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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Sketching Art Visualization Education 102

Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

As Mexico City art week kicks off, Dezeen has selected 10 exhibitions and showcases in architecture and design, from a collection of architect Alberto Kalach 's notebooks to fairs showcasing collectible and industrial design. Read on for 10 exhibitions to visit during Mexico City art week 2025. 4 to 9 February, Colima 264, Roma Nte.,

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 21, 2022

Daniel Winterbottom, FASLA, sketching outdoors. He calls urban sketching a public act, one of vulnerability and frustration balanced with unique opportunities for dialogue, discovery, and fulfillment. Observation and contemplation of the phenomena and nuances of a scene are critical skills honed specifically through field sketching.

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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

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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Modern Visualization Construction Construction 98

Life of an Architect

JULY 9, 2018

Sketching is a hot topic regardless of the people having the discussion, but I have learned over the last nine years of writing this site that sketching is one of the more hotly contested topics. A friend of mine gave me a handful of tips that made a fundamental change to how my sketches appeared. Almost all of mine are 8.5″

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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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Portland Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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. A recent Seattle house was featured in a New York Times article called " A Modern Home That Looks Toward the Sky and the Water."

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Deezen

JUNE 22, 2024

To mark the release of the Donald Judd Furniture book we have selected six key pieces of furniture designed by the American artist. Created through a collaboration between the Judd Foundation and publisher MACK , the Donald Judd Furniture book documents 104 furniture pieces created by the artist for his New York and Marfa, Texas, properties.

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Foundation Sketching Art Restoration 121

Hotel Designs

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Hotel Designs In conversation with: Wei Xiao (萧威), Founder of Zhengyin Art In conversation with: Wei Xiao (萧威), Founder of Zhengyin Art Zhengyin Art has been dedicated to creating original, elegant artworks that elevate a space. HD: How have you, or your vision, changed since you start creating public art?

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Architizer

JANUARY 17, 2023

For young architecture students and experienced practitioners alike, the book remains a source of inspiration and a constant reminder of the infinite possible experiences inherent to any place. Keep scrolling to see process sketches by the award-winning architectural artist! And so, I am thrilled that this competition even exists.

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Sketching Architect Visualization Cities 98

Shades of Grey

AUGUST 6, 2023

This Caricature is from 1974, sketched in my little pocket notebook from memory. How I wish I could sketch like that now. But he had been my hero since before I went to university, based on a book from Barnsley public library. We studied history of architecture in art classes during my last couple of years at school.

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Dwell

JULY 26, 2024

In the year since, I’ve seen similarly whimsical wall illustrations decorate more and more homes on social media , many of them evoking youthful imagery like simplified sketches of animals or flowers, even in spaces designed explicitly for adults. The bedroom ceiling of this Brooklyn brownstone features sketch-like artwork by Bell.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 5, 2023

A new book from the grandson of the celebrated Finnish architects draws on never-before-published letters and photographs to tell the tale of the couple’s shared legacy. In 1935, Aino and Alvar Aalto cofounded Finnish furniture company Artek with visual arts promoter Maire Gullichsen and art historian Nils-Gustav Hahl.

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Design Sketching Visualization Art 124

Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

While the founder of the contemporary British brand Toogood identifies herself as a designer, with work spanning interiors , objects, furniture , clothing and art , her practice is often referred to as multidisciplinary. I like working in interiors, objects, furniture, clothing and art," she told Dezeen.

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Project Sketching Design Inspiration 141

Architecture Chat

MAY 6, 2019

The edition is complete with the latest syllabus, sketch book, practice tests and NATA study material. It also includes hand sketching tips from human proportions to various geometrical shapes. With this students have access to facility of free evaluation of sketches. Books of all subjects in one place.

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Deezen

JUNE 7, 2022

Dezeen School Shows: a fashion collection that celebrates the designer's Ukrainian roots and an allotment scheme at London's Docklands are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Kingston School of Art. Kingston School of Art. School: School of Design. Partnership content.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Presented in conjunction with her debut monograph, An Atlas of Es Devlin , both exhibition and publication showcased sketches, paintings, small-scale work and more behind 120 projects spanning Devlin's career in set design. An exhibit exploring Es Devlin's career is on display at the Cooper Hewitt.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 22, 2014

Home / Blog / #ArchiSketch #ArchiSketch Bob Borson — June 23, 2014 — 22 Comments As an architect, I tend to communicate through sketching – which is starting to make me a bit of a relic. The rest of my afternoon is starting to look up – all that’s missing is a beer Hashtags used: #sketching.

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Sketching Architect Events Concept 101

Dwell

MARCH 12, 2024

The design was later included in the seminal book The International Style: Architecture Since 1922.) This spring, the Palm Springs Art Museum will become the structure’s permanent site. An exterior sketch of the Aluminaire House by Kocher and Frey in 1931. Lawrence Kocher at Rockefeller Center cafeteria in New York City in 1931.

