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Reading About Drawings

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books8 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...

Favorite Books of 2023

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books18 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...

Places in Time III

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books4 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...

Ten Pairs of Books for Christmas

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books20 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...

On the Future of Cities

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books6 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...

42 Years of Critical Regionalism

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books25 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...