Post-pandemic Urbanism
Post-pandemic UrbanismEdited by Doris Kleilein, Friederike MeyerJovis, December 2021Paperback | 5-3/4 x 8-1/4Â inches | 192 pages | 50 illustrations |...
20-06-2022 21:34
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Three Reviews on World-Architects
In lieu of a new review this week (I have deadlines keeping me from doing one), below are links to three book reviews I wrote this year for World-Arch...
13-06-2022 21:36
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Hutong Metabolism
Hutong Metabolism: ZAO/standardarchitectureWith contributions by Farrokh Derakhshani, Mohsen Mostafavi, Kenneth Frampton, Martino Stierli, Nondita Cor...
06-06-2022 21:36
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Buildings in Print Giveaway!
Archinect is giving away five copies ? yes, five! ? of my latest book, Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books ...
02-06-2022 21:33
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Book Briefs #43
an ambitious treatise that combines stories from daily life in Syria with observations of cities such as Detroit, Helsinki, Bristol, Beirut, Dubai, an...
30-05-2022 21:33
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Archives Universum 01
Archives Universum 01: Flores & PratsCarlos Quintáns C2C Proyecto Editorial, December 2021Paperback | 6-1/2 x 9-1/4 inches | 148 pages | English/Span...
23-05-2022 21:54
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Architecture of Normal
Architecture of Normal: The Colonization of the American LandscapeDaniel KavenBirkhäuser, February 2022Hardcover | 8-1/2 x 11 inches | 456 pages | 450...
09-05-2022 21:32
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At the 2022 Book Fair
Yesterday the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair opened to the public, the first of its four days at the Park Avenue Armory on Manhattan\'s ...
22-04-2022 21:31
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Alison & Peter Smithson: Hexenhaus
Alison & Peter Smithson: Hexenhaus: A House for a Man and a CatEdited by A&P Smithson Hexenhaus-ArchivWalther König, November 2021Paperback | 8-3/4 x ...
18-04-2022 21:36
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Book Briefs #42
Here is the 42nd installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books ...
11-04-2022 21:35
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Who's Next"
Who\'s Next" Homelessness, Architecture, and CitiesEdited by Daniel Talesnik and Andres LepikArchiTangle, November 2021Hardcover | 10 x 12 inches | 27...
04-04-2022 21:31
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The Women Who Changed Architecture
The Women Who Changed ArchitectureEdited by Jan Cigliano HartmanPrinceton Architectural Press, March 2022Hardcover | 7-1/2 x 10 inches | 336 pages | E...
28-03-2022 21:36
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Book Briefs #41: Six Monographs
I\'ve decided to bring back "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that p...
21-03-2022 21:33
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Me, Presenting 'Buildings in Print'
AIA Los Angeles has uploaded my January 25th virtual book talk to their YouTube channel. In it I present Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiri...
17-03-2022 21:37
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Two British Biographies
Ian Nairn: Words in Placeby Gillian Darley and David McKieFive Leaves Publications, November 2013Hardcover | 6 x 9 inches | 160 pages | 21 illustratio...
14-03-2022 21:34
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Two Louis Sullivan Books
Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan\'s Lost MasterpieceEdited by Jon Vinci, with contributions by Tim Samuelson, Eric Nordstrom, Chris WareAl...
07-03-2022 21:59
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Negotiating Ungers
negotiating ungers: the aesthetics of sustainabilityEdited by Common Room and Cornelia EscherCommon Books, 2019Paperback | 4-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches | 224...
28-02-2022 21:31
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Vacant Spaces NY
Vacant Spaces NYMichael Meredith, Hilary Sample, MOSActar Publishers, October 2021Paperback | 6 x 9 inches | 608 pages | English | ISBN: 9781948765992...
21-02-2022 21:32
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Two Interior Design Books
Interior Design since 1900, Fourth Editionby Anne MasseyThames & Hudson, April 2020Paperback | 6 x 8-1/4 inches | 272 pages | 229 illustrations | Engl...
13-02-2022 21:30
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An Alphabet of Architectural Models
An Alphabet of Architectural ModelsEdited by Teresa Frankhänel, Olivia Horsfall Turner, Simona Valeriani, Matthew WellsMerrell, October 2021Flexicover...
07-02-2022 21:34
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Temple and Teahouse in Japan
Temple and Teahouse in Japanby Werner BlaserBirkhäuser, October 2021 (New edition)Hardcover (also available in paperback) | 9-1/4 x 12 inches | 172 pa...
