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Reinventing Heritage
Reinventing Heritage
Revitalizing cities and honouring cultural heritage – Milan-based collective Park shows how its done
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Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac
Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac
«Balancing social and environmental concern with an all-embracing lightheartedness» – WORKac’s latest explorations in architecture and community-centric design
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Architectural Book Awards 2025
Architectural Book Awards 2025
"The Art of the Architectural Grafting" named Architectural Book of the Year!
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Living Cities. Three Centuries of Park Systems
Living Cities. Three Centuries of Park Systems
A chronological overview of civic design based on more than 30 park systems on five continents
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Concéntrico. Urban Innovation Laboratory
Concéntrico. Urban Innovation Laboratory
International artists, architects and designers show how to deal with pressing urban issues in a creative way
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The House of Doctor Koolhaas
The House of Doctor Koolhaas
A strange villa on the outskirts of Paris, a series of clues and false leads left by the architect – and a giraffe named Romeo?
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Performance
Performance
Zurich-based firm EMI architects on how they explore the phenomenon of performance in their works
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The New Design Museum
The New Design Museum
"Design is a form of future-thinking that constantly probes the rules that organise the ‘present’."
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One of the Most Beautiful German Books 2025
One of the Most Beautiful German Books 2025
An Award for Park Books!
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Ebaholz Campus Extension

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Reinventing Heritage

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The Beauty of Impermanence

An Architecture of Adaptability from the Sharjah Architecture Triennial

The Appian Way

Adolphe Appia and the Scenography of Modern Architecture

The New Design Museum

Co-creating the Present, Prototyping the Future

Fawad Kazi KSSG–OKS

Volume III: Building 07A

Rural Vision

Creating Dialogues through Architecture

Architecture as Built Criticism

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Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac

Genuine Construction

Zhang Pengju’s New Regionalism in Inner Mongolia

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Reinventing Heritage

A Design Compass on Adaptive Reuse

The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Dirty Old River

Esch Sintzel Architekten

Buildings and Projects

A House to Live With

16 Variations by Dom Hans van der Laan and His Companions

Peter Zumthor 1985–2013

Buildings and Projects

EM2N—City Factory

Advocating for a City of Tolerant Co-Existence

The Architecture of Public Space

Armando Ruinelli Architetti

Progetti 1982–2022. Leggere il tempo

Built

by Valerio Olgiati

Montessori Architecture

A Design Instrument for Schools

Absolute Beginners

African Modernism

The Architecture of Independence. Ghana, Senegal, CĂŽte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia

Sigurd Lewerentz

Architect of Death and Life

Non-Referential Architecture

Ideated by Valerio Olgiati – Written by Markus Breitschmid

A Feeling of History

Peter Zumthor Therme Vals

Paris Haussmann

A Model's Relevance
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Reuse in Construction

