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'Architecture Books' Opens at Storefront In September last year I attended the Storefront for Art and Architecture\'sÂ Architecture Books / Yet to be Written / 1982-2017-2052 at the Cooper Un... 19-06-2018 22:00	Milstein Center Nears Completion This week I\'m busy with, among other things, preparing for a "critic\'s tour" of Barnard College and Columbia University that I\'ll be giving during ... 13-06-2018 22:03	Transport and Climate Change Every time I fly ? which amounts to three or four round trips per year ? I think about how much fuel planes use to transport people and/or goods from ... 11-06-2018 22:05	Book Review: Cook's Camden Cook\'s Camden: The Making of Modern Housing by Mark SwenartonLund Humphries, 2017Hardcover, 328 pagesBack at the end of 1999 I took a trip with my fa... 10-06-2018 21:59
Book Briefs #36: Biennale Publications "Book Briefs" are an ongoing series of posts with short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that make their way into my library. The... 07-06-2018 21:57	Biennale Slideshow Below is a slideshow of 234 photos from my trip to Venice last month for the 2018 Biennale. The photos move from the International Architecture Exhibi... 07-06-2018 21:57	My Venice Biennale A-Z Last month I went to Venice for the Vernissage of the Venice Architecture Biennale. I\'ve been covering it for World-Architects (the output of myself ... 05-06-2018 21:57	Reporting from Venice I\'m heading to Venice to catch the Vernissage of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and cover it for World-Architects. In turn, this blog will tak... 21-05-2018 21:59
Book Review: Exhibiting the Postmodern Exhibiting the Postmodern: The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale by Léa-Catherine SzackaMarsilio, 2017Paperback, 264 pagesOne week from today the 2018... 19-05-2018 21:57	Film Review: The Proposal Late last month, in a post about dancers at Casa Luis Barragán, I mentioned seeing and reviewing Jill Magid\'s The Proposal. I saw the documentary at ... 17-05-2018 22:01	Today's archidose #1004 Here are some photos of Tencent Seafront TowersÂ (2018) in Shenzhen, China, byÂ NBBJ. (Photographs:Â Fernando Herrera)To contribute your Flickr images... 16-05-2018 21:57	RIP Will Alsop Over the weekend architect Will Alsop died at the age of 70 after a short illness. I\'d written about a couple of his notable buildings on this blog: ... 14-05-2018 22:02
Today's archidose #1003 Here are some photos of Manna House (2014) in Los Angeles by Jeremy Levine Design. (Photographs:Â Tom Bonner)To contribute your Flickr images for cons... 14-05-2018 22:02	Book Review: Revisiting Postmodernism Revisiting Postmodernism by Sir Terry Farrell and Adam Nathaniel FurmanRIBA Publishing, 2017Paperback, 200 pagesAn architect would need to have been a... 09-05-2018 22:01	Today's archidose #1002: '100 Years, 100 Landscape Designs' Although it\'s been more than a few months since my last book, 100 Years, 100 Landscape Designs, came out last fall, I\'d yet to put together a "Today... 08-05-2018 22:01	Drawing Matters Today Morpholio launched "Smart Fill" for its popular TracePro app for iOS. With it came the short video below, with architects talking about why draw... 08-05-2018 22:01
Book Review: WORKac ... 06-05-2018 22:02	Architects and Birdies "Pole vaulting in the chapel, bicycling in the laundromat, sky diving in the elevator shaft"" Might Bernard Tschumi have also asked, "Badminton in Rud... 05-05-2018 21:59	Mark Yr Calendars: Designing Water I just learned about Designing Water, a two-day symposium organized by the American Academy in Rome and Longwood Gardens, and taking place at the latt... 04-05-2018 21:55	Today's archidose #1001 Here are some photos of Summer House in Tisvildeleje, Denmark, by Gehrdt Bornebusch. (Photographs: Flemming Ibsen, who has more in photos of the archi... 01-05-2018 22:01
