A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Analysing Architecture Simon Unwin Routledge , January 2014 (fourth edition) Paperback | Page Size inches | 336 pages | 816 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-0415719162 | $75.95 Publisher's Description : Now in its fourth edition, Analysing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. Aimed primarily at those wishing to become professional architects, it also offers those in disciplines related to architecture (from archaeology to stage design, garden design to installation art), a clear and accessible insight into the workings of this rich and fascinating subject. With copious illustrations from his own notebooks, the author dissects examples from around the world and all periods of history to explain underlying strategies in architectural design and show how drawing may be used as a medium for analysis. This new edition of Analysing Architecture is revised and expanded. Notably, the chapter on ‘Basic Elements of Arc...

Palermo Atlas: Manifesta 12 OMA – Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli Humboldt Books, May 2018 Paperback | 6-3/4 x 8-1/4 inches | 418 pages | English | ISBN: 978-8899385439 | €30.00 Publisher's Description : Palermo Atlas is an interdisciplinary analysis of the city of Palermo commissioned by Manifesta 12 and undertaken by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. The research explores the architecture, archaeology and anthropology of the city, its historical archives and personal stories. Contemporary Palermo is indeed a particularly fascinating object of study. On one hand, it is a mosaic of identities, cultures and ecosystems, the result of centuries of encounters and exchanges between civilisations. On the other, it is the stage of the great social and environmental challenges of our time, from the migration crisis to climate change. Drawing on this complexity, Palermo Atlas sets out to host a reflection on social and environmental renewal, outlining a research model cap...

Shadow: the architectural power of withholding light Simon Unwin Routledge , 2020 Paperback | Page Size inches | 184 pages | 386 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-0367442583 | $25.95 Publisher's Description : Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture , which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks, rather than as additional chapters in future editions, allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples, whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy. Shadows may be insubstantial but they are, nevertheless, an important element in architecture. In prehistoric times we sought shade as a refuge from the hot sun and chilling rain. Through history...

The Legacy Project: New Housing New York Lance Jay Brown, Mark Ginsberg, Tara Siegel Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers , April 2017 Hardcover in clamshell box | 11 x 8 inches | 256 pages | 425 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-9881512567 | $50.00 Publisher's Description : PlaNYC, the Mayor’s long-term visioning statement for the city’s future, projects that New York will add one million more residents by the year 2030. This publication documents the evolution of a new stage in the development, design, and construction of one of the most important services of the city of New York: affordable housing. The New Housing New York Legacy Project brings together progressive approaches to affordable housing in the elds of design, architecture, planning, and public policy. The collaborative nature of the New Housing New York Legacy Project reflects the need for communication and exchange across the public and private sectors. The publication discusses the lessons of two international co...

Commune by the Great Wall Shi Jian (Editor) The Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2003 Paperback | 11-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches | 194 pages | Chinese/English | ISBN: 978-7805639673 | $X.00 Publisher's Description : A private collection of contemporary architecture exhibited at the 2002 la Biennale di Venezia, awarded by a special prize. Its exhibited model has been collected by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, as its first permanent collection from China. Includes DVD video documentary about the Commune By The Great Wall. dDAB Commentary : On Monday I featured Natured , a monograph on Korean architect Seung H-Sang and his firm IROJE, in which I mentioned that before reading the book I was only familiar with one of his projects: The Clubhouse at the Commune by the Great Wall . The project, now nearly twenty years old, consisted of a dozen buildings in its first phase, each one designed by a different architect from China, Japan, South Korea, and other Asian countries. Devel...

Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemics, Futures Franca Trubiano, Ramona Adlakha, Ramune Bartuskaite (Editors) ar+d (Applied Research + Design) , October 2019 Paperback | 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches | 144 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1943532438 | $29.95 Publisher's Description : Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemic, Futures is exemplary in its mission to combine in one resource reflections on the renewal of feminist thought in architecture (Framing Stories), challenges to practice made possible by activism (Shaping Polemics), and portrayals of inspiring practitioners who pave the way for future women architects (Building Futures). The goal of this edited book is to increase the visibility and voice of women who everyday challenge the definition and practice of architecture. Women [Re]Build gathers words and projects of leading women thinkers, activists, designers, and builders who have dared to ask, “where are the women?” Where are the women whose architectural work should be celebrated...

Discourse 1—Authorship Mónica Ponce de León (Editor) Princeton University School of Architecture/ Princeton University Press , February 2020 Paperback | 8-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches | 336 pages | English | ISBN: 978-0964264106 | $X.00 Publisher's Description : Authorship critically examines emergent themes in contemporary architecture by revisiting the seemingly defunct notion of design authorship. As we revel in the death of the master architect, how do we come to terms with the shifting role of creativity in architecture’s cultural production? In Authorship , a cross-disciplinary group of designers and scholars explores this topic through a myriad of lenses. Subjects include the impact of digital tools and computational scripts on the conception of buildings in the age of robotics, the current climate of appropriation and sampling as a counter-form of authorship, and the rise of reauthored materials in a postdigital age. These questions are cast against alternative ideas of au...