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December 2025
Philipp Meuser
Patterned Panels
Mosaic Façades by the Jarsky Brothers in Soviet and Uzbek Tashkent 1969–1999
Soviet architecture in the Uzbek capital is already well-established under the term Tashkent Modernism. Within this context, the prefabricated apartment blocks with facades designed by Pyotr, Nikolai, and Alexander Jarsky represent an architectural exception among the otherwise often monotonous standardised buildings of the Soviet Union. The three brothers designed colourful mosaics and expressive reliefs for over 200 buildings in Uzbekistan, primarily in Tashkent.
December 2025
Fotima Abdurakhmanova
Art for Architecture Tashkent / Toshkent
Monumental art from 1950 forwards
Following the devastating earthquake in Tashkent in April 1966, the Soviet rebuilding program not only triggered an unprecedented surge of innovation in serial construction, but also led to a density and diversity of architectural art that is unique worldwide. This meticulously researched city guide, Art for Architecture Tashkent / Toshkent, explores the rich artistic heritage of the post-Stalin era, which is often closely intertwined with the architecture.
December 2025
Philipp Meuser
Seismic Modernism
Architecture and Housing in Soviet Tashkent
On April 26, 1966, an earthquake struck Tashkent, reducing the oriental Old City to rubble, while the Russian New City remained largely intact. In his publication Seismic Modernism, Philipp Meuser focuses on the reconstruction efforts, which triggered an astonishing surge of innovation and accelerated the city's modernisation.
June 2025
Edda Schlager
Architectural Guide Almaty
For many centuries, horse-riding tribes populated the steppes north of present-day Almaty and the green hills to the south, but the city itself – formerly known as "Alma-Ata" – is not even 180 years old. In the Architectural Guide Almaty, author Edda Schlager, who spent two decades in Almaty herself and reports on the transformation of the city and the country as a journalist for international media, presents more than 100 buildings from the past and present.
June 2025
Ievgeniia Gubkina
Architectural Guide Kharkiv
With approximately one million inhabitants, Kharkiv is Ukraine's second-largest city and an important economic, cultural, and scientific centre. Due to its unfortunate geographical location in the east, the city has become a target of Russian aggression—and since then also a symbol of resistance. In the Architectural Guide Kharkiv, author Ievgeniia Gubkina takes the reader on a journey through the city's history and architecture, from its Old Centre to the New Centre.
June 2025
Andreas Hofer / Anastasia Hujvan / Bohdan Cherkes
City in Transition
Urban Dialogues on the Future of Lviv
The western Ukrainian city of Lviv had been undergoing a process of transformation for several years aimed at modernising its infrastructure and promoting urban development when the Russian invasion began in February 2022. Now, urban planning had to be completely rethought: within a short period of time, the metropolis became a critical hub for hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons. Faced with these immense challenges, the city continues to attempt to mitigate the immediate effects of the war while simultaneously developing resilient structures. The new title in the basics series, City in Transition: Urban Dialogues on the Future of Lviv, is the result of the now 30-year-old academic cooperation program between the Faculties of Architecture of the Lviv Polytechnic National University and the TU Wien.
May 2025
Harald Bodenschatz / Victoria Grau/ Christiane Post / Max Welch Guerra (eds.)
Urban Planning in Nazi Germany
Attack, triumph, terror in the European context 1933-1945
In Urban Planning in National Socialism. Attack, triumph, terror in the European context 1933-1945, the authors, which include Harald Bodenschatz, Victoria Grau, Christiane Post, and Max Welch Guerra, examine the urban planning of the Nazi dictatorship for the first time in the context of other European dictatorships of the time, and in its extraordinary dynamism and complexity.
January 2025
Yorck Förster, Christina Gräwe, Peter Cachola Schmal (Eds.)
German Architecture Annual 2025
The winner of the DAM Prize 2025 is an open house for cultural and educational work: the Spore Haus in Berlin by AFF Architects. The jury, chaired by the former Berlin Senate Building Director Regula Lüscher, unanimously selected this project from among the finalists. In addition to the award-winning project and the finalists, the German Architecture Annual 2025 also showcases the shortlisted buildings in and from Germany.
January 2025
David Fleener (ed.)
Not a Woman Architect
The Life and Work of Brigitte Peterhans
"Talk to me as an architect, don’t talk about women in architecture," replied Brigitte Peterhans (1928-2021) when an American newspaper reporter wanted to interview her about her role at SOM. In Not a Woman Architect. The Life and Work of Brigitte Peterhans, the architect David Fleener portrays the idiosyncratic, determined and, for the time, extremely unconventional personality.