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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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Monocle Design Awards 2025

Park Books named Best Imprint

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Large, Lasting & Inevitable

A comprehensive overview of six decades of Jorge Silvetti`s theoretical work in architecture

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Sponge Park. Gowanus Canal

A pioneering, successful, and award-winning concept that instigated a widespread movement toward greater urban permeability

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Trees, Time, Architecture!

About the need for a paradigm shift to establish a sustainable relationship between trees and buildings

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Dirty Old River

Tom Emerson's essays collected over two decades—about the interweaving of culture, imagination and the built environment

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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

The Home We Share

Three Social Sculptures for Princeton University

Large, Lasting and Inevitable

Jorge Silvetti in Dialogues and Writings on Architecture as a Cultural Practice

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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 Beauty of Impermanence. An Architecture of Adaptability from the Sharjah Architecture Triennial

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.

Multilingual Edition - English & Arabic

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Edited by Tosin Oshinowo
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Associate Editor: Matthew Maganga
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Book design by Morcos Key (Wael Morcos and Rouba Yammine)
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Bureau – Short Stories. Pieces of Architecture

BUREAU operates at the intersection of architecture, scenography, design, landscape design, and education. Founded in 2012, the firm focuses on building new and converting existing structures, interior design and furniture, exhibition design, inhabitable sculptures, and temporary pavilions. Their buildings and interventions feature spatial experiments, unusual shapes and perspectives, and play with the time factor as well. BUREAU thus navigates across the traditional boundaries of architecture, design, visual art, architectural teaching, and cultural education.

Edited by Daniel Zamarbide and Galliane Zamarbide

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Book design by Norm, Zürich
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The New Design Museum. Co-creating the Present, Prototyping the Future

The New Design Museum brings together theories and voices from leading international institutions and independent initiatives addressing the transformed—and continually transforming—nature of design in the 21st century and its planetary scope in both practical and discursive dimensions. By mapping a new landscape of institutional practices across different geographical locations, it reveals how spaces of culture dedicated to design need transformation—of their missions, programs, and outreach platforms—to respond to an ever-expanding outlook on design as a field that is moving beyond its traditional presentation as an object-based practice.

By Beatrice Leanza
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Dirty Old River

Naturally, the architect Emerson writes about architecture: how it is designed, drawn, and built. Yet he also turns his attention to other, wider fields, from the transformation of materials to the nuances of human creativity, the explosive early works of his celebrated fellow architect Frank O. Gehry, and the intimate craftsmanship behind the literary spaces of French writer Georges Perec.

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.

By Tom Emerson

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The Appian Way. Adolphe Appia and the Scenography of Modern Architecture

Adolphe Appia (1862–1928) is a prominent figure in the history of modern theater, best known for his writings on the mise-en-scène and stage design for the operas of Richard Wagner. Far less is known about the Swiss scenographer’s importance in twentieth-century architecture and aesthetics. The Appian Way is the definitive account of Appia’s significance in this field. It is centered on his remarkable drawings that are at once austere and atmospheric: framing a series of scenes capturing stairs, landings, platforms, and terraces, all staged before a distant horizon under a luminous sky, the drawings are generally monochrome, but the subtle hues of the paper imbue each with a distinctive, ambient undertone. Appia himself might be thought about in the same way; he was distant yet also enigmatically present in the ensuing drama of modern architecture and stage design.

By Ross Anderson

Edited by Thomas Weaver

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