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The House of Doctor Koolhaas
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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Eines der Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2025
Eines der Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2025
«Schon bei der ersten Berührung schmeichelt der textile Schutzumschlag der Monografie über Mork-Ulnes Architects den Fingerspitzen.»
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Ontologie der Konstruktion
Ontologie der Konstruktion
Wieder erhältlich: Ein Lehr- und Handbuch zur Konstruktion von geglückten Räumen und zu den Grundlagen guter Architektur
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The Appian Way
The Appian Way
Adolphe Appia – über Leben und Einfluss seines Werkes auf die Theater- und Architekturwelt
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Visiting. Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, Berlin 1966–89
Visiting. Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, Berlin 1966–89
Sozialer Wohnungsbau kann mehr als nur den Standard abdecken — das zeigen die realisierten Gebäude von Inken und Hinrich Baller
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Einhausung & Hochpark
Einhausung & Hochpark
Vereinen, was die Autobahn trennte: Ein Handbuch zur exemplarischen Verbindung zweier Stadtquartiere in Zürich Schwamendingen
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Monocle Design Awards 2025
Monocle Design Awards 2025
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Creating Dialogues through Architecture

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The House of Doctor Koolhaas

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Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz – Freunde des Wohnungsbaus

EM2N – Stadtfabrik

Plädoyer für eine Stadt des toleranten Nebeneinanders

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Advocating for a City of Tolerant Co-Existence

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Bauten 1982–2022. Leggere il tempo

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Gumshoe presents: The House of Doctor Koolhaas Seriously fun! Written by distinguished French architectural critic and historian Françoise Fromonot, the first case in the new Gumshoe series—The House of Doctor Koolhaas—is about the Villa dall’Ava, a private residence in Saint-Cloud, a suburb of Paris. Fromonot brilliantly unpicks, explains, and interprets this very first building completed by Rem Koolhaas, who is universally regarded as the world’s most celebrated architect, and his Rotterdam-based firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture. The house is resolutely part of a modern architectural canon, but until now has not been the focus of a dedicated book or analysis. 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, film, and art history—but, significantly, not yet by architecture. By Françoise Fromonot francoisefromonot Edited by Thomas Weaver Book design by John Morgan studio @johnmorganstudio @adrienvasquez_ Cover art by Claudia Caranfa @ragenruin #gumshoe #gumshoeseries #gumshoebooks #parkbooks #remkoolhaas #villadallava #oma #officeformetropolitanarchitecture #architecturehistory #thomasweaver #francoisefromonot #johnmorganstudio
Genuine Construction. Zhang Pengju’s New Regionalism in Inner Mongolia Genuine Construction showcases outstanding designs that are also manifestations of a new and noteworthy trend in contemporary architecture worldwide. Zhang Pengju’s buildings explore the intersection of architecture and landscape as topographical art. His architectural practice is deeply rooted in the terrain and local history of China’s Inner Mongolia region and at the same embodies contemporary architecture at its best. He engages in defining and cultivating topographical order and demonstrates how creative thinking can transform the fragments of our living conditions and our lives into images of a unified world. Edited by Zhang Pengju Design Concept by Bureau Sandra Doeller @bureausandradoeller @dengyu_li_ #parkbooks #chinesearchitecture #zhangpengju #innermongolia #innermongoliagrandarchitecturaldesign #contemporaryarchitecture #china #hohhot #shinyonggao #davidleatherbarrow #monograph
“Drifting Symmetries is Weiss/Manfredi’s first monograph in 15 years—and clearly the architect duo used that hiatus to radically reimagine how their buildings could be presented in such a format. As readers leaf through it, they encounter changes in paper stock, from white and pastel tones to translucent vellum. Photographs and illustrations of the firm’s wideranging work are mixed with written contributions by leading voices in contemporary architecture and design, including Tatiana Bilbao, James Corner, Meejin Yoon, and more.” – Architectural Record “What I find remarkable is the fact that 144 of those 496 pages are devoted to precedents – the “Enduring Models” of the book’s subtitle. I can’t think of any other monograph that gives over even a few pages to the work of other architects, to articulating how projects by other architects influenced their own thinking, their own design. It speaks to the modesty of Weiss and Manfredi and their willingness to give credit to those who came before them, though it also speaks to their roles as educators and as insatiable learners.” – A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books “Drifting Symmetries is not a 1980s coffee table monograph – despite its weighty dimension – but more of an inside look at how Weiss/Manfredi think, the intelligence they bring to the discipline.” – Log Magazine Drifting Symmetries. Projects, Provocations, and other Enduring Models by Weiss/Manfredi By Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi Edited by Eric Bellin @weissmanfredi Book design by Pentagram @pentagramdesign #weissmanfredi #parkbooks #architecturalrecordmagazine #logmagazine #weeklydoseofarchitecture #monograph #enduringmodels #architecturebook
Performance - Now available worldwide! “The projects outlined here demonstrate our interest in architecture that liberates itself not only from physical and structural limitations but also from any passive function as a neutral backdrop. Through its adaptability, its appropriation and identification, space becomes its own protagonist, an opponent, a dancer, and an instrument. Immobility gives way to mobility as the architecture moves its users in multiple ways. Ultimately, it revolves around the aesthetic dimension of physical perception and handling.” – Ron Edelaar, Elli Mosayebi, Christian Inderbitzin Edited by EMI Architects @emiarchitektinnen Book design by NORM, Zurich @norm_zurich #performance #parkbooks #emiarchitects #performativespace #edelaarmosayebiinderbitzinarchitects #performativearchitecture #outnow
Living Cities. Three Centuries of Park Systems The creation of park systems is a historically proven method for communities to stabilize and cultivate healthy ecological habitats in country dwellings as well as in dense urban areas. Park systems ensure clean soil, water, and air for all. Moreover, they offer intergenerational and inclusive recreational opportunities along ecological corridors. Between 1900 and 1950, civic design—a practice in urban and landscape planning explicitly oriented towards the common good—experienced a heyday. Park systems were successfully used as “green armatures” hosting public facilities such as playgrounds, schools, administrative buildings, hospitals, and gardens. Living Cities offers a chronological survey of civic design based on more than 30 park systems on five continents. The examples range from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Park an der Ilm in Weimar (1778) and John Nash’s Regent Street in London (1806) to Chicago’s park system (1850), Albert Bodmer and Maurice Braillard’s plans for Geneva (1936), and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Valley (1947), as well as to contemporary and future projects in Addis Ababa, Madrid, Medellín, New York, and Seoul. Matthew Skjonsberg’s book demonstrates the ecological and social impact of park systems and highlights the diverse challenges that communities face when implementing such projects. At the same time, it encourages a reevaluation of civic design as an intergenerational practice for creating human settlements. By Matthew Skjonsberg Book design by Studio Marie Lusa @studiomarielusa #matthewskjonsberg #marielusa #parkbooks #civicdesign #parksystems #urbanlandscapes #urbandesign #regenstreet #landscapeplanning #inclusiveurbanspace #historyoflandscapedesign #urbanparks #parkanderilm
Whether you enjoy the sunny season in your hometown, or explore a new corner of the world – these three books are perfect summer reads, no matter where you spend a few days off.

