Architecture Books – Week 20/2023
This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
Technically, there isn’t anything new on my blog this week, but I did write something about books at World-Architects so figured I might as well include it here — better than nothing, the saying goes. Specifically, I wrote about a couple books recently self-published by architecture firms BNIM and KPF:
ALL - The Tom and Ruth Harkin Center by BNIM
Design in Detail by Kohn Pedersen Fox
The "Found" feature also includes responses to a few questions on why the firms opted to self-publish rather than works with publishers on these books.
Architecture Book News:
Ahead of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale opening on Saturday, check out Drawing Matter’s project scrapbook of “proposals for a new Accademia Bridge to replace the wooden one constructed in the 1930s,” made for the 1985 Biennale. (See also week 11 from this newsletter for images of Raimund Abraham’s proposal.)
It’s the 100th anniversary of the first printing, in French, of Le Corbusier’s Vers une architecture. Mark Alan Hewitt writes about “what Corbu really meant” at Common Edge.
Years ago I came across The Texture of Tribeca: An Illustrated History by Andrew Dolkart and snapped up that somewhat scarce book (it came in very handy for my walking tours of the area). Now, nearly 35 years after its publication, a new update, Tribeca & Its Architecture: An Illustrated History, has been published by the Tribeca Trust.
Landscape Architecture Magazine features Gale Fulton’s review of 250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know, edited by B. Cannon Ivers, a book inspired by Michael Sorkin’s “Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know.”
#archidosereads
Some modern "highlights" from Riyadh Album: The Traditional & Modern City & Its Environs, a 1983 souvenir book I spotted in a used bookstore's dollar bin:
A few recently received books:
See these and more recently published and forthcoming architecture books on my blog and on my Bookshop.org page.
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