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Eines der Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2025

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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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Visiting. Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, Berlin 1966–89

Sozialer Wohnungsbau kann mehr als nur den Standard abdecken — das zeigen die realisierten Gebäude von Inken und Hinrich Baller

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Einhausung & Hochpark

Vereinen, was die Autobahn trennte: Ein Handbuch zur exemplarischen Verbindung zweier Stadtquartiere in Zürich Schwamendingen

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Monocle Design Awards 2025

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Neuerscheinungen

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

Zwischen den Kontinenten

Ehrentraut Katstaller-Schott, Karl Katstaller und die Architekturmoderne Mittelamerikas

Neues Zirkuläres Bauen

Bürohaus Müllerstrasse Zürich. Ilmer Thies Architekten

Performance

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Highlights

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

Montessori Architecture

A Design Instrument for Schools

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Performance - Now available worldwide!

“The projects outlined here demonstrate our interest in architecture that liberates itself not only from physical and structural limitations but also from any passive function as a neutral backdrop. Through its adaptability, its appropriation and identification, space becomes its own protagonist, an opponent, a dancer, and an instrument. Immobility gives way to mobility as the architecture moves its users in multiple ways. Ultimately, it revolves around the aesthetic dimension of physical perception and handling.” – Ron Edelaar, Elli Mosayebi, Christian Inderbitzin

Edited by EMI Architects
@emiarchitektinnen

Book design by NORM, Zurich
@norm_zurich

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Living Cities. Three Centuries of Park Systems

The creation of park systems is a historically proven method for communities to stabilize and cultivate healthy ecological habitats in country dwellings as well as in dense urban areas. Park systems ensure clean soil, water, and air for all. Moreover, they offer intergenerational and inclusive recreational opportunities along ecological corridors. Between 1900 and 1950, civic design—a practice in urban and landscape planning explicitly oriented towards the common good—experienced a heyday. Park systems were successfully used as “green armatures” hosting public facilities such as playgrounds, schools, administrative buildings, hospitals, and gardens.

Living Cities offers a chronological survey of civic design based on more than 30 park systems on five continents. The examples range from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Park an der Ilm in Weimar (1778) and John Nash’s Regent Street in London (1806) to Chicago’s park system (1850), Albert Bodmer and Maurice Braillard’s plans for Geneva (1936), and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Valley (1947), as well as to contemporary and future projects in Addis Ababa, Madrid, Medellín, New York, and Seoul. Matthew Skjonsberg’s book demonstrates the ecological and social impact of park systems and highlights the diverse challenges that communities face when implementing such projects. At the same time, it encourages a reevaluation of civic design as an intergenerational practice for creating human settlements.

By Matthew Skjonsberg

Book design by Studio Marie Lusa
@studiomarielusa

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Whether you enjoy the sunny season in your hometown, or explore a new corner of the world – these three books are perfect summer reads, no matter where you spend a few days off.  Edwin Heathcote from The Financial Times picked “Dirty Old River” and “The New Design Museum” as two of his summer reads for this year.

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“Dirty Old River” brings together essays and articles by Tom Emerson, which can be enjoyed in one piece or in small bites. Emerson’s unique approach to writing is often inspired by sideways glances and disciplines beyond architecture. He offers a new perspective on how things are made, why they take shape the way they do, and what these processes reveal about humanity.

@tomemerson6a @studio.tom.emerson @juliecirelli @sarahhandelman @6a__architects

Beatrice Leanza’s “The New Design Museum” is an examination of cultural institutions’ critical role as engines for knowledge production, where a democratic politics of mutual care and shared purpose can be explored and exercised. This book is filled with ideas, voices and life experiences of enriching inspiration. By mapping a new landscape of institutional practices across different geographical locations, this volume reveals how spaces of culture dedicated to design need transformation to respond to an ever-expanding outlook on design as a field that is moving beyond its traditional presentation as an object-based practice.

@beabiyue

Anthonie de Groot from our team chose “Survey. Architecture Iconographies” as her Park Books summer read.

When architects visit a building, and want to record or identify what they see, they take out a bundle of folded sheets in search of a blank piece of paper. These sheets may be ground plans, diagrams, sketches and ordnance maps. In one way or another, all are survey drawings, operating as both documentation and analysis. This book explores the history of the survey and its multiple forms in order to understand how the methods of recording what already exists can also be used to imagine what might be.

@matthew_james_wells

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Passerelle des Arts Luxembourg
Marc Mimram Architecture Ingénierie and Fabeck Architectes

The Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian and cycling bridge in the Quartier Européen Sud in Luxembourg’s Kirchberg neighborhood. It links the Avenue J. F. Kennedy, Kirchberg’s mobility backbone, with the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxemburg (MUDAM) and the Musée Dräi Eechelen. Designed by Paris-based Marc Mimram Architecture Ingénierie with the local firm Fabeck Architectes, the Passerelle des Arts is characterized by its sculptural design as well as the goal of preserving its natural environment, considered a green treasure in the heart of the city.

Winding through the trees of the urban forest, with benches installed in the curves, the architecture encourages people to slow down and take a contemplative stroll. The close relationship between nature and culture strongly influenced the choice of materials: the bridge’s main structure is made of polished stainless steel that is combined with light-colored concrete elements for the deck and glass railings. This results in an ever-changing materialization of the whole throughout the seasons.

Edited by the Fonds Kirchberg

@marc_mimram @fonds_kirchberg @fabeck_tatiana @fabeckarchitectes

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Book design by MONOGRAM, Miriam Rosner

On June 16th 2025 it was announced that our title The Craft of Place was chosen as one of the Most Beautiful German Books 2025. We congratulate all those involved and are very happy!

The beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated volume showcases Mork-Ulnes Architects’ dedication to detail, context, and the evolution of their architecture through the interplay of tradition and innovation.

Edited by Casper Mork-Ulnes
@caspermorkulnes @morkulnesarchitects

Book Design by Samuel Bänziger (Bänziger Hug) and Michel Egger
@samuelbaenziger @michelegger

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