Balloon Framing: The typical American construction method is capable of blurring the boundaries within America's socially and economically deeply divided society as well as the differences between building typologies.

Social issues and experimental approaches to architecture and urban design in times of climate change

Designs for cultural and commercial buildings, housing, public spaces and landscape, and high-altitude Alpine infrastructure: the diverse work of Austrian architectural firm LAAC

A compendium on the European city with its numerous structural layers and inherent complexities, illustrated by the example of Munich

The book accompanying the new permanent display of Architekturzentrum Wien’s own collection.
“With this exhibition, Vienna is enriched by a top attraction.” Christian Kühn, Die Presse

Fifteen built designs by the celebrated Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati in Bahrain, France, Portugal, the USA and Switzerland

Shanghai-based Atelier Deshaus stays away from China’s commerce-driven mainstream architectural culture to focus on utterly independent designs that receive widespread international recognition

The historic main building of the former military barracks in Basel has been turned into a new public, creative space on the city’s river front: Focketyn del Rio Studio on the collaborative process of a remarkable transformation

An elegant gem of contemporary architecture: the new training campus of Italian premier league soccer club U.S. Sassuolo Calcio

A first-class design manual for educational spaces, based on the ideas of Italian reform educator Maria Montessori: fundamental and practical, with case studies from Europe and tropical countries

A critical survey of design experiments on sustainability undertaken by renowned Zurich- and Los Angeles-based firm agps architecture

Austria’s best buildings of 2020 and 2021, featuring award-winning designs by Berger+Parkkinen Architekten, Bernardo Bader, Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten, einszueins architektur, fasch&fuchs.architekten, Franz&Sue Architekten, Hohengasser Wirnsberger Architekten, Innauer Matt Architekten, querkraft architekten, Snohetta Studio Innsbruck

Back-in-print: the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date

A rich collection of essays that offer essential, independent voices on architecture criticism in a highly challenging media environment.

One of the great intellectuals among architects: Iñaki Ábalos' reflections on the present and future of the architectural guild

A significant contribution to the debate on the reconstruction of German synagogues destroyed under Nazi rule in the 1930s

History and present of pioneering housing design in the Netherlands

Circular architecture offers huge potential in saving increasingly scarce resources and avoiding harmful greenhouse gas emissions, and leads to a more sustainable and energy-saving construction process

New villas and houses by the acclaimed German studio Alexander Brenner Architects

The interaction of architecture and society, demonstrated through important buildings by Farshid Moussavi Architecture

What role does architecture play in establishing and maintaining public institutions that shape both society as a whole and our individual lives?

A unique visual tour through the work of Zurich and Los Angeles-based firm agps, organized by 13 keywords: Object in Space, Framing, Buffer, Conglomerate, Linear, Under the Roof, Going Around, Hidden, Hovering, Blurred, Sequential, Void, Sculpted

A critical discussion of individual approaches to the representation of space in a museum

Made In, one of Switzerland’s most exciting architectural firms, presents the quintessence of their thinking: an original and thought-provoking challenge to ideas about art, perception, and architectural design.

A multifaceted review of Vienna-based Pichler & Traupmann Architekten’s achievements of three decades

Basel-based Buchner Bründler Architects: one of Switzerland’s most distinguished architectural firms of the younger generation

The first book on American architect Marshall Brown and his collages, which sit at the intersection of architecture and art

Analyses of three informal neighborhoods in Africa, Latin America, and India, translating their spatial and social characteristics into architectural language

A unique hybrid of monograph and field guide, offering insights into the creative practice and design expertise of Houston-based Interloop—Architecture.

The fascinating first-ever full account of the remarkable reconstruction of the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir following the 1960 earthquake 

This book introduces a new generation of architects working in Mexico and their innovative housing designs.

Outstanding brick architecture from all over the world: the international Brick Award 2022 demonstrates the impressive versatility of bricks as building material

Rotterdam based office KAAN Architecten presents fifteen of their major works, including the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in The Hague and the Amsterdam Courthouse.

Building with students and handicraft firms as an integrated didactic method in architectural training

Manual for collaborative development-aid and self-empowerment in construction

Architect and cultural trailblazer: Max Alioth (1930-2010)

The world’s third-largest mosque and Africa’s tallest structure to date: the Djamaa al-Djazaïr in Algiers, designed by KSP Engel, is a monument of superlatives

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Back in print: The entire Sigurd Lewerentz, his built and unrealized building designs, retail spaces, churches, cemeteries and landscape designs, exhibition architecture graphic and product design, furniture and interiors.

