A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 21, 2022

I've decided to bring back "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. A well-considered use of materials and an emphasis on small-scale massing (even in the larger projects) unite the projects.

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Hotel Designs

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Hotel Designs In conversation with: Wei Xiao (萧威), Founder of Zhengyin Art In conversation with: Wei Xiao (萧威), Founder of Zhengyin Art Zhengyin Art has been dedicated to creating original, elegant artworks that elevate a space. HD: How have you, or your vision, changed since you start creating public art?

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SW Oregon Architect

APRIL 2, 2023

What caught my eye was a collection of his stunning images of Art Deco towers, part of a larger project to document historic skyscrapers across the USA entitled the Highrises Collection. Chris’s visual art developed alongside his growing skills as a designer, and this architectural influence is integral to his work.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

Home / Graphics / Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Architectural Sketching or How to Sketch like Me Bob Borson — April 7, 2014 — 70 Comments Architectural sketching is becoming a thing of the past – at least that’s how it seems to me most days.

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Architecture Chat

MAY 6, 2019

The edition is complete with the latest syllabus, sketch book, practice tests and NATA study material. It also includes hand sketching tips from human proportions to various geometrical shapes. With this students have access to facility of free evaluation of sketches. Books of all subjects in one place.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Presented in conjunction with her debut monograph, An Atlas of Es Devlin , both exhibition and publication showcased sketches, paintings, small-scale work and more behind 120 projects spanning Devlin's career in set design. An exhibit exploring Es Devlin's career is on display at the Cooper Hewitt.

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Dwell

MARCH 12, 2024

The design was later included in the seminal book The International Style: Architecture Since 1922.) This spring, the Palm Springs Art Museum will become the structure’s permanent site. An exterior sketch of the Aluminaire House by Kocher and Frey in 1931. Lawrence Kocher at Rockefeller Center cafeteria in New York City in 1931.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 17, 2024

Storytelling through design is an art form. It could be a vase, or a light fitting from right then and there the story starts to unfold and I’ll usually start sketching or reaching for my colour book. It’s covered in art, art supplies, experimental projects and generally a beautiful (and often not so beautiful) mess.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 17, 2024

Storytelling through design is an art form. It could be a vase, or a light fitting from right then and there the story starts to unfold and I’ll usually start sketching or reaching for my colour book. It’s covered in art, art supplies, experimental projects and generally a beautiful (and often not so beautiful) mess.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 5, 2023

A new book from the grandson of the celebrated Finnish architects draws on never-before-published letters and photographs to tell the tale of the couple’s shared legacy. In 1935, Aino and Alvar Aalto cofounded Finnish furniture company Artek with visual arts promoter Maire Gullichsen and art historian Nils-Gustav Hahl.

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Deezen

JUNE 5, 2024

Virginia Commonwealth University Institution: Virginia Commonwealth University School: School of Arts Course: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design Tutors: Christopher Fink, Chair and Federica Visani School statement: "Behind the Seen was an immersive fashion show organised by VCUarts Qatar's Fashion Design Class of 2024. "In

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Jane Griswold Radocchia

MAY 3, 2024

In 1540 Sebastiano Serlio drew this sketch in Book IV of his On Architecture.* Palladio doesn't describe this, but the roofs in his The Four Books of Architecture (1570) use the same pitch. Vignola's book on architecture was translated, of course. 1600, attributed to Vignola, comes from a book published in Spain.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

While the founder of the contemporary British brand Toogood identifies herself as a designer, with work spanning interiors , objects, furniture , clothing and art , her practice is often referred to as multidisciplinary. I like working in interiors, objects, furniture, clothing and art," she told Dezeen.

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Deezen

JUNE 7, 2022

Dezeen School Shows: a fashion collection that celebrates the designer's Ukrainian roots and an allotment scheme at London's Docklands are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Kingston School of Art. Kingston School of Art. School: School of Design. Partnership content.

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Portland Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2022

He has also received a series of commissions in the Miami Design District in 2018 (in collaboration with SB Architects), years after publishing a book on his alleyway explorations, Tight Urbanism , in 2010. A recent Seattle house was featured in a New York Times article called " A Modern Home That Looks Toward the Sky and the Water."

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The book compiles some 122 different projects, from her early work at London's National Theatre to designing catwalks for Louis Vuitton and Saint Laurent , two different Olympic ceremonies, various operas, a Superbowl halftime show and installations for the Tate Modern and the V&A. It was too many projects.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

So if books, buildings and beautiful photographs are your thing, look no further. And, this innovative book is a great way to fuel that interest. From Archidoodle, this interactive book is the first of its kind to provide a fun, engaging way to learn about architecture. In our humble opinion.

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The Spaces

JULY 26, 2022

Nearly 15 years later, OPEN’s revolutionary projects include the UCCA Dune Art Museum – a cultural institute planted between pristine dunes on the Gold Coast of Changli in Qinhuangdao (a landscape that would likely be protected if it were in the West). Rooftop/aerial view of the UCCA Dune Art Museum by OPEN. Photography: Zaiye Studio.

