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Established in 2009, Uro began life as a specialist publisher of architecture and design books. In 2016, in the face of the closure of Australia's only specialist architecture and design bookstore chain, Architext, we decided it was time to roll up our sleeves and open our very own bricks-and-mortar shopfront. Based in the Collingwood Yards, Melbourne, as well as online, we now operate as both vendors and publishers of architecture and design books, with a particular focus on Australian titles, be they new, or rare and out-of-print. In store, we also carry a selection of architecture and design journals from Australia and around the world.

Kay Fisker: Copenhagen Housing Types (1936), Row-House Types (1941) brings two of the foundational typological studies o...
04/10/2026

Kay Fisker: Copenhagen Housing Types (1936), Row-House Types (1941) brings two of the foundational typological studies of Danish modern housing into English for the first time. Both surveys are reproduced in facsimile, keeping the original page layouts, analytical diagrams and dense sheets of comparative plans intact.

Kay Fisker was among the architects who shaped Copenhagen’s interwar housing, and at the School of Architecture of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts he led students through systematic surveys of how the city lived. The two studies gathered here were the result: one a catalogue of Copenhagen’s apartment types, the other a close reading of the row house. Laid side by side, drawn to common conventions and annotated with critical commentary, the examples form a working method as much as a historical record.

04/10/2026

You can catch Peris + Toral at the AIA Institute’s conference later this month. TC 171/172: Peris + Toral—Architecture 2014–2025 is a double issue of the Valencian journal TC Cuadernos devoted to the Barcelona practice of Marta Peris and José Toral, surveying more than a decade of social and collective housing.

Peris + Toral has built much of its reputation through public competitions, and this monograph gathers the work that came out of them—social housing blocks and civic spaces across Barcelona, Mallorca, Ibiza and Melilla. The issue makes the case that building regulations can serve as a design instrument rather than a constraint, and that construction technique can lead form towards architecture that is open, adaptable and made to last.

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Australian Institute of Architects

Collaborations in Housing Design: Lessons from Architect and Developer by Crispin Kelly and Ellis Woodman looks at three...
03/10/2026

Collaborations in Housing Design: Lessons from Architect and Developer by Crispin Kelly and Ellis Woodman looks at three decades of housing produced by the developer Baylight Properties in partnership with some of Britain’s most respected architects, and asks what that way of working can teach the wider industry.

Projects from Stanton Williams, Tony Fretton, Sergison Bates, Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, Stephen Taylor, David Kohn, Philip Christou, Tom Emerson, and Peter Salter.

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Ellis Woodman

Back in stock! Arch+ Agency for Better Living documents the Austrian Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, ...
02/10/2026

Back in stock!

Arch+ Agency for Better Living documents the Austrian Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, placing Vienna’s municipal social housing model in direct dialogue with Rome’s grassroots self-organised communities to ask what affordable housing could look like today.

The 2025 Austrian Pavilion takes housing as its central subject, structured as a productive tension between two radically different approaches: Vienna’s top-down tradition of state-led social housing and Rome’s bottom-up informal activism. Curated by Michael Obrist, Sabine Pollak, and Lorenzo Romito, the exhibition and this accompanying volume ask whether these models can inform each other — and whether a synthesis might begin to address the acute shortage of affordable housing facing cities today. Published as a special issue of ARCH+, the book works across essays, discussion formats, and infographics to give the argument both analytical depth and visual clarity.

Miguel Milá: Essential, A Design Guide for Life sets out the thinking of one of Spain’s founding industrial designers in...
01/10/2026

Miguel Milá: Essential, A Design Guide for Life sets out the thinking of one of Spain’s founding industrial designers in his own voice—part manifesto, part family memoir, part quiet handbook for living well.

Where earlier books on Miguel Milá have looked at his work from the outside, this one lets the designer speak for himself. Milá wove together recollections of his family and upbringing, reflections on the objects he made and firm convictions about what design is for, arriving at a way of thinking in which a good lamp and a good life are shaped by the same values: restraint, honesty, comfort and care.

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Apartamento

01/10/2026

Twenty-One Conversations with Architects by Arquitectura-G gathers more than 15 years of interviews conducted by the Barcelona practice for Apartamento, in which architects across several generations talk about houses, homes and the lives lived inside them.

Arquitectura-G and Apartamento—a Barcelona architecture studio and a Barcelona magazine, both preoccupied with space and how it is inhabited—have been talking to each other, and to architects, since 2008. This volume brings those conversations together for the first time. The line-up spans Pritzker laureates, image-makers and close collaborators, each building a distinct universe of their own.