Urbanism as pedagogical concept of practice

Pioneering ideas for tackling climate change and balancing social, economic and cultural inequalities in cities: the winning submissions to the 2021 EUROPAN competition for Austria

The places we live in profoundly matter to our well-being: eight architects write about how this influences their design process for homes

Tracing the trees with which our cities are built: about the challenges of the sustainable use of wood as a building material

An intriguing exploration of recent work by Höweler + Yoon, demonstrating how verification, uncertainty, and agency come into play with architectural design

Dynamic robot-based planning and execution tools open up previously inconceivable design possibilities in the landscape architecture of the 21st century

Transforming a site of perdition into a place of benediction: the new synagogue at Babyn Yar in Kiev

A clearly distilled architectural atlas based on 144 major designs from ancient times to the twenty-first century, showcasing the cultural dimension of building

Interior designer, photographer—and architect: Carlo Mollino was a legendary figure in 20th-century art and design. This is the authoritative book on his work in architecture.

In conversation, Peter Zumthor explores his own and his guests’ passions

Studio House Wuhrstrasse 8/10 in Zurich: a unique working and living space for artists

Work and philosophy of one of Scandinavia's most renowned contemporary architects

Duplex Architects exemplarily demonstrate how innovate housing design in Switzerland works and what it can contribute to urban development

Inhabiting the heights: Cro&Co Architecture’s new Trinity Tower offers unique public and semi-public spaces from street level to rooftop

New Glarus, Wisconsin: a prime example of cultural heritage in diaspora and of imagery and appropriation in architecture

History, context, composition, network, profile, density, function, space, access, transition plan, participation, metabolism: basic concepts for a future-oriented design of the city

A pictorial epos on the spectacular Alpine landscape on Bernina Pass—intensely used for tourism, energy production, and as transit route—and its infrastructure buildings

An insightful compendium on the development of state-subsidized housing in Europe in the 20th century

An atmospheric masterpiece of modern sacred architecture: Sigurd Lewerentz’s Markuskyrkan (St Mark’s Church) in Stockholm’s Björkhagen district

New findings on timber joints: presenting results from a practice-based educational cooperation of European universities

A lavishly illustrated history of the architectural survey drawing across four centuries

The second volume of the five-part building monograph on Zurich-based architect Fawad Kazi’s innovative development of Kantonsspital St. Gallen and Ostschweizer Kinderspital

Sergison Bates architects in conversation with eminent Swiss architects, historians and researchers

Turning a biblical promise into reality: how ideology translated into colonialism, settlement, urbanization, infrastructure, and mechanized agriculture radically reshaped the environment of Palestine-Israel. – The Israeli pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale

This book documents the Dulwich Pavilion 2019 designed by Pricegore in collaboration with Yinka Ilori, and built within the gardens of John Soane’s Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Architectural mock-ups: a significant yet ephemeral aspect of contemporary construction, seen by Canadian artist David K. Ross

The impact of David Adjaye’s architecture, reflected by Daniela Keiser

The chambered floorplan: a simple principle, frequently applied by Luca Selva Architects, offering greater latitude than corridor-based designs

Berlin, Dakar, Detroit, Dubai, London, Moscow, New Delhi, New York, Oslo, Paris, Zurich: an artistic reflection on the city as background of contemporary architecture

We are sold out with our copies. A few copies are still available from HGB Leipzig's Institut für Buchkunst.

Future-oriented and at the same time steeped in the heritage of modernity: Candalepas Associates, one of Australia's leading architectural firms

In conversation with Kristin Feireiss, Sergei Tchoban reveals what inspires him and what drives his work as an architect, artist, curator, collector und museum founder

Selected essays from the past fifteen years by Josep Lluís Mateo, one of Europe’s most influential architectural intellectuals

Also available in Spanish

Selected essays from the past fifteen years by Josep Lluís Mateo, one of Europe’s most influential architectural intellectuals

Also available in English

England’s West Country and local traces of the manorial system are the subject of the concluding volume of the successful Teaching and Research in Architecture series produced by EPFL’s Laboratoire Bâle (laba)

Kunsthaus Zürich: an Art Museum for the 21st Century

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The groundbreaking new study on the early Soviet Union's Higher Art and Technical Studios, known as Vkhutemas, and their pioneering curriculum that has been a source of inspiration for generations of architects, designers, and artists until the present day

Building in and with nature: buildings by American architect Stan Allen in the Hudson Valley, north of New York.

