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Book Briefs #48

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

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. Things considered "green" — mass timber, etc. —

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How to Layout a Pediment: 350 years of instructions

Jane Griswold Radocchia

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. 1600, attributed to Vignola, comes from a book published in Spain.

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Amber Book ARE 5.0 Review – Video Tour

Young Architect

Amber Book ARE 5.0 If you are looking to sign up for Amber Book, Click here to learn more about the Young Architect Amber Book Discount. In recent years, The Amber Book has made a profound impact on how people study for the ARE 5.0 resource, product, book or study guide. Amber Book vs ARE Boot Camp?

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On Case Studies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Although the word monograph literally applies to any book devoted to any individual subject — be it a person, a place, a thing, or even an idea — in the realm of architecture books that one-word term is used more prevalently, if not strictly, in regards to individual architects and/or firms. A book on Le Corbusier is a monograph.

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Rereading the Nineties

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Needless to say, Prairie Avenue Bookshop helped define the architecture-book side of the 1990s for me — both as a student and as a young architect. When it came time to research and write Buildings in Print , I kicked myself for not keeping the old "tour de force" catalogs from Prairie Avenue.

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Shades of Grey - Untitled Article

Shades of Grey

This blog is for me. My son Joe told me what a blog was about 16 years ago, or tried to. He was a student in Cape Town. The focus of this blog has been to document my personal journey, my weekends of exploring ideas. Perhaps blogging is just an extension of the internal dialogue that we all carry around in our heads.

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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. Amber Book. Old MEEB Books. Amber Book. YA Academy.