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Antifascist Architecture

Wie sieht gebauter Antifaschismus aus? Und wer baut antifaschistische Architektur?

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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

Ein Jahrzehnt gelebter Schulbaupraxis des Kollektivs AFF Architekten – ein typologischer Fundus

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Die Schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2026

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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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Neuerscheinungen

Mysteries of a Communist Cave

The Roofless Truth

Planning and Architecture for Homelessness

Global – Neutral

Architecture from Austria in Africa and Asia 1955–1989

Über das Werk des Architekten Josef Lackner

Zwölf Thesen und eine Annäherung

New Schools on the Block

Ein typologischer Fundus

New Schools on the Block

A Typological Inventory

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

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

Highlights

The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Totems

Selected Essays on Architecture

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

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Global – Neutral. Architecture from Austria in Africa and Asia 1955–1989

Global—Neutral embarks on an architectural search for traces in postcolonial contexts. It documents buildings and projects by Austrian architects in African and Asian countries realized between 1955 and 1989—a period of global political upheaval during which numerous states gained independence from European colonial powers and international cooperation was increasingly marked by Cold War tensions. Designs by Djamshid Farassat, Hans Hollein, Shahrzad Seradj-Kraupp, Helene Koller-Buchwieser, Norbert Heltschl, Carl Pruscha, Hannes Lintl, Roland Rainer, and Anton Schweighofer, among others, illustrate transnational dimensions and reveal surprising connections between Austria and the Global South.

In seven chapters, lavishly illustrated with reproductions of plans, images of models, photographs, and other documents from Architekturzentrum Wien’s collection, the book guides readers through the complex entanglements of architecture, geopolitics, development cooperation, and transnational knowledge exchange. Scholarly essays and other contributions by international authors expand on historical, political, and cultural contexts and offer local reflections from Nepal, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Abu Dhabi.

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Edited by Monika Platzer, Susanne Rick and the Architekturzentrum Wien Az W
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Book design by Rainer Dempf, Steinbrener/Dempf & Huber
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Printed by Bösmüller, Stockerau, Austria

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Blanking. An Annotated Archive of Projects and Thoughts on Architecture – now available around the world!

In this first book on the work and vision of the architecture firm Schaum/Shieh, founders Troy Schaum and Rosalyne Shieh invite their readers into the studio. This is a real and conceptual space where they work on recurring themes: operating within the city at the scale of building (urbanism); the interrelation of materiality, units of form, and building products (tectonics); and ways to collaborate with the life of a building in its context (preservation), among others. In addition to visual material drawn from all stages of the design process, what is equally important to Blanking is what is said and what can be heard in the studio. So much of architectural thinking and knowledge is presented, formulated, and traded in spoken words: the pinup, the meeting, the walkthrough. This material is the medium within which projects are formulated. Those exchanges inform this book, in which ideas and knowledge that are usually only spoken are written down and made accessible to readers.

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By Troy Schaum and Rosalyne Shieh
@rfshieh @troyschaum

Edited by Emily Nemens
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Associate Editor: Pouya Khadem
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Book design by Normal (Renata Graw and Lucas Reif) with the support of Kim Upstill, Austin Watson, and Paul Zdon
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Printed by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg, Thuringia
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“The scholars masterfully blend architectural history and theory, philosophy, and political economy into a kind of standard work on anti-fascist aesthetics. A pioneering academic achievement, it is required reading not only for critical urbanists of all backgrounds, opening up entirely new dimensions.” - Ingo Arend, taz

Antifascist Architecture

Architects, historians, and theorists have had a weird obsession with fascist architecture since postmodernism. Why? And who are the antifascist architects? What does antifascist architecture look like? Antifascist Architecture is the first attempt at creating a working definition of antifascist architecture after academia has spent decades fetishizing fascist architecture.

Brilliant scholarship has of course been presented about anti-colonial architecture, liberation architecture, and so forth. Yet antifascist architecture is an avenue that remains to be explored. This book does just that, offering a kaleidoscopic, peripatetic bricolage of architects who heroically aligned themselves with antifascist struggles, buildings made in the name of antifascism, and a call to arms for antifascist utopian futures. It is written for students and practitioners of architecture, but also activists and scholars in the social sciences who are interested in antifascist history, theory, and practice.

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By Andrew Santa Lucia and Daniel Jonas Roche
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Illustrations by Lane Rick
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Book design by Chris Grimley, SIGNALS
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Printed by Gugler Medien GmbH
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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
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With photographs by Stefan Oláh
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Book design by Willi Schmid

Printed by Gugler GmbH
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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
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Printed by Graphius, Belgium
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“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

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Book design by Samuel Bänziger, Rosario Florio and Larissa Kasper

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

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Printed by DZA, Druckerei zu Altenburg
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