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Published on 31 October 2024

The Most Beautiful Swiss Books of the year 2020 (awarded in 2021)

The Most Beautiful Swiss Books of 2025 have been announced

The Federal Office of Culture (FOC) has named the winners in the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2025 competition, on the recommendation of a jury of international experts.

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Honourable mention

Heatwave

Bronze Medal

13 June 2025

The most beautiful Swiss books awarded in 2025 (published in 2024)

13 June 2025

The Anemone, the Clownfish and Dr. Song

13 June 2025

Who Are Godwin and Hopwood? Exploring Tropical Architecture in the Age of Climate Crisis

13 June 2025

strecke records archives 16–22

13 June 2025

Sophie Calle. Overshare

13 June 2025

Savoir-faire sans panique

13 June 2025

Sabor

13 June 2025

Pauline Julier. And So On, a Single Universe

13 June 2025

La valise égyptienne

13 June 2025

Parents Must Unite + Fight. Hackney Flashers: Agitprop, Work, and Socialist Feminism in England

13 June 2025

Park Seo-Bo. The Newspaper Ecritures 2022–23

13 June 2025

logorrhea

13 June 2025

Dutch Landscape

13 June 2025

Cornbread the Legend. Graffiti in Philadelphia 1965–1971

13 June 2025

Au fil de la joie. Théâtre des Marionnettes de Genève

13 June 2025

Constructive Clarity. Max Bill and His Time, 1940–1952

13 June 2025

Freinet Techniques, Freinettechnieken, Techniques Freinet

13 June 2025

Flametti, or the Dandyism of the Poor. Translated and Read by Catherine Schelber

13 June 2025

Hidden Heartache

13 June 2025

Colonial Toxicity. Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara

13 June 2025

Aisha

20 March 2025

Hidden Heartache

Bronze medal

31 October 2024

The Most Beautiful Swiss Books of the year 2019

31 October 2024

About the year 2000

31 October 2024

Die Schönsten Schweizer Bücher des Jahres 2001

31 October 2024

The Most Beautiful Swiss Books of the year 2003

31 October 2024

Forschung im Fokus

31 October 2024

A typical plan

31 October 2024

WIR SPIELEN (WE PLAY)

31 October 2024

30 Years of Swiss Typographic Discourse

31 October 2024

Der Lebhag

31 October 2024

No More War

31 October 2024

Flucht nach vorn

31 October 2024

Gestaltung der Grundlagen

31 October 2024

Malicious Damage

31 October 2024

Gestaltung Werk Gesellschaft

31 October 2024

THE TOUCH (Forbidden Pictures)

