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Old+New Book Review: Kongjian Yu Designed Ecologies: The Landscape Architecture of Kongjian Yu edited by William S. SaundersBirkhäuser, 2012Hardcover, 256 pagesLetters to the Leaders ... 09-12-2018 22:01	Book Briefs #40 "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... 05-12-2018 22:05	Triple Dutch The lack of posts between my roundup of Holiday Gift Books on Thanksgiving and now was due to a trip to Amsterdam to cover the World Architecture Fest... 04-12-2018 22:00	2018 Holiday Gift Books For this year\'s roundup of Holiday Gift Books I\'m highlighting 36 books by the same number of publishers, arranged alphabetically by publisher ? fro... 22-11-2018 22:00
Book Review: A Feeling of History ... 20-11-2018 22:03	Today's archidose #1024 Here are some photos ofÂ Midtown CenterÂ (2018) in Washington, DC, byÂ SHoP Architects. (Photographs byÂ Trevor Patt.)To contribute your Flickr images... 16-11-2018 22:05	Book Briefs #39: More 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... 14-11-2018 22:05	Three Exhibitions to See Now in NYC Archive and Artifact: The Virtual and the PhysicalOctober 23 - December 1, 2018The Cooper Union, Foundation Building7 East 7th StreetA post shared by ... 12-11-2018 22:02
Book Review: The Man in the Glass House The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern CenturyÂ by Mark LamsterLittle Brown, 2018Hardcover, 528 pagesMark Lamster had me ... 07-11-2018 22:05	Today's archidose #1023 Here are some photos of 520 West 28th Street (2017) in New York City by Zaha Hadid Architects. (Photographs by Maciek Lulko.)To contribute your Flickr... 05-11-2018 22:06	Today's archidose #1022 Here are some photos ofÂ Muzeum OgniaÂ (2014) in ?ory, Poland, by OVO Gr?bczewscy Architekci. (Photographs byÂ M. M. Czarnecki.)To contribute your Fli... 01-11-2018 22:06	Stop the Presses! Seeing a TV commercial forÂ VerzenioÂ the other day, I was reminded of that day I made the cover of my local newspaper after getting an architectural ... 31-10-2018 22:00
So You Want To Learn About: Michael Sorkin The "So You Want to Learn About" series highlights books focused on a particular theme: think "socially responsible architecture" and "Le Corbusier," ... 30-10-2018 21:59	Today's archidose #1021 Here are some photos of the Campinarana House in Manaus, Brazil, by Laurent Troost andÂ Raquel Reis. See also photographs by Leonardo Finotti. View th... 27-10-2018 21:55	Kongjian Yu at GSAPP On Monday, October 29 at 6:30pm, Kongjian Yu, founder of Turenscape, is giving the 2018 Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture at Columbia GSAPP. The lectur... 25-10-2018 21:55	Today's archidose #1020 Here are some photos of Wrightwood 659 (2018) in Chicago, Illinois, by Tadao Ando. (Photographs by Chris Hainer.)To contribute your Flickr images for ... 24-10-2018 22:00
Book Review: Exposed Architecture Exposed Architecture: Exhibitions, Interludes and Essays by LIGAPark Books, 2018Paperback, 312 pagesFive years ago, coinciding with a couple conferenc... 23-10-2018 22:10	Liberty's New Museum; a Hard Hat Tour [All photographs by John Hill, unless noted otherwise]Twelve years I\'ve lived in New York City and Wednesday morning was my first visit to Liberty Is... 19-10-2018 21:56	Jenny Sabin Studio at House of Peroni Last night I attended the opening of LUSTER, an installation designed by Jenny Sabin StudioÂ and curated by Art Production Fund for House of Peroni. L... 19-10-2018 21:56	Book Review: The Divided City The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in America by Alan MallachIsland Press, 2018Paperback, 326 pagesAlthough I live in New York City, I haven\'t ... 17-10-2018 21:59
Grimshaw Obscura A highlight of Queens International 2018: Volumes (QI 2018), now on display at Queens Museum, is Volumes Cyanotype, a 100-foot-long tablecloth that do... 15-10-2018 21:56	Today's archidose #1019 Here are some photos of theÂ Castelar BuildingÂ (1986) in Madrid, Spain, byÂ Rafael de la Hoz & Gerardo Olivares James. (Photographs byÂ Ximo Michavil... 12-10-2018 21:58	Architecture @ Kanopy Ever since learning about Kanopy back in June, I\'ve been using the free, limited access made available through two libraries ? NYPL and Queens Librar... 11-10-2018 21:59	Today's archidose #1018 Here are a couple photos of The Culture Yard (2010) in Elsinore, Denmark, by AART Architects. (Photographs by Martin Krause.)To contribute your Flickr... 09-10-2018 21:55
Today's archidose #1017 Here are some photos of the Desert City (2017) in San Sebastián de los Reyes, Madrid, Spain, by Garciagerman Arquitectos. (Photographs by Ximo Michavi... 02-10-2018 21:57	My Visit to Glenstone As promised when I posted a slideshow of my photos last week (but a bit later than I expected), here is a link to my review of Thomas Phifer & Partner... 01-10-2018 21:59	The Forum Is Open Columbia University opened the third building on its Manhattanville Campus yesterday. The Forum was designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, who is ... 27-09-2018 21:55	Glenstone Museum Here is an interactive slideshow with 74 of the photos I took last week at a press preview of the Pavilions at Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland, ... 25-09-2018 22:00
So You Want to Learn About: 'Learning from Las Vegas' The "So You Want to Learn About" series highlights books focused on a particular theme: think "socially responsible architecture" and "phenomenology,"... 24-09-2018 22:00	Today's archidose #1016 Here are some photos of theÂ FjordenhusÂ (2018) in Vejle, Denmark, by Sebastian Behmann with Studio Olafur Eliasson.Â (Photographs byÂ Ken Lee.)To con... 18-09-2018 21:57	Book Briefs #38: Houses "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... 18-09-2018 21:57	Book Review: Michigan Modern Michigan Modern: An Architectural Legacy by Brian D. Conway with photographs by James HaefnerVisual Profile Books, 2018Hardcover, 300 pages[Eero Saari... 14-09-2018 21:55
Robert Irwin at Pratt Head on over to World-Architects to read my take on Robert Irwin: Site Determined, now in display at Pratt Institute School of Architecture in Brookly... 14-09-2018 21:55	Behemoth of the Moment It\'s been six years since Phaidon released one of their gargantuan architectural atlases, meaning the publisher was overdue for yet another one. In 2... 11-09-2018 21:55	Today's archidose #1015 Here are some photos of Serpentine Pavilion 2018 by Frida Escobedo, on display in London\'s Kensington Gardens until October 7, 2018. (Photographs byÂ... 11-09-2018 21:55	The Lower Manhattan Skyline, with & without the Twin Towers On Tuesday, the 17th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Skyscraper Museum is hosting a conversation between photographers Camilo Jose Vergar... 10-09-2018 21:56
Book Review: TEN Arquitectos/Enrique Norten ... 05-09-2018 21:57	Toward a Concrete Utopia Head on over to World-Architects to read my piece on Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948?1980, which is on display at MoMA unti... 04-09-2018 21:58	How StreetEasy Sees Contemporary Architecture If you\'ve ridden the NYC subway at all in 2018, you\'ve probably seen the StreetEasy ads that entice New Yorkers to "find your place," be it in a nei... 31-08-2018 21:56	BIG's ORB Earlier this summer, BIG\'s Jakob Lange launched an Indiegogo campaign for the ORB, a giant reflective art piece planned for Burning Man. As of today,... 29-08-2018 21:56
Today's archidose #1014 Here are a couple photos of Red Cross Volunteer House (2017) in Copenhagen, Denmark, by COBO. (Photographs by Ken Lee.)To contribute your Flickr image... 28-08-2018 21:55	Today's archidose #1013 Here are some photos of Sky SOHO (2014) in Shanghai, China, by Zaha Hadid Architects. (Photographs by Fernando Herrera.)To contribute your Flickr imag... 24-08-2018 21:54	Book Briefs #37 "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... 22-08-2018 21:54	Idyllic Gehry On Saturday, Thomas Kahn-kade (@robyniko) posted a string of his "Thomas Kinkade + Modernism mashups" to Twitter. Here is one of Frank Gehry\'s reside... 21-08-2018 21:56
Today's archidose #1012 Here are some more photos from my recent summer road trip: the new Museum at Gateway Arch (2018) in St. Louis, Missouri, by James Carpenter Design Ass... 21-08-2018 21:56	Book Review: Pictures of the Floating Microcosm Pictures of the Floating Microcosm: New Representations of Japanese Architecture by Olivier MeystrePark Books, 2017Hardcover, 240 pagesIt\'s hard to d... 17-08-2018 21:55	Today's archidose #1011 Here are some more photos from my recent Great Plains road trip, two buildings in Southeastern Wyoming: H. H. Richardson\'s ... 14-08-2018 21:55	Today's archidose #1010 Here are some photos of the thyssenkrupp Test Tower Rottweil (2017) in Rottweil, Germany, by Werner Sobek and Helmut Jahn. (Photography by Frank Stahl... 13-08-2018 21:59
