Park Books :: Books

American Framing

Balloon Framing: The typical American construction method is capable of blurring the boundaries within America's socially and economically deeply divided society as well as the differences between building typologies.

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Wiener Hitze

Social issues and experimental approaches to architecture and urban design in times of climate change

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Information & Formation

Designs for cultural and commercial buildings, housing, public spaces and landscape, and high-altitude Alpine infrastructure: the diverse work of Austrian architectural firm LAAC

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

From the Room to the City

A compendium on the European city with its numerous structural layers and inherent complexities, illustrated by the example of Munich

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Hot Questions – Cold Storage

The book accompanying the new permanent display of Architekturzentrum Wien’s own collection.
“With this exhibition, Vienna is enriched by a top attraction.” Christian Kühn, Die Presse

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Built

Fifteen built designs by the celebrated Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati in Bahrain, France, Portugal, the USA and Switzerland

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Atelier Deshaus 2001–2020

Shanghai-based Atelier Deshaus stays away from China’s commerce-driven mainstream architectural culture to focus on utterly independent designs that receive widespread international recognition

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All Under One Roof

The historic main building of the former military barracks in Basel has been turned into a new public, creative space on the city’s river front: Focketyn del Rio Studio on the collaborative process of a remarkable transformation

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Corner Kick

An elegant gem of contemporary architecture: the new training campus of Italian premier league soccer club U.S. Sassuolo Calcio

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Montessori Architecture

A first-class design manual for educational spaces, based on the ideas of Italian reform educator Maria Montessori: fundamental and practical, with case studies from Europe and tropical countries

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Flux Redux

A critical survey of design experiments on sustainability undertaken by renowned Zurich- and Los Angeles-based firm agps architecture

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Best of Austria

Austria’s best buildings of 2020 and 2021, featuring award-winning designs by Berger+Parkkinen Architekten, Bernardo Bader, Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten, einszueins architektur, fasch&fuchs.architekten, Franz&Sue Architekten, Hohengasser Wirnsberger Architekten, Innauer Matt Architekten, querkraft architekten, Snohetta Studio Innsbruck

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CHF 59.00 | eur 58.00

African Modernism

Back-in-print: the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date

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CHF 99.00 | eur 85.00

On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism

A rich collection of essays that offer essential, independent voices on architecture criticism in a highly challenging media environment.

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On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism

CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Absolute Beginners

One of the great intellectuals among architects: Iñaki Ábalos' reflections on the present and future of the architectural guild

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

The Synagogue Project

A significant contribution to the debate on the reconstruction of German synagogues destroyed under Nazi rule in the 1930s

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Dutch Dwellings

History and present of pioneering housing design in the Netherlands

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Reuse in Construction

Circular architecture offers huge potential in saving increasingly scarce resources and avoiding harmful greenhouse gas emissions, and leads to a more sustainable and energy-saving construction process

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CHF 65.00 | eur 58.00

Alexander Brenner – A Holistic Art of Building

New villas and houses by the acclaimed German studio Alexander Brenner Architects

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Alexander Brenner – A Holistic Art of Building

CHF 79.00 | eur 77.00

Architecture & Micropolitics

The interaction of architecture and society, demonstrated through important buildings by Farshid Moussavi Architecture

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CHF 75.00 | eur 68.00

Institutions and the City

What role does architecture play in establishing and maintaining public institutions that shape both society as a whole and our individual lives?

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Out of the Box

A unique visual tour through the work of Zurich and Los Angeles-based firm agps, organized by 13 keywords: Object in Space, Framing, Buffer, Conglomerate, Linear, Under the Roof, Going Around, Hidden, Hovering, Blurred, Sequential, Void, Sculpted

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Futures of the Architectural Exhibition

A critical discussion of individual approaches to the representation of space in a museum

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Portraits

Made In, one of Switzerland’s most exciting architectural firms, presents the quintessence of their thinking: an original and thought-provoking challenge to ideas about art, perception, and architectural design.

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CHF 99.00 | eur 97.00

Pichler & Traupmann Architekten

A multifaceted review of Vienna-based Pichler & Traupmann Architekten’s achievements of three decades

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Buchner Bründler—Buildings II

Basel-based Buchner Bründler Architects: one of Switzerland’s most distinguished architectural firms of the younger generation

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CHF 120.00 | eur 97.00

The Architecture of Collage

The first book on American architect Marshall Brown and his collages, which sit at the intersection of architecture and art

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Critical Neighbourhoods

Analyses of three informal neighborhoods in Africa, Latin America, and India, translating their spatial and social characteristics into architectural language

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System of Novelties

A unique hybrid of monograph and field guide, offering insights into the creative practice and design expertise of Houston-based Interloop—Architecture.

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Agadir

The fascinating first-ever full account of the remarkable reconstruction of the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir following the 1960 earthquake

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Nueva Vivienda

This book introduces a new generation of architects working in Mexico and their innovative housing designs.

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Brick 22

Outstanding brick architecture from all over the world: the international Brick Award 2022 demonstrates the impressive versatility of bricks as building material

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Portraits

Rotterdam based office KAAN Architecten presents fifteen of their major works, including the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in The Hague and the Amsterdam Courthouse.

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Model Workshop

Building with students and handicraft firms as an integrated didactic method in architectural training

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A Home for Advan FC

Manual for collaborative development-aid and self-empowerment in construction

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Max Alioth

Architect and cultural trailblazer: Max Alioth (1930-2010)

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The Making of a Mosque

The world’s third-largest mosque and Africa’s tallest structure to date: the Djamaa al-Djazaïr in Algiers, designed by KSP Engel, is a monument of superlatives

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Sigurd Lewerentz

Back in print: The entire Sigurd Lewerentz, his built and unrealized building designs, retail spaces, churches, cemeteries and landscape designs, exhibition architecture graphic and product design, furniture and interiors.

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CHF 140.00 | eur 120.00

What is Critical Urbanism?

