Flyer New and Selected Titles 2019/20 Park Books

NEW AND SELECTED
TITLES 2019/20

pool Architekten (eds)
Poolology of Housing
Hardback, 440 pages, 395 ills,
24 × 33 cm
978-3-03860-088-6 English / German
sFr. 75.00 | € 68.00 | £ 60.00 | $ 79.00
A unique collection of images and typologies from over
two decades of profound engagement with residential
architecture
Angelika Fitz, Katharina Ritter,
Architekturzentrum Wien Az W (eds)
Assemble
How We Build. Hintergrund 55
Paperback, 160 pages, 91 ills,
16.5 × 24 cm
978-3-03860-077-0 English / German
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 29.00
Maria Claudia Clemente, Francesco Isidori
Labics—Structures
Hardback, 416 pages, 613 ills,
23 × 31 cm
978-3-03860-128-9 English
sFr. 65.00 | € 58.00 | £ 50.00 | $ 69.00
Structure: guiding principle in the impressive body of work of
acclaimed Italian firm Labics
The first comprehensive insight into the work and selected
projects of the London-based architecture collective
Assemble, winners of the 2015 Turner Prize
Neri & Hu Design and
Research Office
Works and Projects 2004–2014
Hardback, 260 pages, 336 ills and plans,
21.5 × 27 cm
978-3-906027-89-0 English
sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 65.00
The first monograph on internationally celebrated Shanghaiand
London-based Neri & Hu Design and Research Office
Cover image from the book Access for All. São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures. SESC Pompéia, São Paulo © Danilo Zamboni 2018

Pamela Johnston, Johan Celsing (eds)
Johan Celsing
Buildings, Texts
Hardback, approx. 448 pages, 770 ills,
20 × 27.5 cm
978-3-03860-170-8 English
sFr. 85.00 | € 77.00 | £ 70.00 | $ 85.00
April 2020
The work and vision of Johan Celsing,
one of Sweden’s most renowned
contemporary architects
Angelo Candalepas (ed.)
Angelo Candalepas
Buildings and Projects
Hardback, approx. 192 pages, 220 ills,
24 × 30 cm
978-3-03860-171-5 English
sFr. 65.00 | € 58.00 | £ 50.00 | $ 65.00
April 2020
Buildings and projects by Candalepas
Associates, one of Australia’s leading
architectural firms
Fabrizio Barozzi, Alberto Veiga,
José Zabala
Barozzi Veiga
Paperback, 312 pages, 282 ills and plans,
22 × 29 cm
978-3-906027-52-4 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 49.00
The Barcelona-based firm Barozzi
Veiga, winners of the 2015 Mies van
der Rohe Award
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Valerio Olgiati, Markus Breitschmid
Non-Referential Architecture
Ideated by Valerio Olgiati—written by
Markus Breitschmid
Hardback, 144 pages, 1 ill., 11.5 × 18.5 cm
978-3-03860-142-5 English
978-3-03860-141-8 German
978-3-03860-143-2 Italian
sFr. 25.00 | € 25.00 | £ 20.00 | $ 25.00
The new revised edition of Valerio
Olgiati 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.
Hilar Stadler, Andreas Hertach (eds)
Simon Phipps Finding Brutalism
A Photographic Survey of Post-War British
Architecture
Hardback, 258 pages, 230 ills,
20 × 25.5 cm
978-3-03860-063-3 English
978-3-03860-064-0 German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 32.00 | $ 39.00
A striking selection of Simon
Phipps’s unique documentation of
British Brutalism
Rafi Segal
Space Packed
The Architecture of Alfred Neumann
Hardback, 376 pages, 422 ills,
18.5 × 24.5 cm
978-3-03860-055-8 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00
Work and vision of a master of
Modernism, who has influenced
generations of architects in Israel, yet
has largely been forgotten himself

