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Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac

Die neuesten Erkundungen des viel beachteten New Yorker Büros WORKac in den Bereichen Architektur und gemeinschaftsorientiertes Design

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Architectural Book Awards 2025

«The Art of Architectural Grafting» ausgezeichnet als Architektur-Buch des Jahres!

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Living Cities. Three Centuries of Park Systems

Schatzkammern der Stadtgestaltung: Ein chronologischer Überblick des Civic Design anhand von mehr als 30 Parksystemen auf fünf Kontinenten

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The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Gumshoe präsentiert eine seltsame Villa am Rande von Paris, Hinweise und falsche Spuren des Architekten – und eine Giraffe namens Romeo?

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Eines der Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2025

«Schon bei der ersten Berührung schmeichelt der textile Schutzumschlag der Monografie über Mork-Ulnes Architects den Fingerspitzen.»

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Ontologie der Konstruktion

Wieder erhältlich: Ein Lehr- und Handbuch zur Konstruktion von geglückten Räumen und zu den Grundlagen guter Architektur

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The Appian Way

Adolphe Appia – über Leben und Einfluss seines Werkes auf die Theater- und Architekturwelt

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Neuerscheinungen

Reinventing Heritage

A Design Compass on Adaptive Reuse

Josef Frank – Spaces

Maison de la Chine

A Building by Atelier FCJZ

Passerelle des Arts Luxembourg

Marc Mimram Architecture Ingénierie and Fabeck Architectes

Visiting

Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, Berlin 1966–89

Concéntrico

Urban Innovation Laboratory

The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Living Cities

Three Centuries of Park Systems

The Beauty of Impermanence

An Architecture of Adaptability from the Sharjah Architecture Triennial

Schneider & Schneider

Architektur 1997–2024

The Appian Way

Adolphe Appia and the Scenography of Modern Architecture

The New Design Museum

Co-creating the Present, Prototyping the Future

Visiting

Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, Berlin 1966–89

Fawad Kazi KSSG – OKS

Band III: Haus 07A

Rural Vision

Creating Dialogues through Architecture

Architecture as Built Criticism

DEON

Ein Werkbuch

Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac

Einhausung & Hochpark

Gestaltung der Autobahneindeckung und des Ueberlandparks in Zürich Schwamendingen

Genuine Construction

Zhang Pengju’s New Regionalism in Inner Mongolia

Wir liefern versandkostenfrei nach Deutschland, Österreich und in die Schweiz!

Highlights

Paris Haussmann

A Model's Relevance

The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Einhausung & Hochpark

Gestaltung der Autobahneindeckung und des Ueberlandparks in Zürich Schwamendingen

Neues Zirkuläres Bauen

Bürohaus Müllerstrasse Zürich. Ilmer Thies Architekten

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

Peter Zumthor 1985–2013

Bauten und Projekte

Peter Zumthor 1985–2013

Buildings and Projects

Städtebau beginnt an der Strasse

Ontologie der Konstruktion

Raumwirkung in der Architektur

Architektur Klima Atlas

Klimabewusst entwerfen in Forschung, Lehre und Praxis

The Art of Architectural Grafting

Architektenfutter

Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz – Freunde des Wohnungsbaus

EM2N – Stadtfabrik

Plädoyer für eine Stadt des toleranten Nebeneinanders

EM2N—City Factory

Advocating for a City of Tolerant Co-Existence

The Architecture of Public Space

Armando Ruinelli Architekten

Bauten 1982–2022. Leggere il tempo

Built

by Valerio Olgiati

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Rural Vision. Creating Dialogues through Architecture

Christoph Hesse Architects are based in Berlin and Korbach, a small town in the northwestern part of the German federal state Hesse. This rural area in the green heart of Germany is the location of most of the projects the firm has realized since its establishment in 2010. Yet, occasionally, they do plant their rural concepts into an urban context. Christoph Hesse Architects and their friends see their designs as open places of culture.

Rural Vision is the first monograph on Christoph Hesse Architects. It also constitutes a manifesto that illustrates how collaborative projects create social, ecological, and economic points of contact and dialogue. Moreover, they promote sustainable change that not only improves people’s lives in rural areas but also redefines change as a source of innovation and social progress.

Edited by Kirstin Feireiss

Book design by Michela Quadrelli
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Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac

“Abounding in swaths of greenery, bursts of bright color, brimming library stacks, and no less than two play-area slides, this survey of 10 recent projects by WORKac showcases the New York–based practice’s skill at balancing social and environmental concern with an all-embracing lightheartedness.” – Architectural Record

Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac is a thoughtfully curated architectural exploration by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, the design firm’s co-founders. The compelling volume, featuring ten of WORKac’s most recent projects, such as the North Boulder Library, the Rhode Island School of Design’s Student Success Center, and the Miami Museum Garage, navigates through the interconnected realms of architecture, environment, and social sustainability This book is a visual treat that showcases their latest explorations in architecture and community-centric design.

