A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 11, 2022

Here is the 42nd installment of "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. As the subtitle indicates, inclusive design is the emphasis.

Glass 101

Glass Architecture School Art Education 101

The Spaces

MAY 24, 2024

Art and sound come together in the concrete spaces of 180 The Strand this summer with the launch of Reverb – a monumental exhibition of immersive AV installations by over 100 artists, curated by The Vinyl Factory , that explores the intricate relationship between music and art. Book tickets here.

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Art Installation Visualization Cities 90

Archinect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Research from a professor at the University of Aberdeen has advanced evidence that the art and practice of architectural drawing may have been invented by a 12th-century Scottish clergyman working in Paris around the time of the construction of Notre-Dame Cathedral and other important Gothic structures.

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Technique Modern Architecture Visualization 300

DesignRulz

APRIL 2, 2023

It allows you to take control of your space and create an environment that is both functional and visually pleasing. Organizing your books can also help you to rediscover old favorites, discover new authors, and create a sense of calm and order in your home. Go through your books and donate or sell any that you no longer need or want.

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Visualization Finishes Environment Home 84

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 7, 2022

On the outside, its fairly traditional design is reminiscent of Lost Buildings , which had some of the same important players (Ware and Chicago cultural historian Tim Samuelson), but whereas that earlier book was sized to the companion DVD, Reconstructing the Garrick is large, with a tall proportion befitting the city's one-time tallest building.

Foundation 110

Foundation Visualization Modern Building 110

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JUNE 5, 2023

Last week I cobbled together eight books, some of which publishers had sent me more than a year ago, in an effort to write a "Better Late Than Never" installment of "Book Briefs," something I had done back in April 2018 with Book Briefs #35. How do the reviews compare, my own vs. OpenAI?

Modern 52

Modern Visualization Art Education 52

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 13, 2023

Preparing for this post I counted roughly one hundred books in my library that are related to exhibitions. Surprisingly, given that I tend to buy catalogs and other companion books to exhibitions I visit, only a quarter of those hundred are exhibitions I have seen in person.

Architecture 52

Architecture Students Visualization Installation 52

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 28, 2023

This year's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is my third, following the 2022 book fair and, just days before lockdown, the 2020 book fair. Along these lines, below are some things I learned while browsing the booths at this year's book fair trying to find some architectural gems. It is going for $7,500.

Mining 52

Mining Art Foundation Architect 52

Architizer

JUNE 8, 2023

Is the coffee table book a form of conspicuous consumption ? In season 5, Kramer publishes a coffee table book about coffee tables that also – get this – doubles as a coffee table with little foldable legs. What’s the obsession people have with books?” What’s the obsession people have with books?” Learn more.

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Architect Residential Housing Information 75

The Spaces

MAY 24, 2024

Art and sound come together in the concrete spaces of 180 The Strand this summer with the launch of The Vinyl Factory: Reverb – a monumental exhibition of immersive AV installations by over 100 artists that explores the intricate relationship between music and art. Book tickets here. Virgil Abloh, Reverb, installation view.

Art 52

Art Installation Visualization Cities 52

aasarchitecture

JUNE 5, 2022

In the recently opened 8th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale this summer in Japan, Ma Yansong, the principal partner of MAD Architects, has shown a new artwork “Flow” It reinvents part of the artwork “Tunnel of Light” that completed in 2018. Art Journey through the Tunnel MAD rebuilds the entrance of Kiyotsu Gorge tunnel.

Art 52

Art Construction Construction Nature 52

Deezen

MAY 12, 2023

Dezeen School Shows: a project that explores linguistic pronunciation and an installation that critiques internet "how-to guides" are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Maryland Institute College of Art. A visual thread uniting much of the work is illegible type and lettering.

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Students Art Project Visualization 126

Architizer

MAY 20, 2022

City Lounge of Zhongshan Road by The Design Institute Of Landscape & Architecture China Academy Of Art CO.,LTD If seeing the opened buckets as 0’s and the closed ones as 1’s in binary code — a message saying “books are the windows to the world” can be read from the façade. The two tiling roofs resemble an opened book.

Building 97

Building Roofing Utilities Structure 97

The Spaces

JULY 27, 2023

Future Shock was one of London’s most significant art shows of 2022 , bringing together 16 cutting-edge audiovisual artworks that blurred the boundary between physical and digital space. Now, you can experience the show as an interactive digital experience – wherever you are in the world.

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Art Visualization Installation Site 84

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?

Art 105

Art Installation Materials Sketching 105

Deezen

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

While using books for interior decoration is not a new idea, it has been brought back into focus by a now-viral TikTok video posted in December by San Diego-based interior designer Kailee Blalock. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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Interior Renovation Art Home 136

Deezen

AUGUST 9, 2023

Dezeen School Shows: an immersive installation that invites participants to experience life from the perspective of a fox is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at University of the Arts London. Join our open days to learn more about Camberwell College of Arts and our courses."

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Students Art Project Design 62

Archinect

JANUARY 26, 2022

In her new book “Infrastructural Optimism” (Routledge 2021), Linda C. Samuels , associate professor of urban design at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. In cynical times, optimism gets a bad rap.

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Visualization Art Design 246

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 is a young designer and visual artist based in the city of Philadelphia. His main inspirations to create are light and the built environment.

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Sketching Art Visualization Architecture School 190

ArchiDiaries

JANUARY 16, 2022

Excerpt: Books in Clouds — Duoyun Bookstore in Huangyan is an architectural project designed by Wutopia Lab in China. The continuous white aluminum wall is used as an addition to create a serene and pleasant visual subtraction. The first area is the lifestyle book (area), and the coffee (pavilion) on the east side is near the water.

