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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

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.

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Rob Krier wins his Driehaus

Architecture Here and There

Along with the 2022 Driehaus, the Henry Hope Reed Award goes to Wendell Berry, the celebrated novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural theorist and farmer who came out against war in 1973. Even if they do accept it, I will write an expanded treatment of the matter for this blog. Or centuries. Who are these people?

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Book Briefs #42

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

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
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Until Proven Safe

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

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.

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Three Lessons from Three Monographs

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Writing a blog devoted to architecture books means featuring monographs — lots of monographs. Not exclusively, of course; but before this blog transitioned to its current weekly format, one of the thematic days of the week was appropriately devoted to monographs: Monograph Monday.

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The Ultimate List of ARE 5.0 Study Materials: Part 1

Young Architect

In this blog post, we’ll take a broad look at the study materials available for ALL the ARE 5.0 This blog post will focus on study materials about each exam. To make things easier, a table of contents is provided below to help you navigate this blog post. These 2 terms are referred to throughout this entire blog post series.

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Amber Book ARE 5.0 Review – Video Tour

Young Architect

This blog post will break down and summarize all the parts of Amber Book. In 2022, The Ambe r Book is really a series of VIDEOS and a lot of other supplemental ARE study materials. Michael teaches design studio, environmental building systems, materials & methods of construction, and architectural acoustics.

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