31 October 2024

Learning from Warsaw

31 October 2024

A sequence or phrase

31 October 2024

Marcel van Eeden

31 October 2024

Charity Basar

31 October 2024

Atrocity Exhibition Archive Paradoxe

31 October 2024

Art Therapy for Conceptual Artists

31 October 2024

Atelier Bow-Wow

31 October 2024

Pierre Schwerzmann

31 October 2024

Meret Oppenheim

31 October 2024

Cinematography

31 October 2024

Pierrette Bloch

31 October 2024

Revisiter l’Expo 64

31 October 2024

Jonathan Horowitz

31 October 2024

Andy Guhl. Ear Lights, Eye Sounds. Expanded Cracked Everyday Electronics

31 October 2024

The Rendering Eye. Urban America Revisited

31 October 2024

Ashley Bickerton. Susie

31 October 2024

Jason Loebs. Title Stack Sink Release

31 October 2024

Chandigarh Furniture

31 October 2024

Muhammad Ali

31 October 2024

Paul Chan. New New Testament

31 October 2024

fink twice series

31 October 2024

Thomas Ruff. Zeitungsfotos / Newspaper Photographs

31 October 2024

Birds of Paradise. Costume as Cinematic Spectacle

31 October 2024

Fundamentalists and Other Arab Modernisms

31 October 2024

Andreas Dobler. Once Upon A Shine

31 October 2024

La Passion Dürer

31 October 2024

Gustave Courbet

31 October 2024

Carl Andre. Poems

31 October 2024

African Modernism

31 October 2024

Female Chic

31 October 2024

30 ans à Paris

31 October 2024

Dieter Kienast

31 October 2024

Umwege zum Konzert

31 October 2024

Designing TWA

31 October 2024

Im Hölloch

31 October 2024

Mit 80 Karten durch die Schweiz

31 October 2024

I Love to Dress

31 October 2024

Christian Marclay. Liquids

31 October 2024

Adolf Dietrich in seiner Zeit und darüber hinaus

31 October 2024

Lilly Keller Künstlerin

31 October 2024

Albert Oehlen. In der Wohnung

31 October 2024

Kaspar Müller. Schätze der Erinnerung, 2014–2015

31 October 2024

Austin Lee. Spheres

31 October 2024

GGG 1777-1914

31 October 2024

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift

31 October 2024

Pierre’s, The magazine of The Artist’s Institute, Issue One

31 October 2024

The Anti-Museum

31 October 2024

So wohl als ob

31 October 2024

Hello, I am not from here

31 October 2024

Bernard Chadebec. Intrus Sympathiques

31 October 2024

Billy Sullivan. Still, Looking

31 October 2024

Eva Hesse Diaries

31 October 2024

Matt Mullican

31 October 2024

Withheld due to

31 October 2024

That Continuous Thing: Artists & the Ceramics Studio, 1920 – Today

31 October 2024

Shannon Ebner

31 October 2024

Places of Production: Aluminium

31 October 2024

Mit Behinderung in Angola leben

31 October 2024

Michel Parmentier

31 October 2024

Julia Steiner

31 October 2024

Into Your Solar Plexus

31 October 2024

Fabian Marti

31 October 2024

Das Stammertal 1831–1980

31 October 2024

Dadaglobe Reconstructed

31 October 2024

The Playground Project

31 October 2024

Taxidermy for Language-Animals

31 October 2024

Raum. Zeit. Kultur

31 October 2024

Legislating Architecture Schweiz

31 October 2024

L’Art Brut de Jean Dubuffet, aux origines de la collection

31 October 2024

Forming in the Pupil of an Eye

31 October 2024

Jean-Pierre Kaiser

31 October 2024

The Good Life

31 October 2024

Vierzig Jahre Gegenwart

31 October 2024

The Young Gods / Documents 1985 – 2015

31 October 2024

Langfristperspektiven archäologischer Stätten

31 October 2024

Heimat

31 October 2024

Autonomie auf A4

31 October 2024

Art Décor

31 October 2024

Continental Drift

31 October 2024

Early Video Art and Experimental Films Networks

31 October 2024

Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

31 October 2024

American Readers at Home

31 October 2024

First Things First

31 October 2024

But time is not linear

31 October 2024

documenta 14: Daybook

31 October 2024

SKUTER

31 October 2024

Die “Samnauner Zwerge” an der Schnittstelle Medizin und Alltag

31 October 2024

We say we are fine. They say we are not.

31 October 2024

Peter Halley. Paintings of the 1980s: The Catalogue Raisonné

31 October 2024

43–35 10TH STREET

31 October 2024

An Ideal for Living

31 October 2024

Tree Identification for Beginners

31 October 2024

Der Durchschnitt als Norm

31 October 2024

Florence Jung

31 October 2024

Andro Wekua

31 October 2024

I Fuck With Turrell. Ne travaillez jamais.

31 October 2024

Giftmord. Eine Kriminalgeschichte von 1929.

