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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

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A House Deconstructed by Office of (Un)Certainty Research (Mark Jarzombek + Vikramaditya Prakash), published by Actar Publishers. The book is a fitting result of a building, the Petite École , that functions as an architecture school for children. M³: modeled works [archive] 1972-2022 by Thom Mayne and Morphosis, published by Rizzoli.

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On Case Studies

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Much of the book is devoted to the broader work of SANAA and how it fits into both Japanese and Western (modern) architectural traditions. Excerpts in the description of house there quote Shinohara: "Unless it attains the status of a work of art, a house has no reason for being."

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Architectural Tricks of the Trade | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Graphic Standards - Part 2 Deconstruction versus. It’s got lots of ergonomic/spatial data illustrated with diagrams (eg how much space do you need to open a kitchen cabinet when kneeling). I guess it just seems that rocket science gets more complicated when you suddenly realize that those seem to be lost arts.

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Rereading the Nineties

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Their judgments, for the most part, were spot-on and prescient, if infrequent: John Hejduk's 1985 Mask of Medusa , now going for hundreds of dollars (cover price: $40), was "excellent"; Edward Ford's The Details of Modern Architecture was "superb"; and they were the only store that carried the Art Vandelay monograph, Buildings About Nothing. (Is

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Ultimate List of Architecture Terms

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Bauhaus can probably be considered the most influential art school in history. This German school has had a great impact on all art and design styles, amongst which architecture. It rethought all concepts there were on the arts industry, and it placed the fine arts that were initially higher in rank equal to the functional crafts.