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The Roofless Truth. Planning and Architecture for Homelessness
The Roofless Truth. Planning and Architecture for Homelessness
Eine umfassend recherchierte und sorgfältig gestaltete Auslegeordnung zu Obdachlosigkeit, Stadtplanung und Architektur
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New Schools on the Block
New Schools on the Block
Ein Jahrzehnt gelebter Schulbaupraxis des Kollektivs AFF Architekten – ein typologischer Fundus
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Die Schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2026
Die Schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2026
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Totems
Totems
Architekturhistoriker Irénée Scalbert beschäftigt sich in 10 Essays mit Urbanismus, Natur und zeitgenössischer Architektur
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Meditations in Entropy
Meditations in Entropy
Über den Umgang mit dem Klimawandel, unterschiedlichsten Herausforderungen und Dringlichkeiten – achtzehn architektonische Antworten in Bangladesch
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Residential Architecture
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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The “Glas House” 1933. Visionary Architecture in Vienna and Exile
 
In 1933, when Hans Glas designed the villa for physicians Annie and Philipp Rezek on Wilbrandtgasse in Vienna, in the Austrian capital’s 18th district, it was one of the city’s most visionary buildings of its kind. The “Glas House,” as the Rezek family called their home, is a quintessential example of modern architecture and the associated philosophy of living in 1930s Vienna. Viennese architect Hans Glas (1892–1969), a student of Adolf Loos, has today largely fallen into oblivion in Austria.
 
This book describes the Villa Rezek in detail, illustrated with numerous historical and new photographs by Stefan Oláh, plans, and historic documents. It also sheds light on entirely novel aspects of Vienna’s architectural history of the 1930s and tells the stories of both the architect and his clients, all of whom were forced to emigrate due to their Jewish heritage following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938.
 
The Rezek family fled to the US. Hans Glas went to Calcutta, where he was able to successfully continue his career as an architect. Forced emigrations like these not only implied human tragedies. 1938 also brought an abrupt end to the flourishing of Vienna’s modern architecture and living culture. Yet Glas’s ideas and design principles are more relevant today than ever.
 
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Edited by Caroline Wohlgemuth and Maximilian Eisenköck
@maxeisenkoeck @carowohlgemuth1 
 
With photographs by Stefan Oláh
@olah_stefan 
 
Book design by Willi Schmid

Printed by Gugler GmbH
@gugler_kommunikationshaus 

#parkbooks #joseffrank #exilearchitecture #vienna #glashouse
Monsters and Mutants. Explorations in the Architecture-Nature Continuum
 
Monsters and Mutants presents a provocation for a new approach to reverse the consequences of the Anthropocene, by learning from plant intelligence. New York-based design firm Archi-Tectonics’ recent research on climate change opened up a field unknown to architecture so far. By emulating organic intelligence, Winka Dubbeldam and her team created a series of new architectural taxonomies: Hybrids and Earth Buildings, part nature, part architecture. Appropriating organic intelligence, these structures are at once resilient, resource-efficient, and beneficial for humans and non-humans, capable of healing our ecosystem. Monsters and Mutants showcases how these revolutionary concepts were implemented for the first time in the masterplan for the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
 
The book provides a critical look at how multi-disciplinary collaboration and innovative thinking can address some of the most pressing environmental issues of our time, turning potential ecological crises into opportunities for regeneration and transformation.
 
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By Winka Dubbeldam

@winkadub @architectonics2129 
 
With texts by Thom Mayne, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Carlo Ratti, and Justin Korhammer
 
Book design by Studio Ben Fehrman-Lee
@benfehrmanlee 
 
Printed by Graphius, Belgium
@graphiusgroup 

#winkadubbeldam #architectonics #spongecity #naturearchitecturecontinuum #parkbooks
“The changing climate is no longer debatable in Bangladesh, it is this country’s unfeigned, monstrous reality.” Kashef Chowdhury
 
Meditations in Entropy. The Work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA
 
Since 1995, Dhaka-based architecture firm Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA has produced an astonishing collection of works of divergent scales, typologies, and contexts located in one of the most meteorologically challenging regions in the world. A hospital introduced into an economy decimated by rising oceans, a shelter against cyclones in Bangladesh’s southern coastal region, and architectural interventions in one of the world’s densest metropolitan areas: Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA’s designs are incisive, critical responses to varied issues and urgencies rooted in the belief that architecture must be a reflection of, and sympathetic to, increasingly fragile ecological conditions.
 
