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Antifascist Architecture

Wie sieht gebauter Antifaschismus aus? Und wer baut antifaschistische Architektur?

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The Roofless Truth. Planning and Architecture for Homelessness

Eine umfassend recherchierte und sorgfältig gestaltete Auslegeordnung zu Obdachlosigkeit, Stadtplanung und Architektur

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New Schools on the Block

Ein Jahrzehnt gelebter Schulbaupraxis des Kollektivs AFF Architekten – ein typologischer Fundus

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Die Schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2026

Zweifache Auszeichnung für Park Books!

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Totems

Architekturhistoriker Irénée Scalbert beschäftigt sich in 10 Essays mit Urbanismus, Natur und zeitgenössischer Architektur

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Meditations in Entropy

Über den Umgang mit dem Klimawandel, unterschiedlichsten Herausforderungen und Dringlichkeiten – achtzehn architektonische Antworten in Bangladesch

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Neuerscheinungen

Architektinnen der Ostschweiz

1900 bis heute

The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Mysteries of a Communist Cave

The Roofless Truth

Planning and Architecture for Homelessness

Global – Neutral

Architecture from Austria in Africa and Asia 1955–1989

Über das Werk des Architekten Josef Lackner

Zwölf Thesen und eine Annäherung

New Schools on the Block

Ein typologischer Fundus

New Schools on the Block

A Typological Inventory

Somewhere, Something, Someone

Leers Weinzapfel Associates

Defining Architectural Quality

Black Architect

Monsters and Mutants

Explorations in the Architecture-Nature Continuum

Antifascist Architecture

SHIFT

Architecture in Times of Radical Change

Totems

Selected Essays on Architecture

Seoul Urban Architecture

Rising from the Crushing Bowl

Architecture by Peter Celsing Photographed by John Håkansson

Jon Lott – Proximities

Residential Architecture

Meditations in Entropy

The Work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA

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Highlights

The House of Doctor Koolhaas

New Schools on the Block

Ein typologischer Fundus

New Schools on the Block

A Typological Inventory

Totems

Selected Essays on Architecture

Residential Architecture

Das Glas Haus

Wien 1933. Vertriebene Visionen

Penzel Valier

Architecture, Construction, Design 2007–2024

Penzel Valier

Architektur, Konstruktion, Design 2007–2024

Typology

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

Kazuo Shinohara – 3 Houses

House in White, House in Uehara, House in Yokohama

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

That's Brutal, What's Modern?

The Smithsons, Banham, and the Mies-Image

Public Spaces, NY

Reinventing Heritage

A Design Compass on Adaptive Reuse

Visiting

Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, Berlin 1966–89

Concéntrico

Urban Innovation Laboratory

Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac

Dirty Old River

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Booktalk mit Philip Ursprung, Manuel Herz und Ludovic Balland bei Never Stop Reading!

📅 Dienstag, 2. Juni
🕖 19 Uhr
📍Buchhandlung Never Stop Reading
Spiegelgasse 18 / Untere Zäune, 8001 Zürich

Es war an der Zeit, dass das international viel beachtete, in Basel beheimatete Büro Manuel Herz Architekten seine erste Monografie veröffentlicht. Sie trägt den ebenso smarten wie wegweisenden Titel Unfinished Atlas und versammelt 19 gebaute und nicht realisierte Projekte seit dem Jahr 2004. Sie wurden für höchst unterschiedliche Orte in zehn Ländern Europas, Afrikas und Asiens entwickelt und variieren stark in Bezug auf Programm, Grösse, Charakter und Vision. Sie reichen von Wohnungsbau, kulturellen und öffentlichen Gebäuden, Ausstellungen und Objektdesign bis hin zu Architektur- und Stadtforschung.

Als kritische Retrospektive konzipiert, befasst sich das Buch mit allen Projektphasen, von ersten Skizzen bis zur Fertigstellung (und manchmal auch darüber hinaus) mit dem Fortleben eines Gebäudes. Wie der Buchtitel andeutet, sollen Architekturen niemals als vollendet betrachtet werden: Es besteht immer Raum und/oder Potenzial für spätere Interventionen. In fünf thematischen Kapiteln werden die sich stetig verändernden Herausforderungen deutlich, die sich aus der Arbeit in komplexen Umgebungen oder in unterschiedlichen sozioökonomischen Bedingungen ergeben.

An der Vernissage spricht ETH-Professor und Kunsthistoriker Philip Ursprung mit Architekt und Gründer des Büros Manuel Herz und dem Grafiker und Buchgestalter Ludovic Balland.

Eine Veranstaltung des Verlags Park Books und Never Stop Reading, anschliessend Buchverkauf und Apero. Der Eintritt ist gratis.

