Ark Journal – Autumn Winter 2026 – Volume XVI

Copenhagen-based, Ark Journal is a biannual magazine founded by Editor-in-Chief Mette Barfod and made by an experienced team of designers, stylists, photographers and editors. Text in English.

The 240-page magazine is sold in 25 countries around the world.
Cover: Munken Polar 240gsm. Inlay: Munken Polar 120gsm.
Dimensions: 235 x 315 mm
Special inserts

“Every home begins before its present inhabitants arrive, and will continue after they leave. Previous lives remain in its rooms and materials bear the evidence of time, giving architecture a permanence that is never entirely fixed. Ark Journal Volume XVI considers impermanence through this continual exchange, looking at what is inherited and how a place changes through the act of living in it.

Ramdane Touhami found his Roman home within Palazzo Borghese, where centuries of history offered fertile ground for the deeply personal universe he has created inside. In Brittany, Ronan Bouroullec’s house in Quimper lives with the conditions of the Atlantic coast, photographed by Bouroullec himself as a meditation on what home means to him. Nicolas Trembley’s 14th century priory in the south of France retains the marks of its long existence, while Teemu Kurkela’s renovation of Akola in Finland brings the architect back to a house embedded in his own childhood.

For Athena Calderone and Danielle Siggerud, working on Calderone’s TriBeCa apartment began with studying the building closely and developing a shared idea of atmosphere. At Oda House, Mayuko Aizawa considers how historical awareness can remain active within contemporary architecture. Minjae Kim takes us into his idiosyncratic world of furniture and objects, where the unresolved has a place of its own.

The scale becomes more intimate through a conversation about the table between Dung Ngo, Laila Gohar, Paula Gerbase and Natalia Criado, followed by a portfolio devoted to cutlery and the particular pleasure of an everyday object made with care. Volume XVI also looks back on the extraordinary seven decade practice of Tobia Scarpa, whose work resists an easy definition.

Volume XVI considers a home as part of a much longer continuum, one in which we are temporary custodians rather than final authors. Its pages invite closer attention to what a building has already lived through, what we contribute during our time within it and what might remain after we have gone.“