A farewell to Berlin’s Tegel TXL airport: the definitive monograph on this architectural icon

20 years of building in Berlin, all across Germany, and elsewhere: the new monograph by renowned Berlin-based architects Modersohn & Freiesleben

How do technology and ecological challenges forge future cities?

Architectural acupuncture works: how architect Xu Tiantian’s interventions change communal life in rural China and what lessons can be learned from them

A reference atlas for developing a sustainable metropolitan region in Central Europe

An homage to Naples: insights into this legendary harbor city’s remarkable architecture and urban development between 1930 and 1960

Features designs by Coop Himmelb(l)au, Dietrich | Untertrifaller, fasch&fuchs, feld72, Franz und Sue, Hohengasser Wirnsberger, HOLODECK, Innauer-Matt, LAAC, Marte.Marte, Pichler & Traupmann, Riegler Riewe, winkler+ruck
and others

Immensely large yet perfect in every last detail: OMA has created impressive architecture in Toulouse with a seemingly uninspiring infrastructure project.

The international Brick Award 20: 50 nominated and awarded buildings demonstrate the wide range and excellent characteristics of bricks as a building material

First monograph on h2o architectes, the up-and-coming Paris-based firm that has won several prestigious prizes for their designs

Martino Pedrozzi’s sensitive architectural interventions on mountain pastures highlight the topic of rural exodus in the Swiss Alps

Milan’s bourgeois society forged the city’s building culture between the 1880s and 1960s with a sense of history as well as of responsibility and common welfare

An amusing album commemorating the 40th anniversary of Europe’s preeminent architecture gallery

A rich source of ground-breaking ideas for a new urban culture of the future: EUROPAN is Europe’s biggest competition for ideas about urban planning and architecture

In print again: Christ & Gantenbein's typological investigation of 160 structures in Hong Kong, Rome, New York,  and Buenos Aires

In print again: Christ & Gantenbein's typological analysis of 180 further buildings in Paris, Delhi, São Paulo, and Athens

An in-depth documentation of more than 40 years’ research and practice in housing design by renowned Swiss firm Diener & Diener Architects

Strategies for urban housing: This first comprehensive monograph explores twenty years of work in residential architecture by Frankfurt-based firm Stefan Forster Architekten

New edition of the highly praised and sought-after analytical review of Baron Haussmann's redevelopment of Paris from today's perspective

Berlin's former Haus der Statistik as laboratory of art and collaborative urban development

The fast-growing logistics industry in Central and Eastern Europe and its hugely problematic effects on the built environment, landscapes, societies, and individuals in the region

An insight into the research and production at Amsterdam-based Sandberg Instituut’s Studio for Immediate Spaces in 2016–19 under the direction of Swiss architect Leopold Banchini

Charlie Koolhaas presents a timely dialogue between words and images about a crucial moment in our recent history: the apotheosis of globalization and its current unraveling.

The horizontal metropolis: an urban design concept for the future?

From Constructivism to Art Deco and back to Avant-garde and Bauhaus: transformations of Soviet interior design through six decades

The fascinating story of constructing Kunsthaus Zürich

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Spatial design constellations of collaborative workspaces for scientists and their effects on knowledge production: findings of a long-term reserach project

Architecture as part of a global struggle of differing political systems: with its transnational perspective, this book changes our view of architectural history and postwar society

A sensual and sensing journey through sacred spaces beyond our built world

Bauhaus: what it was, what it is, what it may be

Insights into the design process and intellectual foundation of Hans Scharoun, one of the most extraordinary protagonists of Germany's modern architecture

The "Scramble for Africa's" endless shadow: the cultural and socio-economic clashes European colonization caused can be traced in Morocco's former capital Fez to the present day

Creative strategies for conflicts between the growing demand for public space and increasingly dense traffic in urban areas

A great yet unduly ignored body of work: a tribute to Quirinio De Giorgio, whose buildings reflect evolutions in 20th-centruy architecture

Californian way of life: intimate insights into LA’s sophisticated modern homes of the 1930s to 1960s

A new house for modern and contemporary art in the structure of a Paris Art Deco icon

