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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Finances Housing Architect Cities 122

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. Crafted with Eric’s exacting eye, every edge, corner and surface of the Writer’s Studio has been carefully considered."

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Inspiration Civil Engineering Glass Engineering 128

Archinect

JUNE 26, 2023

His buildings have inspired admiration, sometimes devotion. He has also been vigorously attacked, as a mechanistic fanatic whose ideas inspired inhumane tower blocks and concrete jungles. Le Corbusier was to architecture what Picasso was to painting, a towering and egomaniacal creative force who transformed his discipline for ever.

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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

APRIL 28, 2023

The book explores the history of these ephemeral spaces in club culture. He explains in the book’s introduction: “Club movements are born as causes, in DIY spaces, created out of necessity by marginalised peoples.

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Engineering Engineering Design Inspiration 264

Deezen

JUNE 4, 2024

MAB3 and Zénite have collaborated on a São Paulo library Local studio MAB3 architecture office designed the library with "comfortable, playful and ergonomically designed spaces to house the vast physical collection of books," while Zénite Arquitetura & Construção brought the project to life in a matter of 45 days.

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Deezen

JUNE 19, 2024

Promotion: works ranging from the subtle and elegant to the bold and bespoke feature among the line-up from accessory and object designers showing at Look Book 2024, a part of ICFF in New York. The artist and designer is now based in New Haven, Connecticut, and showcased mirrors, lamps, stools and wall objects at Look Book.

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Design Events Inspiration Materials 110

Deezen

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Book now before ticket sales end! Each of the five evolving shapes marks a new stage, illustrating how collaboration, diverse perspectives, and growth transform a simple idea into a powerful creation that resonates and inspires across the world." Book your tickets before sales end › Questions?

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Real Estate Events Inspiration Restoration 103

Architizer

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. I have long known that Virginia Savage McElster’s book on vernacular American domestic architecture is as essential as air to anyone who loves historic homes. It also doesn’t seem adequate to the book, whose most important virtue is not usefulness.

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Housing Inspiration Environment Home 101

The Spaces

MAY 13, 2024

Now, she’s taken her expansive project offline with a new book that celebrates the intersection of Brutalism and the natural world. Brutalism has a bad rep for being cold and austere, but Olivia Broome has spent years documenting the softer, greener side of concrete on her Instagram account, Brutalist Plants.

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Nature Visualization Engineering Engineering 122

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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Manufacturing Design Technique Information 105

Archinect

MAY 13, 2022

A new book arts exhibition from celebrated notebook maker Moleskine is now on view at One World Trade Center’s One World Observatory , marking the first public exhibition of artwork in the attraction’s seven-year history. Each notebook tells a different story, dream, or “distinctive way of being and relating to the world.

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Foundation Architect Art Inspiration 264

Archinect

JANUARY 27, 2023

What struck me when I went back to reread the book is how deliberately it works to collapse the distance, and therefore the distinction, between enthusiasm and skepticism, and ultimately between documentation and critique.

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Foundation Inspiration Cities Architect 290

Dwell

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

There are few things more satisfying than leafing through a beautifully designed and thoughtful book about a subject that is dear to your heart, as design is to mine. The books on this list are a great resource for anyone interested in design, architecture, color, or the way all three inform the way we look at the world around us.

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Design Art Education Visualization 98

Archinect

AUGUST 22, 2022

Yesterday's date, August 21st, occupies a unique place in architectural and design history as the day when Charles and Ray Eames both passed away, separated by a decade (1978 and 1988), respectively.

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Design Inspiration Architecture 246

SW Oregon Architect

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Eugene Public Library (photo credit: Eckert & Eckert) This is another in my series of posts inspired by 1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning blog written by Neil Pasricha. 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.

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Architecture Inspiration Materials Structure 217

Dwell

MAY 11, 2023

Indulging in a more elevated experience hadn’t occurred to me until I heard about the A-Frame Club , a new ’70s-inspired property in Winter Park’s Old Town. The hotel had been open less than two months when we booked our trip, and only a few of the cabins were ready. We were excited to be getting in on the ground floor.

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Inspiration Recruitment Mining Roofing 135

The Spaces

JUNE 24, 2024

Visitors can book a session via the Oslo Sauna Association’s website. The Trosten Sauna opened to the public last month.

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Inspiration Exterior Roofing Structure 105

Deezen

DECEMBER 9, 2024

It features smaller shelves at the top and lower, sturdier shelves for heavier books. The exhibition is on until 14 December in London Aram hopes that the exhibition can inspire visitors' creativity whilst highlighting the possibilities of the USM Haller system.

