Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles

Edited by Brenda Danilowitz, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Stella Rollig, and Nina Zimmer

Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles explores the ideas of materiality, construction, and architecture across her body of work, establishing her legacy as a thinker, theoretician, and innovator.

The book’s essays include essential writings by Albers herself on the making and meaning of textiles, as well as new pieces by Glenn Adamson on her relationship to architecture, Karis Medina on the material and technique of her weavings, Amy Jean Porter on her writing, and Jeffrey Saletnik on East Asian influences in Albers’s work and thinking. Among the book’s hundreds of beautifully reproduced images are works held in private collections that have never before been published. An essential volume in the literature about modernism, this book reinforces Albers’s position as a leading figure in twentieth-century art.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland (November 7, 2025–February 22, 2026), in collaboration with the Belvedere, Vienna, Austria (April 30–August 16, 2026).

A German edition is available from Hatje Cantz.

Hardcover: 248 pp
Publisher: Yale University Press (2026)
Language: English
Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.
Illustrations: 200 color + b/w
ISBN 9780300289152