In the wake of the Second World War, aiming to occupy the children rampaging streets and parks, the City of Amsterdam founded Jongensland, a space where boys (and the occasional, officially disallowed girl) could play, build, create, and destroy, largely without supervision. Located on an island accessible only by rowboat, Jongensland grew into a sprawling settlement built experimentally from scrap materials by its young inhabitants. Here, children would cook food, raise animals, build fires, and trade with each other. Without adult intervention, they relied on shared resourcefulness and collaborative ingenuity.

In 1969, when the architectural photographer Ursula Schulz-Dornburg moved to Düsseldorf with her two young children, she discovered Jongensland the other side of the border from Germany’s strictly regulated playgrounds. Fascinated by the improvised buildings where her children would play, she made extensive photographs capturing them being constructed, used, demolished, and reshaped. Her images capture an intuitive architectural intelligence and capture a genre of vernacular construction with its own conventions and innovations, one which illuminates the role of imagination in defining a building’s identity and purpose.
This book presents Schulz-Dornburg’s largely unseen series alongside an extended alongside an extended essay by architectural historian Tom Wilkinson reflecting on the architectural themes and lessons Jongensland continues to offer.

Rois de la forêt - Alain Garlan
Bote-tchu & Sèllatte - Simon Boudvin
Ar(t)chitectures situées - Étienne Delprat
moj’am al arabeia - Farah Khelil & antoine lefebvre editions
Inframince et hyperlié - Philippe Lipcare
Gnose & Gnose & Gnose - Aymeric Vergnon-d'Alençon
SKKS - Gilles Pourtier
Guten Tag - Pablo Tomek
Macaco Press Book - Patricio Gil Flood, Sabrina Fernández Casas, éd.
Harry Thaler's Pressed Chair
People Painting - Fabienne Radi
RÉVÉSZ LÁSZLÓ LÁSZLÓ , Not Secret
Les voiles de Sainte-Marthe - Christian Rosset
Aún te espero - Anaí Tirado
Jean-Jacques a dit - Angèle Douche
Trash Dolls 2 - Aurel Schmidt
Le seuil - Quentin Yvelin
La Vie au grand air - Alaric Garnier, Sélim Mehtar
Recto Versu - Bill Noir
Plant-Based Monster Trucks - Lina Müller, Luca Schenardi
Idoine & Supermarket
Smile ! - Julien Quentel
Idoine & Pierre Courtin
La peinture c'est comme les pépites - Pierre Yves-Hélou + Tirage
Prose postérieure - Les commissaires anonymes
Cheat Sheets - Tiger Tateishi
Retraite - Arnaud Idelon
Tanière de lune - Maria-Mercé Marçal 



















