Books published by Park Books

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investigation of Hans Scharoun's search for a the ideal floorplan in housing, featuring rich and previously unpublished writings, original plans and other archive material by this key figure of modern architecture in Germany.

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.

First monograph on the important Austrian firm driendl*architects

Today, Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino (1905-73) is known chiefly for his furniture designs. Based on years of research and drawing on rich archival material as well as on Mollino's own writings, this new book is the overdue tribute to an extraordinary personality in 20th-century architecture.

A unique study on the topic of building additions and vertical expansion in steel construction, featuring outstanding examples by international architects and offering theoretical and technical basics.

An unconventional building monograph documenting Ateliers O-S Architectes' design for and the construction of the new Jacques Carat Theater in Cachan near Paris.

A compact and concise survey of the use of steel in residential architecture, reflecting on historic icons and featuring outstanding contemporary examples.

First monograph on the work of Swiss firm G8A Architects in Europe and Southeast Asia, highlighting the differing preconditions and scope for the creation of architecture in these two regions.

This manifesto by architect Valerio Olgiati and theoretician Markus Breitschmid demonstrates a new approach in architecture in a world free of ideologies and, therefore, references. It offers a foundation for conceiving a non-referential architecture in that non-referential world. Text in English and Italian.

An atlas of plans and images of residential, educational, and industrial building typologies that traces the process of building design from inspirational reference to completed plan and model

Labics, based in Rome, is a leader among Italy's up-and-coming architecture firms and has gained great international acclaim for submissions to competitions and a number of realised projects.

First monographic book in years on one of France's biggest and most highly renowned architecture firms.

Promenades is both a treatise on the relationship between architecture and photography and the first book to focus on the work of the Swiss architectural firm Bauart Architects and Planners.

Architectural objects confront their environment. They constitute a boundary, a form with an internalised point of view.

Architecture is the quintessential generalist pursuit, requiring practical knowledge of geometry, technology, politics, history, culture, and economics, as well as an understanding how these disparate pieces fit together within the context of architectural practice. In short, an architect's expertise lies in big picture constructs, or totalisation.

HEC Paris is a leading European school of advanced business studies with a global community of students from Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Crafting the Facade presents the results of this productive co-operative study, which cut across disciplines to look at historical developments in the design and building of facades, the theoretical underpinnings that can explain these developments, the common materials and their main characteristics, and the techniques used in assembly.

First volume of a five-volume set documenting the complex and innovative St Gallen hospital extension project in Switzerland. Text in English and German.

First monograph on this significant representative of Italy's post-war modernism.

Presents latest research on settlement structures that belong neither fully to metropolitan nor to rural spaces.