Architecture Books – Week 44/2023
This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
This week I look at four recently published books: Handbook of Tyranny (Expanded Edition) and Joy and Fear: An Illustrated Report on Modernity, both by Theo Deutinger and both published by Lars Múller Publishers; Climate Inheritance by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy, published by Actar Publishers; and Digital Design: A History by Stephen Eskilson, published by Princeton University Press.
Read “Visualizing the World, Visualizing Change”
Architecture Book News:
A big thank you to Jorge Sainz for reviewing my most recent book, Buildings in Print: 100 Influential and Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books, in the latest Arquitectura Viva: “Un libro de libros.”
Sainz points readers in his review to “Fifty Books,” a now six-year-old piece by AV’s Luis Fernández-Galiano in the magazine’s 200th issue — it’s new to me so I’m including it here.
So many takedowns of Thomas Heatherwick’s Humanise, so little space…unless you’re The Guardian, which has three pieces over the last two weeks: a report by Nonyelum Anigbo; Rowan Moore’s review in The Observer; and another review, this time by Oliver Wainwright. (Although just about all reviews of Humanise are negative — “The book’s naivety and lack of self-awareness would be funny,” Wainwright says, “but it is compounded by alarming pseudoscience that he wants to impose on the rest of us” — I’m looking forward to reading it [it’s released in the US on November 7], since an architecture book being discussed so widely is so rare.)
#archidosereads
Architects sketching on napkins may be a tired cliché, but I couldn't resist sharing this image of a Tadao Ando sketch on a Subway napkin, spotted in a 2000 book on the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, which I just found while trolling a used bookstore. Other sketches accompanying it also appear to be on napkins (click and swipe to see them), though none are as distinctive as the first one:
A couple recently received books:
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