Dream in Progress: Our new book
With Dream in Progress, we are presenting our most daring volume since mid-December 2025 – a courageous vision for the Architecture of Travel.
Our new book takes a deliberate step away from the familiar visual language of black-and-white architectural purity. In a publishing landscape saturated with “nice” books and photogenic minimalism, Dream in Progress rebels.
“Nice is lukewarm,” we think – and this book wants to be anything like that. Instead, it embraces colour, serendipity and the vibrant potential of the unfinished. More than a publication, it is a manifesto for courageous design, joyful transformation and architecture as an act of optimism.
Dream in Progress invites you to wander through the pages. To open the book at random, return, drift, follow colour as it threads through 16 projects – each one a narrative of becoming. These holiday houses are not final statements but living experiments, revealing architecture not as a static object but as an evolving relationship between people, place and possibility.
The book’s projects occupy the fertile ground between a vague idea and a fully formed building. They trust the process, honour intuition and demonstrate how even the smallest gesture can enrich life. From former farmhouses to industrial relics infused with playful vision, each transformation reveals how the familiar can become extraordinary – simply by inviting us to change.
Architecture remains the protagonist, but subtly so – present between the lines, in the quiet hinge moments where life shifts direction. Dream in Progress is an invitation to linger, to re-imagine, to step into spaces shaped by trust and optimism. It proposes that dreaming is not escapism but evolution – an ongoing practice that reshapes how we live, travel and create.
Art in Progress
Created in collaboration with artist Jana Gunstheimer, the book can be paired with a limited edition artwork and transforms the typical architecture compendium into a tactile, colour-led journey. Rather than embellishment, the artist’s contribution becomes part of the book’s exploration of how places – and perspectives – shift.
The book publication is accompanied by the corresponding artwork Lost in Transformation by Jana Gunstheimer, which can be purchased individually in a signed, limited edition in our shop. The artwork was printed on art paper using traditional screen printing in Berlin in a format of 70 x 50centimeters.
The book and artwork are closely interwoven and were created in a constant exchange between the editorial team, artist, and graphic designer – art in progress. Excerpts from the artwork can be seen on the cover of our new publication, which is available in eight different versions.
For new explorers: A foretaste of the new book
Those who are not yet familiar with us can look forward to a series of previous volumes that have become reference points for travellers, architects, and design enthusiasts. Each volume illuminates vacation architecture from its own perspective, creating an expanded framework for Dream in Progress, which is particularly dedicated to the themes of transformation and optimism. It is also worth taking a look at the previous editions of Edition URLAUBSARCHITEKTUR – available in the URLAUBSARCHITEKTUR shop and in all bookstores – to understand the development of the series and experience the new volume in context.
Release & Order Information
Dream in Progress came out in mid-December 2025, orders can be placed via the URLAUBSARCHITEKTUR shop and through all bookstores. Shipping of ordered books started mid-January 2026.
Title: Dream in Progress
Publisher: URLAUBSARCHITEKTUR
Project lead / Creation lead: Britta Krämer
Art direction / Graphic editing: Bucharchitektur \ Kathrin Schmuck
Artwork (cover and selected pages) / Contributing Artist: Jana Gunstheimer
Authors: Tina Barankay, Anneke Bokern, Frederik Fischer, Barbara Hallmann, Julia Hauch, Ulrich Stefan Knoll, Britta Krämer, Florian Siebeck, Christiane Weidemann
Translation & Proofreading: Christine Neufeld
Release date: 15.12.2025
Language: English
Pages: 210 pages, many pictures
Binding: Hardcover, thread binding
Cover: Screen printing on cardboard with embossing, in 8 variants
Size/weight: 29 x 20 x 3.5 cm, approx. 965 g
ISBN number: 978–3‑9817367–9‑3
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