A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

A highlight of Queens International 2018: Volumes (QI 2018) , now on display at Queens Museum, is Volumes Cyanotype , a 100-foot-long tablecloth that documents a communal meal with the exhibition’s participating artists and which turned the building into a large camera – a camera obscura. I wrote about it for World-Architects . Also check out the website for QI 2018  (screenshot below). Created by artist Ryan Kuo with Taekeun Kim, the website is structured about the Queens Museum building – built for the 1964 World's Fair, used briefly for the United Nations, and expanded by Grimshaw in 2013.

Here are some photos of the  Castelar Building  (1986) in Madrid, Spain, by Rafael de la Hoz & Gerardo Olivares James. (Photographs by  Ximo Michavila .) 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

Ever since learning about Kanopy back in June, I've been using the free, limited access made available through two libraries – NYPL and Queens Library – to watch primarily documentaries on architecture. If you live in the United States and have a card at a participating library, then you might know already that Kanopy is excellent for watching documentaries of all sorts but also independent films, foreign films, and classic movies. This isn't binge-watching on Netflix; it's expanding one's mind by watching educational, intelligent films on a variety of subjects. Below are 40 architecture films worth watching, organized by film production company. Checkerboard Film Foundation : Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line . In the first decade of this century, DS+R jumped from obscure set and installation architects to the big leagues of building with the two large-scale NYC commissions discussed here. Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentr...

Here are a couple photos of The Culture Yard (2010) in Elsinore, Denmark, by AART Architects . (Photographs by Martin Krause .) 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

October in New York City means two things, at least to architects: Open House New York (OHNY) and AIANY's Archtober. I've been too busy to post about these events far in advance, so below are highlights for open-access OHNY sites  and some events drawn from Archtober and other sites that I'm pretty sure aren't sold out. Everything is free, unless noted otherwise. All October, Center for Architecture Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture Hip-Hop Architecture produces spaces, buildings, and environments that embody the creative energy evident in hip-hop’s first four elements: deejaying, emceeing, b-boying, and graffiti.  Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture exhibits the work of students, academics and practitioners at the center of this emerging architectural revolution. Various days throughout October, Guggenheim Museum The Guggenheim Celebrates Archtober This Fall The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is excited to offer special tour...

Here are some photos of the Desert City (2017) in San Sebastián de los Reyes, Madrid, Spain, by Garciagerman Arquitectos . (Photographs by Ximo Michavila .) 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

As promised when I posted a slideshow of my photos last week (but a bit later than I expected), here is a link to my review of Thomas Phifer & Partners' Pavilions at Glenstone Museum. Short take: it's a masterpiece, if a highly controlled one.