A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The authors document 50 Aalto buildings – some well-known and others less so – and arrange their photographs by component into 20 chapters. As the spreads here make clear, Aalto in Detail is a straightforward picture book: 400 photographs on 400 pages in 19 chapters, each chapter a "component."

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SW Oregon Architect

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

For me, blogging is not about garnering followers and page views, but rather about being an enjoyable and satisfying hobby. While my musings across 1,000 posts do not rise anywhere close to the profundity of renowned authors, I occasionally surprise myself by generating a piece I’m particularly pleased with.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Sigurd Lewerentz—Pure Aesthetics: St Mark’s Church, Stockholm Concept and photography by Karin Björkquist and Sébastien Corbari Park Books , October 2021 Hardcover | 7-3/4 x 10-3/4 inches | 352 pages | 235 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9783038602439 | $75.00 6, "Church," which the authors beautifully call "the grand inhalation."

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Like many AIA guides, its release was timed to the AIA Convention (now AIA Conference on Architecture) being held in the city; the second edition, solely authored by Sinkevitch, was ten years before that, in 2004. While there are some odd design features here and there (e.g.,

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JUNE 19, 2023

Her nearly 100-page contribution is broken down into shorter sections with such names as "Concrete is Rock," "Concrete is Energy," and "Concrete is Immaterial." That is an apt description for the 100-plus urban design projects described through hundreds of illustrations across nine chapters spanning 440 pages.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 6, 2022

Details via LACMA and AIALA : Author John Hill will present his new book Buildings in Print: 100 Influential and Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books (Prestel, 2021). This is exciting: on Tuesday, January 25, 2022, at 5pm PST I'll be presenting my latest book, Buildings in Print , in a free Zoom talk moderated by Frances Anderton.

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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 Dr. Olivia Horsfall Turner , FSA, is an architectural historian, author and broadcaster.

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Bustler

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Event Date: Jan 21, 2024 - Dec 31, 2024; Event City: Washington, DC, US Building Stories will bring kids and adults alike on an immersive exploration of the world of architecture, engineering, construction, and design found in the pages of children’s books.

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A4 Architects

APRIL 25, 2023

LEED-ing the Way – Cover Page The first step in making buildings more sustainable is to establish and then encourage best practices. In 2014, as a means of counteracting this misconception, A4 Architecture reached out to architectural book author E. In 1993 the U.S.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JULY 25, 2022

Holding the massive undertaking together are the beautiful construction of the book — from its large size and layered chip board cover to its paper selection — and the page design. Kahn compiled by Richard Saul Wurman and edited by him and publisher Eugene Feldman.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JUNE 27, 2022

Barber, Anton Vidokle | e-flux Architecture | February 2022 | 7 x 10 inches | 272 pages | $30 | Amazon / Bookshop The old saying goes that if you want to know the weather just stick your head out the window. Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change edited by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. But what about climate?

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Interior Design since 1900, Fourth Edition by Anne Massey Thames & Hudson , April 2020 Paperback | 6 x 8-1/4 inches | 272 pages | 229 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780500204603 | $24.95 ( Click here for publisher's description and author bio ) REFERRAL LINKS : Making America Modern: Interior Design in the 1930s by Marilyn F.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 24, 2022

Details via LACMA and AIALA : Author John Hill will present his new book Buildings in Print: 100 Influential and Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books (Prestel, 2021). On Tuesday, January 25, 2022, at 5pm PST I'll be presenting my latest book, Buildings in Print , in a free Zoom talk moderated by Frances Anderton. Did I mention it's free?

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The Spaces

AUGUST 9, 2023

’ Rich photographs and insightful interviews vividly paint the rhythm of life on the sea, as well as its inherent challenges, with top-level advice and tips to be gleaned within its pages. Many of us dream about giving up the rat race of the 9-5 to seek out adventure, but how many have considered nautical living?

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Habitus Living

MAY 31, 2022

Alison Page, curator of the series, is a Wadi Wadi and Walbanga woman of the Yuin nation. “An An Aboriginal Culinary Journey is an ambitious initiative to tell stories of our country using products as canvas,” says Page. I am so proud to be part of this rich and important chapter in Australian design and culinary history,” says Page.

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Architecture Here and There

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Author’s archives). Maps on pages 98 and 100 of the study show specific structures and specific areas that were judged, respectively, to be “substandard” and “slum.” Author’s archives). Illustration of proposed modernist infill development on College Hill. Get with the program, Providence!

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Taproom in the Brewery Tenczynek by Projekt Praga. SABI by Grounded Living. Folk Kombucha by Spacon & X. Carlsen Publisher Campus by de Winder Architekten. Dreams by Adi Goodrich of Sing-Sing. Superseed Concept Store by FOG Architecture.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

AUGUST 22, 2022

Architectural historian Victoria Newhouse is the author of Towards a New Museum , Chaos and Culture , and others. Among the parks featured in this book are designs by well-known professionals such as James Corner Field Operations, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Kongjian Yu/Turenscape, and Catherine Mosbach.

