A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Here are some photos of the Holy Redeemer Church in Los Majuelos, San Cristóbal de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain by Fernando Menis , photographed by Wojtek Gurak . 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 the exhibition Essentials. David Chipperfield Architects 1985-2015 on display until 24 January 2016 at Museo ICO in Madrid, Spain, photographed by Ximo Michavila . 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

Design: The Definitive Visual History , published by DK, 2015. Hardcover, 480 pages. ( Amazon ) The other night I attended a book launch for  Public Natures , a new monograph on the work of Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi. During the talk, which also included Stan Allen, David van der Leer and Alexandra Lange, a common point that came up was the way different disciplines (architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, etc.) are overlapping or merging as new ways of addressing the city and sustainability arise. The common bond mentioned was design, something that even a politician can be a part of, per Marion Weiss. This point was brought up in the talk relative to the work of Weiss/Manfredi, which blurs the distinction between building and landscape in many of their projects (such as the Olympic Sculpture Park and their first built project in Olympia Fields, Illinois ), but it surely applies to other designers. Last night event comes up in the context of thi...

For the rest of the month of October this blog is changing (back) to A Weekly Dose of Architecture, so I can spend time on a book I'm writing that has a November 1st deadline. The plan is to post on Fridays, most likely book reviews, since I've got a pile of good ones I'd like to feature. In the meantime, I'm still posting in the Daily News section of World-Architects , which you can see via the "ticker" at the top of this blog, clicking the link above, or subscribing to the weekly eMagazine . [Steven Holl's Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, one of the buildings featured in my new book – details forthcoming] Regular (almost) daily blog posts will resume the first week of November.

Here is a slideshow of Haltia - The Finnish Nature Centre in Espoo, Finland, by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects , photographed by Ken McCown . 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

The lack of posts this week is due to a visit to Chicago for the Chicago Architecture Biennial . The inaugural event opens tomorrow, but here is a slideshow with my photos from a couple days of press previews. (If you don't see the slideshow above, click here to see the album on Flickr .)