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Totems

Architekturhistoriker Irénée Scalbert beschäftigt sich in 10 Essays mit Urbanismus, Natur und zeitgenössischer Architektur

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Meditations in Entropy

Über den Umgang mit dem Klimawandel, unterschiedlichsten Herausforderungen und Dringlichkeiten – achtzehn architektonische Antworten in Bangladesch

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Residential Architecture

Kazuo Shinoharas herausragendes Buch zum Bauen von Wohnhäusern – einer der wichtigsten Texte zur japanischen Architektur in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, erstmals in englischer Übersetzung

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Das Glas Haus. Wien 1933. Vertriebene Visionen

Die Villa Rezek von Architekt Hans Glas – modernes Bauen und Wiener Wohnkultur der 1930er Jahre

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Penzel Valier

Die erste grosse Monografie zu einem der führenden Architektur- und Ingenieurbüros der Schweiz

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Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2025

«Jaretti & Luzi» wird mit Gold geehrt

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Neuerscheinungen

Somewhere, Something, Someone

Leers Weinzapfel Associates

Defining Architectural Quality

Black Architect

Monsters and Mutants

Explorations in the Architecture-Nature Continuum

Antifascist Architecture

SHIFT

Architecture in Times of Radical Change

Totems

Selected Essays on Architecture

Seoul Urban Architecture

Rising from the Crushing Bowl

Architecture by Peter Celsing Photographed by John Håkansson

Jon Lott – Proximities

Residential Architecture

Meditations in Entropy

The Work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA

The “Glas House” 1933

Visionary Architecture in Vienna and Exile

Ernst Sommerlad: Architekt 1895–1977

Bauen im Fürstentum Liechtenstein, in den Kantonen St.Gallen, Appenzell AR, Graubünden und in Vorarlberg

Blanking

An Annotated Archive of Projects and Thoughts on Architecture

Wir Günther Domenig

Korrekturen einer Legende

We Günther Domenig

Reevaluation of a Legend

Das Glas Haus

Wien 1933. Vertriebene Visionen

Penzel Valier

Architecture, Construction, Design 2007–2024

Penzel Valier

Architektur, Konstruktion, Design 2007–2024

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Highlights

Residential Architecture

Das Glas Haus

Wien 1933. Vertriebene Visionen

Penzel Valier

Architecture, Construction, Design 2007–2024

Penzel Valier

Architektur, Konstruktion, Design 2007–2024

Typology

Tashkent, Genoa, Tbilisi, Casablanca. Review No. IV

Kazuo Shinohara – 3 Houses

House in White, House in Uehara, House in Yokohama

Nachhaltige Designprozesse

Leitfaden für die gestalterische Praxis und Lehre

Aufs Dorf gekommen

atelier-f architekten. Bauten und Projekte 1998–2025

SAY 25/26

Schweizer Architektur Jahrbuch 2025/26

That's Brutal, What's Modern?

The Smithsons, Banham, and the Mies-Image

Public Spaces, NY

Reinventing Heritage

A Design Compass on Adaptive Reuse

Visiting

Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, Berlin 1966–89

Concéntrico

Urban Innovation Laboratory

Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac

Dirty Old River

Esch Sintzel Architekten

Bauten und Projekte

A House to Live With

16 Variations by Dom Hans van der Laan and His Companions

Jaretti & Luzi

Wohnbauten in Turin 1954–1974

The Craft of Place

Mork-Ulnes Architects

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Teaching Urbanism. Lucerne Talks

Teaching Urbanism is a call for taking responsibility in political, social, and cultural matters and with regard to planning policies. Living spaces and buildings must be designed collectively rather than individually. Conceived as a compendium and reference for students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners of architecture and urbanism, the book explores current topics in urban design and development, responding to questions such as: What is the role of architecture in urban transformation? How can architectural practice respond to challenges such as climate change, migration, social segregation, or technology and mobility? And above all, how can urbanism and urban design be taught in a timely way and be made relevant for research? As a written dialogue between participants of the 2023 Lucerne Talks conference, the texts offer a shared understanding of applying different, multidisciplinary approaches, attitudes, and methods in tackling these challenges.

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Edited by Heike Biechteler, Johannes Käferstein, Stefan Kurath, Jonathan Sergison, HSLU Technik & Architektur
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Book design by Carla Crameri
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Portraits. Architectural Parables

Awarded as one of the Most Beautiful German Books and one of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books of 2023, „Portraits. Architectural Parables“ presents the quintessence of Made In studio’s thinking in an original and thought-provoking challenge to ideas about art, perception, and architectural design. François Charbonnet and Patrick Heiz, the founding partners of the highly acclaimed Swiss design firm Made In, reveal the approaches they take in their design methodology as well as in their teaching at ETH Zurich’s Department of Architecture and Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio.

