DOPPELHOUSE PRESS is a Los Angeles-based publisher that focuses on memoir, art/architecture, and biographies, often encompassing histories of war, migration, and diaspora. We feature character-driven books that explore the dynamics between sociopolitical forces, cultural or political movements, and aesthetic forms. We began our work in 2011 looking at the developing styles and attitudes within 20th-century Central European modernism, which is intertwined with the perspective of exiles, for many of whom statelessness and belonging to broader artistic movements preceded their physical dislocation. We also publish Holocaust memoirs, books by journalists working in dangerous transitional circumstances, as well as critical essays, speculative fiction, and a new focus on nature, species, and society. 

Image: Jacques Groag, redesign of the quarter around St. Anne in Soho, London, 1944/45. Courtesy Olomouc Museum of Art.

DoppelHouse Press books are distributed to the trade by Consortium / Ingram.

Contact:
Carrie Paterson: Publisher@DoppelHousePress.com | 424-258-4423
Senior Editor: Christopher Michno: christopher.michno@doppelhousepresss.com
Marketing and Publicity: Olivia Perrault, Elizabeth Wyant: doppelhousepress@gmail.com 
Editorial intern: Briá Purdy: bria.purdy@doppelhousepress.com

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Manuscripts
We are not accepting unsolicited manuscripts at this time.

Exam and Desk Copies
To see our academic policies and order exam and desk copies, please refer to our pages at Ingram Academic.

Licensing and Foreign Rights
Send all inquires to publisher@doppelhousepress.com.

Article Proposals
Our online magazine, The Nomadic Journal, is a sister project. We seek essays, interviews, short stories, art, and cultural criticism, discussions of architecture, philosophy, poetry, book reviews, film critique, etc. We also reprint previously published essays or book excerpts. To submit, please send a proposal to publisher@doppelhousepress.com. Compensation is based on word count, not to exceed 4000 words. We look forward to hearing from you!

Background

Both architecture and translation between German and English are reflected in our name and logo. Émigrés and immigrants live with an imaginary doppelgänger, the shadow of a life left behind that follows them upon relocation to another place and, often, another language. The doppelhaus (“duplex”) is a twinned architecture type explored by many modern architects that we have focused on from Vienna, specifically Adolf Loos and his protégé/colleague, Jacques Groag.

We dedicate our work to the memory of Claire Beck Loos (self-portrait c. late 1920s), whose insightful and lively biography Adolf Loos — A Private Portrait we published at the time of a retrospective on Loos’ work in 2011 at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London (more here on the exhibition). In 2020, the 150th anniversary year of Loos’ birth, we released a revised paperback edition. Besides being a writer, Claire was also a respected photographer and took many of the well-known portraits of Loos in his last years.

Tragically, Claire was killed in the Holocaust in 1942, at Riga, just after her 37th birthday. For many decades following, her work was used without attribution or proper context as to her fate. DoppelHouse Press would not have been founded without Claire and the scholars, journalists, and surviving family members who struggled to bring her work out of obscurity.