A Sculpture Garden Next to the High Line On Saturday I gave an architectural walking tour of the High Line, the first time I\'d given the tour since the fall. Since development along the elev... 01-05-2018 22:01	Book Review: Las Torres De Ciudad Satélite Las Torres de Ciudad Satélite by Fernando González GortázarArquine, 2014Paperback, 176 pagesI picked up this book in June 2016 after coming across it ... 27-04-2018 21:57	Dancing with Barragán The timing of this is too good to pass up. Yesterday NOWNESS posted a film byÂ Andres Arochi in which dancers move in slow motion about Luis Barragán\... 25-04-2018 22:00	Curious Minds Seeing this photos ofÂ MUMA Architects\' community center in Cambridge, England, via today\'s Dezeen Daily...[Photo: Alan Williams]...I couldn\'t help... 25-04-2018 22:00
Old+New Book Review: Paul Shepheard What Is Architecture" An Essay on Landscapes, Buildings, and Machines by Paul ShepheardMIT Press, 1994Paperback, 132 pagesBuildings: Between Living Ti... 23-04-2018 22:01	Of Architecture and Pelicans Somehow, in the course of reading email, checking Twitter and doing other things on the computer when I got to work this morning, I got off on the tan... 19-04-2018 21:58	Building Tall in Manhattan, eVolo Style While four honorable mentions in the eVolo 2018 Skyscraper Competition are focused on Manhattan, only one comes close to approaching a traditional sky... 18-04-2018 22:06	Book Briefs #35: Better Late Than Never "Book Briefs" are an ongoing series of posts with two- or three-sentence first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that make their way int... 17-04-2018 21:55
A305 Complete The Canadian Centre for Architecture has just wrapped up posting the series A305, aka "History of Architecture and Design 1890-1939," on its YouTube c... 16-04-2018 21:56	#TBT to NWA Last summer I visited Crystal Bridges of American Art in Bentonville, in Northwest Arkansas, but I didn\'t get around to processing my photographs unt... 12-04-2018 22:00	Are You the Next Eva" Recently the Storefront for Art and Architecture\'s Executive Director and Chief Curator Eva Franch i Gilabert was appointed Director of the Architect... 11-04-2018 22:01	Book Review: The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion by Interboro Partners (Tobias Armborst, Daniel D?Oca, Georgeen Theodore)Actar, 2017Hardcover, 460 pagesBack in 20... 09-04-2018 22:00
Mies, Sitting and Smoking Every architect knows this famous photo of a famous architect:[Mies in his Chicago apartment, 1964, photographed by Werner Blaser]Lately I\'ve noticed... 06-04-2018 22:00	On Arakawa + Gins Last Friday, Columbia GSAPP opened Arakawa and Madeline Gins: Eternal Gradient at the Arthur Ross Gallery, the same day it convened a conference ? Enc... 05-04-2018 22:03	Book Briefs #34 "Book Briefs" are an ongoing series of posts with two- or three-sentence first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that make their way int... 05-04-2018 22:03	MIMOA 2.0 If you\'re like me, when you travel you consult MIMOA, the user-generated website that functions as a guide to modern architecture. The website is par... 03-04-2018 22:00
Eternal Gradient Last night I attended a preview of the new exhibition at Columbia GSAPP\'s Arthur Ross Gallery, Arakawa and Gins: Eternal Gradient. The exhibition ope... 30-03-2018 22:01	AIA Guide to New York City, 50 Years Later Last week I happened upon and bought a first printing of the AIA Guide to New York City. Edited by Norval White and Elliot Willensky, the guide was fi... 29-03-2018 22:05	Today's archidose #1000 Here are some photos of San Cataldo Cemetery (1971) in Modena, Italy, by Aldo Rossi with Gianni Braghieri. (Photographs: Trevor Patt, who has many mor... 26-03-2018 22:03	Stephen Shore's "Uncommon Places" Today Over at World-Architects I did a write-up of Image Building, an exhibition that opened last weekend at the Parrish Art Museum. Some of my favorite ima... 23-03-2018 22:05
