All Book club articles – Page 2
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Book Club review: The Life of the British Home: An Architectural History by Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren
An attempt to chart the development of the British home falls flat
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Book Club review: Explore everything: Place-hacking the City by Bradley Garrett
Attempting to apply a heavy theoretical justification to urban place-hacking might be a bit of a stretch, but this book still manages to challenge conceptions about the limits of the city
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Book Club review: Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice by Eric J Cesal
Down Detour Road paints an accurate picture of the architecture profession
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New titles to review in January's architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of five new titles, covering topics from architecture’s relation to modernity to Dutch post war era master, Hugh Maaskant
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Book Club Review: The Houses of Louis Kahn by George H. Marcus and William Whitaker
Despite the plethora of books already published on Kahn, this one manages to offer something new
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Book Club Review: Key Interiors Since 1900 by Graeme Brooker
Personal observations and detailed research take this book beyond a simple collection of projects
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Book Club Review: China’s Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual and Response in Nanjing by Charles D. Musgrove
A rich and refined account of the ‘Nanjing Decade’ with chapters so thorough they could stand alone
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Book Club Review: Innovative Houses: Concepts for Sustainable Living by Avi Friedman
A good overview of environmental dwellings let down by a lack of consistency in the details
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Book Club Review: Parametric Design for Architecture by Wassim Jabi
A promising handbook struggles to pitch itself at the right level
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New titles to review in December's architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of five new titles, covering topics from the history of the British home to the way we’ll live next - the aerotropolis
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Book Club Review: Weather Architecture by Jonathan Hill
Hill’s arument may contain some incontinuities, but his passion for user-based design shines through
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Book Club Review: Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea by Inha Jung
An insightful study of Korea’s struggle to maintain tradition and consistency against the unstoppable force of modernisation
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New titles to review in November's architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of five new titles, covering topics from interior design and sustainable homes to Louis Kahn and China’s contested capital
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Book Club Review: The View from the Train, by Patrick Keiller
Keiler’s essays have been published before, but this collection brings new clarity to his work
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Book Club Review: Living Architectures: Xmas Meier
Local residents obsess over Richard Meier’s Jubilee Church in the suburbs of Rome
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Book Club Review: Living Architectures: Gehry's Vertigo
Helmet-mounted cameras provide a vertiginous trip up Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao
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Book Club Review: Living Architectures: Koolhaas Houselife
Housekeeper Guadalupe gives a sharp assessment of Rem Koolhaas’ Maison Bordeaux
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Book Club Review: Living Architectures: Inside Piano
The fifth book in the Living Architectures series which looks at the experiential qualities of three Renzo Piano buildings
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New titles to review in October's architecture book club
Join BD’s Book Club for a chance to review one of five new titles, covering topics from Korea and Patrick Keiller to weather architecture and parametric design
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Book Club Review: Kabbalah in Art and Architecture, by Alexander Gorlin
A visual story of the Kabbalah’s influence on contemporary architecture and visual culture