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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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Penzel Valier

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

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New Releases

New Schools on the Block

A Typological Inventory

Junior Architects

New Paradigms in Design Education

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

Unfinished Atlas

19 Projects by Manuel Herz Architects

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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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New Schools on the Block. Ein typologischer Fundus

Schulbauten gehören zu den besonders vielschichtigen Entwurfs-, Planungs- und Bauaufgaben für Architekt:innen. Und sie sind eng verknüpft mit den pädagogischen Konzepten sowie den kulturellen und räumlichen Vorstellungen der jeweiligen Entstehungszeit.

New Schools on the Block vereint ein Jahrzehnt gelebter Schulbaupraxis des Kollektivs AFF Architekten. Schule wird von AFF nicht allein als Ort des Lernens verstanden, sondern auch als Raum der Identifikation. Daraus erwächst der Anspruch, Gebäude zu schaffen, die im Zusammenspiel von Gestalt und Nutzung identitätsstiftende Erfahrungsräume eröffnen. Die Vielzahl der in diesem Buch gezeigten Grundrissstudien lädt dazu ein, beim Betrachten Räume gedanklich entstehen zu lassen. Der Blick auf die realisierten Schulbauten zeigt, dass selbst ein Handlauf oder ein Sanitärraum lehrreich sein kann.

Das Buch ist ein typologischer Fundus mit Grundrissen und Fotografien von 40 Schulbauentwürfen aus der Praxis von AFF Architekten. Fotografien der Umgebungs-, Eingangs- und Treppenhaus-Räume sowie der Schulzimmer, Pausen- und Stauräume bieten vielfältiges Anschauungsmaterial. Ein Comic des Zeichners und Illustrators Peter «Auge» Lorenz zum Schulalltag bringt zusätzliche Lebensnähe ein. Ein historischer Rückblick in den Schulhausbau, Perspektiven auf zeitgenössische Schularchitektur sowie ein Gespräch mit AFF bilden den textlichen Hintergrund, durch den die Entwürfe von AFF Architekten eingeordnet werden.

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Herausgegeben von AFF Architekten
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Gestaltet vom Studio Patric Dreier
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Mit Beiträgen von Kim Gundlach, Gregor Harbusch, Barbara Pampe, Josepha Landes und Peter «Auge» Lorenz
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Fotografien von Hans-Christian Schink, Tjark Spille und Sven Fröhlich
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Gedruckt von der DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg
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Join us in celebrating Jon Lott’s new book, Proximities, at Storefront for Art and Architecture in NYC.

Jon will be in conversation with Julie Cirelli and Toshiko Mori.  
Serving as both a monograph and a philosophical inquiry into the nature of creating and experiencing space, Proximities is designed for readers interested in the intersections of architecture, philosophy, and environmental interaction. The book features both theoretical discourse and practical insights.   This program is organized by Park Books and made possible with the generous support of do you read me?! NYC

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WHAT
Launch of the book Proximities by Jon Lott in conversation with Julie Cirelli and Toshiko Mori

WHEN
March 27, 6.30 pm

WHERE
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
New York, NY 10012

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Kazuo Shinohara—3 Houses

Kazuo Shinohara (1925–2006) is one of the most distinguished and influential Japanese architects of the 20th century. Kazuo Shinohara—3 Houses analyzes three of the architect’s key designs: the House in White (1966), the House in Uehara (1976), and the House in Yokohama (1984).

First published in 2019 by Quart Verlag and now available again in a new edition, the large-sized volume features floor plans, sections, and elevations, all newly redrawn matching the scale of Shinohara’s originals, as well as reproductions of his hand drawings and archival photographs. Contributions by architectural historian David B. Stewart (1942–2025), who taught alongside Shinohara as professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and architect Shin-ichi Okuyama (born 1961) place the three private homes within his oeuvre and offer insights into his particular working methods. A foreword by Ryue Nishizawa (born 1958), cofounder of SANAA and 2010 Pritzker Prize laureate, highlights Shinohara’s lasting significance and influence on contemporary architecture in Japan.

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Multilingual Edition (English & Japanese)

Edited by Christian Dehli and Andrea Grolimund
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Book design by Elektrosmog, Zurich; Marco Walser, Marina Brugger, with Adeline Mollard, Sylvan Lanz and Natalie Rickert
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Two Park Books titles are among the winners of this year’s Most Beautiful Swiss Books competition! Congratulations to everyone involved in the making of the books–we couldn’t be happier!

To find out more about the two winning books, visit park-books.com – Link in Bio.

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Dirty Old River
By Tom Emerson
Edited by Sarah Handelman
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Printed by die Keure, Belgium

The House of Doctor Koolhaas
By Françoise Fromonot
Edited by Thomas Weaver
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Printed by Nørhaven, Denmark
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Both award-winning books were designed by John Morgan Studio – John Morgan, Teresa Lima and Adrien Vasquez
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Teaching Urbanism. Lucerne Talks

Teaching Urbanism is a call for taking responsibility in political, social, and cultural matters and with regard to planning policies. Living spaces and buildings must be designed collectively rather than individually. Conceived as a compendium and reference for students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners of architecture and urbanism, the book explores current topics in urban design and development, responding to questions such as: What is the role of architecture in urban transformation? How can architectural practice respond to challenges such as climate change, migration, social segregation, or technology and mobility? And above all, how can urbanism and urban design be taught in a timely way and be made relevant for research? As a written dialogue between participants of the 2023 Lucerne Talks conference, the texts offer a shared understanding of applying different, multidisciplinary approaches, attitudes, and methods in tackling these challenges.

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Edited by Heike Biechteler, Johannes Käferstein, Stefan Kurath, Jonathan Sergison, HSLU Technik & Architektur
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Book design by Carla Crameri
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Portraits. Architectural Parables

Awarded as one of the Most Beautiful German Books and one of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books of 2023, „Portraits. Architectural Parables“ presents the quintessence of Made In studio’s thinking in an original and thought-provoking challenge to ideas about art, perception, and architectural design. François Charbonnet and Patrick Heiz, the founding partners of the highly acclaimed Swiss design firm Made In, reveal the approaches they take in their design methodology as well as in their teaching at ETH Zurich’s Department of Architecture and Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio.

It is a fundamental truth of architectural design that all ideas are based on previous ideas, on their imitation, inversion, rejection, adaptation, or reinterpretation. The same applies to our visual perception and how it influences our thinking and world of ideas. Made In’s method does not claim historical accuracy, as sources and facts in this book are intentionally collaged to serve a reductive purpose. The focus is on the potential they see in the cross-fertilization of different images and ideas rather than on a single, all-embracing model of thought.

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Edited by François Charbonnet, Patrick Heiz, Marine de Dardel, Steffen Hägele and Francisco Moura Veiga

Book design by Atlas Studio, Zurich
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