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A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

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A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books15 Oct 2024

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books is on Substack I'm breaking my blogging silence to do two things: - Alert readers to the fact I am still writing reviews of architecture books under the title A...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Eight Decades of Modern Japanese Houses

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books13 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)...

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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...

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Visualizing the World, Visualizing Change

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books30 Oct 2023

Visualizing the World, Visualizing Change In 1939, Otto Neurath's Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. Knopf.

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The Past and Future of Architecture Books

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books16 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.

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A Modernist Reads About Lutyens

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books9 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.

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From Slow House to Blue Dream

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books2 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.

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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...

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The Latest from MoMA: Emerging Ecologies

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books18 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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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