31-01-2022 21:33
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Favorite Books of 2021
This year I featured nearly 200 architecture books on this blog, placing them into one of six day-of-the-week categories: Monograph Monday, Technical ...
27-01-2022 21:35
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Book Talk Reminder
There is no book review this week, since I\'ve been busing preparing for the book talk I\'ll be giving for AIALA and LACMA tomorrow evening. Details a...
24-01-2022 21:55
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Until Proven Safe
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantineby Geoff Manaugh and Nicola TwilleyMCD × FSG, July 2021Hardcover | 5-3/4 x 8-1/2 inches | 416 p...
17-01-2022 21:32
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The Culture Factory
The Culture Factory: Architecture and the Contemporary Art Museumby Richard J. WilliamsLund Humphries, January 2022Paperback | 5-1/4 x 8 inches | 144 ...
10-01-2022 21:35
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The Best Illustrated Architecture Books
Fine Books & Collections has an interview I did with Rebecca Rego Barry, in which I talk about Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illu...
07-01-2022 21:33
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Book Talk on January 25
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 F...
06-01-2022 21:31
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Changes to This Blog in 2022
It\'s been three years since this blog transitioned from A Daily Dose of Architecture to A Daily Dose of Architecture Books, focusing exclusively on r...
02-01-2022 21:32
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Favorite Architecture Books of 2021
This year I featured nearly 200 architecture books on this blog, placing them into one of six day-of-the-week categories: Monograph Monday, Technical ...
22-12-2021 21:33
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Piranesi Unbound
Piranesi Unboundby Carolyn Yerkes and Heather Hyde MinorPrinceton University Press, September 2020Hardcover | 9 x 11-1/2 inches | 240 pages | 193 illu...
17-12-2021 21:32
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Apartment Blossom
Apartment Blossomby Li Han and Jin QiuyeDonghua University Press, January 2021Paperback | 5-1/4 x 7-1/4 inches | 176 pages | Chinese/English | ISBN: 9...
16-12-2021 22:03
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Architecture Unbound
Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Gardeby Joseph GiovanniniRizzoli, November 2021Hardcover | 9 x 11 inches | 876 pages | 698 ill...
16-12-2021 22:03
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The Architecture of Health
The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignityby Michael P. Murphy with Jeffrey Mansfield and MASS Design GroupCooper Hew...
10-12-2021 21:33
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Santa Fe Modern
Santa Fe Modern: Contemporary Design in the High Desertby Helen Thompson, photographs by Casey DunnThe Monacelli Press, November 2021Hardcover | 8 x 1...
09-12-2021 21:37
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The Work
The Work: Architecture, Urban Design, Drawings and Sculpturesby Rob KrierBirkhäuser, August 2021Hardcover (2 volumes) | 10 x 12 inches | 1,344 pages (...
06-12-2021 22:03
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MAD Dinner
MAD Dinnerby MAD.exe office (Ma Yansong, Yosuke Hayano, Dang Qun); edited by Brendan McGetrick, Chen ShuYuActar Publishers, July 2008Paperback | 8 x 9...
05-12-2021 21:35
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Sigurd Lewerentz?Pure Aesthetics
Sigurd Lewerentz?Pure Aesthetics:Â St Mark?s Church, StockholmConcept and photography by Karin Björkquist and Sébastien CorbariPark Books, October 202...
03-12-2021 21:33
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Contemporary House India
Contemporary House Indiaby Robert Gregory, with photographs by Edmund SumnerThames & Hudson, November 2021Hardcover | 9-1/4 x 11-3/4 inches | 272 page...
01-12-2021 21:54
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MAD Rhapsody
MAD Rhapsodyby Ma YansongRizzoli Electa, November 2021Hardcover | 10-1/4 x 12-1/2 inches | 288 pages | English | ISBN: 9780847869626 | $75.00PUBLISHER...
29-11-2021 21:32
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Thanksgiving Break
Thanksgiving is on Thursday so this blog is taking the week off. Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving, so here\'s one suggestion: my latest book...
21-11-2021 21:32
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Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture: An Ethnography of Designby Albena Yaneva010 Publishers, December 2009Hardcover | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inche...
20-11-2021 21:54
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Sandfuture
Sandfutureby Justin BealThe MIT Press, September 2021Paperback | 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 inches | 257 pages | 22 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780262543095 |...
