AUTUMN 2025
Working from his Urbana practice in Bangladesh, Kashef Chowdhury designs architecture that is rooted in the history and nature of its location – whereby the latter also relates to a spiritual and cultural level. This explains his fascination for Kahn’s parliamentary building in Dhaka, which inspired this volume of photo essays. Kahn’s design is characterised by an innovative architectural language that combines western and eastern traditions, forms and materials. For instance, in view of the great importance of water in Bengali tradition, he placed the building complex by an artificial lake. Furthermore, although it is defined by strict geometrical forms, the parliamentary building reflects the transcendental nature of the National Assembly, defining the hopeful founding years of the independent state of Bangladesh.
Texts: Kashef Chowdhury and Juhani Pallasmaa
Ancien Manège
This book documents the transformation of the Ancien Manège in Geneva, a horse riding hall that was built in the 19 th century and converted into a garage in the 1950s. Around 200 pages long, it brings together texts, photographs, plans, construction details and specifications in both French and English. The publication traces the history of the Manège, the participatory process that led to its transformation into a civic building, the architectural project, the execution of the works and the building’s current use. With graphic design by Studio Mut, it includes a series of conversations curated by Isabel Concheiro and photographic essays by David Grandorge, Andrés Fraga, Didier Jordan and Luis Díaz y Díaz. The book highlights contemporary issues relating to heritage transformation, sustainable development and shared governance. Intended for both professionals and the general public, it offers an in-depth perspective on an exemplary reuse project within a complex urban and historical context.
Photos: David Grandorge, Andrés Fraga, Didier Jordan, Luis Díaz y Díaz
Book design: Studio Mut
Approx. 180 pages, approx. 17 × 23 cm
Approx. 50 images, approx. 5 plans
Flexcover, thread-stitched
9783037613481
English ISBN 978-3-03761-348-1
Approx. CHF 38.00 / EUR 38.00
Publication: approx. December 2025
ISBN 978-3-03761-348-1
Kompendium 2009–2017, Professur Christian
Kerez
This book presents a comprehensive collection of works from the first academic years of the Architecture course at the ETH Zurich – including simple spatial interventions, functional analyses and conceptual studies on an urban-planning level. The training focuses not only on teaching fundamental aspects, but also on engaging with space, light, material, structure and scale – as well as discovering one’s own design approach. The compendium compiles projects that are exemplary of the creative potential and diversity of architectural stances at the starting point of the students’ training, as well as providing insight into the ETH teaching methods; it is not least an appeal for architectural teaching that regards thinking, perceiving and designing as an inextricable unity.
Armon Semadeni
Comprising around 300 pages, the formal and content-related concept of this publication is based on a series of lectures by Armon Semadeni, covering a number of years.
The book Relationships (working title) sheds light on and documents 14 selected buildings, studies and competitions that have been designed, planned and implemented by the architectural practice since its foundation in 2009. Going beyond classic project presentation, the volume offers a thematically focused investigation of contemporary urban-planning and architectural aspects, with the aim of guiding readers beyond the concrete projects to a critical engagement with society and its constructed environment.
The renowned book designers Valeria Bonin and Diego Bontognali were responsible for the volume’s high-quality design and graphic implementation. Roman Keller has photographically documented all the buildings, from their conception to their presentation to the clients; Alexandre Jaquemet and Anja Schori use their unconventional photographic perspectives to highlight specific urban, landscape and architectural moments.
Articles by: Sascha Rössler, Bernadette Fülscher
Graphic design: Bonbon – Visuelle Gestaltung
Davide Macullo Architects
After 20 years working for Mario Botta, Davide Macullo founded his own office in Lugano in 2000. His architecture is the result of dialogue with the location and is characterised by intuition, openness and emotionality. His aim is to use architecture to improve the quality of life and charge locations sensorially. This monograph structures the work of the Ticino-based architect – comprising over 400 projects, including master plans, international hotels, furniture design and art consulting – into three main chapters. The focus lies on ten of his most definitive buildings, such as the WAP Art Space (2017) in Seoul, which combines art and housing in a single spatial structure that is bathed in light, while also oscillating between openness and withdrawal; as well as the SCI Club Frott in Rossa, Grisons, which was built in 2021. This polygonal wooden structure serves as a cultural meeting place, while providing a contemporary response to the Alpine building tradition and integrating itself harmoniously into the Val Calanca.
