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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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Meditations in Entropy

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

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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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Unfinished Atlas

Ideas, references, inspirations, debates, attempts, mishaps: An experimental book by Manuel Herz Architects

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Kazuo Shinohara – 3 Houses

A tribute to the 100th birthday of the Japanese architect – the new edition of the award-winning book on three of Shinoharas major works

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Public Spaces, NY

Making Manhattan more inclusive and equitable – visions by Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith

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AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers

The Barrack, 1572–1914 is among the winners!

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Typology

Tashkent, Genoa, Tbilisi, and Casablanca – Analyses of modern and contemporary buildings in the latest volume of the Typology series

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New Releases

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

Typology

Tashkent, Genoa, Tbilisi, Casablanca. Review No. IV

Kazuo Shinohara – 3 Houses

House in White, House in Uehara, House in Yokohama

Teaching Urbanism

Lucerne Talks

SAY 25/26

Swiss Architecture Yearbook 2025/26

That's Brutal, What's Modern?

The Smithsons, Banham, and the Mies-Image

The Metropolitan Tower

A Pedagogical Research Initiated by Michel Kagan

Public Spaces, NY

Ebaholz Campus Extension

Building as a Common Process

Reinventing Heritage

A Design Compass on Adaptive Reuse

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Highlights

Concéntrico

Urban Innovation Laboratory

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

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

Soviet Design

From Constructivism to Modernism. 1920-1980

Peter Zumthor Therme Vals

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Discover: a typical American construction method blurring the boundaries within America’s socially and economically deeply divided society, five holiday homes rooted in Scandinavia’s timber construction tradition, and the ecological, economic, industrial, and technical challenges of using timber for major structures and urban architecture.

Image Slide 1: Insep, Paris by Leclercq Associés @
Photography Cyrille Weiner @cyrilleweiner

From the book “The Wood That Makes Our Cities”

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American Framing. The Same Something for Everyone

Edited by Paul Andersen, Jayne Kelley and Paul Preissner
@jaynekelley @distantbuffalo

Book design by Joe Gilmore
@eegijlmoor777

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Center and Periphery. Five Houses by Mikael Bergquist

By Mikael Bergquist
@mikael_bqu

Photography by Mikael Olsson
@mikaelolsson_

Book design by Daniel Bjugård Design
@danielbjugard

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The Wood That Makes Our Cities
Les bois dont on fait les villes

Edited by Michèle Leloup, Cyrille Weiner, Jad Hussein, François Leclercq and Paul Laigle
@michele.leloup @cyrilleweiner

Book design by LOOK SPECIFIC
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#parkbooks #timberframe #timberconstruction #traditionmeetsinnovation #buildingwithwood

Der bayerische Architekt Bernhard Heid (1930–2002) hat mit seinem Büro zahlreiche markante und höchst elegante Zeugen der Nachkriegsmoderne geschaffen. Viele Schulen, Bäder und andere öffentliche Einrichtungen, aber auch Gewerbebetriebe gehen auf das Konto von Heid, der vor dem Architekturstudium in München bereits die Ausbildung zum Hochbautechniker durchlaufen hatte. Ein grosser Teil davon sind charakteristische Betonbauten.

Faszination Sichtbeton ist das erste Buch über das Schaffen von Bernhard Heid. Drei seiner Schlüsselwerke stehen im Zentrum und werden umfassend präsentiert: das Wohnhaus des Architekten in Zirndorf (1966), die Kirche St. Petrus in Walsdorf (1970–1972) und das Wolfram-von-Eschenbach-Gymnasium in Schwabach (1971–1978). Letzteres wie auch Heids Bauten für das Gymnasium Dinkelsbühl und das Autohaus Pillenstein in Fürth sind in die Denkmalliste des Landes Bayern eingetragene Baudenkmäler.

Die mit Plänen, neuen Fotografien und Archivmaterialien eingehend vorgestellten Gebäude überzeugen durch ihre Eleganz, präzise Erschliessungs- und Nutzungskonzepte sowie die im Stil des Brutalismus gehaltene Materialisierung. Das Wohnhaus der Familie wurde wegen dieser auratischen Qualitäten auch als Schauplatz einer Tatort-Folge und für den Spielfilm 15 Jahre von 2023 eingesetzt. Das sorgfältig konzipierte und schön gestaltete Buch ermöglicht es nun, Bernhard Heids Schaffen und seine faszinierenden Bauten auf anschauliche Art kennenzulernen.