19-11-2021 21:33
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Canadian Architecture
Canadian Architecture: Evolving a Cultural Identityby Leslie JenFigure 1 Publishing, November 2021Hardcover | 8-3/4 x 11-1/2 inches | 224 pages | Engl...
17-11-2021 21:33
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OMA NY
OMA NY: Search Termby Shohei Shigematsu, Jason LongRizzoli, October 2021Paperback | 8 x 11 inches | 676 pages | 5,565 illustrations | English | ISBN: ...
15-11-2021 21:56
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Theoretical Practice
Theoretical Practiceby David ChipperfieldArtemis London Limited, 1994Hardcover | 6 x 8-1/4 inches | 191 pages | English | ISBN: 9783760884233 | $45.00...
13-11-2021 22:01
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Louis Kahn
Louis Kahn: The Importance of a DrawingEdited by Michael MerrillLars Müller Publishers, October 2021Hardcover | 9-1/2 x 11-3/4 inches | 512 pages | 91...
11-11-2021 21:34
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Inagawa Cemetery Chapel and Visitor Centre Designed by David
Inagawa Cemetery Chapel and Visitor Centre Designed by David ChipperfieldEdited by Olivia Lawrence Bright, Chinatsu Kuma, Cecilia SundströmWalther Kön...
10-11-2021 21:34
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Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry: The Masterpiecesby Jean-Louis CohenCahiers d\'Art/Flammarion, November 2021Hardcover | 9-3/4 x 12-1/4 inches | 384 pages | 480 illustrati...
08-11-2021 21:35
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Sketchbooks
Sketchbooks: Collected Measured Drawings and Architectural Sketchesby George Saumarez SmithTriglyph Books, October 2021Hardcover | 10 x 12-1/2 inches ...
05-11-2021 21:33
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The Architectural Models of Theodore Conrad
The Architectural Models of Theodore Conrad:Â The "Miniature Boom" of Mid-Century Modernismby Teresa FankhänelBloomsbury Visual Arts, July 2021Paperba...
04-11-2021 21:34
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The Kinetic City & Other Essays
The Kinetic City and Other Essaysby Rahul MehrotraArchiTangle, August 2021Hardcover | 6 x 9 inches | 352 pages | 300 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9...
03-11-2021 21:33
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Breuer's Bohemia
Breuer?s Bohemia:Â The Architect, His Circle, and Midcentury Houses in New Englandby James CrumpThe Monacelli Press, September 2021Hardcover | 8-3/4 x...
01-11-2021 21:32
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Two Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect Should Know
Two Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect Should Knowby Michael SorkinPrinceton Architectural Press, November 2021Hardcover | 5 x 7 inches | 144 pages...
29-10-2021 21:32
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Building Bad
Building Bad: How Architectural Utility is Constrained by Politics and Damaged by Expressionby Jonathan OchshornLund Humphries, September 2021Hardcove...
28-10-2021 21:33
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Reconstructing the Stockholm Exhibition 1930
Reconstructing the Stockholm Exhibition 1930by Atli Magnus SeelowArkitektur Förlag/Chalmers Institute of Technology, May 2016Paperback | 7-1/2 x 10-1/...
27-10-2021 21:31
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Are We Human"
Are We Human" Notes on an Archaeology of Designby Beatriz Colomina and Mark WigleyLars Müller Publishers, January 2017Paperback | 4-1/4 x 7 inches | 2...
23-10-2021 21:31
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The Evolving Project
The Evolving Project:Â The Journal of Architectural Education and the Expansion of ScholarshipEdited by Igor Marjanovi?, Marc J. Neveu, Sara StevensOR...
22-10-2021 21:34
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All the Queens Houses
All the Queens Houses: An Architectural Portrait of New York?s Largest and Most Diverse Boroughby Rafael Herrin-FerriJovis, October 2021Paperback | 4-...
20-10-2021 21:38
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Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office: Thresholdsby Rossana Hu, Lyndon NeriThames & Hudson, August 2021Hardcover | 8-3/4 x 11 inches | 352 pages | 500+ i...
18-10-2021 21:35
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Autumn Break
The Halloween decorations in my neighborhood this year are quite impressive!I\'m taking this week off ? my first break since July. Posts will resume o...
10-10-2021 21:33
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Palladio
Palladioby James S. AckermanPenguin Books, 1976 (2nd edition)Paperback | 5 x 7 inches | 196 pages | 96 illustrations | English | ISBN: 0140208453 | $6...
09-10-2021 21:33
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Architecture
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergencyby Barnabas CalderPelican Books, October 2021Hardcover | 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 inches | 576 pages | English ...
07-10-2021 21:36
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Antarctic Resolution
Antarctic ResolutionEdited by Giulia Foscari / UNLESSLars Müller Publishers, August 2021Hardcover | 7-3/4 x 10-1/4 inches | 992 pages | 1,255 illustra...
06-10-2021 21:32
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Gesture and Response
Gesture and Response:Â 25 Buildings by William Pedersen of KPF Architectsby William PedersenORO Editions, March 2021Hardcover | 7-3/4 x 10-1/2 inches ...
04-10-2021 21:35
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You Have to Pay for the Public Life
You Have to Pay for the Public Life: Selected Essays of Charles W. MooreEdited by Kevin KeimThe MIT Press, 2001Paperback | 7 x 9 inches | 426 pages | ...
03-10-2021 21:33
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Renegades
Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of ArchitectureEdited by Luca Guido, Stephanie Pilat, Angela PersonUniversity of Oklahoma Press, March 2...
01-10-2021 21:34
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Mediated Messages
Mediated Messages: Periodicals, Exhibitions and the Shaping of Postmodern ArchitectureEdited by Véronique Patteeuw and Léa-Catherine SzackaBloomsbury ...
30-09-2021 21:36
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Mid-Rise Urban Living
Mid-Rise Urban Livingby Chris JohnsonLund Humphries, September 2021Hardcover |Â 7-1/2 x 9-3/4Â inches | 128 pages | 73 illustrations | English | ISBN:...
29-09-2021 21:34
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Giveaways!
A few weeks ago I decided to start giving away books featured on this blog, starting with a copy of the catalog and activity guide from this year?s Ex...
26-09-2021 21:33
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Where Are the Women Architects"
Where Are the Women Architects"by Despina StratigakosPrinceton University Press, April 2016Paperback | 5 x 8 inches | 128 pages | 15 illustrations | E...
25-09-2021 21:32
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The Secrets of LEGO House
The Secrets of LEGO House:Â Design, Play, and Wonder in the Home of the Brickby Jesús DíazChronicle Books, August 2021Hardcover | 11 x 9 inches | 160 ...
24-09-2021 21:34
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A City Is Not a Computer
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligencesby Shannon MatternPrinceton University Press, August 2021Paperback | 5 x 8 inches | 200 pages | 47 ...
23-09-2021 21:37
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The Ecologies of the Building Envelope
The Ecologies of the Building Envelope:Â A Material History and Theory of Architectural Surfacesby Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Jeffrey S. AndersonActar P...
21-09-2021 21:35
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Leaves of Iron
Leaves of Iron: Glenn Murcutt, Pioneer of an Australian Architectural Formby Philip DrewAngus&Robertson, 1991 (first published in Australia in 1985 by...
18-09-2021 21:31
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Amos Rex Art Museum
Amos Rex Art Museum ? JKMM ArchitectsEdited by Tomas LauriArvinius + Orfeus Publishing, May 2021Hardcover | 7-1/2 x 10 inches | 120 pages | English | ...
17-09-2021 21:33
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The Turning Point in Architectural Design
The Turning Point in Architectural Design: A Historical Scenario for the Futureby Helmut C. SchulitzHirmer Publishers, 2021Paperback | 9-1/2 x 10-1/2 ...
16-09-2021 21:34
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Imagining Ground Zero
Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Siteby Suzanne Stephens, with Ian Luna and Ron BroadhurstRizzoli/A...
11-09-2021 21:34
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Drawing Matter Extracts 2
Drawing Matter Extracts 2: Women Writing ArchitectureEdited by Helen ThomasDrawing Matter, 2021Paperback | 16-1/2 x 11-3/4 (5-1/2 x 11-3/4 inches fold...
10-09-2021 21:37
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MultiStories
MultiStories: 55 Antique Skyscrapers & the Business Tycoons Who Built Themby Mark HouserHouser Talks, November 2020Paperback | 6 x 9 inches | 233 page...
09-09-2021 21:34
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New Middles
New Middles: From Main Street to Megalopolis, What is the Future of the Middle City"Edited by Mimi Zeiger, Iker Gil, and Jamie GoldsboroughExhibit Col...
08-09-2021 21:34
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Schweizerisches Landesmuseum Zürich
Schweizerisches Landesmuseum Zürich. Erweiterung 2010-2016Edited by Jenny Keller, with photographs by Roman KellerBundesamt für Bauten und Logistik BB...
