Architecture Books – Week 46/2023
Let's go to Japan
This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
This week I review The Japanese House Since 1945 by Naomi Pollock, released this week by Thames & Hudson.
Read “Eight Decades of Modern Japanese Houses”
Architecture Book News:
I haven’t read it (it’s behind the NYRB paywall), but the latest piece by Martin Filler at New York Review of Books is a review of Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of Our Architectural Treasures, “new volume of photographs taken for the Historic American Buildings Survey [that] captures the program’s wide influence on architectural culture.”
Over at Azure, Adele Weder reviews As It Is: A Precarious Moment in the Life of Ontario Place, a new book featuring photographs by Steven Evans of the 155-acre Toronto waterfront park that soon “will be architecturally reconfigured into a new recreational entity — for those who can afford it.”
A few weeks ago I linked to the first part of About Buildings + Cities' three-part episode on Rem Koolhaas’s classic 1978 book Delirious New York; here is part two.
#archidosereads
Indeed, this house designed by Toyokazu Watanabe is called The Breast House. Spotted in Japan Houses in Ferroconcrete (Graphic-Sha, 1988) by Makoto Uyeda with photographs by Junichi Shimomura (there’s more on this book in this week’s review, above):
A few recently received books:
See these and more recently published and forthcoming architecture books on my blog and on my Bookshop.org page.
Thank you for subscribing to A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books Newsletter. If you have any comments or questions, or want to see your book on my blog, please respond to this email, or comment below if you’re reading this online. (Note: Purchases made via links here or on my blog may earn me affiliate commissions.)
— John Hill