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Monocle Design Awards 2025

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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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Trees, Time, Architecture!

About the need for a paradigm shift to establish a sustainable relationship between trees and buildings

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Dirty Old River

Tom Emerson's essays collected over two decades—about the interweaving of culture, imagination and the built environment

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The Home We Share

Three joyous, poetic, and playful dreamscapes for Princeton University by R&R Studios in Miami

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Drifting Symmetries

“The book is Weiss/Manfredi’s first monograph in 15 years—and clearly the architect duo used that hiatus to radically reimagine how their buildings could be presented in such a format.”

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The Craft of Place

Scandinavian practicality meets Californian can-do spirit of innovation: 12 buildings by Mork-Ulnes Architects

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New Releases

Architecture as Built Criticism

DEON

A Workbook

Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac

Genuine Construction

Zhang Pengju’s New Regionalism in Inner Mongolia

Zwischen den Kontinenten

Ehrentraut Katstaller-Schott, Karl Katstaller und die Architekturmoderne Mittelamerikas

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

Esch Sintzel Architekten

Buildings and Projects

Center and Periphery

Five Houses by Mikael Bergquist

A House to Live With

16 Variations by Dom Hans van der Laan and His Companions

Bureau – Short Stories

Pieces of Architecture

Best of Austria

Architecture 2022_23

LAN – 29 Projects

Rural Vision

Creating Dialogues through Architecture

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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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The Playground Project

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Reuse in Construction

A Compendium of Circular Architecture

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Architecture as Built Criticism

Can buildings themselves express criticism? Wasn’t modernist housing a collective criticism of unsustainable living conditions? Can a state’s embassy convey differentiated, critical messages to the home and host country? Can architects express explicit criticism with their buildings? And if so, how can they do so? The essays collected in this volume present a wide range of effective built criticisms. Their authors’ concise analyses broaden our view of an insufficiently explored field of knowledge.

This book is published following the International Conference on Architecture as Built Criticism held on October 12, 15, 21, and 22, 2023 at Tongji University, CAUP, Shanghai.

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Edited by Wilfried Wang and Li Xiangning

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Book design by Sabine Hahn

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We are delighted to announce that Park Books has been named Best Imprint at the prestigious Monocle Design Awards, presented annually by the international design magazine “Monocle”.

The “Best Imprint” award is one of 50 Monocle Design Awards and the only one related to the world of books. The winners come from 27 countries on six continents and were selected by an international team of editors and correspondents from the design scene.

“Zürich-based architecture and design imprint Park Books makes publications that are both sources of knowledge and beautiful objects. This commitment to the craft of publishing has stood Park Books in good stead.” says Monocle in its statement.

The award ceremony will take place on April 28, 2025, in Paris.

More info about the award and Monocle magazine at the link in bio!

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Genuine Construction. Zhang Pengju’s New Regionalism in Inner Mongolia

Zhang Pengju’s buildings explore the intersection of architecture and landscape as topographical art. His architectural practice is deeply rooted in the terrain and local history of China’s Inner Mongolia region and at the same embodies contemporary architecture at its best. He engages in defining and cultivating topographical order and demonstrates how creative thinking can transform the fragments of our living conditions and our lives into images of a unified world.

The seventeen realized designs featured in Genuine Construction exemplify the architect’s approach. Each project is introduced by a concise text and presented through color photographs, plans, drawings, and sketches showing the use of natural materials, smooth lines, and humble models that skillfully blend these buildings into their surroundings.
Genuine Construction showcases outstanding designs that are also manifestations of a new and noteworthy trend in contemporary architecture worldwide.

Edited by Zhang Pengju

Design Concept by Bureau Sandra Doeller
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Biennale Architettura 2025 x Building for People and Plants by WORKac

Buildings for People and Plants by WORKac offers an exploration of ten recent projects by New York-based firm WORKac, navigating through the interconnected realms of architecture, environment, and social sustainability, showcasing their latest explorations in architecture and how their architectural projects engage with their specific cultural and environmental contexts to support both people and plants.

WORKac and Park Books kindly invite you to the two events connected to the launch of their new book at the Venice Biennale opening weekend!

*** Book Launch ***
Serra Dei Giardini
Friday May 9th
5:30 to 7:30 PM
Space is limited, RSVP for attendance at the link in bio!

*** Exhibition Opening ***
La Toletta SpazioEventi
Saturday May 10th
6:30 to 8 PM

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Image Slide 1: A home for an art collector and his family on the Mediterranean. © Imagen Subliminal

Image Slide 3: WORKac and Ignacio Urquiza Arquitectos collaborated on new community centers in Mexico City. © Ramiro del Carpio

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Performanz

Der Begriff Performanz, 1955 vom britischen Sprachphilosophen John L. Austin geprägt, bezeichnet prozesshafte, «performative» Aspekte, die anstelle starrer Zustände und festgeschriebener Normen ins Zentrum der Betrachtung rücken. Er hat Eingang in unterschiedlichste Bereiche von Wissenschaft und Technik gefunden und taucht in jüngerer Zeit auch im architektonischen Kontext auf. In den Bau- und Forschungsprojekten von EMI Architekt:innen (EMI) ist Performanz seit Langem ein wiederkehrendes Thema.

Das eigene Werk bildet den Auslöser für eine vertiefte Auseinandersetzung von EMI mit der Performanz, die nun in diesem Buch dargelegt wird. Die Texte von Elli Mosayebi, Joseph Schwartz, Laurent Stalder und Nina Zschocke – alle als Dozierende an der ETH Zürich tätig – sowie künstlerische und dokumentarische Fotografien, Pläne und Zeichnungen beleuchten das Phänomen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven.

Also available as English Edition!

Herausgegeben von EMI Architekt:innen, Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin @emiarchitektinnen

Gestaltet von NORM, Zürich
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Einhausung & Hochpark. Gestaltung der Autobahneindeckung und des Ueberlandparks in Zürich Schwamendingen

Die Einhausung Schwamendingen ist ein zwischen 2019 und 2025 realisiertes urbanistisches Projekt in Zürich-Nord. Durch die Überdachung eines extrem dicht befahrenen Autobahnabschnittes werden die angrenzenden Quartiere Auhof und Saatlen von Verkehrslärm und anderen Emissionen der täglich passierenden 120’000 Fahrzeuge entlastet. Auf einer Länge von 940 Metern umhüllt eine Einhausung die vierspurige Strasse, auf ihrem Dach und an den Wänden wird ein Grün- und Freiraum mit grossen ökologischen Qualitäten geschaffen. Dieser Hochpark vermag auch die beiden durch die Autobahn getrennten Stadt-quartiere wieder enger zu verbinden. Der Ueberlandpark ist für die Bevölkerung angelegt: Entlang der Einhausung verlaufen auf beiden Seiten öffentliche Wege, von ihnen gehen Rampen, Treppen und Lifte aus, über die der Freiraum auf der Einhausungsdecke zu Fuss und mit dem Fahrrad leicht erreichbar ist.

Entworfen haben diesen neuartigen Prototypen städtischer Infrastruktur die Schweizer Büros agps architecture und Krebs und Herde Landschaftsarchitekten. Zusammen mit dem Journalisten und Historiker Adi Kälin präsentieren sie nun die Herausforderungen sowie die technischen, architektonischen und landschaftsarchitektonischen Lösungen, die für dieses pionierhafte Bauwerk gefunden werden mussten.

Herausgegeben von Adi Kälin, agps architecture und Krebs und Herde Landschaftsarchitekten

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Gestaltet von Susanna Entress und Daniela Bieri-Mäder

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