A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Noguchi in Paris: The UNESCO Garden Marc Treib William Stout Publishers /UNESCO Publishing, 2003 Hardcover | 8 x 10-1/4 inches | 148 pages | 87 illustrations | English | ISBN: 0970973144 | $45.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : The garden for the UNESCO House in Paris marks a pivotal point in Noguchi's evolution as an environmental artist. Here he defines his vision of space rather than form as the essence of design. This is the first book to present an in-depth study of this important garden. Marc Treib  is professor of architecture emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and a noted landscape and architectural historian and critic. REFERRAL LINKS :   dDAB COMMENTARY : This last Monday I featured the revised edition of Christian Tschumi's monograph on Japanese garden designer Mirei Shigemori. A few years ago I was fortunate enough to come across and buy the first edition when I was writing 100 Years, 100 Landscape Designs , which includes Shigemori's Tōfu...

Growing Urban Habitats: Seeking a New Housing Development Model by William R. Morrish, Susanne Schindler and Katie Swenson, published by  William Stout Publishers , 2009. Paperback, 256 pages. ( Amazon ) HoCo: Density Housing Construction & Costs by Aurora Fernandez Per, Javier Mozas and Javier Arpa, published by  a+t architecture publishers , 2009. Paperback, 464 pages. ( Amazon ) The design of housing in the 21st-century is as exciting as -- if not more than -- single-family houses, the typical domain of experimentation and investigation by modern architects. While houses for individuals or families still get their fair share of press, many of the topical ideas explored by architects today (social justice, sustainability, urban regeneration, e...