A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 21, 2023

A House Deconstructed by Office of (Un)Certainty Research (Mark Jarzombek + Vikramaditya Prakash), published by Actar Publishers. US release date: April 4, 2023 (Buy via Amazon or Bookshop ) In 2006, Dana Cuff founded cityLAB at UCLA , "a multidisciplinary center [.]

Architecture 134

Architecture Architecture School Deconstruction Diagram 134

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Keyed to a diagram of the site and the contemporary interventions carried out by Robbiglio with fellow architects Isabelle Toussaint and Patrick Bribosia, the photographs are helpful in grasping how the layers of time are expressed in the physical layers of glass, metal, and masonry.

Housing 102

Housing Deconstruction Restoration Diagram 102

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 30, 2023

In my decade working as an architect in Chicago, from 1997, after graduating from architecture school, to 2006, when I left for grad school in New York City, I made many, many — many — trips to Prairie Avenue Bookshop, spending too much money there but always feeling when I walked out the door that I could have easily spent much, much more.

Deconstruction 52

Deconstruction Diagram Architect Building 52