A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present Elsa Lam, Graham Livesey (Editors) Canadian Architect/ Princeton Architectural Press , November 2019 Hardcover | 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches | 544 pages | 300 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1616896454 | $55.00 Publisher's Description : Canada's most distinguished architectural critics and scholars offer fresh insights into the country's unique modern and contemporary architecture. Beginning with the nation's centennial and Expo 67 in Montreal, this fifty-year retrospective covers the defining of national institutions and movements, how Canadian architects interpreted major external trends, regional and indigenous architectural tendencies, and the influence of architects in Canada's three largest cities--Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Co-published with Canadian Architect , this comprehensive reference book is extensively illustrated and includes fifteen specially commissioned texts by contributing authors...

Façades: A Visual Compendium of Modern Architectural Styles Oscar Riera Ojeda, Byron Hawes Prestel , November 2019 Hardcover | 7-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches | 448 pages | 400 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-3791385174 | $45.00 Publisher's Description : A building’s façade sets the aesthetic tone for its entire design while serving a variety of functions, from regulating light and protecting against the elements to providing insulation for temperature and sound. This absorbing book details hundreds of examples of interesting and progressive façades from around the world. Presented in colorful double-page spreads, each façade is photographed from different angles and includes engaging texts that describe their significance. Readers can learn how traditional mashrabiyas in Abu Dhabi are being engineered to respond to light and to regulate heat, how a hospital in Mexico City has been constructed with “smog-eating” tiles, and how a “bio-adaptive” façade in Germany uses algae to gen...

KieranTimberlake: Fullness Stephen Kieran, James Timberlake The Monacelli Press , October 2019 Two-volume hardcover and paperback w/slipcase | 8-1/2 x 10 inches | 608 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1580935548 | $60.00 Publisher's Description : KieranTimberlake: Fullness demonstrates the holistic impact of the work of the Philadelphia-based architecture firm. This monograph provides the concepts and contexts for seventeen recent projects in a range of scales and types, from houses to campus buildings to a transit hub and an embassy. KieranTimberlake: Fullness demonstrates how the firm’s formative values have combined with innovative design methodologies, a commitment to full-scale, in-house prototyping, and a collaborative ethos to create and realize works of ambitious scope and complexity. Organized in two volumes, this book illustrated the comprehensive range of architectural beauty present in KieranTimberlake’s buildings and the evidence for their mastery of design at ...

First Works: Emerging Architectural Experimentation of the 1960s & 1970s Brett Steele, Francisco González de Canales (Editors) Architectural Association Publications , 2009 Hardcover | 8-1/4 x 11-1/2 inches | 284 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1902902814 | £80.00 Publisher's Description : During a tumultuous period in the 1960s and 70s, a new generation of architects began their careers amidst a period of profound social change, new conditions for architecture and the city and lasting changes to popular and critical forms of cultural production. First Works tells the story of this period and reassesses the conditions of architecture and the beginnings of architectural careers through a selection of projects undertaken during the 60s and 70s. The book, accompanying a major travelling exhibition, presents a single key early project, in the form of models, sketches, photographs and drawings, by 20 young architectural practices: Archigram, Archizoom, Aldo Rossi, Alva...

Biennials/Triennials: Conversations on the Geography of Itinerant Display Léa-Catherine Szacka Columbia Books on Architecture and the City , August 2019 Paperback | 5-1/2 x 8 inches | 176 pages | 62 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1941332559 | $18.00 Publisher's Description : In the forty years since the first iteration of Venice Architecture Biennale, the field of architecture has seen a remarkable change in the role played by exhibition-making. While architecture and display have long been intertwined practices, a rapid proliferation of large-scale perennial exhibitions—particularly in the twenty-first century—has resulted in the biennial / triennial becoming an integral part of our discipline, a new geography of itinerant display that has profoundly altered the contours of architectural thought. Between format, space, and content, what are the various agencies and effects of these events? Biennials / Triennials asks these questions and others of a range of curator...

Architecture of Defeat Kengo Kuma Routledge , June 2019 Paperback | 6 x 9 inches | 176 pages | 76 illustrations | English (translated by Hiroshi Watanabe) | ISBN: 978-1138390843 | $39.95 Publisher's Description : Kengo Kuma, one of Japan’s leading architects, has been combining professional practice and academia for most of his career. In addition to creating many internationally recognized buildings all over the world, he has written extensively about the history and theory of architecture. Like his built work, his writings also reflect his profound personal philosophy. Architecture of Defeat is no exception. Now available in English for the first time, the book explores events and architectural trends in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in both Japan and beyond. It brings together a collection of essays which Kuma wrote after disasters such as the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on 9/11 and the earthquake and tsunami that obliterated mu...