31 October 2024

Color Library

31 October 2024

FOR A FISH TANK OR A PARKING LOT

31 October 2024

Verde

31 October 2024

147 Backcovers. Summer Fall Winter Spring

31 October 2024

Sammlung. Christoph Kappeler

31 October 2024

Bildrausch. Drawings 1966-2018

31 October 2024

Film Culture 80. The Legend of Barbara Rubin

31 October 2024

The University is now on air

31 October 2024

Architekturtheorie im deutschsprachigen Kulturraum 1486-1648

31 October 2024

Etwas fehlt

Honorary appreciation

31 October 2024

Almanach Ecart. Une archive collective, 1969-2019

Golden Letter

31 October 2024

The Museum is Not Enough

Silver medal

31 October 2024

Revelo N°1. Chroniques de chantier. Transformation de la Gare, CH–1800 Vevey

Honorary diploma

31 October 2024

Data Centers. Edges of a Wired Nation

Bronze medal

31 October 2024

Corinne

Bronze medal

31 October 2024

This Is Not a Commercial

31 October 2024

Sympathie

31 October 2024

Richard Tuttle TheStars

31 October 2024

NIKE. Better is Temporary

31 October 2024

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Natsuko Uchino. Keramikos

31 October 2024

GIGER SORAYAMA

31 October 2024

Enzo Mari curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. With Francesca Giacomelli

31 October 2024

Elisabeth Wild. Fantasías

31 October 2024

Dear Clay

31 October 2024

Revelo N°1. Chroniques de chantier. Transformation de la Gare, CH–1800 Vevey

31 October 2024

Corinne

31 October 2024

Chaque Mercredi Caracas

31 October 2024

Human Territoriality

31 October 2024

Lo Jura di duemoenne. Patoises lattres, 1896–1914

31 October 2024

Tenant of Culture

31 October 2024

Rahel Kraft: Paradoxical Creatures

31 October 2024

Dimension of Two

31 October 2024

Construire un nouveau Nouveau Monde. L’amerikanizm dans l’architecture russe

31 October 2024

Data Centers. Edges of a Wired Nation

31 October 2024

The Most Beautiful Swiss Books of the year 2020 (awarded in 2021)

31 October 2024

Vivian Suter. Bonzo, Tintin & Nina

31 October 2024

A CLOSE UP OF A LARGE ROCK, I THINK

31 October 2024

L'énigme autodidacte. The Self-Taught Enigma

31 October 2024

Swiss Graphic Design Histories

31 October 2024

RETAIL APOCALYPSE

31 October 2024

Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Briefe 1905 – 1942

31 October 2024

The (Real) Book, Alice Y1 2019/20

31 October 2024

NOIR SUR NOIR

31 October 2024

Zwischen Anlagen Anderer

31 October 2024

Dannenroeder Forst

31 October 2024

Dear Aisha, Volume 1. Can i have a minute of your time

31 October 2024

Kazuo Shinohara. Traversing the House and the City

31 October 2024

Armando Alleyne. A Few of My Favorites

31 October 2024

Frozen Unfrozen. A Poster Novel

31 October 2024

Uta Eisenreich. AS IF

31 October 2024

Al Held. Selected Works 1956-2004

31 October 2024

GRAUZONE

31 October 2024

THE POND SKATER

31 October 2024

The Future Tense

31 October 2024

Aubry Broquard. La Période Molle

31 October 2024

STATE FICTION. The Gaze of the Swiss Neutral Mission in the Korean Demilitarized Zone

31 October 2024

Zenker

31 October 2024

Things They Do with Ashes and Sand, The Glass Collection of Ray Bär Salisbury

31 October 2024

The Most Beautiful Swiss Books of the year 2021 (awarded in 2022)

