gta Verlag ETH Zürich

03/07/2025

Critical Regionalism Abroad: Aris Konstantinidis without Greece

Since the 1980s, has been globally celebrated for imbuing modern architecture with local sensibilities. After rising to international stardom, however, several critical regionalists soon began to erect distinctive albeit buildings around the world. (1913–1993), a Greek architect less well known outside of his home country, instead propagated his vision of to global audiences on his own terms through his publishing and teaching beyond national borders. This of his life and work outside Greece unveils the potential for alternative practices of critical regionalism abroad.

Seit den 1980er Jahren wurde der weltweit dafür gefeiert, dass er der modernen Architektur eine lokale Sensibilität verleiht. Bald nach ihrem Aufstieg zu internationalen Stars begannen einige kritische Regionalisten jedoch, in der ganzen Welt unverwechselbare, wenn auch Gebäude zu errichten. (1913–1993), ein ausserhalb seines Heimatlandes weniger bekannter griechischer Architekt, verbreitete seine Vision einer stattdessen durch Veröffentlichungen und durch seine Lehrtätigkeit über die nationalen Grenzen hinaus. Das Buch präsentiert eine von Konstantinidis’ Leben und seines Wirkens ausserhalb Griechenlands, das das Potential alternativer Praktiken des kritischen Regionalismus im Ausland aufzeigt.

Designed by , ,

2025. 11.6 × 17.4 cm, softcover
194 pages, 36 illustrations
ISBN 978-3-85676-473-9
Text in English

24/06/2025

Matthew Critchley, ed.
𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬

How are embedded in the writing of ? This issue of 𝙜𝙩𝙖 𝙥𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨 confronts and critiques the hidden political motivations which have inflected canonical writing. These motivations are not always explicit in the texts themselves, making biography just as important as bibliography in seeking out the contingencies which underpin the discipline. Besides this careful interrogation of established histories, the issue also asks who gets to write history. Through a number of case studies, it expands the scope of architectural history to include political writers who are not historians or architects but whose writing addresses themes related to architecture.

Wie ist Politik in die eingebettet? Diese Ausgabe von 𝙜𝙩𝙖 𝙥𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨 behandelt und kritisiert die versteckten politischen Motive, die die Entstehung kanonischer Geschichtswerke beeinflusst haben. Diese Motive sind in den Texten selbst nicht immer explizit, wodurch Biografien ebenso bedeutsam sind wie Bibliografien, um die Kontingenzen, die der Disziplin zugrunde liegen, offenzulegen. Neben der sorgfältigen Hinterfragung etablierter Erzählungen stellt das Heft auch die Frage, wer überhaupt Geschichte schreiben darf. Anhand einer Reihe von Fallstudien erweitert es das Spektrum der Architekturgeschichte um politische Autor:innen, die weder Historiker:innen noch Architekt:innen sind, in ihren Schriften jedoch direkt architekturbezogene Themen behandeln.

Edited by
Contributions by , .balzan, , Rebecca Choi, Alborz Dianat, .gosseye, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, , .ergun, Andrew Leach, .docx,
Designed by .charmasson

2025. 21 × 29.7 cm, softcover
124 pages, 52 illustrations
ISBN 978-3-85676-492-0
Text in English

05/06/2025

We're happy to be part of the bookfair mini VOLUMES, Art Publishing Days at Zurich Art Weekend!

Saturday, 14 June 2025, 12–19 h
Löwenbräukunst Zurich Ramp
Limmatstrasse 268, 8005 Zürich

Or if you are in Berlin stop by our table at MISS READ the Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival 2025!

13–15 June 2025
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, Berlin

14/05/2025

Rahel Hartmann Schweizer
𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐬: 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

Lisbeth Sachs (1914–2002) caused a sensation at the very beginning of her professional career: freshly graduated, she won the 1939 competition for the Kurtheater Baden. With the building, opened in 1952, she expressed her lucid architectural position and experienced what it meant to be one of the first independent Swiss female architects in a male-dominated profession. For Sachs, construction was a procedural act that extended from craftsmanship to the suitability of materials and finally to people’s appropriation of spaces. She sought to achieve architecture that floated, emerging organically from the topography and following environmentally and socially compatible principles. Her interdisciplinary understanding of architecture as applied ecology makes her work and thinking more relevant now than ever.

Rahel Hartmann Schweizer’s book about this unconventional architect, researcher and critical writer is part of Switzerland’s contribution to the 2025 Architecture Biennale in Venice involving the revival by Annexe of Lisbeth Sachs’ temporary Saffa 1958 art gallery.