Photography by Walker Evans, Nigel Henderson, Ed Ruscha, New Topographics, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Demand; and architecture by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Alison and Peter Smithson, Herzog & de Meuron, and Caruso St John

The first comprehensive survey of modern design from the transnational and multilingual Alpine region Tyrol—South Tyrol—Trentino

First book on the work and vision of Paris-based PARC Architects, featuring exemplary designs and installations at the interface of art and science

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First monograph on French architect Stéphane Fernandez, a contemporary virtuoso of minimalist architecture

Work and vision of remarkable Swiss firm BABL Bakker & Blanc architectes associés, in a unique book concept reflecting BABL's evolutionary approach

A compact and concise survey of the use of steel in residential architecture, reflecting on historic icons and featuring outstanding contemporary examples

A unique study on the topic of building additions and vertical expansion in steel construction, featuring outstanding examples by international architects and offering theoretical and technical basics

The first monograph on French architects ChartierDalix, whose research and projects aim to bring architecture and ecosystems to harmonious concurrence

Per prima volta in edizione italiana l’acclamato manifesto di Valerio Olgiati e Markus Breitschmid che propone un nuovo approccio all'architettura in un mondo libero da ideologie e riferimenti: una lettura indispensabile per quanti siano interessati all'architettura dei nostri tempi.

An insight into Rice School of Architecture’s innovative and inspirational Totalization Studio program, preparing students for the quintessentially generalist task of their future profession

Infrastructures for residents: São Paulo’s long-term investment in communal architecture

The new revised edition of Valerio Olgiati's and Markus Breitschmid's widely acclaimed manifesto for a new approach in architecture in a world free of ideologies and, therefore, references: a must-read for anyone interested in architecture today

An intercultural und interdisciplinary examination of Christopher Alexander’s methods for building and urban design

Buildings, projects, ideas, and visions of the much recognized Barcelona-based Spanish-Italian firm

Smart Living Lab: a unique collaborative project of three Swiss universities, combining scientific reserach with a concrete building design

Smart Living Lab: a unique collaborative project of three Swiss universities, combining scientific reserach with a concrete building design

Art works inspired by Mies van der Rohe by international artists such as Rita Ernst, Daniel Libeskind, Sarah Morris, Erwin Wurm, Rem Koolhaas, Konstantin Grcic, Kurt Schwitters, Carl Andre, Peter Eisenman, Isa Genzken, Alexander Calder, Thomas Ruff, Ed Ruscha, Thomas Schütte, Yves Klein, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Dan Graham, and others.

An atlas of plans and images of a range of building typologies, reflecting Laboratory EAST's teaching and research approach within the framework of EPFL’s School of Architecture

A beautifully illustrated portrait of Josef Frank's Villa Carlsten on the Falsterbo peninsula in southern Sweden

“Architecture is not life. Architecture is background. Everything else is not architecture.”—Hermann Czech, 1971

A compendium of images and typologies, complied by Zurich-based pool Architekten and drawing on twenty years' experience in housing design.

CARTHA’s multi-faceted approach to the topic of form in architecture

A playful, unconventional building monograph documenting the design and construction of the new Jacques Carat Theater in Cachan near Paris by Ateliers O-S architects, with photographs by Cyrille Weiner and graphic short story by Lucas Harari and Alexis Jamet

Housing developments, office blocks, recreation parks, high-tech research and production plants, or the ICRC's visitor center: contrasting locations and conceptual cohesion in their designs are reflected in this first monograph on G8A Architects

The Giedion Universe: An introduction to the work, significance and impact, and estate of two of modernism's most distinguished scholars—on 420 pages with 198 color illustrations featuring 630 documents, objects, and photographs

Available again: The synthesis of profound knowledge and creativity: Alberto Ponis’s rethinking of the Sardinian “stazzo”.

How does architecture confront its environment? With whom we live, to whom we open our house and how permeable should its boundary be?

A landmark university campus near Paris, rebuilt and extended by David Chipperfield and Martin Duplantier

“I see the living quality of a city directly in proportion to the possibility of [...] ‘gaps in the planning’.” – Wim Wenders in an interview with Hans Kollhoff, 1988

A uniquely comprehensive source of knowledge, combining cultural history with a guide to plants and animals finding their habitat in dry stone walls and a practical step-by-step building manual

The space-creation experiment continued: volume 3 of the four-part series from ALICE at EPFL's School of Architecture.

