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The second volume of the five-part building monograph on Zurich-based Fawad Kazi Architects' rebuilding and extension project St Gallen's cantonal hospital (KSSG) and the new regional children's hospital for eastern Switzerland (OKS). Text in English and German.

The first monographic book on Stan Allen as a designing architect, featuring a series of small buildings and unrealised designs in the Hudson Valley, NY.

The first survey entirely devoted to the metropolitan region of Berlin-Brandenburg and its urban design potentials in the 21st century, featuring prospects and projects through texts, illustrations, and lavish informative maps and graphics

An urbanistic investigation of the English manor house and how the Manorial System can serve as testing ground for a modern understanding of landownership in the capitalist age.

First monograph in English on the work of London-based firm Farshid Moussavi Architects, lavishly illustrated with images, plans and drawings, developing Moussavi's claim that good architecture is based on the micro-politics of our everyday lives.

First comprehensive survey of research work produced by The New Normal program at Moscow's Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design, one of the internationally most highly recognised forward-thinking schools of design.

An introduction to Beijing-based architect and urban designer Xu Tiantian's concept of Architectural Acupuncture, discussing also the influence of architecture on cultural self-understanding and economic renewal in 21st-century rural China.

A new monograph comprehensively documenting the outstanding achievements in housing by leading Swiss firm Diener & Diener Architects, highlighting the significance of their work in contemporary residential architecture.

Architect, artist, curator, collector, museum founder: personal insights into Sergei Tchoban's unconventional range of activities between his native Russia and Germany.

The first monograph on Frankfurt-based firm Stefan Forster Architetkten, highlighting its continuous interest in and engagament with raising standards in housing and featuring thirty designs that exemplify its approach and philosophy. Text in English and German.

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.

First monograph on Paris-based h2o Architectes is one of France's leading up-and-coming firms, highlighting their approach to tasks and locations that is marked by careful interpretation of historic layers, featuring also a new essay by celebrated Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi. Text in English and French.

A study on the fast development of the logistics industry in Central and Eastern Europe and the transformation of farmland into vast 'Steel Cities' caused by it, highlighting its hugely problematic effects on the built environment, landscapes, societies and individuals. Text in English and Czech.

Documents a scheme for the preservation of cultivated Alpine landscape and the recconstruction of public space in the Swiss canton of Ticino, highlighting the impact on landscapes of rural exodus in search for better opportunities and more comfortable ways of life. Text in English and Italian.

A visual and textual exploration of softwood timber-framed construction in the United States since 1832, highlighting also how this quintessentially American type of construction has come to dominate the USA's built landscape and erased typological and social distinctions in a socially and economically deeply divided country.

A documentation of STATISTA, an outstanding example of collective urban development based at Berlin's Haus der Statistik (HdS), offering unique insights into the undertaking and events in and around HdS. Text in English and German.

A building monograph documenting the major redesign and refurbishment of the Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris in the east wing of Palais de Tokyo in Paris by h2o architectes and Studio GGSV. Text in English and French.

First monograph on Italian architect Quirino De Giorgio, featuring a new photographic survey of his sixty surviving buildings in Northern Italy from all stages of his career.

First in-depth investigation of Allied forces' policies in occupied Austria during the Cold War and their impact on the country's architecture and building activity

First comprehensive monograph on Candalepas Asscociates, one of Australia's leading firms, featuring their key designs through brief texts, photographs, plans and elevations, hand-drawings and sketches alongside topical essays.

Features the winning and nominated designs submitted to the 2020 International Brick Award through brief texts, atmospheric images, site and floor plans, views, elevations and sections.

A manual on regaining and improving public space in urban environments by transforming space occupied by increasingly dense traffic and by creating better balance between pedestrians and vehicles in mutually used spaces. Text in English and German.

Presents Sao Paulo's prudent and inclusive policy in urban development and infrastructure planning as a prime example among mega-cities in emerging countries for how to tackle many of the major social challenges they face

First monograph on French architect Stephane Fenrandez, a contemporary master of minimalist architecture. Text in English and French.

A uniquely comprehensive investigation of Hans Scharoun's search for a the ideal floorplan in housing, featuring rich and previously unpublished writings, original plans and other archive material by this key figure of modern architecture in Germany.

A revisitation of modernist houses by Richard Neutra, Rudolph M. Schindler and their contemporaries in California, offering uniquely intimate insights into a sophisticated way of life and presenting the buildings in their present state.

The first monogpraph on the work and vision of Paris-based PARC Architectes which features around fifteen key designs in a cosmogonic story through technical and artistic illustrations and brief texts. Text in French.

The new Towards 2050 series collects, structures and evaluates the knowledge gained throughout the progress of smart living lab's research.

First monograph on the work and vision of the remarkable Swiss firm BABL documents some twenty-five years of work by the firm and demonstrates their approach and vision through a selection of thirty-four built and unrealised designs.

The new Towards 2050 series collects, structures and evaluates the knowledge gained throughout the progress of smart living lab's research.