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Inspiration Events Concept Home 97

English Buildings

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This collection contains over 40,000 objects paintings, drawings, sculptures, architectural fragments, plus thousands of books. This new book by Bruce Boucher, former Director of Sir John Soanes Museum, is the account we have been waiting for. The latter especially are arranged with a theatrical flair that takes the breath away.

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Housing Inspiration Architect Contemporary 52

Deezen

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The recently released 100 Women: Architects in Practice book showcases the work of 100 architects from around the world. This book aims to be a small part in the process of correcting that imbalance, while also looking at what architecture is, who it is for and what it can do."

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Architect Government Environment Inspiration 143

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. Daniel Toole ( Daniel Toole Architect ). . BY BRIAN LIBBY. What is your favorite building project that you’ve worked on? .

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Architect Firms Permits Modern 236

Deezen

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

While using books for interior decoration is not a new idea, it has been brought back into focus by a now-viral TikTok video posted in December by San Diego-based interior designer Kailee Blalock. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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Interior Renovation Art Home 137

Deezen

APRIL 1, 2023

For book lovers, storage can quickly become a problem. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive. For more inspiration see previous lookbooks featuring bathrooms with sunken baths , bedrooms with regal four-poster beds and interiors with natural materials and timeless accents.

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Home Visualization Inspiration Housing 145

Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

The featured designs range in size, shape and material, from a wooden shelf built into a headboard to a simple stack of books, demonstrating the variety of options available to people seeking a perfect bedside unit. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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SW Oregon Architect

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Notre Dame du Haut, by Le Corbusier (photo by Pino Musi, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) This is another in my series of posts inspired by 1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning blog written by Neil Pasricha. The moment or inspiration that ignites the design process in architecture—the creative spark—is only the beginning.

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Architecture Inspiration Technology Technology 200

Architizer

OCTOBER 15, 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. He published nearly forty books, with his writings starting as early as 1910. Order your copy today.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 28, 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. Order your copy today. There is no shortage of Medieval archways, Baroque façades and Gothic spires in the historic city of Prague.

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Architecture Inspiration Contemporary Modern 123

SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 10, 2024

I dusted off one of the old books from my collection this weekend. The interdisciplinary approach of Complicity and Conviction , drawing inspiration from unconventional sources like scenographic architecture, typography, games, and laws, did nothing if not underscore the complexity of Hubbard's argument.

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Architecture Modern Contemporary Structure 189

SW Oregon Architect

APRIL 30, 2023

Booked for the Evening 2023. The Eugene Public Library Foundation’s premier annual fundraising event, Booked for the Evening , took place yesterday evening at the downtown Eugene Public Library. The Foundation chose the downtown Library itself as the venue for Booked 2023. The reason?

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Foundation Management Cities Building 196

Architizer

JULY 1, 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. Both of these inspiring projects are hard to capture in photographs, which is perhaps a sign of their brilliance.

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Architecture Modern Inspiration Environment 123

Deezen

MARCH 19, 2024

The second film continues to explore the book's themes of colonialism, environmentalism and religion as its warring factions battle for control over the resource-rich desert planet of Arrakis. What's fascinating about the book, for the design aspect of it, is that it doesn't give you all the answers," Vermette told Dezeen.

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Architect Design Inspiration Nature 138

Deezen

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Each cover's colours were directly inspired by the topic of each issue, represented by a combination of contrasting tones that were selected through careful testing. "A Buildings age, they transform or get demolished; people from the future will be able to read architecture like pages of a history book or a visual archive of society."

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Building Architecture Design Visualization 116

Architizer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture is a stunning, hardbound compendium of the world’s most inspiring buildings. 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. This winter season, it’s our turn.

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Architect Design Inspiration Sketching 135

Deezen

MAY 16, 2024

The Alchemist collection , which encompasses pendants lights, chandeliers and wall sconces, was informed by the designer's reading of Brazilian author Paulo Coelho's book The Alchemist and references themes of "astrology, mythology and folklore". Tables were also placed around the space to hold books, candles and an antique globe.

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Information Installation Inspiration Cities 111

Archinect

AUGUST 14, 2023

The dazzling home’s exterior blends bronze, book-matched travertine with Japanese white oak for an extra touch of elegance. An air of indoor-outdoor synergy also inspires and informs this unique residence. At the main level, formal dining and living room areas majestically stand side-by.

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Archinect

JULY 20, 2023

Paper has become an important component of books and publications because of its softness. Returning to the theme of the invitation, "Archive," we aimed to extract inspiration and express design concepts from the magazine itself. As a magazine that combines design and art, Design Anthology ( da ) itself is like an archive.

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