Architecture Books – Week 24/2021
Last week on A Daily Dose of Architecture Books:
Bamboo Architecture: Vo Trong Nghia & The Work of VTN Architects, published by Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers: “The cover photo, the Diamond Island Community Center, is but one illustration of the way bamboo is elevated to a structural art.”
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation by Thomas Dyja, published by Simon & Schuster: “Dyja [has a] skillful way of intertwining stories, turning phrases, and dropping names and events to paint vivid pictures of historical moments.”
Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century Matthew Soules, published by Princeton Architectural Press: “Any knowledge architects can gain about the workings of architecture within capitalism … can't be all that bad … this book is a very good place to start.”
What Kind of Architect Are You? by Udo Greinacher, published by ORO Editions: “Just as architectural education readies architects for more than just traditional practice, the vast realm of architecture is receptive to individuals with other degrees or training, as a few of the interviews reveal.”
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream by Thomas Dyja, published by The Penguin Press: “Dyja's book commendably tells the stories of people and places overlooked in other histories of Chicago.”
#archidosereads
MoMA may have it as a free PDF on its website, but it was hard to resist a relatively cheap copy of the 1943 book "Brazil Builds: Architecture New and Old, 1652–1942" by Philip L. Goodwin, with photographs by G. E. Kidder Smith (his first book).
Coming up this week on A Daily Dose of Architecture Books*:
Green Architecture: Vo Trong Nghia & The Work of VTN Architects
Architectural Tourism: Monumental Itineraries, Cultural Heritage, and Sites of Memory by Shelley Hornstein
Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience by Christian Parreno
And more!
*Subject to change
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