All Book club articles – Page 5
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Review: Camps: A guide to 21st-century space, by Charlie Hailey
A book about Camps, how much can you write about that? Well, this book – beautifully designed by Emily Gutheinz – with detailed descriptions of numerous camps proves that there is a whole field of research and information about an incredibly diverse and interesting phenomenon commonly known as camps.
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New Forms: Plans and Details for Contemporary Architects, by The Plan
As an architect I am always interested in new forms — excitement and experimentation are grist to the mill.
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Le Corbusier and the Occult by JK Birksted
It has been a good year for Le Corbusier: a retrospective exhibition in Liverpool and London, numerous publications, lectures, movies and all sorts of Corbu-themed events.
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XS Extreme: Big Ideas, Small Buildings by Phyllis Richardson
This is a cute little book full of really imaginative ideas. I loved it. If like me, you are already a fan of the other XS Big Ideas, Small Buildings books, this one is definitely worth a read.
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Earth Architecture, by Ronald Rael
“Today, the most common building material on the planet is classified as alternative or worse, primitive”.
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The Urban Housing Handbook, by Eric Firley and Caroline Stahl
A real treasure trove, the Urban Housing Handbook explores 30 historic models of housing from around the world, alongside modern interpretations.
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Philip Johnson: The Constancy of Change, edited by Emmanuel Petit
To be bad, powerful and morally corrupt is extremely attractive. At least, that is what it was to Philip Johnson, architect, narcissist, erstwhile fascist and New York socialite.
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Maps, by Nigel Peake
The drawings in Nigel Peake’s new collection are all “maps”, though this is not immediately obvious. Thanks to the contents page, we know that real places outnumber Calvino-esque fictions in this book, but the distinction matters little. In every case, what is depicted is a tapestry of imagination-documentary, bounded by ...
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Infill: New Houses for Urban Sites, by Adam Mornement and Annabel Biles
Defined as an industry term for the development of small-scale vacant parcels of land within built-up areas, this book features 39 examples of “infills”, covering projects in Australia, Europe, North America and Asia.
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Outline, by Hammer Schmidt and Lassen Schmidt
The year that saw Schmidt Hammer Lassen named joint winner of the International Criminal Court competition in The Hague also witnessed the publication of its sumptuously minimalist monograph, Outline, a celebration of the practice’s work over the past 16 years.
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World's Greatest Architect: Making, Meaning and Network Culture
You will be surprised when you find out who the titular architect is.
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Nurturing Dreams: Collected Essays on Architecture and the City
The interaction of time and place are recurring themes in this fascinating collection of essays spanning Maki’s 50 years as practitioner, teacher and writer.
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Book Club: December's titles up for review
Titles up for review in December in BD's Book Club range from the specific – such as green roofs – to a sweeping view of world architectural masterpieces.
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Digital by Design
Don't be misled by the title of this book – you won't find any parametric this or BIM that. You will find, however, lots of blurred boundaries and intersections between art and technology.
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Modern Swedish Design: Three Founding Texts
The essays in this volume, translated for the first time into English, are three formative texts of the modern movement in Sweden from the turn of the 19th century to the 1930s.
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Contemporary Housing
With such a general title, I was expecting a much larger book. This is more a compact reference guide to the author’s choice of 100 of the most significant housing projects of the past 10 years.
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More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today
In the midst of all the heated debates about the best way forward during a recession, this book stands out as a testimony to non-conformist design paths that would satisfy any architect's creative intelligence.
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Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century
Like any good puzzle, the planning of a flat has always had something of a compulsive fascination for me. So it was exciting to find a book that brings together such an interesting and eclectic collection of housing plans.
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Micro-Architecture: Lightweight, Mobile and Ecological Buildings for the Future
Those fed up with greenwash and the post-rational greening of projects will find this a refreshing and informative read. It benefits from a lack of tree-hugging, and there’s not a primary-coloured ventilation tower in sight.
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Shift: Sanaa and the New Museum
Shift has a great cover, embossed with a pattern replicating the New Museum’s expamet cladding, but what I enjoyed most about this book is the way it captures something of the spirit of the building, assembling a series of fragments that offer a broad insight into both the design and ...