A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Olmsted Trees Photographs by Stanley Greenberg, with contributions by Tom Avermaete, Kevin Baker, Mindy Thompson Fullilove Hirmer Publishers , August 2022 Hardcover | 9 x 11 inches | 160 pages | 100 illustrations | German/English | ISBN: 9783777438573 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : Central Park in New York, the Emerald Necklace in Boston, park systems in Chicago, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Rochester and Louisville – trees have been essential elements of all of Olmsted’s park designs. New York-based photographer Stanley Greenberg pays tribute to them with his portrait series of these beautiful and dignified giants. Three essays by renowned experts on history, sociology and landscape architecture complement the narrative and present an interdisciplinary vision on Olmsted’s achievement. Stanley Greenberg’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and has published several books of photography. REFERRAL LINKS :   ...

The Turning Point in Architectural Design: A Historical Scenario for the Future by Helmut C. Schulitz Hirmer Publishers , 2021 Paperback | 9-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches | 240 pages | 657 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9783777436760 | $45.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : Over one hundred years ago, Adolf Loos had already complained: “The architect has caused architecture to sink to a graphic art.” He was pointing to a problem that had gone unnoticed for centuries. But today, in the age of digitalization, the separation between design and building practice that Loos had lamented is expanding immeasurably. Nowadays, CAD enables architects to design forms that they could neither imagine nor draw before. But where form becomes more important than function, context, and construction, architecture becomes arbitrary. Technology by itself will not bring about a turning point in building. It must be preceded by a turnabout in architectural design that can introduce further potentials of digitalizat...

Architects on Architects Dietrich Fink, Uta Graff, Nils Rostek, Julian Wagner (Editors) Hirmer Publishers , March 2020 Paperback | 6 x 8-1/2 inches | 240 pages | 100 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9783777433080 | $29.95 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : Architects on Architects is a collection of essays and interviews rooted in one fascinating premise: What do the architects of today have to say about their predecessors? Based on a series of lectures organized by the Department of Architecture at the Technical University of Munich, this volume explores how architects from previous generations have influenced present-day professionals in the field. The essays touch on the relevance of historical concepts as they have been transmitted across generations and the ways in which today’s architects have used—and at times reshaped—those concepts to suit contemporary needs. The stimulating discussions involve, among others, Arno Lederer on Sigurd Lewerentz, Hans Kollhoff on Oswald Mathias Unge...