Architecture Books – Week 8/2023
This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:
I’m ruminating “On Case Studies” and focusing on three of them:
Higher Knowledge: SANAA'S Rolex Learning Center at EPFL Since 2010 by Christophe Van Gerrewey, published by EPFL Press
Past to Future: La Grande Carrière Wincqz by Isabelle Toussaint and Matteo Robbiglio with photographs by Marie Noëlle Dailly, published by Prisme Editions
Kazuo Shinohara: The Umbrella House Project edited by Christian Dehli and Andrea Grolimund, published by Vitra Design Museum
Architecture Book News:
I wrote a piece for The Architect’s Newspaper about Head Hi, a cafe/bookstore/event space in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood.
Two former Future Systems employees review of Jan Kaplický: For the Future and For Beauty, a new biography by Ivan Margolius, a friend of Kaplický (1937–2009) and author of the earlier Jan Kaplický Drawings (a beautiful book).
András Szántó outlines a few takeaways from his new book Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects.
"You May Now Enter the Book Cover Portal": Print Magazine notices the recent trend of "doorways, open windows, and mysterious portals" on the covers of books.
#archidosereads
Five NYC skyscrapers are in Best High-Rises 2022/23 from @jovis_verlag and @architekturmuseum. One of them (@dca.london's The Bryant) was a finalist for the International High-Rise Award. It didn't win, but one of my photos of it is in this book on the competition. I'm not one to toot my own horn, but it's not often a photo of mine appears in a book by someone who's not me. (click and swipe to see the 5 NYC skyscrapers inside the book):
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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