Architecture Books – Week 37/2023
More "places in time"
This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
Last week dose explored three "places in time": St. Louis in the early decades of the 20th century; Detroit between 1935 and 1985; and Chicago suburb Oak Park ca. 1906, when Frank Lloyd Wright completed Unity Temple. Those three US-centric books were split between two historical surveys and one case study. The same applies to the European/Asian books here, with a survey of brutalist architecture in Paris followed by a survey of Indonesian architecture trained in Germany around 1960 and a case study of a care center for people with mental disabilities in Belgium.
Brutalist Paris: Post-War Brutalist Architecture in Paris and Environs by Nigel Green and Robin Wilson, published by Blue Crow Media, July 2023
Dipl.-Ing. Arsitek: German-trained Indonesian Architects from the 1960s edited by Moritz Henning and Eduard Kögel, published by DOM Publishers, July 2023
Living in Monnikenheide: Care, Inclusion and Architecture edited by Gideon Boie, published by Flanders Architecture Institute, April 2023
Architecture Book News:
At the New York Times, Alexandra Lange speaks with some experts about "Some Old-Fashioned Home-Design Manuals [That] Are Worth Revisiting," including Terence Conran's The House Book, The Place of Houses by Charles Moore, Gerald Allen and Donlyn Lyndon, and High-Tech by Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin.
Columbia News speaks with Teresa Harris, the new director of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Columbia GSAPP. At Avery since 2015, Harris was previously a project manager for the Marcel Breuer Digital Archive at Syracuse University Libraries.
Luis Fernández-Galiano, director of Arquitectura Viva, remembers Jean-Louis Cohen and Peter Buchanan, two prolific curators and authors of architecture books who died in August.
#archidosereads
The first edition of architect William N. Morgan's Prehistoric Architecture in the Eastern United States was published (by @mitpress) in 1980, meaning he was working on it in the 70s, when he also designed a number of houses that clearly owed a debt to the prehistoric earth architecture he was researching and documenting. Drawings are from the book, photographs are mainly via @USmodernist's page on Morgan (click to swipe through the images):
A few recently received books:
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