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SAY 25/26. Schweizer Architektur Jahrbuch

«Projektsammlung und Essays machen das Jahrbuch zu einer Publikation, die in keinem Architekturbüro fehlen darf.»

Aufs Dorf gekommen

Geschichtsbewusstes und kontextorientiertes Bauen im Bündner Dorf Fläsch – Bauten aus einem Viertel Jahrhundert von atelier-f architekten

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Raum für Alle

Die theoretische Entwicklung einer kleinen Idealstadt: 14 architektonische Thesen für utopische Lebensräume

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Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac

Die neuesten Erkundungen des viel beachteten New Yorker Büros WORKac in den Bereichen Architektur und gemeinschaftsorientiertes Design

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Architectural Book Awards 2025

«The Art of Architectural Grafting» ausgezeichnet als Architektur-Buch des Jahres!

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Living Cities. Three Centuries of Park Systems

Schatzkammern der Stadtgestaltung: Ein chronologischer Überblick des Civic Design anhand von mehr als 30 Parksystemen auf fünf Kontinenten

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The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Gumshoe präsentiert eine seltsame Villa am Rande von Paris, Hinweise und falsche Spuren des Architekten – und eine Giraffe namens Romeo?

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Neuerscheinungen

Teaching Urbanism

Lucerne Talks

Nachhaltige Designprozesse

Leitfaden für die gestalterische Praxis und Lehre

Aufs Dorf gekommen

atelier-f architekten. Bauten und Projekte 1998–2025

SAY 25/26

Schweizer Architektur Jahrbuch 2025/26

Im Kloster Baldegg

Klösterliches Leben in einem Bau von Marcel Breuer

That's Brutal, What's Modern?

The Smithsons, Banham, and the Mies-Image

The Metropolitan Tower

A Pedagogical Research Initiated by Michel Kagan

Public Spaces, NY

Raum für Alle

Ebaholz Campus Extension

Bauprozess im Entwurfsstudio

Reinventing Heritage

A Design Compass on Adaptive Reuse

Josef Frank – Spaces

Maison de la Chine

A Building by Atelier FCJZ

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

Schneider & Schneider

Architektur 1997–2024

Wir liefern versandkostenfrei nach Deutschland, Österreich und in die Schweiz!

Highlights

Reinventing Heritage

A Design Compass on Adaptive Reuse

The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Einhausung & Hochpark

Gestaltung der Autobahneindeckung und des Ueberlandparks in Zürich Schwamendingen

Neues Zirkuläres Bauen

Bürohaus Müllerstrasse Zürich. Ilmer Thies Architekten

Dirty Old River

Esch Sintzel Architekten

Bauten und Projekte

A House to Live With

16 Variations by Dom Hans van der Laan and His Companions

Jaretti & Luzi

Wohnbauten in Turin 1954–1974

Peter Zumthor 1985–2013

Bauten und Projekte

Peter Zumthor 1985–2013

Buildings and Projects

Städtebau beginnt an der Strasse

Ontologie der Konstruktion

Raumwirkung in der Architektur

Architektur Klima Atlas

Klimabewusst entwerfen in Forschung, Lehre und Praxis

Architektenfutter

Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz – Freunde des Wohnungsbaus

EM2N – Stadtfabrik

Plädoyer für eine Stadt des toleranten Nebeneinanders

EM2N—City Factory

Advocating for a City of Tolerant Co-Existence

The Architecture of Public Space

Armando Ruinelli Architekten

Bauten 1982–2022. Leggere il tempo

Built

by Valerio Olgiati

Montessori Architecture

A Design Instrument for Schools

Instagram

The Metropolitan Tower. A Pedagogical Research Initiated by Michel Kagan

The Metropolitan Tower is the first English-language edition of an influential French standard reference on the topic of the urban high-rise, originally published in 2012. It summarizes, interprets, and explains the research of French architect and teacher Michel Kagan (1953–2009). Featuring some 600 photographs, sketches, and plans, along with Kagan’s own writings and contributions by 26 distinguished international authors who respond to his ideas with key elements of their own research, the volume comprehensively explores the typology of the metropolitan high-rise since the birth of early modernism.

