A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

REEF Model 6 , originally uploaded by cs@sf . IwamotoScott 's entry -- titled Reef -- for the MoMA/PS1 Young Architects Program competition. Many more images in cs@sf's Flickr set and on YouTube . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

As is probably known by most people that read this page, Richard Rogers has been announced as the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate . This means he joins an elite list of past recipients, receives a medal in a ceremony in London on June 4, and gets $100,000 spending money. More coverage can be found at ArchNewsNow, yesterday and today . Rogers is a fitting recipient, known for technologically-minded buildings -- the Centre Pompidou (with Renzo Piano), Lloyd's of London , and Channel 4 Headquarters -- and ecologically-minded theories of architecture and urbanism. Rather than pepper this post with images of these or other well-known projects, I thought I'd show images of an unbuilt submission for a 2004/5 competition for the British Antarctic Survey’s Hally VI research station in Antarctica, found here . Enjoy.

Australia_2006_0301 , originally uploaded by marco 2000 . The Council House 2 Building in Melbourne, Australia by DesignInc . More information at Inhabitat . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

If the Tribune's coverage is any indication, Chicago has Spire frenzy, as Santiago Calatrava unveiled the "final" design of the 2000' tower on Monday. While my schedule doesn't permit a long post on the design, at first glance Calatrava has made improvements on the second scheme by shaping the tower's profile as it rises, giving it more of a curved -- rather than straight -- taper. The plan also includes improvements to the long-neglected DuSable Park east of Lake Shore Drive and a pedestrian bridge across LSD. See the evolution (pardon the quality of the latest; it's a still from a video, the only source available with a similar view to the others): July 2005 > > January 2007 > > March 2007

The Alhambra , originally uploaded by fdo h . The Alhambra in Granada, Spain. (See this week's dose for another project in Granada.) To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

DSC01176 , originally uploaded by hellothomasbrown . The Phoenix Central Library by Will Bruder . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

Introducing Foucault by Chris Horrocks and Zoran Jevtic ( Amazon ) This brief, illustrated introduction to one of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century begins with a quote by Foucault himself: "Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same." Immediately the reader is confronted by the fact that what they learn about Foucault will be incomplete, as well as somewhat enigmatic. With his endearing popularity in academia, this introduction is a fitting start before one tackles one of his well known treatises -- Madness and Civilization , The Order of Things , or Discipline and Punish -- that seem to pop up as references in many contemporary texts. Author ...

Nazarí Wall Intervention in Granada, Spain by Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas A 19th-century earthquake destroyed a large section of the Nazarí wall in Granada, Spain. This void was intact until only last year when Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas 's design for an intervention in the wall was completed. Visible from Granada's most famous locale, the Alhambra, the new intervention is a skilled balance of old and new, stitching together something long neglected. While local and national heritage regulations gave the architect the freedom to design an addition that is easily identifiable as such, they also dictated that the new wall be capable of demolition in the future without damaging the original construction. With the old foundation still in place, this required designing special foundations that kept the old ones and designing a wall...

CCTV Headquater Construction. , originally uploaded by KonradS . Flickr member KonradS has a series on the construction of OMA's CCTV Headquarters that should be worth checking every now and then. In the image above, CCTV's "bent skyscraper" is on the right and its auxiliary TVCC building is on the left. More information on the project here (click the Beijing Manifesto). (via noticias arquitectura )

One of these is not a real project for Manhattan. Which one? (All spotted at Curbed )

IMG_1478 by céd . "Bibliothèque municipale de St-Bruno, Grenoble." Architect unknown. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

It has come to my attention that Death by Architecture has redesigned and relaunched their web page, and on first glance it looks impressive. It's always been a great source for competitions and now has some strong articles. Go check it out. Death by Architecture can be found in the sidebar under Architectural Links::online journals. Thanks to Mario for the head's up.

