A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Introducing: Short Essays on Influential Thinkers and Designers in Architecture David Erdman ar+d (Applied Research + Design) , February 2021 Paperback | 6-1/2 x 9 inches | 203 pages | English | ISBN: 9781940743554 | $30.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : In the post-Internet architectural climate, critical discourse historically found in the pages of institutionally backed journals has been overshadowed by a culture of abundant, shorter media. As traditional means of disseminating information has lost support, e-magazines, which are typically segregated from, if not entirely in opposition to, the academy and its requisite polemics, have risen in popularity. The question stands as to whether architectural discourse has the resilience to deal with the speed of new media, and if it does, in what form that discourse might be delivered and relevant. Introducing, Short Essays on Influential Thinkers and Designers in Architecture —a collection of 18 short essays developed by designer and e...

The Lost, Last Words of Mies van der Rohe: The Lohan Tapes from 1969 Fritz Neumeyer (Editor) DOM Publishers , December 2020 Paperback | 8-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches | 112 pages | 70 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9783869227672 | 28€ PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : The German-American architect Dirk Lohan began to record his conversations with his grandfather Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the summer of 1969. The tapes, recorded during the final weeks of Mies’s life, captured some of the architect’s very last words. They were sent to the Mies van der Rohe Archive of the Museum of Modern Art in New York after his death, though they went missing under unknown circumstances. Only an incomplete typescript remains as a testimony to the conversations. The Lost, Last Words of Mies van der Rohe presents this text in its entirety for the very first time. The conversations relayed in the typescript reveal the famously reticent Mies speaking about his own life with a level of detail, precision, and candou...

Adaptive Re-Use: Strategies for Post-War Modernist Housing Maren Harnack, Natalie Heger, Matthias Brunner (Editors) Jovis , April 2021 Paperback | 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches | 144 pages | 60 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9783868596113 | 29.80€ PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : In prosperous regions, housing markets are under significant pressure. With the focus on preserving land and developing brownfield sites, post-war housing estates are being earmarked for densification, as their density is perceived as rather low and the ownership is often concentrated in the hands of only a few publicly owned housing associations. In this setting, post-war estates are in danger of losing their characteristic spatial structures and landscaping. Adaptive Re-Use discusses strategies for the development of post-war housing by referring to European case studies from the period of 1945 to 1975. The contributions in this edited volume show how housing estates from different European countries are listed an...

Carlo Scarpa Robert McCarter Phaidon , April 2021 ("Classic format") Hardcover | 10 x 11-1/2 inches | 288 pages | 350 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781838662929 | $59.95 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : The acclaimed survey of the life and works of the celebrated Italian modernist master, available again in a classic format. The work of Carlo Scarpa challenged, and continues to challenge, accepted notions of modern architecture. While several books have been published on his work, none has approached the breadth and depth of this monograph by Robert McCarter, who is celebrated for his meticulously researched, experientially based, and jargon-free accounts of key figures in modern architecture. This book is the definitive study of Scarpa's many accomplishments, including such works at the Canova Museum, the Castelvecchio Museum, and the Brion Cemetery, among others. Robert McCarter is an architect and has been Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washing...

Imagining the Future of the Museum of Modern Art (Studies in Modern Art 7) John Elderfield (Series Editor) Museum of Modern Art , 1998 Paperback | 8-1/2 x 10 inches | 304 pages | English | ISBN: 9780870700569 | $35.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : This illustrated volume documents the entire expansion planning process including the architects' proposals, and transcripts of the various speeches, debates, and forums concerning the two-year effort to select an architect for the expansion of the Museum. Presented in this volume are the charette submissions, or design exercises, of the ten initial architects, as well as the competition proposals from the three finalists-Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Yoshio Taniguchi, and Bernard Tschumi. After an extensive review of these proposals, the commission was awarded to Taniguchi, a model of whose design appears on the cover of this publication. 48 color and 256 b/w illustrations. John Elderfield is Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting...

Hip-Hop Architecture Sekou Cooke Bloomsbury Visual Arts , April 2021 Paperback | 7-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches | 288 pages | 120 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781350116146 | $34.95 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : “This book is not for you. It is not for architectural academic elites. It is not for those who have gentrified our neighborhoods, overly intellectualized the profession, and ignored all contemporary Black theory within the discipline. You have made architecture a symbol of exclusion, oppression, and domination rather than expression, aspiration, and inspiration. This book is not for conformists-Black, White, or other.” As architecture grapples with its own racist legacy, Hip-Hop Architecture outlines a powerful new manifesto-the voice of the underrepresented, marginalized, and voiceless within the discipline. Exploring the production of spaces, buildings, and urban environments that embody the creative energies in hip-hop, it is a newly expanding design philosophy which sees arc...