By Amale Andraos and Dan Wood
@work.ac

With contributions by Miles Hardingwood, Nicolai Ouroussoff and Heidi Zuckerman
@heidizuckerman @mileshardingwood

Book design by Atelier Dyakova with Tom Baber
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DEON. A Workbook

Sketches and drawings are the main lens through which this first full monograph on DEON Architekten’s work explores 19 of their buildings and projects from the years 2000 to 2025. They range from a minor intervention in an existing structure to major industrial plants, from remodeling a private residence to a large housing development, research commissions, and submissions to public competitions. Divided into four chapters—Shape, Building Redevelopment, Interaction, Large Form—the volume focuses on the diverse processes that characterize the construction of architecture, the joint search for solutions, the flow of design.

Multilingual Edition – English & German

Edited by Hansjürg Buchmeier
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Book design by l’équipe [visuelle]
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Josef Frank – Spaces

Josef Frank (1885–1967) ranks among Europe’s most significant architects of the twentieth century, and his designs for furniture and textiles have made him one of the eminent figures of modernist interior design. Though there have been many studies of Frank’s architecture previously, Josef Frank—Spaces is the first comprehensive book to look specifically at Frank’s single-family houses.

Architects Mikael Bergquist and Olof Michélsen explore the evolution of Frank’s designs for single-family homes over the years, and they investigate the influences that shaped his work, such as Adolf Loos’s “spatial plan” concept, Le Corbusier’s ideas, and Hermann Muthesius’s groundbreaking book “The English House.” The authors also look at Frank’s architectural concepts of movement and his use of stairs in residential buildings. The book includes an in-depth examination of six of Frank’s houses, including both built projects—Villas Claeson and Wehtje in Falsterbo, Sweden, and Villa Beer in Vienna—and unrealized ones—House for Vienna XIII, House MS in Los Angeles, and Fantasy House 9 (Accidental House). This section includes images and plans of each of the houses and a close analysis of their specific characteristics. A complete catalog of Frank’s single-family houses rounds out the book.

By Mikael Bergquist and Olof Michélsen
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Book design by Daniel Bjugård, Mattias Sjöstedt, Stockholm
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«Nachhaltigkeit wird hier nicht nur technisch, sondern gestalterisch gedacht. Mit klarem Aufbau, fundierter Recherche und einem glaubwürdigen Leitbild wird für eine Kultur des Weiterbauens plädiert, die Bestehendes wertschätzt und zukunftsorientiert handelt.» architektur.aktuell

«Die Publikation zeigt, wie zirkuläres Bauen gelingen kann. Wer Kreislaufwirtschaft ernst nimmt, findet hier ein praktikables Modell.» Swiss arc mag

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Neues Zirkuläres Bauen. Bürohaus Müllerstrasse Zürich. Ilmer Thies Architekten

Zirkuläres Bauen – also die Wiederverwendung von Ressourcen im Bauwesen im Sinne einer Kreislaufwirtschaft – ist als Schlagwort mittlerweile zwar weitverbreitet in Architektur und Bauwirtschaft. Aber an präzise untersuchten und klar dargestellten Beispielen real umgesetzter Projekte mangelt es. Diesem Umstand tritt dieses Buch entgegen. Es ist dem Bürohaus Müllerstrasse in Zürich gewidmet, einem Vorzeigeprojekt des zirkulären Bauens.

Die raffinierte Transformation des Bürohaus Müllerstrasse 16/20, Zürich von Ilmer Thies Architekten wurde mit einem Betonpreis 2025 in der Kategorie Hochbau ausgezeichnet.

Herausgegeben von Maik Ilmer und Felix Thies

Gestaltet von Sarah Lamparter und Nastia Protsenko, Büro Otto Sauhaus

Bild Slide 1: © Andreas Gehrke @nosheberlin

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Maison de la Chine. A Building by Atelier FCJZ

In 2023, the new Maison de la Chine was opened as part of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP), the French capital’s famous campus of student residencies founded in 1925. Designed by Beijing-based Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (Atelier FCJZ) and realized in collaboration with the French architecture firm Coldefy, the building continues the tradition of national pavilions within the CIUP and the site’s extraordinary history. The Maison de la Chine’s design bears the DNA of traditional Chinese architecture, yet Atelier FCJZ also clearly acknowledges its inspiration from Le Corbusier.

Multilingual Edition ( English & French)

Edited by Yung Ho Chang

Book design by Wang Mian

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