Structures as system of relations guide the approach of leading Italian firm Labics

Acknowledged fully in her own right for the first time: Denise Scott Brown, a key contributor to international architectural discourse over five decades

A captivating exhibition desgin by Dhaka-based architect Kashef Chowdhury, winner of the 2016 Aga Khan Architecture Award.

The definitive monograph on the work of Ruch & Partner Architects, whose restorations of and contemporary interventions in historic houses in the Engadine have gained much international recognition

The first-ever comprehensive study on the close interplay of oil industry and urbanism.

The things themselves are as interesting and instructive as the underlying concepts and theories about them

A handbook of innovative concepts for design and construction of building façades

“Architecture never is merely architecture and never by architects only!” Georg Driendl

Outstanding new buildings in South Tyrol / Alto Adige, selected by an international jury

A visual exploration of the work of Bauart Architects and Urbanists and an artistic investigation of the relationship between architecture and photography

Polykatoikia: Athens' signature building typology and most eminent contribution to modern urban design

The latest survey of oustanding Austrian architecture, featuring award-winning buildings by Austrian architects and realized projects by international architects in Austria in 2016–17.

A plea for the power of architecture as intellectual investigation and for the freedom to create spaces which are uninhibited by functional and economic constraints

A unique biographical film collage on celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, compiled by renowned Swiss director Christoph Schaub in collaboration with Atelier Peter Zumthor.

Peter Zumthor's surprising and revealing reflections on time and history

First-ever, richly illustrated monograph on Swiss artists and interior designers Susi and Ueli Berger, creators of Swiss design icons such as the Soft Chair, the Cloud Lamp, and the Stack of Drawers

The international Wienerberger Brick Award 2018: fifty shortlisted and seven winning designs demonstrate the huge popularity and wide-ranging properties of brick as building material

Konrad Wachsmann: a legendary pioneer of prefabricated building systems and a visionary of automatized on-site assembly

An investigation of a stadiums potentials beyond sports event, religious congregations, political rallies, or acts of tyranny, and of private property’s logic in context with land deregulation and housing atomization

British architect Jonathan Sergison’s reflections on the interplay between practice and teaching in architecture and the great significance he sees in combining both spheres

On photographs of empty architectural spaces and images of contemporary housing interiors in the world wide web.

The official publication of the Swiss Pavillion at the 2018 International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, winner of the Golden Lion for best national participation.

An exploration of the blurred line between a monument’s explicitly political form and the implicit political meaning of seemingly insignificant architectural objects and public spaces

Topographic imagination applied: the award-winning renaturalization design for river Aire near Geneva, Switzerland.

What happens when destiny and reality override plans and utopias, and when a dwelling is bereaved its actual purpose?

A unique visual and literary exploration of recent buildings by SCAU architecture, France's leading architectural firm

An inspiring insight into the work and working environment of young architectural firms in Latin America, and an exploratuon of practices of exhibiting architecture

Contemporary and historic landscape design on an 18th-centruy estate near Geneva.

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The documentation of a highly innovative design for the rebuilding of a major hospital complex in Switzerland.

First monograph on Vienna-based ARTEC Architekten, one of Austria's leading contemporary firms.

Available again: the definitive book on this architectural icon of the jet age.

The first monograph on internationally celebrated, Shanghai and London-based Neri & Hu Design and Research Office.

An urbanist research project on concepts of social space rooted in land domestication and landscape idolatry

ÖAMTC's new headquarters in Vienna: a model for collaborative project development between client, architects, engineers, designers, strategic cosultants, and users.

The first-ever global survey of brutalist architecture from the 1950s to the 1970s, based on research project carried out collaboratively by Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAM and Wüstenrot Foundation.

A comprehensive survey of co-operative housing projects in Zurich, featuring in detail some 50 recent designs that had a major impact on the city's urban life.

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A master of Modernism in Northern Italy rediscovered

A unique insight into the design process and representational methods of contemporary Japanese Architects, featuring works by Kazuo Shinohara, Toyō Itō, SANAA, Atelier Bow-Wow, Junya Ishigami, and others.

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The architect as hunter-gatherer: Lars Lerup and his concept of the modern city.

A striking selection from Simon Phipps's unique documentation of British brutalism.

Work and vision of this master of modernism, who has influenced generations of architects in Israel yet himself has largely been forgotten.