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Edited by Nathalie Régnier-Kagan
@nathalie.r.kagan

Book design by Pauline Nuñez

First published in French in 2012 by Éditions Recherches, Paris

#michelkagan #metropolitantower #parkbooks #scyscraper #urbanism #highrise #historyofarchitecture #urbanplanning #pedagogicalresearch

Maison de la Chine. A Building by Atelier FCJZ

In 2023, the new Maison de la Chine was opened as part of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP), the French capital’s famous campus of student residencies founded in 1925. Designed by Beijing-based Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (Atelier FCJZ) and realized in collaboration with the French architecture firm Coldefy, the building continues the tradition of national pavilions within the CIUP and the site’s extraordinary history. The Maison de la Chine’s design bears the DNA of traditional Chinese architecture, yet Atelier FCJZ also clearly acknowledges its inspiration from Le Corbusier.

Multilingual Edition ( English & French)

Edited by Yung Ho Chang

Book design by Wang Mian

@citeinternationaleparis @chang_fcjz @martino.stierli

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That’s Brutal, What’s Modern? The Smithsons, Banham, and the Mies-Image

In That’s Brutal, What’s Modern?, Mark Linder offers an original understanding of New Brutalism as a consequential and generative episode in the history of post-photographic imaging practices. This episode exemplifies and anticipates the kinds of congnition and intelligence that dominate architectural imagination today. Linder aims to recover a specific and integral, yet overlooked, aspect of the peculiar novelty of New Brutalism by recconsiderung the entirety of Alison and Peter Smithson’s work as a fitful and evolving fifty-year fascination with the imaging potential they found in the architecture of Mies van der Rohe.

In six chapters and some forty arrays of images, the book progresses from historical research to theoretical speculations on the historical legacy and contemporary potential of the Smithsons’ pursuit of the “Mies-Image.” The chapters situate New Brutalism in the context of emerging theories, practices, and cultures of imaging in postwar Britain, trace the Smithsons’ imaging practices and the appearances of the Mies-Image as it evolves in their projects and publications over five decades, reconsider Reyner Banham’s evaluations of Mies and his role in New Brutalism, and explore imaging theory and its potential to re-evaluate the significance of New Brutalism.

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By Mark Linder

Book design by Konst & Teknik
@konstteknik

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The House of Doctor Koolhaas

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 (Sigmund Freud), film (Sigfried Kracauer), and art history (Carlo Ginzburg)—but, significantly, not yet by architecture.

Written by distinguished French architectural critic and historian Françoise Fromonot, the first case—The House of Doctor Koolhaas—is about the Villa dall’Ava, a private residence in Saint-Cloud, a suburb of Paris.

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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Aufs Dorf gekommen. atelier-f architekten. Bauten und Projekte 1998–2025

Dieses Buch zeigt detailliert rund 20 Bauten, die der Schweizer Architekt Kurt Hauenstein mit seinem Büro atelier-f architekten in einem Vierteljahrhundert im Bündner Dorf Fläsch und an anderen Orten zwischen 2000 und 2025 geplant und realisiert hat. Darunter sind Wohngebäude, Um- und Neubauten von Stallscheunen, mehrere Weingüter in der Bündner Herrschaft, eine Skihütte in Flumserberg und das Gemeindehaus von Nesslau im Toggenburg.

Mit 18 im Dorf Fläsch neu- oder umgebauten Häusern und Wohnsiedlungen haben atelier-f architekten das Dorfbild stark geprägt. Die Gebäude sind Ergebnis intensiver Auseinandersetzung mit gewachsenen Strukturen und Bauformen, aber auch mit der Frage, wie in einem solchen Kontext sinnvoll, geschichtsbewusst, aber zugleich ambitioniert neue Bauten entworfen werden können. Kurt Hauenstein kann also mit Fug und Recht als «Dorfbaumeister» bezeichnet werden.

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Herausgegeben von Kurt Hauenstein

Gestaltet von Kurt Hauenstein und Lena Peters

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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.

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By Ross Anderson

Edited by Thomas Weaver

Book design by Studio Mathias Clottu
@studiomathiasclottu

Image processing by Marjeta Morinc
@marjetamorinc

#adolpheappia #parkbooks #richardwagner #architecturaldrawing #scenography #stagedesign #avantgarde #performingarts #theater #rossanderson #theatrestudies #thomasweaver