Walter Niedermayr’s *Coesistenze* presents the result of a seven-year engagement with the Fleim Valley in Trentino–South Tyrol, where eleven municipalities have administered shared property for nearly a thousand years. Published by Hatje Cantz in 2017, the book focuses not on picturesque landscape but on the region’s built culture: the ways domestic, communal, and public space meet within village life.

Niedermayr’s subject is a distinctive inheritance of housing types and spatial arrangements that have been preserved and adapted over time. Transitional zones—neither wholly private nor fully public—become the book’s central field of attention. These spaces register everyday use while also revealing a social order shaped by collective responsibility and careful management of limited resources. The architecture is therefore treated not as isolated form, but as evidence of how communities inhabit, share, and negotiate space.

The book’s structure follows that argument. Some relationships appear through diptychs, but much of the work is organized in typological sequences, allowing recurring village structures and variations in use to emerge across images. This measured comparison gives the photographs an analytical quality without reducing them to documentation alone. Niedermayr asks what makes these forms of living practical, resilient, and potentially relevant to contemporary ideas of communal life.

For collectors, *Coesistenze* is significant as a focused photographic study in which architecture, social history, and the ethics of shared space are inseparable. Its value lies in the sustained specificity of the inquiry: a particular Alpine valley, examined over years, becomes a means of considering broader questions about habitation and collective life. The German-language hardcover, with a contribution by Giorgio Falco, belongs to Niedermayr’s continuing investigation of how built environments shape perception and coexistence.