Urbanism as pedagogical concept of practice

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EUROPAN 16 Austria—Living Cities

Pioneering ideas for tackling climate change and balancing social, economic and cultural inequalities in cities: the winning submissions to the 2021 EUROPAN competition for Austria

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CHF 29.00 | eur 24.00

Architects on Dwelling

The places we live in profoundly matter to our well-being: eight architects write about how this influences their design process for homes

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The Wood That Makes Our Cities

Tracing the trees with which our cities are built: about the challenges of the sustainable use of wood as a building material

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Verify in Field

An intriguing exploration of recent work by Höweler + Yoon, demonstrating how verification, uncertainty, and agency come into play with architectural design

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Robotic Landscapes

Dynamic robot-based planning and execution tools open up previously inconceivable design possibilities in the landscape architecture of the 21st century

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How Beautiful Are Your Dwelling Places, Jacob

Transforming a site of perdition into a place of benediction: the new synagogue at Babyn Yar in Kiev

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How Beautiful Are Your Dwelling Places, Jacob

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Thinking Design

A clearly distilled architectural atlas based on 144 major designs from ancient times to the twenty-first century, showcasing the cultural dimension of building

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CHF 59.00 | eur 58.00

Carlo Mollino

Interior designer, photographer—and architect: Carlo Mollino was a legendary figure in 20th-century art and design. This is the authoritative book on his work in architecture.

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CHF 99.00 | eur 85.00

Dear to Me

In conversation, Peter Zumthor explores his own and his guests’ passions

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CHF 160.00 | eur 150.00

Working & Living

Studio House Wuhrstrasse 8/10 in Zurich: a unique working and living space for artists

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CHF 65.00 | eur 58.00

Johan Celsing

Work and philosophy of one of Scandinavia's most renowned contemporary architects

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CHF 85.00 | eur 77.00

Duplex Architects

Duplex Architects exemplarily demonstrate how innovate housing design in Switzerland works and what it can contribute to urban development

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CHF 65.00 | eur 58.00

Living high

Inhabiting the heights: Cro&Co Architecture’s new Trinity Tower offers unique public and semi-public spaces from street level to rooftop

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Swissness Applied

New Glarus, Wisconsin: a prime example of cultural heritage in diaspora and of imagery and appropriation in architecture

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Basics of Urbanism

History, context, composition, network, profile, density, function, space, access, transition plan, participation, metabolism: basic concepts for a future-oriented design of the city

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Bernina Transversal

A pictorial epos on the spectacular Alpine landscape on Bernina Pass—intensely used for tourism, energy production, and as transit route—and its infrastructure buildings

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CHF 69.00 | eur 68.00

Hidden in Plain Sight

An insightful compendium on the development of state-subsidized housing in Europe in the 20th century

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Sigurd Lewerentz, Pure Aesthetics

An atmospheric masterpiece of modern sacred architecture: Sigurd Lewerentz’s Markuskyrkan (St Mark’s Church) in Stockholm’s Björkhagen district

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CHF 69.00 | eur 65.00

Crafting Wood

New findings on timber joints: presenting results from a practice-based educational cooperation of European universities

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Survey

A lavishly illustrated history of the architectural survey drawing across four centuries

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Fawad Kazi KSSG–OKS

The second volume of the five-part building monograph on Zurich-based architect Fawad Kazi’s innovative development of Kantonsspital St. Gallen and Ostschweizer Kinderspital

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

On and Around Architecture

Sergison Bates architects in conversation with eminent Swiss architects, historians and researchers

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Land. Milk. Honey.

Turning a biblical promise into reality: how ideology translated into colonialism, settlement, urbanization, infrastructure, and mechanized agriculture radically reshaped the environment of Palestine-Israel. – The Israeli pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale

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CHF 29.00 | eur 25.00

Pricegore & Yinka Ilori – Dulwich Pavilion

This book documents the Dulwich Pavilion 2019 designed by Pricegore in collaboration with Yinka Ilori, and built within the gardens of John Soane’s Dulwich Picture Gallery.

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Pricegore & Yinka Ilori – Dulwich Pavilion

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Archetypes

Architectural mock-ups: a significant yet ephemeral aspect of contemporary construction, seen by Canadian artist David K. Ross

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London – Being in the Library

The impact of David Adjaye’s architecture, reflected by Daniela Keiser

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Regarding Space and Spaces

The chambered floorplan: a simple principle, frequently applied by Luca Selva Architects, offering greater latitude than corridor-based designs

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City Cut Off

Berlin, Dakar, Detroit, Dubai, London, Moscow, New Delhi, New York, Oslo, Paris, Zurich: an artistic reflection on the city as background of contemporary architecture

We are sold out with our copies. A few copies are still available from HGB Leipzig's Institut für Buchkunst.

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CHF 220.00 | eur 200.00

Angelo Candalepas

Future-oriented and at the same time steeped in the heritage of modernity: Candalepas Associates, one of Australia's leading architectural firms

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CHF 65.00 | eur 58.00

Sergei Tchoban – Lines and Volumes

In conversation with Kristin Feireiss, Sergei Tchoban reveals what inspires him and what drives his work as an architect, artist, curator, collector und museum founder

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Footprints

Selected essays from the past fifteen years by Josep Lluís Mateo, one of Europe’s most influential architectural intellectuals

Also available in Spanish

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CHF 29.00 | eur 24.00

Huellas

Selected essays from the past fifteen years by Josep Lluís Mateo, one of Europe’s most influential architectural intellectuals

Also available in English

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Manor Lessons

England’s West Country and local traces of the manorial system are the subject of the concluding volume of the successful Teaching and Research in Architecture series produced by EPFL’s Laboratoire Bâle (laba)

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The New Kunsthaus Zürich

Kunsthaus Zürich: an Art Museum for the 21st Century

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Avant-Garde as Method

The groundbreaking new study on the early Soviet Union's Higher Art and Technical Studios, known as Vkhutemas, and their pioneering curriculum that has been a source of inspiration for generations of architects, designers, and artists until the present day

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CHF 65.00 | eur 58.00

Situated Objects

Building in and with nature: buildings by American architect Stan Allen in the Hudson Valley, north of New York.

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TXL. Berlin Tegel Airport

A farewell to Berlin’s Tegel TXL airport: the definitive monograph on this architectural icon

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Modersohn & Freiesleben—Reality

20 years of building in Berlin, all across Germany, and elsewhere: the new monograph by renowned Berlin-based architects Modersohn & Freiesleben

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The New Normal

How do technology and ecological challenges forge future cities?

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The Songyang Story

Architectural acupuncture works: how architect Xu Tiantian’s interventions change communal life in rural China and what lessons can be learned from them

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21BB – Model Region Berlin-Brandenburg

A reference atlas for developing a sustainable metropolitan region in Central Europe

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CHF 69.00 | eur 68.00

Napoli Super Modern

An homage to Naples: insights into this legendary harbor city’s remarkable architecture and urban development between 1930 and 1960

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Best of Austria

Features designs by Coop Himmelb(l)au, Dietrich | Untertrifaller, fasch&fuchs, feld72, Franz und Sue, Hohengasser Wirnsberger, HOLODECK, Innauer-Matt, LAAC, Marte.Marte, Pichler & Traupmann, Riegler Riewe, winkler+ruck
and others

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CHF 65.00 | eur 58.00

OMA – Toulouse Exhibition and Convention Center

Immensely large yet perfect in every last detail: OMA has created impressive architecture in Toulouse with a seemingly uninspiring infrastructure project.

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OMA – Toulouse Exhibition and Convention Center

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Brick 20

The international Brick Award 20: 50 nominated and awarded buildings demonstrate the wide range and excellent characteristics of bricks as a building material

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Openings

First monograph on h2o architectes, the up-and-coming Paris-based firm that has won several prestigious prizes for their designs

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Perpetuating Architecture

Martino Pedrozzi’s sensitive architectural interventions on mountain pastures highlight the topic of rural exodus in the Swiss Alps

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Ideas of Ambiente

Milan’s bourgeois society forged the city’s building culture between the 1880s and 1960s with a sense of history as well as of responsibility and common welfare

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Faces & Spaces

An amusing album commemorating the 40th anniversary of Europe’s preeminent architecture gallery

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

EUROPAN 15 AUSTRIA - Productive Cities 2

A rich source of ground-breaking ideas for a new urban culture of the future: EUROPAN is Europe’s biggest competition for ideas about urban planning and architecture

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EUROPAN 15 AUSTRIA - Productive Cities 2

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Typology

In print again: Christ & Gantenbein's typological investigation of 160 structures in Hong Kong, Rome, New York, and Buenos Aires

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Typology

In print again: Christ & Gantenbein's typological analysis of 180 further buildings in Paris, Delhi, São Paulo, and Athens

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CHF 59.00 | eur 58.00

Diener & Diener Architects—Housing

An in-depth documentation of more than 40 years’ research and practice in housing design by renowned Swiss firm Diener & Diener Architects

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Stefan Forster Architekten

Strategies for urban housing: This first comprehensive monograph explores twenty years of work in residential architecture by Frankfurt-based firm Stefan Forster Architekten

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Statista

Berlin's former Haus der Statistik as laboratory of art and collaborative urban development

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Steel Cities

The fast-growing logistics industry in Central and Eastern Europe and its hugely problematic effects on the built environment, landscapes, societies, and individuals in the region

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Immediate Spaces 16–19

An insight into the research and production at Amsterdam-based Sandberg Instituut’s Studio for Immediate Spaces in 2016–19 under the direction of Swiss architect Leopold Banchini

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City Lust

Charlie Koolhaas presents a timely dialogue between words and images about a crucial moment in our recent history: the apotheosis of globalization and its current unraveling.

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The Horizontal Metropolis

The horizontal metropolis: an urban design concept for the future?

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Soviet Design

From Constructivism to Art Deco and back to Avant-garde and Bauhaus: transformations of Soviet interior design through six decades

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CHF 99.00 | eur 77.00

The Architectural History of the Kunsthaus Zürich 1910–2020

The fascinating story of constructing Kunsthaus Zürich

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The Architectural History of the Kunsthaus Zürich 1910–2020

CHF 19.00 | eur 19.00

Experimental Zone

Spatial design constellations of collaborative workspaces for scientists and their effects on knowledge production: findings of a long-term reserach project

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Cold War and Architecture

Architecture as part of a global struggle of differing political systems: with its transnational perspective, this book changes our view of architectural history and postwar society

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Architecture of Infinity

A sensual and sensing journey through sacred spaces beyond our built world

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CHF 39.00 | eur 39.00

Bauhaus Brand 1919–2019

Bauhaus: what it was, what it is, what it may be

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Hans Scharoun and the Development of Small Apartment Floor Plans

Insights into the design process and intellectual foundation of Hans Scharoun, one of the most extraordinary protagonists of Germany's modern architecture

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Hans Scharoun and the Development of Small Apartment Floor Plans

CHF 65.00 | eur 58.00

Fez Lessons

The "Scramble for Africa's" endless shadow: the cultural and socio-economic clashes European colonization caused can be traced in Morocco's former capital Fez to the present day

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Traffic Space is Public Space

Creative strategies for conflicts between the growing demand for public space and increasingly dense traffic in urban areas

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Quirino De Giorgio

A great yet unduly ignored body of work: a tribute to Quirinio De Giorgio, whose buildings reflect evolutions in 20th-centruy architecture

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Los Angeles Modernism Revisited

Californian way of life: intimate insights into LA’s sophisticated modern homes of the 1930s to 1960s

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CHF 65.00 | eur 58.00

Modern Modern

A new house for modern and contemporary art in the structure of a Paris Art Deco icon

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Epics in the Everyday

Photography by Walker Evans, Nigel Henderson, Ed Ruscha, New Topographics, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Demand; and architecture by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Alison and Peter Smithson, Herzog & de Meuron, and Caruso St John

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Design from the Alps 1920–2020

The first comprehensive survey of modern design from the transnational and multilingual Alpine region Tyrol—South Tyrol—Trentino

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Architecture as Environment

First book on the work and vision of Paris-based PARC Architects, featuring exemplary designs and installations at the interface of art and science

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Imperfection. Atelier Stéphane Fernandez

First monograph on French architect Stéphane Fernandez, a contemporary virtuoso of minimalist architecture

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Imperfection. Atelier Stéphane Fernandez

CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Darwin's Theatre, BABL at Work

Work and vision of remarkable Swiss firm BABL Bakker & Blanc architectes associés, in a unique book concept reflecting BABL's evolutionary approach

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CHF 85.00 | eur 77.00

At Home in Steel

A compact and concise survey of the use of steel in residential architecture, reflecting on historic icons and featuring outstanding contemporary examples

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Building Additions in Steel

A unique study on the topic of building additions and vertical expansion in steel construction, featuring outstanding examples by international architects and offering theoretical and technical basics

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ChartierDalix. Hosting life

The first monograph on French architects ChartierDalix, whose research and projects aim to bring architecture and ecosystems to harmonious concurrence

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Architettura Non-Referenziale

Per prima volta in edizione italiana l’acclamato manifesto di Valerio Olgiati e Markus Breitschmid che propone un nuovo approccio all'architettura in un mondo libero da ideologie e riferimenti: una lettura indispensabile per quanti siano interessati all'architettura dei nostri tempi.

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CHF 25.00 | eur 25.00

Totalization

An insight into Rice School of Architecture’s innovative and inspirational Totalization Studio program, preparing students for the quintessentially generalist task of their future profession

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Access for All

Infrastructures for residents: São Paulo’s long-term investment in communal architecture

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Non-Referential Architecture

The new revised edition of Valerio Olgiati's and Markus Breitschmid's widely acclaimed manifesto for a new approach in architecture in a world free of ideologies and, therefore, references: a must-read for anyone interested in architecture today

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CHF 25.00 | eur 25.00

Shifting Patterns

An intercultural und interdisciplinary examination of Christopher Alexander’s methods for building and urban design

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Barozzi Veiga

Buildings, projects, ideas, and visions of the much recognized Barcelona-based Spanish-Italian firm

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Thinking

Smart Living Lab: a unique collaborative project of three Swiss universities, combining scientific reserach with a concrete building design

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Exploring

Smart Living Lab: a unique collaborative project of three Swiss universities, combining scientific reserach with a concrete building design

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Almost Nothing

Art works inspired by Mies van der Rohe by international artists such as Rita Ernst, Daniel Libeskind, Sarah Morris, Erwin Wurm, Rem Koolhaas, Konstantin Grcic, Kurt Schwitters, Carl Andre, Peter Eisenman, Isa Genzken, Alexander Calder, Thomas Ruff, Ed Ruscha, Thomas Schütte, Yves Klein, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Dan Graham, and others.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Plans & Images

An atlas of plans and images of a range of building typologies, reflecting Laboratory EAST's teaching and research approach within the framework of EPFL’s School of Architecture

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CHF 69.00 | eur 68.00

Josef Frank – Villa Carlsten

A beautifully illustrated portrait of Josef Frank's Villa Carlsten on the Falsterbo peninsula in southern Sweden

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Essays on Architecture and City Planning

“Architecture is not life. Architecture is background. Everything else is not architecture.”—Hermann Czech, 1971

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Essays on Architecture and City Planning

CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Poolology of Housing

A compendium of images and typologies, complied by Zurich-based pool Architekten and drawing on twenty years' experience in housing design.

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CHF 75.00 | eur 68.00

CARTHA – On the Form of Form

CARTHA’s multi-faceted approach to the topic of form in architecture

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Lever de rideau

A playful, unconventional building monograph documenting the design and construction of the new Jacques Carat Theater in Cachan near Paris by Ateliers O-S architects, with photographs by Cyrille Weiner and graphic short story by Lucas Harari and Alexis Jamet

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Contrast and Cohesion

Housing developments, office blocks, recreation parks, high-tech research and production plants, or the ICRC's visitor center: contrasting locations and conceptual cohesion in their designs are reflected in this first monograph on G8A Architects

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

The Giedion World

The Giedion Universe: An introduction to the work, significance and impact, and estate of two of modernism's most distinguished scholars—on 420 pages with 198 color illustrations featuring 630 documents, objects, and photographs

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CHF 99.00 | eur 97.00

The Inhabited Pathway

Available again: The synthesis of profound knowledge and creativity: Alberto Ponis’s rethinking of the Sardinian “stazzo”.

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CHF 59.00 | eur 58.00

Portugal Lessons

How does architecture confront its environment? With whom we live, to whom we open our house and how permeable should its boundary be?

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

HEC Campus, Evolution of a Model

A landmark university campus near Paris, rebuilt and extended by David Chipperfield and Martin Duplantier

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Tiergarten, Landscape of Transgression

“I see the living quality of a city directly in proportion to the possibility of [...] ‘gaps in the planning’.” – Wim Wenders in an interview with Hans Kollhoff, 1988

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Dry Stone Walls

A uniquely comprehensive source of knowledge, combining cultural history with a guide to plants and animals finding their habitat in dry stone walls and a practical step-by-step building manual

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CHF 110.00 | eur 97.00

Beyond the Object

The space-creation experiment continued: volume 3 of the four-part series from ALICE at EPFL's School of Architecture.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Labics—Structures

Structures as system of relations guide the approach of leading Italian firm Labics

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CHF 65.00 | eur 58.00

Your Guide to Downtown Denise Scott Brown

Acknowledged fully in her own right for the first time: Denise Scott Brown, a key contributor to international architectural discourse over five decades

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Your Guide to Downtown Denise Scott Brown

CHF 39.00 | eur 36.00

A Glass Labyrinth in Venice

A captivating exhibition desgin by Dhaka-based architect Kashef Chowdhury, winner of the 2016 Aga Khan Architecture Award.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Close-up—Ruch & Partner Architects 1994–2018

