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The House of Doctor Koolhaas

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

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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

Wieder erhältlich: Ein Lehr- und Handbuch zur Konstruktion von geglückten Räumen und zu den Grundlagen guter Architektur

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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

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

Vereinen, was die Autobahn trennte: Ein Handbuch zur exemplarischen Verbindung zweier Stadtquartiere in Zürich Schwamendingen

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Monocle Design Awards 2025

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Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, Berlin 1966–89

Concéntrico

Urban Innovation Laboratory

The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Living Cities

Three Centuries of Park Systems

The Beauty of Impermanence

An Architecture of Adaptability from the Sharjah Architecture Triennial

Schneider & Schneider

Architektur 1997–2024

The Appian Way

Adolphe Appia and the Scenography of Modern Architecture

The New Design Museum

Co-creating the Present, Prototyping the Future

Visiting

Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, Berlin 1966–89

Fawad Kazi KSSG – OKS

Band III: Haus 07A

Rural Vision

Creating Dialogues through Architecture

Architecture as Built Criticism

DEON

Ein Werkbuch

Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac

Einhausung & Hochpark

Gestaltung der Autobahneindeckung und des Ueberlandparks in Zürich Schwamendingen

Genuine Construction

Zhang Pengju’s New Regionalism in Inner Mongolia

Zwischen den Kontinenten

Ehrentraut Katstaller-Schott, Karl Katstaller und die Architekturmoderne Mittelamerikas

Neues Zirkuläres Bauen

Bürohaus Müllerstrasse Zürich. Ilmer Thies Architekten

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The House of Doctor Koolhaas

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Gestaltung der Autobahneindeckung und des Ueberlandparks in Zürich Schwamendingen

Neues Zirkuläres Bauen

Bürohaus Müllerstrasse Zürich. Ilmer Thies Architekten

Dirty Old River

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A House to Live With

16 Variations by Dom Hans van der Laan and His Companions

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Wohnbauten in Turin 1954–1974

Peter Zumthor 1985–2013

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Peter Zumthor 1985–2013

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Städtebau beginnt an der Strasse

Ontologie der Konstruktion

Raumwirkung in der Architektur

Architektur Klima Atlas

Klimabewusst entwerfen in Forschung, Lehre und Praxis

The Art of Architectural Grafting

Architektenfutter

Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz – Freunde des Wohnungsbaus

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Plädoyer für eine Stadt des toleranten Nebeneinanders

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Advocating for a City of Tolerant Co-Existence

The Architecture of Public Space

Armando Ruinelli Architekten

Bauten 1982–2022. Leggere il tempo

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by Valerio Olgiati

Montessori Architecture

A Design Instrument for Schools

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Concéntrico
Urban Innovation Laboratory

Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory reflects on the first decade of the international Concéntrico festival in Logroño, Spain, and the 150 projects and designs commissioned for it. The festival’s aim is to serve as a laboratory searching for creative ways of using architecture and design to strengthen communities and to support the dialogue between designers and citizens.

The book offers a unique meditation on the transformation of cities and the relevance of architecture and design in the 21st century. It introduces meaningful ways to address and engage with pressing urban issues—from identity and heritage to temporariness, collectivity, ecology, play, and domesticity—through the lens of selected Concéntrico commissions since 2015.

Multilingual Edition - English & Spanish!

Edited by Javier Peña Ibáñez and Nick Axel
@jpenaibanez @alucidwake @concentricofestival

Art Direction and Book design by Estudio Casao-Terrazas
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This book has been supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Spain and made possible with the collaboration of Garnica and LIF.

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Center and Periphery – Available worldwide!

At the periphery of Europe, in the center of Scandinavia’s timber construction tradition: Five Houses by Mikael Bergquist

This book brings together five vacation homes in Sweden designed by Stockholm-based architect Mikael Bergquist. Realized over more than two decades, they are all located in the Swedish countryside and rooted in the Nordic tradition of timber construction and the simplicity and economy of Sweden’s historic farm buildings. Bergquist’s great attention to detail and careful choice of materials characterize these houses. They are united also by a close relationship to the surrounding landscape and nature, which is enhanced as an experience by the concepts of movement and the placement of passages between the outside and inside.

By Mikael Bergquist
@mikael_bqu

Photography by Mikael Olsson
@mikaelolsson_

Book design by Daniel Bjugård Design
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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
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Cover art by Claudia Caranfa
@ragenruin

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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_

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“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

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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
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Book design by NORM, Zurich
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