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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.
Architecture critic Mark Lamster on why plans to remake the downtown Comerica Bank Tower need to be rethought.
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 ...
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 Most American Form of Architecture Isn’t Going Anywhere A new book challenges the dominant narrative that malls are dying.
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 is the first comprehensive, book-length study of the work of William Nichols, greatly expanding upon the only previous study, a brief booklet by C. Ford Peatross and Robert O. Mellown ...