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Performance

Zurich-based firm EMI architects on how they explore the phenomenon of performance in their works

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The New Design Museum

"Design is a form of future-thinking that constantly probes the rules that organise the ‘present’."

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One of the Most Beautiful German Books 2025

An Award for Park Books!

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The Appian Way

Adolphe Appia – on the life and influence of his work on the world of theater and architecture

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Monocle Design Awards 2025

Park Books named Best Imprint

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Large, Lasting & Inevitable

A comprehensive overview of six decades of Jorge Silvetti`s theoretical work in architecture

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Sponge Park. Gowanus Canal

A pioneering, successful, and award-winning concept that instigated a widespread movement toward greater urban permeability

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New Releases

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

The Beauty of Impermanence

An Architecture of Adaptability from the Sharjah Architecture Triennial

The Appian Way

Adolphe Appia and the Scenography of Modern Architecture

The New Design Museum

Co-creating the Present, Prototyping the Future

Fawad Kazi KSSG–OKS

Volume III: Building 07A

Rural Vision

Creating Dialogues through Architecture

Architecture as Built Criticism

DEON

A Workbook

Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac

Genuine Construction

Zhang Pengju’s New Regionalism in Inner Mongolia

Performance

Trees, Time, Architecture!

Design in Constant Transformation

Dirty Old River

The Home We Share

Three Social Sculptures for Princeton University

Large, Lasting and Inevitable

Jorge Silvetti in Dialogues and Writings on Architecture as a Cultural Practice

Our new releases will be available here first before you can get them anywhere else in the world! We offer free shipping on larger orders.

Highlights

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 Art of Architectural Grafting

EM2N—City Factory

Advocating for a City of Tolerant Co-Existence

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

Non-Referential Architecture

Ideated by Valerio Olgiati – Written by Markus Breitschmid

A Feeling of History

Peter Zumthor Therme Vals

Paris Haussmann

A Model's Relevance

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Reuse in Construction

A Compendium of Circular Architecture

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Whether you enjoy the sunny season in your hometown, or explore a new corner of the world – these three books are perfect summer reads, no matter where you spend a few days off.  Edwin Heathcote from The Financial Times picked “Dirty Old River” and “The New Design Museum” as two of his summer reads for this year.

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“Dirty Old River” brings together essays and articles by Tom Emerson, which can be enjoyed in one piece or in small bites. Emerson’s unique approach to writing is often inspired by sideways glances and disciplines beyond architecture. He offers a new perspective on how things are made, why they take shape the way they do, and what these processes reveal about humanity.

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Beatrice Leanza’s “The New Design Museum” is an examination of cultural institutions’ critical role as engines for knowledge production, where a democratic politics of mutual care and shared purpose can be explored and exercised. This book is filled with ideas, voices and life experiences of enriching inspiration. By mapping a new landscape of institutional practices across different geographical locations, this volume reveals how spaces of culture dedicated to design need transformation to respond to an ever-expanding outlook on design as a field that is moving beyond its traditional presentation as an object-based practice.

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Anthonie de Groot from our team chose “Survey. Architecture Iconographies” as her Park Books summer read.

When architects visit a building, and want to record or identify what they see, they take out a bundle of folded sheets in search of a blank piece of paper. These sheets may be ground plans, diagrams, sketches and ordnance maps. In one way or another, all are survey drawings, operating as both documentation and analysis. This book explores the history of the survey and its multiple forms in order to understand how the methods of recording what already exists can also be used to imagine what might be.

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Passerelle des Arts Luxembourg
Marc Mimram Architecture Ingénierie and Fabeck Architectes

The Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian and cycling bridge in the Quartier Européen Sud in Luxembourg’s Kirchberg neighborhood. It links the Avenue J. F. Kennedy, Kirchberg’s mobility backbone, with the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxemburg (MUDAM) and the Musée Dräi Eechelen. Designed by the local firm Fabeck Architectes and Paris-based Marc Mimram Architecture Ingénierie, the Passerelle des Arts is characterized by its sculptural design as well as the goal of preserving its natural environment, considered a green treasure in the heart of the city.

Winding through the trees of the urban forest, with benches installed in the curves, the architecture encourages people to slow down and take a contemplative stroll. The close relationship between nature and culture strongly influenced the choice of materials: the bridge’s main structure is made of polished stainless steel that is combined with light-colored concrete elements for the deck and glass railings. This results in an ever-changing materialization of the whole throughout the seasons.

Edited by the Fonds Kirchberg

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Book design by MONOGRAM, Miriam Rosner

On June 16th 2025 it was announced that our title The Craft of Place was chosen as one of the Most Beautiful German Books 2025. We congratulate all those involved and are very happy!

The beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated volume showcases Mork-Ulnes Architects’ dedication to detail, context, and the evolution of their architecture through the interplay of tradition and innovation.

Edited by Casper Mork-Ulnes
@caspermorkulnes @morkulnesarchitects

Book Design by Samuel Bänziger (Bänziger Hug) and Michel Egger
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