A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

This is too wild not to pass along, Kultureflash's Artworker of the Week (#63), Ernesto Neto. Leviathan Thot , 2006 is an installation at the Pantheon in Paris, as part of the Festival d'Automne . The Brazilian artist's installation is a "tulle and polystyrene creature suspended under the dome of the Pantheon."

At a bookstore today I was pleased to see that New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism from the Bicentennial to the Millennium , the fifth and last in Robert A.M. Stern's architectural history of New York, is done and in stores. The 1300-page tome was preceded by the years 1880, 1900, 1930, and 1960. All together the five volumes total over 5,000 pages, quite an undertaking.

PARKING_3 by Roelof van Wyk . Johannesburg, South Africa. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

Recombinant Urbanism: Conceptual Modeling in Architecture, Urban Design, and City Theory by David Grahame Shane, published by  Wiley , 2005. Paperback, 344 pages. ( Amazon ) This history and manifesto of urban-modeling techniques is all about threes. It starts with the three stage sets of Sebastian Serlio (the Noble, the Comic, and the Satyric) from his Mannerist treatise The Five Books of Architecture . It continues with Kevin Lynch's three "normative" models (the City of Faith, the City as a Machine, and the Organic City), in many ways the basis for Shane's book. Variations on Lynch's three are also found in Cedric Price's "The City as an Egg" (boiled, fried, scrambled) and the Y...

La Moneda Cultural Center in Santiago, Chile by Undurraga & Deves Arquitectos Text and images are courtesy Undurraga & Deves Arquitectos . The cultural center known as Centro Cultural Palacio de La Moneda built beneath the terrace on the south side of La Moneda, the seat of the Chilean government, is the material expression of the new cultural policy pursued by former president Ricardo Lagos. It will harbor the various expressions of local as well as universal culture. While supporting the leading role of the Neo-Classic government palace, this cultural container was built in the subsoil of the new square, avoiding all contrast with the existing historic building. The project strategy arose from the logic of the courtyards that characterize the 18th-century palace, given that the Cultural Center, owing to its proximity and character, became an e...

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This link just landed in my inbox and I'm forwarding it along to you, my dear readers. It's an interview with Ole Scheeren -- partner-in-charge at OMA and lead architect for the design and construction of CCTV -- at FeedMeCoolShit.com . Thanks Johnny for the head's up!