Architecture Books – Week 11/2022
The latest review on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
Two British Biographies: Ian Nairn: Words in Place by Gillian Darley and David McKie (Five Leaves Publications, 2013) and Reyner Banham Revisited by Richard J. Williams (Reaktion Books, 2021).
#archidosereads
Not sure if this is common knowledge, but the 1980 Venice Biennale, "The Presence of the Past," traveled to other cities, including San Francisco. The famous "Strada Novissima" went from the Corderie in the Arsenale to Pier 2 at Fort Mason. These photos of the final product and construction in San Fran … were found in a special Spring 1982 issue of Archetype: The Magazine of Architecture and Other Arts that I recently found at @stoutbooks: (click through to see all images)
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:
Congratulations to Deane M., who won a copy of Bernard Tschumi’s Architecture and Disjunction in a random drawing. The next giveaway will be at the end of March. Stay tuned.
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