Architecture Books – Week 31/2021
Last week on A Daily Dose of Architecture Books:
Imagining the Evident by Álvaro Siza, published by monade: “a short, almost leisurely book, one I think of akin to sitting down with Siza in his smoke-filled office as he flips through his sketchbooks and recounts the invention of each project depicted”
Terra-Sorta-Firma: Reclaiming the Littoral Gradient by Fadi Masoud, published by Actar Publishers: “recommended for fellow ‘cartophiles’ and for designers and engineers focused on urban waterfronts, those settings that are increasingly threatened as climate change accelerates”
Growing Up Modern: Childhoods in Iconic Homes by Julia Jamrozik & Coryn Kempster, published by Birkhäuser: “the result of the couple's efforts to research, travel, and document the histories and present conditions of the houses, the second with their then nine-month-old son”
The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry into the Tourist Age by Marco d'Eramo, published by Verso: “People interested in tourism's end, as much as its past and present, will find much to savor in d'Eramo's smart, enjoyable book.”
#archidosereads
Apparently I'm a sucker for books about Rem Koolhaas and @oma.eu that I come across in used bookstores — a couple recent finds:
Coming up this week on A Daily Dose of Architecture Books:
Things Fall Together by Skylar Tibbits
Planet City by Liam Young
The Summer 2021 issue of See All This curated by Iwan Baan
And more!
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