Favorite Books of 2014
This list of notable books for 2014 is broken into three sections of seven books each, listed in alphabetical order by title. Note that books reviewed or noted were not necessarily released in 2014. Covers link to Amazon, with links to reviews and my other blog included when appropriate.
Seven favorites from the 50 books I read and reviewed in 2014 (titles are linked to reviews):
Manhattan Atmospheres: Architecture, the Interior Environment, and Urban Crisis by David Gissen, published by University of Minnesota Press, 2014
The Nature of Urban Design: A New York Perspective on Resilience by Alexandros Washburn, published by Island Press, 2013
OASE #91: Building Atmosphere edited by Klaske Havik, Hans Teerds and Gus Tielens, published by nai010 Publishers, 2013
Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities edited by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, Urban-Think Tank Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zürich; photographed by Iwan Baan; published by Lars Müller Publishers, 2013
Venice Architectural Guide: Buildings and Projects After 1950
Clemens F. Kusch and Anabel Gelhaar
DOM Publishers, 2014
The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Jacobs
nai010 publishers, 2013 (second edition)
Seven most promising books I received from publishers in 2014, but have yet to review; look for them in 2015:
Seven favorites from the 50 books I read and reviewed in 2014 (titles are linked to reviews):
Chicagoisms: The City as Catalyst for Architectural Speculation edited by Alexander Eisenschmidt with Jonathan Mekinda, published by Park Books, 2013
Manhattan Atmospheres: Architecture, the Interior Environment, and Urban Crisis by David Gissen, published by University of Minnesota Press, 2014
The Nature of Urban Design: A New York Perspective on Resilience by Alexandros Washburn, published by Island Press, 2013
OASE #91: Building Atmosphere edited by Klaske Havik, Hans Teerds and Gus Tielens, published by nai010 Publishers, 2013
Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities edited by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, Urban-Think Tank Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zürich; photographed by Iwan Baan; published by Lars Müller Publishers, 2013
Venice Architectural Guide: Buildings and Projects After 1950
Clemens F. Kusch and Anabel Gelhaar
DOM Publishers, 2014
The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock
Steven Jacobs
nai010 publishers, 2013 (second edition)
Seven favorites from the books I read in 2014 but didn't review; these are books I read for pleasure or research, but not for review:
- The Anatomy of a Golf Course: The Art of Golf Architecture by Tom Doak, published by Burford Books, 1998
- Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, translated by Angela Davies, published by University of California Press, 1988
- Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman, published by Verso, 2012
- Kissing Architecture by Sylvia Lavin, published by Princeton University Press, 2011
- Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point by Alex MacLean, published by Abrams, 2008
- Planning Chicago edited by D. Bradford Hunt and Jon B. DeVries, published by APA Planners Press, 2013
- The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream by Thomas L. Dyja, published by Penguin, 2013
Seven most promising books I received from publishers in 2014, but have yet to review; look for them in 2015:
- The Architecture of Paul Rudolph by Timothy M. Rohan, published by Yale University Press, 2014
- The Death of Drawing: Architecture in the Age of Simulation by David Ross Scheer, published by Routledge, 2014
- Landscape and Energy: Designing Transition by Dirk Sijmons, published by nai010 Publishers, 2014
- Mies by Detlef Martins, published by Phaidon, 2014
- Shape of Sound by Victoria Meyers, published by Artifice Books on Architecture, 2014
- Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment by Henri Lefebvre, edited by Lukasz Stanek, translated by Robert Bononno, published by University of Minnesota Press, 2014
- Urban Literacy: Reading and Writing Architecture by Klaske Havik, published by nai010 Publishers, 2015