The definitive monograph on the work of Ruch & Partner Architects, whose restorations of and contemporary interventions in historic houses in the Engadine have gained much international recognition

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Close-up—Ruch & Partner Architects 1994–2018

CHF 150.00 | eur 140.00

Baku – Oil and Urbanism

The first-ever comprehensive study on the close interplay of oil industry and urbanism.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

A Real Living Contact with the Things Themselves

The things themselves are as interesting and instructive as the underlying concepts and theories about them

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A Real Living Contact with the Things Themselves

CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Crafting the Façade

A handbook of innovative concepts for design and construction of building façades

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Ritual / Original

“Architecture never is merely architecture and never by architects only!” Georg Driendl

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

New Architecture in South Tyrol 2012–2018

Outstanding new buildings in South Tyrol / Alto Adige, selected by an international jury

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New Architecture in South Tyrol 2012–2018

CHF 65.00 | eur 58.00

Promenades

A visual exploration of the work of Bauart Architects and Urbanists and an artistic investigation of the relationship between architecture and photography

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

The Public Private House

Polykatoikia: Athens' signature building typology and most eminent contribution to modern urban design

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Best of Austria

The latest survey of oustanding Austrian architecture, featuring award-winning buildings by Austrian architects and realized projects by international architects in Austria in 2016–17.

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CHF 65.00 | eur 58.00

Thoughts Form Matter

A plea for the power of architecture as intellectual investigation and for the freedom to create spaces which are uninhibited by functional and economic constraints

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Peter Zumthor Talks About His Work

A unique biographical film collage on celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, compiled by renowned Swiss director Christoph Schaub in collaboration with Atelier Peter Zumthor.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 39.00

A Feeling of History

Peter Zumthor's surprising and revealing reflections on time and history

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Susi + Ueli Berger

First-ever, richly illustrated monograph on Swiss artists and interior designers Susi and Ueli Berger, creators of Swiss design icons such as the Soft Chair, the Cloud Lamp, and the Stack of Drawers

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CHF 65.00 | eur 58.00

Brick 18

The international Wienerberger Brick Award 2018: fifty shortlisted and seven winning designs demonstrate the huge popularity and wide-ranging properties of brick as building material

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Konrad Wachsmann and the Grapevine Structure

Konrad Wachsmann: a legendary pioneer of prefabricated building systems and a visionary of automatized on-site assembly

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Konrad Wachsmann and the Grapevine Structure

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Stadium

An investigation of a stadiums potentials beyond sports event, religious congregations, political rallies, or acts of tyranny, and of private property’s logic in context with land deregulation and housing atomization

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CHF 35.00 | eur 35.00

Teaching / Practice

British architect Jonathan Sergison’s reflections on the interplay between practice and teaching in architecture and the great significance he sees in combining both spheres

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

House Tour

On photographs of empty architectural spaces and images of contemporary housing interiors in the world wide web.

The official publication of the Swiss Pavillion at the 2018 International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, winner of the Golden Lion for best national participation.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Weak Monument

An exploration of the blurred line between a monument’s explicitly political form and the implicit political meaning of seemingly insignificant architectural objects and public spaces

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CHF 25.00 | eur 25.00

Aire

Topographic imagination applied: the award-winning renaturalization design for river Aire near Geneva, Switzerland.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Utopia & Collapse

What happens when destiny and reality override plans and utopias, and when a dwelling is bereaved its actual purpose?

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Creatures of the City

A unique visual and literary exploration of recent buildings by SCAU architecture, France's leading architectural firm

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CHF 75.00 | eur 68.00

Exposed Architecture

An inspiring insight into the work and working environment of young architectural firms in Latin America, and an exploratuon of practices of exhibiting architecture

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

The Gardens of La Gara

Contemporary and historic landscape design on an 18th-centruy estate near Geneva.

Disponible aussi en français

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CHF 99.00 | eur 97.00

Fawad Kazi KSSG—OKS

The documentation of a highly innovative design for the rebuilding of a major hospital complex in Switzerland.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

ARTEC Architekten

First monograph on Vienna-based ARTEC Architekten, one of Austria's leading contemporary firms.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Designing TWA

Available again: the definitive book on this architectural icon of the jet age.

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Neri & Hu Design and Research Office

The first monograph on internationally celebrated, Shanghai and London-based Neri & Hu Design and Research Office.

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CHF 59.00 | eur 58.00

Israel Lessons

An urbanist research project on concepts of social space rooted in land domestication and landscape idolatry

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Motion Mobility

ÖAMTC's new headquarters in Vienna: a model for collaborative project development between client, architects, engineers, designers, strategic cosultants, and users.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

SOS Brutalism

The first-ever global survey of brutalist architecture from the 1950s to the 1970s, based on research project carried out collaboratively by Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAM and Wüstenrot Foundation.

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New Housing in Zurich

A comprehensive survey of co-operative housing projects in Zurich, featuring in detail some 50 recent designs that had a major impact on the city's urban life.

Disponible aussi en français

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Armando Ronca

A master of Modernism in Northern Italy rediscovered

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Pictures of the Floating Microcosm

A unique insight into the design process and representational methods of contemporary Japanese Architects, featuring works by Kazuo Shinohara, Toyō Itō, SANAA, Atelier Bow-Wow, Junya Ishigami, and others.

Disponible aussi en français

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The Continuous City

The architect as hunter-gatherer: Lars Lerup and his concept of the modern city.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Simon Phipps Finding Brutalism

A striking selection from Simon Phipps's unique documentation of British brutalism.

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Space Packed

Work and vision of this master of modernism, who has influenced generations of architects in Israel yet himself has largely been forgotten.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Climate Garden 2085

A public experminent adding a personal and emotional experience to what we learn from the media about the largely abstract scenario of climate change and its local effects.

