A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 6, 2022

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. 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).

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

This does not surprise me, since books on interior design are more accessible and relevant to a wider audience, not just professionals. Higher sales for interior design books compared to architecture books is therefore logical, but can one say that interiors scholarship is on par with architecture?

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Architizer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. The Hegelian aspect of this book is right there in the title. Order your copy today. Wallin and W. Wade, artists; J.

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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. It's clear that in Cucinella's hands a sustainable future will rely on contemporary technologies as much as vernacular techniques.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JULY 25, 2022

Recent contemporary monographs feature WG Clark, Grafton Architects, Hermann Hertzberger, Steven Holl, and MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, while the historical monographs are devoted to Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Aldo van Eyck , Louis I.

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Archinect

JUNE 26, 2023

His buildings have inspired admiration, sometimes devotion. He has also been vigorously attacked, as a mechanistic fanatic whose ideas inspired inhumane tower blocks and concrete jungles. Le Corbusier was to architecture what Picasso was to painting, a towering and egomaniacal creative force who transformed his discipline for ever.

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Architizer

JULY 7, 2023

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. Revisiting the typologies of the past through a contemporary lens can yield exciting, fresh perspectives.

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Architizer

JANUARY 1, 2024

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. You could even focus it on architectural books if you wanted to double down. Find Inspiration. Order your copy today.

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Bustler

JULY 23, 2023

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced the inaugural winners of its brand-new Architecture Book of the Year Awards. The program honors seven select Category Winners along with three Special Prizes as selected by an esteemed panel of judges from more than 100 entries of architecture books published between 2020 and last year.

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Architizer

JUNE 8, 2023

Is the coffee table book a form of conspicuous consumption ? In season 5, Kramer publishes a coffee table book about coffee tables that also – get this – doubles as a coffee table with little foldable legs. What’s the obsession people have with books?” What’s the obsession people have with books?” Learn more.

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Habitus Living

MAY 16, 2023

Mirroring its object, this book takes a fundamental approach to the practice of working with clay. The book is divided into two main sections. This is a work that seeks to explore the art form as contemporary practice but also within its deeper historical and even timeless context.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 13, 2023

Preparing for this post I counted roughly one hundred books in my library that are related to exhibitions. Surprisingly, given that I tend to buy catalogs and other companion books to exhibitions I visit, only a quarter of those hundred are exhibitions I have seen in person.

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The Spaces

OCTOBER 20, 2023

‘It was partly inspired by the fact I get quite a few emails asking me to recommend holiday accommodation because of my book Modernist Escapes (Prestel, 2021), but also because it’s the kind of site I would like,’ explains Orazi. Opening a vacation platform for architecture enthusiasts was a natural progression.

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Architizer

AUGUST 18, 2022

Whether you’re nestled under a tree in a local park, reclined poolside in an exotic location, or simply sitting with a glass of something ice cold watching the sun drop down beyond the horizon, spending a few hours with your nose stuck in a captivating book during the long summer days is one of life’s greatest pleasures. On Bramante.

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Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2023

From Glasgow to Somerset, here are historian John Boughton's picks of the UK 's most interesting public housing schemes featured in his latest book , A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates. He hopes his new book will convey that their design is not solely responsible for social housing's triumphs and failings, as is often reported.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In his new book, photographer Simon Devitt captures some of New Zealand’s most stunning homes, from sun-drenched baches in Northland to rammed earth houses in the deep south. And it’s a contemporary view curated to convey not just different places in New Zealand but also different ways of living."

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Deezen

DECEMBER 11, 2022

But a number of contemporary designers are now experimenting with bolder and more unusual stone furnishings. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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Habitus Living

JULY 18, 2023

With an emphasis on residential architecture across countries such as India, Vietnam, Brazil and Mexico, the book asks how the universal ideals of Modernism actually came to exist in the reality of tropical settings in these countries. How did the timelessness and even placelessness of those rational principles play out in reality?

