A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Shanghai , originally uploaded by arndalarm . Shanghai Museum of Glass in Shanghai, China by logon , 2011. See more photos of the building in arndalarm's flickr set . To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

Clip, Stamp, Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X - 197X edited by Beatriz Colomina and Craig Buckley, published by  Actar , 2010. Hardcover, 672 pages. ( Amazon ) Clip/Stamp/Fold squeezed seventy "little magazines" and supporting documentation into the Storefront for Art and Architecture in 2007. The successful exhibition -- it later traveled to the CCA in Montreal, Documenta 12 in Kassel, the AA in london, Norsk Form in Oslo, and the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver -- was supplemented by "small talks" with important figures in the alternative architectural publishing of the 1960s and 70s, including Bernard Tschumi, Stefano Boeri, Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Mario Gandelsonas, Anthony Vidler, Hal Foster, and Rosalind Krauss. Transcriptions of these talks and the descriptions of the magazines from the exhibition are collected in this well produced big book, accompanied by facsimiles of eleven of the ...

Campus Commons SUNY New Paltz in New Paltz, New York by ikon.5 architects, 2010 The following text and images are courtesy ikon.5 architects . The State University of New York at New Paltz needed to expand its 1970 Student Union building by providing informal gathering spaces for students. The existing Student Union building was designed as an isolated cellular office building and did not have space for student collaboration or congregation. In addition, the University wished to change the overall appearance and presentation of the existing building which conveyed an uninspired institutionally functional appearance at the gateway to the university. The Campus Commons project at The State University of New York is a steel and glass ‘winter garden’ addition to an existing 1970 student union building. The Campus Commons in filled and spanned over an existing underutilized exterior courtyard, transforming the exterior space into a vibrant interior university living room. Th...

Museion - Museum of modern and contemporary art of Bolzano, Italy , originally uploaded by Ken Lee 2010 . Museion - Museum of modern and contemporary art in Bolzano, Italy by KSV Krüger Schuberth Vandreike , 2007. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose

Back in 2005 I featured Studio Archea 's project for Marchesi Antinori Winery 's new cellars. Their design envisioned the winery embedded in the landscape near Florence, Italy. I was then (and now) smitten with the "landscraper"-esque design. In the course of some rummaging through my weekly page today, I decided to check on the status of the project after coming across it; I was curious to see if it made it from the drawing board to the job site. I'm glad to report it has; the winery is in the midst of construction. I'm not sure when the project will be completed (the info indicates 2010 but that's probably and old, optimistic milestone). Below are some rendering/construction images taken from Archea's web page. Not a lot to look at right now. I'm looking forward to seeing the undulating brick vaults in construction. That will be quite a sight. Aerial view: Terrace and overhanging roof: Spiral ramp and opening:

As can be seen, the cover of Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space , published by The Architectural League and the MIT Press , features "a special 'heat sensitive' cover which will change color when exposed to sunlight or touch." Note that using the book as a coaster, like me, makes it quite difficult to read. The book follows the League's " Towards the Sentient City " exhibition from 2009, with case studies by David Benjamin, Soo-in Yang, and Natalie Jeremijenko; Haque Design + Research; SENSEable City Lab; David Jimison and JooYoun Paek; and Anthony Townsend, Antonina Simeti, Dana Spiegel, Laura Forlano, and Tony Bacigalupo; and essays by Martijn de Waal, Keller Easterling, Matthew Fuller, Anne Galloway, Dan Hill, Omar Khan, Saskia Sassen, Trebor Scholz, Hadas Steiner, Kazys Varnelis, and Mimi Zeiger. A review is forthcoming.

Sheffield Winter Gardens , originally uploaded by Wojtek Gurak . Winter Garden in Sheffield, England by Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects , 2002. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose