Architecture Books – Week 34/2021
Last week on A Daily Dose of Architecture Books:
Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life, edited by Kieran Long & Johan Örn, published by ArkDes/Park Books: “Architect of Death and Life is a beautiful book on Sigurd Lewerentz, one that admirably and capably paints a comprehensive portrait of a career more diverse than many people realized, myself included.”
Cuban Modernism: Mid-Century Architecture 1940–1970, by Victor Deupi & Jean-François Lejeune, published by Birkhäuser: “Quote”
The Planet After Geoengineering, by Design Earth (Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy), published by Actar Publishers: “As a graphic novel, The Planet After Geoengineering is excellent: beautiful and breezy but very intelligent. It is saturated with the recognizable drawings by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy, accompanied by just a few lines of text per spread to help tell the stories…”
The Havana Guide: Modern Architecture, 1925-1965, by Eduardo Luis Rodríguez, published by Princeton Architectural Press: “an expert, historical glance at a place of remarkable, if overlooked, modern architecture”
#archidosereads
"Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency" by @barnabascalder has a smattering of elevations across its ~550 pages, all drawn to the same scale — a nice visual thread that spans many ages:
Coming up this week on A Daily Dose of Architecture Books:
Robin Boyd: Late Works
Pisé – Rammed Earth. Tradition and Potential
Mute Icons: and Other Dichotomies on the Real in Architecture
And more!
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