Maison de la Chine
A Building by Atelier FCJZ
In 2023, the new Maison de la Chine was opened as part of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, the French capital’s famous campus of student residencies founded in 1925. The Maison de la Chine’s design bears the DNA of traditional Chinese architecture, yet Atelier FCJZ also clearly acknowledges its inspiration from Le Corbusier. Maison de la Chine documents the building and its design process in rich detail through sketches, drawings, plans, and photographs.
Paper $35.00
DEON
A Workbook
Deon: A Workbook uses sketches and drawings as the main lens through which it explores the firm’s work across nineteen buildings and projects. The volume focuses on the diverse processes that characterize the construction of architecture, the joint search for solutions, and the flow of design. Sketches and drawings are reproduced in true size and supplemented with plans, visualizations, and photographs. These lavish visuals illustrate DEON Architekten’s design process and realized buildings.
Cloth $55.00
Concéntrico
Urban Innovation Laboratory
Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory reflects on the first decade of the international Concéntrico festival and the one hundred and fifty projects and designs commissioned for it. The festival’s aim is to serve as a laboratory searching for creative ways of using architecture and design to strengthen communities and to support the dialogue between designers and citizens.
Paper $40.00
Architecture as Built Criticism
Proceeds of the International Conference on Architectural Criticism 2023
Can architects express explicit criticism through their buildings? Is modernist housing, for example, a collective criticism of unsustainable living conditions? Can a state’s embassy convey critical messages to the home and host country? The essays collected in this volume present a wide range of built criticisms. Their authors’ concise analyses broaden our view of an insufficiently explored field of knowledge.
Paper $45.00
Visiting
Inken Baller & Hinrich Baller, Berlin 1966–89
Visiting is the revised hardback edition of a comprehensive survey of Inken and Hinrich Baller’s work, which was first published in 2022. It offers detailed photographic documentation of their buildings in their current state, reproductions of original plans and drawings, historic documents, and construction site and aerial photographs. The rich visual material is rounded out by essays and conversations with the architects and with residents of the buildings.
Cloth $55.00
Fawad Kazi KSSG – OKS
Volume III: Haus 07A
Edited by Marko Sauer and Christoph Wieser
Since 2011, the Swiss city of St. Gallen’s public hospital KSSG–OKS has been undergoing a comprehensive rebuilding and extension program. Developed by Zurich‑based firm Fawad Kazi Architekt in collaboration with the KSSG–OKS planning consortium, the vast undertaking will completely transform the site into a large, coherent building complex by 2029. This third volume of what will be five on this major and hugely demanding urban development project is dedicated to Haus 07A, the largest of the new buildings.
Cloth $55.00