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Unfinished Atlas

Manuel Herz Architekten reflektiert über 19 Projekte rund um die Welt mit höchst unterschiedlichen Bedingungen

Kazuo Shinohara – 3 Houses

Eine Hommage zum 100. Geburtstag des japanischen Architekten – die Neuausgabe des preisgekrönten Buches über Shinoharas Hauptwerke

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Typology

Taschkent, Genua, Tiflis und Casablanca – Analysen moderner und zeitgenössischer Bautypologien im neusten Band der Typology-Reihe

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DAM Architectural Book Award 2025

Park Books wird im diesjährigen Wettbewerb zweifach ausgezeichnet!

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Nachhaltige Designprozesse

Ein Leitfaden für die Kreativbranche: Nachhaltiges Design in allen Projektphasen

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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.»

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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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Neuerscheinungen

The Maria and Neoptolemos Michaelides Residence

Intimations for a New Modernity

Unfinished Atlas

19 Projects by Manuel Herz Architects

Typology

Tashkent, Genoa, Tbilisi, Casablanca. Review No. IV

Kazuo Shinohara – 3 Houses

House in White, House in Uehara, House in Yokohama

Faszination Sichtbeton

Werke des Architekten Bernhard Heid

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

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

Highlights

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

Public Spaces, NY

Raum für Alle

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

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Unfinished Atlas. 19 Projects by Manuel Herz Architects

This first monograph on the widely acclaimed Basel-based firm Manuel Herz Architects features 19 built and unrealized projects from their portfolio since 2004. Developed for highly diverse locations in ten countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia, they vary greatly in terms of building program, scale, character, and vision. The projects include housing, cultural and public buildings, exhibition and furniture designs, as well as architectural and urban research.

Conceived as a critical retrospective, this book traces all stages of a project from initial sketches to completion, looking also at the afterlife of realized buildings. As the title Unfinished Atlas suggests, architecture should never be considered to be entirely completed: there is always room and potential for later interventions by and with others. Five thematic chapters highlight the ever-changing challenges for a designer that arise from working in complex environments and different socioeconomic conditions.

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Edited by Ludovic Balland, Francesca Mautone, Manuel Herz

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Book design by Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Jenny Schreiter, Annina Schepping and Jeanne La Belle

@jy_scr @anninaschepping

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Approaches to solving the challenges of the 21st century through environmentally conscious urban design and spatial strategies: 3 Park Books titles

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Towards Territorial Transition
Edited by Matthias Armengaud, Aglaée Degros with Radostina Radulova-Stahmer

Book design by AWP Agence de reconfiguration territoriale

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Wiener Hitze
Edited by Institute for Art and Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna @akbild, Christina Condak, Michelle Howard, Christina Jauernik, Linda Lackner, Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Angelika Schnell, Eva Sommeregger

Book design by @alexandramoellner

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Sponge Park. Gowanus Canal
By Susannah C. Drake @schurchilldrake  Book design by Folder Studio @folderstudio

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Typology. Tashkent, Genoa, Tbilisi, Casablanca. Review No. IV

This highly anticipated new volume in the Review series documents some 200 largely unpublished buildings in Tashkent, Genoa, Tbilisi, and Casablanca. These cities experienced rapid development during the 20th century, with each offering its unique response to modernism. Rather than merely providing a historical survey, this book uncovers the underlying logic of these cities’ urban fabric through an examination of their prevalent built heritage.

Over several years of academic research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Professors of Architecture Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein and their Research Team carefully analysed over 250 buildings from the four cities. The result is a systematic yet subjective compilation of 20th-century urban architectures previously little explored.

Edited by Emanuel Christ, Victoria Easton, Giulio Galasso, Christoph Gantenbein, Maria Margherita Innocenti, Elisaveta Maria Kriman

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Book design by Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Annina Schepping and Jeanne La Belle

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Photographic essay by Tommaso Mola Meregalli
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We are pleased to share that our book The Barrack, 1572–1914 is among the winners of this year’s 50 Books | 50 Covers competition!

The book explores the barrack as a mobile and adaptable structure that became central to modern military and civilian infrastructure. The design reveals the book’s construction: the block is bound with crepe tape and covered in plain cardboard, reflecting the barrack’s utilitarian character.

Book design by Bureau Sandra Doeller
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Printed & bound by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg
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Edited by Robert Jan van Pelt

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“Some books are loved for their poetic power, others for their brilliant theoretical ideas, still others for their aesthetic presentation. Only a few manage to combine all these aspects. Here [the editors] have succeeded.” Alexander Stumm, BauNetz, on the first edition of 2019

Kazuo Shinohara – 3 Houses. House in White, House in Uehara, House in Yokohama

2025 marks the centenary of Kazuo Shinohara (1925–2006), one of the most distinguished and influential Japanese architects of the 20th century. In homage, this stunning book, first published by Quart Verlag in 2019 and winner of one of the 2020 Most Beautiful Swiss Books awards, becomes available again in a new edition.

Kazuo Shinohara—3 Houses analyzes three of the architect’s key designs: the House in White (1966), the House in Uehara (1976), and the House in Yokohama (1984). The large-sized volume features floor plans, sections, and elevations, all newly redrawn matching the scale of Shinohara’s originals, as well as reproductions of his hand drawings and archival photographs. Contributions by architectural historian David B. Stewart (1942–2025), who taught alongside Shinohara as professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and architect Shin-ichi Okuyama (born 1961) place the three private homes within his oeuvre and offer insights into his particular working methods. A foreword by Ryue Nishizawa (born 1958), cofounder of SANAA and 2010 Pritzker Prize laureate, highlights Shinohara’s lasting significance and influence on contemporary architecture in Japan.

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Edited by Christian Dehli and Andrea Grolimund
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Book design by Elektrosmog, Zurich; Marco Walser, Marina Brugger, with Adeline Mollard, Sylvan Lanz and Natalie Rickert
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