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Design Thoughts Architects

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

We are thrilled to share five of our portfolio’s most notable projects with contemporary house designs in the following blog post. These projects include a contemporary urban chic, a minimalistic charm, a contemporary villa in a triangle, a fusion of heritage and modern design, and a rustic contemporary.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

While using books for interior decoration is not a new idea, it has been brought back into focus by a now-viral TikTok video posted in December by San Diego-based interior designer Kailee Blalock. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The recently released 100 Women: Architects in Practice book showcases the work of 100 architects from around the world. This book aims to be a small part in the process of correcting that imbalance, while also looking at what architecture is, who it is for and what it can do."

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Habitus Living

AUGUST 30, 2023

Opening Thursday 7 th September, Sydney Contemporary is shaping up to be an inspiring platform for artists at all stages of their career, while also giving space to all manner of artistic mediums. For this year’s Sydney Contemporary, Living Edge will be showcasing Memphis Milano presented by Edition. Come down and say hello!

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SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 10, 2024

I dusted off one of the old books from my collection this weekend. If I understand Hubbard’s thesis correctly, Complicity and Conviction was his critique of contemporary architecture at the height of the 1970s-1980s modernism vs. post-modernism debate. professor William Hubbard a challenge to read.

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ArchiDiaries

JANUARY 16, 2022

Excerpt: Books in Clouds — Duoyun Bookstore in Huangyan is an architectural project designed by Wutopia Lab in China. The first area is the lifestyle book (area), and the coffee (pavilion) on the east side is near the water. An orange pyramid book table with books was created in the foyer.

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The Spaces

MAY 12, 2023

MEE Studio leant into the churchy atmosphere at this chapel-turned-cafe, creating a meditative space to order coffee and browse books. Copenhagen’s Nikolaj Kunsthal is a contemporary art gallery located in one of the city’s oldest churches.

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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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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. However, the sleek, contemporary realizations hover above the bustling road, leaving the 13-foot public route below unobstructed.

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Architizer

MARCH 28, 2024

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. As the World Expo journey unfolds, it remains a beacon of inspiration, fostering collaboration and innovation on a global scale.

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Dwell

MAY 9, 2024

The "kooky print of a huge science lab with all these beakers bubbling" in the kids’ bathroom, as Turner remembers it, might have felt like a scene from a children’s book unfolding right from the walls. Books take up the majority of the space in my house and I have bookshelves in almost every room except for the bathrooms," she says.

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Deezen

JUNE 3, 2023

Period details are mixed with contemporary interventions inside these renovated apartments in Paris , built in the mid-19th century during Georges-Eugène Haussmann's reconstruction of the French capital. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The Open House Festival champions the city as a form that can inspire you. By removing boundaries, this festival provides insight, inspiration and intrigue into how culturally accessible and equitable we can be. "We Nobody can understand architecture from a book or a lecture. From teens to adults, it's immeasurable!". "The

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The Style Saloniste

MARCH 14, 2022

Volpe’s deep immersion in the best of contemporary art and design are fully revealed in his new book ‘Steven Volpe Rooms’ co-authored with Mayer Rus, and published by Rizzoli. STEVEN VOLPE ROOMS, his new book showcases ten projects that have been completed in the last decade. All feel startlingly original, fresh, and inspiring.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. They’re bustling social hubs that shape their locales and draw communities together — places of exertion, inspiration and connection.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. At the 11 th A+Awards , architects embraced the burn with contemporary twists on this storied technique. Order your copy today.

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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

Recent designs by his studio include a lightweight cantilever chair using recycled plastic for Vitra, a wooden chair inspired by country stools for Italian manufacturer Mattiazzi and a minimalist alarm clock for Swiss technology brand Punkt.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

AUGUST 22, 2022

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. I can only guess that this contemporary undertaking was enabled by Newhouse's wealth (she is the widow of publishing magnate S.I.

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