Andres Lepik, Daniel Talesnik (eds)
Access for All
São Paulo‘s Architectural Infrastructures
Hardback, 244 pages, 192 ills, 21 × 28 cm
978-3-03860-163-0 English
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00
Infrastructures for residents:
São Paulo’s long-term investment in
communal architecture
Wienerberger AG (ed.)
Brick 20
Outstanding International Brick
Architecture
Hardback, 288 pages, 356 ills, 24 × 30 cm
978-3-03860-174-6 English
978-3-03860-173-9 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00
June 2020
The international Wienerberger
Brick Award 2020: fifty shortlisted
and six winning designs demonstrate
the huge popularity and wide-ranging
applications of brick as building
material
Séverine Marguin, Henrike Rabe, Friedrich
Schmidgall
Experimental Zone
An Interdisciplinary Investigation on the
Spaces and Practices of Collaborative
Research
Paperback, 176 pages, 471 ills,
22 × 27.5 cm
978-3-03860-148-7 English
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00
Spatial design constellations of
collaborative workspaces for
scientists and their effects on
knowledge production: findings
of a long-term research project
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Marianne Burkhalter, Christian Sumi (eds)
Konrad Wachsmann and the
Grapevine Structure
Flexicover, 152 pages, 183 ills, 23 × 32 cm
978-3-03860-110-4 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00
Konrad Wachsmann: a legendary pioneer of prefabricated
building systems and a visionary of automatized on-site
assembly
Vandini Mehta, Rohit Raj Mehndiratta,
Ariel Huber (eds)
The Structure
Works of Mahendra Raj
Hardback, 428 pages, 570 ills,
19.5 × 25.5 cm
978-3-03860-025-1 English
sFr. 69.00 | € 68.00 | £ 50.00 | $ 70.00
Sixty years of engineering: Mahendra Raj’s extraordinary
structures in India and the Middle East
Janne Ahlin
Sigurd Lewerentz, architect
1885–1975
Hardback, 204 pages, 336 ills,
20.5 × 33 cm
978-3-906027-48-7 English
sFr. 64.00 | € 64.00 | £ 50.00 | $ 75.00
The classic monograph on Sweden’s pre-eminent architect
Sigurd Lewerentz, complemented with a new essay by
renowned architect and scholar Wilfried Wang
Sebastiano Brandolini (ed.)
The Inhabited Pathway
The Built Work of Alberto Ponis in Sardinia
Hardback, 240 pages, 252 ills,
22 × 29.5 cm
978-3-906027-49-4 English
sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 40.00 | € 60.00
“This handsome book makes a powerful introduction to an
architect whose work deserves to be widely appreciated.”
Architectural Review

Michel Carlana, Luca Mezzalira, Curzio
Pentimalli
Quirino De Giorgio
An Architect's Legacy
Paperback, 400 pages, 695 ills, 17 × 24 cm
978-3-03860-176-0 English
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00
A great yet largely forgotten body of
work: a tribute to Quirinio De Giorgio,
whose buildings reflect the evolution
of 20th-century Italian architecture
Markus Peter, Ulrike Tillmann
Hans Scharoun and the
Development of Small
Apartment Floor Plans
The Residential High-Rises Romeo and
Julia 1954–1959
Hardback, approx. 232 pages, 258 ills,
22.5 × 32.5 cm
978-3-03860-157-9 English
978-3-03860-156-2 German
sFr. 65.00 | € 58.00 | £ 50.00 | $ 65.00
Insights into the design process and
intellectual foundations of Hans
Scharoun, one of the most
extraordinary protagonists of
Germany’s Modern architecture
Napoleone Ferrari, Michelangelo Sabatino
Carlo Mollino
Architect and Storyteller
Hardback, approx. 320 pages, 470 ills,
29 × 31 cm
978-3-03860-133-3 English
sFr. 99.00 | € 85.00 | £ 80.00 | $ 99.00
February 2020
Famous as a designer and
photographer, now for the first
time ever acknowledged also as
an architect: Carlo Mollino
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Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum
Your Guide to Downtown Denise
Scott Brown
Hintergrund 56
Paperback, 176 pages, 264 ills,
16.5 × 24 cm
978-3-03860-127-2 English
sFr. 39.00 | € 36.00 | £ 32.00 | $ 39.00
Acknowledged fully in her own right for the first time: Denise
Scott Brown, a key contributor to international architectural
discourse over five decades
Tanja Herdt
The City and the Architecture
of Change
The Work and Radical Visions of
Cedric Price
Paperback, 206 pages, 100 ills, 17 × 24 cm
978-3-03860-045-9 English
978-3-03860-050-3 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 40.00 | $ 49.00
Witty and inspiring: the designs, ideas, and thinking of British architect
and urbanist Cedric Price
Kornel Ringli
Designing TWA
Eero Saarinen’s Airport Terminal in
New York
Hardback, 224 pages, 240 ills,
21.5 × 28 cm
978-3-906027-75-3 English
978-3-906027-83-8 German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 30.00 | $ 39.00
The definitive monograph on Eero Saarinen’s iconic TWA terminal,
named one of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books of 2015
Nile Greenberg, Matthew Kennedy
The Advanced School of
Collective Feeling
Inhabiting Modern Physical Culture,
1926–38
Hardback, approx. 176 pages, 140 ills,
17 × 24 cm
978-3-03860-107-4 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00
March 2020
The reconstruction of a design concept of the 1920s and 1930s that has
left an indelible mark on modern domestic aesthetic as we know it

