Architecture Books – Week 2/2024
Happy New Year!
This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
Instead of digesting a new book or diving into a novel, something others do often but I do rarely, I spent my holiday break reading a five-year-old book about a trio of intertwined topics I'm particularly fond of: drawings, exhibitions, and New York City.
Drawing on Architecture: The Object of Lines, 1970-1990 by Jordan Kauffman, published by The MIT Press, 2018.
Read my review: “Reading About Drawings.”
Architecture Book News:
A few days after my last newsletter of 2023 went out, Bloomberg put out its list of "15 books about cities" that their editors and writers read in 2023.
Then, three days before Christmas, The Architect’s Newspaper posted “a bevy of the best architecture-related books published in 2023.”
Also last month, a new reading room that includes the William “Bill” Menking Book Collection opened at Pratt. (Some readers might remember that the Michael Sorkin Book Collection opened at City College in December 2022. Both Bill and Michael died in spring 2020.)
#archidosereads
Apropos of the post on my blog this week, here is a peek inside the catalog of the Architecture I exhibition held at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1977:
A few recently received books:
See these and more recently published and forthcoming architecture books on my Bookshop.org page.
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