A Compendium of Circular Architecture
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Reinventing Heritage. A Design Compass on Adaptive Reuse In Reinventing Heritage, Park—a Milan-based interdisciplinary collective of architects, designers, and researchers—explores the transformative potential of adaptive reuse in architecture as a key strategy to address environmental, social, and economic challenges. Rather than demolishing and rebuilding, adaptive reuse champions the repurposing of existing structures to extend their life cycle, reduce waste, and foster sustainable urban regeneration. This book appeals to anyone passionate about sustainable living, urban innovation, and the stories buildings can tell when they are given a second life. Edited by Park, Filippo Pagliani, Michele Rossi and Michele Versaci @park_associati Book design by Marco Sorrentino Image processing by Marjeta Morinc @marjetamorinc #park #parkbooks #parkassociati #sustainability #lifecycle #reinterpretation #circulararchitecture #adaptivereusearchitecture #adaptivereuse #designcompass #milano #urbanism
Trees, Time, Architecture! Design in Constant Transformation Trees, Time, Architecture! marks an evolutionary step from shaping objects towards designing processes. The volume brings together a variety of views on the relationship between trees and architecture, urban spaces, modernism, politics, feminism, and cultural values. This collage of historical, research-based and discourse-related perspectives looks at how trees can be preserved, used, and appreciated in the Anthropocene. It highlights historic examples of growing architecture, such as the living root bridges of the Khasi people in India, the accommodation of trees in urban housing and public spaces, novel approaches to design and construction with living trees, as well as trees as resource for building material. Exhibition runs until September 14 - 🔗 in Bio! Edited by Andjelka Badnjar, Kristina Pujkilović, Ferdinand Ludwig und Andres Lepik @architekturmuseum_tum @pinakothekdermoderne @kristina_pujkilovic @anlepik Book design by strobo B M @strobo_bm Available also in German Edition! #treestimearchitecture #baubotanik #parkbooks #growingarchitecture #wachsendearchitektur #greeninfrastructure #livingrootbridges #tum #landscapearchitecture #landscapedesign #trees
Architecture as Built Criticism is now available worldwide! Can buildings themselves express criticism? Wasn’t modernist housing a collective criticism of unsustainable living conditions? Can a state’s embassy convey differentiated, critical messages to the home and host country? Can architects express explicit criticism with their buildings? And if so, how can they do so? The essays collected in this volume present a wide range of effective built criticisms. Their authors’ concise analyses broaden our view of an insufficiently explored field of knowledge. This book is published following the International Conference on Architecture as Built Criticism held on October 12, 15, 21, and 22, 2023 at Tongji University, CAUP, Shanghai. @tongji_caup_official Edited by Wilfried Wang and Li Xiangning @tosin.oshinowo @rasmus.waern @priyanka.salunkhe @algimamutas @eliyahu_keller @ricardo.leitao @luizrecaman @mariana.wilderom @mariwilderom @hb_danderson @albordearq @david00b Book design by Sabine Hahn #parkbooks #tongjiuniversity #caup #internationalconferencetongji #shanghai #builtcriticism #wilfriedwang #CICA #internationalcomitteeofarchitecturalcritics
Discover the architectural design, construction, and the use of materials in and the furnishing of educational spaces with these 3 compelling volumes! An unusual ABC of good architecture for schools, a first-class design manual for educational spaces based on the ideas of Italian reform educator Maria Montessori and the compelling story of a unique and bold yet little known experimental public education project in Rio de Janeiro – all waiting to be discovered on our website. Head to our webshop for more info. ABC. Schools of the Future. Best Design Practices Edited by Le Penhuel Architectes & AssociĂ©s @gaetanlepenhuelarchitectes @buildingparis Also available as French Edition Image Slide 4 © Quentin Vijoux @quentinvijoux Montessori Architecture By Benjamin StĂŠhli and Steve Lawrence @benjamin_staehli Wherever You Find People Edited by Aberrant Architecture, David Chambers and Kevin Haley @aberrantarchitecture #educationalspaces #schoolbuildings #architecturaldesign #manual #handbook #contemporaryarchitecture #bestpractices #parkbooks #publiceducation
The Beauty of Impermanence is now available worldwide! The Beauty of Impermanence is a scholarly documentation of the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial. It explores architectural responses to sustainability, resource scarcity, and adaptability, highlighting the contrasting resource management strategies of the global North and South over the last four hundred years. The North exploited resources through a belief in endless abundance and technological advances, underpinned by religious and mythological justifications for colonialism and slavery. The South, characterized by resource scarcity, has innovated within these constraints, developing adaptable, sustainable solutions that may offer a blueprint for future global resource management. The book advocates for a shift away from a consumption-driven approach to one that is ecologically and ethically responsible, urging a collective resolve to create systemic change for a sustainable future. It is structured around the thematic strands of “Renewed Contextual,” “Extraction Politics,” and “Intangible Bodies” and features essays by noted scholars and practitioners. Multilingual Edition - English & Arabic @sharjaharchitecture Edited by Tosin Oshinowo @tosin.oshinowo Associate Editor: Matthew Maganga @mattmaganga Book design by Morcos Key (Wael Morcos and Rouba Yammine) @morcoskey @realjonkey @waelmorcos @adeyemo_shokunbi @adrian_pepe @albordearq @bubuogisi @bm_msoma @ster.carro @fazendinhando @formafantasma @henryglogau @hive_earth @lesleylokko @african_futures_institute @michael__elegbede @itan_tk @joburg_bureau @naturafuturarq @kidcadaver @moeaa.feed @pauloxtavares @raafatmajzoub @thekhanzine @nieuweinstituut @tom.egoumenides @yarasharif2022 @yinkashonibarestudio @olaniyi.studio @aabhat.hunnarshala @nmbello1 @abdoumaliqsimone @paolantonelli @asifkhan.now @buzigahill.official @diamrad @limboaccra @wallelawal @51_1_arquitectos @acdfuz @cave_bureau @sandrapoulson #sharjah #sharjaharchitecturetriennial #parkbooks #globalsouth #intangiblebodies #scarcity #resources #adaptability #alayounis #thaonguyenphan
Back in Stock – Esch Sintzel Architekten. Bauten und Projekte ist zurĂŒck! «Dieses Buch ist keine Lobeshymne, sondern eine fundierte Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage, wie Architektur sich im Spannungsfeld von Bestand, Gesellschaft und Umwelt behaupten kann. Ein Beitrag fĂŒr alle, die ĂŒber das Bauen hinausdenken.» Swiss Arc Mag «In diesem Sinne erteilt das Werk von Esch Sintzel – und mit ihm dieses Buch – eine Lektion in Sachen Detaillierung und Diskretion. Es erinnert daran, dass qualitĂ€tsvolle Architektur kreative Denkarbeit und Handwerk jenseits des Scheinwerferlichts ist.» swiss-architects «Ein BĂŒro mit prĂ€gender Rolle im Schweizer Diskurs.» Hochparterre *** Herausgegeben von Martin Tschanz @martin.tschanz @eschsintzelarchitekten @studiosintzel @studioeschrickenbacher @paolacorsiniphotographer @philipheckhausen @georgaerni @kusterfrey Gestaltet von Schön & Berger Mehrsprachige Ausgabe – Deutsch & Englisch! #eschsintzel #parkbooks #reprint #backinstock #architekturbuch #monographie
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