Today's archidose #460

IMG_3861a, originally uploaded by mo+.

Haus V/B in Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany by mo+ messerschmidt | oligmueller | architekten, 2010. See mo+'s documentation of the project in their flickr set.

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Holiday Gift Books: 2010 Edition

As in the last five years, I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays. This year I'm presenting one each by close to 40 publishers, posted in one long list.

010 Publishers:

Megacities: Exploring a Sustainable Future edited by Steef Buijs, Wendy Tan, Devisari Tunas

Actar:

Total Housing: Alternatives to Urban Sprawl edited by Albert Ferre and Tihamer Salij (It is also a recent competition.)

a+t:
Strategy Public

AVA Academia:

Basics Architecture: Architectural Design by Jane Anderson

Birkhäuser:

Thinking Architecture (Third Edition) by Peter Zumthor (Edition is expanded, with two new essays.)

Douglas & McIntyre:

Sketches: From Here and There by A.J. Diamond

Elsevier:

Architecture in Detail II by Graham Bizle

Gestalten:

Closer to God: Religious Architecture and Sacred Spaces edited by L. Feireiss, R. Klanten

Gingko Press:

Conceptual Architecture by Sandu Cultural Media

Gregory R. Miller & Co.:

Brad Cloepfil / Allied Works Architecture by Brad Cloepfil with Sandy Isenstadt, Kenneth Frampton

Hatje Cantz:

Raimund Abraham and the Austrian Cultural Forum NY edited by Andreas Stadler

Island Press:

Cities for People by Jan Gehl (Read my review here.)

Lars Müller Publishers:

Brasilia-Chandigarh: Living with Modernity by Iwan Baan

Laurence King Publishing:

Towards Zero-Energy Architecture: New Solar Design by Mary Guzowski

Merrell Publishers:

New Architecture in Japan by Yuki Sumner and Naomi Pollock (Read my review here.)

Metropolis Books:

The Power of Pro Bono edited by John Cary and Public Architecture

MIT Press:

Event Cities 4: Concept-Form by Bernard Tschumi

The Monacelli Press:

Remarks on 21 Works by Rafael Moneo

ORO Editions:

Small Projects by Kevin Mark Low

Oxford University Press:

AIA Guide to New York City, Fifth Edition by Norval White, Elliot Willensky, Fran Leadon (Read my review here.)

Papadakis Publishers:

Fair World: A History of World's Fairs and Expositions from London to Shanghai 1851-2010 by Paul Greenhalgh

Phaidon:

John Pawson: Plain Space by Alison Morris

Princeton Architectural Press:

Narrow Houses: New Directions in Efficient Design by Avi Friedman

Reaktion Books:

Architecture's Evil Empire?: The Triumph and Tragedy of Global Modernism by Miles Glendinning

Rizzoli:

Frank O. Gehry: Since 1997 by Germano Celant

Routledge:

Will Alsop: The Noise by Tom Porter

Scribner:

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities by Witold Rybczynski

Skira Rizzoli:

Thomas Phifer and Partners by Stephen Fox and Sarah Amelar

SUN Architecture:

Cultivating the City: London Before and After 2012 by Bob Allies

Taschen:

Coop Himmelb(l)au: Complete Works 1968-2010 by Michael Mönninger, Peter Gössel (Also of note is an acrylic bookstand for your mondo Taschen titles and Phaidon Atlases.)

Thames & Hudson:

Architect: The Work of the Pritzker Prize Laureates in Their Own Words edited by Ruth Peltason and Grace Ong-Yan

Toto:

Tadao Ando: Process and Idea

University of Chicago Press:

Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age by Blair Kamin

University of Minnesota Press:

Architecture's Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern by Jorge Otero-Pailos

Wiley:

What is Architectural History? by Andrew Leach

W.W. Norton:

Greening Modernism: Preservation, Sustainability, and the Modern Movement by Carl Stein

Yale University Press:

A Landscape Manifesto by Diana Balmori

Holcim Call for Entries

Open now for entries is the 3rd International Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction. Click the image for more information.



Holcim Awards is also on Facebook.

Self-Folding Origami Sheets

It's easy to see this having applications in architecture.



Similar is ShapeShift, featured previously.

Video found at Scientific American.

Monday, Monday

This week's dose features "House at the Park" in Hamburg, Germany by splendid_architecture:


The featured past dose is Stockwerk Sedelmeier in Stuttgart, Germany by w67 architekten bda schulz + stoll:


This week's book review is Houses: Modern Natural/Natural Modern by Ron Broadhurst, and The New Modern House: Redefining Functionalism by Jonathan Bell and Ellie Stathaki:


**NOTE: I'm taking Thanksgiving week off, so the next weekly dose will be 2010.12.06.**

Today's archidose #459

Here are two views of Laycock Street Housing in London, England by Brady Mallalieu Architects. Photographs are by Andrew Carr.





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Time Lapse NYC

Cooper Union:


Public Farm 1:

Public Farm 1 at PS1 time lapse construction video from david basulto on Vimeo.

(via Architizer)

A Landscape Manifesto

This evening Cooper Union presents "Award-Winning Urban Designer and Author Diana Balmori in A Landscape Manifesto, a free reading, Q&A and book signing open to the public." A review of the recent monograph of the same name is forthcoming.

Friday, November 19 at 6:30pm
Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Square

Internationally known landscape and urban designer Diana Balmori will speak in the Rose Auditorium at The Cooper Union about her stunning new book, A Landscape Manifesto. Balmori's theory and practice of urban landscape design is an art that spans the divide between culture and nature, and combines the science of ecology with the formal aspects of aesthetics. During her talk, she will delve deep into the visionary thinking behind a variety of projects by Balmori Associates—including public spaces on the Memphis Riverfront and in the newly reclaimed port area by the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain.

Diana Balmori is an internationally recognized landscape and urban designer. She teaches at the Yale University School of Architecture and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Balmori also serves as a senior fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, both in Washington, DC. She lives and works in New York City.

Today's archidose #458

Here are two views of the "Cloudscapes" installation at the Venice Biennale by Tetsuo Kondo and Transsolar, 2010.


[Photograph by Pedro Kok]


[Photograph by imagen solo referencial / chilemascophe]

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Hypothesizing the Whitney

Reimagining the Whitney Museum of American Art's Renzo Piano-designed expansions, both downtown (happening) and uptown (not happening), seems to be a popular thing to do.


[Whitney Downtown Museum by Axis Mundi | spotted at newyork-architects.com]


[NeWhitney by Tolou Studio | spotted at Architizer]

Slim Postings

Dear Readers,

Yesterday marked exactly one month until my book is due at the publishers, one month to not only finish writing the thing but also finalizing all the images and permissions and coordinating everything with maps...so much that one month feels like half that. So needless to say postings on this blog will be slim for a month or so...a little bit slimmer than it's been lately, if anybody's noticed. I'll take this time to share the usual photos, events, competitions, etc., so please e-mail me if you have any recommendations.

Thanks,
John

Monday, Monday

This week's dose features City Library Helmond in Helmond, Netherlands by BOLLES+WILSON:


The featured past dose is Biblioteca Parque Espana in Santo Domingo, Colombia by Giancarlo Mazzanti:


This week's book review is BOLLES+WILSON: A Handful of Productive Paradigms by Julia Bolles-Wilson and Peter Wilson: