feeds.feedburner.comadded August 2026
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)8 Jan 2024
Reading About Drawings Instead of digesting a new book or diving into a novel, something others do often but I do rarely, I spent my holiday break reading a five-year-old book about a trio of...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)18 Dec 2023
Favorite Books of 2023 For the fifteenth and last time on this blog, I'm highlighting my favorite books of the year, selected from the many books I reviewed or featured as "Book Briefs" on this...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)4 Dec 2023
Places in Time III This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent "Places in Time" series looks closely at three books: the first about Chicago from the Great Depression to the...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)20 Nov 2023
Ten Pairs of Books for Christmas - Architecture after God: Babel Resurgent by Kyle Dugdale, published by Birkhäuser, February 2023 (Amazon / Bookshop) - Inhabited Machines: Genealogy of an...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)13 Nov 2023
Eight Decades of Modern Japanese Houses A review of a new book released this week: The Japanese House Since 1945 by Naomi Pollock, published by Thames & Hudson, November 2023 (Amazon / Bookshop)...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)6 Nov 2023
On the Future of Cities The recent publication of two books prompted me to ponder the future of cities and do a write-up of them together: If the visuals in Implementing Urban Design are, to put it...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)30 Oct 2023
Visualizing the World, Visualizing Change In 1939, Otto Neurath's Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. Knopf.
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)16 Oct 2023
The Past and Future of Architecture Books The recent receipt of two review books got me thinking about the past and the future of architecture books.
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)9 Oct 2023
A Modernist Reads About Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, the English architect who was born in 1869 and died in 1944, that is.
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)2 Oct 2023
From Slow House to Blue Dream Blue Dream is a house designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Julia "Julie" Reyes Taubman and her husband Robert "Bobby" Taubman.
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)25 Sept 2023
42 Years of Critical Regionalism If your first reaction to the title of this post is something along the lines of, "Wait, isn't critical regionalism just 40 years old?," then everything you think...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)18 Sept 2023
The Latest from MoMA: Emerging Ecologies Like many people with a lot of books, I keep track of my library with an app/website, tagging books with keywords to better filter and find them.
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)11 Sept 2023
Places in Time II Last week dose explored three "places in time": St. Louis in the early decades of the 20th century; Detroit between 1935 and 1985; and Chicago suburb Oak Park ca.
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)4 Sept 2023
Places in Time I Like most human beings, I can be contradictory at times. One area where this manifests is architectural surveys: books that usually collect buildings of a certain typology, but...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)21 Aug 2023
Four Monographs Of the numerous books publishers send me for review — be they requested by me, pitched by them, or arriving at my doorstep unsolicited — the highest percentage of them are...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)31 Jul 2023
Summer in the City From the middle of March, when a family emergency put this blog on hiatus, until the middle of July, when a funeral mass was held for my dad, my life was split almost evenly...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)19 Jun 2023
Book Briefs #49 The most recent numbered installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)5 Jun 2023
Book Briefs #35 Revisited Last week I cobbled together eight books, some of which publishers had sent me more than a year ago, in an effort to write a "Better Late Than Never" installment of "Book...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Booksby John Hill (noreply@blogger.com)30 May 2023
My Biennale Haul Two weeks ago I was in Venice for the Biennale, covering the 18th International Architecture Exhibition curated by Lesley Lokko for World-Architects.
top 23%