04-09-2021 21:34
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Mute Icons
Mute Icons ? and Other Dichotomies on the Real in Architectureby Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich with Constance ValeActar Publishers, July 2021Hard...
03-09-2021 21:34
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Pisé ? Rammed Earth
Pisé ? Rammed Earth. Tradition and PotentialEdited by Roger Boltshauser with Cyril Veillon and Nadja MaillardTriest, 2019Paperback | 8-3/4 x 12 inches...
31-08-2021 21:33
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Robin Boyd
Robin Boyd: Late Worksby Peter Raisbeck and Christine PhillipsUro Publications, January 2020Paperback | 8-3/4 x 12 inches | 108 pages | # illustration...
30-08-2021 21:35
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The Havana Guide
The Havana Guide: Modern Architecture, 1925-1965by Eduardo Luis RodríguezPrinceton Architectural Press, 2000Paperback | 5-1/2 x 9 inches | 263 pages |...
28-08-2021 21:36
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The Planet After Geoengineering
The Planet After Geoengineeringby Design Earth (Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy)Actar Publishers, July 2021Paperback | 8-1/2 x 10 inches | 112 pages | 92...
27-08-2021 21:36
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Cuban Modernism
Cuban Modernism:Â Mid-Century Architecture 1940?1970by Victor Deupi and Jean-François LejeuneBirkhäuser, April 2021Hardcover | 8-3/4 x 11-1/4 inches |...
26-08-2021 21:35
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Sigurd Lewerentz
Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and LifeKieran Long, Johan Örn (Editors)ArkDes/Park Books, August 2021Hardcover | 9 x 11-3/4 inches | 712 pages |...
23-08-2021 21:34
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Archetypes
ArchetypesDavid K. Ross; Edited by Reto GeiserStandpunkte/Park Books, August 2021Hardcover | 8-1/4 x 11 inches | 112 pages | 40 illustrations | Englis...
20-08-2021 21:32
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Evergreen Architecture
Evergreen Architecture: Overgrown Buildings and Greener LivingRobert Klanten, Elli Stuhler (Editors)Gestalten, July 2021Hardcover | 9-1/2 x 11-3/4 inc...
18-08-2021 21:33
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Upcycling
Upcycling:Â Reuse and Repurposing as a Design Principle in ArchitectureDaniel Stockhammer (Editor)Triest, March 2020Paperback | 6-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches |...
17-08-2021 21:34
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Radical Logic
Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble StudioIker Gil (Editor), James Florio (Photographer)MAS Context, April 2021Hardcover | 9 x 11-1/4 inches | 328 ...
16-08-2021 21:35
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Casa BRUTUS No. 30
Casa BRUTUS No. 30: The Grand Tour with ANDOChieko Yoshiie (Editor in Chief)Casa BRUTUS, September 2002Paperback | 9 x 11-1/4 inches | 164 pages | Jap...
14-08-2021 21:33
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See All This No. 22
See All This No. 22: A Journey on PaperGuest curated by Iwan BaanSee All This International B.V., Summer 2021Paperback | 8 x 10-1/2 inches | 216 pages...
13-08-2021 21:33
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Planet City
Planet Cityby Liam YoungUro Publications, January 2020Paperback | 4-1/4 x 7 inches | 408 pages | English | ISBN: 9780648685821 | $48.00PUBLISHER\'S DE...
11-08-2021 21:34
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Things Fall Together
Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolutionby Skylar TibbitsPrinceton University Press, June 2021Hardcover | 5-1/4 x 8 inches | 224 ...
10-08-2021 21:32
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'Buildings in Print' Book Talk
On the evening of Monday, August 23, I\'ll be giving ticket purchase here, you will receive a link to join the webinar in a confirmation email.Not a ...
08-08-2021 21:33
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The World in a Selfie
The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry into the Tourist Ageby Marco d\'EramoVerso, March 2021Hardcover | 6-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches | 288 pages | no illustration...
06-08-2021 21:34
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Growing up Modern
Growing Up Modern: Childhoods in Iconic HomesJulia Jamrozik, Coryn KempsterBirkhäuser, May 2021Hardcover | 7 x 9-1/2 inches | 328 pages | 340 illustra...
05-08-2021 21:35
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Terra-Sorta-Firma
Terra-Sorta-Firma: Reclaiming the Littoral Gradientby Fadi MasoudActar Publishers, June 2021Hardcover | 7-3/4 x 10-1/4 inches | 324 pages | English | ...
04-08-2021 21:36
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