By
Foreword by .biennale
Translated by Thomas Skelton-Robinson
Designed by

2025. 22.5 × 30 cm, hardcover
178 pages, 195 illustrations
ISBN 978-3-85676-493-7
Text in English

08/05/2025

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26/04/2025

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𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙖 absorbieren die Energie einer äusseren Kraft und verformen sich elastisch. Als archäologische Werkzeuge auf der (Ab-)Baustelle sind sie versteckte Zeugnisse politischer Abhängigkeiten, von Zusammenstössen zwischen Ökosystemen, von Kunst in der Galerie und sogar von Aufzügen in Bürotürmen. Input: seltsame Gleichzeitigkeit von Symbolen – unmittelbar, verfügbar und bereit, transformiert zu werden. Output: Überreste, die neu organisiert werden, um der Architektur und ihren Anforderungen zu dienen. Wir blicken zurück in die Zukunft und voraus in die Vergangenheit. Wir bauen, graben, finden, sammeln immer weiter, setzen fortwährend zusammen, um Bedeutungen zu produzieren.

𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙖 absorb energy from an external force and deform elastically. As archeological tools at (de)construction sites, they form hidden testaments to political dependencies, ecosystem clashes, art in galleries, even office tower elevators. Input: strange simultaneity of icons that are immediate, available, and ready to be transformed. Output: remnants reorganized to serve architecture and its demands. trans 46 looks back to the future and ahead to the past. It persists in building, digging, finding, collecting, assembling to produce meaning.

Contributions by Charles André, , Gabriel Biselli, Gabriyel Dari, .dillier, Vinicius Duarte (), Merlin Ehlers, Christine Finn, Lorenzo Franceschini, Lida Freudenreich (), Dragos Ghioca, , Stephen Griek, Eva Klymiuk, Maximilian Lewark, Hamish Lonergan, Ian Lowrie, Camila Medina Novoa (), Lovre Mohorič, , Isabelle Nguyen, Thiago Peterhans, Alice Proietti, , Raul Souza, Nora Tahiraj (.norat), , Gerlinde Verhaeghe, Lucas Vollbracht, Anina Wechsler, , Simon Zimmermann

Designed by Pierre Benoit (.akashi)

2025. 21 × 28 cm, softcover
140 pages, 85 illustrations
ISBN 978-3-85676-498-2
Text in German or English

More: https://verlag.gta.arch.ethz.ch/en/gta:book_26aa30b6-85ec-4e0e-a82d-9da4d42a797a

11/04/2025

Alexandre Theriot, Stéphanie Bru, Blanka Major, Hg.
𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧. 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞

Peter Thomann fuhr Hundeschlittenrennen in der Wildnis von Alaska und verfolgte auch als Architekt eine Karriere 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦, fernab von Moden und Marktzwängen. Fast sechzig Jahre lang hat er Schulen, Wohnungen und Büros gebaut. Dank seines virtuosen Umgangs mit Geometrien, seiner Liebe zu Materialien und seiner Vorliebe für ungewöhnliche Details fand er ganz eigene räumliche und konstruktive Lösungen. Seine Bauten lassen sich keinem Trend zuordnen, dennoch mangelt es ihnen keineswegs an Stil. In seiner ruhigen Entschlossenheit und ständigen Erneuerung zeugt Thomanns Werk von einer permanenten Weigerung, in ausgetretene Pfade einzulenken.

Peter Thomann raced sled dogs in the wilderness of Alaska while also pursuing a career as an architect 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦, far from the fashions and injunctions of the market. For almost sixty years he has built schools, homes, and offices. He found his own spatial and constructive solutions thanks to his virtuoso handling of geometries, his love of materials, and his taste for unusual details. His buildings cannot be pinned to any particular trend, but they are in no way lacking in style. In its calm determination and constant renewal, Thomann’s work testifies to a permanent refusal to stray onto well-trodden paths.

Contributions by Oliver Burch (), Blanka Major (), and (),
Translated by Benjamin Liebelt, Miriam Seifert-Waibel
With photographs by Arnaud Bostelmann (.bost), Maxime Delvaux (),
Designed by Skala Design (.ch), Samara Keller ()

More: https://verlag.gta.arch.ethz.ch/en/gta:book_d3ca647c-7946-4e65-8386-d1aacb46e367

14/03/2025

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gta papers 8

Whether experienced as a , a competitive , or a , – – are a galvanizing, confrontational, and memorable rite of passage in . The crit stages a drama in which students are asked to present and defend their work in front of an audience of peers, teachers, and external experts. Although it is often a source of acute discomfort, the crit is also a tool of instruction, a forum for exchange, and a scene of discovery.