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Somewhere, Something, Someone. Leers Weinzapfel Associates

Somewhere, Something, Someone, the second monograph of Boston-based architecture firm Leers Weinzapfel Associates (LWA) since its formation in 1982, captures the essence of their unique practice. It addresses the power of place, making, and human needs in architecture, and the integral link between them. In one sense, this book assumes the form of a traditional architectural monograph, highlighting projects with interludes by guest contributors. In another sense, it adopts the attitude of a self-portrait, a more personal narrative that explores LWA’s collaborative practice as an unfinished continuum.

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Edited by Andrea Leers, Jane Weinzapfel, Josiah Stevenson, Tom Chung and Ashley Rao
@leers_weinzapfel

With contributions by Andrea Leers, Jane Weinzapfel, Josiah Stevenson, Tom S. Chung, Ashley Rao, Alison Brooks, Jeanne Gang, Thom Mayne, Adele Naudé Santos, Marlon Blackwell, Hashim Sarkis, C. David Tseng [曾成德], Susan Jones, Alan Organschi, Thomas Robinson, and Peter MacKeith

Book design by Studio Ben Fehrman-Lee with Julia Novitch
@benfehrmanlee

Printed by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg, Thuringia
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The Maria and Neoptolemos Michaelides Residence. Intimations for a New Modernity

Neoptolemos Michaelides (1920–92) was a pioneer of modern architecture in Cyprus. All of his designs are based on the desire to develop principles that combine modern architecture with traditional Cypriot construction methods—and the knowledge preserved therein regarding the choice of materials, geographical orientation, natural climate control, and the internal organization of buildings. These principles are rooted in his studies of Western philosophy and even more in his affinity with Eastern philosophical thought, especially the spiritual importance of a harmonious relationship with nature. Between his respect for pure, natural materials and his awareness of elemental forces, his buildings seem both to worship nature and to evoke the Shintoism of Japan.

In this first ever book on the architecture of Neoptolemos Michaelides, the distinguished American architectural historian Kenneth Frampton presents his work in two essays. The first, illustrated with historical photos and documents, is dedicated to thirteen of his most important buildings. The second takes a close look at Michaelides’ own home in Nicosia. Newly taken photographs and plan drawings created especially for the book on a 1:100 scale document this extraordinary house in detail.

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By Kenneth Frampton
@kennethframptonarchitect

Edited by Haris Hadjivassiliou
@hadjivassiliouharis

Book design by Akis Ioannides

With photographs by Javier Callejas
@javiercallejas_

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Global – Neutral. Architecture from Austria in Africa and Asia 1955–1989

Global—Neutral embarks on an architectural search for traces in postcolonial contexts. It documents buildings and projects by Austrian architects in African and Asian countries realized between 1955 and 1989—a period of global political upheaval during which numerous states gained independence from European colonial powers and international cooperation was increasingly marked by Cold War tensions. Designs by Djamshid Farassat, Hans Hollein, Shahrzad Seradj-Kraupp, Helene Koller-Buchwieser, Norbert Heltschl, Carl Pruscha, Hannes Lintl, Roland Rainer, and Anton Schweighofer, among others, illustrate transnational dimensions and reveal surprising connections between Austria and the Global South.

In seven chapters, lavishly illustrated with reproductions of plans, images of models, photographs, and other documents from Architekturzentrum Wien’s collection, the book guides readers through the complex entanglements of architecture, geopolitics, development cooperation, and transnational knowledge exchange. Scholarly essays and other contributions by international authors expand on historical, political, and cultural contexts and offer local reflections from Nepal, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Abu Dhabi.

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Edited by Monika Platzer, Susanne Rick and the Architekturzentrum Wien Az W
@architekturzentrum_wien

Book design by Rainer Dempf, Steinbrener/Dempf & Huber
@steinbrenerdempfhuber

Printed by Bösmüller, Stockerau, Austria

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Blanking. An Annotated Archive of Projects and Thoughts on Architecture – now available around the world!

In this first book on the work and vision of the architecture firm Schaum/Shieh, founders Troy Schaum and Rosalyne Shieh invite their readers into the studio. This is a real and conceptual space where they work on recurring themes: operating within the city at the scale of building (urbanism); the interrelation of materiality, units of form, and building products (tectonics); and ways to collaborate with the life of a building in its context (preservation), among others. In addition to visual material drawn from all stages of the design process, what is equally important to Blanking is what is said and what can be heard in the studio. So much of architectural thinking and knowledge is presented, formulated, and traded in spoken words: the pinup, the meeting, the walkthrough. This material is the medium within which projects are formulated. Those exchanges inform this book, in which ideas and knowledge that are usually only spoken are written down and made accessible to readers.

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By Troy Schaum and Rosalyne Shieh
@rfshieh @troyschaum

Edited by Emily Nemens
@emilynemens

Associate Editor: Pouya Khadem
@pouya__khadem

Book design by Normal (Renata Graw and Lucas Reif) with the support of Kim Upstill, Austin Watson, and Paul Zdon
@thenormalstudio

Printed by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg, Thuringia
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