele.basilico) since 2013 – Basilico being the author of the very first volume in the series. The Time Travel series revisits journeys, archives, and gazes of the twentieth century, weaving together photography, architecture, and writing to explore travel as an experience of discovery, memory, and imagination. Please register via the link in bio to secure your spot! Photo credit: francescospallacci #humboldtbooks #timetravel #triennale #milanoarchweek

Out now! Mosca 1962 Andrea Branzi In the summer of 1962, while still a university student of architecture, Andrea Branzi went to visit his brother Piergiorgio in Moscow, where he was working as a Rai correspondent. This was the world of the Cold War, but the ‘thaw’ heralded by Nikita Khrushchev had somewhat loosened the grip of the Soviet regime. With a curiosity for everything, the young Branzi was struck by the immense size of the capital, by its new neighbourhoods, by the signs of communism and its history, by the omnipresence of the military, but also by the relaxed outlook of the youth, the department stores, the Russians’ carefree relationship with nature, the innocence of the children and the widespread love of chess. What emerges is the portrait of a population markedly different from our own, yet one with which a shared future might be imagined. In the images from this youthful journey, we may perhaps glimpse a number of elements that would later emerge of Branzi the ‘utopian’ designer and thinker. Photographs: Andrea Branzi (andrea_branzi) Texts: Gian Piero Piretto (gianpiero1952), Angela Rui (angelarui) Design: Teresa Piardi – Maxwell Studio (piarda) Photo credit francescospallacci #andreabranzi #timetravel #humboldtbooks

We’re launching a programme of events to celebrate ten years of our Time Travel series. With the upcoming release of Moscow 1962 by Andrea Branzi (andrea_branzi) – our 25th title – we mark a highlight in a long journey through discovery, memory and imagination. Save the date and join us for the events to come! Photo credit: francescospallacci #humboldtbooks #timetravel

I Am Only the Housekeeper, But I Don’t Know… retraces the contemporary interventions undertaken by Luca Lo Pinto and Olaf Nicolai during the exhibition of the same name they curated in 2022 at Jože Plečnik (1872–1957)’s former home in Ljubljana, on occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Slovenian architect. Plečnik was a key figure of the Modernist movement in architecture and creator of numerous buildings and monuments around the city of Ljubljana. The curatorial duo invited twenty-five internationally recognised Slovenian and foreign artists, allowing them to enter the house of the architect through their own works to commemorate Plečnik’s oeuvre and place its reading into a different and more contemporary context. Drawing inspiration from a fictionalised letter ascribed to Urška, Plečnik’s hypothetical governess, the exhibition creates new perspectives within the house and accepts that “things can be a certain way, and that they can also be different,” as stated in Urška’s letter. Join us Thursday Oct 16 at COMMERCE (commerce__commerce) at 6:30 PM for the book launch! I Am Only the Housekeeper, But I Don’t Know… Edited by Luca Lo Pinto (lucalopintoo) and Olaf Nicolai Texts: Olaf Nicolai Photographs: Giovanna Silva (giovannamuzzisilva) Design: Julie Peeters (juliempeeters), Laura Martens (laura.martens1) 2025 English 24 x 34 cm 40 pages Colour, B/W ISBN 9791280336293 #humboldtbooks #jozeplecnik

See you in Turin! From Friday until Sunday you can find us at CAMERA TORINO (cameratorino) for the first edition of Letti in CAMERA – La Fiera. Come and say hi! #humboldtbooks #cameratorino

“If you called him at five in the morning, after a quarter of an hour he would be ready, with all the spontaneity of a hen that has just left the coop to rummage in the meadow. He was a man of average height and solid build, yet with no heaviness about him: his was the body of a man tempered by hard and sweaty labour. He was no stranger to fatigue. He never did things by half measures. And the same goes for his spawning of offspring too: nine children. He was capable of drawing his flowers from the first light of dawn through until sunset. For Ernesto was drawing…” Excerpt from “Un disegnatore di erbe” / “The Plant Drawer”, text by Graziano Papa from the book “Flora Ferroviaria” / “Railway Flora” Both the Italian and English editions of the book are available on our website and in bookshops. #ernestoschick #floraferroviaria #railwayflora #humboldtbooks