A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 17, 2022

With Until Proven Safe , they bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive, not only urgent reading for social-distanced times but also an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces–––biological, political, technological––that shape our modern world.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

An Alphabet of Architectural Models Edited by Teresa Frankhänel, Olivia Horsfall Turner, Simona Valeriani, Matthew Wells Merrell , October 2021 Flexicover | 6-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches | 128 pages | 88 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781858946979 | $37.95 Teresa Fankhänel is a Curator at the Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität, Munich.

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Architecture Here and There

JANUARY 27, 2023

He has responded with considerable verve and vivaciousness to these vicious attacks, almost all of which demonstrate that the critics have not read or understood his book. closed by the Nazis and who ended up in America, to the legend of Johnny Appleseed, planting modern architecture in this innocent nation.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

First it was with their remarkable transformation of the Palais de Tokyo in 2002 (expanded in 2014), a stripping out of a classical/art deco exhibition hall to create a raw, haunting, cavernous interior which became Paris's riposte to London's Tate Modern. The floor plates were extended with balconies and the building reclothed.

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SW Oregon Architect

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

At the time, the trajectory of European modernism was establishing its ascendency over historical approaches to the design and organization of buildings. Indeed, upon establishing his own office in 1936, the work of his European contemporaries heavily influenced Kahn’s approach to architecture.

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Deezen

MAY 19, 2022

She also co-authored a book called African Modernism, published in 2014, which explores the architecture of the independence movements in countries including Ghana and Senegal. Five candidates competed for role.

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Architecture Here and There

APRIL 3, 2022

After I left the Journal in 2014, I wrote a book called Lost Providence that included Elliott’s illustration on page 108. ’ ” It is said that design and architectural schools’ first job is to purge students of their instinct for beauty. This has been almost uniformly ignored.)

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 26, 2022

(Pinterest/from his latest book). A book unexpected and unannounced arrived on my doorstep today: Robert A.M. Stern’s Between Memory and Invention , which I immediately mistook for an update of an earlier volume of his, Tradition and Invention in Architecture (2011). ” The office is pictured above.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 29, 2022

the first hero of the classical revival, who founded and presided for many years over the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, and whose pathbreaking 1959 book on modern architecture taught many that classical architecture was not dead. The Reed award was named for the arch-classicist Henry Hope Reed Jr.,

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2022

In other words, if modernism was a white box, and Pomo was a grey box with decoration – with whipped cream on it, sprayed out of a can, deconstructivism broke the box open, and you had basically shards," he continued. There's been nothing since then, I mean, architecture schools have no pedagogy. You had basically shards.

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Deezen

MAY 23, 2022

According to Tschumi, who was one of the seven architects featured in the seminal Deconstructivist Architecture show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) , deconstructivism had a serious intellectual ideology that was developed by young architects reinvestigating avant-garde architecture from the 1920s. Bernard Tschumi: Frankly.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Writing a blog devoted to architecture books means featuring monographs — lots of monographs. Monographs are an unavoidable part of architecture books.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Home to iconic landmarks such as Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall and Richard Meier’s Getty Center, Los Angeles’ architecture has become greatly influenced by the entertainment industry. Starting from its architectural schools, the city promotes alternative design practices.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Racking my brain, it seems my classmates and I learned very little about him in architecture school a few decades ago. The occasion was the then-recent publication of the three-volume The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens by A.S.G. Similar sentiments to Pevsner's are explored in Architectural Monographs No.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Edited by Eric Mumford | Alphawood Foundation | 2022 | Hardcover | 9-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches | 224 pages | 300+ illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780578921129 | $55.00 ( BOTH BOOKS CAN BE PURCHASED ON THE WRIGHTWOOD 659 WEBSITE.) Not a building, that US project was just a room in a museum: Gallery 109 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Gerstacker Grove on the University of Michigan’s North Campus is the modern anti-quad. It’s home to the school’s College of Engineering , architecture school, performing arts school, and several residence halls. Image courtesy Stoss Landscape Urbanism. Modeling informs planting palettes and siting.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Just mark your calendar with the following date: Thursday, November 14th 6:00pm at the Dallas Center for Architecture 1909 Woodall Rodgers Frwy, Suite 100 Register for the Awards Presentation and Lecture here. It was a big inspiration to me during architecture school.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Profiler I started toward an architecture degree in nineteeneightysomething at USC… I took a hiatus for the Gulf War… When I went back to architecture school in the late nineties… I showed up at a preliminary presentation with an armful of “trace” and realized how much things changed in only five years.

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Architects Tales

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Backing up a bit, when I graduated from architecture school, I returned to Wisconsin to look for a job with an architectural firm to continue my apprenticeship. I discovered that two of them – JR and Charles King – were enrolled in law school. Since my curiosity was spurred, I enrolled in Atlanta Law School [10].

