Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles

A beautifully illustrated look at the works of Anni Albers with a focus on the architectural dimensions of her work

Anni Albers (1899-1994) has long been revered as a trailblazing weaver, textile designer, and visual artist; she also was an insightful and eloquent writer, and her books On Designing and On Weaving are canonical writings in design history. 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.

Exhibition Schedule:

Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
November 7, 2025-February 22, 2026

Unteres Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
April 30-August 16, 2026

Fabienne Eggelhöfer is chief curator at Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland. Brenda Danilowitz is chief curator at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.