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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

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

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

Zurich-based firm EMI architects on how they explore the phenomenon of performance in their works

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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

An Award for Park Books!

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The Appian Way

Adolphe Appia – on the life and influence of his work on the world of theater and architecture

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New Releases

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

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

DEON

A Workbook

Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac

Genuine Construction

Zhang Pengju’s New Regionalism in Inner Mongolia

Performance

Trees, Time, Architecture!

Design in Constant Transformation

Dirty Old River

Our new releases will be available here first before you can get them anywhere else in the world! We offer free shipping on larger orders.

Highlights

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

The Art of Architectural Grafting

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, Côte 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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The Home We Share. Three Social Sculptures for Princeton University

In 2022, Princeton University inaugurated Yeh College and New College West and introduced a new addition to its extensive collection of site-responsive campus art installations. The Home We Share is a series of three joyous, poetic, and playful dreamscapes nestled into the landscape surrounding these new residential colleges that offer spaces for gathering, relaxation, and play to generations of students who call this place home. Designed by R&R Studios—a multidisciplinary Miami-based firm weaving together visual arts, architecture, landscape, and the city—they offer a unique artistic impulse for social interaction among the students, teachers, and other people visiting Princeton University.

Edited by Roberto Behar, Rosario Marquardt

Book design by Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt, R&R STUDIOS

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@mma211
@princeton

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Celebrating three buildings by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture OMA and its mastermind Rem Koolhaas!

OMA’s Kunsthal in Rotterdam. Rem Koolhaas and the New Europe
By Tibor Pataky
Photographs by Marco Cappelletti with DSL Studio
@_marcocappelletti @dsl__studio

The House of Doctor Koolhaas
By Françoise Fromonot
Edited by Thomas Weaver

OMA – Toulouse Exhibition and Convention Center
Edited by Dominique Boudet
Photographs by Marco Cappelletti
@marcocappellettistudio @_marcocappelletti

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Concéntrico
Urban Innovation Laboratory

Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory reflects on the first decade of the international Concéntrico festival in Logroño, Spain, and the 150 projects and designs commissioned for it. The festival’s aim is to serve as a laboratory searching for creative ways of using architecture and design to strengthen communities and to support the dialogue between designers and citizens.

The book offers a unique meditation on the transformation of cities and the relevance of architecture and design in the 21st century. It introduces meaningful ways to address and engage with pressing urban issues—from identity and heritage to temporariness, collectivity, ecology, play, and domesticity—through the lens of selected Concéntrico commissions since 2015.

Multilingual Edition - English & Spanish!

Edited by Javier Peña Ibáñez and Nick Axel
@jpenaibanez @alucidwake @concentricofestival

Art Direction and Book design by Estudio Casao-Terrazas
@casao_terrazas

This book has been supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Spain and made possible with the collaboration of Garnica and LIF.

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Center and Periphery – Available worldwide!

At the periphery of Europe, in the center of Scandinavia’s timber construction tradition: Five Houses by Mikael Bergquist

This book brings together five vacation homes in Sweden designed by Stockholm-based architect Mikael Bergquist. Realized over more than two decades, they are all located in the Swedish countryside and rooted in the Nordic tradition of timber construction and the simplicity and economy of Sweden’s historic farm buildings. Bergquist’s great attention to detail and careful choice of materials characterize these houses. They are united also by a close relationship to the surrounding landscape and nature, which is enhanced as an experience by the concepts of movement and the placement of passages between the outside and inside.

By Mikael Bergquist
@mikael_bqu

Photography by Mikael Olsson
@mikaelolsson_

Book design by Daniel Bjugård Design
@danielbjugard

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Gumshoe presents: The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Seriously fun!

Written by distinguished French architectural critic and historian Françoise Fromonot, the first case in the new Gumshoe series—The House of Doctor Koolhaas—is about the Villa dall’Ava, a private residence in Saint-Cloud, a suburb of Paris. Fromonot brilliantly unpicks, explains, and interprets this very first building completed by Rem Koolhaas, who is universally regarded as the world’s most celebrated architect, and his Rotterdam-based firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture. The house is resolutely part of a modern architectural canon, but until now has not been the focus of a dedicated book or analysis.

Gumshoe is a new series of architectural books that introduces an original approach to the writing of architectural history. It returns the focus of architectural discourse back onto buildings in a style and form that is fresh and scholarly but also easy and enjoyable to read. It emulates the detective novel—a form of writing beloved by many, but also one that has enjoyed a parallel academic life in disciplines and by writers in fields as diverse as psychoanalysis, film, and art history—but, significantly, not yet by architecture.

By Françoise Fromonot
@francoisefromonot

Edited by Thomas Weaver

Book design by John Morgan studio
@johnmorganstudio
@adrienvasquez_

Cover art by Claudia Caranfa
@ragenruin

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Genuine Construction. Zhang Pengju’s New Regionalism in Inner Mongolia

Genuine Construction showcases outstanding designs that are also manifestations of a new and noteworthy trend in contemporary architecture worldwide.

Zhang Pengju’s buildings explore the intersection of architecture and landscape as topographical art. His architectural practice is deeply rooted in the terrain and local history of China’s Inner Mongolia region and at the same embodies contemporary architecture at its best. He engages in defining and cultivating topographical order and demonstrates how creative thinking can transform the fragments of our living conditions and our lives into images of a unified world.

Edited by Zhang Pengju

Design Concept by Bureau Sandra Doeller
@bureausandradoeller

@dengyu_li_

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