Lars Müller Publishers
Carefully edited and designed publications on architecture, design, and contemporary art. Lars Müller Publishers is an internationally active publishing house based in Zurich, Switzerland.
Featured Books
Forthcoming
June 15, 2013
From the Publisher. Genealogy of Modern Architecture is a reference work on modern architecture by Kenneth Frampton, one of today’s leading architectural theorists. Conceived as a genealogy of twentieth century architecture from 1924... More
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June 15, 2013
From the Publisher. The special exhibition Die gute Form, put on by the Swiss Werkbund (SWB) at the Basel trade fair in 1949, was an event that caused a furor far beyond Switzerland’s borders. The renowned architect, designer... More
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Recently Published
May 15, 2013
From the Publisher. British architect Nicholas Hawksmoor (approx. 1661–1736) is recognized as one of the major contributors to the traditions of British and European architectural culture. Nevertheless, there is insufficient visual... More
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May 15, 2013
From the Publisher. The Typografische Monatsblätter is one of the most important journals to successfully disseminate the phenomenon of “Swiss typography” to an international audience. With more than 70 years in... More
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May 15, 2013
From the Publisher. In 1912, the French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn ( 1860 –1940 ) founded “The Archives of the Planet,” an extensive collection of photographs and films that today contains 72,000 autochromes and... More
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April 15, 2013
From the Publisher. Zaha Hadid: Heydar Aliyev Centre is devoted to the new cultural center designed by Zaha Hadid in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku. As one of the most important cultural centers in the country, the building houses a... More
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April 15, 2013
From the Publisher. Since the late 1990s cultural icons have been built in numerous cities throughout the world in order to court the attention of potential visitors in a globally competitive market. The book Culture:City analyzes... More
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April 15, 2013
From the Publisher. Please Don’t Brand My Public Space is a critical investigation of the visual strategies employed to identify and brand political spaces. Isn’t it about time to look at their often banal images as part of a... More
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April 15, 2013
From the Publisher. In Le Corbusier: Secret Photographer Tim Benton reflects on the famous architect’s use of photography, starting with the young Charles-Edouard Jeanneret’s attempts to take professional photographs... More
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April 15, 2013
From the Publisher. In 1936 the first and only issue of the magazine telehor (Greek for tele-vision) was released in four languages, as a special edition on and by László Moholy-Nagy. The facsimile reprint of the... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book of 2013
March 25, 2013
From the Publisher. The first built project and final creative work of artist and architect Lebbeus Woods (1940–2012), the Light Pavilion is transcendent architecture, a project that exemplifies the preoccupations of a consummate... More
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March 15, 2013
From the Publisher. In the manifesto The City in the City—Berlin: A Green Archipelago, Oswald Mathias Ungers and a number of his colleagues from Cornell University presented the first concepts and intellectual models for the... More
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March 15, 2013
From the Publisher. Baku: Oil and Urbanism is the first architectural study of the relationship between oil and urbanism. Its focus is Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan and formerly part of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. Since... More
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March 15, 2013
From the Publisher. During the Renaissance, the contest to decide the order of rank among the fine arts, architecture, painting, and sculpture was an issue that also occupied the famous architect Andrea Palladio. He was convinced that... More
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March 1, 2013
From the Publisher. Le Corbusier’s Pavilion for Zurich uses numerous handwritten documents, drawings, and papers to trace the history of Le Corbusier’s last built work. This dwelling, which is also a museum, was... More
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November 20, 2012
From the Publisher. Can one visualize peace? Are there signs, symbols, and images that present a positive image of peace as opposed to receiving their meanings in opposition to war? Over several years of research, the Design2context... More
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Selected Backlist
2012
From the Publisher. And Now the Ensemble!!! is intended as a challenge to architects, their clients, and commissioning authorities to understand and create urban development as a dynamic and collective work of art and to make... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Authoring: Re-Placing Art and Architecture challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between art and architecture. From 2008 through 2010, David Adjaye, along with Marc McQuade, taught three... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Dan Graham, one of North America’s most important contemporary artists, is best known today for his sculptural works and installations. His photographic works are generally not so well known, despite the fact... More
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2012
From the Publisher. In 2009, Ruedi Baur, Design2context, and the renowned Elisava School of Design in Barcelona launched a call for “Questions on Design” in order to create a typographical wall in the entrance area of Elisava.... More
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2007