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Herausgegeben von Birgitta Heid

Gestaltet von Clemens Theobert Schedler, Büro für konkrete Gestaltung

Mit Fotografien von Florian Holzherr
@florian_holzherr

#parkbooks #bernhardheid #sichtbeton #nachkriegsmoderne #bayern

Public Spaces, NY

There are no perfect public spaces—but they can be improved.

In this book, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample document and analyze Manhattan’s parks, streets, community gardens, privately owned public spaces, recreation areas, waterfronts, and cemeteries. Their book seeks to understand their design, construction, and management, and provides detailed drawings of both the spaces themselves and speculative illustrations about how the public uses the spaces. By examining how public spaces facilitate or hinder inclusion, and by detailing the conflicts and negotiations they provoke, this book creates a discourse to reimagine the future of public life in the United States’ densest city.

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By Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith

@mmmosarchitects

Book design by Studio Lin and MOS Architects

@studiolin

#parkbooks #mosarchitects #manhattan #publicspace #urbanism

Ebaholz Campus Extension. Building as a Common Process

In 2024, the University of Liechtenstein in Vaduz opened its Ebaholz campus extension. Design and realization of the building’s interior was entrusted to students from the Craft & Structure Studio at Liechtenstein School of Architecture. Their key task was to create new working environments and to offer space for social interaction. The building’s structural conditions were the only limits to the design process. Students had to deal with materials and tectonic aspects of designing wall systems, furniture, and lighting, as well as all the issues of space and atmosphere for creative teamwork. Supported by experts of scenography, acoustics, and color design, they experimented with spatial concepts, atmospheres, materials, and colors. The entire planning was done on a 1:1 scale and eventually realized in collaboration with craftspeople from local construction firms.

This book highlights these didactics of design-build used at the Craft & Structure Studio under the direction of Urs Meister and Carmen Rist-Stadelmann and places it in the international framework of architectural education.

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Multilingual Edition – German & English!

Edited by Carmen Rist-Stadelmann and Urs Meister

@architecture_liechtenstein @uni_li

Book design by Studio Joost Grootens
@studiojoostgrootens

Image processing by Marjeta Morinc
@marjetamorinc

#parkbooks #carmenriststadelmann #ursmeister #designbuild liechtensteinschoolofarchitecture

Architecture by Peter Celsing Photographed by John Håkansson

Peter Celsing (1920–74) belongs to the small group of Swedish modernist architects, including luminaries such as Gunnar Asplund (1885–1940) and Sigurd Lewerentz (1885–1975), who have rightly attracted attention beyond the country’s borders.

John Håkansson’s black and white photographs, taken in the mid-1990s, capture the essence of Celsing’s buildings. In many cases, the images are now a valuable document of that era, since some of the buildings have changed, and not always in a favorable way. In this beautiful volume, supplemented by insightful texts contributed by architect Staffan Henriksson and artist Maria Lantz, Håkansson’s skillful photography forms a loving and sensitive portrait of Celsing’s architecture.

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Edited by John Håkansson, Agneta Eriksson Hildén and Weronica Ronnefalk

@hakansson_john

Book design by John Håkansson

Contributions by John Håkansson, Staffan Henriksson, Maria Lantz, Agneta Eriksson Hildén, Weronika Ronnefalk and Michael Perlmutter

#parkbooks #petercelsing #johnhakansson #architecturephotography #bwphotography

That’s Brutal, What’s Modern? The Smithsons, Banham, and the Mies-Image

In this book, Mark Linder offers an original understanding of New Brutalism as a consequential and generative episode in the history of post-photographic imaging practices. This episode exemplifies and anticipates the kinds of congnition and intelligence that dominate architectural imagination today. Linder aims to recover a specific and integral, yet overlooked, aspect of the peculiar novelty of New Brutalism by recconsiderung the entirety of Alison and Peter Smithson’s work as a fitful and evolving fifty-year fascination with the imaging potential they found in the architecture of Mies van der Rohe.

In six chapters and some forty arrays of images, the book progresses from historical research to theoretical speculations on the historical legacy and contemporary potential of the Smithsons’ pursuit of the “Mies-Image.” The chapters situate New Brutalism in the context of emerging theories, practices, and cultures of imaging in postwar Britain, trace the Smithsons’ imaging practices and the appearances of the Mies-Image as it evolves in their projects and publications over five decades, reconsider Reyner Banham’s evaluations of Mies and his role in New Brutalism, and explore imaging theory and its potential to re-evaluate the significance of New Brutalism.

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By Mark Linder

Book design by Konst & Teknik
@konstteknik

#parkbooks #newrelease #marklinder #konstteknik #newbrutalism