Monika Platzer
Cold War and Architecture
The Competing Forces that Reshaped
Austria after 1945
Paperback, 346 pages, 284 ills, 20 × 27 cm
978-3-03860-175-3 English
978-3-03860-168-5 German
sFr. 65.00 | € 58.00 | £ 50.00 | $ 65.00
The interplay between foreign forces’
policies and decision-making in
Austria’s architecture and urban
planning during the Cold War, edited
by Architekturzentrum Wien AzW
Anna Bokov
Avant-Garde as Method
VKhUTEMAS and the Pedagogy of Space,
1920–1930
Hardback, approx. 496 pages, 400 ills,
21 × 27 cm
978-3-03860-134-0 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00
February 2020
VkHUTEMAS: design school and
laboratory of modern pedagogy in the
early Soviet Union where avant-garde
became a method
Andreas Nierhaus, David Schreyer
Los Angeles Modernism
Revisited
Houses by Neutra, Schindler, Ain and
Contemporaries
Hardback, 256 pages, 236 ills,
23.5 × 30 cm
978-3-03860-161-6 English
978-3-03860-160-9 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.0
The Californian life: intimate insights
into LA’s sophisticated modern homes
of the 1930s to 1960s
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Lars Lerup
The Continuous City
Fourteen Essays on Architecture and
Urbanization
Hardback, 220 pages, 21 ills,
14.5 × 21.5 cm
978-3-03860-066-4 English
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 39.00
The architect as hunter-gatherer: Lars Lerup and his concept
of the modern city
Irénée Scalbert
A Real Living Contact with the
Things Themselves
Essays on Architecture
Paperback, 272 pages, 90 ills,
16.5 × 21.5 cm
978-3-03860-111-1 English
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 35.00
“In a time when theoretical view and concepts dominate
architectural writing, I see Scalberts’ mode and optics as a
welcomed rehabilitation of the (im)balance between abstract
theories, empirical material and phenomenological
experiences.” Arkkitehti / Finnish Architectural Review
Irénée Scalbert, 6a architects
Never Modern
Paperback, 176 pages, 64 ills, 14 × 21 cm
978-3-906027-24-1 English
sFr. 24.00 | € 24.00 | £ 20.00 | $ 29.00
“Never Modern is a significant achievement in architectural
publishing.” Architecture Today
Iñaki Ábalos
The good life
A guided visit to the houses of modernity
Paperback, 256 pages, 116 ills,
15.5 × 21 cm
978-3-03860-051-0 English
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 39.00
New and revised edition of Iñaki Ábalos’s highly acclaimed
book on seven iconic 20th-century houses, some actually
built, others merely imagined or realized as film sets