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Architizer

MAY 2, 2023

Rand’s 753 page doorstop was not just a work of imaginative literature; it was a vehicle for Ayn Rand to push her political ideology, an extreme form of capitalist individualism called Objectivism. At times, the text is arranged unusually on the page and the book must be rotated to be read. Even the genre is hard to determine.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

thigaon: A Settlement of Elephants and Mahouts by Sanjeev Vidyarthi, Megha Bhatnagar, Gaurav Bhatnagar and Rajan Bhatt | Altrim Publishers | 2022 | 10 x 10 inches | 124 pages | €32 | Amazon A couple of years ago I learned about RMA Architects' H?thigaon thigaon Housing in Working in Mumbai , the 2020 monograph on Rahul Mehrotra's firm.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 21, 2022

Todd Saunders: New Northern Houses by Dominic Bradbury | Thames & Hudson | November 2021 | 12 x 10-1/2 inches | 256 pages | $75 | Amazon / Bookshop When I think of architect Todd Saunders , two places spring to mind: Fogo Island in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and Norway.

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The Architecture Designs

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

If you have ever tried to buy a home in Karnataka or are trying to buy a home in Karnataka, you have or will come across the RERA Karnataka, which is the Real Estate Regulatory Authority Karnataka. The next page will have options for you to choose the promoter type: Societies or. Let’s see what the RERA Act is all about.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 11, 2022

Critique of Architecture: Essays on Theory, Autonomy, and Political Economy by Douglas Spencer | Birkhäuser | December 2020 | 5-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches | 228 pages | $34.99 | Amazon / Bookshop Critique of Architecture is the 168th title (!) in the Bauwelt Fundamente series started by German architectural historian Ulrich Conrads in 1963.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Contemporary House India by Robert Gregory, with photographs by Edmund Sumner Thames & Hudson , November 2021 Hardcover | 9-1/4 x 11-3/4 inches | 272 pages | 355 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780500021330 | $75.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : India has a long, diverse history of remarkable architecture.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But the Daley era is also when the Chicago Housing Authority shifted to high-rises and built them as segregated enclaves primarily on the South and West Sides, just about all of which have been torn down in recent years for low-rise developments.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

OMA NY: Search Term by Shohei Shigematsu, Jason Long Rizzoli , October 2021 Paperback | 8 x 11 inches | 676 pages | 5,565 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780847869206 | $95.00 and other means of categorizing the work of OMA New York, all keyed to the numbered images rather than the project names or pages.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 18, 2023

M³: modeled works [archive] 1972-2022 (2023) by Thom Mayne and Morphosis, published by Rizzoli — Fifty years of Thom Mayne and Morphosis are presented in more than 1,000 pages: a brick of a book centered on the models that the studio is known for, from the early models in wood and resin to the 3D-printed models they still produce.

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Bustler

APRIL 10, 2024

Practitioner winner was Dustin Wheat, Professor of Architecture at University of Texas at Arlington, whose collage of pages from his sketchbook built a fluid, sublime picture of the architect’s internalised thought processes and influences. Name of the author(s) of the work. Name of organisation where author works or studies.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 7, 2022

Both books were designed by Chris Ware with traditional-looking quarter binding but different page sizes and color schemes; the complementary pair fit great on the shelf together. My knowledge of Sullivan is superficial compared to Samuelson, who has had a lifelong passion for the architect and exhibits that passion in these pages.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Tokyoids: The Robotic Face of Architecture by François Blanciak | The MIT Press | September 2022 | 5 x 8 inches | 216 pages | $24.95 | Amazon / Bookshop Tokyoids is like two books in one: a dense text of architectural theory and humorous photographs of building "faces" in Tokyo.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 31, 2022

REFERRAL LINKS : REVIEW : Swiss-born architect, author, and photographer Werner Blaser (1924–2019) made more than one hundred books in his lifetime — 108 according to the German-language Wikipedia. Oddly, for someone with such a prolific output and many books translated into English, no Wikipedia page for him exists in English.)

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

AUGUST 8, 2022

Moving from the study of proportions and Classical elements to a way of building that could save the world is a bit of a long walk, but it's an enjoyable one nevertheless, thanks to Terry's fairly casual writing style and his reliance on drawings, which appear to take up more of the book's pages than the text.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Keep up to date on the latest discussions on our comments page and subscribe to our weekly Debate newsletter , where we feature the best reader comments from stories in the last seven days. Are you a fan? The post "Feels like it's aimed at Instagram" says commenter appeared first on Dezeen.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

AUGUST 1, 2022

Vitruvius Without Text: The Biography of a Book by André Tavares gta Verlag , July 2022 Paperback | 4-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches | 250 pages | 61 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9783856764227 | $30 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : Vitruvius’s De Architectura , written in the first century BCE, has been revered as the first treatise on architectural theory.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Sketchbooks: Collected Measured Drawings and Architectural Sketches by George Saumarez Smith Triglyph Books , October 2021 Hardcover | 10 x 12-1/2 inches | 240 pages | English | ISBN: 9781916355439 | $55.00

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing Edited by Michael Merrill Lars Müller Publishers , October 2021 Hardcover | 9-1/2 x 11-3/4 inches | 512 pages | 919 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9783037786444 | $85.00 He is the author of Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out and Louis Kahn: On the Thoughtful Making of Spaces. SPREADS:

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The Spaces

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Thankfully, we’ve had artistic minds bringing us comfort through literature, providing some much-needed escapism through their pages. But working together, human ingenuity and design can provide the answers, so say the authors of this book. There is no better way to transform and personalise your home than with original art.

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