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Monsters and Mutants

Learning from plant intelligence: revolutionary concepts for Hybrids and Earth Buildings, part nature, part architecture

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The Roofless Truth. Planning and Architecture for Homelessness

A comprehensive survey of homelessness, urban planning, and architecture

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New Schools on the Block

A decade of school building design by Berlin- and Lausanne-based AFF Architekten–a typological inventory

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The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2026

Park Books is thrilled that two of our books are among the winners!

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SHIFT. Architecture in Times of Radical Change

The official book for the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial

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Totems

Architectural historian Irénée Scalbert explores urbanism, nature, and contemporary architecture in 10 essays

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Seoul Urban Architecture

From walled city to vertical metropolis—Seoul's architectural development over four decades

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Architecture by Peter Celsing Photographed by John Håkansson

The essence of Peter Celsing’s buildings—captured in the 1990s by John Håkansson

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Meditations in Entropy

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

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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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The Roofless Truth

Planning and Architecture for Homelessness

Global – Neutral

Architecture from Austria in Africa and Asia 1955–1989

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

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

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Highlights

Totems

Selected Essays on Architecture

Residential Architecture

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

Concéntrico

Urban Innovation Laboratory

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

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“The changing climate is no longer debatable in Bangladesh, it is this country’s unfeigned, monstrous reality.” Kashef Chowdhury

Meditations in Entropy. The Work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA

Since 1995, Dhaka-based architecture firm Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA has produced an astonishing collection of works of divergent scales, typologies, and contexts located in one of the most meteorologically challenging regions in the world. A hospital introduced into an economy decimated by rising oceans, a shelter against cyclones in Bangladesh’s southern coastal region, and architectural interventions in one of the world’s densest metropolitan areas: Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA’s designs are incisive, critical responses to varied issues and urgencies rooted in the belief that architecture must be a reflection of, and sympathetic to, increasingly fragile ecological conditions.

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Edited by Kashef Chowdhury
@kashef_chowdhury_urbana

With contributions by Kenneth Frampton, Ainun Nishat, Robert McCarter, William J. R. Curtis, Philip Ursprung and Kashef Chowdhury

@kennethframptonarchitect @philipursprungchair

Book design by Samuel Bänziger, Rosario Florio and Larissa Kasper

@samuelbaenziger @rosarioflorio @larissakasper

With photographs by Hélène Binet
Images on Slide 1, 3: © Hélène Binet

@binet.helene

Printed by DZA, Druckerei zu Altenburg
@dza.druck

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Über das Werk des Architekten Josef Lackner. Zwölf Thesen und eine Annäherung

«Sollten Sie der Architektur begegnen, lassen Sie sie grüßen …»

Josef Lackner (1931–2000) zählt zu den einflussreichsten Architekten Österreichs im 20. Jahrhundert. Ein Schüler von Clemens Holzmeister an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien, führte er ab 1961 sein eigenes Atelier in Innsbruck und lehrte ab 1979 als Professor für Entwerfen an der Fakultät für Bauingenieurwesen und Architektur der Universität Innsbruck. Lackners Anspruch an die Architektur war von einer kompromisslosen, konsequenten Haltung geprägt. Viele seiner Bauten können als Stellungnahme innerhalb der Disziplin gelesen werden – als grundsätzliche Aussagen zur gestellten Bauaufgabe und Raum gewordene Konzepte.

Dieses Buch nähert sich dem ausserordentlichen Werk Josef Lackners aus einer umgekehrten tektonischen Logik: vom Ganzen zu den einzelnen Teilen.

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Herausgegeben von Kathrin Aste und Teresa Stillebacher
./studio3, Institut fur Experimentelle Architektur

@studio3.uibk @kathiaste @teresastillebacher

Mit Beiträgen von Kathrin Aste, Arno Ritter, Anton Süss und Teresa Stillebacher

Gestaltet vom Circus. Büro für Kommunikation und Gestaltung
@circus.at

Gedruckt von Gugler GmbH, Melk
@gugler_kommunikationshaus

#parkbooks #joseflackner #architekturösterreich #universitätinnsbruck #geometrie

We Günther Domenig. Reevaluation of a Legend

We Günther Domenig is an attempt to correct traditional biographies on architects. The case at hand is Günther Domenig (1934–2012), a towering figure of 20th-century Austrian architecture. This book does not question his outstanding ability to invent complex sculptural architecture, his obsession with total control of space, and his fighting power to enforce his ideas (with inevitable collateral damage). Yet, it does make clear: he was not on his own—Günther Domenig were many!

We Günther Domenig charts his career from the perspective of clients, partners, employees, and collaborators from other professional fields. Just as they were inspired by him, they also shaped the personality and designer Günther Domenig. They all sought, and found, in him an occasionally stubborn partner to realize their own visions.

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Edited by Wolfdieter Dreibholz and Michael Zinganel
@tracingspaces

Book design by Atelier Dreibholz
Paulus M. Dreibholz und Angelika Mayr
@a.drbhlz

Printed by Gerin Druck GmbH
@gerindruckgmbh

#parkbooks #güntherdomenig #tugraz #austrianarchitecture #contemporaryarchitect

The Roofless Truth. Planning and Architecture for Homelessness

Homelessness is one of the most pressing social challenges of our time, and is closely linked to issues of urban design and architecture. Homeless people are part of urban society and depend on accessible public spaces and urban infrastructure. Yet, in cities around the world, local governments use policies and urban planning to ward off street people, aiming at making them invisible in the cityscape and deliberately impeding certain forms of stay. Urban design always reflects power structures—it can exclude or open up avenues for participation.

The Roofless Truth brings together contributions by international researchers and practitioners from the fields of architecture, urban development and design, sociology, ethnology, social work, and education. It highlights how public spaces should be designed to offer protection, dignity, and opportunities for homeless people, and to facilitate encounters and interaction. The featured examples impressively demonstrate that even the smallest spatial decision can determine inclusion or exclusion.

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Edited by Matthias Drilling and Fabian Neuhaus

Book Design by Noah Drilling
@drilling.ch

Printed by Printed by Gugler GmbH, Melk
@gugler_kommunikationshaus

#parkbooks #rooflesstruth #homelessness #socialpractice #urbandesign

Penzel Valier, 2008 gegründet, ist eines der führenden Architektur- und Ingenieurbüros der Schweiz. Zu den vielfach ausgezeichneten Projekten des Büros gehören etwa die Perrondächer der Tramhaltestelle am Flughafen Zürich, das Restaurant Lily’s Factory, das Haus Langstrasse und das News- und Sportcenter des Schweizer Fernsehens SRF in Zürich. Abgesehen davon gehören auch der Innenausbau und die Möblierung spezifiischer Gebäude zu den Stärken von Penzel Valier.

An der Vernissage wird die erste umfassende Monografie von Penzel Valier im Zentrum stehen, welche Arbeiten aus einem Zeitraum von mehr als 15 Jahren dokumentiert. Das Gespräch führen Kommunikationsleiterin Daniela Schwarz, das Penzel-Valier-Geschäftsleitungsmitglied Friedrich Tellbüscher sowie Architekt und ZHAW-Dozent Martin Tschanz.

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

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