Architecture Books – Week 19/2022
This newsletter is taking a week off. The next one will be Week 21, arriving in your inboxes on Monday, May 23.
The latest review on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
Architecture of Normal: The Colonization of the American Landscape by Daniel Kaven, published by Birkhäuser.
Architecture Book News:
“Architect Christopher Alexander mined mathematics to find patterns for good living” — article at The Conversation
Excerpts from Vladimir Belogolovsky’s new book, Imagine Buildings Floating Like Clouds, which juxtaposes 101 distinct visions of leading creatives — at Stir World
#archidosereads
Oooh, look what arrived! The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn by Richard Saul Wurman, first published in 1962 and reprinted by @designersbooks. It's even better than I anticipated, with a lot of my attention focused on the packed, companion "Reader's Guide":
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:
When the next Newsletter arrives in your inbox, on May 23, I’ll be giving away one book. Until then, no hints what book it is — it’s a surprise.
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