Architecture Books – Week 43/2023
This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
Over at World-Architects I reviewed As Found: Experiments in Preservation (Flanders Architecture Institute, 2023) edited by Sofie De Caigny, Hülya Ertas and Bie Plevoets, the companion to the exhibition of the same name at the Flanders Architecture Institute.
Architecture Book News:
Over at Drawing Matter the always erudite Adrian Forty reviews two related books: Owen Jones and the V&A: Ornament for a Modern Age by Olivia Horsfall Turner; and Style and Solitude: The History of an Architectural Problem by Mari Hvattum.
I have listened to them — yet — but the two most recent episodes of the "About Buildings + Cities" podcast are about architecture books: Stewart Brand's How Buildings Learn (1994) and Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York (1978); it looks like the latter is so important it will get two more episodes devoted to it.
The Whole Earth Index, “a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand [again!] and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002.” Bullet 3 (via Open Culture)
#archidosereads
Architect humor, 1950s style: one of the cartoons by R. O. Blechman in Schoolhouse: What to do when your neighborhood needs a school, produced by the Joint School Research Project and Aluminum Company of America, with Eggers and Higgins and Walter McQuade, in 1958 (click and swipe for the joke):
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