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Visualizing the World, Visualizing Change

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Neurath was director of the International Foundation of Visual Information and used the Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) system to "teach through the eye." Joy and Fear is not the first book by Theo Deutinger published by Lars Müller. Alas, I'll have to wait until February to do that.

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Dezeen's top 10 architecture and design books of 2023

Deezen

We continue our review of 2023 with a roundup of this year's top architecture and design books , including a survey of 60 years of Barbie Dreamhouses and a volume documenting tidal pools around the world.

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Brutalism is abloom in this new book by Instagrammer Olivia Broome

The Spaces

Now, she’s taken her expansive project offline with a new book that celebrates the intersection of Brutalism and the natural world. Brutalism has a bad rep for being cold and austere, but Olivia Broome has spent years documenting the softer, greener side of concrete on her Instagram account, Brutalist Plants.

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Brutalist Italy book showcases "sometimes surprising" concrete architecture

Deezen

A Star Wars-like cemetery extension and a cheese-shaped temple feature in this roundup , where photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego spotlight the best brutalist buildings from their book Brutalist Italy. From one point of view, those architectures are surely impressive, visually striking and sometimes surprising," he continued.

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Book Briefs #49

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

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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david adjaye’s innovative material world visualized in ‘alchemy’ monograph by phaidon

designboom

phaidon's upcoming book is a fascinating take on david adjaye's architecture, celebrating the indigenous use of materials and light. The post david adjaye’s innovative material world visualized in ‘alchemy’ monograph by phaidon appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

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.