A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Below are, in chronological order, my 10 favorite projects featured on my weekly page during 2013. Keep in mind that the buildings weren't necessarily completed in 2013, just that I featured them within the last 12 months. See also my 10 favorite books of 2013 . Parrish Art Museum Water Mill, New York Herzog & de Meuron Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo Chicago, Illinois Studio Gang Architects Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse Yangzhou, China HWCD Fire Shelter: 01 Copenhagen, Denmark Simon Hjermind Jensen Ama'r Children's Culture House Copenhagen, Denmark Dorte Mandrup Architects Clyfford Still Museum Denver, Colorado Allied Works Architecture Pedestrian Connection Chur, Switzerland Esch Sintzel Architects Saint Louis Art Museum East Building St. Louis, Missouri David Chipperfield Architects PARKROYAL on Pickering Singapore WOHA Jean-Claude Carrière Theatre Montpellier, France A+ Architecture ...

This blog's " Firm Faces " has turned into a once-in-a-year, forgot-about-that feature, but I couldn't resist finding Incorporated's Twitter portrait a perfect addition to it. Not only do we not see their faces, but the six folks standing in front of five windows could easily be a band rather than an architecture firm. (Didn't Jesus and Mary Chain play shows with their backs turned to the audience?) According to INC's Facebook page , the photo is their new office space at 9 East 19th Street and pictured are Adam Rolston, Louisa Brown, Drew Clay Stuart, Tyler Kleck, Hilary Fulmer and Gabriel Benroth. Check out Incorporated's website for the real faces of the partners Rolston, Stuart, and Benroth, and for more on the NYC firm.

Here are some photos of De Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands, by OMA , photographed by Klaas Vermaas . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos  archidose

CLOG: Unpublished edited by Kyle May, Julia van den Hout, Jacob Reidel, Archie Lee Coates IV and Jeff Franklin, published by CLOG, 2013. Paperback, 128 pages. ( Amazon ) CLOG has been "slowing things down" since 2011, publishing 3-4 slim issues per year based upon themes that tap into contemporary considerations while being open enough to invite a wide range of responses. Even a topic as narrow as Apple sparked contributors to write about how design infiltrates much of the company's products and spaces beyond Norman Foster's Campus 2, which was in the headlines at the time of the call for submissions. The format of short (500-word) essays and a small page size with simple graphic design has stayed consistent across the now eight issues, but with Rendering I noticed a more active role of the editors in framing the topic through research and interviews. The same holds true with Unpublished , which charts the projects that made the cover of Architectural Record ...

Xmas Meier by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine BêkaPartners, 2013 Book: Hardcover, 140 pages DVD: All-Region PAL, 51 minutes This is the fifth and last film in Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine's "Living Architectures" series that I've reviewed, following ones on Rem Koolhaas's Bordeaux Villa , a winery in Pomerol, France , designed by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Frank Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao, and a trio of buildings designed by Renzo Piano . Xmas Meier is technically number three in what could be called the filmmaker's "trilogy in five parts," but given that Christmas comes in three days I held off on a review of it until now. That said, the holiday plays a small part in the film, occupying perhaps 5 of its 51 minutes, but it does give us a chance to see Richard Meier's Jubilee Church full of worshipers. The rest of the time we see the church from the point of view of the neighbors in Rome's Tor Tre Test neighborhood (one w...

Below are, in alphabetical order, my 10* favorite books that I reviewed on this blog , on my weekly page , on Designers and Books , or on Houzz at some point in 2013. Keep in mind that the books weren't necessarily released in 2013, just that I read and reviewed them during the year. My favorite projects will be posted next week. *The list is actually 11 books, considering that one title consists of two volumes. Building Seagram Phyllis Lambert Yale University Press My review on my weekly page . Deventer Matthew Stadler nai010 Publishers My review is  at Designers and Books . Encounters 1 and 2 – Architectural Essays Juhani Pallasmaa, edited by Peter MacKeith Rakennustieto Publishing My review is  on my weekly page and at Designers and Books . From Camp to City: Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara Edited by Manuel Herz Lars Müller Publishers My review is  on my weekly page . Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories Ben Katch...

Here are some photos of Rømø Harbor's Coast Houses and Marsh Houses in Havneby, Denmark, by  Arkitema Architects , photographed by Frank Dinger . Read more about the project in Arkitema's Housing book on Issuu . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos  archidose

New SubUrbanisms by Judith K. De Jong, published by  Routledge , 2013. Paperback, 256 pages. ( Amazon ) Back in August I attended a book talk by Vishaan Chakrabarti on his book A Country of Cities . In both the talk and book the former NYC planner and current SHoP partner spells out his argument for density, envisioning for the United States what the title clearly states. Implicit within this hypothetical yet potentially great migration from rural and suburban areas to cities is the distinction between the former and the latter. For Chakrabarti cities are defined as places with a high enough population density for subways, something not many U.S. cities can boast of, much less their suburbs. A different tack is taken by Chicago-based architect and UIC assistant professor Judith De Jong in New SubUrbanisms , where she sees a "flattening" of the long-held distinctions between cities and suburbs, and she calls for creative responses to this condition. Com...

A House for Pink Floyd by arqbauraum, 2013 The following text and images are courtesy of Susana dos Santos, José Pedro Azevedo and Nuno Cabanal ( arqbauraum ) for  their entry in the ICARCH Competition " A House for Pink Floyd ." “How would the painter or poet express anything other than his encounter with the world” - Maurice Merleau Ponty “Much of the modern movement has drawn the intellect and the sight, but left aside the human body and its sensations […] – but also left the memories and the dreams dislodged.” - Juhani Pallasmaa The work is based on Man meeting with himself and does so through the senses. Actual architecture has the ease of technological advances that everyday flood the offices with new materials. However all these amenities have achieved are for buildings to be deprived of presence, making them the fruit of unbridled consumption, of the ostentation and many times from the creator's Ego. Today architecture is endowed with a star syst...

On the occasion of the 2014 AIA Gold Medal being awarded to Julia Morgan (1872-1957), below is an Ideabook I wrote at Houzz on " Design Icon Julia Morgan ." Julia Morgan (1872 to 1957) was a prolific California architect who produced more than 700 buildings in her long career, most in her home state. Nevertheless, one project overshadows them all: the California hilltop estate for William Randolph Hearst that goes by its place name, San Simeon, as well as La Cuesta Encantada ("The Enchanted Hill") or simply Hearst Castle . As we'll see, her talents extended to simpler dwellings too, not to mention schools, churches and many buildings for benevolent organizations like the YWCA. With an interest in architecture from a young age, Morgan pursued an engineering degree from the University of California at Berkeley on the advice of her brother. After receiving that undergraduate degree in 1894 (the first woman to do so) she received more advice, this tim...

Here are some of my photos of the 121st Police Precinct Station House (2013) in Staten Island, New York, by Rafael Viñoly Architects . The building is on Richmond Avenue, just south of Forest Avenue. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos  archidose