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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

The House That Kahn Built
The National Assembly Building in Dhaka by Louis Kahn Photographed by Kashef Chowdhury

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

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.

Natural History Museum, St. Gallen (2016)
Bill Villa, Gümligen, Muri bei Bern (2009)
Franklinturm, Zurich-Oerlikon

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

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.

Graphic design: BKVK
Gaisbühl House, St. Gallen (1955)
Sonnenhaldestrasse development, St. Gallen (1965)
Biserhofstrasse, St. Gallen (1941)
Müller House, St. Gallen (1952)

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.

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

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.

CHRISTIAN DUPRAZ
RENATO MAURIZIO ARCHITEKTEN

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.

CHRISTIAN DUPRAZ
COMAMALA ISMAIL
CHRISTIAN DUPRAZ
GÄUMANN LÜDI VON DER ROPP

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.

REGINA SCHINEIS –Augsburg
PETER ZIRKEL – Dresden

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.

Laboratorium

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

Full catalogue reference numbers, 24/25

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Europe (GVA): 2420142 (German) 1240026 (English)

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Great Britain / Scandinavia / Eastern Europe / USA / Asia: ACC Art Books Ltd. (uksales@accartbooks.com, ussales@accartbooks.com)

Full catalogue reference numbers, 25/26

Switzerland (AVA): 2115951418335 (German) 2115951418342 (English)

Europe (GVA): QD02 (German)

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