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Rereading the Nineties

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Their judgments, for the most part, were spot-on and prescient, if infrequent: John Hejduk's 1985 Mask of Medusa , now going for hundreds of dollars (cover price: $40), was "excellent"; Edward Ford's The Details of Modern Architecture was "superb"; and they were the only store that carried the Art Vandelay monograph, Buildings About Nothing. (Is

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University of Southern California presents 10 architecture student projects

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Post-Heroism: Towards a Formalism Methodology of Foreseeing Urbanism by Fangshuo Zhao "This research project delves into the notion of 'enormity' as a catalyst for a paradigm shift in contemporary architecture, specifically within the context of the transition from heroism to post-heroism.

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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

A House Deconstructed by Office of (Un)Certainty Research (Mark Jarzombek + Vikramaditya Prakash), published by Actar Publishers. Some years later, in Memorials to Shattered Myths , Senie directed her focus toward Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the National September 11 Memorial, and other contemporary memorials.

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On Case Studies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Much of the book is devoted to the broader work of SANAA and how it fits into both Japanese and Western (modern) architectural traditions. Stewart, who wrote The Making of a Modern Japanese Architecture: From the Founders to Shinohara and Isozaki and contributed an essay to the 2G issue on Shinohara.

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Ultimate List of Architecture Terms

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The style became a part of the architecture vocabulary during the French revolution, yet it still hasn’t lost its popularity in contemporary architecture. Image by My Modern Met. Diagrammatic architecture is the usage of diagrams to develop a building or structure. Deconstruction. Streamline Moderne. Hotdog stand.