Visualization 71

Visualization Glass Commercial Roofing 71

Deezen

MAY 16, 2022

As we continue our deconstructivist series , we look at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio by architect and theorist Peter Eisenman , which he claims "has nothing to do with deconstruction or deconstructivism.". The Wexner Center for the Arts was designed by Peter Eisenman. "I I had never read Derrida any of that stuff.

Art 98

Art Building Deconstruction Structure 98

ArchiDiaries

JANUARY 13, 2022

Excerpt: Vanke Fontanelle Life Aesthetics Pavilion is an architectural project designed by Nature Times Art Design in Zhejiang, China. The design team extracted design concept from silk, and conceived the space by taking full account of visual effects, functionality and spatial narrative, with a view to showcasing a quality lifestyle space.

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Nature Art Design Visualization 78

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Dezeen School Shows: an app that teaches human anatomy by visualising organs as baked goods and a musical elephant that helps teach children new languages are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Glasgow School of Art. Glasgow School of Art. Institution: Glasgow School of Art (GSA).

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Art Project Students Design 98

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. The visual biography, Aalto-Alanen writes in the intro, is a look at the couple’s love story through the lens of their work. The feeling seems to have been mutual.)

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Design Sketching Visualization Art 124

Habitus Living

MARCH 17, 2024

Storytelling through design is an art form. I adore visually creating a space within my head; leaning into the possibilities of different colours, shapes and textures that will come alive within it. It’s covered in art, art supplies, experimental projects and generally a beautiful (and often not so beautiful) mess.

Art 52

Art Design Education Sketching 52

Habitus Living

MARCH 17, 2024

Storytelling through design is an art form. I adore visually creating a space within my head; leaning into the possibilities of different colours, shapes and textures that will come alive within it. It’s covered in art, art supplies, experimental projects and generally a beautiful (and often not so beautiful) mess.

Art 52

Art Design Education Sketching 52

The Architecture Designs

JANUARY 17, 2024

Imagine having a shaded spot in your backyard where you can chill out, read a book, or host get-togethers. By placing hooks on the pergola’s supports, you can hang baskets with plants like rosemary or euonymus to create a stunning visual effect. Sounds amazing, right? Hanging baskets can add a whole new level of charm to your pergola.

Art 52

Art Utilities Visualization Landscape 52

e-architect

MAY 24, 2023

The shortlisted museums are: The Burrell Collection (Glasgow) Leighton House (London) The MAC (Belfast) Natural History Museum (London) Scapa Flow Museum (Orkney) Art Fund annually shortlists five outstanding museums for Museum of the Year. The prize is funded thanks to the generosity of Art Fund’s members who buy a National Art Pass.

Art 59

Art Contemporary Nature Restoration 59

Deezen

JULY 13, 2022

A stilted hut for ceramics and an artichoke-like garden room are among the home studios featured in Work From Shed, a book that explores the "new fluidity about where we work". Read: Life Meets Art book offers glimpse inside homes of leading creatives. Read on for Dezeen's selection of 10 home studios featured in the book.

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Structure Art Visualization Home 145

The Spaces

MARCH 31, 2022

The subterranean spaces of 180 The Strand will flicker into life from 28 April 2022 with a pulsing new audio-visual group show exploring our near future. As well as new commissions, the London art show will see the UK premiere of Nonotak Studio’s legendary A/V installation ‘Daydream.’ Photography: Nonotak Studio.

Visualization 110

Visualization Installation Industrial Art 110

Architecture Chat

MAY 6, 2019

The edition is complete with the latest syllabus, sketch book, practice tests and NATA study material. Self study material kit containing all subjects’ books as per latest NATA and JEE-Arch syllabus. Books of all subjects in one place. Sketch Book. While some books are made more general, others provide detailed training.

Sketching 52

Sketching Materials Information Firms 52

The Spaces

AUGUST 4, 2023

Pioneering immersive art collective United Visual Artists (UVA) will unveil its largest ever exhibition, presented by 180 Studios, on 12 October 2023. UVA: Synchronicity will run from 12 October – 17 December 2023 at 180 Studios, 180 The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA.

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Visualization Art Installation Roofing 71

The Spaces

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And amongst all that noise, in October, the Frieze Art Fair opened its doors for the first time. Now in its 20th iteration, Frieze embraces historical alongside contemporary art (with Frieze Masters now in its 11th edition) at fairs which reach New York, Los Angeles and Seoul. See more on the show. Courtesy the artist and Frieze.

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Art IT Events Installation 88

Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Local designer Brian Thoreen has created a set of four chairs made of stacks of manila paper as part of an exhibition at Masa gallery during Mexico City art week. Using industrial paper has a strong history in art, but is mostly known for use in file folders and envelopes that hold and store information and tie our world together like books."

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Art Cities Visualization Events 115

Hotel Designs

JUNE 4, 2024

We wanted to translate all these essential Belgian art and pop culture elements into a visually attractive, contemporary experience where guests can sit back and relax,” discussed Saar Zafrir, whose firm is responsible for the whimsical interior design. Among the hotel’s highlights is the versatility of the suites.

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Events Inspiration Cities Art 101

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Through a diversity of projects, the firm has transformed our understanding of the city and our evolving relationship with art, fashion, food, sustainability, and other quintessentially twenty-first-century preoccupations. The works presented here elaborate on OMA’s philosophy even as they expand its portfolio geographically.

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Diagram Residential Art Visualization 111

Deezen

JULY 23, 2022

Dezeen School Shows: a landscape garden for the Bengali community of Whitechapel in London and a pedestrian market on Vienna's Ringstrasse are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. University of Applied Arts Vienna. Institution: University of Applied Arts Vienna.

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Art Project Students Architecture 105