Martine de Maeseneer Architects - A Register of Wording (Pre-order november 2025)

Martine De Maeseneer and Dirk Van den Brande, principals of Brussels-based practice Martine De Maeseneer Architects (MDMA), are not “compulsive builders.” From the outset in 1988, they have advanced an architecture self-consciously embedded in text, oscillating between theorization and realization. In their award-winning built and conceptual work, MDMA’s interest is in spatial organizations that initiate nonlinear stories and shift identities.

The first of two intended volumes, A Register of Wording assembles the practice’s text-based production to show how writing establishes a fertile—if unstable—ground for design. The book is more than a presentation of words: it unfolds thought expansively, across pages and decades, meandering yet distinctively committed to the search for a wide field of motives and plots for architecture.