From the Publisher. Representing a new generation of designers in Japan, Kenya Hara (b. 1958) pays tribute to his mentors, using long overlooked Japanese icons and images in much of his work. In Designing Design, he impresses upon... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Sketchbook No. 76 is the reproduction of a sketchbook of the renowned Portuguese architect and last year’s Pritzker Prize laureate, Eduardo Souto de Moura. The sketchbook was in use between September 2011... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Flowers have been a universal cultural object for millennia. They are an important aesthetic element in everyday life worldwide, and have played a highly symbolic role in art throughout the ages. Over the past few years... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Five North American Architects brings together five architectural practices that, while all distinct, share a particular sensibility for the impact of craftsmanship and climate on the generation of form, as... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Photographs, newspaper cuttings, postcards, drawings, and slides: on entering the studio of Eduardo Souto de Moura one is confronted with a variety of images on the walls that engage in a dialogue. How do these photos,... More
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2012
From the Publisher. From Camp to City examines the theme of the refugee camp in the context of urbanism and architecture. Using the examples of the refugee camps in the Algerian desert in which Sahrawis originally from the Western... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Since it was set up in 1989 the office of Gigon/Guyer architects has conceived an impressive series of projects. The most important designs arried out include museums, housing projects, and office buildings. The... More
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2011
From the Publisher. We sit on them, write with them, ride them, listen to music through them, and live inside them. The furniture, product, and interior designs of Swiss designer Hannes Wettstein, who died in 2008, have left their mark... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2012
From the Publisher. As health becomes a central focus of political debate, are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda to address these concerns? Imperfect Health looks at the... More
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2012
From the Publisher. What is it that gives places their individual qualities and defines the life of a city? Architects and urbanists are accustomed to describing and creating the organizational structures, the layouts and physical... More
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2012
From the Publisher. The creative imagination is not solely based on the intuitive capacities of individuals. One of the tasks of design education is to help provide the tools, techniques, and methods that enhance constructed imagination. At... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Kenzō Tange (1913–2005) is a peerless figure among twentieth-century Japanese architects, unmatched in his talent, influence, and versatility. A leading force of the Metabolist movement, he was the first non-... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Deutsche Lufthansa is one of the most important airlines in the world. Just as long and varied as its history is the history of its visual identity. The beginning of the 1960s witnessed one of the most important... More
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2012
From the Publisher. From 2008 to 2010, Madrid-based architects Mansilla + Tuñón taught at the Princeton University School of Architecture. Luis M. Mansilla + Emilio Tuñón – From Rules to Constraints... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2011
From the Publisher. First known as a supplier of theatrical textiles to Broadway and beyond, Maharam pioneered the concept of engineered textiles for interior applications in the 1960s. Today Maharam is the world’s leading provider of... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Using a typological structure (landscape, park, square, garden, promenade, etc.), Günther Vogt describes the theoretical foundation on which the successful projects of Vogt Landscape Architects are based. In recent... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Poemotion is an interactive book-object. The abstract graphical patterns in this small volume are set in motion as soon as you move the attached special foil across them: moiré effects allow complex forms to... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Andrea Palladio’s Renaissance villa architecture is still admired for its elegance and harmony, but little is known about the person behind the buildings. Experienced Palladio researcher Guido Beltramini has... More
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2009
From the Publisher. During three spring seasons between 2006 and 2008, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa taught at the School of Architecture at Princeton University. The SANAA Studios explored Japan's contemporary society as a context for... More
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2009
From the Publisher. Snøhetta is a leading team of architects in Norway with offices in Oslo and New York. This first-ever publication to document their work presents and illustrates the most important current and completed projects... More
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2012
From the Publisher. The works of Sou Fujimoto resist any form of conventional categorization. This young Japanese architect stands for unconventional buildings that cannot be described by standard criteria and definitions such as inside/... More
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2012
Color Light Time sets out to examine the current work of New York-based architect Steven Holl, one of the most outstanding representatives of contemporary American architecture. For nearly three decades now, Steven Holl has developed his... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Following Written in Water (2002), this is the second publication devoted to Steven Holl’s legendary watercolors. Four hundred watercolors represent the creative process of this renowned and... More
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A Designers & Books Notable Design Book
2012
From the Publisher. Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an extra-legal and tenuous... More
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2012
From the Publisher. One of Andrea Palladio’s masterpieces, La Malcontenta was lovingly restored in the 1920’s and 1930’s by an aesthete, an ebullient French baroness, and a talented designer. In this setting, the trio... More
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2012
From the Publisher. Buildings by Chinese architect Wang Shu—the 2012 winner of the Pritzker Prize— feature clear and simple contemporary designs that make use of traditional methods and materials. The reuse of building materials... More
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