Architecture Books – Week 45/2023
This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
The recent publication of two books prompted me to ponder the future of cities and do a write-up of them together:
Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies by Jonathan Barnett, published by Routledge (June 2023)
Renewing the Dream: The Mobility Revolution and the Future of Los Angeles edited by James Sanders, published by Rizzoli Electa, September 2023
Read “On the Future of Cities”
Architecture Book News:
At BD, Caroline Voet reviews a new expanded edition of the 1986 book (MACK Books) by Spanish architect Enric Miralles with Alison and Peter Smithson about the Smithsons’ Upper Lawn Solar Pavilion.
Arab News features Islamic Architecture: A World History (Thames & Hudson), a new book that “aims to shed light on lesser-known monuments both in and outside the region — all the way from Chile to China.”
Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture, which opened recently at Vitra Design Museum, features around a thousand photographs from more than 14,000 that Baan initially submitted for the exhibition.
#archidosereads
Nice surprise tucked in an Anthony Vidler (RIP) book I found recently at a used bookstore: subscription form for Assemblage, the history/theory journal Vidler and other brains contributed to back in the day. (Click and swipe to see Vidler blurb.) Journal's last issue was in 2000, so form makes a good bookmark:
A few recently received books:
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