A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Brininstool + Lynch: Making Architecture David Brininstool, Brad Lynch The Monacelli Press , September 2019 Hardcover | 10 x 11 inches | 208 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1580935326 | $50.00 Publisher Description : Brad Lynch and David Brininstool of Chicago-based Brininstool + Lynch feature their most exemplary built works from over the course of their thirty years in practice. Founded in 1989, their office has become known for modern works that are rooted in the exceptional architectural culture of the American Midwest but also epitomize the best of contemporary design: elegant spatial compositions, remarkable aesthetic quality, and nuanced details. In this volume, partners Brad Lynch and David Brininstool have selected twelve distinguished projects that represent the character of the practice, at once refined and forthright. Among the selected built works are the Racine Art Museum, designed around a collection of crafts in ceramic, fiber, glass, metal, and wood; city and c...

Herzog & de Meuron, 1978-2002 Nobuyuki Yoshida (Editor) A+U , February 2002 Paperback | 8-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches | 326 pages | Japanese/English | ISBN: 978-4900211551 | ¥5,800 Publisher Description : February 2002 special edition of Architecture and Urbanism (A+U). dDAB Commentary : Reviewing a book on Philipp Schaerer's Bildbauten series a couple days ago prompted me to pull of my shelf a copy of this monograph on Herzog & de Meuron by Japan's A+U. It was published in early 2002, less than 12 months after the Swiss duo of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron won the Pritzker Architecture Prize . Schaerer, an architect known for his imagery that blurs the line between photos and renderings, reality and digital realms, worked at Herzog & de Meuron as "knowledge manager" from 2000 to 2006, overlapping with the Pritzker, this A+U, and Archaeology of the Mind , a 2002 exhibition at the CCA that had an accompanying catalog called Natural History . Schae...

Bildbauten – Philipp Schaerer Reto Geiser (Editor) Standpunkte , April 2016 Hardcover | 8-1/2 x 11 inches | 96 pages | 32 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-3952457702 | $40.00 Publisher Description : Philipp Schaerer's works are the outcome of a skillful amalgamation of photographic knowledge, compositional skills, digital craftsmanship, and the specificities of architectural practice. His imaged architectures do not correspond with actual buildings but instead both challenge the role of the photograph as documentary evidence and, equally, critique how architecture is consumed today. When first released in 2010 in German and French, this book was the only comprehensive presentation of Philipp Schaerer's work available. And while the perpetual development of information technology and digital photography is continuously rebalancing the relationship between architecture and its visual representation, the architect's synthetic images continue to occupy a relevant p...

Jacques and Jacqueline Groag, Architect and Designer: Two Hidden Figures of the Viennese Modern Movement Ursula Prokop DoppelHouse Press , June 2019 Hardcover | 6-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches | 272 pages | English (Translated from German by Jonee Tiedemann and Laura McGuire) | 978-0999754436 | $39.95 Publisher Description : Ursula Prokop’s meticulous history restores Jacques and Jacqueline Groag to their rightful places in the pantheon of Viennese Modernists. Prokop explores their individual careers in Vienna and Czechoslovakia, their early collaborations in the 1930s, their lives as Jewish émigrés, and the couple’s unique contributions in Britain for postwar exhibitions, monuments, furniture and textile design. In Vienna, the Groags studied and worked within a circle of notables including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Adolf Loos, Paul Engelmann, Josef Hoffmann, and Franz Čižek, as well as others at the Wiener Werkstätte. Jacques Groag’s solutions to Vienna’s housing crisis, his painterly use ...

Why Cities Look the Way They Do Richard J. Williams Polity, June 2019 Paperback | 6 x 9 inches | 192 pages | 58 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780745691817 | $24.95 Publisher Description : We tend to think cities look the way they do because of the conscious work of architects, planners and builders. But what if the look of cities had less to do with design, and more to do with social, cultural, financial and political processes, and the way ordinary citizens interact with them? What if the city is a process as much as a design? Richard J. Williams takes the moment construction is finished as a beginning, tracing the myriad processes that produce the look of the contemporary global city. This book is the story of dramatic but unforeseen urban sights: how financial capital spawns empty towering skyscrapers and hollowed-out ghettoes; how the zoning of once-illicit sexual practices in marginal areas of the city results in the reinvention of culturally vibrant gay villages; h...

A Grid and a Conversation Morris Adjmi Architects The Images Publishing Group, June 2019 Hardcover | 9 x 11 inches | 240 pages | 400 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1864708301 | $45.00 Publisher Description : A Grid and a Conversation presents a survey of work by the New York City based firm Morris Adjmi Architects, well known for the Samsung building along the High Line and the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This firm interprets the complex forces that shape our cities to create buildings that are contextual yet unmistakably contemporary. Deeply embedded in the firm's practice is a belief in the Renaissance tradition of architecture, wherein buildings are inextricable from their cultural situation and intellectual function. With a rapidly rising profile and projects under construction in major cities across America, Morris Adjmi Architects is building on its previous ten-year partnership with the Italian architect, designer and scholar Aldo Rossi, with an un...

The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism: Martin Pawley Collected Writings Martin Pawley, David Jenkins (Editor) Black Dog Publishing, November 2007 Hardcover | 7-1/4 x 10 inches | 480 pages | 60 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1906155193 | $59.95 Publisher Description : The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism is a collection of 100 essays and articles by Martin Pawley, one of the most important and entertaining voices in post-war architectural criticism. Pawley studied architecture at the Oxford School of Architecture, the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris and the Architectural Association in London, before embarking on a distinguished career as a writer, teacher, critic and broadcaster. A former editor of Building Design , Pawley was later architecture critic of The Guardian and The Observer and has contributed to The Architects' Journal , RIBA Journal and Blueprint amongst other publications. Spanning Pawley's 40 year career, Th...