Recent launches
Below we share the first 6 launches by Jap Sam Books of 2025. In the category of art books we released Bird, Plane, Butterfly. Antoinette Nausikaä, and COSMOS | KOSMOS. Sold out publications De Artistieke Attitude, and Landscape Logic now have a second edition. We also released new additions to two series, Footprint 34 Narrating Shared Futures, and Noetics Without a Mind, both in architecture theory.
Art
Bird, Plane, Butterfly. Antoinette Nausikaä
In Bird, Plane, Butterfly, Nausikaä invites the viewer to slow down, embracing the power of contemplation and observation to experience the natural interconnectedness and wonder within our everyday surroundings. To explore this theme, Nausikaä has, in recent years, collected photos, drawings, and writings during her wanderings through major cities around the world.
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COSMOS | KOSMOS
COSMOS explores our changing relationship with the stars. This publication offers an intriguing dialogue between scientific objects from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and contemporary artworks. It demonstrates how imagination - both in art and science - drives our cosmological awareness and helps us grasp the vast, infinite story of the universe.
Editing & compilation: Rieke Vos, authors: Marc de Beyer, Marjolijn van Heemstra, Trienke van der Spek, Else Starkenburg, Rieke Vos, final editing: Eleonoor Jap Sam, design: Inedition, Eva van der Schans, translation: Robert van de Walle
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Reprint
De Artistieke Attitude [Second Edition] [Dutch version]
This publication is an initiative of Anke Coumans, Lector Image in Context, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, Academie Minerva.
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Landscape Logic [Second Edition]
Landscape Logic is an essay on the need for a landscape-based approach to designing sustainable urban environments.
Author: Steffen Nijhuis, design: Thomas Soete, editing: Eleonoor Jap Sam, translation: Robert van de Walle
Published by Jap Sam Books in cooperation with Delft University of Technology
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Series
Architecture theory
Noetics Without a Mind
Noetics Without a Mind provides a platform for thinkers who boldly traverse disciplinary boundaries, encompassing a diverse range of fields. These include, but are not limited to, affect and affordance theories, architecture, art and cultural studies, philosophy and philosophy of technology, (digital) media studies, feminist theories, film theory, social sciences, and literature.
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Footprint 34 Narrating Shared Future
Footprint 34, ‘Narrating Shared Futures’, is dedicated to a transdisciplinary encounter between literature and cultural heritage. Namely, in this issue we seek to understand how literature can help us unpack complex meanings of places of heritage, and use that knowledge to imagine, design and produce tolerant and inclusive architectures. We focus our discussion around the three notions that appear in the title of the issue – ‘narrating’, ‘shared’ and ‘futures’, investigating how both heritage architecture and literature can offer valuable lessons for imagining better and more inclusive future worlds. Each of the articles featured in this volume contributes to the proposed framing with powerful and global case studies. Put together, they present new ways in which the past, present and future are constantly being made in-the-now through both literary and design techniques.
Issue editors: Aleksandar Staničić, Angeliki Sioli, executive editors: Stavros Kousoulas, Andrej Radman, Aleksandar Staničić, editorial board: Esin Kömez, Gert van der Merwe, Victor Muñoz Sanz, Angeliki Sioli, Alina Paias, Dulmini Perera, FP advisory board: Stephen Cairns, K. Michael Hays, Hilde Heynen, Ákos Moravánszky, Michael Müller, Frank Werner, Gerd Zimmermann, copy editor: Heleen Schröder, layout editor: Lila Athanasiado,
Published in cooperation with Architecture Theory Chair (TU Delft) and Stichting Footprint: http://footprint.tudelft.nl/
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