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Residential Architecture

Kazuo Shinohara's outstanding book on residential buildings—one of the most important texts on Japanese architecture of the late 20th century, now available in English translation for the first time

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Meditations in Entropy

On the question of dealing with climate change – eighteen architectural responses in Bangladesh

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The “Glas House” 1933. Visionary Architecture in Vienna and Exile

The Villa Rezek by architect Hans Glas – modern architecture and Viennese living culture of the 1930s

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Penzel Valier

The first major monograph on one of Switzerland's leading architecture and engineering firms

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Unfinished Atlas

Ideas, references, inspirations, debates, attempts, mishaps: An experimental book by Manuel Herz Architects

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Kazuo Shinohara – 3 Houses

A tribute to the 100th birthday of the Japanese architect – the new edition of the award-winning book on three of Shinoharas major works

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Public Spaces, NY

Making Manhattan more inclusive and equitable – visions by Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith

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AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers

The Barrack, 1572–1914 is among the winners!

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Typology

Tashkent, Genoa, Tbilisi, and Casablanca – Analyses of modern and contemporary buildings in the latest volume of the Typology series

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New Releases

Jon Lott—Proximities

Residential Architecture

Meditations in Entropy

The Work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA

The “Glas House” 1933

Visionary Architecture in Vienna and Exile

Blanking

An Annotated Archive of Projects and Thoughts on Architecture

We Günther Domenig

Reevaluation of a Legend

Penzel Valier

Architecture, Construction, Design 2007–2024

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

Teaching Urbanism

Lucerne Talks

SAY 25/26

Swiss Architecture Yearbook 2025/26

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

Ebaholz Campus Extension

Building as a Common Process

Reinventing Heritage

A Design Compass on Adaptive Reuse

Josef Frank – Spaces

Maison de la Chine

A Building by Atelier FCJZ

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Highlights

Concéntrico

Urban Innovation Laboratory

Typology

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

Kazuo Shinohara – 3 Houses

House in White, House in Uehara, House in Yokohama

SAY 25/26

Swiss Architecture Yearbook 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

The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Dirty Old River

Esch Sintzel Architekten

Buildings and Projects

A House to Live With

16 Variations by Dom Hans van der Laan and His Companions

Peter Zumthor 1985–2013

Buildings and Projects

The Architecture of Public Space

Armando Ruinelli Architetti

Progetti 1982–2022. Leggere il tempo

Built

by Valerio Olgiati

Montessori Architecture

A Design Instrument for Schools

Absolute Beginners

African Modernism

The Architecture of Independence. Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia

Sigurd Lewerentz

Architect of Death and Life

A Feeling of History

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«Räume prägen Menschen. (…) Sie sind ausschlaggebend für unsere Stimmungen, unsere physische und psychische Gesundheit, unser soziales Leben und unsere Lebensqualität. Architekt:innen sind diejenigen Menschen, die wie keine andere Berufsgruppe diese Räume gestalten und prägen. Sich dieser Verantwortung bewusst zu sein, ist der erste wichtige Schritt in Richtung des ganzheitlichen Verständnisses der Baukultur.» Reiner Nagel, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Bundesstiftung Baukultur

Raum für Alle befasst sich mit der theoretischen Entwicklung einer kleinen Idealstadt. Anhand von Analysen vorhandener Siedlungsstrukturen, mittels gebauter Projekte, im Kern aber mit dem Modellaufbau eines fiktiven Stadtmodells überprüft der Architekt Stefan Traxler, ob ein Hybrid aus dörflichen und städtischen Genen dem erhofften Idealbild näherkommt. Und er formuliert 14 Thesen zur Architektur, in denen es um ein Hauptanliegen der heutigen Zeit geht: Eine reale Utopie für die gebauten Lebensräume der Zukunft zu entwickeln. Für die Grossstadt, das Dorf oder auch für die Kleinstadt, deren Potenzial als städtebauliches Modell oft unterschätzt wird.

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Von Stefan Traxler
@traxler4840 @wtr_architekten

Gestaltet von Klaus-Peter Deimann, deimann design communications

Gestaltungskonzept von Bureau Sandra Doeller
@bureausandradoeller

#parkbooks #architektonischethesen #raumfueralle #stefantraxler #wtrarchitekten

Reinventing Heritage appeals to anyone passionate about sustainable living, urban innovation, and the stories buildings can tell when they are given a second life.

In this book, Park—a Milan-based interdisciplinary collective of architects, designers, and researchers—explores the transformative potential of adaptive reuse in architecture as a key strategy to address environmental, social, and economic challenges. Rather than demolishing and rebuilding, adaptive reuse champions the repurposing of existing structures to extend their life cycle, reduce waste, and foster sustainable urban regeneration.

Edited by Park, Filippo Pagliani, Michele Rossi and Michele Versaci
@park_associati

Book design by Marco Sorrentino

Image processing by Marjeta Morinc
@marjetamorinc

#park #parkbooks #parkassociati #sustainability #lifecycle

Blanking. An Annotated Archive of Projects and Thoughts on Architecture

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
schaumshieh @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

#parkbooks #schaumshieharchitects #blanking #urbanism #architecturebook

From 24 December, our offices are closed for an extended break over the Holidays. We’ll be back on January 5 with a whole sack full of new exciting books for 2026!

Until then, we would like to wish you and your loved ones a very merry Festive Season and a wonderful start to the New Year!  #happyholidays #happynewyear #giveabookthischristmas #booksmakethebestgifts #parkbooks

Als Hans Glas 1933 eine Villa in der Wiener Wilbrandtgasse, im 18. Gemeindebezirk der österreichischen Hauptstadt, für das Ärzteehepaar Anna und Philipp Rezek entwarf, zählte diese zu den visionärsten der Stadt. Das von der Familie Rezek «Glas Haus» genannte Gebäude erscheint wie die Quintessenz des modernen Bauens und der Philosophie des Wohnens im Wien der 1930er Jahre.

Dieses Buch beschreibt die Villa Rezek im Detail, illustriert mit zahlreichen historischen und neu aufgenommenen Fotografien von Stefan Oláh, Planabbildungen und Dokumenten. Es beleuchtet zudem völlig neue Aspekte der Architekturgeschichte Wiens der 1930er Jahre und erzählt die Lebensgeschichten des Architekten und seiner Bauherrschaft, die 1938 nach dem sogenannten «Anschluss» wegen ihrer jüdischen Herkunft vor den Nationalsozialisten aus Wien fliehen mussten. Erzwungene Emigrationen wie diese bedeuteten nicht nur menschliche Tragödien, sondern auch das abrupte Ende der Blüte moderner Architektur und Wohnkultur in Wien.

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Also available in English!

Herausgegeben von Caroline Wohlgemuth und Maximilian Eisenköck
@maxeisenkoeck

Mit Fotografien von Stefan Oláh
@olah_stefan

Gestaltet von Willi Schmid

#parkbooks #hansglas #villarezek #wienerwohnkultur #joseffrank

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.

In contrast with the individual expressionism of a single building, Kagan proposes an “architecture of relationships” that considers above all the context: “Place is the most important material for urban planning, without which the city does not exist.”

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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

#michelkagan #metropolitantower #parkbooks #scyscraper #urbanism #highrise #historyofarchitecture #urbanplanning #pedagogicalresearch #outnow