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(DelMonico/D.A.P., $85) (Architecture Research Office / DelMonico Books) There is no better exemplar of the current state of modernism than the work of New York-based Architecture Research Office.
All of the early books of the Architecture Series — Cathedral, Castle, and 1974’s City, which covered the construction of an imaginary Roman city, make effective use of what I’d later ...
Architecture books can take you places, allowing you to visit fascinating buildings around the world without the hassle of getting there. The German-born architect Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969 ...
Because the book associates blame with the imprecative work of extraction that presages all architectural creation, it ultimately lets architects off the hook. Barcelona Pavilion, Ludwig Mies van ...
Architecture critic Mark Lamster on why plans to remake the downtown Comerica Bank Tower need to be rethought.
Designer Juan Garcia Mosqueda recommends a book about boring architecture. The premise stood out — “precisely because it’s about things that don’t stand out.” ...
XOXO OBO A new book on government-funded design reminds us that architecture is never neutral By Chris Walton • November 22, 2023 • Architecture, International, Review ...
That's the topic of LabOratory: Speaking of Science and Its Architecture (MIT Press). Its authors -- Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, professor of architecture at the University of Queensland, and Chris L. Smith, ...
The chapel at Trinity U., in Washington, D.C., is described as an “architectural achievement” in Klauder and Wise’s 1929 College Architecture in America.
This group ranges from a fabulous collection by contemporary, neurodiverse artists to Milton Glaser's pop art, and Aino and Alvar Aalto's Finnish modernist designs to a survey of Islamic architecture.