Architecture Books – Week 38/2023
The Latest from MoMA
This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism edited by Carson Chan and Matthew Wagstaffe, published by the Museum of Modern Art, September 2023.
Architecture Book News:
Over at LitHub, author Kathleen Rooney talks about “writing architecturally”: using architecture —singular buildings, mainly — as containers for the transmission of consciousness from author to reader in novels.
Do you like architecture and golf? Geoff Shackelford’s latest, Golf Architecture for Normal People: Sharpening Your Course Design Eye to Make Golf (Slightly) Less Maddening, is “perfect for those taking an interest in golf course design” per this review on SCOREgolf.
Steven Heller's "Daily Heller" last week looked at Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of Our American Treasures by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams, a book that features 100 buildings that have been demolished over the past 100 years.
#archidosereads
Strolling down memory lane in the Pamphlet Architecture show at @a83_inst in SoHo. Anyone recognize the faces between Lebbeus Woods and Steven Holl in the first photo?
A few recently received books:
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