Georg Rauh
Georg Rauh (1906–1965) enhanced the Eastern Swiss architectural landscape with his work. His oeuvre, comprising around 100 buildings, is characterised by the considered placement of volumes, sensible floor plans and a subtle choice of materials. A clear programme is discernible: reduction and functionality, fully in the spirit of Bauhaus teaching. The trained carpenter studied at the Bauhaus Dessau under Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer, before graduating in 1932 under Mies van der Rohe. After returning to Switzerland, he worked as a teacher at a vocational school and subsequently as an architect for social housing.
This catalogue of works documents his architectural heritage and its key buildings, which are portrayed by comparing the original plans, as well as in images and photographs by Ladina Bischof. Furthermore, the themes “The Bauhaus and Switzerland”, “Wooden modernity” and “Cooperative building” are discussed within a historical context with respect to his work.
Edited
by: Christine Egli and Dorothy Holt Wacker
Articles by: Ita Heinze Greenberg, Gregory Grämiger, Patrick Schoeck-Ritschard
Photography: Ladina Bischof
Graphic design: Büro Sequenz
Publication: approx. September 2025
Renato Maurizio
Founded in Majola in 1981, the practice in the Val Bregaglia region designs buildings that are highly usable, with a strong connection to the location and great artisanal precision. The exterior and interior spaces combine with existing and new structures to form an unpretentious, harmonious unity. A prime example of the practice’s work is the AGM housing in Montaccio (2024), a solid stone building that interprets the Alpine building tradition in a respectful, contemporary way (2023).
BUR Architekten
Since the early 2000s, Urs Birchmeier, Anne Uhlmann and Carlos Rabinovich have been designing buildings with a high degree of spatial quality and social relevance – and continue to do so as BUR Architekten, their Zurich-based practice founded in 2016. While the Gartenhof School in Allschwil (2016), with its atria, open learning zones and colourful façade structuring, provides a permeable learning environment, the Centre for Dentistry in Basel (2019) impresses with its urban presence and clear organisation.
Comamala Ismail
The diverse portfolio of the practice led by Diego Comamala and Toufiq Ismail-Meyer, which was founded in 2013 and is based in Delémont and Biel, ranges from private to public buildings. Their architecture exists in the field of tension between abstraction and construction. For instance the sports hall in Vernayaz (2019) stages light as a spatially formative element, while the new school building in Thun (2025) sounds out the spatial potential of appropriately designed wooden constructions.
Gäumann Lüdi von der Ropp
Since 2002, the Zurich-based architectural practice led by Samuel Gäumann, Eva Lüdi and Martin von der Ropp has designed public buildings with a clear architectural expression, while maintaining a strong connection to the location. For instance the Blumenfeld housing for the aged in Altstätten (2018) reacts sensitively to the varying scales of the surroundings. The wooden structure of the Oberfeld Sports Hall (2019) in Langnau enters into a powerful dialogue with the existing buildings through its finely-structured façade, thereby integrating it in a respectful way.
Peter Zirkel – Dresden
In search of a cultural identity, the Dresden-based architect Peter Zirkel has produced materially aware buildings dedicated to a poetic realism since 1995. For example the church in Canitz (2022) is built upon the ruins of its 13 th -century predecessor using a sophisticated wooden structure. The Museum Lützen 1632 (2024) exhibits a mass grave that was excavated in 2011. representing a silent place of remembrance, while also fulfilling the demands of a modern place of knowledge and cultural education.
Regina Schineis – Augsburg
Since 1998, Regina Schineis has been designing buildings with a powerful expression that impress through their honest materials and atmospheric density. For instance the Werk + Denklabor in Friedberg (2008), with its raw Corten steel, bronzed glass, rawsawn wood and polished concrete, is an intense, yet agreeable workplace. The music rehearsal hall in Thannhausen (2002) uses coper, glass and kinked wood to create a tonal and spatial work of art.
Article by: Michaela Busenkell
Birk Heilmeyer und Frenzel – Stuttgart
Founded in Stuttgart in 2005, the practice led by Liza Heilmeyer, Stephan Birk and Martin Frenzel comprises a team of 50 people and stands for context-related, clear architecture that focuses on construction and materials. A special emphasis is placed on a more effective circular building economy by designing and constructing with wood. Examples include the sculptural Jübergturm (2010) in Hemer and the multiaward-winning Kita im Park (2020) in East Stuttgart.
