Architecture Books – Week 41/2023
Lutyens, Sir Edwin Lutyens
This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, Volume 1: Country Houses by A.S.G. Butler with George Stewart and Christopher Hussey, published by ACC Art Books
Readers of this newsletter and my blog probably know I’m an architect/writer with an inclination toward modern and contemporary architecture. While I’m also a fan of vernacular and indigenous architecture, I tend to shy away from doctrinaire traditional stylings, especially neoclassicism. Yet, when I received a review copy of the first volume of A.S.G. Butler’s three-volume The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens, recently reprinted by ACC Art Books, I had a hard time dismissing it outright or ignoring it entirely. So I gathered some other Lutyen monographs and scoured some articles to get a handle on the lasting appeal of Edwin Lutyens: “A Modernist Reads About Lutyens”
Architecture Book News:
The New York Post — yes, the New York Post — has a fairly in-depth article on architecture: Elizabeth Fazzare discusses US embassies in the context of David B. Peterson's new book Embassies of the Cold War: The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy, and Defense.
More about his career rather than his books, Nile Greenberg's lengthy interview with Steven Holl at The Brooklyn Rail nevertheless touches on Holl's monographs and his current stint guest editing Domus with Toshiko Mori.
Even more removed from architecture books, the subject of this newsletter, is US Modernist’s attempt to figure out who designed the Alma Exchange Bank, a space-age Googie-style branch bank built in 1966 in Alma, Georgia. Can any of my astute readers help George Smart?
#archidosereads
Books in my library with rounded corners, and there aren't many, tend to be guidebooks but also @reiser_umemoto_rur monographs and Cradle to Cradle (click and swipe to see more):
A few recently received books:
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