A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JANUARY 17, 2022

With Until Proven Safe , they bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive, not only urgent reading for social-distanced times but also an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces–––biological, political, technological––that shape our modern world.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Edited by Eric Mumford | Alphawood Foundation | 2022 | Hardcover | 9-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches | 224 pages | 300+ illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780578921129 | $55.00 ( BOTH BOOKS CAN BE PURCHASED ON THE WRIGHTWOOD 659 WEBSITE.) Not a building, that US project was just a room in a museum: Gallery 109 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

An Alphabet of Architectural Models Edited by Teresa Frankhänel, Olivia Horsfall Turner, Simona Valeriani, Matthew Wells Merrell , October 2021 Flexicover | 6-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches | 128 pages | 88 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781858946979 | $37.95 Teresa Fankhänel is a Curator at the Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität, Munich.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

First it was with their remarkable transformation of the Palais de Tokyo in 2002 (expanded in 2014), a stripping out of a classical/art deco exhibition hall to create a raw, haunting, cavernous interior which became Paris's riposte to London's Tate Modern. The floor plates were extended with balconies and the building reclothed.

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Deezen

MAY 19, 2022

She also co-authored a book called African Modernism, published in 2014, which explores the architecture of the independence movements in countries including Ghana and Senegal. Five candidates competed for role.

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Brandon Donnelly

JUNE 9, 2024

A few months ago, one of my old professors from architecture school — Phu Hoang — reached out to me through this blog. He told me about his and Rachely’s firm, MODU Architecture. He is now the Head of Architecture of the Knowlton School at Ohio State University. We connected over a call.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Those three US-centric books were split between two historical surveys and one case study. I reviewed Concrete Map Chicago back in 2018 and since then have noticed them putting out maps of modern architecture , brutalist architecture , public transit — even trees. 1906, when Frank Lloyd Wright completed Unity Temple.

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Jane Griswold Radocchia

MAY 3, 2024

In 1540 Sebastiano Serlio drew this sketch in Book IV of his On Architecture.* Palladio doesn't describe this, but the roofs in his The Four Books of Architecture (1570) use the same pitch. Vignola's book on architecture was translated, of course. Was it Vignola's rule or did he just record it? He wrote, ".

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Racking my brain, it seems my classmates and I learned very little about him in architecture school a few decades ago. The occasion was the then-recent publication of the three-volume The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens by A.S.G. Similar sentiments to Pevsner's are explored in Architectural Monographs No.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 27, 2014

Home / Memories from Studio / Memories from Studio People who didn’t attend architectural school don’t understand juries. Always look for the positive architectrunnerguy Amazingly during my whole 5 years of architectural school (Va. I have never designed anything strictly modern ever since.

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DesignScape Architects

JUNE 2, 2020

Good examples of these would be the renaissance and modern movement. Both these events were motivated by fundamental ideas at their core which extended far beyond just Architectural Schools of Thought to the of socio-political landscapes of entire nations. This is known to be the very first book on architectural theory.

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Deezen

MAY 10, 2022

In other words, if modernism was a white box, and Pomo was a grey box with decoration – with whipped cream on it, sprayed out of a can, deconstructivism broke the box open, and you had basically shards," he continued. There's been nothing since then, I mean, architecture schools have no pedagogy. You had basically shards.

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Deezen

AUGUST 2, 2023

"A gargantuan catalogue of shapes, materials and not much architecture," wrote Pa Varreon. Morphogenesis] should perhaps make a single choice of style while they are skimming through their architectural school books." Is the world's largest office building a diamond or a dud? And it chose not to be a skyscraper."

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Just mark your calendar with the following date: Thursday, November 14th 6:00pm at the Dallas Center for Architecture 1909 Woodall Rodgers Frwy, Suite 100 Register for the Awards Presentation and Lecture here. It was a big inspiration to me during architecture school.

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Architecture Here and There

APRIL 3, 2022

After I left the Journal in 2014, I wrote a book called Lost Providence that included Elliott’s illustration on page 108. ’ ” It is said that design and architectural schools’ first job is to purge students of their instinct for beauty. This has been almost uniformly ignored.)

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Deezen

MAY 23, 2022

According to Tschumi, who was one of the seven architects featured in the seminal Deconstructivist Architecture show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) , deconstructivism had a serious intellectual ideology that was developed by young architects reinvestigating avant-garde architecture from the 1920s. Bernard Tschumi: Frankly.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 26, 2022

(Pinterest/from his latest book). A book unexpected and unannounced arrived on my doorstep today: Robert A.M. Stern’s Between Memory and Invention , which I immediately mistook for an update of an earlier volume of his, Tradition and Invention in Architecture (2011). ” The office is pictured above.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Secondly, although I’m not an architect, I love buildings and what turned me on to buildings more than anything else was the books in the school library. For me, I think I am torn between the British Art Muesum at Yale by Louis Kahn or the Rare Book Library by SOM again at Yale. So simple yet so complex.

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Architecture Here and There

MARCH 29, 2022

the first hero of the classical revival, who founded and presided for many years over the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, and whose pathbreaking 1959 book on modern architecture taught many that classical architecture was not dead. The Reed award was named for the arch-classicist Henry Hope Reed Jr.,

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Young Architect

APRIL 20, 2022

especially if your office or friends already own the books. I say read something enjoyable, something your interested in, or even my easy to read self-help book about the ARE’s. Just like architecture school, the ARE is kind of a mind f**k. Those stupid vignettes and ARE 4.0 I’d recommend getting familiar with the ARE 4.0

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

One thing we really work on is trying to get our interns working on something that has value, things that contribute to the office in a positive manner, and something that has value to them when they return to school. We had college architectural interns make this model – they are in their model-making prime!

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

You need to know and I strongly recommend that you pick up a copy of ‘ Architectural Graphics ‘ by Francis D.K. Ching’s book (along with my studio professors) taught me how to show profile lines – their use defines the look of my sketches as well as a generation of other architects.

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Deezen

JUNE 13, 2024

Htein's project draws inspiration from Peter Sloterdijk's book 'Spheres', which proposes that human existence fundamentally resembles bubbles, with individual ones existing within larger shared bubbles of concerns. "In

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

August 10th, 2013 “concept assembly sketch for a modern house I will feature on LoaA” #vegetativeroof. August 23rd, 2013 “and so it begins … #design #sketch #architect” #architecture. October 18th, 2012 “so what’s the architects preferred consumption sequence with these M&M’s?

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Profiler I started toward an architecture degree in nineteeneightysomething at USC… I took a hiatus for the Gulf War… When I went back to architecture school in the late nineties… I showed up at a preliminary presentation with an armful of “trace” and realized how much things changed in only five years.

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Architizer

JUNE 9, 2023

The end of the Pinochet regime was an important moment for architecture in Chile, leading to a boom in architecture schools and a broader curriculum. Many architects fuse local practices and materiality with Modern sensibilities. This fusion remains a guiding principle for many Chilean architects today.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 26, 2015

Around Architecture school, I hear most people dissing the themed Lego sets in favor of the creative freedom that come from the big box of various blocks. Musician in my spare time, and secretly wish I was doing modern residential (…or not so secretly). I think the 60s was the greatest decade in architecture and period.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Ugly’s reference book. Cheers, Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Bags , Materials and Products Materials , Products Surviving Architecture School Christmas Cards from Famous. Experienced tradesmen and novices alike reference this guide. How many #12 wires can fit in 1 inch conduit?

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Life of an Architect

MAY 4, 2014

The other goal I had for myself was that I wanted to have a project that I had designed make it in to an architectural history book – now that’s a lofty goal. Remember, this is the site of a regular guy who hasn’t made it into the architectural history books … or bought a jet ski.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

For the purposes of today’s article, I am going to assume that all architectural drawings are correct and serve their purpose of conveying intent, scope and quantity. When I graduated from architecture school in 199[mumble-mumble], computers were not that prevalent. Websites and books especially.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 13, 2014

Home / Life in General / Motivation – and why it’s important Motivation – and why it’s important Bob Borson — April 14, 2014 — 27 Comments It’s Sunday morning, it’s raining outside, I’m really tired, and the consensus around the house is to lay about, read books and watch television.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, … you’ll be prepared for what to expect should you actually become a summer intern in an architectural office. Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Career , Do you want to be an Architect? architects office , career , Do you want to be an Architect heard around the.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 22, 2014

Sharp Bob, As a recent graduate of architecture school – I’m proud to call myself an avid sketch artist. Cheers Subscribe by Email Enter your Email Address Delivered by FeedBurner Trending on Life of an Architect Recommended Stuff for Architects Recommended Books for Architects My name is Bob Borson and this is my site.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 19, 2013

I found the jambox two years later in one of the other architecture school buildings, sitting there on a table as if that’s where I had left it the two years prior… … with no mix tape. I try and keep things light and share a thing or two about what I think I know.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Gerstacker Grove on the University of Michigan’s North Campus is the modern anti-quad. It’s home to the school’s College of Engineering , architecture school, performing arts school, and several residence halls. Image courtesy Stoss Landscape Urbanism. Modeling informs planting palettes and siting.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

When I first started architecture school as a freshman in college, I didn’t have the focus or maturity I needed to tackle the curriculum and I ended up having a serious identity crisis when I was 19 years old. I like variety and change I happen to design modern style projects but that was not always the case.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 30, 2014

Home / Construction / Building with Structural Insulated Panels … or SIPs Building with Structural Insulated Panels … or SIPs Bob Borson — March 31, 2014 — 75 Comments We are building the CHouse Modern using Structurally Insulated Panels, or SIPs as they are commonly referenced.

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