Architecture Books – Week 7/2023
Who's in the mood for love?
This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, so I put together a list some things I love ❤️ about architecture books — and just as many things I don't love 💔 about them: 20 pairs in 4 categories.
I ❤️ Browsing a well kept bookstore
I 💔 Browsing an unkempt bookstore
Sometimes, as in the pair of photos above, they are one and the same.
Read more in “For the Love of Architecture Books.”
Architecture Book News:
Enrique Ramirez on Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech, a book from Harvard University Press that "organizes the work of 112 practices through images and essays."
Cooper Union was in the news for indefinitely postponing then reinstating an exhibition on Vkhutemas, aka the Russian Bauhaus, that is an extension of Anna Bokov's 2021 book Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920–1930.
Hamza Shaikh, architect, “influencer,” and author of Drawing Attention – Architecture in the Age of Social Media, “explains how social media is opening up new markets for these fundamental skills.”
#archidosereads
I really like the way The Umbrella House Project from @vitradesignmuseum has, like the eponymous Kazuo Shinohara house that is the subject of the book, its own "overhang" — about 1/2". I can't think of another book with such a detail (click and swipe to see that detail):
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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— John Hill
John, I enjoyed your For the Love of Architecture books list of things you love and don't love about architecture books. We agree on many counts. I share your frustration with William Stout online. Aside from the online search, I have ordered many books from them only to be told without apology that they are out of stock. If only their website reflected what they actually have for sale. One thing I hate you don't mention is booksellers who ship things without properly wrapping them and as a result the books apparently arrive in poorer condition than when they were sent. This is all too common. On the other hand, when William Stout actually has things in stock they wrap them for shipment in an exemplary fashion.