Architecture Books – Week 48/2022
The latest review on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
Ando and Le Corbusier, Volume 1: Tadao Ando edited by Michael Conforti; Ando and Le Corbusier, Volume 2: Le Corbusier edited by Eric Mumford; both published by Alphawood Foundation.
Architecture Book News:
Fast Company rounds up “the [seven] best design books of 2022,” with two of them related to architecture.
Over at The Spectator, Stephen Bayley reviews Witold Rybczynski's majestic survey, The Story of Architecture.
Madeline Beach Carey reviews Christine Stewart-Nuñez's The Poet & The Architect at World-Architects, for the online magazine I edit.
Also over at World-Architects, I featured Videogame Atlas: Mapping Interactive Worlds by Luke Casper Pearson and Sandra Youkhana, published by Thames & Hudson.
#archidosereads
Books on Tadao Ando seem to invite publishers and designers to make concrete-esque covers, be it the thick chipboard of Ando and Le Corbusier (Alphawood, 2022), the dimpled dark-gray chipboard of Seven Interviews with Tadao Ando (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2002), or the gray linen of Richard Pare's The Colours of Light (Phaidon, 2000):
A few recently received books:
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