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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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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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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Dwell

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While the Star Trek franchise has evolved over the years, expanding into various TV series, films, video games, comic books, and more, its overall look has endured.

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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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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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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

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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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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Architizer

OCTOBER 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. The post The Sole Practitioner: Centerfield Studio Builds Architecture for Modern Life appeared first on Journal.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 10, 2024

I dusted off one of the old books from my collection this weekend. If I understand Hubbard’s thesis correctly, Complicity and Conviction was his critique of contemporary architecture at the height of the 1970s-1980s modernism vs. post-modernism debate. professor William Hubbard a challenge to read.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Deezen

OCTOBER 15, 2024

We should bring back the holistic approach and interdisciplinary ethos of the mid-century modern designers, argues Dominic Bradbury as part of our mid-century modern design series. There are many magical ingredients that, mixed together, help to explain the enduring resonance of mid-century modern design.

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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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Architizer

NOVEMBER 1, 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. The post Modern Vernacular: Emerging Firm of the Year Studio Toggle on Pioneering Cross-Cultural Architecture appeared first on Journal.

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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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Building and Interiors

MAY 21, 2022

On the inside, the area is warmed by timber woodwork, and a window seat tucked into the corner offers a discreet spot to read a book while sipping tea. . The inspiration for the project came from the natural active components, such as the sloping topography, insolation, ventilation, views, and the ecological sensitivity of the homeowners.

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SW Oregon Architect

APRIL 2, 2023

His main inspirations to create are light and the built environment. Secondly, the Art Deco style is characterized by a unique combination of classic elegance and modernity. He plans to release a coffee table book before the end of this year, something I eagerly look forward to buying. Check out Chris’ work at [link].

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