A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Historic Cities: Issues in Urban Conservation Jeff Cody, Francesco Siravo (Editors) Getty Publications , July 2019 Paperback | 7 x 10 inches | 632 pages | 100 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1606065938 | $75.00 Publisher's Description : This book, the eighth in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, fills a significant gap in the published literature on urban conservation. This topic is distinct from both heritage conservation and urban planning; despite the recent growth of urbanism worldwide, no single volume has presented a comprehensive selection of these important writings until now. This anthology, profusely illustrated throughout, is organized into eight parts, covering such subjects as geographic diversity, reactions to the transformation of traditional cities, reading the historic city, the search for contextual continuities, the search for values, and the challenges of sustainability. With more than sixty-five texts, rangin...

Building Subjects De Peter Yi, Nancy P. Lin, Renata Graw, Jeremiah Chiu Standpunkte , 2019 Paperback | 6 x 9 inches | 175 pages | English | ISBN: 978-3952457719 | 30 CHF Publisher's Description : Building Subjects , the fourth issue of Standpunkte Magazine, is a collaboration between the architect De Peter Yi, the art historian Nancy P. Lin, and the graphic design studios Normal and Some All None. The publication revolves around collective housing in China, an architectural challenge expressive of the country’s ongoing negotiations between its rich history and undetermined future. The study combines typological research with the modes of the architectural manifesto by establishing an exchange between culturalhistorical observations, the consideration of contemporary socioeconomic pressures, and evolving architectural aspirations. Through a close reading of spaces from monumental utopian communes in Beijing to round earthen dwellings in the Fujian province, Building Subjec...

American Art of the 1960s: Studies in Modern Art 1 John Elderfield (Editor) The Museum of Modern Art , December 1991 Paperback | 8-1/2 x 10 inches | 184 pages | 137 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-0870704581 | $25.00 Publisher's Description (PDF): This month, The Museum of Modern Art publishes American Art of the 1960s , the first issue in Studies in Modern Art, an annual scholarly journal concentrating on works of art in the Museum's collection, on the Museum's program, and related topics. Edited by John Elderfield, director of the Department of Drawings and curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Studies in Modern Art includes essays by both Museum of Modern Art curators and outside scholars. The first issue takes as its subject aspects of the Museum's collection of American art from the 1960s and its exhibition activities during the decade. The Museum of Modern Art's collection bears vivid testimony to the richness and diversity of a...

Complexity and Contradiction at Fifty Robert Venturi (Vol. 1), Martino Stierli, David Brownlee (Vol. 2 Editors) The Museum of Modern Art , July 2019 Hardcover w/slipcase | 6 x 8 inches | 144 pages (Vol. 1), 192 pages (Vol. 2) | 350 illustrations (Vol. 1), 75 illustrations (Vol. 2) | English | ISBN: 9781633450622 | $45.00 Publisher's Description : Now available in its original edition along with critical commentary, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture is the founding text of postmodernism in architecture First published in 1966, Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture , widely considered the foundational text of postmodernism, has become an essential document in architectural theory and criticism. This new two-volume boxed set presents a facsimile of the original edition paired with a compendium of new scholarship on and around Venturi’s seminal treatise. The ten selected essays, a number of which were presented at a three-day internationa...

Contemporary Architecture in China: Towards A Critical Pragmatism Li Xiangning (Editor) Images Publishing , August 2018 Hardcover | 9-1/4 x 11 inches | 440 pages | 1,300 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1864707793 | $69.95 Publisher's description : Architectural exhibition is an important aspect in the study and transmission of architectural culture. The academic thoughts and design styles that influence the trends of global architecture are all established through one or a series of important architectural exhibitions. This book is produced based on the GSD (Harvard Graduate School of Design) autumn exhibition: Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Chinese Architecture . It reveals a unique perspective of contemporary Chinese architecture by showcasing 60 works from 60 contemporary architects within five thematic categories: cultural, residential, regeneration, rural, and digital. The selected architects attempt to maintain, from the earliest moments of the desi...

My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation Donald M. Rattner Skyhorse Publishing, October 2019 Hardcover | 8 x 10 inches | 288 pages | 200+ illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1510736719 | $29.99 Publisher's Description : A great deal of psychological and productivity research has gone into discovering how the design of the physical environment can improve creative performance, yet nearly all of it has focused on the workplace, commercial spaces, and schools. What has been largely overlooked is the one place we spend more time in than anywhere else and where more people than ever are now working: the home. My Creative Space shows how readers can boost their creative output by applying science-backed techniques to the design and decoration of their home regardless of size, type, style, or location. With over 200 stunning color photographs of creative spaces, including many designed by top architects and interior decorators, this l...