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Black Architect

"This book is about the experiences of Black architects in America. But it is also about you: the buildings you inhabit, the spaces you traverse, and how and why they are all influenced by mindsets and ideals that may or may not match your own."

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Brick 26

“In a time of climate crisis, the lessons of brick are not nostalgic, but urgent.”

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The Most Beautiful German Books 2026

Two Park Books titles among the winners!

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Junior Architects. New Paradigms in Design Education

A field report from contested terrain tracing the pursuit of equity in architecture and design education in the United States amid larger political rifts

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Mysteries of a Communist Cave

Gumshoe presents: Oscar Niemeyer’s mysterious headquarters for the French Communist Party in Paris

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Swiss Print Award 2026

"Unfinished Atlas" among the winners!

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Antifascist Architecture

What does built antifascism look like? And who builds antifascist architecture?

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Monsters and Mutants

Learning from plant intelligence: revolutionary concepts for Hybrids and Earth Buildings, part nature, part architecture

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New Releases

Becoming

Architectures for a Planet in Transition

Brick 26

Outstanding International Brick Architecture

Spirits Out of Trees

Francis Kéré. Gando / Montana

Junior Architects

New Paradigms in Design Education

The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Mysteries of a Communist Cave

The Roofless Truth

Planning and Architecture for Homelessness

Global – Neutral

Architecture from Austria in Africa and Asia 1955–1989

New Schools on the Block

A Typological Inventory

Somewhere, Something, Someone

Leers Weinzapfel Associates

Defining Architectural Quality

Black Architect

Monsters and Mutants

Explorations in the Architecture-Nature Continuum

Antifascist Architecture

SHIFT

Architecture in Times of Radical Change

Totems

Selected Essays on Architecture

Seoul Urban Architecture

Rising from the Crushing Bowl

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Highlights

The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Mysteries of a Communist Cave

New Schools on the Block

A Typological Inventory

Black Architect

Antifascist Architecture

Totems

Selected Essays on Architecture

Seoul Urban Architecture

Rising from the Crushing Bowl

Architecture by Peter Celsing Photographed by John Håkansson

Residential Architecture

Meditations in Entropy

The Work of Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA

Typology

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

Kazuo Shinohara – 3 Houses

House in White, House in Uehara, House in Yokohama

SAY 25/26

Swiss Architecture Yearbook 2025/26

Public Spaces, NY

Dirty Old River

Esch Sintzel Architekten

Buildings and Projects

A House to Live With

16 Variations by Dom Hans van der Laan and His Companions

Peter Zumthor 1985–2013

Buildings and Projects

The Architecture of Public Space

Sigurd Lewerentz

Architect of Death and Life

Spotlight – Swiss Architectural Firms

Penzel Valier

Architecture, Construction, Design 2007–2024

Unfinished Atlas

19 Projects by Manuel Herz Architects

DEON

A Workbook

Esch Sintzel Architekten

Buildings and Projects

Food for Architects

Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz – Exponents of Excellent Housing

Armando Ruinelli Architetti

Progetti 1982–2022. Leggere il tempo

Roger Boltshauser – Response

Out of the Box

13 Spatial Configurations

Buchner Bründler – Buildings II

Portraits

15 Buildings KAAN Architecten

Poolology of Housing

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Black Architect

Black Architect is a provocative and deeply personal investigation into the intersection of race, identity, and the built environment. Written by architect and educator Sekou Cooke, author of Hip-Hop Architecture, this book blends memoir, cultural critique, and a series of candid conversations with leading Black practitioners to explore what it truly means to be a Black architect in America.

Cooke traces his journey from a childhood in Jamaica and an early fascination with architecture to Ivy League institutions and into a professional field shaped by Eurocentric ideals, confronting readers with an uncomfortable reality: architecture in the United States continues to be constructed—both literally and conceptually—through a predominantly white lens. But what happens when Blackness enters that space, not just as identity but as a mode of thinking, designing, and living?

The book charts the historical marginalization of Black voices in architecture, the structural and cultural obstacles they face, and the alternative visions they bring to the discipline. It offers both a critical reckoning with architecture’s exclusionary past and a hopeful blueprint for a more inclusive future. Most importantly, it highlights why the subject matters to everyone, including those who are neither Black nor architects.

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By Sekou Cooke
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With contributions by Jack Travis, Kimberly Dowdell, Pascale Sablan, Mabel O. Wilson, Craig L. Wilkins, James Garrett Jr., Jonathan D. Moody, Zena Howard, Sir David Adjaye, Raymond “Ray” Dalton, Nina Cooke John, Andrés L. Hernandez, Olalekan “Lek” Jeyifous, Tya J. Winn, Germane Barnes, Lesley Naa Norle Lokko and Sekou Cooke

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Book design by Alexis Mark
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“Set along a quiet residential canal, it abuts an abandoned fifteenth-century house in a dense UNESCO-protected neighborhood. The project never touches the city itself; it floats on fifteen pontoons, its only allowable points of contact.

Inside, the framing shifts. On one side, sistered two-by-fours run in tight sequence. On the other, two-by-eights expand the spacing, doubling the rhythm and subtly altering the scale. This play between frequencies registers as a kind of serial instability.
[…] From most angles, the pavilion appears as incomplete or discontinuous; this uncanniness defamiliarizes the neighboring house, rendering it newly legible and turning it into a provisional twin.”

PROJECT II, Brugge Diptych

Jon Lott—Proximities.
Available in bookstores worldwide.

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Edited by Julie Cirelli
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With contributions by Jon Lott, Toshiko Mori, Charles Shafaieh and Julie Cirelli
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Images Slide 1 & 3 © Stijn Bollart
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Book design by Elektrosmog, Zurich
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Brick 26. Ausgezeichnete internationale Ziegelarchitektur

Seit 2004 bietet wienerberger, der weltweit grösste Hersteller von Ziegeln und anderen Tonbaustoffen, mit dem internationalen Brick Award alle zwei Jahre eine Plattform für herausragende Ziegelarchitektur. Die zwölfte Ausgabe 2026 verzeichnete 849 Einreichungen aus 68 Ländern, mehr denn je zuvor.
Brick 26 präsentiert die 50 nominierten Projekte sowie die Preisträger:innen in fünf Kategorien, ausgewählt von einer internationalen Jury von Expert:innen, durch illustrierende Texte, Fotografien sowie Pläne und Zeichnungen. Die ausgewählten Bauten überzeugen durch ihre hohe architektonische Qualität und zeigen die grosse gestalterische und konstruktive Vielseitigkeit von Tonbaustoffen, einem Baumaterial mit fast fünf Jahrtausenden ungebrochener Tradition. Die zunehmende Wiederverwendung historischer Ziegel und die Suche nach passiven Klimalösungen charakterisieren zahlreiche der eingereichten Entwürfe. Thematische Essays renommierter Autor:innen ordnen die Bauten in einen grösseren architektonischen und gesellschaftlichen Kontext ein.

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Gestaltet von Bruno Margreth
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The International Committee of Architectural Critics CICA brings together critics, theorists and historians from all over the world. The members of CICA share the conviction that criticism and the theoretical discourse of architecture in general are integral parts of the architectural process. Consequently, CICA and its members see themselves as working towards a better architecture and better cities alongside the architects.

The contributions to the International Conferences on Architectural Criticism are published in anthologies – rich sources of material on architectural criticism and related topics, reflecting topical international perspectives.

Have a look at the table of contents for any volume that interests you or order your copy directly from your trusted bookstore or from our website – Link in Bio.

To find out more about CICA, visit cicarchitecture.org!

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Hannes Meyers Interieurs. Möbel und Innenraumgestaltung am Bauhaus Dessau 1928–1930

Der Schweizer Architekt Hannes Meyer (1989–1954) war zeitlebens auf der Suche nach innovativen Formen einer am sozialen Gebrauch orientierten Architektur. Zusammen mit seinen Mitstreiterinnen und Mitstreitern skizzierte er auch im Bereich der Möbelgestaltung und Innenarchitektur die Idee einer anderen Moderne, die nicht die Formulierung eines Stils, sondern die Alltagsbelange des Menschen ins Zentrum setzt. Typisierung, Zerlegbarkeit, Ergonomie und eine neue Vorstellung von Wohnlichkeit führten unter anderem zur Entwicklung neuer organischer Gestaltungsformen und der Verwendung vermeintlich unmoderner Materialien wie Holz und Textil. Seine Projekte Coop-Zimmer (1926) und Volkswohnung (1929) sind Ikonen der modernen Avantgarde. Sie skizzieren die Idee einer anderen Moderne, die nicht die Formulierung eines Stils, sondern die Alltagsbelange des Menschen ins Zentrum setzt.

Dieses Buch mit Beiträgen führender Spezialist:innen widmet sich den Interieurs und Möbelentwürfen von Hannes Meyer und seinen Wegbegleiter:innen. Mit einem Fokus auf die Werkstattproduktion und die realisierten Projekte des Dessauer Bauhauses 1928–1930 zeigt es erstmals umfassend dessen Gestaltungspraxis auf, die sich vom Möbelstil der klassischen Avantgarde absetzt und in neuer Weise die funktionalen und sozialen Ideen der Moderne einzulösen versucht.

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Herausgegeben von Philipp Oswalt und Ute Famulla

Mit Beitragen von Josef Albers, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Otti Berger, Marianne Brandt, Gerda Breuer, Andreas Buss, Tatiana Efrussi, Ute Famulla, Raquel Franklin, Naum Gabo, Anja Guttenberger, Gustav Hassenpflug, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Ernst Kállai, Rainer Metzendorf, Hannes Meyer, Philipp Oswalt, Ingrid Radewaldt, Robin Rehm, Arthur Rüegg, Georg Schmidt, Mart Stam, Sabine Thümmler, Andreas Vass, Georgios Varelis und Frank Werner

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From Stuttgart to Zurich – Welcome aboard!

Starting in 2027, the two yearbooks Sustainable Architecture & Design and Experience Architecture & Design – successfully developed since 1998 by av edition in Stuttgart – will be published under one roof at Park Books.

The current teams of editors and Petra Kiedaisch as project manager will continue to oversee the book projects in the future. This applies to the Sustainable Architecture & Design series, which covers pioneering sustainable projects in architecture, as well as the three existing yearbooks on trade fair, event, and retail design, which will be synergistically bundled into one volume: Experience Architecture & Design.

Our colleagues at av edition have decided to wind down their publishing house by the end of 2026. We are extremely grateful to av edition for decades of outstanding work! And together with the editors, we look forward to receiving many impressive, innovative, and outstanding contributions for the upcoming yearbooks!

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