A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Ando and Le Corbusier is a two-volume project that shows how the works of two pioneers of modern architecture – Le Corbusier and Tadao Ando – connect human experience to the basic givens of existence: interactions among human beings and personal encounters with nature, including wind and natural light, within a spare material framework shaped by once-new technologies such as reinforced concrete – expressed in two different and remarkable approaches to architecture. Ando and Le Corbusier, Volume 1: Tadao Ando  provides a historical overview of Ando’s work for major art institutions in the United States after 2000. It includes a detailed account of his US buildings by Michael Conforti, Director Emeritus of the Clark Institute of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, an Ando project; “The Cult of Fudo in the Architecture of Tadao Ando,” a new essay by Kenneth Frampton on Ando’s critical regionalist response to climatic and cultural issues; and a comprehensive description of Ando’s “Art ...

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,...