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Join us for a special presentation by Swiss designer and publisher Lars Müller.

Lars Müller is founder of Lars Müller Publishers, perhaps best known for its challenging and beautiful editions of typography, design, art, photography, and architecture, of which the acclaimed Helvetica-Homage to a Typeface is a highlight. Recently, Lars Müller Publishers has expanded its catalog, bringing the same rigor and attention to social and political books as it has brought to books in the creative field. The Face of Human Rights and the recent Who Owns the Water? are both extraordinary examples of the act of publishing as a democratic and humanistic effort. Müller, an active educator since 1985, will be teaching a course entitled "Communicating Architecture" this spring at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

Beginning with a question he posed recently, "Why the hell do ALL designers want to design books?" Müller will share some of his work as a publisher, but also explain the design and publishing of books as transcending the formal and material experimentation designers so often associate with the practice. To make and publish books, Müller suggests, is a social and political act. In the process, Müller will help us to consider whether the act of giving form and being a designer is itself a political one.

In addition to his work as a publisher, Müller is the founder of Integral Lars Müller, one of five studios that share an intellectual approach to a range of disciplines from architecture to product design. There are Integral offices in Paris, Milan, Berlin, Zurich and Baden/Switzerland.

Müller will be introduced by Pentagram's Michael Bierut.

This event would not be possible without our Presenting Sponsors. Thanks to Maharam and USM Modular Furniture for their support. Thank you also to the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York for sponsoring the reception.

Event Committee: Rob Giampietro, Jennifer Kinon, Anke Stohlmann

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