Deezen

AUGUST 29, 2024

Promotion: the eighth edition of design exhibition Look Book hosted almost 70 brands over three days at this year's design fair International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). At this year's Look Book, the collective displayed its Tloque series, made in collaboration with designer Taller Batán and informed by life cycles in nature.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2023

Local practice Child Studio has designed a house in a mews courtyard in London that mixes mid-century modern furniture with custom-made pieces in a nod to fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent's home. Child Studio designed the home, which was created for a hotelier and restauranteur, as a space for dining, entertaining and hosting parties.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JUNE 27, 2022

Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change edited by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 11, 2024

A new book celebrating the birthdays of influential designers recognizes the Swiss-born architect’s playful style that shaped the look of Palm Springs architecture. Courtesy Palm Springs Art Museum The whole idea of a giant boulder intruding into the house is, I suppose, a tell that this is no ordinary house. Paul Getty Trust.

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Habitus Living

JULY 18, 2023

The 20 th century was in many ways defined architecturally by the long emergence, struggle for (or against) and broad victory of Modernism. With by an emphasis on rationalism, applied using modern construction techniques and materials, it was a movement that claimed universal validity.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 21, 2023

Although reading has been low on my list of priorities under the circumstances, I wanted to take the brief chance I have now to highlight some books released so far this year — a dozen of them, presented in order of date of publication. No doubt, people reading this book are eager to take on the question.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Santa Fe Modern: Contemporary Design in the High Desert by Helen Thompson, photographs by Casey Dunn The Monacelli Press , November 2021 Hardcover | 8 x 10 inches | 240 pages | English | ISBN: 9781580935616 | $50.00 is also the author of Marfa Modern and Texas Made, Texas Modern [.] She lives in Santa Fe.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We continue our series on mid-century modern design with a profile of Eero Saarinen , the Finnish-American architect and industrial designer whose creations were adopted as the optimistic symbols of a new post-war age. "We Eliel Saarinen designed the Cranbrook Academy of Art as part of a wider campus design.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. Accordingly, small projects (e.g.,

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JULY 25, 2022

The monograph on Kahn was first published by Phaidon in 2005, but with the subsequent completion of the FDR Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt Island, the eponymous book has been expanded, enlarged, and updated.

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Architizer

APRIL 25, 2024

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. As I reach for a book tucked away on my bookshelf, I experience a sudden rush of nostalgia. Order your copy today.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

AUGUST 15, 2022

Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. Verify in Field: Projects and Coversations Höweler Yoon by Eric Höweler and J. in the Details."

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Urban Design Associates

JUNE 28, 2024

And there is nothing more relaxing than curling up in front of a roaring fire with a glass of wine and a good book. Modern mountain home architecture and design masterfully blend into the natural environment with sustainable materials and a luxurious indoor/outdoor experience. The draw of a luxury mountain home is irresistible.

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Deezen

MAY 12, 2022

John Gendall selects eight examples from his book Rocky Mountain Modern. While modernism has always had roots in the Rockies – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's first US commission was in Wyoming – the style has since evolved in tandem with the unique environmental conditions of the region. "An The photograph is by Paul Crosby.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Curved resin walls define this retail space , which architecture studio Akin Atelier has created for the Sydney Modern extension at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Two curved walls enclose the shop Inside the Gallery Shop, adjustable resin shelves line the curved walls, housing books and publications.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JUNE 5, 2023

Last week I cobbled together eight books, some of which publishers had sent me more than a year ago, in an effort to write a "Better Late Than Never" installment of "Book Briefs," something I had done back in April 2018 with Book Briefs #35. African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence.

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Community Architect

AUGUST 8, 2024

Vishan Chakrabarti wrote this book in the time of the pandemic which he describes as "space and time ruptured". His new book sheds a lot more light on why separating architecture from urban design is a big problem and less light on how connecting these two professions could be a solution to many of the world's current problems.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Many female designers from the mid-century modern movement are more celebrated now than when they were producing work, says design historian Pat Kirkham in this interview for our mid-century modern series. In the European modern movement, you often have designers not getting due credit," said Kirkham.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 7, 2022

For architects educated in the modern idiom, like myself, Wright's Larkin Building — an office building built in Buffalo, New York, in 1904 and demolished in 1950 — is familiar, discussed in architectural history classes for its monumentality, large atrium, division of work areas, and early adoption of air conditioning. But that's not all!

