A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 15, 2024

After 25 years of running this blog under various names — all of which can be lumped under the "Archidose" monicker — I've decided to shut it down, moving this hobby, this labor of love, to Substack, which I have used since mid-2021 and where I will continue to send out weekly newsletters focused on architecture books, but in a new format.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For the fifteenth and last time on this blog, I'm highlighting my favorite books of the year , selected from the many books I reviewed or featured as "Book Briefs" on this blog, and the few titles that I reviewed at World-Architects. Until then, warm holiday wishes!

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SW Oregon Architect

JULY 23, 2023

I do make one exception to this pledge, which is to exempt my ever-growing library of books on architecture. I have added to it once more, my most recent acquisition being The Story of Architecture , by Witold Rybczynski. I am just a few chapters in, but that is enough for me to understand how Rybczynski organized his book.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JULY 11, 2022

In lieu of a review on this blog this week, I'm linking to that summer reading list , which features short, first-hand descriptions of the books. In the coming weeks and months, many of these books will receive longer reviews on this blog. Meejin Yoon Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture by Robert A.

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EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The Power of Blogging for Architects. The blog is still one of the most effective tools a small firm architect can use to foster community. The goal when writing a blog is to gain an audience. A successful blog requires interesting, well written content, published on a consistent basis. Schedule time to write.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Just as last week's Places in Time III post featured a trio of books that were initially listed in my earlier holiday gift books post , two of the three monographs featured here were also on that list. As happened when I wrote this post, each book begins with a rhetorical question pertaining to monographs.

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Jane Griswold Radocchia

MAY 3, 2024

In 1540 Sebastiano Serlio drew this sketch in Book IV of his On Architecture.* Palladio doesn't describe this, but the roofs in his The Four Books of Architecture (1570) use the same pitch. Vignola's book on architecture was translated, of course. Was it Vignola's rule or did he just record it? He wrote, ".

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For this last post of 2022 I looked back at the dozens of books I reviewed or featured as "Book Briefs" on this blog, and the ones I reviewed on World-Architects. As such, I've listed at bottom some recent and forthcoming books I'm looking forward to reading and (hopefully) reviewing in the new year.

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Architecture Here and There

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

” (Arch/Eyes) Even before I started writing weekly about architecture in the Providence Journal (every Thursday), I had a collection of big, coffee-table books of various cities photographed from the sky. They deposited these books on the floor of my basement. I would leaf through them by the hour.

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The Architect's Newsletter

MARCH 13, 2023

Specifically: Why write about architecture?

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JUNE 19, 2023

The most recent numbered 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, was #48, back in December. At that time I also mentioned an in-progress "Brief" with eight books — here they are.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In this 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 — are six books in three pairs.

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Architecture Here and There

APRIL 15, 2024

Below is the foreward to Léon Krier’s book The Architecture of Community (2009), which I posted on my blog in 2020. Born in Luxembourg, Krier, is, of course, among the foremost thinkers about architecture and city planning. The Architecture of Community is about something more fundamental.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JULY 31, 2023

From the middle of March, when a family emergency put this blog on hiatus , until the middle of July, when a funeral mass was held for my dad, my life was split almost evenly between my home in New York City and my parent's home in Central Florida.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Here is the next 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. This installment features three books put out by Altrim Publishers : one case study and two travel guides.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Here is the next 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.

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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. in the Bauwelt Fundamente series started by German architectural historian Ulrich Conrads in 1963.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JUNE 27, 2022

Here is the next 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. Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change edited by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A.

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SW Oregon Architect

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Notre Dame du Haut, by Le Corbusier (photo by Pino Musi, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) This is another in my series of posts inspired by 1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning blog written by Neil Pasricha. The series is my meditation on the awesome reasons why I was and continue to be attracted to the art of architecture.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 23, 2023

When Arata Isozaki died at the end of 2022 at the age of 91, nearly all of the news stories and obituaries mentioned that he was a Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, and quite a few also included mention of the Pritzker Prize in the headline. Awards like the Pritzker also serve to structure the architectural calendar.

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SW Oregon Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

He not only writes about architecture but also reflects regularly on his life, his faith, and teaching. He has published several books including The Small House: An Artful Guide to Affordable Residential Design , and A Home Called New England: A Celebration of Hearth and History , cowritten with Steve Culpepper.

