A compilation of the transgressive work of architecture firm BUREAU.

BUREAU, with offices in Geneva and Lisbon, is directed by architects Daniel Zamarbide and Carine Pimenta, and visual artist, designer, and art educator Galliane Zamarbide. The practice operates at the intersection of architecture, scenography, design, landscape design, and education. Founded in 2012, the firm focuses on building new and converting existing structures, interior design and furniture, exhibition design, inhabitable sculptures, and temporary pavilions. Their buildings and interventions feature spatial experiments, unusual shapes and perspectives, and play with the factor of time as well. BUREAU thus navigates across the traditional boundaries of architecture, design, visual art, architectural teaching, and cultural education.

Short Stories is the first survey of the firm’s work to date. Brief texts—both narrative and descriptive—are contributed by architects and researchers Fabrizio Gallanti, Amir Halabi, André Tavares, Marina Otero Verzier, and Ava Violich-Kennedy; curators and critics Julia Albani and Tirdad Zolghadr; designer and curator Alexandra Midal; and by Daniel Zamarbide. More than three hundred and fifty images, as well as concise information on the depicted buildings and projects by BUREAU, round off this beautiful book.

Daniel Zamarbide is an architect and co-founder of Geneva- and Lisbon-based architecture and design firm BUREAU. He is also codirector of ALICE laboratory and Superstudio at EPFL in Lausanne and regularly lectures at international schools and universities. He also contributes to journals and magazines, such as A+U, C3 magazine, and Wallpaper. Galliane Zamarbide is a cofounder of Geneva- and Lisbon-based architecture and design firm BUREAU. She also works as an art educator at various museums.