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Inspired by a childhood dream of Thoreau’s Walden Pond, he wanted to create a small and simple, yet modern studio in which to write, reflect, and enjoy nature. "To Smith, an ardent classicist with a modern point of view. To bring his vision to life, the poet called upon architect Eric J. "To

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The recent receipt of two review books got me thinking about the past and the future of architecture books. As in any book that is basically a survey, a collection of things united by a theme, it's easiest as a reviewer to focus on organization, presentation, and selection.

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Dwell

JANUARY 2, 2024

Their vision was to create a modern house nestled in the backyard while preserving the charm of their existing 1940s, 850-square-foot Arts and Crafts bungalow. The primary section features an open living area and kitchen on the ground floor, with an elevated primary suite in a loft space above.

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Bustler

AUGUST 19, 2024

Event Date: Sep 13, 2024 - Jan 6, 2025; Event City: Saint Louis, MO, US Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis among modern architecture, urban renewal, and racial and spatial change in the interlocking histories of New Deal planning, the Great Migration, and the civil rights and Great Society eras.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The talisman of the trendy and totems of modernity. Through products and interior design choices, designers are increasingly blending vintage electronics with state-of-the-art technology or shifting away from technology-based devices at all. Simply having walls of books instead of screens is becoming increasingly popular.

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SW Oregon Architect

AUGUST 11, 2024

I revisited another of the books in my collection this weekend: The Houses of Louis Kahn , cowritten by George H. The focus of Marcus’ and Witaker’s excellent book is the nine private homes Kahn completed and the other designs that never saw construction.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 13, 2023

Preparing for this post I counted roughly one hundred books in my library that are related to exhibitions. Surprisingly, given that I tend to buy catalogs and other companion books to exhibitions I visit, only a quarter of those hundred are exhibitions I have seen in person.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

MARCH 16, 2023

the book examines how landscapes responded to and shaped ideas about health, wellness, and politics over the past two centuries of American life. The first part of the book, titled “Infectious Terrains,” consists chiefly of a revisionist history of the American built environment from the 19th to the middle of the 20th century.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 1, 2023

One of which is Ron Eglash ; an American scientist who presents the evidence of fractals in the architecture, art, textile sculpture, and religion of indigenous African societies. However, fractals have existed far beyond the birth of computers, and have been observed by anthropologists in indigenous African societies.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

APRIL 28, 2023

This year's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is my third, following the 2022 book fair and, just days before lockdown, the 2020 book fair. Along these lines, below are some things I learned while browsing the booths at this year's book fair trying to find some architectural gems. It is going for $7,500.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Dezeen Events Guide has launched its guide to Miami art week 2023, highlighting the fairs, exhibitions and installations taking place in the city from 6 to 10 December 2023. Throughout the five-day event, more than 1,200 global galleries are expected to showcase work from modern and contemporary artists, designers and architects.

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Architizer

MARCH 7, 2024

At some point in the school year, a student in my AP Literature class will ask the dreaded question: what is “Modernism?” Often, this meant disrupting verisimilitude and drawing attention to the constructed-ness of the art object. Modern artists rejected representational conventions in pursuit of honest expression.

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Hotel Designs

JULY 25, 2023

Hotel Designs ROOST Detroit opens in the landmark Book Tower ROOST Detroit opens in the landmark Book Tower Following a seven restoration of Book Tower, hospitality company Method Co. The property offers a combination of 117 beautifully furnished studio, one and two-bedroom apartment hotel accommodations in downtown Detroit.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This notion—that comfort is paramount in making a space feel like home—is explored in full detail in Witold Rybczynski’s Home: A Short History of an Idea , a book I first encountered in the depths of my father’s office, and read, cover to cover, as a pretentious young person with a passing interest in interiors.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. These modernized places of preservation spark curiosity, debate and, crucially, ensure lessons from our ancestors endure.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 5, 2022

In the recently opened 8th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale this summer in Japan, Ma Yansong, the principal partner of MAD Architects, has shown a new artwork “Flow” It reinvents part of the artwork “Tunnel of Light” that completed in 2018. Art Journey through the Tunnel MAD rebuilds the entrance of Kiyotsu Gorge tunnel.

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2024

Top image: courtesy of the Design Museum Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design 2 September 2023 to 7 July 2024, USA Objects intended to illustrate the circularity of materials feature in the Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design exhibition by New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

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Deezen

JULY 9, 2024

Arrivals is Glastonbury's first dedicated South Asian stage Conceptualised as a cinematic journey to an alien jungle planet, the stage design combines iconography borrowed from pulp classic sci-fi films and comic books within a newly redefined South Asian aesthetic rooted in politics. Orientalism is bedded into sci-fi," Chaudhuri told Dezeen.

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