gta Verlag ETH Zürich

23/10/2025

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥
The International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD)

The International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD) aimed to rethink the city in terms of discourse and pedagogy. It brought prominent architects – including its founder Giancarlo De Carlo and members of Team X – together with teachers and students from Europe and North America. Together they explored issues such as user participation, building reuse, and eclecticism.

was a barometer and active shaper of theoretical discussions in urban design and architecture in the 1970s and 1980s. Nevertheless, academics have largely overlooked its impact. In this volume, contributors narrate the complex history of the laboratory’s early years and explore its archive through their own conceptual, methodological, and geographical expertise. They shed new light on this pivotal experiment in architecture education, eschewing heroic narratives and individuals in favor of multivocal accounts of design pedagogy.

Edited by ,

Contributions by Elke Couchez, Filippo De Pieri (), Isabelle Doucet (), , , Hamish Lonergan, Setareh Noorani (), Lucia Pennati (), Avigail Sachs (), Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi ()

Designed by Nadine Wüthrich (), Reinhard Schmidt (),

2025. 14.5 × 22.5 cm, softcover
192 pages, 46 illustrations
ISBN 978-3-85676-478-4
Text in English

15/10/2025

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in all its facets: in the built environment, bodily experiences, ecological and political spaces, and within us. Part one of 𝙎𝙤𝙛𝙩, ‘On the Planetary’, describes how softness stems from subtle processes that shape our complex world, from river silt and glacial ice to microplastics. ‘At a Breaking Point’ addresses norms, institutions, and housing blocks to reveal how architecture carries the weight of ideologies. Politics takes shape in textures, surfaces, and personal histories. ‘Through Interaction’ weaves stories from threads, organisms, and codes under the logic of malleability to question the idea of architecture as neutral or complete. Lastly, ‘From the Margins’ recognises everyday forms of resistance, from the quiet strength of women’s lacework to homemaking in refugee camps.

Contributions by Mathias Bernhard (), Amelie Bimberg, Caitlin Blanchfield (), Carolina Catarino Gomes (), Lieselotte Düsterhus (), Beverly Engelbrecht (.engelbrecht), Cristina Fusco (), Estelle Gagliardi (), Cruz García (), Anna García Molina (), Vittoria Guglielmi (), Leon Hofmann (), Martin Kohlberger (.khol), Fabian Kohler (), Jim König (), Janus Lafontaine Carboni (), Anne Sophie Loretan (), Ijlāl Muzaffar, Alexandra Pereira-Edwards (), Miranda Reynolds (), Eva Ruof (), Ozayr Saloojee (.saloojee), Andrea Shin Ling, Nicolas Sigron, Julia Strömland (.stromland), Myriam Treiber (), Salim Umar (), Virginia Zaretskie (.layne), Qianer Zhu ()

Designed by Pierre Benoit (.akashi

26/08/2025

Almut Grunewald, ed.
𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚄𝚙 𝙳𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚛 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜: 𝙸𝚜𝚎 𝙶𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚞𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙹𝚊𝚙𝚊𝚗

in her own words. The woman at ’s side as a committed journalist and narrator. An intimate view into her own position as a woman and a at the crossroads of and .

im Originalton. Die Frau an der Seite von als engagierte Journalistin und Erzählerin. Ein intimer Blick auf ihre eigene Position als Frau und ein zwischen und .

Edited by ()
Contributions by Almut Grunewald, Anne Hultzsch (),
Foreword by Irina Davidovici ()
Designed by Martin Stoecklin & Melina Wilson ()
 
2025
21.6 × 27.9 cm, softcover, half cloth
152 pages, 69 illustrations, 67 facsimile
ISBN 978-3-85676-454-8
Text in English

29/07/2025

S.E. Eisterer, ed.
𝙸𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚊𝚢𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝙾𝚞𝚛 𝙴𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎
𝙰𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕 𝙷𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚀𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚛 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚘𝚛𝚢

In 1991, poet, author, and professor June Jordan encouraged radical alterations of the built environment as crucial to “A New Politics of Sexuality,” the title of her address to the Bisexual, Gay, and Le***an Student Association at Stanford University. She elicited the attendees to conceive what a space would look like in which they could live without terror, “in the daylight of our existence.” This book takes up Jordan’s premise to work against normative ideas about gender and sexuality through environmental transformation. It traces feminist and LGBTQIA+ efforts for more just spaces for housing, health care, and artistic production.

Edited by S.E. Eisterer (.e.eisterer)

Contributions by Candace Borders, Molly M. Brandt, S.E. Eisterer, Ladi’Sasha Jones (.sasha), Davy Knittle, Torsten Lange (), M.C. Overholt (), Germán Pallares-Avitia (), Malcolm Rio (.archi), Catherine George Weilein

Designed by Nadine Wüthrich (), Reinhard Schmidt (),

2025. 14.5 × 22.5 cm, softcover
288 pages, 112 illustrations
ISBN 978-3-85676-475-3
Text in English

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