Book Design
Architecture Through Dialogue:
Per Se 2015–2025

Year 2026
Client Per Se
Published by YEM Publishing, Architecture Through Dialogue: Per Se 2015–2025 is a monograph documenting the first decade of Per Se Architecture. Edited by Müge Cengizkan and Ali Cengizkan, the publication presents architecture as an ongoing dialogue through projects, sketches, notebook entries, and conversations.


The cover features the wall of a house from one of Per Se’s earliest projects, altered through a series of interventions over time. Its layered surface can be read as a physical record of the dialogue between architect and client. The conversations are set against a yellow ground that recalls mimeograph and photocopy paper, distinguishing them from the main narrative.
A typewriter-style typeface lends these sections an archival quality, while the sans serif used throughout the rest of the book gives the project narratives a more systematic structure. Recurring layouts developed for primary and secondary projects establish the book’s rhythm. Short notes accompanying the photographs offer clues about the buildings, while sketches, drawings and notebook pages reveal traces of the design process.



Photos: Ali Ihsan Elmas