31 October 2024

Things People Wear in Kenya

31 October 2024

From… To…

31 October 2024

Fredrik Værslev – Fenstermalerei

31 October 2024

Edition Digital Culture

31 October 2024

Vittorio Brodmann

31 October 2024

The Museum is Not Enough / Le musée ne suffit pas

31 October 2024

Our Happy Life. Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism

Recommended Information Concerning Your Burnout

31 October 2024

Modern Nature

31 October 2024

Kazuo Shinohara: 3 Houses

Architecture and Sensualism

31 October 2024

Haus

31 October 2024

Enghelab Street

31 October 2024

Die Verwandte

31 October 2024

Children

31 October 2024

Atomfieber. Eine Geschichte der Atomenergie in der Schweiz

31 October 2024

Architecture as Environment. Parc Architects

31 October 2024

Alternative Histories

31 October 2024

500 Jahre Zürcher Reformation. Das Jubiläumsbuch

31 October 2024

Etwas fehlt

31 October 2024

Almanach Ecart. Une archive collective, 1969-2019

31 October 2024

The Most Beautiful Swiss Books of the year 1998

31 October 2024

The Most Beautiful Swiss Books of the year 1999

31 October 2024

Siegfried Giedion – Die Entstehung des heutigen Menschen

Bronze medal

31 October 2024

Thomas K. Keller. Die Rationalität des Baumeisterlichen

Bronze medal

31 October 2024

Sebastian Riemer – Press Paintings

Silver medal

31 October 2024

Walking as Research Practice

« Goldene Letter »

31 October 2024

Susi + Ueli Berger. Kunst am Bau und im öffentlichen Raum 1968–2008

Goldene Letter

31 October 2024

Miriam Cahn. MEINEJUDEN

Bronce medal

31 October 2024

Matter

Silver medal

31 October 2024

The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century

Bronce medal

31 October 2024

A–A’, B–B’

31 October 2024

Susi + Ueli Berger. Kunst am Bau und im öffentlichen Raum 1968–2008

31 October 2024

Miriam Cahn. MEINEJUDEN

31 October 2024

Matter

31 October 2024

William Leavitt. Installations, Plays, Video, 1970–2018

31 October 2024

Portraits. Architectural Parables

31 October 2024

The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century

31 October 2024

#INGRID

31 October 2024

Igshaan Adams. Desire Lines

31 October 2024

gta edition / Mono

31 October 2024

GAIJIN OMOIDE POROPORO HIKARI

31 October 2024

David Hammons

31 October 2024

Carlo Mollino. Architect and Storyteller

31 October 2024

Andrea Muheim. Malerei als Selbstgespräch

31 October 2024

Orphée ruminait des mots à l’étouffée, sous la pluie fine du brouillard ardent, anyway les serpents sont-ils…

31 October 2024

Starkes Ding

31 October 2024

Pilvi Takala: Close Watch

31 October 2024

From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word

31 October 2024

Ecce Homo

31 October 2024

Armorial du Jura. Canton du Jura. Jura bernois, Bienne, Birseck, Laufonnais. XIIIe siècle – 1815

31 October 2024

Museum San Keller

31 October 2024

Allison Katz: Artery

31 October 2024

Walking as Research Practice

31 October 2024

Thomas K. Keller. Die Rationalität des Baumeisterlichen

31 October 2024

The One-man Water Cannon Test. Photography by Eric Bachmann

31 October 2024

Sebastian Riemer - Press Paintings

31 October 2024

Pia Zanetti

31 October 2024

Les déserteuses

31 October 2024

Journaux de guerre, 1939–1944. Les compagnies de fusiliers II/22 et I/222 aux frontières jurassiennes

31 October 2024

Heads Together. Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate 1965 – 1973

31 October 2024

Daphne Ahlers. Die Würflerin

31 October 2024

Alexandra Bachzetsis. Show Time Book / Book Time Show

31 October 2024

100 Jahre Zoff

31 October 2024

Unlicensed. Bootlegging as Creative Practice

31 October 2024

TÜRM. Les Chantiers de la Mystériosité

31 October 2024

Rhona Mühlebach. Obstacles for Cows

31 October 2024

Dieter Roth. Selbstturm; Löwenturm

31 October 2024

Die Entstehung des heutigen Menschen. Ein unvollendetes Buchprojekt, 1929 – 1938

31 October 2024

The most beautiful Swiss books awarded in 2024 (published in 2023)

31 October 2024

“The Most Beautiful Swiss Books” accolades for 19 publications

31 October 2024

19 works named as the “Most Beautiful Swiss Books”

31 October 2024

Die «Schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2021» sind bekannt