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2023 in Architecture Books, So Far

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

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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On Case Studies

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

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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Teaching Practical Geometry

Jane Griswold Radocchia

The barn was deconstructed about 10 years ago. The deconstruction contractor gave me the board. Here, the points divide the large square into 9 small squares - the diagram used on cellphones - or 3 equal rectangles. I ended with these Lines in Sebastiano Serlio's Book I, c. I brought my daisy wheel with me.

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Architectural Tricks of the Trade | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Graphic Standards - Part 2 Deconstruction versus. link] Bob Borson awesome and educational – win win Brett Wolfe the video shows the way they made us do it in germany… it’s even documented in their graphic standards book. Architects , architects office , video , what? mattwardman Folding an 8.75

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Rereading the Nineties

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Needless to say, Prairie Avenue Bookshop helped define the architecture-book side of the 1990s for me — both as a student and as a young architect. When it came time to research and write Buildings in Print , I kicked myself for not keeping the old "tour de force" catalogs from Prairie Avenue.