A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

UVU | 7 days of shooting | week 21 | Fill the Frame Friday , originally uploaded by base_gee . Utrecht University Library (UBU) in Utrecht, Netherlands by Weil Arets (2004). To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

The Evolution of 20th Century Architecture: A Synoptic Account by Kenneth Frampton, published by Springer, 2007 ( Amazon ) In this compact book by the most well-known historian of 20th-century architecture, Kenneth Frampton presents what he calls a genealogy rather than a history on the evolution of architecture last century. This genealogy is traced in four chapters: the Avante-Garde and Continuity, the Vicissitudes of the Organic, Universal Civilization and National Cultures, and Production, Place and Reality. Each chapter traces these general concepts on the relationships of Modernism to tradition, place and technology, without acting as a chronological regurgitation of "the usual suspects" of arc...

Thomas L. Wells Public School in Toronto, Ontario by Baird Sampson Neuert Architects One of the recipients of a 2008 AIA Honor Award is the Thomas L. Wells Public School in Toronto, Ontario by local firm Baird Sampson Neuert Architects . The awards jury notes that the school is "a model demonstrating sustainable design principles and an enhanced learning environment" for the next generation of schools in the Toronto District School Board. They further cite the design as sensitive, arranged to capture light and vent, and well-scaled, all contributing to a positive experience for the students. Located in a suburban area of Toronto, the building is sited to connect its outdoor areas to a nearby green corridor. The school's footprint is basically two parallel ba...

While I try not to feature projects by the likes of Zaha Hadid, who have every completed project published in print and online, this funicular station in Innsbruck, Austria by the Pritzker Prize winner caught my eye enough that I decided to feature it. [photo source ] Actually comprised of four stations, the just over 1 mile (1.8km) long Nordpark Cable Railway ( Hungerbergbahn ) connects the center of Innsbruck, Alpenzoo (the world's highest zoo) and, naturally, a mountaintop ski resort. [photo source ] What unites the stations and a bridge crossing also designed by Hadid (all with colleague Patrik Schumacher) is the fluid canopy designs finished in milky white glass. [photo by david levene | source ] While the technical achievement of cladding these shapes in glass should obviously be commended, one must ask if the large, dark joints are appropriate, or at least what they are doing. Certainly these joints give the canopies a scale, a direction of sorts, and an indication of the ta...

Scarborough College, Toronto. Canada , originally uploaded by Iqbal Aalam . The Humanities Wing at University of Toronto Scarborough in Ontario, Canada by John Andrews with Page & Steele (1963-69). Take a look inside . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

Not surprisingly, Steven Holl 's Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri wins an 2008 AIA Honor Award for Architecture [PDF link]. [Image from kultureflash ] Of course, not everybody's thinks that award is what the addition should receive... [ Cartoon by Lee Judge] (Thanks to Jeff S. for the head's up on the Judge Award.)

If not, this'll try to pull ya in: (via Archinect )