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Garden

A gallery-size garden's intensity and constructedness: an arcane reflection by Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architects

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Walters Way & Segal Close

The story of two tiny roads in Lewisham, south London, and of Walter Segal's designs for twenty self-build homes they contain.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Assemble

The first comprehensive insight into the work and selected projects of the London-based architecture collective Assemble, winners of the 2015 Turner Prize.

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The good life

New and revised edition of Iñaki Ábalos’s highly acclaimed book on seven iconic 20th-century houses, some of them actually built, others merely imagined or realized as film sets.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

CARTHA – On Making Heimat

How can migrants settle and feel at home far away from their native environment? This book offers essential contributions to the international discourse on migration issues in contemporary architecture and urban design.

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CHF 19.00 | eur 19.00

Lower Austria—The Architectural Landscape, 1848 to 1918

A handy guidebook to significant historic architecture in Lower Austria a popular tourist destination around Vienna.

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Lower Austria—The Architectural Landscape, 1848 to 1918

CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

The City and the Architecture of Change

Witty and inspiring: the designs, ideas, and thinking of British architect and urbanist Cedric Price

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

House 1 Catalogue

A sparkling intellectual experiment about creating space: volume 2 of the four-part series from ALICE at EPFL's School of Architecture.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Charlotte Perriand

The authoritative four-part monograph on Charlotte Perriand continued: volume 3.

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Rolf Mühlethaler—Fragile Order

The work of Rolf Mühlethaler and considerations about the task and skills of an architect.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Steiner's Diary

A succinct review of forty years observing contemporary architecture: writings and interviews by Dietmar Steiner, one of Austria's most eminent architectural publicists.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

House of Switzerland

Innovative Swiss timber architecture on tour around the world.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Venice Lessons

Venice's dual nature as myth and real city, examined from an architectural and urbanist perspective—the latest volume in the successful Teaching and Research in Architecture series.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Before Publication

Photographer Ed Ruscha, designer Muriel Coopers, and Dadaist Tristan Tzara: the practice of montage in art, architecture, and book design.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Atlas of Another America

An architectural satire—presented in the style of an historical treatise—that imagines an alternative future for the American single-family house and its native habitat, the suburban metropolis.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Paulo Providência – Architectonica Percepta

Insights into the manifold designs and the thinking of one of Portugal's most significant contemporary architects.

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Paulo Providência – Architectonica Percepta

CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Territory

The findings of a comprehensive research undertaken by ETH Studio Basel on urbanisation processes in Egypt, Italy, the US, Vietnam, Oman, and Brazil.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Italomodern 1

An extensive and richly illustrated survey of Northern Italy's modernist architecture.

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CHF 45.00 | eur 45.00

Italomodern 2

An extensive and richly illustrated survey of Northern Italy's modernist architecture—the sequel.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Wherever You Find People

The compelling story of a unique and bold yet little known experimental public education project in Rio de Janeiro.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Best of Austria

An attractive survey of award-winning buildings by Austrian architects and realized projects by international architects in Austria in 2014–15.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

CARTHA – On Relations in Architecture

Statements and opinions of emerging international architects and theoreticians on the role and importance of personal relationships, networks, and hierarchies in contemporary architectural production.

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Seamless

The relationship between architecture and photography and the emergence of a new understanding of realism, based on the production of architectures and images from fragments of reality.

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Room for Artifacts

Based in Cambridge, MA, WOJR have won various prizes, including the Design Biennial Boston Award 2010 and the Architectural League Prize for
Young Architects and Designers 2011. This is their first monograph.

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The Structure

Sixty years of engineering: Mahendra Raj's extraordinary structures in India and the Middle East.

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CHF 69.00 | eur 68.00

Zurich University of the Arts – Toni Campus

A dairy factory converted into a university of the arts: Zurich's spectacular new Toni Campus.

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Zurich University of the Arts – Toni Campus

CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

The Difficult Whole

Robert Venturi’s idea of the “difficult whole” re-evaluated in the context of his work: a significant contribution to a contemporary architectural discourse.

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Josef Frank – Spaces

The single-family houses of a legendary European modernist

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Kashef Chowdhury – The Friendship Centre

Kashef Chowdhury's Friendship Centre: the essence of architecture

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Kashef Chowdhury – The Friendship Centre

CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

AP 164: Ábalos & Herreros

The influential work of Ábalos & Herreros re-interpreted by their contemporaries, collaborators, and students.

Also available in Spanish

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

AP 164: Ábalos & Herreros

The influential work of Ábalos & Herreros re-interpreted by their contemporaries, collaborators, and students.—Edición española

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Mortal Cities & Forgotten Monuments

A revealing study of the effect of war damage on inhabitants of a city and on the potential of architecture and urban design to reconcile people with the loss of urban structure and cultural symbols.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

The Weltanschauung as an Ersatz Gestalt

Jan Turnovský's original, learned, critical, and sublimely ironical treatise on open systems in architecture, published for the first time ever.

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Modern Visionaries

Architectural fantasies, drawings, watercolors and writings by three visionaries of the early 20th century

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Water and Asphalt

Living and working, water and asphalt: the 21st century's urban challenges

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Demo:Polis

A dynamic interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary meaning of the public space.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Architecture in Austria in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Architekturzentrum Wien’s indispensable reference book on 150 years of Austrian architecture, available again in a new, expanded edition.—“Architecture has to be evaluated based on the context of its time.” Friedrich Achleitner

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Architecture in Austria in the 20th and 21st Centuries

CHF 69.00 | eur 68.00

The Invention of Space

A sparkling intellectual experiment about creating space and the initial volume of a new four-part series from EPFL's School of Architecture.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Christian Menn – Bridges

The art of structural engineering: the bridges, visions, and philosophy of Christian Menn.

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CHF 99.00 | eur 97.00

Fawad Kazi

An addition to Zürich’s Crown of the City: New building LEE for ETH Zurich

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CHF 59.00 | eur 58.00

Dust Free Friends

All it takes is a sheet of plywood, a handheld electric saw and a cordless drill, a few screws, precision, and patience.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Precisions on the Present State of Architecture and City Planning

Le Corbusier's Precisions, arguably his most influential book, becomes available again in English in a new expanded facsimile-reprint edition.

