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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

"The Art of the Architectural Grafting" named Architectural Book of the Year!

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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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Reinventing Heritage

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Creating Dialogues through Architecture

Architecture as Built Criticism

DEON

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Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac

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Sigurd Lewerentz

Architect of Death and Life

Non-Referential Architecture

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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

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Back in Stock – Esch Sintzel Architekten. Bauten und Projekte ist zurück!

«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 für alle, die über 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 qualitätsvolle Architektur kreative Denkarbeit und Handwerk jenseits des Scheinwerferlichts ist.» swiss-architects

«Ein Büro mit prägender Rolle im Schweizer Diskurs.» Hochparterre

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Rural Vision. Creating Dialogues through Architecture

Christoph Hesse Architects are based in Berlin and Korbach, a small town in the northwestern part of the German federal state Hesse. This rural area in the green heart of Germany is the location of most of the projects the firm has realized since its establishment in 2010. Yet, occasionally, they do plant their rural concepts into an urban context. Christoph Hesse Architects and their friends see their designs as open places of culture.

Rural Vision is the first monograph on Christoph Hesse Architects. It also constitutes a manifesto that illustrates how collaborative projects create social, ecological, and economic points of contact and dialogue. Moreover, they promote sustainable change that not only improves people’s lives in rural areas but also redefines change as a source of innovation and social progress.

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Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac

“Abounding in swaths of greenery, bursts of bright color, brimming library stacks, and no less than two play-area slides, this survey of 10 recent projects by WORKac showcases the New York–based practice’s skill at balancing social and environmental concern with an all-embracing lightheartedness.” – Architectural Record

Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac is a thoughtfully curated architectural exploration by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, the design firm’s co-founders. The compelling volume, featuring ten of WORKac’s most recent projects, such as the North Boulder Library, the Rhode Island School of Design’s Student Success Center, and the Miami Museum Garage, navigates through the interconnected realms of architecture, environment, and social sustainability This book is a visual treat that showcases their latest explorations in architecture and community-centric design.

By Amale Andraos and Dan Wood
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With contributions by Miles Hardingwood, Nicolai Ouroussoff and Heidi Zuckerman
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Book design by Atelier Dyakova with Tom Baber
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DEON. A Workbook

Sketches and drawings are the main lens through which this first full monograph on DEON Architekten’s work explores 19 of their buildings and projects from the years 2000 to 2025. They range from a minor intervention in an existing structure to major industrial plants, from remodeling a private residence to a large housing development, research commissions, and submissions to public competitions. Divided into four chapters—Shape, Building Redevelopment, Interaction, Large Form—the volume focuses on the diverse processes that characterize the construction of architecture, the joint search for solutions, the flow of design.

Multilingual Edition – English & German

Edited by Hansjürg Buchmeier
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Josef Frank – Spaces

Josef Frank (1885–1967) ranks among Europe’s most significant architects of the twentieth century, and his designs for furniture and textiles have made him one of the eminent figures of modernist interior design. Though there have been many studies of Frank’s architecture previously, Josef Frank—Spaces is the first comprehensive book to look specifically at Frank’s single-family houses.

Architects Mikael Bergquist and Olof Michélsen explore the evolution of Frank’s designs for single-family homes over the years, and they investigate the influences that shaped his work, such as Adolf Loos’s “spatial plan” concept, Le Corbusier’s ideas, and Hermann Muthesius’s groundbreaking book “The English House.” The authors also look at Frank’s architectural concepts of movement and his use of stairs in residential buildings. The book includes an in-depth examination of six of Frank’s houses, including both built projects—Villas Claeson and Wehtje in Falsterbo, Sweden, and Villa Beer in Vienna—and unrealized ones—House for Vienna XIII, House MS in Los Angeles, and Fantasy House 9 (Accidental House). This section includes images and plans of each of the houses and a close analysis of their specific characteristics. A complete catalog of Frank’s single-family houses rounds out the book.

By Mikael Bergquist and Olof Michélsen
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