It is a fundamental truth of architectural design that all ideas are based on previous ideas, on their imitation, inversion, rejection, adaptation, or reinterpretation. The same applies to our visual perception and how it influences our thinking and world of ideas. Made In’s method does not claim historical accuracy, as sources and facts in this book are intentionally collaged to serve a reductive purpose. The focus is on the potential they see in the cross-fertilization of different images and ideas rather than on a single, all-embracing model of thought.

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Edited by François Charbonnet, Patrick Heiz, Marine de Dardel, Steffen Hägele and Francisco Moura Veiga

Book design by Atlas Studio, Zurich
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SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change is published in conjunction with the sixth Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB 2025) under the artistic direction of Florencia Rodriguez. In a world defined by crisis and uncertainty, where architects are researching, relearning, and reimagining, the volume marks not only a change in direction but also presents provocative inquiries about a redefinition in the substance and fundamentals of the field. It is an invitation to think with others, to project with intention, and to set new grounds for the interpretation and design of our built environments. In the same spirit, the book unfolds the many faces of SHIFT through collective, multilayered, and multidimensional conversations, visual essays, and manifestos.

CAB 2025 participants’ voices are brought to print through a transcript of a five-hour conversation marathon that tackled topics such as new realism, the magic in the ordinary, pleasures in the urban, and the need to critically shift architecture’s language, as well as a repository of manifestos exploring other possible worlds. Beyond the exhibition, SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change also calls upon practitioners from different fields to discuss the current state of education in architecture schools, the challenges of material culture, the future of housing, and exhibitions as devices for change.

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Edited by Santiago Bogani, Igo Kommers Wender, Isabella Moretti and Florencia Rodriguez
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Book design by Estúdio Margem (Aleksandra Lindenberg, João Pedro Nogueira, and Letícia Souza)
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Printed by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg
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Totems. Selected Essays on Architecture

Totems brings together ten texts by architect, historian, and critic Irénée Scalbert. Written between 2001 and 2025, they reflect nearly three decades of critical engagement with architecture and its cultural contexts. Ranging in length and register—from concise meditations to extended analytical essays—the collection captures the evolution of Scalbert’s thinking as a critic, teacher, and participant in architectural discourse.

Organized thematically into sections on buildings, cities, and the environment, Totems traces a loosely autobiographical arc. Earlier pieces echo Scalbert’s formative years in London during a period of architectural ferment are marked by the work of James Stirling and Norman Foster, influential figures from Europe such as Aldo Rossi, as well as his close association with a generation of contemporaries including Peter St John (Caruso St John Architects), and Tom Emerson and Stephanie Macdonald (6a architects). Later texts expand outward, both geographically and conceptually, as Scalbert brings a speculative and at times personal lens to questions of urbanism, nature, and meaning in contemporary architecture.

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By Irénée Scalbert
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Book design by Fred Birdsall studio
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„The book is an essay in images and drawings.“ Luca Galofaro, PRINTED

Fifteen built designs by the celebrated Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati in Bahrain, France, Portugal, the USA, and Switzerland

Built by Valerio Olgiati

This exquisite small volume is about the beauty of the very varied buildings Valerio Olgiati has realized to date. It features them all in seventy-nine striking color photographs, each of them supplemented by a floor plan or section serving as a visual caption. The indoor and outdoor shots demonstrate Olgiati’s intuition for spectacular structures and atmospheric interiors—from the museum for the UNESCO world cultural heritage site in Bahrain to the Céline flagship store in Miami, from the office building for Baloise Insurance’s headquarters in Basel to the bedroom of the French fashion designer Nicolas Ghesquière in Paris, from the visitor center of the Swiss National Park to the studio house for the Swiss musician Linard Bardill in Scharans.

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By Valerio Olgiati
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Graphic design by Bruno Margreth
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Printed by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg
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Two Park Books titles are among the winners of this year’s Most Beautiful Swiss Books competition! Congratulations to everyone involved in the making of the books–we couldn’t be happier!

To find out more about the two winning books, visit park-books.com – Link in Bio.

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Dirty Old River
By Tom Emerson
Edited by Sarah Handelman
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Printed by die Keure, Belgium

The House of Doctor Koolhaas
By Françoise Fromonot
Edited by Thomas Weaver
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Printed by Nørhaven, Denmark
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Both award-winning books were designed by John Morgan Studio – John Morgan, Teresa Lima and Adrien Vasquez
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