The seventh book in the Laboratorium series is entitled Revision, celebrating the joyful diffusion of everyday aspects of building and solid means of creating spatial structures at the new first-year course of the HSLU, overlapped by, compared to and confronted with theses, references and itself. The illustrated book regards itself as a handy inspiration machine for design that is motivated by spatial construction, while appealing for diversity and multivalence in architecture and referring to a wide range of contemporary revisions – namely those referring to collective values and goals, our self-awareness as practising architects, and also structural revision as an act of upkeep and care.
De aedibus:
FAZ architectes
Approx. 72 pages, 22.5 × 29 cm
Approx. 70 images, approx. 30 plans
Thread-stitched brochure
German/English
ISBN 978-3-03761-295-8
Approx. CHF 48.00 / EUR 44.00
Publication: approx. September 2025
De aedibus:
Hosoya Schaefer
Approx. 72 pages, 22.5 × 29 cm
Approx. 70 images, approx. 30 plans
Thread-stitched brochure
German/English
ISBN 978-3-03761-305-4
Approx. CHF 48.00 / EUR 44.00
Publication: approx. October 2025
De aedibus:
GWJ Architektur
Approx. 80 pages, approx. 22.5 × 29 cm
Approx. 70 images, approx. 30 plans
Thread-stitched brochure
German/English
ISBN 978-3-03761-318-4
Approx. CHF 48.00 / EUR 44.00
Publication: approx. August 2025
De aedibus:
Lütolf und Scheuner
Approx. 80 pages, approx. 22.5 × 29 cm
Approx. 50 images, approx. 40 plans
Thread-stitched brochure
German/English
ISBN 978-3-03761-338-2
Approx. CHF 48.00 / EUR 44.00
Publication: approx. July 2025
De aedibus international:
SPS Architekten – Thalgau
Approx. 72 pages, 22.5 × 29 cm
Approx. 70 images, approx. 30 plans
Thread-stitched brochure
German/English
ISBN 978-3-03761-327-6
Approx. CHF 48.00 / EUR 44.00
Publication: approx. September 2025
ISBN 978-3-03761-295-8 9783037613276 ISBN
Tony Fretton – Buildings & Projects, Drawings & Texts
Approx. 280 pages, approx. 22 × 29 cm
Approx. 100 images, approx. 80 plans
Hardcover
English
ISBN 978-3-03761-335-1
Approx. CHF 88.00 / EUR 88.00
Publication: approx. October 2025
De aedibus:
Oxid Architektur
Approx. 100 pages, approx. 22.5 × 29 cm
Approx. 40 images, approx. 36 plans
Thread-stitched brochure
German/English
ISBN 978-3-03761-341-2
Approx. CHF 48.00 / EUR 44.00
Publication: approx. June 2025
Anthologie: Fritschi Beis
Approx. 48 pages, approx. 16.5 × 21 cm
Approx. 40 images, approx. 20 plans
Thread-stitched brochure
German/English
ISBN 978-3-03761-322-1
Approx. CHF 28.00 / EUR 25.00
Publication: approx. November 2025
Muzharul Islam
Approx. 280 pages, 24 × 29 cm
Approx. 220 images, approx. 110 plans
Hardcover
English
De aedibus: Atelier March
Approx. 100 pages, approx. 22.5 × 29 cm
Approx. 90 images, approx. 60 plans
Thread-stitched brochure
German/English
ISBN 978-3-03761-339-9
French/Spanish
ISBN 978-3-03761-340-5
Approx. CHF 48.00 / EUR 44.00
Anthologie:
Lukas Raeber
ISBN
ISBN 978-3-03761-300-9
Approx. CHF 98.00 / EUR 98.00
Publication: approx. December 2025
Approx. 48 pages, approx. 16.5 × 21 cm
Approx. 40 images, approx. 30 plans
Thread-stitched brochure
German/English
ISBN 978-3-03761-336-8
Approx. CHF 28.00 / EUR 25.00
Publication: approx. August 2025 9783037613009
Publication: approx. October 2025
Conradin Clavuot
Approx. 15 volumes in a slipcase
Total approx. 300 pages, approx. 27 × 26 cm
Approx. 150 images, approx. 100 plans
Hand-stitched binding
German/English
ISBN 978-3-03761-328-3
Approx. CHF 138.00 / EUR 138.00
Publication: approx. October 2025
ISBN 978-3-03761-300-9
Reprise – Aita Flury, Works 2005–2025
Approx. 300 pages, approx. 20.6 × 26.3 cm
9783037613337
Approx. 200 images, approx. 150 plans Clothbound, flexcover
ISBN 978-3-03761-333-7 9783037613344
Approx. CHF 98.00 / EUR 98.00 Publication: approx. September 2025
ISBN 978-3-03761-334-4
Rénover le Lignon
Approx. 416 pages, approx. 21.5 × 30 cm
Approx. 80 images, approx. 70 plans
Hardcover
French ISBN 978-3-03761-319-1
English (Renovating le Lignon)
ISBN 978-3-03761-320-7
Approx.
Publication: approx. December 2025
De aedibus:
s a m architekten
Approx. 80 pages, 22.5 × 29 cm
Approx. 80 images, approx. 30 plans
Thread-stitched brochure
German/English
ISBN 978-3-03761-255-2
Approx. CHF 48.00 / EUR 44.00
Publication: approx. October 2025
Recently published / Backlist
Five Good Swiss Plans
74 pages, 21 × 27 cm 23 images, 14 plans Wire-bound brochure
English
ISBN 978-3-03761-311-5
ISBN
German (Fünf gute Schweizer Pläne)
ISBN 978-3-03761-314-6
ISBN 978-3-03761-311-5
CHF 38.00 / EUR 38.00
ISBN 978-3-03761-314-6
De aedibus 112:
dl-a, designlab-architecture
88 pages, 22.5 × 29 cm
133 images, 41 plans
Thread-stitched brochure
German/English
ISBN 978-3-03761-323-8
French/English
ISBN 978-3-03761-331-3
CHF 48.00 / EUR 44.00
Stephen Bates:
Tent poles in the ground
316 pages, 13 × 18 cm
144 images, 27 drawings
Thread-stitched brochure
English
ISBN 978-3-03761-342-9
CHF 54.00 / EUR 54.00
ISBN 978-3-03761-342-9
Kora Bürgi: Der architektonische Einfluss von Frank Lloyd Wright in der Zentralschweiz
160 pages, 21 × 28 cm
134 images, 32 sketches and plans
Thread-stitched brochure
German
ISBN 978-3-03761-329-0
CHF 48.00 / EUR 48.00
Marie-José Van Hee architecten: More Home, More Garden
308 pages, 22 x 30 cm
459 images, 102 sketches and plans Soft cover, thread-stitched
English (including enclosed booklet with texts in German)
ISBN 978-3-03761-310-8
English (including enclosed booklet with texts in French)
ISBN 978-3-03761-315-3
ISBN
ISBN 978-3-03761-329-0
De aedibus 111:
LVPH
112 pages, 22.5 × 29 cm
51 images, 50 plans
Thread-stitched brochure
German/English
ISBN 978-3-03761-308-5
CHF 48.00 / EUR 44.00
ISBN 978-3-03761-308-5
Atelier Scheidegger Keller
Workbook
260 pages, 24 × 33 cm
275 illustrations, 151 plans
Wire-stitched
ISBN 978-3-03761-323-8
ISBN 978-3-03761-331-3
Two Lakes Lake Lucerne and Lake Biwa: A Comparative Study on the Culture of Water
Special edition in the Laboratorium series
112 pages, 17 × 22 cm
109 images
Thread-stitched brochure
English
ISBN 978-3-03761-309-2
CHF 34.00 / EUR 31.00
ISBN 978-3-03761-331-3 9783037613313
ISBN 978-3-03761-279-8
German/English
ISBN 978-3-03761-279-8
CHF 48.00 / EUR 48.00
ISBN 978-3-03761-309-2
Rising Oceans & Spaces That Care Complexities and ideas behind the Friendship Hospital by Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA in Bangladesh
184 pages, 19.5 × 27 cm
146 images and illustrations, 26 plans
Hardcover, thread-stitched
English
ISBN
978-3-03761-291-0
CHF 54.00 / EUR 49.00
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