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Residential Client Clients Innovation 156

The Spaces

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The curated platform expands her cult blog, Modernist Estates – a decade-long project that has photographed and documented some of Britain’s most beloved modernist residencies and even spawned its own letting arm, connecting owners to architecturally inclined renters. ’ She adds: ‘It’s also about the host. .’

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SW Oregon Architect

JULY 24, 2022

Christian Norberg-Schulz An earlier blog entry of mine, “ Genealogy of Influence ,” promised a series of posts about the architects and theorists who influenced my architectural world view. Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926-2000) was a Norwegian architect, educator, and architectural theorist. This is the latest post in the series.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : Sandfuture is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. Sandfuture is his first book. That Yamasaki's most famous projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St.

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Residential Cities Art Visualization 103

SW Oregon Architect

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The Sagrada Familia, Barcelona; Antoni Guadi, architect (photo by Garry Nishimura) From the moment I first became fascinated with architecture as a child, I have believed the buildings and places we respond to most deeply are founded upon bases that are truly profound. My dilemma was and remains my inability to articulate how we know them.

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Architecture Environment Art Utilities 199

Jane Griswold Radocchia

APRIL 19, 2022

For Laurie Smith, my friend Here are the front and back covers of Laurie Smith's last book. The book is full of beautiful photographs of 15th century framing and the history of the conception and construction of these barns' frames - from felling the trees to placing the aisle braces. It is a book to read, think about, study.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 21, 2022

I've decided to bring back "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.

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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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Landscape Site Technology Technology 107

Young Architect

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In her Junior and Senior years of high school, she also did an internship at an architecture firm. These experiences further reinforced for her that architecture was the right path for her, and she continued on to study architecture in college. What You’ll Hear on This Episode: What inspired LeEllen to go into architecture .

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Architecture School Architecture Firm Firms Inspiration 96

A4 Architects

APRIL 19, 2023

The A4 Architecture Project Guide For people beginning their first design and construction project there is often a sense of fear and ignorance. For that reason, our firm has created the A4 Architecture Project Guide to give our new customer a basic understanding of the process they are about to undergo.

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Jane Griswold Radocchia

APRIL 1, 2023

Sebastiano Serlio, 1475-1554, wrote 7 books 'On Architecture and Perspective'. The cover of Book I includes this drawing of builders' tools across the bottom, a tetrahedron and a cube with diagonals, squares and circles on its face.* I have posted about him in this blog several times. Here he is with his compass.

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BLDGBLOG

JANUARY 31, 2022

The book also includes spells to demolish architecture and for detecting stolen and missing objects, all operating by way of linguistic grids and ritual repetitions. I used to spend hours reading through that stuff—witch trials, premature burial, people cursed to wander the Earth alone for eternity.

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Art Glass Cities Windows 75

30X40 Design Workshop

APRIL 14, 2022

Thinking about a career in architecture? Joining me to answer these questions (+ more) is my friend Bob Borson, architect + creator of The Life of an Architect blog + podcast. 03:37 Happiness vs. 18:25 The challenge of going to school later in life 19:38 What skills will prepare me for architecture school?

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Ronen Bekerman

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The ASAI American Society of Architectural Illustrators invites you to join a unique conversation harnessing the global village of visualizers, architects, developers, marketers, creatives, place makers, and artists who collaborate to depict our cities’ future. Book Your Ticket/s. Book Tickets. Industry Event.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JUNE 5, 2023

Last week I cobbled together eight books, some of which publishers had sent me more than a year ago, in an effort to write a "Better Late Than Never" installment of "Book Briefs," something I had done back in April 2018 with Book Briefs #35. African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence.

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Jane Griswold Radocchia

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

His pattern book , On Architecture , published in 1728, had 150 plates. Introduction - i) Plate III, shown here, is "The West Front and Steeple" The book also includes many other churches with sections of their steeples. This engraving is the draught (the architectural drawing) of the Geometric Plan of that steeple.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The recent receipt of two review books got me thinking about the past and the future of architecture books. The first one is This is Architecture: Writing on Buildings , a collection of excerpted texts about buildings, spanning from the mid-1800s to the 2010s.

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