Architecture Books – Week 42/2023
This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
Two recently received review books got me thinking about the past and the future of architecture books:
This is Architecture: Writing on Buildings edited by Stephen Bayley and Robert Bargery, published by Unicorn Publishing Group in October 2022
Future Book(s): Sharing Ideas on Books and (Art) Publishing edited by Pia Pol and Astrid Vorstermans, published by Valiz in June 2023
Read “The Past and Future of Architecture Books” …
Architecture Book News:
Stephen Bayley, editor of This Is Architecture (above), reviews Thomas Heatherwick’s new book, Humanize: A Maker's Guide to Designing Our Cities (Simon & Schuster) — “a stonking brick of a paperback whose intention is to agitate us into an angry revolution against boring, ugly buildings” — at Spectator Australia.
Writing at BD, Matthew Wickens says the two recently published monographs on Kay Fisker, the renowned Danish architect who died in 1965 — Kay Fisker: Works and Ideas in Danish Modern Architecture by Martin Søberg (Bloomsbury) and Kay Fisker: Danish Functionalism and Block-based Housing by Andrew Clancy and Colm Moore (Lund Humphries) — should be “compulsory reading on all architecture courses.”
Hugh Pearman tells RIBA Journal (where he was an editor) how he selected the 55 buildings in About Architecture: An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings (Yale University Press).
#archidosereads
There are twelve chapters in @valiz_books_projects' Future Book(s) and nearly as many graphic designers (all women) for them. It makes the whole book visually diverse and even unexpected at times (click and swipe to see inside book):
A few recently received books:
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