Map Review: Concrete Chicago Map Concrete Map Chicago edited by Iker GilBlue Crow Media, 2018Double-sided, 16.54 x 23.39 inchesThink "Chicago architecture" and most likely concrete do... 22-03-2018 22:03	Nice Adaptive Reuse Yesterday, a nice pool struck my fancy. Today it\'s this adaptive reuse project:Â a creamery in Buenos Aires.According to Hitzig Militello Arquitectos... 21-03-2018 22:05	Nice Pool Earlier today I was posting a project to World-Architects ? L\'Accostée House by Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes ? and was particularly taken with ... 20-03-2018 22:06	Today's archidose #999 Here are some photos of Art Museum & Library, Ota (2017) in Gunma, Japan by akihisa hirata architecture office. (Photographs: Ken Lee)To contribute yo... 19-03-2018 22:04
Archidose[dot]org Update Just some URL news: Yesterday was the last day for my archidose.org URL. I\'d had some issues with my webhost in recent years, and it got to the point... 19-03-2018 22:04	Book of the Moment: Castelvecchio One of the highlights of a semester spent in Italy nearly 25 years ago was a visit to Carlo Scarpa\'s Castelvecchio in Verona, Italy. With that, I\'m ... 15-03-2018 22:03	Book Review: Michael Graves: Design for Life ... 14-03-2018 22:02	Today's archidose #998 Here are some photos of Città de SoleÂ (2016) in Rome, Italy, by Labics. (Photographs: Trevor Patt)To contribute your Flickr images for consideration,... 13-03-2018 22:01
Book Review: Empire, State & Building Empire, State & Building by Kiel MoeActar, 2017Hardcover, 264 pagesExactlyÂ four weeks ago, news broke that JPMorgan Chase would be tearing down its 5... 12-03-2018 22:02	Today's archidose #997 Yesterday, Balkrishna Doshi was named the 2018 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. So today I\'m posting photos of a few of his projects, all... 08-03-2018 22:00	'Other' Wins 2018 Pritkzer "Other" being Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi and a reference to my recent poll on guessing the winner of the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Dosh... 07-03-2018 22:00	2018 Pritzker Prize Poll The Pritzker Architecture Prize website is indicating that the announcement of the 2018 laureate will happen on Wednesday, March 7 ? 10am EST to be pr... 23-02-2018 21:58
Renovating NYPL [Rendering of new 40th Street entrance \| Image: Mecanoo/Beyer Blinder Belle]Curious about Mecanoo and Beyer Blinder Belle\'s design for the renovation... 22-02-2018 21:55	Mark Your Calendars: Arakawa + Gins On March 30, Columbia GSAPP is hosting a conference and opening an exhibition, both pertaining to Arakawa and Madeline Gins. Details are below.[Critic... 21-02-2018 21:57	Mark Your Calendars, Updated Way back in February 2015 I posted a heads up on three exhibitionsÂ coming to the Parrish Art Museum ? that barn-shaped building designed by Herzog & ... 19-02-2018 21:58	The Projective Drawing This morning I stopped by the Austrian Cultural Forum New York to check out The Projective Drawing, a new exhibition curated by Brett Littman with ten... 16-02-2018 22:00
Today's archidose #996 Here are a few photos of GLASS (2015) in Miami Beach, Florida, by Rene Gonzalez Architect. (Photos: Maciek Lulko)To contribute your Flickr images for ... 15-02-2018 21:54	Book Review: John Vinci: Life and Landmarks John Vinci: Life and LandmarksÂ by Robert Sharoff, William ZbarenNorthwestern University Press, 2017Hardcover, 272 pagesBeing a preservation architect... 14-02-2018 21:57	Today's archidose #995 Here are a few photos of House Van Wassenhove (1974) in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium, by Juliaan Lampens. (Photos: Lukas Schlatter)A post shared by Luk... 13-02-2018 21:59	Book Review: Neighbourhood: Where Álvaro meets Aldo Neighbourhood: Where Álvaro meets AldoÂ edited by Nuno Grande, Roberto CremascoliHatje Cantz, 2017Paperback, 208 pagesOf the many countries that parti... 10-02-2018 21:56
