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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Deezen

JANUARY 26, 2025

Not everyone has the space for a library, but adding bookshelves to a home whether it's just for storing books or to also display artworks and sculptures is an easy way to help create cosy, creative interiors. The bookshelves in this lookbook range from simple, low shelves that run along the floor to tall floor-to-ceiling book walls.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For the fifteenth and last time on this blog, I'm highlighting my favorite books of the year , selected from the many books I reviewed or featured as "Book Briefs" on this blog, and the few titles that I reviewed at World-Architects. Until then, warm holiday wishes!

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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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Archinect

JULY 15, 2022

The hard work and dedication to the profession were recently recognized, among other accolades, by The Architectural League of New York with a coveted Emerging Voices award.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

A new book explores the legacy of an often-overlooked architectural style born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital. Meanwhile, intricately carved interior doors play off more modern elements, like the concrete latticework sunshade known as a panjara , which can be found in a number of Uzbekistan’s modernist buildings.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 27, 2023

Philip Johnson, the first winner of the shiny award, made his view clear: “Architecture is art, nothing else.” Essays, magazines, and books have delighted in the foibles, verbal and sartorial, of celebrated architects, the hats, and eyeglasses of genius.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2025

The next art deco icon in our Art Deco Centenary series is the streamlined Chrysler Airflow a revolutionary car that pioneered aerodynamic automobile design. The carmaker had already made itself a major part of the art deco story with its development of the Chrysler Building in New York.

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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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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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Dwell

MARCH 4, 2025

A new book deep dives into the Palm Springs School of Architecture, unpacking how the California desert became integral to the work of the midcentury movements masters. Extreme climate has helped shape modern architecture from its beginnings. Such technical knowledge shaped Freys modern buildings. Stewart Williams, 1960.

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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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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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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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Dwell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Hartman and Amale Andraos, a New York designer and former dean at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, are the authors of new book The Women Who Changed Architecture, a collective biography highlighting 122 architects from 28 countries whose works have significantly influenced the trajectory of the built environment.

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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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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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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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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

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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Portland Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A recent Seattle house was featured in a New York Times article called " A Modern Home That Looks Toward the Sky and the Water." He has also received a series of commissions in the Miami Design District in 2018 (in collaboration with SB Architects), years after publishing a book on his alleyway explorations, Tight Urbanism , in 2010.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Project Details: Location: Los Angeles, California Architect: Dan Brunn Architecture / @ dbarchitecture Photographer: Brandon Shigeta / @ bshigeta From the Architect: " Honoring the beauty of the original midcentury-modern home and elevating it to current day living conditions, Dan Brunn incorporated unique touches for Amy Tangerine and her family.

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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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Dwell

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It also graced the cover of the book ‘Legendary Homes of the Minneapolis Lakes’ by Karen Melvin and Bette Hammel. Inside, the home features curved walls, translucent glass block windows, and modern furnishings, artwork, and Art Deco influences throughout. An Exceptional Full-Floor Apartment in San Francisco Lists for $10.5M

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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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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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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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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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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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SW Oregon Architect

APRIL 2, 2023

What caught my eye was a collection of his stunning images of Art Deco towers, part of a larger project to document historic skyscrapers across the USA entitled the Highrises Collection. Chris’s visual art developed alongside his growing skills as a designer, and this architectural influence is integral to his work.

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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The series is my meditation on the awesome reasons why I was and continue to be attracted to the art of architecture. The design team envisioned the library not just as a repository for books but as a civic landmark, a place for learning, connection, and quiet reflection. And yet, I am optimistic about its future.

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e-architect

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The Impermanent: Four Takes on the Collection focuses on the ways artists from around the world have made sense of modernism and its political, economic, and artistic implications. The themes are: “Banner: Engagement, Realism and Political Art,” presenting artworks directly engaged in political debate.

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Deezen

MAY 12, 2023

Dezeen School Shows: a project that explores linguistic pronunciation and an installation that critiques internet "how-to guides" are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Maryland Institute College of Art. Together, these objects ask individuals to pause and contemplate amidst the modern focus on speed and productivity."

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Aric Gitomer Architect

MAY 19, 2022

This movement was in response to the classical ideals in architecture and art that had dominated the previous centuries. The style gained popularity in the United States of America in the 1840s owing to the books published by Alexander Jackson Davis who presented this style as an alternative to the Greek Revival and Gothic styles.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Continuing our mid-century modern design series , we explore Japanese-American designer Isamu Noguchi 's Akari lamps made from Japanese washi paper, which remain a staple in stylish interiors to this day. The Akari lamps were designed by Noguchi, who began his career as an artist after dropping out of his premedical studies.

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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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