A new architecture and design bookshop has opened in Melbourne

It’s taken them a month longer than they expected by the guys behind Uro Publications have finally opened their new specialty bookshop focusing on all things design and built environment.

“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 dedicated 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,” explains the Uro Publications website.

They’ll be stocking titles from around Australia and the world, both new and out of print, the bookstore has premises both virtual, at www.uropublications.com, and real, at 5/71 Rose Street in Melbourne’s Fitzroy.

“Based in Fitzroy, 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 periodicals from Australia and around the world.”

Uro Publications recently won the Bates Smart Architecture in the Media Award for their book, Episodic Urbanism, which tells the story of how Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design has worked, over the course of nearly two decades, to turn RMIT University’s inner city premises from what was essentially a private fortress into a public-spirited urban campus.

“It is no simple task to capture and document a project of this complexity, yet Episodic Urbanism does so with a charm that is reflective of the architectural work itself… a great delight to read,” said the jury.

The publishers are also the masterminds behind Mongrel Rapture, a monograph on the work of ARM Architecture. In just over sixteen hundred pages, the book chronicles and examines 30-odd-years of work from the critically, culturally and commercially significant architecture practice through archival and new material.

The book was designed over three years, and was recently awarded The Hachette Designers’ Choice Book of the Year at the 2016 Australian Book Design Awards, as well as the Best Designed Fully-illustrated Book Over RRP $50 award.