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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 “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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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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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
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Printed by Gerin Druck GmbH
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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
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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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Penzel Valier. Architecture, Construction, Design 2007–2024 – now available worldwide!

Founded in Zurich in 2008 by architect Christian Penzel and structural engineer Martin Valier, Penzel Valier have established themselves as one of Switzerland’s leading design firms. In fifteen years, they have realized projects that uniquely demonstrate the interplay between the two disciplines. Their portfolio includes a wide range of different typologies, including transportation and infrastructure buildings, office and sports structures, as well as housing, interior design, and objects.

This first monograph on Penzel Valier combines the fundamentals of their design principles with a presentation of their key buildings and projects. Essays by distinguished authors examine the firm’s work from different perspectives. A detailed illustrated complete catalog of their built, unrealized, and ongoing projects since 2007–2024 rounds off the beautiful volume.

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Edited by Leonore Daum, Christian Penzel, Friedrich Tellbüscher and Martin Valier
@penzelvalier

@joanellytibor @joergboner_productdesign @martin.tschanz @andresherzog.ch

Book design by Bruno Margreth
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Printed by DZA Druckerei zur Altenburg
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Defining Architectural Quality

The essays collected in this volume cover the spectrum of issues that determine the quality of architecture. For example: What exactly is architectural quality? Is it based on physical facts? Is it a matter of cultural context? Does it lie in the eye of the beholder or is it actually beauty that matters? Do architects’ intentions and ideas provide the keys to a building’s evaluation? Does it rest primarily in its form? Or in the ethical attitude it expresses? Or is it just a group of critics deciding these issues among themselves?

While quantitative-technical evaluations of buildings abound internationally, the qualitative assessment of architectural works has so far been largely neglected. This unique anthology on definitions of architectural quality ranges from general observations and theories to case studies, and lays a rigorous foundation for assessing works of architecture.

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Edited by José Manuel Pozo and Wilfried Wang

@universidaddenavarra

Book design by Sabine Hahn

Printed by DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg
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Typology. Tashkent, Genoa, Tbilisi, Casablanca. Review No. IV – now available in bookstores worldwide!

This highly anticipated new volume in the Review series documents some 200 largely unpublished buildings in Tashkent, Genoa, Tbilisi, and Casablanca. These cities experienced rapid development during the 20th century, with each offering its unique response to modernism. Rather than merely providing a historical survey, this book uncovers the underlying logic of these cities’ urban fabric through an examination of their prevalent built heritage.

Over four years, architects Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein, together with teaching staff and students at their joint chair of architecture and design at ETH Zurich’s Department of Architecture, analyzed the featured structures to offer a wide-ranging array of original typological solutions for contemporary architecture and urban design. Each example is documented with an image, site and floor plans, axonometric projection, key data, and a brief description.

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Edited by Emanuel Christ, Victoria Easton, Giulio Galasso, Christoph Gantenbein, Maria Margherita Innocenti, Elisaveta Maria Kriman

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Book design by Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Annina Schepping and Jeanne La Belle
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Photographic essay by Tommaso Mola Meregalli
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