A public experminent adding a personal and emotional experience to what we learn from the media about the largely abstract scenario of climate change and its local effects.

A gallery-size garden's intensity and constructedness: an arcane reflection by Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architects

The story of two tiny roads in Lewisham, south London, and of Walter Segal's designs for twenty self-build homes they contain.

The first comprehensive insight into the work and selected projects of the London-based architecture collective Assemble, winners of the 2015 Turner Prize.

New and revised edition of Iñaki Ábalos’s highly acclaimed book on seven iconic 20th-century houses, some of them actually built, others merely imagined or realized as film sets.

How can migrants settle and feel at home far away from their native environment? This book offers essential contributions to the international discourse on migration issues in contemporary architecture and urban design.

A handy guidebook to significant historic architecture in Lower Austria a popular tourist destination around Vienna.

Witty and inspiring: the designs, ideas, and thinking of British architect and urbanist Cedric Price

A sparkling intellectual experiment about creating space: volume 2 of the four-part series from ALICE at EPFL's School of Architecture.

The authoritative four-part monograph on Charlotte Perriand continued: volume 3.

The work of Rolf Mühlethaler and considerations about the task and skills of an architect.

A succinct review of forty years observing contemporary architecture: writings and interviews by Dietmar Steiner, one of Austria's most eminent architectural publicists.

Innovative Swiss timber architecture on tour around the world.

Venice's dual nature as myth and real city, examined from an architectural and urbanist perspective—the latest volume in the successful Teaching and Research in Architecture series.

Photographer Ed Ruscha, designer Muriel Coopers, and Dadaist Tristan Tzara: the practice of montage in art, architecture, and book design.

An architectural satire—presented in the style of an historical treatise—that imagines an alternative future for the American single-family house and its native habitat, the suburban metropolis.

Insights into the manifold designs and the thinking of one of Portugal's most significant contemporary architects.

The findings of a comprehensive research undertaken by ETH Studio Basel on urbanisation processes in Egypt, Italy, the US, Vietnam, Oman, and Brazil.

An extensive and richly illustrated survey of Northern Italy's modernist architecture.

An extensive and richly illustrated survey of Northern Italy's modernist architecture—the sequel.

The compelling story of a unique and bold yet little known experimental public education project in Rio de Janeiro.

An attractive survey of award-winning buildings by Austrian architects and realized projects by international architects in Austria in 2014–15.

Statements and opinions of emerging international architects and theoreticians on the role and importance of personal relationships, networks, and hierarchies in contemporary architectural production.

The relationship between architecture and photography and the emergence of a new understanding of realism, based on the production of architectures and images from fragments of reality.

Based in Cambridge, MA, WOJR have won various prizes, including the Design Biennial Boston Award 2010 and the Architectural League Prize for
Young Architects and Designers 2011. This is their first monograph.

Sixty years of engineering: Mahendra Raj's extraordinary structures in India and the Middle East.

A dairy factory converted into a university of the arts: Zurich's spectacular new Toni Campus.

Robert Venturi’s idea of the “difficult whole” re-evaluated in the context of his work: a significant contribution to a contemporary architectural discourse.

The single-family houses of a legendary European modernist

Kashef Chowdhury's Friendship Centre: the essence of architecture

The influential work of Ábalos & Herreros re-interpreted by their contemporaries, collaborators, and students.

Also available in Spanish

The influential work of Ábalos & Herreros re-interpreted by their contemporaries, collaborators, and students.—Edición española

A revealing study of the effect of war damage on inhabitants of a city and on the potential of architecture and urban design to reconcile people with the loss of urban structure and cultural symbols.

Jan Turnovský's original, learned, critical, and sublimely ironical treatise on open systems in architecture, published for the first time ever.

Architectural fantasies, drawings, watercolors and writings by three visionaries of the early 20th century

Living and working, water and asphalt: the 21st century's urban challenges

A dynamic interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary meaning of the public space.

Architekturzentrum Wien’s indispensable reference book on 150 years of Austrian architecture, available again in a new, expanded edition.—“Architecture has to be evaluated based on the context of its time.” Friedrich Achleitner

A sparkling intellectual experiment about creating space and the initial volume of a new four-part series from EPFL's School of Architecture.

The art of structural engineering: the bridges, visions, and philosophy of Christian Menn.

