A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

The Women Who Changed Architecture Edited by Jan Cigliano Hartman Princeton Architectural Press , March 2022 Hardcover | 7-1/2 x 10 inches | 336 pages | English | ISBN: 9781616898717 | $50.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : A visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary leaders. Marion Mahony Griffin passed the architectural licensure exam in 1898 and created exquisite drawings that buoyed the reputation of Frank Lloyd Wright. Her story is one of the many told in The Women Who Changed Architecture, which sets the record straight on the transformative impact women have made on architecture. With in-depth profiles and stunning images, this is the most comprehensive look at women in architecture around the world, from the nineteenth century to today. Discover contemporary leaders, like MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, spearheading sustainable design initiatives, reimagining cities as equitabl...

I've decided to bring back "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. Obviously, these briefs are not full-blown reviews, but they are a way to share more books worthy of attention than those that end up as long reviews. This installment features six monographs published between December 2020 and January 2022. Todd Saunders: New Northern Houses  by Dominic Bradbury | Thames & Hudson | November 2021 | 12 x 10-1/2 inches | 256 pages | $75 | Amazon / Bookshop When I think of architect Todd Saunders , two places spring to mind: Fogo Island in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and Norway. Saunders was raised and educated in Canada, and he has been based in Bergen, Norway, since 1996. Although the Fogo Island Inn and other smaller structures on Fogo Island are more familiar to people in the US than his Norwegian houses, one would have to se...

AIA Los Angeles has uploaded my January 25th virtual book talk to their YouTube channel. In it I present Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books  (Prestel, 2021) and chat with the great Frances Anderton. I put a lot of time into preparing the visual presentation so am embedding the video here for others to watch (me, I can't watch myself, just like I can't listen to myself in interviews). Enjoy!

Ian Nairn: Words in Place by Gillian Darley and David McKie Five Leaves Publications, November 2013 Hardcover | 6 x 9 inches | 160 pages | 21 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781907869877 | £10.99 | "Ian Nairn taught a generation to look, and another one to write." ( click here for publisher's description and author bio ) REFERRAL LINKS :       Reyner Banham Revisited by Richard J. Williams Reaktion Books , July 2021 Hardcover | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches | 304 pages | 55 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781789144178 | $35.00 | "Banham’s obsession with technology, and his talent for thinking the unthinkable, mean his work still resonates now, more than thirty years after his death." ( click here for publisher's description and author bio ) REFERRAL LINKS :       REVIEW : Of the 100 books surveyed in my latest book, Buildings in Print , there are very few architects/authors with multiple titles. Both Le Corbusier and Rem Koolhaas have four titles — not surpr...

Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan's Lost Masterpiece Edited by Jon Vinci, with contributions by Tim Samuelson, Eric Nordstrom, Chris Ware Alphawood Foundation (distributed by University of Minnesota Press), October 2021 Hardcover | 8 x 13 inches | 352 pages | 250 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781517912802 | $45.00 | "A beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated biography of one of Chicago’s greatest lost buildings"  ( click here for publisher's description and author bio ) REFERRAL LINKS :       REVIEW : On February 26, Wrightwood 659 wrapped up its extended run of Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan & Wright , presenting two exhibitions simultaneously: Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece , curated by John Vinci with Tim Samuelson, Chris Ware, and Eric Nordstrom; and Reimagining the Larkin: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Modern Icon , curated by Jonathan D. Katz. For architects educated in the modern idiom,...