Book Review: Built Unbuilt Built Unbuilt by Julien De Smedt and Julien LanooFrame Publishers, 2017Paperback, 328 pagesBack in 2011, when I reviewed JDS Architects\' Agenda: Can ... 06-02-2018 21:58	Today's archidose #994 Here are some photos ofÂ La città lineare per Santa CroceÂ (1969) by Zziggurat (Alberto Breschi, Roberto Pecchioli) fromÂ ... 05-02-2018 21:59	Window to the Heart Window to the Heart is on display at Father Duffy Square in Times Square until February 28, 2018.... 03-02-2018 21:57	Candela in Chicago From January 19 to March 3, Félix Candela\'s Concrete Shells: An Engineered Architecture for México and Chicago is on display in Gallery 400 at the Un... 01-02-2018 22:01
Book Review: Krueck + Sexton: From There to Here Krueck +Â Sexton: From There to Here by Krueck +Â Sexton Architects; introduction by John Morris DixonImages Publishing, 2017Hardcover, 272 pagesI\'m ... 31-01-2018 22:01	Richard Ingersoll at urbanNext Although I\'ve spent very little time at urbanNext ? a project by Actar aimed at "expanding architecture to rethink cities" ? recently I found myself ... 30-01-2018 21:58	Today's archidose #993 Here are some photos of Broward County Library (1984) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, by Robert Gatje. (Photos: Maciek Lulko)To contribute your Flickr im... 30-01-2018 21:58	Exhibition Review: Never Built New York As posted previously, earlier this year I visited Queens Museum to seeÂ Never Built New York, curated by Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin. This week I final... 26-01-2018 22:01
Today's archidose #992 Here are some photos of the Hayward and De Breyne Building at Keble CollegeÂ (1977) at the University of Oxford by Ahrends, Burton and Koralek. (Photo... 24-01-2018 22:02	Book Briefs #33: Imminent Commons + 3 "Book Briefs" are an ongoing series of posts with two- or three-sentence first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that make their way int... 23-01-2018 21:59	Book Review: MONU #27 MONU #27 - Small UrbanismReviewed by Claudia ConsonniWhen reading MONU?s issue #27 on Small Urbanism, the exhibition Italy: The New Domestic Landscape... 23-01-2018 21:59	Closing Soon A trio of exhibitions I visited last week: three of them are closing within the next week, while the third one closes next month. All are worth the ef... 21-01-2018 22:10
Book Review: Green Heart Marina One Singapore Green Heart Marina One Singapore?Architecture for Tropical Cities by ingenhoven architectsAedes Architecture Forum, 2017Paperback, 124 pagesWhile in B... 18-01-2018 22:00	Heritage Trails NY, 20 Years Later As an extension of its exhibition,Â MILLENNIUM: Lower Manhattan in the 1990s, the Skyscraper Museum has launched an update of Heritage Trails New York... 17-01-2018 22:01	Today's archidose #991 Here are a couple photos of the Agricultural Rehabilitation Center KRUS "Granit" (1981) in Szklarska Por?ba, Poland, by Stefan Janusz Müller. (Photos:... 16-01-2018 22:02	Due Spring 2019 Last month I signed the contract for my next book with Prestel, tentatively titled NYC Walking Tours. Due to be released in spring 2019, the book coll... 14-01-2018 21:59
18 for 2018 Head on over to World-Architects to see which 18 projects I\'m looking forward to in 2018.... 12-01-2018 22:00	A305 at CCA Followers of this blog probably know I like architecture documentaries, such as ACB\'s informative half-hour features on modern and contemporary build... 11-01-2018 21:59	Book Review: OfficeUS Manual OfficeUS Manual edited byÂ Eva Franch, Ana Milja?ki, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Jacob Reidel, Ashley SchaferLars Müller Publishers, 2017Paperback, 288 p... 10-01-2018 22:04	AIA's 25-Year Award for 2018 goes to... ...Nada. Zilch. That\'s right, for the first time in its nearly 50-year history, the AIA is not giving out a Twenty-five Year Award. I learned that ne... 09-01-2018 22:03
Today's archidose #990 Here are a couple photos of the (new-to-me) Sint Rita Church (1966) in Harelbeke, Belgium, by Léon Stynen and Paul De Meyer. (Photos:Â Lukas Schlatter... 08-01-2018 22:05	Never Built New York Earlier this week I finally made it out to the Queens Museum to see Never Built New York. Curated by Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin, the exhibition is bas... 05-01-2018 22:01	Meet ED Archinect is no stranger to print, having producedÂ Bracket every couple years or so since the inaugural issue in 2010. Regardless, Archinect is makin... 05-01-2018 22:01	Today's archidose #989 Here are some photos of the Vauxhall Cross (2005) bus station and transport interchange in Lambeth, London by Arup Associates. (Photos:Â Artur Salisz.... 02-01-2018 21:59
2017 Highlights This last post of 2017 looks back as some highlights from this year: books I read and reviewed, exhibitions I saw, buildings I visited, and news I cov... 20-12-2017 21:57	Year in Review It\'s December so posts here are pretty slim. Soon I\'ll be adding a post with some of my favorite things -- books, buildings, exhibitions -- from 201... 15-12-2017 21:57	Getty Center Turns 20 The Getty Center, designed by Richard Meier, opened to the public on December 12, 1997. I was fortunate to visit the complex in 2003, writing about Ro... 13-12-2017 21:55	Today's archidose #988 Here are some photos of theÂ Centro BotínÂ (2017) in Santander, Spain, byÂ Renzo Piano Building Workshop. (Photos:Â Ximo Michavila.)To contribute your... 11-12-2017 21:55
Book Briefs #32 "Book Briefs" are an ongoing series of posts with two- or three-sentence first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that make their way int... 08-12-2017 21:53	Glass Tops in Union Square Over the weekend I was running errands around Union Square and came across the construction site for the renovation of the old Tammany Hall building a... 06-12-2017 22:00	Sound in Space Grabbing my morning pastry today, I noticed an enticing sign on the door of the coffee shop:What struck me just as much as the image and the subject o... 05-12-2017 21:52	Today's archidose #987 Here are some photos ofÂ La Muralla RojaÂ (1973) in Calpe, Spain, byÂ Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura . (Photos:Â Lukas Schlatter, who has more ... 04-12-2017 21:54
Old+New Book Review: Complete Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and ProjectsRizzoli, 1998Paperback, 176 pages The Complete Zaha Hadid, Expanded and UpdatedThames & Hudson, 2017Har... 04-12-2017 21:54	Book Review: 100 Buildings 100 BuildingsÂ on Amazon today, the "What other items do customers buy after viewing this item"" section lists one book: mine. This isn\'t surprising,... 30-11-2017 21:54	Today's archidose #986 Here are some photos ofÂ Bishan?Ang Mo Kio ParkÂ (2012) in Singapore by Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl. (Photos:Â Trevor Patt, who has more shots of the par... 29-11-2017 21:56	Disappointment in Berlin One of the buildings I went out of my way to visit on a recent trip to Berlin was Dominique Perrault\'s Velodrome and Swimming Pool, a project I wrote... 28-11-2017 19:59
2017 Holiday Gift Books This year I\'m highlighting 33 books by the same number of publishers, arranged alphabetically by publisher ? from A+A to Zone. Titles and covers link... 22-11-2017 21:37	A Library Lined with Books (Updated) Recently MVRDV, with the Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute, completed theÂ Tianjin Binhai Library, a "cultural center featuring a luminous s... 21-11-2017 21:39	Back from Berlin Last week I was in Berlin covering the World Architecture Festival (WAF) for World-Architects. I had a little bit of free time to venture about the ci... 21-11-2017 21:36	In Berlin Posts on this blog will resume next week. In the meantime, head to World-Architects to ... 16-11-2017 21:35

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