A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Over at World-Architects I reviewed As Found: Experiments in Preservation  ( Flanders Architecture Institute , 2023) edited by Sofie De Caigny, Hülya Ertas and Bie Plevoets, the companion to the exhibition of the same name at the Flanders Architecture Institute. Read my review here .

Last week dose explored three  "places in time" : St. Louis in the early decades of the 20th century; Detroit between 1935 and 1985; and Chicago suburb Oak Park ca. 1906, when Frank Lloyd Wright completed Unity Temple. Those three US-centric books were split between two historical surveys and one case study.  The same applies to the European/Asian books here, with a survey of brutalist architecture in Paris followed by a survey of Indonesian architecture trained in Germany around 1960 and a case study of a care center for people with mental disabilities in Belgium. Brutalist Paris: Post-War Brutalist Architecture in Paris and Environs  by Nigel Green and Robin Wilson, published by  Blue Crow Media , July 2023 ( Amazon  /  Bookshop ) Dipl.-Ing. Arsitek: German-trained Indonesian Architects from the 1960s  edited by Moritz Henning and Eduard Kögel, published by  DOM Publishers , July 2023 ( Amazon  /  Bookshop ) Living in Monnikenheide: Ca...