Hermann Czech
Essays on Architecture and City
Planning
Hardback, 252 pages, 85 ills, 16 × 24 cm
978-3-03860-020-6 English
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 30.00
“Occasionally dry, always brutally
honest and occasionally even funny,
the clarity of thought shines through.”
Financial Times Summer Books 2019
Eve Blau with Ivan Rupnik
Baku—Oil and Urbanism
Hardback, 304 pages, 335 ills,
18 × 27 cm
978-3-03860-076-3 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 40.00 | $ 49.00
The first-ever comprehensive study on
the close interplay of oil industry and
urbanism in Azerbaijan, also featuring
a new photo essay by Iwan Baan
Winner of the DAM Architectural Book
Award 2019!
Dominique Boudet (ed.)
New Housing in Zurich
Typologies for a Changing Society
Paperback, 256 pages, 675 ills, 24 × 30 cm
978-3-85881-042-8 English
978-3-85881-041-1 German
978-3-85881-043-5 French
sFr. 69.00 | € 68.00 | £ 60.00 | $ 75.00
Available again: The very successful
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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Christian Bjone
Almost Nothing
100 Artists Comment on the Work of
Mies van der Rohe
Hardback, 240 pages, 215 ills,
21.5 × 28 cm
978-3-03860-080-0 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00
Artworks inspired by Mies van der
Rohe by international artists such as
Alexander Calder, Christo & Jeanne-
Claude, Isa Genzken, Yves Klein, Sarah
Morris, Kurt Schwitters, Thomas Ruff,
Ed Ruscha, and others
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Anna Halm Schudel
Blossom
Hardback, 128 pages, 93 ills, 22 × 33 cm
978-3-85881-621-4 English / German
sFr. 59.00 | € 48.00 | £ 50.00 | $ 59.00
The flowers depicted by Swiss
photographer Anna Halm Schudel
tell stories of seducement and decay,
revealing the beauty of both

Jesús Vassallo
Epics in the Everyday
Photography, Architecture, and the
Problem of Realism
Rice Architecture
Hardback, 328 pages, 207 ills, 17 × 24 cm
978-3-03860-162-3 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00
An investigation of the tightly
interwoven relationship between
architecture and photography from
the postwar years until today
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Scheidegger & Spiess
Niederdorfstrasse 54, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
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Charlie Koolhaas
City Lust
A Personal Journey through Globalized
Economy
Hardback, 404 pages, 200 ills,
20 × 28.5 cm
978-3-85881-804-1 English
sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 50.00 | $ 59.00
A visual and narrative journey through
culturally vastly different metropolises
around the world united by the
influences of global trade and by the
evolution of a shared “global culture”

Kristina Krasnyanskaya, Alexander
Semenov (eds)
Soviet Design
From Constructivism to Modernism
1920–1980
Hardback, approx. 432 pages, 360 ills,
24.5 × 30 cm
978-3-85881-846-1 English
sFr. 99.00 | € 77.00 | £ 65.00 | $ 85.00
January 2020
First-ever comprehensive survey of Soviet interior design:
A reference book and unique source for scholars, dealers,
collectors, and lovers of design
Ivan Žaknić
Klip and Corb on the Road
The Dual Diaries and Legacies of
August Klipstein and Le Corbusier on
their Eastern Journey, 1911
Hardback, 368 pages, 138 ills,
15.5 × 24.5 cm
978-3-85881-817-1 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
A new study on Le Corbusier’s 1911 Journey to the East,
offering for the first time ever the perspective of his friend
and travel companion August Klipstein (1885–1951)
Tatyana Franck (ed.)
Jan Groover, Photographer
Laboratory of Forms
Hardback, 192 pages, 145 ills, 21 × 27 cm
978-3-85881-838-6 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00
A discovery: the first monograph exploring the entire body
of American photographer Jan Groover's highly original and
experimental work
Roland Jaeger
Photo-Eye Fritz Block
New Photography—Modern Color Slides
Hardback, 320 pages, 499 ills,
23.5 × 30 cm
978-3-85881-789-1 English
978-3-85881-531-6 German
sFr. 99.00 | € 85.00 | £ 70.00 | $ 89.00
The architect as photographer: Fritz Block, a dedicated
proponent of Modernism, also with his camera

Stanislaus von Moos, Martino Stierli (eds)
Eyes That Saw
Architecture after Las Vegas
Paperback, approx. 256 pages, 100 ills,
14 × 21 cm
978-3-85881-820-1 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00
February 2020
An intellectual panorama of
the significance and lasting effect
of Learning from Las Vegas in
architecture and urban design as
well as in visual arts
Tatyana Franck (ed.)
René Burri—Explosions of Sight
Hardback, approx. 240 pages, 280 ills,
21 × 27 cm
978-3-85881-845-4 English
978-3-85881-661-0 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00
January 2020
A new and concise monograph on
celebrated Swiss photographer
René Burri, featuring previously
unpublished archive material
Tomas Wüthrich
Doomed Paradise
The Last Penan in the Borneo Rainforest
Paperback, 160 pages, 200 ills, 22 × 30 cm
978-3-85881-642-9
English / German / Penan
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
A manifesto against political and
business interests that endanger the
indigenous Penan culture on Borneo
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Richard Shiff (ed.)
Joel Shapiro
Sculpture and Works on Paper 1969–2019
Hardback, 224 pages, 311 ills, 24 × 30 cm
978-3-85881-829-4 English
978-3-85881-830-0 French
sFr. 85.00 | € 77.00 | £ 70.00 | $ 85.00
The first-ever comprehensive monograph on New York-based
artist Joel Shapiro, covering his entire career and all of his
artistic media
Storm Janse van Rensburg (ed.)
Jacob Lawrence
Lines of Influences
Hardback, approx. 176 pages, 110 ills,
24 × 30 cm
978-3-85881-825-6 English
sFr. 65.00 | € 58.00 | £ 55.00 | $ 59.00
April 2020
The impressive work of distinguished African-American
painter Jacob Lawrence in dialogue with his contemporaries
and mentors
Jill Mellick
The Red Book Hours
Discovering C.G. Jung's Art Mediums and
Creative Process
Hardback, leather-bound,
456 pages, 567 ills, 24 × 30 cm
978-3-85881-816-4 English
sFr. 120.00 | € 97.00 | £ 90.00 | $ 120.00
A unique study of and reference work on Carl Gustav Jung’s
monumental Red Book (Liber Novus)
Jeannette Fischer, Marina Abramović
Psychoanalyst meets Marina
Abramović
Jeannette Fischer meets Artist
Paperback, 176 pages, 31 ills,
11 × 16,5 cm
978-3-85881-794-5 English
978-3-85881-546-0 German
sFr. 19.00 | € 19.00 | £ 18.00 | $ 20.00
A unique insight into the relationship between Marina
Abramović’s biography and artistic work, offering an
understanding of the underlying structures and dynamics
of her extraordinary performances

Raphael Gygax, Heike Munder (eds)
United by AIDS
An Anthology on Art in Response to
HIV / AIDS
Hardback, 260 pages, 70 ills,
14.5 × 23.5 cm
978-3-85881-839-3 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00
978-3-85881-918-5 EPUB E-Book
978-3-85881-917-8 PDF E-Book
sFr. 10.00 | € 9.00 | £ 8.00 | $ 10.00
HIV / AIDS writes many stories in
life and in art: a survey of art and
activism in response to a severe,
global disease
Nanina Guyer, Michaela Oberhofer (eds)
Congo as Fiction
Art Worlds between Past and Present
Hardback, approx. 324 pages, 400 ills,
16 × 22 cm
978-3-85881-835-5 English
978-3-85881-643-6 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
Congolese artists reflecting upon
globalized trade, colonialism,
proselytization, and virtual boundaries
Antonella Camarda (ed.)
Lawrence Weiner
Attached by Ebb and Flow
Paperback, approx. 144 pages, 30 ills,
16 × 22 cm
978-3-85881-847-8 English / Italian
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 30.00 | $ 39.00
January 2020
Lawrence Weiner, born 1942 in
New York, is a key protagonist of
early conceptual art
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Museum Marta Herford (ed.)
Max Bill: No Beginnig, No End
New edition, paperback, 200 pages,
215 ills, 20 × 29 cm
978-3-85881-578-1 English / German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
The new edition of this authoritative and much sought-after
monograph displays Max Bill’s wide-ranging work and sets
him in context with his contemporaries
Kunsthaus Zürich (ed.)
Alberto Giacometti—
Beyond Bronze
Masterworks in Plaster and Other
Materials
Hardback, 240 pages, 260 ills, 22 × 27 cm
978-3-85881-785-3 English
978-3-85881-786-0 French
978-3-85881-525-5 German
sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 40.00 | $ 59.00
Plaster, plasticine, marble, wood: a new perspective on
Giacometti’s approach to his artistic media
Ernst Scheidegger
Alberto Giacometti
Traces of a Friendship
Hardback, 248 pages, 249 ills, 26 × 27 cm
978-3-85881-349-7 English / German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 65.00
Ernst Scheidegger’s classic homage to Alberto Giacometti in
a completely revised new edition, including more than sixty
previously unpublished color images
Beat Stutzer
Giovanni Segantini
Hardback, 208 pages, 141 ills, 25 × 30 cm
978-3-85881-783-9 English
978-3-85881-522-4 German
978-3-85881-784-6 Italian
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 49.00
The most comprehensive survey to date of Giovanni
Segantini’s paintings