Today's archidose #1009 Here are some of my photos of Kansas State University\'s College of Architecture, Planning and Design (2017) in Manhattan, Kansas, by Ennead Architect... 10-08-2018 21:53	Book Review: Sun Path House and Other Cosmic Architectures Sun Path House and Other Cosmic Architectures by Christian WassmannKoenig Books, 2017Hardcover, 136 pagesA few pages into this case study of Christian... 22-07-2018 22:06	Ecological Living Module at the UN This morning I visited the United Nations to see the Ecological Living Unit. The "tiny house," which was designed to be "efficient, multi-functional a... 19-07-2018 21:56	Book Review: Downward Spiral Downward Spiral: El Helicoide\'s Descent from Mall to Prison edited by Celeste Olalquiaga and Lisa BlackmoreUR (Urban Research), 2018Paperback, 268 pa... 17-07-2018 21:58
Today's archidose #1008 Here\'s a photo of theÂ Amager Resource CenterÂ (2017) in Copenhagen, Denmark, byÂ BIG ? Bjarke Ingels Group. The photo, byÂ Jeff Reuben, is looking t... 13-07-2018 21:57	Rosario Candela, Sutton Place, and 'Elegance in the Sky' I liked learning a little bit on the Sutton Place apartment buildings in the exhibition, though I was disappointed by one detail that seems to have go... 11-07-2018 21:55	Today's archidose #1007 Here are some photos of theÂ SWEETS hotel WiegbrugÂ (2017) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, by Space&Matter. The larger SWEETS hotel project consists of... 09-07-2018 21:58	Hard Hat Tour: The Forum Set to open in September, The Forum is third building to open on Columbia University\'s Manhattanville Campus. Designed by Renzo Piano Building Worksh... 06-07-2018 21:58
Piet Oudolf's 'Five Seasons' Last month I caught Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet OudolfÂ at IFC Center, when director Thomas Piper and his subject, planting designer Piet Oudolf... 03-07-2018 22:02	Today's archidose #1006 Here are some photos of the Lunder Center at Stone Hill (20018) at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, by Tadao Ando. (Photos: Has... 03-07-2018 22:02	AB and FOOD Although I\'ve lived in Astoria, Queens, for twelve years and worked in nearby Long Island City for a few years, I\'d never been to Brooklyn Grange un... 29-06-2018 21:59	Hiding and Seeking at MoMA PS1 Dream the Combine\'s 2018 YAP-winning Hide & Seek ... 28-06-2018 21:55
Today's archidose #1005 Here is a photo of Frank Gehry\'s LUMA Arles under construction in Arles, France. (Photo: Jacqueline Poggi) See also Today\'s archidose #915 from Augu... 26-06-2018 22:01	Hunters Point South Park Phase 2 I\'m still catching up on things after the AIA Conference on Architecture last week and a walking tour over the weekend. The latter, of Brooklyn Bridg... 25-06-2018 22:02	Storefront's Empty Bookshelves I\'m still swamped with the AIA Conference on Architecture being in town this week, so here\'s something to tide people over until I\'m able to post a... 22-06-2018 21:57	'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	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
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	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	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	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
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	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	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	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	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	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
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	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	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	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
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	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	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

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