Architecture Books – Week 10/2022
Last week I was a guest on USModernist Radio, show #237, “Books About Architecture Books.” Listen here.
The latest review on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
Two Louis Sullivan Books: Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan's Lost Masterpiece edited by Jon Vinci; Louis Sullivan's Idea edited and written by Tim Samuelson; both designed by Chris Ware and published by Alphawood Foundation.
#archidosereads
The most famous photo of Reyner Banham, who would have turned 100 on March 2, 2022, was taken by Tim Street-Porter in 1981, when Banham rode his Bickerton over Silurian Lake, California. (Click through to see some AA students and professors recreating the shot in Tebenquiche salt lagoon, Atacama, Chile, in 2011):
A few recently received books:
See these and more recently published and forthcoming architecture books on my blog and on my Bookshop.org page.
Giveaways:
This week I’m giving away a classic from my library: Bernard Tschumi’s Architecture and Disjunction, a collection of thirteen essays written between 1975 and 1991. This is the paperback version (I also have the hardcover, which is staying in my library). If you’re interested in winning this book, just reply to this newsletter indicating so; I’ll select a winner randomly next week.
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— John Hill