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Monocle Design Awards 2025
Monocle Design Awards 2025
Park Books named Best Imprint
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Large, Lasting & Inevitable
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
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!
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
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 Home We Share
The Home We Share
Three joyous, poetic, and playful dreamscapes for Princeton University by R&R Studios in Miami
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Drifting Symmetries
Drifting Symmetries
“The book is Weiss/Manfredi’s first monograph in 15 years—and clearly the architect duo used that hiatus to radically reimagine how their buildings could be presented in such a format.”
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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.

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Fawad Kazi KSSG – OKS
Band III: Haus 07A
 
Seit 2011 sind in St.Gallen die Planung und Realisierung der umfassenden Erweiterung des Kantonsspitals St.Gallen KSSG und des Ostschweizer Kinderspitals OKS im Gang. Das vom Zürcher Architekten Fawad Kazi mit der Planergemeinschaft KSSG – OKS entwickelte Projekt transformiert das Spitalareal vollständig: Bis 2029 entsteht ein grosser, zusammenhängen-der Gebäudekomplex.
 
Dieses Buch ist der dritte der auf insgesamt fünf Bände angelegten Monografie zu diesem städtebaulich bedeutenden, architektonisch, konstruktiv und für den Spitalbetrieb höchst anspruchsvollen Generationenprojekt. Im Fokus steht das Haus 07A, der grösste Neubau im Rahmen des Vorhabens, das der ganzen Anlage ein neues städtebauliches Gesicht verleiht.
 
Multilingual Edition - German & English!

Herausgegeben von Marko Sauer und Christoph Wieser
 
Gestaltet von Bruno Margreth
@aboutbooks.brunomargreth

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Biennale Architettura 2025 x Rural Vision
 
Change of perspective and system: Christoph Hesse Architects propose alternative strategies to improve life in the countryside and to redefine it as a source of innovation and social progress.

The firms first monograph Rural Vision illustrates how collaborative projects create social, ecological, and economic points of contact and dialogue.

Christoph Hesse Architects kindly invite you to their book launch at the Venice Biennale opening weekend!
Nicola Borgmann – Co-Curator of this year’s German Pavilion will be in conversation with a number of interesting guests:

Dunya Bouchi
Managing Director, Aedes Network Campus Berlin
@aedesberlin 

Christoph Hesse
Founder, Christoph Hesse Architects, Korbach/Berlin
@christophhessearchitects 

Dorte Mandrup
Founder, Dorte Mandrup A/S, Copenhagen
@dorte_mandrup 

Martino Stierli
Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, MoMA New York
@martino.stierli 

Xu Tiantian
Founder, DnA, Beijing

@labiennale 
 
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German Pavilion
Giardini della Biennale
May 10th
2 PM

Image Slide 1: House of Knowledge © Gabriel Dong

Image Slide 3: Open Chapel © Thomas Baron

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DEON. Ein Werkbuch
 
Im Archiv des Luzerner Büros +DEON+ Architekten finden sich wunderbare Zeichnungen in allen Techniken: Kohle, Tusche, Bleistift, Filzstift, Marker, auf Zeichenpapieren, halbtransparentem Konzeptpapier oder auf Plänen. Viele dieser Blätter sind Gemeinschaftswerke, entstanden im dialogischen Entwerfen – intern, mit externen Partnerinnen und Bauherrschaften. Die Diversität ist gross und bisweilen überraschend, und alle illustrieren, dass die Skizze und die Zeichnung wunderbare Arbeits- und Entwicklungsmedien sind.
 
Zum ersten Mal führt dieses Buch die ganze Bandbreite des Schaffens von +DEON+ Architekten anhand von 19 Bauten und Projekten aus den Jahren 2000 bis 2025 vor Augen. Sie reicht vom kleinen Einbau bis zur riesigen Industrieanlage, vom Umbau eines Privathauses bis zur grossen Überbauung, zu Studienaufträgen und einem öffentlichen Wettbewerb. Gegliedert in die vier Kapitel Bestand, Gestalt, Interaktion und Grossform, richtet der Band den Blick auf die vielfältigen Prozesse, welche den Bau von Architektur auszeichnen, das gemeinsame Suchen und Entwickeln von Lösungen, den Fluss der Gestaltung vor Ort.

Multilingual Edition (German & English)!
 
Herausgegeben von Hansjürg Buchmeier
@buchmeier_info 

@deon_architektur 
@luca.deon 
 
Gestaltet von l’équipe [visuelle]
@lequipe_visuelle 
 
#Contemporaryarchitecture #parkbooks #deonarchitekten #deon #swissarchitecture #lucerne #monograph #peteromachen #hansjürgbuchmeier #lucadeon #entwurfsprozess #skizzen #zeichnungen #architecturebook
Biennale Architettura 2025 x The New Design Museum by Beatrice Leanza 

The New Design Museum brings together theories, voices and case studies 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, the book examines the critical role of cultural institutions as engines for knowledge production, where a democratic politics of mutual care and shared purpose can be explored and exercised.

Beatrice Leanza, Park Books and Golden Goose kindly invite you to the book launch at the Venice Biennale opening weekend!

The author and Julie Cirelli will be in conversation about design and future institutions.
 
Book design by OFFSHORE, with illustrations by Martin Groch.

@beabiyue @offshore________ @goldengoose @juliecirelli 

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 GOLDEN GOOSE HAUS
 Via dell’Atomo 2, Marghera, Venice
 Saturday, May 10th
 12:30 to 14:30 PM
 
Image Slide 1: Cielo Oscuro / Matali Crasset, Concéntrico 08 – 2021 © Photo Josema Cutillas - Concéntrico

Image: Loudreaders © Loudreaders Tradeschool and WAI Architecture Think-Tank
Architecture as Built Criticism
 
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
We are delighted to announce that Park Books has been named Best Imprint at the prestigious Monocle Design Awards, presented annually by the international design magazine “Monocle”.

The “Best Imprint” award is one of 50 Monocle Design Awards and the only one related to the world of books. The winners come from 27 countries on six continents and were selected by an international team of editors and correspondents from the design scene.
 
“Zürich-based architecture and design imprint Park Books makes publications that are both sources of knowledge and beautiful objects. This commitment to the craft of publishing has stood Park Books in good stead.” says Monocle in its statement.

The award ceremony will take place on April 28, 2025, in Paris.

More info about the award and Monocle magazine at the link in bio!

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