Architecture Books – Week 5/2023
Going back in time...
This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
I dug out some old catalogs from the Prairie Avenue Bookshop and ended up rambling on about the nineties, recommending what I think are some valuable books from that theory-heavy decade.
Architecture Book News:
Christopher Hawthorne gives a comprehensive history of Learning from Las Vegas, whose first edition turned 50 last fall, for The New Yorker.
The Architect’s Newspaper presents “a (non-exhaustive) list of design- and architecture-related titles hitting shelves, nightstands, and coffee tables in 2023.”
“Black and White and Mies All Over”: Over at World-Architects I reviewed Mies van der Rohe: The Collective Housing Collection by Fernando Casqueiro, published by a+t.
Archinect reports that Milton S. F. Curry, formerly dean at USC, is launching CriticalProductive, an academic journal that will be “invested in the intellectual project of culture, arts, and architecture.”
#archidosereads
Spotted in a Prairie Avenue Bookshop catalog from 1998/99. Too bad it wasn't a real monograph:
A few recently received books:
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