Deezen

OCTOBER 14, 2022

RIBA Award-winning homes are the focus of author Dominic Bradbury's latest book , 21st Century Houses. More than 300 photographs, plans and sketches fill the 21st Century Houses book , published by RIBA Books , to bring readers inside the "best of the best" of modern British homes. Photo by Mole Architects.

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Habitus Living

JULY 18, 2023

The 20 th century was in many ways defined architecturally by the long emergence, struggle for (or against) and broad victory of Modernism. With by an emphasis on rationalism, applied using modern construction techniques and materials, it was a movement that claimed universal validity.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 21, 2023

Although reading has been low on my list of priorities under the circumstances, I wanted to take the brief chance I have now to highlight some books released so far this year — a dozen of them, presented in order of date of publication. No doubt, people reading this book are eager to take on the question.

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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. means of engaging ecosystems and behaviors."

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RMJM Architecture

APRIL 19, 2024

It is the date on which several prominent authors, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died, thus it was a natural choice for UNESCO’s General Conference, in Paris in 1995, to pay a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone to access books.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2022

There is no book review this week, since I've been busing preparing for the book talk I'll be giving for AIALA and LACMA tomorrow evening. 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? See you then!

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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. for elephants ?!

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Bustler

APRIL 24, 2023

The shortlist has been announced for the inaugural Architectural Book Awards. The awards were open to any book published in 2020, 2021, or 2022, with genres spanning history, biographies, buildings, practice, typologies, technical, and guides.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This year I featured nearly 200 architecture books on this blog, placing them into one of six day-of-the-week categories: Monograph Monday , Technical Tuesday , World Wednesday , History/Theory Thursday , Free-for-all Friday , and Wayback Weekend. Murphy with Jeffrey Mansfield and MASS Design Group, published by Cooper Hewitt (11/2021)

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The Architect's Newsletter

JUNE 9, 2022

Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet’s Dreams for Buenos Aires By Ana Mari?a n’s Modernity for the Masses: Antonio [.]. The post A new book explores Antonio Bonet’s grand plans for Buenos Aires public housing appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper. n | University of Texas Press | $50 Open Ana Mari?a

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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

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

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Santa Fe Modern: Contemporary Design in the High Desert by Helen Thompson, photographs by Casey Dunn The Monacelli Press , November 2021 Hardcover | 8 x 10 inches | 240 pages | English | ISBN: 9781580935616 | $50.00 is also the author of Marfa Modern and Texas Made, Texas Modern [.] She lives in Santa Fe.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Architecture and its adventurous cousin Interior Design have long since been the keystone of the coffee-table book market, with hundreds of magnificent books published yearly. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more. You deserve it! A refreshing and sensical decision.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 7, 2022

For architects educated in the modern idiom, like myself, Wright's Larkin Building — an office building built in Buffalo, New York, in 1904 and demolished in 1950 — is familiar, discussed in architectural history classes for its monumentality, large atrium, division of work areas, and early adoption of air conditioning. But that's not all!

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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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Deezen

AUGUST 31, 2023

Promotion: Nashville-based hospitality brand Graduate Hotels has launched a self-titled book spotlighting its hotels in university towns and cities across the world. The 272-page book explores traditional and modern interior design. To view more about Graduate Hotels' book, visit its website.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JULY 25, 2022

The monograph on Kahn was first published by Phaidon in 2005, but with the subsequent completion of the FDR Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt Island, the eponymous book has been expanded, enlarged, and updated.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Curved resin walls define this retail space , which architecture studio Akin Atelier has created for the Sydney Modern extension at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Two curved walls enclose the shop Inside the Gallery Shop, adjustable resin shelves line the curved walls, housing books and publications.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Inspired by a childhood dream of Thoreau’s Walden Pond, he wanted to create a small and simple, yet modern studio in which to write, reflect, and enjoy nature. "To Smith, an ardent classicist with a modern point of view. To bring his vision to life, the poet called upon architect Eric J. "To

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Shades of Grey

MARCH 25, 2024

But Modernism itself is now a hundred years old and everything we do is built upon reworking a rich cultural inheritance. d One of the books I was able to rescue from my house in Zimbabwe was a rather splendid landscape format hardback with watercolour sketches by Alex Jack. Style is such a strange elusive quality.

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Deezen

MAY 12, 2022

John Gendall selects eight examples from his book Rocky Mountain Modern. While modernism has always had roots in the Rockies – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's first US commission was in Wyoming – the style has since evolved in tandem with the unique environmental conditions of the region. "An The photograph is by Paul Crosby.

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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. Here, the first modern elevator was exhibited by Elisha Otis.

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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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Dwell

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This notion—that comfort is paramount in making a space feel like home—is explored in full detail in Witold Rybczynski’s Home: A Short History of an Idea , a book I first encountered in the depths of my father’s office, and read, cover to cover, as a pretentious young person with a passing interest in interiors.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The design's inverted facade creates an "urban shelf" activated by seating niches, gaming areas, and a book exchange that was. Courtesy of Henning Larsen. Renderings by VividVision. Courtesy of Henning Larsen.

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Dwell

JANUARY 2, 2024

Their vision was to create a modern house nestled in the backyard while preserving the charm of their existing 1940s, 850-square-foot Arts and Crafts bungalow. A discreet utility wing block houses storage, laundry amenities, and a second bathroom."

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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

APRIL 26, 2023

People tend to gravitate toward the Danish designer’s work – in such numbers that he’s collaborated on his first monograph, deconstructing his special Scandinavian-modern language. In the beginning, I relied on my intuition to realise and articulate my projects,’ says Thulstrup, discussing the impetus for the book.

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Hotel Designs

JULY 25, 2023

Hotel Designs ROOST Detroit opens in the landmark Book Tower ROOST Detroit opens in the landmark Book Tower Following a seven restoration of Book Tower, hospitality company Method Co. The property offers a combination of 117 beautifully furnished studio, one and two-bedroom apartment hotel accommodations in downtown Detroit.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 28, 2023

This year's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is my third, following the 2022 book fair and, just days before lockdown, the 2020 book fair. Along these lines, below are some things I learned while browsing the booths at this year's book fair trying to find some architectural gems. It is going for $7,500.

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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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Architectural Record

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A book examines Yale University as a former incubator for architects and designers—Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph, and Eero Saarinen among them—who shared a “penchant for conflating the past, present, and future.”

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Architizer

MARCH 7, 2024

At some point in the school year, a student in my AP Literature class will ask the dreaded question: what is “Modernism?” Even though modern art seems “weird” to casual museum-goers, there was a method to the madness. Modern artists rejected representational conventions in pursuit of honest expression.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2023

Local practice Child Studio has designed a house in a mews courtyard in London that mixes mid-century modern furniture with custom-made pieces in a nod to fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent's home. The post Child Studio blends mid-century modern and art deco details in Mayfair pied-à-terre appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

MAY 22, 2023

Promotion: a range of contemporary furniture designers will showcase their work as part of Look Book, a networking event presented by Dezeen as part of WantedDesign Manhattan. Based on Vancouver Island, the studio aims to create furnishings that add a contemporary touch to the modern home.

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