Independent publishing / London
Books fora changing room.
North Common Press publishes ideas with enough shape to alter the way a place feels.
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Books for architecture, visual culture, and the ideas that connect one room to the next.
Overrides
Armin Linke on systems and their quiet edges.
City Works
A field reader for shared urban life.
What We Inherit
Conversations about memory, land, and form.
Still Life
Lucia Bogoni's rooms, objects, and pauses.
From the editors
Every book starts as a good question.
We work closely with authors, artists, and translators from the first outline to the final paper proof. The list stays small so the attention can stay close.
Meet the house ↗NC Journal / No. 16
On place, in print.
Our seasonal journal gathers essays, conversations, and image sequences around one open question. This issue follows the marks people leave on public space.
How a threshold changes a conversation
Essay by Tessa Kwan
Five rooms that refuse to be neutral
Photographs by Elias Dorn
House / 01
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