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Places in Time II

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books11 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.

Places in Time I

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books4 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...

Four Monographs

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books21 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...

#17InkQuestions

Olive Octopus6 Aug 2023

Question 1 What was your first (memorable) ink? One of the first bottled inks I used was Ink Institute Jade Vine, a bright teal ink in a frosted glass bottle with a beautiful ink painting of the...

Summer in the City

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books31 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...

#21PenQuestions

Olive Octopus16 Jul 2023

Question 1 What is the pen they'll have to pry out of your cold dead hands? The Sailor Pro Gear Slim "Nuts" pen with the colorway based on the Manyo Shirakashi and Yamabuki inks.

Book Briefs #49

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books19 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...

Book Briefs #35 Revisited

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books5 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...

My Biennale Haul

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books30 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.