Edwin Heathcote from The Financial Times picked “Dirty Old River” and “The New Design Museum” as two of his summer reads for this year. @heathcoteedwin “Dirty Old River” brings together essays and articles by Tom Emerson, which can be enjoyed in one piece or in small bites. Emerson’s unique approach to writing is often inspired by sideways glances and disciplines beyond architecture. He offers a new perspective on how things are made, why they take shape the way they do, and what these processes reveal about humanity. @tomemerson6a @studio.tom.emerson @juliecirelli @sarahhandelman @6a__architects Beatrice Leanza’s “The New Design Museum” is an examination of cultural institutions’ critical role as engines for knowledge production, where a democratic politics of mutual care and shared purpose can be explored and exercised. This book is filled with ideas, voices and life experiences of enriching inspiration. By mapping a new landscape of institutional practices across different geographical locations, this volume reveals how spaces of culture dedicated to design need transformation to respond to an ever-expanding outlook on design as a field that is moving beyond its traditional presentation as an object-based practice. @beabiyue Anthonie de Groot from our team chose “Survey. Architecture Iconographies” as her Park Books summer read. When architects visit a building, and want to record or identify what they see, they take out a bundle of folded sheets in search of a blank piece of paper. These sheets may be ground plans, diagrams, sketches and ordnance maps. In one way or another, all are survey drawings, operating as both documentation and analysis. This book explores the history of the survey and its multiple forms in order to understand how the methods of recording what already exists can also be used to imagine what might be. @matthew_james_wells #parkbooks #summerread #financialtimes #beatriceleanza #mattwells #tomemerson #edwinheathcote #summer
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