Architecture Books – Week 45/2022
A trip to India...
The latest review on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
A Book Brief with three books published by Altrim Publishers: Hāthigaon: A Settlement of Elephants and Mahouts by Sanjeev Vidyarthi, Megha Bhatnagar, Gaurav Bhatnagar and Rajan Bhatt; AMD-Ahmedabad: Architectural Travel Guide of Ahmedabad by Riyaz Tayyibji; AVPNY-Auroville & Pondicherry: Architectural Travel Guide of Auroville & Pondicherry by Anupama Kundoo and Yashoda Joshi.
Architecture Book News:
The editors of Metropolis magazine have selected “the best fall and winter releases from the top art, architecture, and design publishers.”
After writing in The Spectator that “books on architecture are often pious and dull – except for the vanity publications, [which] are just plain embarrassing,” Stephen Bayley recommends two of them: Building Society: Low-rise Bungalows in the West Country by Jethro Marshall and Barnabas Calder’s Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency. (I reviewed Calder’s book last year.)
Some news I missed from a couple of months ago: The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain revealed the shortlists for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion and the Colvin Prize, the first given to an architecture monograph and the second to "an outstanding work of reference." Winners will be announced on December 15.
#archidosereads
Sure, many of the tools in Stewart Brand's massive The Next Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools (1980) are obsolete, but it's great to browse the hundreds of books packed inside. Here are a few related to architecture: classics in my library, others I'd love to have, forgotten books, and books whose ideas will gain relevance once again (click and swipe to see inside the book):
A few recently received books:
See these and more recently published and forthcoming architecture books on my blog and on my Bookshop.org page.
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