A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Aldo Rossi: Drawings and Paintings Morris Adjmi, Giovanni Bertolotto (Editors) Princeton Architectural Press , 1993 Paperback | 9 x 12 inches | 224 pages | 203 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1878271501 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : Aldo Rossi is admired as much for his artistic ability as for his architectural design skill. His drawings, paintings, and renderings have been exhibited in museums and galleries from New York to Moscow, and formed the basis of a 1991 retrospective at the Pompidou Center in Paris. This elegant book collects over 200 color reproductions and 200 black and white reproductions of his drawings and paintings together in a companion volume to Aldo Rossi: Architecture 1981-1991 . An introduction by the editors explores the themes common to Rossi's architectural and drawn oeuvre, and an essay by critic and art historian Carter Ratcliff situates Rossi's graphic work in the context of contemporary art. REFERRAL LINKS :   dDAB COMMENTARY : Reviewing ...

WWW Drawing: Architectural Drawing from Pencil to Pixel Janet Abrams, Mehrdad Hadighi (Editors) Actar Publishers , October 2020 Paperback | 7-1/2 x 11 inches | 128 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1948765220 | $44.95 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : WWW Drawing explores architectural drawing in relation to technique and technology.  What is the role of drawing for architecture, in a digital age? Articles have been written about the implicit value of hand drawing in comparison to computer-generated drawing; conferences and symposia on drawing have been held, even asking if drawing is dead! WWW Drawing—a project of Pennsylvania State University’s Department of Architecture—explored the issues through events including a giant-scale drawing workshop and a symposium held at the Drawing Center, New York. WWW refers both to the World Wide Web, and the Three Ws: architects Michael Webb, Mark West and James Wines, who reflect on their individual approaches to hand drawing in this volume. Artists a...

Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bauhaus:  Profiles in Architecture and Design Janet Abrams Princeton Architectural Press , October 2020 Paperback | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches | 320 pages | 12 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1616899516 | $27.95 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bauhaus collects the unparalleled writings of legendary British wordsmith Janet Abrams for the first time. From pivotal figures in international modernism to the pioneers of digital media, Abrams explores the ideas, theories, and emotions that fueled their work. The book's twenty-six profiles—written in Abrams's signature, personal, often hilarious style—include Reyner Banham, Berthold Lubetkin, Philip Johnson, Paul Rand, Phyllis Lambert, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Muriel Cooper, April Greiman, and Michael Bloomberg. It brings together essays that originally appeared in publications on both sides of the Atlantic, in Blueprint , I.D. magazine, The Independent , and in books and catal...

Typology 2: Delhi, Paris, São Paulo, Athens Emanuel Christ, Victoria Easton, Christoph Gantenbein, Cloé Gattigo (Editors) Park Books , October 2015 (second printing in 2020) Hardcover | 10 x 13 inches | 228 pages | 862 illustrations | English (Introduction and Rafael Moneo text also in German) | ISBN: 978-3906027630 | $60.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : In the third volume of the new series exploring the foundational theories and works of architects Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein, more than 150 buildings are documented through floor plans, axonometric projections, recent color photographs, and halftones. The buildings, many of them relatively unknown, were chosen in order to provide a basis for looking at metropolitan design in the twentieth century, and they show the patterns and differences found in architecture from around the world. Included is an essay that provides meaningful context for the buildings and examines how local government and zoning practices guide arc...

Architecture through Drawing Desley Luscombe, Helen Thomas, Niall Hobhouse (Editors) Lund Humphries , November 2019 Hardcover | 9-1/2 x 12 inches | 240 pages | 100 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1848223776 | $99.99 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : Architecture through Drawing examines how drawing – as both action and object – encapsulates complex ideas relating to culture, technology, space and the built environment. Bringing together an array of beautiful and rarely seen drawings dating from the sixteenth century to the present day, all representing different geographical locations, techniques, methodologies and purposes, the book defines a new field for the subject of the drawing in architecture. It reveals the motives for architectural drawing beyond the requirement to document the processes that underpin the realisation of the architectural object. This book asks, fundamentally, whether drawings can illuminate new interpretations of architectural experimentation. Examples r...

Formgiving: An Architectural Future History BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group Taschen , December 2020 Paperback | 6-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches | 736 pages | English | ISBN: 978-3836577045 | $50.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : Formgiving. An Architectural Future History , the new book by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), is a visionary attempt to look at the horizon of time. The Danish word for “design” is “formgivning,” which literally means to give form to that which has not yet taken shape. In other words, to give form to the future. Using our power to give form, rather than allowing the future to take shape, is more important now than ever, as humankind’s impact on the planet continues to increase and pose ever greater challenges to all life forms. Architecture plays a special role by proposing spaces for our lives that are fragments of the future in the making. William Gibson’s words embody architecture’s role perfectly: “The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed.” With Formgiving ...