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ArchiDiaries

APRIL 30, 2022

It is home to the city’s cultural heritage, modern art, music, films and over a million books, including more than 16,000 from the Japanese occupation period and of course, is equipped with the latest technologies of a modern library. Art and books. Drawings & Sketches. Bamboo forest.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Sketchbooks: Collected Measured Drawings and Architectural Sketches by George Saumarez Smith Triglyph Books , October 2021 Hardcover | 10 x 12-1/2 inches | 240 pages | English | ISBN: 9781916355439 | $55.00 The drawings display a supreme mastery that goes beyond technique and assumes the status of art.

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Lines on Paper

APRIL 8, 2022

I had the most interesting vision today; half a dozen young architects working in a studio with a light green terrazzo floor with a large centre table with sunlight and butter-paper sketches on one wall and a bookcase full of books on architecture and art against the other.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This year's roundup of books to give to discerning architects for the holidays is presented in pairs. While at least one book in each pair is new, the other one isn't necessarily so — new, old, or not-so-old, it is related to the first in some manner, as explained in my descriptions. Hey, architectural historians like gift books, too!)

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

A free experience for everyone to enjoy, right in the heart of Edinburgh’s city centre, the new Scottish galleries at the National showcase the very best historic Scottish art. This project was all about improving the visitor experience and the way the nations world class collection of Scottish Art is displayed.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

MAY 18, 2023

Updated and expanded for 2023 grads, with more tech, more cult books, and a few surprising must-haves for the newly minted designer. ” —Bo Zhang, ASLA (Almost) All the Books Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel. “A “As beautiful and inspiring as it is practical.

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architect design™

MAY 3, 2019

In this age of computer-aided everything (CAD, sketch-up, photoshop, etc) it's refreshing to know there are those in the architectural community who still draw by hand. More than just an art form, it's a communication technique! Let's revive the art of hand drafting and be sure to check out Single-Handedly !

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Dwell

DECEMBER 12, 2022

These cheerful pups look like they were sketched for a 1960s-edition of The New Yorker. Let someone else do (most of) the work for you The Met Holiday Gift Wrap & Tags Book Wrap your gifts in Museum-inspired style with designs from this cheerful, only–at–The-Met wrapping paper book. 1,58 inch width.

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Architizer

MARCH 7, 2024

In literature and the visual arts — the representational arts, let’s say — modernism was an attempt to find new forms of artistic expression to meet the needs of a rapidly changing world where old certainties and trust in institutions were falling away. Counterintuitive as it might seem, they wanted to bring art closer to life.

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Shades of Grey

JULY 30, 2021

Freehand sketching and painting on stretched canvas are physical activities that I have always enjoyed. In my thirties, my obsession took me into education in Zimbabwe, writing and illustrating small text books, teaching at various levels. I studied history of architecture at school as part of my “O” level and “A” level art courses.

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Architizer

MARCH 14, 2022

Across these various representations, the architectural influence of Gotham is most commonly a mix and match of Art Deco, Art Nouveau and Gothic architecture, honing in on the elaborate spires, pointed arches, and ornate decoration often featured throughout the city and piercing the skyline.

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Habitus Living

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Find out more Books as objects of beauty A stunning coffee table book is always a good gift idea, especially for avid readers and design lovers. Sketching at his summer house, Wegner translated beach-inspired seating angles into this design.

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Dwell

MARCH 23, 2022

It’s equipped with an open bottom shelf for even more space to set down a drink or book. A convenient surface to rest drinks and books, the Finn Coffee Table is crafted from sustainably harvested solid teak wood that can be oiled to maintain its original color or left alone to develop a beautiful silvery patina. Made in China.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

She knows how to put my little crummy sketches on a whole wall,” Solomon says. The book features sumptuous landscape drawings that often begin in plan view but suddenly—and somehow subtly—shift to section views of architecture. There’s a timelessness that’s ever more obvious now that Solomon has been drawing for 70 years.

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Bustler

JULY 19, 2022

For this, we will visit those sites of odd more-than-human collaborations and explore site-specific ways of working through sketching, mapping, and storytelling. in history books, mythologies, encyclopedias, maps and guidebooks, and furthermore try to build an oddly possible topography of its own.

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A4 Architects

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

JNA Griswold Design Sketch (Above) and the completed house (Below), 1864 Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895) was the first American citizen to be admitted to study at the École des Beaux Arts, the preeminent school of art and architecture in the world during the 19 th century.

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Dwell

MAY 22, 2024

A new book rounds up hundreds of unbuilt structures and city plans from the 20th century to today that show just how different our world could have looked. From its peak, visitors could have seen over 50 miles in all directions, and experts said the building was "one of the best specimens of modern art for the next 30 or 50 years."

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Shades of Grey

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

I bought another book on Kindle. I’m going to use quotes from the book again, and let the visuals speak for themselves for the most part. The aim here is to sketch a broad outline of the history of religious buildings, a "God's eye view" if you will forgive the pun. I’ve been spending time on Greek and Roman temples.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

They also enhance their real-world preparedness, presentation skills and conceptual sketching abilities, culminating in comprehensive project development. Accessible by boat, this state-of-the-art facility is poised to be a beacon of innovation and sustainable design.

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