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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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Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac

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

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Architectural Book Awards 2025

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

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Living Cities. Three Centuries of Park Systems

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

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Neuerscheinungen

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

Concéntrico

Urban Innovation Laboratory

The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Living Cities

Three Centuries of Park Systems

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

Highlights

Reinventing Heritage

A Design Compass on Adaptive Reuse

The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Einhausung & Hochpark

Gestaltung der Autobahneindeckung und des Ueberlandparks in Zürich Schwamendingen

Neues Zirkuläres Bauen

Bürohaus Müllerstrasse Zürich. Ilmer Thies Architekten

Dirty Old River

Esch Sintzel Architekten

Bauten und Projekte

A House to Live With

16 Variations by Dom Hans van der Laan and His Companions

Jaretti & Luzi

Wohnbauten in Turin 1954–1974

Peter Zumthor 1985–2013

Bauten und Projekte

Peter Zumthor 1985–2013

Buildings and Projects

Städtebau beginnt an der Strasse

Ontologie der Konstruktion

Raumwirkung in der Architektur

Architektur Klima Atlas

Klimabewusst entwerfen in Forschung, Lehre und Praxis

Architektenfutter

Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz – Freunde des Wohnungsbaus

EM2N – Stadtfabrik

Plädoyer für eine Stadt des toleranten Nebeneinanders

EM2N—City Factory

Advocating for a City of Tolerant Co-Existence

The Architecture of Public Space

Armando Ruinelli Architekten

Bauten 1982–2022. Leggere il tempo

Built

by Valerio Olgiati

Montessori Architecture

A Design Instrument for Schools

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Wir freuen uns sehr, dass die Jury des DAM Architectural Book Award auch in diesem Jahr wieder zwei unserer Bücher als Gewinner ausgewählt hat:

Jaretti & Luzi. Wohnbauten in Turin – Herausgegeben von Bernd Schmutz und Dominik Fiederling, gestaltet von Esther Rieser

@berndschmutz @estherrieser

Zur Vertikalität – Von François Charbonnet, Marine de Dardel und Patrick Heiz, gestaltet von Atlas Studio

@atlas_studio_zurich

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle, die an der Entstehung dieser aussergewöhnlichen Bücher beteiligt waren, und ein grosses Dankeschön an das @architekturmuseum.

Mehr über die Gewinner gibt’s auf unserer Website zu lesen (Link in Bio).

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SAY 25/26. Swiss Architecture Yearbook 2025/26

The Swiss Architecture Yearbook (SAY), published biannually, is an inspiring and informative source for a wide audience interested in architecture. It reflects the country’s remarkably diverse architectural production and discusses current trends and challenges in design and construction. Moreover, it provides international visibility for the outstanding quality of Swiss architecture and building culture.

SAY’s second edition of 2025/26 is again more than merely a selection of the best: By way of 30 outstanding designs realized between 2022 and 2024, selected by an independent international jury from a list of 160 nominees from all parts of the country, and six topical essays, it once again showcases the diversity and exceptional quality of Swiss architecture. The essays delve into burning issues facing construction and design: challenges such as climate change and construction in the context of limited resources; how to densify existing fabrics and make open spaces more appealing; what factors help preservation and transformation projects to succeed; and the key role of socially and environmentally conscious clients and developers.

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Edited by S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum, Andreas Ruby, werk, bauen + wohnen, Roland Züger and SAS Stiftung Architektur Schweiz

@say_swiss_architecture
@werkbauenundwohnen @s_am_basel @andreasruby

Book design by Claudiabasel

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As you may or may not know, we love Frankfurt Book Fair. Huge fans, really.
 What we’re also big fans of:
- our books (obviously)
- Monocle!

Monocle named Park Books Best Imprint in their 2025 Design Awards.

And what better time and place to celebrate than a chilly mid-October week on the grounds of Messe Frankfurt, surrounded by questionable skyscrapers!

So if you’re in Frankfurt, swing by our booth (Hall 3.1, H145), meet the team, browse new titles and get inspired.

See you there to celebrate together!

@buchmesse

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The Metropolitan Tower. A Pedagogical Research Initiated by Michel Kagan

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

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

Book design by Pauline Nuñez

First published in French in 2012 by Éditions Recherches, Paris

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Maison de la Chine. A Building by Atelier FCJZ

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

Multilingual Edition ( English & French)

Edited by Yung Ho Chang

Book design by Wang Mian

@citeinternationaleparis @chang_fcjz @martino.stierli

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

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

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

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By Mark Linder

Book design by Konst & Teknik
@konstteknik

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