Books published by Park Books

The Climate Garden experiment enables the experience of climate change's consequences firsthand. This new book serves as manual for its implementation on a local or regional level anywhere in the world.

Offers fourteen previously unpublished essays by Lars Lerup, who ranks among the most significant teachers and researchers in the theory of urbanisation.

Alfred Neumann is regarded as one of Israel's most significant architects, and this is the first comprehensive critical overview of his built and unbuilt work, his theories and methodology.

An important contribution to the discourses on the social integration of refugees and the requirements mass migration movement create in architecture and urban design, and featuring essays with and contributions by high-profile figures in academia, international architecture and design firms.

A revised edition of the 2001 original, this is an intellectual introduction to iconic ideas of modern living by Inaki Abalos who ranks as one of the most significant contemporary teachers of architecture.

A handy guidebook to significant historic architecture in Lower Austria, which is a popular tourist destination around Vienna.

Switzerland has a long tradition of co-operative house developments and this book features 50 recent projects that can serve as models for how to meet the increasing demand for urban housing.

New survey of award-winning contemporary architecture in Austria, including around 170 projects presented with text, images and plans.

Berlin's Tiergarten is a metropolitan biotope of unique biodiversity and a vast public space beyond economic, cultural, political, or urban conventions, and this book examines this historic landscape from biological, socio-cultural, historical, urbanist, and socio-political perspectives.

Dietmar Steiner ranks among Europe's most eminent architectural experts, and here his diary of observations about international architecture in recent decades contributes to the understanding of current trends.

The second volume of a series of four books on the creation of architectural space.

First monograph on the Indian structural engineer Mahendra Raj, featuring 28 of his pioneering buildings including previously unpublished material.

Features six case studies of urbanisation process around cities in Egypt, Italy, the US, Vietnam, Oman and Brazil.

An entertaining and easy-to-understand manual to produce one's own plywood furniture.

Three architects and architectural firms from Belgium, Spain and the US research the archives of Abalos & Herreros (1984-2006), revisiting some of the 250 projects now held by the Canadian Center for Architecture.

Documents a unique training facility for the poor rural population in the Gaibandha district in northern Bangladesh, and featuring photographs by Swiss architectural photographer Helene Binet.

With contributions by international experts, this latest volume in the UFO: Explorations of Urbanism series focuses on Venice as an exemplary metropolitan area.

Paulo Providencia is a Portuguese architect, equally revered for his built work as his writings and lectures, and this is his first book in English.

A reader on the often complex construction of meaning in publications and exhibitions, featuring contributions from scholars from the US, Britain and Switzerland.

The first monograph on 4a Architekten, illustrated with images and plans and offering insights into the architects' vision, range of building tasks and working methods.

Featuring statements and opinions by emerging architects and theoreticians from around the world, this is an analysis of the role and importance of personal relationships, forms of collaboration, and hierarchies in contemporary architectural production.

A comprehensive, highly original, and also satirical contribution to an international discourse in architecture.

Documents an unusual building task, and the innovative solutions found by the architects to enable the House of Switzerland to move to many venues around the world.

Including previously unpublished material, this is the most comprehensive overview of Friedman's work published to date, offering a greater understanding of his work and visions.

Founded in 1964, BIO is one of the longest-standing regular design events in the world, and this book is published to mark it's 50th anniversary.