A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 21, 2023

Life, they say, throws you curve balls, and that's just what happened last month, when a family emergency had me put this blog on hiatus. The book is a fitting result of a building, the Petite École , that functions as an architecture school for children.

Architecture 134

Architecture Architecture School Deconstruction Diagram 134

Architecture Here and There

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Gehry Eisenhower memorial opened in 2020 largely as originally designed. to a modernist architecture building at its campus there. Next for the classical revival May 24, 2015 What those who favor traditional architecture should do to promote its revival has been pretty much the subject of this blog since I started it in 2009.

Environment 52

Environment Development Developer Cities 52

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.

Glass 101

Glass Architecture School Art Education 101

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 17, 2022

The new federal facility is located on the campus of Kansas State University, which happens to be my alma mater, though it is at a bit of a remove from the main campus that I traversed in architecture school decades ago.

Landscape 107

Landscape Site Technology Technology 107

A Better Built Environment

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Check the link for all of the finalists from 2020. It was rarely heard in architectural school or during design studio critiques. when architecture reached modern times, the very word beauty became taboo. Below is an incredible image inspired by Piranesi and a hand drawn section drawing that I found beautiful.

Cities 52

Cities Modern Environment Diagram 52

Dwell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Though he’d never made a meme before, on November 3, 2020, he pieced together a "starter pack" making fun of new vintage dealers who didn’t know what they were doing. They take on issues like the exploitation of architecture workers, hypocrisy in academia, and how overconsumption and late-stage capitalism foster bad design.

Design 115

Design Industrial Architecture School Inspiration 115

EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Through this blog and over at the EntreArchitect Podcast , I have shared my knowledge and invited experts in every topic of business, leadership, and life to do the same. The membership is where architects go when they want to learn the skills and strategies so often neglected by architecture schools and our professional organization.

Small Firm 52

Small Firm Firms Architecture Firm Management 52