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Edited by Kashef Chowdhury
@kashef_chowdhury_urbana 
 
With contributions by Kenneth Frampton, Ainun Nishat, Robert McCarter, William J. R. Curtis, Philip Ursprung and Kashef Chowdhury

@kennethframptonarchitect @philipursprungchair

Book design by Samuel Bänziger, Rosario Florio and Larissa Kasper

@samuelbaenziger @rosarioflorio @larissakasper

With photographs by Hélène Binet
Images on Slide 1, 3: © Hélène Binet

@binet.helene

Printed by DZA, Druckerei zu Altenburg
@dza.druck 

#kashefchowdhury #urbana #bangladesh #parkbooks #climatechange
Über das Werk des Architekten Josef Lackner. Zwölf Thesen und eine Annäherung
 
«Sollten Sie der Architektur begegnen, lassen Sie sie grüßen …»
 
Josef Lackner (1931–2000) zählt zu den einflussreichsten Architekten Österreichs im 20. Jahrhundert. Ein Schüler von Clemens Holzmeister an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien, führte er ab 1961 sein eigenes Atelier in Innsbruck und lehrte ab 1979 als Professor für Entwerfen an der Fakultät für Bauingenieurwesen und Architektur der Universität Innsbruck. Lackners Anspruch an die Architektur war von einer kompromisslosen, konsequenten Haltung geprägt. Viele seiner Bauten können als Stellungnahme innerhalb der Disziplin gelesen werden – als grundsätzliche Aussagen zur gestellten Bauaufgabe und Raum gewordene Konzepte.
 
Dieses Buch nähert sich dem ausserordentlichen Werk Josef Lackners aus einer umgekehrten tektonischen Logik: vom Ganzen zu den einzelnen Teilen.
 
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Herausgegeben von Kathrin Aste und Teresa Stillebacher
./studio3, Institut fur Experimentelle Architektur

@studio3.uibk @kathiaste @teresastillebacher 
 
Mit Beiträgen von Kathrin Aste, Arno Ritter, Anton Süss und Teresa Stillebacher
 
Gestaltet vom Circus. Büro für Kommunikation und Gestaltung
@circus.at 
 
Gedruckt von Gugler GmbH, Melk
@gugler_kommunikationshaus 

#parkbooks #joseflackner #architekturösterreich #universitätinnsbruck #geometrie
We Günther Domenig. Reevaluation of a Legend
 
We Günther Domenig is an attempt to correct traditional biographies on architects. The case at hand is Günther Domenig (1934–2012), a towering figure of 20th-century Austrian architecture. This book does not question his outstanding ability to invent complex sculptural architecture, his obsession with total control of space, and his fighting power to enforce his ideas (with inevitable collateral damage). Yet, it does make clear: he was not on his own—Günther Domenig were many!
 
We Günther Domenig charts his career from the perspective of clients, partners, employees, and collaborators from other professional fields. Just as they were inspired by him, they also shaped the personality and designer Günther Domenig. They all sought, and found, in him an occasionally stubborn partner to realize their own visions.
 
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Edited by Wolfdieter Dreibholz and Michael Zinganel
 @tracingspaces 
 
Book design by Atelier Dreibholz
Paulus M. Dreibholz und Angelika Mayr
@a.drbhlz 
 
Printed by Gerin Druck GmbH
@gerindruckgmbh 

#parkbooks #güntherdomenig #tugraz #austrianarchitecture #contemporaryarchitect
The Roofless Truth. Planning and Architecture for Homelessness
 
Homelessness is one of the most pressing social challenges of our time, and is closely linked to issues of urban design and architecture. Homeless people are part of urban society and depend on accessible public spaces and urban infrastructure. Yet, in cities around the world, local governments use policies and urban planning to ward off street people, aiming at making them invisible in the cityscape and deliberately impeding certain forms of stay. Urban design always reflects power structures—it can exclude or open up avenues for participation.
 
The Roofless Truth brings together contributions by international researchers and practitioners from the fields of architecture, urban development and design, sociology, ethnology, social work, and education. It highlights how public spaces should be designed to offer protection, dignity, and opportunities for homeless people, and to facilitate encounters and interaction. The featured examples impressively demonstrate that even the smallest spatial decision can determine inclusion or exclusion.
 
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Edited by Matthias Drilling and Fabian Neuhaus
 
Book Design by Noah Drilling
@drilling.ch 
 
Printed by Printed by Gugler GmbH, Melk
@gugler_kommunikationshaus 

#parkbooks #rooflesstruth #homelessness #socialpractice #urbandesign