An addition to Zürich’s Crown of the City: New building LEE for ETH Zurich

All it takes is a sheet of plywood, a handheld electric saw and a cordless drill, a few screws, precision, and patience.

Le Corbusier's Precisions, arguably his most influential book, becomes available again in English in a new expanded facsimile-reprint edition.

An exploration of exemplary industrial structures by Peter Behrens, Félix Candela, Herzog & de Meuron, Albert Kahn, Louis I. Kahn, Robert Maillart, Pier Luigi Nervi, Auguste Perret, Jean Prouvé, and others.

Are intact nature and industrialization of untouched landscape really opposing categories? The latest volume of Teaching and Research in Architecture offers an answer.

The interplay of shape, construction, material, color – and emotion: buildings by 4a Architekten

The human proportion and how the human body should be housed: an entirely new exploration of Le Corbusier’s work in architecture and art.

How did media policy and media aesthetic influence architecture and urban design in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s? A unique analysis of the relationship between media policy and urban design.

A visionary oeuvre re-discovered: Yona Friedman, Hungarian-French architect, urbanist, theoretician, and artist.

Now in paperback: a celebration of  Venturi and Scott Brown's legendary Las Vegas images.

Significant post-war modernist architecture in Vienna analyzed and interpreted from today’s perspective.

Does Hong Kong, vibrant megacity with a notorius lack of public and private space, offer room for urban interaction?

Planning and building for the extreme: the story of a unique project for Antarctica.

Volume two of the comprehensive four-part monograph on the great French interior designer

A photographic exploration of urban and rural spaces in blind areas.

From a foundry on the fringe to an office and residential complex in the heart of town: Adolf Krischanitz's redevelopment of a former Sulzer assembly shop in Winterthur.

A manifesto for a new integrated approach in urban design on the level of megaregions.

Late colonialist housing and the conflict between the architects’ cultural preconceptions and the actual way of life of inhabitants

A new distinctly artistic view at Chandigarh: Werner Feiersinger's comprehensive pictorial account of the city today.

An illuminating book on an often overlooked aspect of Aldo Rossi’s architecture, offering also a new perspective on the long cultural history of melancholy.

A fascinating visual investigation of Le Corbusier's architectural vision and what remains of it today.

A visual research on the formal qualities and exemplary character of architectural models by Zürich-based E2A Architects

Searching for new intercultural “languages” in European residential architecture: the PaN-Wohnpark in Vienna.

Galli Rudolf's architecture responds strategically rather than merely formal to questions about the architects' role in society.

Aavailable again: the classic and much sought-after monograph on Sweden’s most eminent architect.

An attractive survey of award-winning buildings by Austrian architects and realized projects by international architects in Austria in 2012–13.

Eight exemplary new housing projects by Luca Selva Architects

Twenty buildings and projects by Riegler Riewe from the past ten years: precise, subtle, and use-oriented architecture.

Can design progress from the production of objects and services for everyday life into the production of life itself? This illustrated reader explores what design can be in our contemporary world.

Investigating the spectacular process of urbanization in China.

Can architecture really be captured in films? Christoph Schaub's nine documentaries on DVD offer an answer.

Philosophy, vision and work of London-based Mæ architects

Une réévaluation révolutionnaire de deux grands expériements urbaines.

A groundbreaking reassessment of the urbanist experiments Casablanca and Chandigarh.

Collective and private expression, conformity and subtle subversion: The “Magyar Kocka” and its ornamentation.

La monographie longtemps attendue sur l’architecte mondialement célèbre, avec des textes, des esquisses et des dessins de Peter Zumthor, de nouvelles photographies et un catalogue complet des œuvres.

The world-famous architect's long-awaited monograph with texts, sketches, and drawings by Peter Zumthor himself, new photographs, and a complete list of works.

How could 15 million people be living and working in Switzerland in 2048? laba's students present the findings of their 2013 research campaign in text, images, and spectacular graphics and maps.

Exciting research at the Chair for Architecture and Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich 2005–2013.

The first of four lavish volumes on the life and work of the great French design pioneer.

Cities and landscapes as places of human existence: Tobias Madörin's work from two decades.

Photographer and architects in dialogue: images and reflections on photography, architecture and town construction.

The first comprehensive book on a rarely published architectural topic.

A survey on urbanistic aspects of water in dwelled regions of Asia.

