Architecture Books – Week 9/2023

This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books:

I’m exploring “Changing Ideals in Architectural Criticism” in the context of two new books:

• On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism edited by Wilfried Wang, published by Park Books and University of Texas at Austin

• Who Is the City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago by Blair Kamin with photographs by Lee Bey, published by University of Chicago Press

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Architecture Book News:

• On Saturday, March 4, DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State is hosting a virtual program on a virtual program on Angelo Maggi's G.E. Kidder Smith Builds: The Travel of Architectural Photography. (My review of the book)

• At The Architect’s Newspaper, “Anthony Fontenot assesses Mike Davis’s impact on the world of architecture and shares a story of post-Katrina solidarity.”

• Monocle reveals that Architecture magazine Shinkenchiku “has launched a bookshop, Shinkenchiku Shoten – or Post Architecture Books – in Tokyo’s Aoyama district.”

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#archidosereads

The second chapter in Reinier de Graaf's new book, architect, verb (@versobooks), spends most of its pages on Capital Gate in Abu Dhabi, which has the odd distinction as "the farthest man-made leaning building in the world," at 18°. Not familiar with the 2010 RMJM project? Swipe for some images I found in Terri Meyer Boake's excellent Diagrid Structures (@birkhauser_books, 2014):

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