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 5, 2018

Modern technology does the heavy lifting, so it’s easy to get things right. She told me that she was finishing architecture school to prove a professor wrong that said she shouldn’t do it. And so the women who did finally make it through, in not only architecture school, but then to get their license right?

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2014

Surviving Architectural School Despite the urban legends that you’ve heard about that person who stayed awake for 6 straight days to finish his project, Architecture school is terrific. Here are a few tips that can help make your experience in architecture studio that much better and more rewarding.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Ugly’s reference book. Cheers, Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Bags , Materials and Products Materials , Products Surviving Architecture School Christmas Cards from Famous. Experienced tradesmen and novices alike reference this guide. How many #12 wires can fit in 1 inch conduit?

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 19, 2013

I found the jambox two years later in one of the other architecture school buildings, sitting there on a table as if that’s where I had left it the two years prior… … with no mix tape. I try and keep things light and share a thing or two about what I think I know.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

August 10th, 2013 “concept assembly sketch for a modern house I will feature on LoaA” #vegetativeroof. August 23rd, 2013 “and so it begins … #design #sketch #architect” #architecture. October 18th, 2012 “so what’s the architects preferred consumption sequence with these M&M’s?

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

You need to know and I strongly recommend that you pick up a copy of ‘ Architectural Graphics ‘ by Francis D.K. Ching’s book (along with my studio professors) taught me how to show profile lines – their use defines the look of my sketches as well as a generation of other architects.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 26, 2015

Around Architecture school, I hear most people dissing the themed Lego sets in favor of the creative freedom that come from the big box of various blocks. Musician in my spare time, and secretly wish I was doing modern residential (…or not so secretly). I think the 60s was the greatest decade in architecture and period.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 30, 2023

In my decade working as an architect in Chicago, from 1997, after graduating from architecture school, to 2006, when I left for grad school in New York City, I made many, many — many — trips to Prairie Avenue Bookshop, spending too much money there but always feeling when I walked out the door that I could have easily spent much, much more.

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DesignScape Architects

JUNE 2, 2020

Good examples of these would be the renaissance and modern movement. Both these events were motivated by fundamental ideas at their core which extended far beyond just Architectural Schools of Thought to the of socio-political landscapes of entire nations. This is known to be the very first book on architectural theory.

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Deezen

AUGUST 2, 2023

"A gargantuan catalogue of shapes, materials and not much architecture," wrote Pa Varreon. Morphogenesis] should perhaps make a single choice of style while they are skimming through their architectural school books." Is the world's largest office building a diamond or a dud? And it chose not to be a skyscraper."

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 22, 2014

Sharp Bob, As a recent graduate of architecture school – I’m proud to call myself an avid sketch artist. Cheers Subscribe by Email Enter your Email Address Delivered by FeedBurner Trending on Life of an Architect Recommended Stuff for Architects Recommended Books for Architects My name is Bob Borson and this is my site.

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Young Architect

APRIL 20, 2022

especially if your office or friends already own the books. I say read something enjoyable, something your interested in, or even my easy to read self-help book about the ARE’s. Just like architecture school, the ARE is kind of a mind f**k. Those stupid vignettes and ARE 4.0 I’d recommend getting familiar with the ARE 4.0

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 23, 2013

I thought I would pull some out and share them to show just how different things were back in 1990 - No internet … Research meant going to an actual library and sorting through the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal system so you could pull out books. No email … you wrote letters. Can you imagine?!? i think i can draw well.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 30, 2014

Home / Construction / Building with Structural Insulated Panels … or SIPs Building with Structural Insulated Panels … or SIPs Bob Borson — March 31, 2014 — 75 Comments We are building the CHouse Modern using Structurally Insulated Panels, or SIPs as they are commonly referenced.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Fast forward a few years – the college process is now complete and architectural schools are churning out extremely creative graduates, ready to take on the design world … except few graduates will actually get to work on “BIG IDEA” design projects.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 27, 2014

Home / Memories from Studio / Memories from Studio People who didn’t attend architectural school don’t understand juries. Always look for the positive architectrunnerguy Amazingly during my whole 5 years of architectural school (Va. I have never designed anything strictly modern ever since.

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Architizer

JUNE 9, 2023

The end of the Pinochet regime was an important moment for architecture in Chile, leading to a boom in architecture schools and a broader curriculum. Many architects fuse local practices and materiality with Modern sensibilities. This fusion remains a guiding principle for many Chilean architects today.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 24, 2018

Modern technology does the heavy lifting, so it’s easy to get things right. His latest book, A Home called New England with Steve Colepepper was just published just this past November. Well now you know, there’ll never be another, a new school that offers a bachelor of architecture degree. Duo Dickinson.

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