More than simply an architectural biography of a city: this book shows Chicago to have an important role as a catalyst for international development and pinpoints its remarkable influence around the world.

The complete work of this extraordinary group of architects in post-war Austria, for the first time in a comprehensive monograph.

Bogdan Bogdanović's equally impressive and reconciliatory memorials and monuments in former Yugoslavia.

Between conflict and utopia: the Middle East. A region where the future of the architectural profession and its exciting possibilities are being tested.

An exploration of the role of narrative, history, appropriation and craft in the work of London based 6a Architects.

Analytical and atmospheric insights into the architecture of the workspace with a deep plan. Featured are buildings and projects by Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Alison & Peter Smithson, SOM, Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, MVRDV, SANAA, and others.

This new book offers an exciting new vision of urbanism that can be inspirational for architects and city planners worldwide.

A unique panorama of the Venice Biennial's 29 national pavilions in previously unpublished images by the Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico, and in essays by around 30 international architects, philosophers and artists.

A very special guidebook to the new mountain trail and its seven bridges crossing the stream, designed by Jürg Conzett, in the mountains around the Swiss holiday resort Flims.

Louis I Kahn’s lecture of 12 February 1969 at ETH Zurich's School of Architecture, revealing his spiritual understanding of architecture and showing his remarkable creative thinking. The book features the complete text and the full original recording of Kahn's own voice.

More than 300 of the world's most important architectural photographs in a magnificent book.

On Common Ground presents a visual history of spatial development in postwar Switzerland through 250 images.

A unique account of hitherto largely disregarded modernist Soviet architecture. Based on a ground-breaking research project, this book presents a history of architecture in the fourteen non-Russian Soviet republics, illustrated with a wealth of previously unpublished photographs and plans.

A photographic tour of modernist and contemporary architecture in the Lake Lucerne region of Switzerland presented in striking duotone images.

The first comprehensive monograph on the highly acclaimed work of the Swiss housing specialists, Knapkiewicz & Fickert. Twenty buildings and projects are presented with introductory texts, floor plans, drawings, renderings, and images.

The Digital Turn is a wide ranging survey on how designers and design can respond to today’s challenges of interactive technologies.

Presented here are essays, interviews, and students’ assignments documenting the findings of a research project on the influence of film, literature, and the visual arts on architecture.

An attractive survey of award-winning buildings by Austrian architects and realized projects by international architects in Austria in 2010–11.

The results of a research project in the Barents Sea region are presented here in graphics and maps designed specially for this book, plans, images, and several short essays. The natural resources, climatic conditions, and economic, urban-development, and architectural potential of this extreme but geostrategically crucial area were all included in the analysis.

L’oeuvre complet de Le Corbusier comme dessinateur de meubles et architecte d’intérieur présentée dans son ensemble.

Le Corbusier. Furniture and Interiors 1905–1965 is the authoritative book on Le Corbusier’s work as an interior designer.

This is a visual tour of Switzerland’s structural landmarks through the view of the renowned civil engineer Jürg Conzett.

The Architectural Model considers the architectural scale model as an artistic medium, drawing on the Deutsches Architekturmuseum’s vast collection of models.

An illuminating photographic protocol of an architectural journey throughout Italy.

This book presents ETH Studio Basel’s research on the city of Belgrade as an example for a global phenomenon: Instability of the formal vs stability of the informal.

Peter Zumthor Therme Vals, the only book-length study of the mountain spa, features the architect’s own original sketches and plans for its design as well as Hélène Binet’s striking photographs.

This volume celebrates the projects imagined and completed by agps architecture.

Sites & Signs is the first comprehensive monograph on the photographic work of Georg Aerni.

This volume documents in photographs the growth and development of Brasilia, Brazil’s architecturally rich capital city.

This film and booklet offer an inside look into Casa Girasole, the famed villa in northern Italy’s Po Basin.

This insightful volume showcases the sketches of Swiss architect Marianne Burkhalter.

Building Bern is a guidebook dedicated to the stunning new architecture of Bern.

Here the architects Marco Graber and Thomas Pulver reflect on their design process and projects.

Seeing Zumthor. Images by Hans Danuser represents a unique collaboration: Hans Danuser’s photographs of buildings created by Peter Zumthor.

This book is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the works of the Swiss architectural firm, Meili Peter Architects.

This highly illustrated volume examines the wide-ranging oeuvre of Swiss avant-garde artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp.