Park Books International New Titles Spring 2023

INTERNATIONAL
NEW TITLES
SPRING 2023

CONTENT
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Alexander Brenner (ed.)
Alexander Brenner—A Holistic
Art of Building
Villas and Houses 2015–2022
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Michael Obrist, Antonietta Putzu (eds.)
The Last Grand Tour
Contemporary Phenomena and Strategies of
Living in Italy
8/9
Tibor Pataky
OMA’s Kunsthal in Rotterdam
Rem Koolhaas and the New Europe
10/11
Steve Lawrence, Benjamin Stæhli
Montessori Architecture
A Design Instrument for Schools
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Marc Angélil, Manuel Scholl, Sarah
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Flux Redux
9 Sites of Experimentation in Stocks and Flows

14/15
Angelika Fitz, Monika Platzer,
Architekturzentrum Wien (eds.)
Hot Questions—Cold Storage
Architecture from Austria
The Permanent Exhibition at the Az W
18/19
Christina Condak, Michelle Howard,
Christina Jauernik, Linda Lackner,
Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Angelika Schnell,
Eva Sommeregger (eds.)
Wiener Hitze
Architecture and Storytelling in Times of Heat
16/17
Kathrin Aste, Frank Ludin (eds.)
Information & Formation
About Landscape, Architecture and Cities
20/21
Sebastian Redecke, Volkwin Marg (eds.)
Architekten von Gerkan, Marg
und Partner
Costruire in Italia—Esperienze 1996–2023
22/23
Axel Simon (ed.)
Armando Ruinelli Architetti
Progetti 1984–2022. Leggere il tempo
24/25
Architekturzentrum Wien (ed.)
Best of Austria
Architecture 2020_21
26/27
Recent Releases
and Key Titles
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Few architecture firms in Europe have addressed the villa as a
building type as consistently as Alexander Brenner Architects.
The studio is widely known for designs that are characterized by
plastic-geometric facades often resembling constructivist tableaux.
What all of Alexander Brenner’s villas and houses have in
common is a truly holistic approach to the task. A house’s interior,
kitchen, cupboards, and other built-in furniture are attended
to with the same care for detail as its exterior. Corresponding
gardens with soft, curved, sensual forms surround, and contrast
with, Brenner’s cubic architectural sculptures.
This new book follows up on two successful previous volumes
published in 2011 and 2015. It features six villas and houses
realized between 2015 and 2022, including the architect’s own
home in Stuttgart, the Brenner Research House. Lavishly illustrated
with masterly photographs taken by Zooey Braun, as
well as with plans, drawings, and further images, the volume
documents each building in rich detail. An essay and informative
texts on the projects by Alexander Brenner, as well as an
appraisal of his oeuvre by architecture publicist Holger Reiners,
round out this volume that offers rich inspiration for anyone interested
in contemporary housing design and villas.
New villas and houses by the
acclaimed German studio
Alexander Brenner Architects
Alexander Brenner established his Stuttgartbased
firm, Alexander Brenner Architects, in
1990. He has gained wide acclaim for his signature
houses and villas, although the studio’s
portfolio also comprises art spaces, commercial
and urban designs, and interiors. Brenner
also taught at Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart
in 1988–2008 and at Biberach University of
Applied Sciences in 1990–2006.
ISBN 9783038602682

Features new houses and villas by Stuttgartbased
firm Alexander Brenner Architects,
realized between 2015 and 2022
Lavishly illustrated with photographs, plans,
and sketches
The sequel to the successful previous volumes
Alexander Brenner—Houses (Callwey, 2011) and
Alexander Brenner—Villas and Houses 2010–2015
(Callwey, 2015)
Alexander Brenner Architects have gained wide
recognition for their radical and consistent
architectural approach and have won numerous
awards for their designs.
Alexander Brenner (ed.)
Alexander Brenner—A Holistic
Art of Building
Villas and Houses 2015–2022
Texts by Alexander Brenner and Holger Reiners
Book design by Alexander Brenner and Marc
Bühler
Hardback
320 pages, 396 color and 180 b/w illustrations
and plans
24 × 30 cm
978-3-03860-268-2 English / German
sFr. 79.00 | € 77.00 | £ 70.00 | $ 90.00
Available (Europe) | July 2023 (US)
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Since antiquity, Italy has been the origin of key themes of Western
architecture and culture, many of which have evolved in exemplary
and universally valid ways. Many of these continue to
provide an inspiring frame of reference even today. Emulating
the tradition and itinerary of the classic Grand Tour followed by
European aristocrats, this comprehensive and visually appealing
book takes a nuanced look at Italy today. Using the aspect
of housing as a hub, it offers new narratives and positions on
current issues and developments that are also highly relevant
outside Italy.
In the format of a graphic and textual atlas, the volume explores
Italy at various scales. Zooming in and out of themes, cities, and
regions, it allows for associative and nonlinear comprehension
and reflection. Housing is examined as a complex construct, acted
upon by diverging interests and needs as well as historical
legacies. The spatial aspect of living, with its huge impact on
the limited resources of land and the landscape, is the starting
point for the proposals and strategies the book offers. Its audience
reaches beyond the professional architecture community,
aiming at anyone with an interest in the much-debated topic of
(affordable) housing or in 21st-century Italy.
For much of the 16th to early 19th
centuries, the Grand Tour of Italy
was an important part of European
aristocrats’ education. Emulating this
tradition, this book takes a close look
at today’s Italy, with a focus on the
topic of housing as a gauge of political
and socioeconomic interrelationships.
Michael Obrist is an architect and cofounder of
the Vienna-based firm feld72 architekten, and a
Professor of Housing and Design at TU Wien’s
Faculty of Architecture and Planning.
Antonietta Putzu is an architect who works as a
research assistant in the Research Unit Housing
and Design at TU Wien’s Faculty of Architecture
and Planning.
ISBN 9783038603238

A visually attractive graphic and textual atlas
that combines topics of architecture and
urban design with current political and
socioeconomic questions to form a multiperspective
portrait of 21st-century Italy
Some 60 concise texts explore instructive
aspects of urban housing
Contributions by distinguished practitioners,
researchers, and teachers of architecture and
urban design
Lavishly illustrated, featuring rich previously
unpublished graphs, photographs, and
visualizations
Michael Obrist, Antonietta Putzu (eds.)
The Last Grand Tour
Contemporary Phenomena and Strategies of
Living in Italy
In cooperation with the Research Unit of
Housing and Design at TU Wien
Book design by Bueronardin and Research Unit
of Housing and Design at TU Wien
Paperback
approx. 500 pages, 205 color illustrations
23.5 × 32 cm
978-3-03860-323-8 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 55.00
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Opened in 1992, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam is a key design in the
portfolio of Rem Koolhaas and OMA, the renowned firm Koolhaas
cofounded in 1975. It is part of the Museumpark, a park also
designed by OMA and the location of the Nederlands Architectuurinstituut
NAi, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, and the
Museum of Natural History. The Kunsthal’s exhibition space is
divided into three large exhibition halls and two smaller galleries.
The building also houses an auditorium and a restaurant.
A grand portrait of Rem
Koolhaas’s iconic
museum building and
the surrounding park
in Rotterdam
This outstanding space for art is a prime destination for countless
architecture fans every year, and is celebrated by Tibor Pataky,
architect and architectural historian, in this inspiring book.
He explains the history, the programmatic background, and the
cultural references of the design, which has been adapted several
times. He also places it in the context of OMA’s work of the
1980s and the intellectual environment of Deconstructivism.
Eight captivating series of illustrations—historic and new photographs,
plans and documents from OMA’s archive, and other
images—focus on the structure’s outstanding qualities and its
embedding within the park. A set of new plans, newly drawn for
this book, illustrate the highlights of OMA’s design. The volume
is a hugely attractive tribute to one of the most significant works
of post-WWII architecture in Europe.
Tibor Pataky is a Zurich-based architect,
architectural historian, and author of works
of fiction. He has worked for various Swiss
architecture firms and as a research assistant
at ETH Zürich’s Department of Architecture.
ISBN 9783038603214

First substantial study on the Kunsthal in
Rotterdam, a key design by Rem Koolhaas and
OMA and one of the most significant works of
modern architecture in Europe since 1945
Recounts the entire design process and
describes the fundamental characteristics of
this outstanding museum building
Places the Kunsthal in the context of
Koolhaas’s and OMA’s oeuvre and the intellectual
environment of Deconstructivism in the 1980s
Large-format photographs especially taken for
this book and newly drawn plans highlight the
design’s radicality and rich details
Tibor Pataky
OMA’s Kunsthal in Rotterdam
Rem Koolhaas and the New Europe
Book design by Bureau Sandra Doeller
Paperback
approx. 424 pages, 200 color and 40 b/w
illustrations and plans
21 × 29 cm
978-3-03860-321-4 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 50.00
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The name Montessori is widely and inextricably associated with
an entirely child-centered and careful pedagogy and education
of children. Maria Montessori (1870–1952) was an Italian physician,
reform educator, and philosopher whose ideas and work
have remained influential throughout the world ever since the
1910s. Her educational concept covers the entirety of development
from infancy to young adulthood. It is based on the image
of the child as a “builder of his or her self” and therefore uses
for the first time the form of open teaching and free work in a
prepared learning environment.
Montessori schools became trendsetting educational institutions
early on, and their concept is strongly reflected in their
architecture and equipment. Montessori Architecture is the first
book that comprehensively addresses architectural design, construction,
and the use of materials in and the furnishing of educational
spaces according to Montessori’s ideas. The book’s first
part explores spatial and design principles that make up good
kindergarten and school buildings. In the second part, nine case
studies are featured in detail through photographs, plans, and
concise texts. These examples are located in Europe (the Netherlands,
Belgium, Great Britain) as well as in tropical countries
(Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka). Thus, this
highly illustrative volume offers practical advice and a wealth of
information that is of utmost importance for the design of school
buildings in general.
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
Steve Lawrence is a British architect and consultant
on sports infrastructure, specializing in the
architectural concepts of Montessori education.
Benjamin Stæhli is a Swiss architect and
photographer who has also worked in Ethiopia
and Singapore, and who has been engaged in
architectural concepts of Montessori education
for many years.
ISBN 9783038603153

Illustrative manual for the design of school
buildings and educational spaces
Introduces basic design principles based on
the ideas of Italian educational pioneer Maria
Montessori
Features nine case studies of Montessori
school buildings in Europe and tropical countries
through photos, plans, and concise texts
Steve Lawrence, Benjamin Stæhli
Montessori Architecture
A Design Instrument for Schools
With a foreword by Herman Hertzberger and
photographs by Benjamin Stæhli
Book design by Nadine Wüthrich
Paperback
286 pages, 65 color and 62 b/w
illustrations and plans
20 × 26 cm
978-3-03860-315-3 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00
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Flux Redux explores design experiments undertaken at agps
architecture in Zurich and Los Angeles over the past three decades.
The book addresses the evolution of a body of work relative
to the evolution of environmental discourse, reflecting on
the shifting relations between technology and sustainability in
architecture. The presented case studies record changes in how
architecture is thought about and how it is made. They also offer
observations on the never-ending task of overcoming failures
and setbacks via more trial and error to make each building a
more sustainable agent of a larger environmental system.
Flux Redux features nine essays by agps architecture’s partners,
Marc Angélil, Manuel Scholl, Sarah Graham, and Matej Draslar,
that are supplemented with hundreds of documents from the
firm’s archive. Further contributions are provided by structural
engineer Ernst Hofmann, design studies scholar Margarete von
Lupin, as well as architect and urban researcher Rainer Hehl. A
new translation of Álvaro Siza’s essay on maintenance and stewardship,
Living a House, rounds out this volume.
A critical survey of design
experiments on sustainability
undertaken by renowned
Zurich- and Los Angeles-based
firm agps architecture
Marc Angélil is a partner at agps Zurich and Los
Angeles, professor emeritus at ETH Zurich,
and visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate
School of Design.
Also available:
Manuel Scholl is a partner at agps Zurich and
was professor of urban design at Leibniz University
in Hanover.
Out of the Box
13 Spatial
Configurations
978-3-03860-264-4
English
sFr. 49.– | € 48.–
ISBN 9783038602644
Another Take
17 Short Stories on
Architecture
978-3-85881-718-1
English
sFr. 59.– | € 58.–
ISBN 9783858817181
Sarah Graham is a partner at agps Los Angeles
and has taught as adjunct professor at the
University of Southern California in Los Angeles
and as visiting professor at Harvard University,
University of California Berkeley, and Nanjing
University in China.
Matej Draslar is a partner at agps Zurich and
recently founded the agps atelier in Prague.
9 783038 602644
9 783858 817181
ISBN 9783038602927

A unique survey of design experiments undertaken
by renowned Zurich- and Los Angelesbased
firm agps architecture
An inspiring reflection on the relation between
technology and sustainability in architecture
Offers illuminating insights into how architecture
is thought about and made
Features a new English translation of Álvaro
Siza’s seminal text Living a House
Marc Angélil, Manuel Scholl, Sarah
Graham, Matej Draslar
Flux Redux
9 Sites of Experimentation in Stocks and Flows
With contributions by Ernst Hofmann, Margarete
von Lupin, Rainer Hehl, and Álvaro Siza
Book design by Büro 146
Hardback (flexicover)
312 pages, 297 color and 176 b/w illustrations
17 × 24 cm
978-3-03860-292-7 English
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 32.00 | $ 40.00
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The new permanent display of Architekturzentrum Wien’s (Az W)
collection, opened in February 2022, is a milestone in the presentation
of architecture and its social dimensions. Now this
most comprehensive collection on Austrian architecture of the
20th and 21st centuries, featuring color images of all exhibits,
concise texts, and thematic essays, also becomes available in
book format.
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
Hot Questions—Cold Storage takes a fresh look at the country’s
architectural culture of the last 150 years, situating it in its cultural,
social, political, economic, and technical contexts. Each
of the seven chapters is prefaced by one of seven questions of
our present, asking, for example, about the impact of financial
capitalism on our cities and villages, about how we want to live,
or about the contribution architecture can make to our survival
on planet earth. These Hot Questions bring to life the Cold Storage,
the silent repository of the collection’s holdings. The book
offers a multi-perspective narrative that makes visible Austria’s
building history with all the developments, ideologies, institutions,
objects, places, personalities it comprises. The book also
illustrates what the collection of a museum of architecture can
achieve. It is far more than mere flotsam and jetsam of history.
The social relevance of objects and documents is revealed
through questioning and visualization, in connecting research
and the museum’s mission to collect.
Angelika Fitz is a cultural theorist and curator
and has been director of the Architekturzentrum
Wien since 2017.
Monika Platzer is an art historian and has been
curator and collection manager of the Architekturzentrum
Wien since 1998.
Architekturzentrum Wien is Austria’s museum
of architecture and has gained international
renown as a public space for exhibiting,
discussing, and researching the ways in which
architecture and urban development influence
and shape our everyday life.
EN
ISBN 9783038603184
GE
ISBN 9783038603177

The book accompanying the new permanent
display of Architekturzentrum Wien’s (Az W)
collection
A striking panorama of Austria’s architectural
history and building culture over the past 150
years
Concise texts and thematic essays alongside a
wealth of illustrations offer a multi-perspective
narrative
Some 500 images feature architectural models,
photos, drawings, fabric designs, furniture,
design pieces, and archival documents from the
Az W collection
Angelika Fitz, Monika Platzer,
Architekturzentrum Wien (eds.)
Hot Questions—Cold Storage
Architecture from Austria
The Permanent Exhibition at the Az W
With texts by Tom Avermaete, Angelika Fitz,
Monika Platzer, Sonja Pisarik, Michael Hieslmair
and Michael Zinganel, Christoph Schörkhuber
and Stefanie Wurnitsch
Book design by seite zwei, Christoph Schörkhuber
and Stefanie Wurnitsch
Hardback (Flexcover)
approx. 384 pages, 360 color and 140 b/w
illustrations
21 × 28 cm
978-3-03860-318-4 English
978-3-03860-317-7 German
sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 55.00 | $ 65.00
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This book features the work of Innsbruck-based architecture
studio LAAC. Since 2012, this leading Austrian firm has been
developing and exploring innovative architectural responses to
contemporary urban and landscape challenges. This is done in
collaboration with a network of other architects, artists, graphic
designers, and experts from other disciplines. In addition to
public buildings for culture, education, and sports, commercial
buildings, and industrial structures, LAAC has a particular focus
on landscape and public space designs.
Designs for cultural and commercial
buildings, housing, public spaces and
landscape, and high-altitude Alpine
infrastructure: the diverse work of
Austrian architectural firm LAAC
Information & Formation is the first monograph on LAAC and documents
ten realized designs and projects in Innsbruck and other
parts of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, Vienna, and Venice
in much detail through photographs, plans, visualizations, and
texts. Essays by international authors and a complete catalog of
LAAC’s work to date round out this volume.
Kathrin Aste is an architect and cofounder
of Austrian architecture firm LAAC. She also
teaches as a professor at the Institute for
Experimental Architecture, University of
Innsbruck.
Frank Ludin is an architect and cofounder
of Austrian architecture firm LAAC. He has
also held various teaching posts at Austrian
universities.
ISBN 9783038603276

First book on Innsbruck-based studio LAAC,
one of Austria’s leading architecture firms of
the younger generation
Features ten exemplary designs and projects
from LAAC’s portfolio and their underlying
concepts with photographs, plans, visualizations,
and texts
Offers rich previously unpublished material
LAAC’s focus is on buildings for culture, education,
sports, commerce and manufacturing,
housing, high-altitude Alpine infrastructure,
and public space and landscape design
Kathrin Aste, Frank Ludin (eds.)
Information & Formation
About Landscape, Architecture and Cities
With contributions by Roger Connah, Oliver
Domeisen, Claudia Pasquero, and Florian
Waldvogel
Book design by Circus, Büro für Kommunikation
und Gestaltung
Hardback
approx. 304 pages, 500 color and b/w
illustrations
19.5 × 29 cm
978-3-03860-327-6 English / German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00
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For centuries, dealing with cold has been the dominant climatic
factor for architectural design in Central Europe. The climate
change apparent now assigns this role to heat. Architecture
and urban design strive for efficient, resource-saving technical
solutions to meet the changing climatic conditions and the
energy standards they demand without really questioning customary
notions of comfort, forms of living, and urban coexistence.
Yet architects must increasingly search for experimental
approaches and new ways in which we can live together well in a
rapidly warming climate, in particular in cities and metropolitan
regions.
Despite a supposed powerlessness in the face of the impending
climate catastrophe, the contributions collected in this volume
offer a diverse range of narratives that tell of experiences, observations,
and the needs of people that inhabit hotter worlds,
both real and imagined. What role as climate producers can architecture
and the city play in shaping our habitat if these important
issues are understood not only in purely technological
but also in cultural and social terms?
Social issues and experimental
approaches to architecture
and urban design in times of
climate change
Christina Condak is a partner with Vienna-based
architecture firm NURARCHITEKTUR and a
professor of design at the Institute of Art and
Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Michelle Howard is director of Berlin-based
design firm constructconcept and a professor of
architecture at the Institute of Art and Architecture,
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Christina Jauernik is an architect, artistic
researcher, and dancer working as a senior
scientist at the Institute of Art and Architecture,
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Linda Lackner is an architect and theorist who
explores in her research questions of visibility,
inclusion and exclusion, and the manifestation
of ideologies and past policies through architecture
and urban design.
Lisa Schmidt-Colinet is a senior scientist and
deputy head of the Institute of Art and Architecture,
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is
also a cofounder of Vienna-based design firm
schmidt-colinet · schmoeger.
Angelika Schnell is a professor of theory and
history of architecture and of design at the Platform
History Theory Criticism (HTC), Academy
of Fine Arts Vienna.
Eva Sommeregger is a cofounder of design
studio eyeTry architecture and a senior researcher
at the Art Academy of Latvia’s (LMDA)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Design and
Architecture in Riga.
ISBN 9783038603283

An illustrated reader on experimental approaches
in architecture and urban design to
enable good urban coexistence in a rapidly
warming climate
Offers essays and playful concepts to address
pressing urban design issues in times of acute
climate change
Brings into focus also cultural and social
aspects of climate change
Features new and previously unpublished texts
and rich visual material
Christina Condak, Michelle Howard,
Christina Jauernik, Linda Lackner,
Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Angelika Schnell,
Eva Sommeregger (eds.)
Wiener Hitze
Architecture and Storytelling in Times of Heat
In cooperation with the Institute of Art and
Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Book design by Alexander Möllner
Paperback
approx. 320 pages, 200 color and 50 b/w
illustrations
15.5 × 23 cm
978-3-03860-328-3 English / German
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 28.00 | $ 35.00
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Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner (gmp), with more
than 500 employees at seven locations in Germany, China, and
Vietnam, is a world-leading architectural firm, as well as being
one of Germany’s largest. In 1996 gmp realized its first project
in Italy: the exhibition Renaissance of Railway Stations that was
part of the 6th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice
Biennale. In 1997 gmp’s winning design for the new exhibition
halls in Rimini marked the beginning of its list of another 59
projects in the country, comprising diverse structures such as
train stations, airports, stadiums, hospitals, or research buildings.
Many of these were for sites of historical significance that
required the utmost sensitivity in execution; 13 of them have actually
been realized to date.
This book tells the story of gmp’s work in Italy in seven chapters,
placing all projects in the historical context of their respective
location. In an interview, Volkwin Marg, one of gmp’s two
founding partners, talks about his experiences, his enthusiasm
for Italy’s building culture, gmp’s great successes, unexpected
major obstacles, tough negotiations, and deep disappointments.
Numerous color photographs, plans, and historical reference
images supplement the texts.
Train stations, airports, stadiums,
hospitals, research buildings, and
exhibition designs: this book tells
about leading German architecture
firm gmp’s experiences from 25 years
of work in Italy that have produced
60 projects, of which 13 have actually
been realized.
Sebastian Redecke is an architect and former
editor of German architecture magazine
Bauwelt, and has written and edited numerous
books on architecture.
Volkwin Marg, together with Meinhard von
Gerkan (1935–2022), founded Architekten
von Gerkan, Marg und Partner (gmp) in 1965.
Marg’s best-known designs for gmp include
the European Patent Office in Munich, the New
Leipzig Trade Fair, the refurbished Olympic
Stadium in Berlin, and the stadiums in Cape
Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Brasília, Manaus,
and Belo Horizonte for the FIFA World Cups in
South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014.
IT
ISBN 9783038603269
GE
ISBN 9783038603252

Features 60 projects and realized designs in
Italy by Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und
Partner (gmp) through images, plans, and texts
Offers a survey of gmp’s experience from
25 years of planning and building activity in
Italy with successes and disappointments
gmp is one of Germany’s largest and among
the world’s leading architecture firms
Sebastian Redecke, Volkwin Marg (eds.)
Architekten von Gerkan, Marg
und Partner
Costruire in Italia—Esperienze 1996–2023
Contributions by Sebastian Redecke, Volkwin
Marg, and Clemens Kusch
Book design by Büro Otto Sauhaus
Hardback
approx. 256 pages, 220 color and 50 b/w
illustrations, 60 plans
19 × 24 cm
978-3-03860-326-9 Italian
978-3-03860-325-2 German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00
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Rarely is an architect as closely connected to his or her place
of work as is the case with Armando Ruinelli, born 1954, and
his native village of Soglio in Val Bregaglia, Switzerland. Yet, far
from what one might expect with such a small and remote place
of barely 100 inhabitants, the limitation in this case became a
distinction. Ruinelli’s attitude and work have grown organically
from the village’s strong stone-built dwellings. Thus, he has
become an internationally revered master of building in existing
fabric, in particular in an Alpine environment.
This first monograph on Armando Ruinelli documents comprehensively
his work over nearly four decades. It demonstrates the
evolution of his architectural language from the first buildings
in Soglio of the 1980s, to conversions of existing buildings and
designs for new ones that continue local traditions but also meet
today’s demands in housing, and to the latest works, such as the
almost abstract studio for Swiss artist Miriam Cahn in Stampa.
Photographs and plans, as well as a photo essay newly created
for this book by Swiss photographer Katalin Deér, are supplemented
with texts and conversations between Ruinelli and his
equally renowned fellow architect Gion A. Caminada that illuminate
the architect’s work and attitude and convey the particular
features of his Alpine environment.
Armando Ruinelli: an internationally
revered master of building in existing
fabric and in an Alpine environment
Axel Simon is an architect and editor of Swiss
architecture and design magazine Hochparterre.
ISBN 9783038603207

First monograph on Swiss architect Armando
Ruinelli, an internationally revered master
of building in existing fabric and in an Alpine
environment
Documents Ruinelli’s work of four decades
comprehensively through images, plans, texts,
and conversations
Richly illustrated with numerous previously
unpublished images and plans from Ruinelli’s
archive
Axel Simon (ed.)
Armando Ruinelli Architetti
Progetti 1984–2022. Leggere il tempo
With contributions by Florian Aicher, Gion A.
Caminada, Ludmila Seifert, Anna Innocenti,
Quintus Miller, Armando Ruinelli, and Axel
Simon. Photo essay by Katalin Deér
Book design by Herendi Artemisio
Paperback
approx. 264 pages, 200 color and 40 b/w
illustrations and plans
21 × 28 cm
978-3-03860-320-7 Italian / German
sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 55.00 | $ 70.00
June 2023 (Europe)
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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
This eighth edition of Best of Austria offers a survey of the creative
and economic achievements of Austrian architecture firms
and the country’s building culture in general, exemplified by
the projects and people who have been awarded national and
international architecture prizes in 2020 and 2021. The book features
117 buildings through photos, plans, and concise texts by
renowned authors. In addition, distinguished individuals, architectural
teams, and institutions are introduced in brief portraits.
An introductory essay by Triin Ojari, director of the Estonian Museum
of Architecture in Tallinn, analyzes architectural events
and building culture in Austria from an outside perspective. The
book is rounded out by a detailed index providing relevant information
on the various awards.
Architekturzentrum Wien is Austria’s museum
of architecture and has gained international
renown as a public space for exhibiting,
discussing, and researching the ways in which
architecture and urban development influence
and shape our everyday life.
ISBN 9783038603160

Features award-winning buildings of 2020 and
2021 in Austria by Austrian and international
architects
Images, plans, and concise texts on 117
buildings in an attractive book design
Detailed index providing relevant information
on Austrian and international architecture
awards
Architekturzentrum Wien (ed.)
Best of Austria
Architecture 2020_21
With an essay by Triin Ojari and texts by
Klaus-Jürgen Bauer, Sonja Bettel, Robert
Fabach, Barbara Feller, Eva Guttmann, Gudrun
Hausegger, Manuela Hötzl, Anne Isopp,
Gabriele Kaiser, Elke Krasny, Marion Kuzmany,
Isabella Marboe, Astrid Meyer-Hainisch,
Romana Ring, Robert Temel, and Nicola Weber
Book design by lenz + henrich gestalterinnen
Hardback
224 pages, 185 color and 143 b/w illustrations
22 × 29 cm
978-3-03860-316-0 English / German
sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 50.00 | $ 65.00
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