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American Framing

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.

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Information & Formation

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

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CHF 39.00 | eur 38.00

Wiener Hitze

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

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CHF 29.00 | eur 29.00

From the Room to the City

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

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CHF 49.00 | eur 48.00

Hot Questions – Cold Storage

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

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CHF 59.00 | eur 58.00

Built

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

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All Under One Roof

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

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Atelier Deshaus 2001–2020

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

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Corner Kick

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

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Montessori Architecture

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

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Flux Redux

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

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Best of Austria

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

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African Modernism

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

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CHF 99.00 | eur 85.00

Absolute Beginners

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

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Dutch Dwellings

History and present of pioneering housing design in the Netherlands

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On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism

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

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On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism

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Reuse in Construction

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

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CHF 65.00 | eur 58.00

The Synagogue Project

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

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Alexander Brenner – A Holistic Art of Building

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

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Alexander Brenner – A Holistic Art of Building

CHF 79.00 | eur 77.00

Architecture & Micropolitics

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

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CHF 75.00 | eur 68.00

Institutions and the City

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

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Futures of the Architectural Exhibition

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

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Out of the Box

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

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Pichler & Traupmann Architekten

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

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Portraits

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.

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CHF 99.00 | eur 97.00

Buchner Bründler—Buildings II

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

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CHF 120.00 | eur 97.00

The Architecture of Collage

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

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Critical Neighbourhoods

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

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Agadir

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

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Nueva Vivienda

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

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System of Novelties

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

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Brick 22

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

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Portraits

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.

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