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Precisions on the Present State of Architecture and City Planning

CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Space of Production

An exploration of exemplary industrial structures by Peter Behrens, Félix Candela, Herzog & de Meuron, Albert Kahn, Louis I. Kahn, Robert Maillart, Pier Luigi Nervi, Auguste Perret, Jean Prouvé, and others.

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Icelandic Lessons

Are intact nature and industrialization of untouched landscape really opposing categories? The latest volume of Teaching and Research in Architecture offers an answer.

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4a Architekten

The interplay of shape, construction, material, color – and emotion: buildings by 4a Architekten

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CHF 69.00 | eur 68.00

Le Corbusier – The Measures of Man

The human proportion and how the human body should be housed: an entirely new exploration of Le Corbusier’s work in architecture and art.

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Imaginary Apparatus

How did media policy and media aesthetic influence architecture and urban design in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s? A unique analysis of the relationship between media policy and urban design.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Yona Friedman. The Dilution of Architecture

A visionary oeuvre re-discovered: Yona Friedman, Hungarian-French architect, urbanist, theoretician, and artist.

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Yona Friedman. The Dilution of Architecture

CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Las Vegas Studio

Now in paperback: a celebration of Venturi and Scott Brown's legendary Las Vegas images.

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CHF 32.00 | eur 32.00

Big! Bad? Modern:

Significant post-war modernist architecture in Vienna analyzed and interpreted from today’s perspective.

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Hong Kong In-Between

Does Hong Kong, vibrant megacity with a notorius lack of public and private space, offer room for urban interaction?

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Ice Station

Planning and building for the extreme: the story of a unique project for Antarctica.

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Charlotte Perriand

Volume two of the comprehensive four-part monograph on the great French interior designer

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Gisela Erlacher – Skies of Concrete

A photographic exploration of urban and rural spaces in blind areas.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Superblock Winterthur

From a foundry on the fringe to an office and residential complex in the heart of town: Adolf Krischanitz's redevelopment of a former Sulzer assembly shop in Winterthur.

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CHF 59.00 | eur 58.00

Infra Eco Logi Urbanism

A manifesto for a new integrated approach in urban design on the level of megaregions.

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CHF 34.00 | eur 34.00

Habitat Marocain Documents

Late colonialist housing and the conflict between the architects’ cultural preconceptions and the actual way of life of inhabitants

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Chandigarh Redux

A new distinctly artistic view at Chandigarh: Werner Feiersinger's comprehensive pictorial account of the city today.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Melancholy and Architecture

An illuminating book on an often overlooked aspect of Aldo Rossi’s architecture, offering also a new perspective on the long cultural history of melancholy.

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Margret Hoppe – The Promise of Modernism

A fascinating visual investigation of Le Corbusier's architectural vision and what remains of it today.

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Margret Hoppe – The Promise of Modernism

CHF 34.00 | eur 34.00

Silent Form

A visual research on the formal qualities and exemplary character of architectural models by Zürich-based E2A Architects

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Three Houses in Vienna

Searching for new intercultural “languages” in European residential architecture: the PaN-Wohnpark in Vienna.

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Galli Rudolf Architekten

Galli Rudolf's architecture responds strategically rather than merely formal to questions about the architects' role in society.

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CHF 69.00 | eur 68.00

Sigurd Lewerentz, Architect

Aavailable again: the classic and much sought-after monograph on Sweden’s most eminent architect.

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Out of Print

Best of Austria

An attractive survey of award-winning buildings by Austrian architects and realized projects by international architects in Austria in 2012–13.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Luca Selva Architects

Eight exemplary new housing projects by Luca Selva Architects

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Riegler Riewe – 10 Years 20 Projects

Twenty buildings and projects by Riegler Riewe from the past ten years: precise, subtle, and use-oriented architecture.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Designing Everyday Life

Can design progress from the production of objects and services for everyday life into the production of life itself? This illustrated reader explores what design can be in our contemporary world.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Village in the City

Investigating the spectacular process of urbanization in China.

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CHF 24.00 | eur 24.00

Christoph Schaub – Films on Architecture

Can architecture really be captured in films? Christoph Schaub's nine documentaries on DVD offer an answer.

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Christoph Schaub – Films on Architecture

CHF 39.00 | eur 39.00

Places for Strangers

Philosophy, vision and work of London-based Mæ architects

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Casablanca Chandigarh

Une réévaluation révolutionnaire de deux grands expériements urbaines.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Casablanca Chandigarh

A groundbreaking reassessment of the urbanist experiments Casablanca and Chandigarh.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Hungarian Cubes

Collective and private expression, conformity and subtle subversion: The “Magyar Kocka” and its ornamentation.

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Peter Zumthor 1985–2013

La monographie longtemps attendue sur l’architecte mondialement célèbre, avec des textes, des esquisses et des dessins de Peter Zumthor, de nouvelles photographies et un catalogue complet des œuvres.

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Out of Print

Peter Zumthor 1985–2013

The world-famous architect's long-awaited monograph with texts, sketches, and drawings by Peter Zumthor himself, new photographs, and a complete list of works.

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Swiss Lessons

How could 15 million people be living and working in Switzerland in 2048? laba's students present the findings of their 2013 research campaign in text, images, and spectacular graphics and maps.

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The Robotic Touch

Exciting research at the Chair for Architecture and Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich 2005–2013.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Charlotte Perriand

The first of four lavish volumes on the life and work of the great French design pioneer.

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Out of Print

Tobias Madörin. Topos

Cities and landscapes as places of human existence: Tobias Madörin's work from two decades.

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CHF 99.00 | eur 97.00

Walter Mair vs. 03 Arch.

Photographer and architects in dialogue: images and reflections on photography, architecture and town construction.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

The Working Drawing

The first comprehensive book on a rarely published architectural topic.

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Out of Print

Water Urbanisms – East

A survey on urbanistic aspects of water in dwelled regions of Asia.

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Out of Print

Chicagoisms

More than simply an architectural biography of a city: this book shows Chicago to have an important role as a catalyst for international development and pinpoints its remarkable influence around the world.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Werkgruppe Graz 1959–1989

The complete work of this extraordinary group of architects in post-war Austria, for the first time in a comprehensive monograph.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

A Flower for the Dead

Bogdan Bogdanović's equally impressive and reconciliatory memorials and monuments in former Yugoslavia.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Middle East

Between conflict and utopia: the Middle East. A region where the future of the architectural profession and its exciting possibilities are being tested.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Never Modern

An exploration of the role of narrative, history, appropriation and craft in the work of London based 6a Architects.

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CHF 24.00 | eur 24.00

A-Typical Plan

Analytical and atmospheric insights into the architecture of the workspace with a deep plan. Featured are buildings and projects by Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Alison & Peter Smithson, SOM, Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, MVRDV, SANAA, and others.

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Out of Print

Glatt! From Suburb to City?

This new book offers an exciting new vision of urbanism that can be inspirational for architects and city planners worldwide.

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CHF 34.00 | eur 34.00

Common Pavilions

A unique panorama of the Venice Biennial's 29 national pavilions in previously unpublished images by the Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico, and in essays by around 30 international architects, philosophers and artists.

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Out of Print

Trutg dil Flem

A very special guidebook to the new mountain trail and its seven bridges crossing the stream, designed by Jürg Conzett, in the mountains around the Swiss holiday resort Flims.

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Louis I. Kahn – Silence and Light

Louis I Kahn’s lecture of 12 February 1969 at ETH Zurich's School of Architecture, revealing his spiritual understanding of architecture and showing his remarkable creative thinking. The book features the complete text and the full original recording of Kahn's own voice.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Concrete

More than 300 of the world's most important architectural photographs in a magnificent book.

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CHF 89.00 | eur 87.00

On Common Ground

On Common Ground presents a visual history of spatial development in postwar Switzerland through 250 images.

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CHF 79.00 | eur 77.00

Soviet Modernism 1955–1991

A unique account of hitherto largely disregarded modernist Soviet architecture. Based on a ground-breaking research project, this book presents a history of architecture in the fourteen non-Russian Soviet republics, illustrated with a wealth of previously unpublished photographs and plans.

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Central Switzerland. A Metropolis

A photographic tour of modernist and contemporary architecture in the Lake Lucerne region of Switzerland presented in striking duotone images.

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CHF 69.00 | eur 68.00

Knapkiewicz & Fickert. Housing

The first comprehensive monograph on the highly acclaimed work of the Swiss housing specialists, Knapkiewicz & Fickert. Twenty buildings and projects are presented with introductory texts, floor plans, drawings, renderings, and images.

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The Digital Turn

The Digital Turn is a wide ranging survey on how designers and design can respond to today’s challenges of interactive technologies.

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Expression

Presented here are essays, interviews, and students’ assignments documenting the findings of a research project on the influence of film, literature, and the visual arts on architecture.

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

Best of Austria

An attractive survey of award-winning buildings by Austrian architects and realized projects by international architects in Austria in 2010–11.

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Barents Lessons

The results of a research project in the Barents Sea region are presented here in graphics and maps designed specially for this book, plans, images, and several short essays. The natural resources, climatic conditions, and economic, urban-development, and architectural potential of this extreme but geostrategically crucial area were all included in the analysis.

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Le Corbusier. Meubles et Intérieurs 1905 - 1965

L’oeuvre complet de Le Corbusier comme dessinateur de meubles et architecte d’intérieur présentée dans son ensemble.

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Le Corbusier. Meubles et Intérieurs 1905 - 1965

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Le Corbusier. Furniture and Interiors 1905–1965

Le Corbusier. Furniture and Interiors 1905–1965 is the authoritative book on Le Corbusier’s work as an interior designer.

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Landscape and Structures

This is a visual tour of Switzerland’s structural landmarks through the view of the renowned civil engineer Jürg Conzett.

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The Architectural Model

The Architectural Model considers the architectural scale model as an artistic medium, drawing on the Deutsches Architekturmuseum’s vast collection of models.

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Pictures from Italy

An illuminating photographic protocol of an architectural journey throughout Italy.

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Belgrade. Formal Informal

This book presents ETH Studio Basel’s research on the city of Belgrade as an example for a global phenomenon: Instability of the formal vs stability of the informal.

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Peter Zumthor Therme Vals

Peter Zumthor Therme Vals, the only book-length study of the mountain spa, features the architect’s own original sketches and plans for its design as well as Hélène Binet’s striking photographs.

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Another Take

This volume celebrates the projects imagined and completed by agps architecture.

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CHF 59.00 | eur 58.00

Sites & Signs

Sites & Signs is the first comprehensive monograph on the photographic work of Georg Aerni.

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CHF 120.00 | eur 120.00

René Burri. Brasilia

This volume documents in photographs the growth and development of Brasilia, Brazil’s architecturally rich capital city.

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CHF 79.00 | eur 77.00

Il Girasole

This film and booklet offer an inside look into Casa Girasole, the famed villa in northern Italy’s Po Basin.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 39.00

Finding Buildings

This insightful volume showcases the sketches of Swiss architect Marianne Burkhalter.

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CHF 59.00 | eur 58.00

Building Bern

Building Bern is a guidebook dedicated to the stunning new architecture of Bern.

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CHF 35.00 | eur 35.00

Spatial Sequences and Urban Infrastructures

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Spatial Sequences and Urban Infrastructures

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Seeing Zumthor. Images by Hans Danuser

Seeing Zumthor. Images by Hans Danuser represents a unique collaboration: Hans Danuser’s photographs of buildings created by Peter Zumthor.

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Marcel Meili, Markus Peter 1987–2008

This book is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the works of the Swiss architectural firm, Meili Peter Architects.

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This highly illustrated volume examines the wide-ranging oeuvre of Swiss avant-garde artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

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