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

JANUARY 6, 2022

This is exciting: on Tuesday, January 25, 2022, at 5pm PST I'll be presenting my latest book, Buildings in Print , in a free Zoom talk moderated by Frances Anderton. Details via LACMA and AIALA : Author John Hill will present his new book Buildings in Print: 100 Influential and Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books (Prestel, 2021).

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Architecture and its adventurous cousin Interior Design have long since been the keystone of the coffee-table book market, with hundreds of magnificent books published yearly. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more. You deserve it! A refreshing and sensical decision.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 24, 2021

“Its amazing simplicity and economy of style, that seems to have sprung fully fledged from Eames’ head, is a model of perfection in Modern design.” “The Eames House is one of the prime exemplars that have shaped my mind,” he said in a 1989 interview of the Pacific Palisades Home built by the Eameses in 1949.

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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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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 6, 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. emerged in 2023 at the Xinyang Book Market. Order your copy today.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Continuing our mid-century modernism series , we take a look at the iconic Egg chair , which was designed by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen in 1958 for the former SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. It is often said that Jacobsen's inspiration was the 1948 Womb chair, designed by his contemporary, architect Eero Saarinen.

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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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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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Urban Design Associates

JUNE 28, 2024

The breathtaking views and inspiring wildlife bring calm to your daily life. And there is nothing more relaxing than curling up in front of a roaring fire with a glass of wine and a good book. Here are four ways to create a balance between modern design and the classic outdoorsy feel of mountainscapes.

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RMJM Architecture

APRIL 19, 2024

It is the date on which several prominent authors, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died, thus it was a natural choice for UNESCO’s General Conference, in Paris in 1995, to pay a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone to access books.

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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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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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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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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

JANUARY 23, 2024

Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. Published by Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci, in his 1202 book Liber Abaci, it consists of a sequence in which each number is equal to the sum of the two preceding numbers. Architects: Want to have your project featured?

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Bustler

JULY 23, 2023

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced the inaugural winners of its brand-new Architecture Book of the Year Awards. The program honors seven select Category Winners along with three Special Prizes as selected by an esteemed panel of judges from more than 100 entries of architecture books published between 2020 and last year.

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Architizer

AUGUST 18, 2022

Whether you’re nestled under a tree in a local park, reclined poolside in an exotic location, or simply sitting with a glass of something ice cold watching the sun drop down beyond the horizon, spending a few hours with your nose stuck in a captivating book during the long summer days is one of life’s greatest pleasures. On Bramante.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The talisman of the trendy and totems of modernity. Simply having walls of books instead of screens is becoming increasingly popular. Ultimately these choices help interior designers create spaces that function in modern society yet recapture the emotional freedom and sensory richness of the past. Today, society has changed.

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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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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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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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Dwell

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Our kids are our future—teach them to be conscientious and kind to Mother Earth with these sweet, informative children’s books. Readers of all ages will pore over the pages of this spectacular book. A Kids Book About Climate Change Climate change is a topic that can be overwhelming for kids and grownups. And did you know?

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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. The material palette of this room draws inspiration from the modernist Villa Muller by Adolf Loos," the designers said.

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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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Architecture Ideas

DECEMBER 14, 2023

These tables with open or secret storage spaces are perfect for keeping random things like remotes, books, and toys. They magically hide away any clutter such as magazines, remotes, coasters, books, and various stuff. You can place it in front of your sofa, place a small TV on it, or just put your books and magazines.

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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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Architizer

MARCH 7, 2024

Architizer's new image-heavy daily newsletter , The Plug , is easy on the eyes, giving readers a quick jolt of inspiration to supercharge their days. At some point in the school year, a student in my AP Literature class will ask the dreaded question: what is “Modernism?” What kind of truth, though, does modern art speak to?

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The Spaces

MARCH 2, 2022

A guest-suite at The Gessner is available to book for visiting family and friends. Guests can book a two-night trial stay in the block, from £110 per night, to experience all the resident perks before committing or book them for visiting family and friends. Baumhaus is a grand Porto residence with a modern design twist.

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e-architect

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Pingtan Book House, Huaihua Hunan Province, Chinese Commercial Interior Architecture Images. Pingtan Book House in Hunan Province. Pingtan Book House, China. Pingtan Book House – A Traditional Timber House Squeezed with an Infinite Loop of Risers and Treads. 30 Nov 2022. Architects: Condition_Lab.

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Habitus Living

JUNE 26, 2022

While it’s not yet time to consign COVID-19 to the history books, a ‘new normal’ has started to take shape. It requires inspiration. In this context, the Sub-Zero and Wolf showrooms represent a perfect tonic; spaces in which specifiers can free themselves from the cobwebs of lockdown, and be inspired. And it requires engagement.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 18, 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. The design connects past, present and future, offering Lao Ding Feng a modern yet historically rooted home. Order your copy today.

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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. Successor movements like postmodernism and deconstructivism are, for Heatherwick, just modernism in new guises. Order your copy today.

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The Spaces

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Nicknamed Walden—a nod to Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book about simple living in natural surroundings—the leafy two-bedroom oasis uses light and natural materials to foster indoor/outdoor living. The Modern House is listing the serene two-bedroom Camden garden flat for £950,000.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The Eames designers were known for their iconic mid-century modern furniture, which is still widely appreciated and can be seen in a number of contemporary interiors. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive. Photo by Olmo Peeters. Photo by Justin Chung.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A fascinating new book chronicles unorthodox Japanese residential architecture over the past almost 80 years. It might sound like a lot, but this type of open home comes up again and again in Pollock’s book, with a number of residents saying that it helps create family harmony, as well as a sense of fluidity within the residence.

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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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