Kunsthaus Zürich (eds)
Matisse—Metamorphoses
Paperback, 232 pages, 206 ills, 22 × 27 cm
978-3-85881-836-2 English
978-3-85881-650-4 German
978-3-85881-840-9 French
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00
Matisse as a gifted sculptor:
metamorphoses of his paintings
and drawings
Walburga Krupp
Sophie Taeuber-Arp—Equilibre
Landmarks of Swiss Art
Hardback, approx. 96 pages, 40 ills,
21.5 × 25 cm
978-3-85881-662-7 English / German
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 29.00
February 2020
Sophie Taeuber-Arp is one of the
most significant female protagonists
of Modernism. This book showcases
her work Equilibre, a key part of her
painting oeuvre
Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath
Franz Gertsch—Rüschegg
Landmarks of Swiss Art
Hardback, 96 pages, 40 ills, 21.5 × 25 cm
978-3-85881-663-4 English / German
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 29.00
February 2020
An introduction to Swiss artist Franz
Gertsch, one of the most important
exponents of photorealism worldwide
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Peter Zumthor, Mari Lending
A Feeling of History
Paperback, 84 pages, 14 ills, 11 × 19.5 cm
978-3-85881-805-8 English
978-3-85881-812-6 French
978-3-85881-558-3 German
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 29.00
Peter Zumthor reflects in
conversation with Mari Lending on
time and history’s reverberations
in his work, and how history has
informed his attempts of an emotional
reconstruction of space
Thomas Durisch (ed.)
Peter Zumthor 1985–2013
Buildings and Projects
5 vols, hardback in slipcase, 856 pages in
total, 761 ills, 24 × 30 cm
978-3-85881-723-5 English
978-3-85881-304-6 German
sFr. 250.00 | € 250.00 | £ 190.00 | $ 310.00
“Each volume is a delight to hold and
page through, and a model of Swiss
design from the gray silk covers to
the crisp typography and spacious
layouts. Rarely has haptic architecture
been better expressed in print.”
The Architect’s Newspaper
Olivier Cinqualbre, Frédéric Migayrou
(eds)
Le Corbusier—The Measures
of Man
Hardback, 256 pages, 445 ills, 24 × 30 cm
978-3-85881-768-6 English
978-3-85881-469-2 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 49.00
The human proportion and how the
human body should be housed:
an entirely new exploration of
Le Corbusier’s work in architecture
and art

Ruch & Partner Architects (eds)
Close-up—Ruch & Partner
Architects 1996–2018
Hardback, 424 pages, 572 ills,
27.5 × 29,5 cm
978-3-85881-797-6 English
978-3-85881-553-8 German
sFr. 150.00 | € 140.00 | £ 130.00 | $ 160.00
The definitive monograph on the work
of Ruch & Partner Architects, whose
restorations of and contemporary
interventions in historic houses
in the Engadine have gained wide
international recognition
Compiled by Christoph Schaub
Peter Zumthor Talks about
His Work
A Biographical Collage
DVD in cardboard cover, films in original
version with English subtitles
978-3-85881-915-4 English
978-3-85881-914-7 German
sFr. 39.00 | € 39.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 39.00
A unique biographical film collage on
celebrated architect Peter Zumthor,
compiled by renowned Swiss director
Christoph Schaub in collaboration with
Atelier Peter Zumthor
Architecture of Infinity
The Magic of Sacred Spaces. A Film by
Christoph Schaub
DVD in cardboard cover, films in original
version with subtitles in English, German
and French
978-3-85881-916-1
sFr. 39.00 | € 39.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 39.00
This new film on architecture by
renowned Swiss director Christoph
Schaub features architects Peter
Zumthor, Peter Märkli, and Álvaro
Siza Vieira, musician Jojo Mayer,
and artists James Turrell and
Cristina Iglesias
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Claudio Larcher, Massimo Martignoni,
Ursula Schnitzer (eds)
Design from the Alps 1920–2020
Tyrol South Tyrol Trentino
Hardback, 460 pages, 326 ills,
23 × 29 cm
978-3-85881-649-8
English / Italian / German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
The first comprehensive survey of modern design from
the transnational and multilingual Alpine region
City of Zurich, Building Surveyor’s Office;
Silvio Schmed, Arthur Rüegg (eds)
Pavillon Le Corbusier Zurich
The Restoration of an Architectural Jewel
Hardback, 88 pages, 102 ills, 23 × 28 cm
978-3-85881-852-2 English
978-3-85881-493-7 German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 39.00
Urs Kienberger (ed.)
111 Years Waldhaus Sils
The Curious Tale and Incomplete History
of an Alpine Grand Hotel and Its People
Hardback, 344 pages, 150 ills, 17 × 24 cm
978-3-85881-831-7 English
978-3-85881-634-4 German
978-3-85881-841-6 French
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 40.00 | $ 49.00
A time travel across 111 years of history and life at
Hotel Waldhaus Sils in the Upper Engadine, Switzerland,
an icon of Swiss hospitality in one of Europe’s most
spectacular landscapes
With extraordinary attention to every little detail: restoring
Le Corbusier’s last building design to its original state
Almut Grunewald (ed.)
The Giedion World
Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-
Welcker in Dialogue
Hardback, 420 pages, 198 ills, 22 × 33 cm
978-3-85881-819-5 English
978-3-85881-610-8 German
sFr. 99.00 | € 97.00 | £ 85.00 | $ 99.00
Cover image from the book Photo-Eye Fritz Block by Roland Jaeger. Ball game on Juan-les-Pins beach, Côte d’Azur, 1931 © Fritz Block Estate Archive, Stockholm/Hamburg
The Giedion World: work, heritage, and archive of a uniquely
productive and influential scholarly couple

Jacques Barsac
Charlotte Perriand
Complete Works
All volumes hardback, more than 520
pages and around 1000 ills, 23 × 30.5 cm
sFr. 120.00 | € 120.00 | £ 100.00 | $ 130.00
Volume 1: 1903–1940
978-3-85881-746-4 English
Volume 2: 1940–1955
978-3-85881-747-1 English
Volume 3: 1956–1968
978-3-85881-748-8 English
Volume 4: 1968–1999
978-3-85881-778-5 English
The definitive and lavishly illustrated
four-volume monograph on French
avant-garde designer Charlotte
Perriand, a key protagonist of 20thcentury
interior design, featuring
a wealth of previously unpublished
designs, documents, and images
Arthur Rüegg
Le Corbusier. Furniture and
Interiors 1905–1965
Hardback, 416 pages, 867 ills,
24 × 30.5 cm
978-3-85881-728-0 English
978-3-85881-729-7 French
978-3-85881-345-9 German
sFr. 160.00 | € 160.00 | £ 120.00 | $ 180.00
The authoritative book on
Le Corbusier’s work as an interior
designer
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