Park Books - Böcker

"This gorgeous doorstop of a book ... Seductive and serious - for the most discerning coffee tables." - Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times. Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975) is one of the most highly revered - and also one of the most heavily m...

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Yona Friedman is recognised as one of the most eminent proponents of 1960s avant-garde urbanism. His best-known work is the concept for a Spatial City ("La Ville Spatiale", 1956), in which he aimed to provide maximum flexibility through ...

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St Mark's Church in Bjoerkhagen, one of Stockholm's southern districts, is one of Sigurd Lewerentz's (1885-1975) key designs. But unlike Lewerentz's other famous church, St Peter's in Klippan, no book has been published to date that constitutes a ...

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In this exceptional book on the London based studio 6a architects, architecture critic Irenee Scalbert looks at the role of narrative, history, appropriation and craft in the work of Tom Emerson and Stephanie Macdonald. The book traces an architec...

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As a child, architect Arna Ma??ki?? experienced firsthand the Bosnian civil war, and with her family she fled her native country for the Netherlands. In 1999, she was able to visit bosnia and the city of Mostar again for the first time to witness ...

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First published in 2017 in conjunction with an exhibition at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris, this widely praised and much sought-after book becomes available again in a new edition. It offers an analytical review from today's perspec...

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Preaching and Homiletical Theory looks at what is new in homiletical theory that can enhance preaching, how preaching can enliven homiletical theory, and how this interdisciplinary conversation can strengthen the practice of ministry.

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Hermann Czech, born in 1936, is one of Austrias most eminent and influential architects and theorists. This influence is based not only on his work as a designing architect, which extends to furniture, interiors, and exhibitions. Czech is also wid...

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With his book The Good Life, Inaki Abalos takes the reader on a tour of seven iconic 20th-century houses. Some of them were actually built, others merely imagined or film sets: Mies van der Rohe's House with Three Patios, Martin Heidegger's cabin ...

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Re-using entire parts and components of existing buildings in the construction of new structures has become highly topical in European architecture discourse. Re-using elements that could last for decades longer, rather than destroying them, offer...

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Blackheath and Greenwich, in the southeast of London, proved to be an unusually fertile ground for modern architecture in the decades following WWII. Housing in particular became the prime field of work for many architecture firms, who designed a ...

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In his new book Absolute Beginners, acclaimed Spanish architect Inaki Abalos explores forms of innovation in architecture. Drawing on diverse materials elaborated during the 20 years since the publication of his best-known book, The Good Life, Aba...

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Avant-Garde as Method explores the nature of design education in the Soviet Union 1920-30. The mass character of teaching art and technology was as an essential condition for the modernist paradigm the Soviet communists maintained. The Higher Art ...

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Basel-based architects Daniel Buchner and Andreas Brundler established their studio in 1997 and soon gained wide recognition for their designs. Today, Buchner Brundler Architects ranks among the leading Swiss firm of the younger generation. This b...

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Dieses Buch ist eine pointierte Einführung ins architektonische Konstruieren von Räumen und legt das Hauptaugenmerk auf das Erkennen und Erkunden unterschiedlicher Raumtypen. Es geht also weniger darum, kleine Details der Materialisierung zu kläre...

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This richly illustrated book is a monument to modern urban construction in Naples. It features some 50 new photos by celebrated French photographer Cyrille Weiner as well as historic images, drawings of important architectonic details, and an atla...

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Halley VI Research Station is the first fully re-locatable research station in the world. It was commissioned in 2006 and its unique and innovative structure was the result of an international design competition in collaboration with the Royal Ins...

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It may sound banal, yet it is a fundamental fact in architectural design: All ideas are based on previous ideas, their imitation, inversion, rejection, or adaptation; or on their reinterpretation or ignoration. The same applies to our visual perce...

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How do our cities evolve, what forces drive their evolution, and how exactly do they change as a result? Zurich-based architecture firm EM2N has been working on urban transformation processes ever since its establishment in 1997. Initially, the fi...

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One of Sweden's most renowned contemporary architects, Johan Celsing has created a diverse body of work that spans from housing to public institutions such as museums, libraries, and churches - all of it united by an intense and realistic engageme...

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Follow lifelong friends Catholic Markus and Jewish Levi in this sweeping historic family saga-the story of two young men in the years before World War I. As young Imperial German soldiers in 1900, battling with other Europeans besieged in Peking d...

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Follow lifelong friends Catholic Markus and Jewish Levi in this sweeping historic family saga-the story of two young men in the years before World War I. As young Imperial German soldiers in 1900, battling with other Europeans besieged in Peking d...

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 A fascinating memoir of the life of Chuck Johnston, an educator, philosopher, adventurer, believer, and explorer of faith and understanding. Launched from the framework of solid, unforgettable family relationships, the book includes events a...

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An illuminating debut following three women in sub-Saharan Africa as they search for home and family Leona, an isolated American anthropologist, gives birth to a baby girl in a remote Maasai village and must decide how she can be a mother despite ...

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I may not remember everything, but I know he won't hurt anyone else. I won't let him. It's been two months since a serial killer brutally attacked police detective Alisha Green and left her for dead. Two months since she could effortlessly recall ...

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?[A] perfectly orchestrated girl-who-cried-wolf thriller.?? The New York Times Book Review A dark, utterly compulsive novel about what happens when the warped imagination of a teenage girl turns into reality... When fifteen-year-old Yasmin?obese, ...

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?A brilliant debut.? ?Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project Full of great big heart and unexpected humor, Ludwig's debut introduces the lovable, wholly original Ginny Moon who discovers a new meaning of family on h...

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An exhilarating debut novel that follows one woman's hunt for the truth when she realizes she might have married a killer They said her death was a tragic accident. And I believed them...until now. Carmen is happily married to Tom, although she kn...

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?A powerful meditation on how we define ourselves... A gorgeous blend of dreamy folklore and gritty reality.? ?Erika Swyler, bestselling author of The Book of Speculation Hanna has never been outside her secluded community of Clearhaven, nor has s...

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Whatever your question, you'll find reliable answers in this comprehensive guide to the Bible and Christian faith. On key topics from angels to Zion, this classic handbook delivers thoughtful balanced and easy-to-understand discussion. You'll turn...

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