This month’s staff picks are from Lucas, our Publications Assistant and Bookshop Manager! He has got you covered from in...
30/09/2026

This month’s staff picks are from Lucas, our Publications Assistant and Bookshop Manager! He has got you covered from international architects to Australian photographers and landscape architects for the month of September. ☀️🌿

1. 🏛️ El Croquis 208: Dogma (2002-2021) Familiar / Unfamiliar
2. 🏅 3+2: Durbach Block Jaggers
3. 🪴 Uncle Toby’s Garden
4. 📸 Definitive Dupain
5. 🇨🇭Passenger Information System: Design manual for the Swiss Federal Railways
6. 👨‍🏭 Railing
7. 🧌To the Ends of the Earth: A Grand Tour for the 21st Century

🏛️ El Croquis 208: Dogma (2002-2021) Familiar / Unfamiliar

‘DOGMA is currently visiting Melbourne for the Future Suburbs Symposium. The position of this El Croquis issue is deliberately provocative: rather than surveying completed buildings, it presents a body of work that exists entirely as a proposal, which is rare for the publication. This issue is packed full of collages that DOGMA are known for and a great interview on the relationship between images and their projects.’

We’ll be selling books at The Melbourne School of Design, Thursday night and Friday during the day. But get in quick before they go!

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Dogma Architects El Croquis

🏅 3+2: Durbach Block Jaggers

Durbach Block Jaggers wrapped up their AIA Gold Medal tour last night. This is a double-volume portrait we published with them in 2017. It was shot by two photographers who deliberately sidestep the conventions of architectural photography to embody rather than illustrate the work. We have less than 10 copies in print so get in quick!

🪴 Uncle Toby’s Garden

‘Uncle Toby’s Garden is a collection of work from Níall McLaughlin Architects in collaboration with others between 1990 and 2026. The title shares its name with a character in Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Like Sterne’s novel, this book is non-linear, a quality I enjoy more than the traditional architecture monograph. A highlight is a photo in the British Museum, with Ian Jankins, as Níall McLaughlin Architects scan the Parthenon Stones for their 2012 London Olympics Athletes’ Housing.’

For more about the book, there’s a great episode from the podcast scaffold

💛Back by popular demand! 💛Vietnamese Objects traces how French colonial goods, foods and materials were absorbed into Vi...
30/09/2026

💛Back by popular demand! 💛

Vietnamese Objects traces how French colonial goods, foods and materials were absorbed into Vietnamese life so completely that they now read as authentically Vietnamese.

Cà phê, cà phê phin, atisô, xi nê ma, căng tin, xi-măng, ghế tô nê—in the Vietnamese language, a great many everyday words carry their French origins on the surface. The research project Objets Vietnamiens takes that linguistic residue as its starting point and works outward, analysing the production of objects in Vietnam through cultural anthropology, the epistemology of Vietnamese design and the sociology of objects.

Drawing on reportage, interviews and research across several archival collections, Quang Vinh Nguyen and Émilie Laystary trace the mechanisms by which objects, foods, materials and expertise were absorbed into Vietnamese life. Their reading is decolonial and critical, and its argument is a generous one: that appropriating the techniques of a dominant power is itself an act of creativity and adaptation. The resulting work doubles as an archive of the present, opening onto everyday life in Vietnam then and now.

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Triest Verlag

John Pawson: The Minimal Home is a study of domestic space through the work of one of the world’s most admired minimalis...
30/09/2026

John Pawson: The Minimal Home is a study of domestic space through the work of one of the world’s most admired minimalist architects. It sets Pawson’s own houses and interiors beside the buildings and places that have shaped his thinking.

Rather than working through projects in chronological order, The Minimal Home is organised around the rituals of daily life. Six chapters—living, cooking, eating, bathing, sleeping and working—each pair Pawson’s residential work from the 1980s onward with the precedents that inform it, from Japanese hot springs and the abbey of Le Thoronet in Provence to Donald Judd’s home in Marfa and Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House.

Deyan Sudjic contributes commentary on the interiors and the thinking behind them, while Pawson’s own texts explain his pursuit of rooms that are comfortable to use, to look at as much as to live in. The result is less a manual of style than a patient case for simplicity as a way of living.

We’re open today until 5pm🪟

Women Textile Designers is a major study of the role women have played in the textile industry, illustrated with outstan...
28/09/2026

Women Textile Designers is a major study of the role women have played in the textile industry, illustrated with outstanding 20th-century designs from the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and beyond.

The book gathers printed, woven and embroidered fabrics made for public spaces, furnishings, fashion and theatre by some of the most accomplished designers of the century. The range runs from Arts and Crafts pioneer May Morris and Bauhaus weavers Gunta Stölzl and Anni Albers, through midcentury designers Lucienne Day and Althea McNish, to contemporary innovators such as Birgitta Hahn and Reiko Sudo.

Chapters trace how the textile industry changed over the 20th century—including women’s growing access to design education and their emergence as entrepreneurs and leaders—alongside detailed illustrated profiles of key figures. The authors also look at new products and technologies, changing patterns of consumption, and the shifting roles of textiles in homes, public buildings and transport.

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