A close analysis of the crit uncovers radical possibilities in experimental teaching, process-driven design, and the presentation of architectural ideas. At the same time, this analysis reveals fault lines in global architectural discourse and education, its historical dissemination, and its contemporary discontents. This issue of 𝙜𝙩𝙖 𝙥𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨 presents both a critique and a celebration of this storied rite.

Edited by ,

Contributions by
Anna Bokov
Brady Burroughs



DRAG lab (Janus Lafontaine Carboni, Morgane Hofstetter, Marion Fonjallaz)
Lukas Fink
Christophe Van Gerrewey


Momoyo Kaijima
Manu Kapur
Hamish Lonergan
Matthew Mullane
Lucia Pennati
Amy Perkins



Jeremy Waterfield
Jiawei Wu
Departement Architektur, ETH Zürich Images: by Zeljko Medved, Tom Kawara & Esther Ramseier

Designed by büro uebele visuelle kommunikation

2024. 21 × 29.7 cm, softcover
156 pages, 52 illustrations
ISBN 978-3-85676-456-2
Text in English

11/03/2025

Nadi Abusaada, Wesam Al Asali, eds.
𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧
𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞

The Arab world’s modern built environment was shaped largely during a period when several Arab countries were on the cusp of gaining independence from colonial rule. Contributions in this volume present Arab modern architecture based on previously overlooked figures, narratives, and experiences. Projects from North Africa, the Levant, and the Arabian Gulf show critical moments of postcolonial nation-building. The travel of ideas and figures from within and outside the architectural profession – including craftspeople, bureaucrats, and residents – demonstrates the multifaceted international and regional exchanges underpinning architectural creations and imaginaries in the wake of independence.

Edited by Nadi Abusaada, Wesam Al Asali
Contributions by Nadi Abusaada, Sarah Saad Alajmi, Wesam Al Asali, Muna Dajani, Nancy Demerdash, Lahbib El Moumni, Suha Hasan, Reem Khorshid, Danna Masad, Faiq Mari, Faysal Tabbarah
Foreword by George Arbid
Designed by Nadine Wüthrich, Reinhard Schmidt, Urs Hofer

More: https://verlag.gta.arch.ethz.ch/en/gta:book_7cfa548d-3b8e-41b3-8dee-69e4a1d2cd2a🤓

06/02/2025

Irina Davidovici
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲�𝐓𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐨 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐭𝐬 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Following the exhibition Tendenzen: Neuere Architektur im Tessin in Zurich in 1975, contemporaneous architecture in Ticino became the subject of fervent coverage in Swiss and international publications. This extended essay argues that the critical attention emancipated the narratives of Ticino architecture from the actual conditions of production, leading to the paradoxical divergence of its historiography from its history. Placing well-known external constructs, such as the notion of the School of the Ticino, against the robust skepticism of local architects and historians, the essay chronicles the long-term consequences of the misalignment between autonomous theory and situated knowledge.

By Irina Davidovici
Designed by Reinhard Schmidt, Nadine Wüthrich, Urs Hofer

2024
11.6 × 17.4 cm, softcover�
188 pages, 38 illustrations �
ISBN 978-3-85676-431-9
Text in English

28/11/2024

Researching Otherwise
Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies

Edited by Nitin Bathla

Methodological, epistemic, and ontological borders have long prevented and from engaging in transdisciplinary dialogue, sensuousness, and affect. 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙚 uncovers possibilities for deploying , , and methodological tools to craft spaces for producing knowledge from worlds. These methods connect researchers and their objects of investigation in new ways to empower restitutive and regenerative futures “otherwise.”

Wie können sich und wirksamer mit transdisziplinärem , und sowie pluriversen Welten beschäftigen? 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙚 stellt sensorische, kollaborative und restitutive methodische vor, um neue Räume für die Produktion von Wissen zu schaffen.

Contributions by
Nitin Bathla
Ludwig Berger
Denise Bertschi
Nancy Couling
Ludo Groen
Luke Harris
Johanna Just
Metaxia Markaki
Andreea-Florentina Midvighi
Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
Cara Turett
Bonnie Kate Walker

Foreword by Catalina Ortiz
Designed by Offshore Studio

28/11/2024

Congrats Nitin Bathla!