A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Here are some photos of the Fondation Louis Vuitton (2014) in Paris by Gehry Partners, photographed by C D _Fr . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just: :: Tag your photos #archidose

On Tuesday I tooted my own horn , and today I vent some steam – Facebook steam. If, like me, you have or administer a Facebook fan page, you probably know that the number of people who see your posts on their walls is at the mercy of Facebook's algorithms. In late 2013 Facebook implemented a change to the algorithm that determines what content appears on people's walls, greatly affecting fan pages. Cynically, it can be seen as a ploy to get more money through post-boosting (paying for more eyes to see the posts), but at the time it was said to be directed at getting more "news" on people's walls over "viral memes," which were seen by Facebook honchos as shallow and unappealing. What the above tweaking did to my archidose fan page , which can't really be considered news and is hardly a page that sells anything and therefore can't afford to boost posts, was to make its "reach" (number of people seeing posts on their walls) plummet – f...

Here are some of my photos of Situation NY by Jana Winderen and Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY now at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. See a dozen more photos of the installation in my Situation NY Flickr set . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just: :: Tag your photos #archidose

Pardon some tooting of my own horn, but it's not everyday (or every year, to be more accurate) that my photos are found in not one, not two, but three publications. Such is the case with the below magazine and books. Now, I'm no pro at photography, but photographing buildings is important for me in understanding them and then writing about them on this blog. So over the years I've amassed a good number of them (hopefully improving in that time) and occasionally gotten requests to publish them. In many cases my photos aren't used, or more often they are but I never see those results. But in the last few months the below publications have been released, so I've received the shock of seeing my photos on paper – a shock often due to the lag time of print publications, as I had forgotten about my contributions in the intervening months and years. Issue 981 of Domus magazine : [ Domus issue 981 cover] [ Domus issue 981 spread with my photos of Louis I. Kahn...

Here are some photos of the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership (2014) at Kalamazoo College, Michigan, by Studio Gang Architects , photographed by Trefoil . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just: :: Tag your photos #archidose

Here are some photos of House in Jura (2012) near Zawiercie, Poland, by Kropka Studio , photographed by Maciek Lulko . (See more on the project at Europaconcorsi .) To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just: :: Tag your photos #archidose

It was just a matter of time before other architects started taking the leaning-pyramid form of Bjarke Ingels Group's W57 development under construction on Manhattan's west side... [W57 under construction | Photo by Rasmus Hjortshøj ] ...and creating inferior versions of it. First up appears to be Kutnicki Bernstein Architects' 500 Metropolitan Avenue , a hotel/residential building in the early stages of construction in Brooklyn, next to the L/G stop and across from the BQE: [Image from kba website ] For more tasty construction shots of BIG's W57, be sure to check out Rasmus Hjortshøj's website .

Stage One Gallery of the open, anonymous international, two-stage competition for the design of a proposed Guggenheim museum in the Finnish capital of Helsinki:

Sunrise to High-Rise: A wallbook of architecture through the ages by Lucy Dalzell, published by Cicada Books, 2014. Hardcover, 24 pages. ( Amazon ) Who Built That? Modern Houses by Didier Cornille, published by  Princeton Architectural Press , 2014. Paperback, 84 pages. ( Amazon ) Who Built That? Skyscrapers by Didier Cornille, published by  Princeton Architectural Press , 2014. Hardcover, 84 pages. ( Amazon ) I'm a big fan of architecture books geared toward children, mainly because knowledge of architecture in the years before college could use a boost. My background was an exception, with some classes in high school, but for kids in grade school and middle school, architecture isn't talked about as much as it should be. Books geared to them can range from fables and other stories to biographies and sketchbooks . Together, kids books about architecture convey an understanding of the subject's history, but also how to think like an architect ...

One of the thousand-or-so photos I took on a recent trip to Chicago was of an empty barge on the Chicago River between Lake and Randolph Streets; I was actually crossing the Randolph Street bridge when I snapped the photo of the immense (about 15-20' deep) barge: [Photo by John Hill] The barge was serving 150 North Riverside, hauling away the excavation for building the foundation of a tower designed by Goettsch Partners: [Image via 150 North Riverside ] Well, it turns out that the same barge is now sitting submerged in the river after it broke free from its mooring last week: [Photo via ABC7 ] This is the second time this year that a barge has sunk in the Chicago River (the first was one serving the Riverwalk under construction further north and east of the above building), and this latest does not bode well for 150 North Riverside nor Mayor Rahm Emanuel's big hopes for the river.

Here are some photos of The Elastic Perspective (2013) in Barendrecht, The Netherlands, by NEXT Architects , photographed by Ken Lee . 5346801430_414295ea97_c.jpg" width="535" /> To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just: :: Tag your photos #archidose

Clive Wilkinson's design for the Barbarian Group (completed 2014) in New York City, which features an "endless table": [Barbarian Group | Photo: Michael Moran, from Clive Wilkinson Architects website ] reminds me of a project by Wilkinson from ten years earlier. Mother's, as I referred to the project when I posted about it in 2004 , is also based around a looping table that serves 200 people: [Mother London | Photo from Clive Wilkinson Architects website ] Yet, while Mother London's table is interrupted by columns and stairs, Wilkinson's latest rendition of this idea is more complex: [Barbarian Group | Photo: Michael Moran, from Clive Wilkinson Architects website ] The Barbican Group table undulates like a long scarf, creating walkways, meeting rooms, libraries and other spaces underneath its high points, which I have to admit is pretty cool. [Barbarian Group | Photo: Michael Moran, from Clive Wilkinson Architects website ]

Here are some photos of the SUTD Library Pavilion (2013) in Singapore by City Form Lab , photographed by Trevor Patt . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just: :: Tag your photos #archidose