Fix Ortho by ken mccown . Fix Restaurant by Graft , located in Las Vegas's Bellagio Casino. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

This makes me wonder if I should give up mine: That selling price might have been a steal, as Amazon's price for a used copy (as of posting) of Zumthor Works is $2,474.73 . For those without that sort of cash, the first edition of Zumthor's Thinking Architecture (which I also own but might just have to part with) is only $974.73 . (via PartIV )

sydney opera house by F.j . Detail of Jørn Utzon's Sydney Opera House. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

For those of you in the New York area, here's a few more City College lectures from the departments of Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, and the School of Engineering. As you can see, the lectures focus on politics and the environment, situating these as concerns within the larger school and the above programs in particular. Lectures are free and open to the public. Thursday, March 22 David Orr Rumors of Unfathomable Things: Climate Change, the Design of Arts, and the Human Prospect Monday, March 26 William Morrish Refloat NOLA and DC: Mercy, Mercy, Me, The Ecology Thursday, March 29 Suzana Sawyer Suing Chevron Texaco: Capitalism, Contamination, and Forming a Class in the Ecuadorian Amazon

The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture edited by Setha M. Low and Denise Lawrence-Zuniga. ( Amazon ) Space and place are words that architects use without second thought to their exact meanings, even though they mean many things to many people. Architects tend to focus on the former (which I will do here), thinking that space is created and defined by buildings, by walls, ceilings, floors, columns, as well as landscape and other elements. Solid-void diagrams and the Nolli map are classic examples of how architects see the world: solid and void, mass and space. But for the anthropologist space is not so simple, so physical. It is a complex and basically indefinable thing created ...

In response to the country's phenomenal natural beauty, Norway has undertaken on a National Tourist Routes project, "designed to touch the hearts and souls of tourists by showcasing magnificent scenery in a harmonious and non-exploitive way." By 2015, eighteen sections of highway, or 1,850 kilometers (1,150 miles), are scheduled to become tourist routes. While these routes reward the journey, they also entice the traveler with destinations -- new and old, natural and man-made -- and places to just stop, relax, and take in a view. As part of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration's efforts, numerous amenities, rest stops and other facilities have been commissioned for locations along the routes. Two of these commi...

According to Forbes Magazine, these are the Top 10 Tastemakers -- those "most influencing our culture" -- in architecture (# press mentions -- perhaps a deciding factor in the creation of the list, it's not clear -- in parentheses): Top L-R: David Adjaye (198), Enrique Norten (66), Norman Foster (496), Thom Mayne (91), James Corner (3) Bottom L-R: Diller and Scofidio (60), Zaha Hadid (325), Robert Fox, Jr. (7), Sejima and Nishizawa (68), Ben Van Berkel (71) According to the article, these ten "pioneer new building techniques, cross cultures and blur boundaries between architecture, art, landscape design and urban planning. They impact more then just aesthetics; they're changing the way we live." Citing United Nations' estimates that, "by 2015, there will be 21 megacities with populations over 10 million," the magazine gives architects the responsibility of: "managing this growth and finding innovative ways to maximize scarce space and r...

Wetland_01 by ReallyLucky . The Hong Kong Wetland Park by the Architectural Services Department . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

Here's a reminder for those in New York to attend tonight's annual Lewis Mumford lecture of the Urban Design Program at City College. Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen will talk about the Urbanity of Calcutta. Click image for larger view, details.

void by twoeightnine . I.M. Pei 's East Building of Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

A few weeks ago I heard about Banana Republic 's new advertising campaign that features "architects at work." I have yet to come across their print ads, but the other day I saw these displays at their Rockefeller Center store. Gawker interviewed an architect about the portrayal of architects in these ads. "Frankie" said, "in my experience no architects dress like that - the Liebeskind [sic] eyeglasses and black turtleneck/blazer, German expressionist style is still the bottom line at most nyc offices. Most people are executing variations on this basic Sprockets-y theme." To me, it doesn't really seem to matter which profession Banana Republic uses as a backdrop (or in the case of the windows "frontdrop") for their M.O.R. clothes, as long as it appeals or relates to their target demographic. It is interesting, though, how the symbols of architecture -- some mythic, some anachronistic -- are used to connote who is wearing them; tak...