Home | Park Books

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

More about the book

Meditations in Entropy

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

More about the book

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

More about the book

Penzel Valier

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

More about the book

Unfinished Atlas

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

More about the book

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

More about the book

Public Spaces, NY

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

More about the book

AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers

The Barrack, 1572–1914 is among the winners!

To the award

Typology

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

More about the book

New Releases

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

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

Sign up to our newsletter for 10% off your first purchase!

Highlights

Concéntrico

Urban Innovation Laboratory

Penzel Valier

Architecture, Construction, Design 2007–2024

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

Visiting

Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, Berlin 1966–89

Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac

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

The Craft of Place

Mork-Ulnes Architects

Drifting Symmetries

Projects, Provocations, and other Enduring Models by Weiss/Manfredi

Peter Zumthor 1985–2013

Buildings and Projects

The Architecture of Public Space

Sigurd Lewerentz

Architect of Death and Life

Soviet Design

From Constructivism to Modernism. 1920-1980

Peter Zumthor Therme Vals

Instagram

Architecture by Peter Celsing Photographed by John Håkansson

Peter Celsing (1920–74) belongs to the small group of Swedish modernist architects, including luminaries such as Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940) and Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975), who have rightly attracted attention beyond the country’s borders.

John Håkansson’s black and white photographs, taken in the mid-1990s, capture the essence of Celsing’s buildings. In many cases, the images are now a valuable document of that era, since some of the buildings have changed, and not always in a favorable way. In this beautiful volume, supplemented by insightful texts contributed by architect Staffan Henriksson and artist Maria Lantz, Håkansson’s skillful photography forms a loving and sensitive portrait of Celsing’s architecture.

***

Edited by John Håkansson, Agneta Eriksson Hildén and Weronica Ronnefalk

@hakansson_john

Book design by John Håkansson

Contributions by John Håkansson, Staffan Henriksson, Maria Lantz, Agneta Eriksson Hildén, Weronika Ronnefalk and Michael Perlmutter

#parkbooks #petercelsing #johnhakansson #architecturephotography #bwphotography

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

In this book, 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.

***

By Mark Linder

Book design by Konst & Teknik
@konstteknik

#parkbooks #newrelease #marklinder #konstteknik #newbrutalism

Kazuo Shinohara’s (1925–2006) book Residential Architecture is considered one of the most significant pieces of writing on Japanese architecture of the late 20th century. First published in Japan in 1964 as Jūtaku kenchiku, the book was mandatory reading for generations of students of architecture in Japan, and has deeply influenced many of the best-known Japanese designers, such as Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, and others.

Shinohara’s reflections on housing are now available in English for the first time, translated by architectural historian David B. Stewart (1942–2025) and architects Shin-ichi Okuyama and Kenichi Nakamura. The multifaceted insights into the ideational fundamentals of his outstanding work are thus accessible to a global audience.

***

By Kazuo Shinohara

Edited by Christian Dehli, Andrea Grolimund
@dehli_grolimund

Translation: David B. Stewart, Shin-ichi Okuyama, Kenichi Nakamura, Tokyo

Book design by Elektrosmog, Zurich; Natalie Rickert, Marco Walser
@elektrosmog_zurich @maroc_esmog @natalie.rickert

#kazuoshinohara #parkbooks #dehligrolimund #jutakukenchiku #residentialarchitecture

For the first time, Switzerland has its own architecture yearbook. Properly Swiss – in English and three national languages.

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.

Find out more about the upcoming traveling exhibition venues and discourse events on www.say.ch – Link in Bio!

@say_swiss_architecture
@s_am_basel
@werkbauenundwohnen

#parkbooks #say #wbw #sambasel #yearbook

«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.

***

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