A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Head over to World-Architects Daily News for a Year in Architecture 2014 piece I just put together. The article also looks ahead to 2015 and includes ten buildings that will be completed by this time next year.

Here are some photos of the Luchtsingel pedestrian bridge (2013), in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, by ZUS Zones Urbaines Sensibles , photographed by Ken Lee . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just: :: Tag your photos #archidose

Here are some photos of the GMT Institute of Property Management (2010), in Jakarta, Indonesia, by PHL Architects , photographed by Trevor Patt . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just: :: Tag your photos #archidose

From Monday, December 8, to Sunday, December 14, the Van Alen Institute is hosting Elsewhere , a series of public programs that "investigate key questions of the contemporary urban experience: How and why do we escape from urban life? What prompts us to escape to the city? What forms of escape can we find within the urban environment? And how might the experience of going “elsewhere” contribute to our well-being?" Some events take place at the "new Van Alen" at 30 West 22nd Street (the storefront space that Van Alen Books used to occupy), but some take place, um, elsewhere. Check the website for locations and more information on the ten events. Here are a few highlights: Ultimate Exit: the Architecture and Urbanism of Tech-Secessionism Live Interview Series and Multimedia Installation Thursday, December 11 7:30pm—10:00pm Van Alen Institute 30 West 22nd Street Door to Door: Neighborliness Interactive Walks 11:00AM-12:30PM & 2:00PM-3:30PM Saturd...

The Landscape Imagination: The Collected Essays of James Corner 1990-2010 edited by James Corner and Alison Hirsch, published by  Princeton Architectural Press , 2014. Hardcover, 320 pages. ( Amazon ) Recently I visited the office of James Corner Field Operations to do a studio visit for World-Architects . Like other studio visit features, I carried out a little bit of research beforehand to get in the right frame of mind and have the foundation for a better conversation, in this case with Mr. Corner himself. One part of my research consisted of reading some of his essays collected in this handsome book released earlier this year. Previous to this I had read Corner's Taking Measures Across the American Landscape (with photographer Alex S. MacLean) as well as essays in The Landscape Urbanism Reader and other collections. So I had some familiarity with Corner's writings, particularly when it came to aerial representation and landscape urbanism, but I soon discovered these...

Today the Guggenheim announced the six finalist designs culled from the 1,715 stage-one submissions in its two-stage open design competition for a branch museum in Helsinki, Finland. Following EU procurement rules, the architects in the competition remain anonymous (having used 8-10-digit numbers), even though the finalist teams have been announced: AGPS Architecture Ltd. (Zurich, Switzerland and Los Angeles, United States of America) Asif Khan Ltd. (London, United Kingdom) Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (New York, United States of America; Barcelona, Spain; and Sydney, Australia) Haas Cook Zemmrich STUDIO2050 (Stuttgart, Germany) Moreau Kusunoki Architect (Paris, France) SMAR Architecture Studio (Madrid, Spain and Western Australia) Therefore, while images and descriptions for the finalists' designs are available, it's not clear which architect is responsible for which scheme, a fact that will remain in place until June 2015 when the winner is a...

Here are some of my photos of New York Light (2014), INABA 's winning design in the Van Alen Institute's Flatiron Public Plaza Holiday Design Competition . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the  archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just: :: Tag your photos #archidose