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Housing Sketching Estimating Art 98

Deezen

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Late film director David Lynch adored design and architecture and mastered the art of wielding it to evocative effect, writes Anthony Paletta. Assessed as a whole, Lynch's career constitutes an idiosyncratic history of architecture and design," Richard Martin wrote in his book The Architecture of David Lynch.

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Architecture Sketching Housing Art 136

Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 12, 2024

Updated and expanded for new grads, with more tech, more cult books, and a few surprising must-haves for the newly minted designer. ” —Bo Zhang, ASLA (Almost) All the Books Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel. “A “As beautiful and inspiring as it is practical.

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The Spaces

JULY 26, 2022

Nearly 15 years later, OPEN’s revolutionary projects include the UCCA Dune Art Museum – a cultural institute planted between pristine dunes on the Gold Coast of Changli in Qinhuangdao (a landscape that would likely be protected if it were in the West). Rooftop/aerial view of the UCCA Dune Art Museum by OPEN. Photography: Zaiye Studio.

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Building Architecture Sketching Landscape 116

Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

x 10) - $15 I’m a big advocate of sketching, despite the fact that I am not particularly adept in my own sketching “style” I get a lot of Moleskine journals as gifts but the one I’ve listed above is my favorite. Since half of my sketches are total clunkers, the cahier journals seem just a bit more forgiving.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

David Drazil Founder of Sketch Like an Architect ; Published Author; Teacher David Drazil is an architect who loves to sketch. David is also an author of three books on architectural sketching. He’s the founder of the SketchLikeAnArchitect.com and a teacher with more than 15,000 online students in his courses.

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Sketching Architecture Education Visualization 107

Architizer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

So if books, buildings and beautiful photographs are your thing, look no further. And, this innovative book is a great way to fuel that interest. From Archidoodle, this interactive book is the first of its kind to provide a fun, engaging way to learn about architecture. In our humble opinion.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Ando and Le Corbusier, Volume 1: Tadao Ando provides a historical overview of Ando’s work for major art institutions in the United States after 2000. REVIEW : Japanese architect Tadao Ando's first project in the United States was completed in 1992, the year after he received a monographic exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Although the word monograph literally applies to any book devoted to any individual subject — be it a person, a place, a thing, or even an idea — in the realm of architecture books that one-word term is used more prevalently, if not strictly, in regards to individual architects and/or firms. A book on Le Corbusier is a monograph.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 1, 2022

These Finalists will then be reviewed by a stellar cast of practitioners and thought leaders from the worlds of architecture, design, art and technology, each with a special connection to drawing. Wines is founder and president of SITE, a New York City -based architecture and environmental arts organization chartered in 1970.

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Sketching Art Education Technology 98

Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Pingback: Architecture and The Art of Getting it Wrong |. The schooling that I received addressed the Art of Architecture, as well has history, etc. Art for the sake of art, creativity for the sake of creating is not what architecture should be. But I am not backing off the bathroom analogy either.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Sketchbooks: Collected Measured Drawings and Architectural Sketches by George Saumarez Smith Triglyph Books , October 2021 Hardcover | 10 x 12-1/2 inches | 240 pages | English | ISBN: 9781916355439 | $55.00 The drawings display a supreme mastery that goes beyond technique and assumes the status of art.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The book compiles some 122 different projects, from her early work at London's National Theatre to designing catwalks for Louis Vuitton and Saint Laurent , two different Olympic ceremonies, various operas, a Superbowl halftime show and installations for the Tate Modern and the V&A. It was too many projects.

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Design Sketching Modern Exterior 118

Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Over that last few years, I’ve included a book section as part of my “What to Give an Architect for Christmas” list … and they have always been the most purchased items. This shouldn’t come as any surprise considering that most all architects like love books. O’Hara PE (Author) An exam book?

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Architect Sketching Residential Housing 81

Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” October 26th, 2012 “This is what my office did for lunch” #beer and napkin #sketches. 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.

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Deezen

JUNE 5, 2024

Virginia Commonwealth University Institution: Virginia Commonwealth University School: School of Arts Course: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design Tutors: Christopher Fink, Chair and Federica Visani School statement: "Behind the Seen was an immersive fashion show organised by VCUarts Qatar's Fashion Design Class of 2024. "In

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Iranian-French architect India Mahdavi has put her characteristic maximalist spin on PoMo, a contemporary art museum in Trondheim , Norway, with a salmon-pink gift shop and a mandarin-hued staircase. The pair sought to balance the building's history with references to Trondheim's skyline and Norwegian folk art and craftsmanship.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Makes me want to get out my sketch book and try and start working on my own delineation skills. Cheers Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Design Architects , architectural sketching , architectural technology , design Reading between the Lines What to Get an Architect for.

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