When it comes to home design and real estate terminology, the variety of bathroom types can be quite perplexing. One term that often raises question ...
There are few occasions when you feel like packing your bags and taking the next flight to a destination as soon as you see the image of an amazing ge ...
Art3d Store One of the cheapest ways of upgrading your kitchen is employing a vinyl farmhouse backsplash. Self-adhesive tiles come in many different d ...
After 25 years of running this blog under various names ? all of which can be lumped under the "Archidose" monicker ? I\'ve decided to shut it down, m ...
Instead of digesting a new book or diving into a novel, something others do often but I do rarely, I spent my holiday break reading a five-year-old bo ...
For the fifteenth and last time on this blog, I\'m highlighting my favorite books of the year, selected from the many books I reviewed or featured as ...
Just as last week\'s Places in Time III post featured a trio of books that were initially listed in my earlier holiday gift books post, two of the ...
This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent "Places in Time" series looks closely at three books: the first about Chicago from the ...
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, the English architect who was born in 1869 and died in 1944, that is. Although a famous name, Lutyens was not an archit ...
(Covers of some of the books discussed in this post)If your first reaction to the title of this post is something along the lines of, "Wait, isn\'t cr ...
A review of a new book released this week:The Japanese House Since 1945 by Naomi Pollock, published by Thames & Hudson, November 2023 (Amazon /� ...
Last week dose explored three "places in time": St. Louis in the early decades of the 20th century; Detroit between 1935 and 1985; and Chicago subu ...
In 1939, Otto Neurath\'s Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. Knopf. Neurath was director of the International Foundation of Visual I ...
Of the numerous books publishers send me for review ? be they requested by me, pitched by them, or arriving at my doorstep unsolicited ? the highest p ...
The recent receipt of two review books got me thinking about the past and the future of architecture books. The first one is This is Architecture: ...
Blue Dream is a house designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Julia "Julie" Reyes Taubman and her husband Robert "Bobby" Taubman. The house, locat ...
This year\'s roundup of books to give to discerning architects for the holidays is presented in pairs. While at least one book in each pair is new, th ...
Like many people with a lot of books, I keep track of my library with an app/website, tagging books with keywords to better filter and find them. The ...
The recent publication of two books prompted me to ponder the future of cities and do a write-up of them together:Implementing Urban Design: Green, Ci ...
Like most human beings, I can be contradictory at times. One area where this manifests is architectural surveys: books that usually collect buildings ...
Over at World-Architects I reviewed As Found: Experiments in Preservation (Flanders Architecture Institute, 2023) edited by Sofie De Caigny, Hülya ...
Last week I cobbled together eight books, some of which publishers had sent me more than a year ago, in an effort to write a "Better Late Than Never" ...
The most recent numbered installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the num ...
Two weeks ago I was in Venice for the Biennale, covering the 18th International Architecture Exhibition curated by Lesley Lokko for World-Architects. ...
Preparing for this post I counted roughly one hundred books in my library that are related to exhibitions. Surprisingly, given that I tend to buy cata ...
On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism edited by Wilfried Wang, published by Park Books and University of Texas at Austin, 2022 (Amazon ...
Tomorrow is Valentine\'s Day, so I put together a list some things I love ?? about architecture books ? and just as many things I don\'t love� ...
This year\'s New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is my third, following the 2022 book fair and, just days before lockdown, the 2020 boo ...
Monday is when I would normally post a new book review, but instead, this blog and its related newsletter are going on hiatus indefinitely due to a fa ...
I\'m not sure when it happened, but at some point I went from disliking interviews ? preferring texts written by architects, much of it in the vein ...
"What is a case study"" you might be asking, or maybe, "Is it different than a monograph"" Although the word monograph literally applies to any boo ...
Over at World-Architects I wrote about two self-published books recently published by BNIM and KPF:ALL - The Tom and Ruth Harkin Center by BNIMDesign ...
Life, they say, throws you curve balls, and that\'s just what happened last month, when a family emergency had me put this blog on hiatus. This post, ...
Writing a blog devoted to architecture books means featuring monographs ? lots of monographs. Not exclusively, of course; but before this blog transit ...
Some of the references consulted during the research phase of my 2021 book Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Bo ...
When Arata Isozaki died at the end of 2022 at the age of 91, nearly all of the news stories and obituaries mentioned that he was a Pritzker Architectu ...
Recently I was watching a news program, most likely PBS Newshour or an MSNBC show, and was struck by one of the talking heads speaking via Skype or Zo ...
A portion of the paperback wrapper of On Broadway and Fran Leadon\'s Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles, for instance, plus ...
For this last post of 2022 I looked back at the dozens of books I reviewed or featured as "Book Briefs" on this blog, and the ones I reviewed on World ...
In this latest installment of "Book Briefs," ? the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous bo ...
Conceiving the Plan: Nuance and Intimacy in Civic SpaceEdited by Yael Hameiri SainsauxSkira, August 2022Hardcover | 12-1/4 x 12-1/4 inches | 240 pages ...
Ando and Le Corbusier is a two-volume project that shows how the works of two pioneers of modern architecture ? Le Corbusier and Tadao Ando ? connect ...
The Material Imaginationby Lucius Burckhardt, edited by Markus Ritter and Martin SchmitzBirkhäuser, October 2022Paperback | 5 x 7-1/4 inches | 166 pa ...
G. E. Kidder Smith Builds: The Travel of Architectural Photographyby Angelo Maggi, foreword by Michelangelo SabatinoAR+D Publishing, August 2022Hardco ...
Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous bo ...
The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcockby Christine Madrid FrenchUniversity of Virginia Press, September 2022Pa ...
American Modern Home: Jacobsen Architecture + Interiorsby Simon JacobsenRizzoli, October 2022Hardcover | 11 x 11 inches | 224 pages | English | ISBN: ...
Adjaye: Works 2007-2015: Houses, Pavilions, Installations, BuildingsEdited by Peter AllisonThames & Hudson, October 2022Hardcover | 10-1/2 x 10-1/2 in ...
Olmsted TreesPhotographs by Stanley Greenberg, with contributions by Tom Avermaete, Kevin Baker, Mindy Thompson FulliloveHirmer Publishers, August 202 ...
Aalto in Detail: A Catalogue of Componentsby Céline Dietzkier and Lukas GruntzBirkhäuser, July 2022Hardcover | 6 x 8 inches | 464 pages | 400 illust ...
Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous bo ...
AIA Guide to Chicagoby American Institute of Architects Chicago, edited by Laurie McGovern PetersenUniversity of Illinois Press, June 2022Paperback | ...
When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architectby Eva HagbergPrinceton University Press, September 2022Hardcover | 6- ...
This blog is off for a couple of weeks, resuming one week after Labor Day.The view from SUMMIT One Vanderbilt during sunrise on World Photography Day. ...
Parks of the 21st Century: Reinvented Landscapes, Reclaimed Territoriesby Victoria Newhouse with Alex PishaRizzoli, September 2021Hardcover | 8-1/2 x ...
Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous bo ...
The Layman\'s Guide to Classical Architectureby Quinlan Terry, edited by Clive AsletBokförlaget Stolpe, March 2022Hardcover | 8-3/4 x 10-3/4 inche ...
Vitruvius Without Text: The Biography of a Bookby André Tavaresgta Verlag, July 2022Paperback | 4-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches | 250 pages | 61 illustrations | ...
This week\'s dose features two publications on Louis I. Kahn released in 2022: the revised and expanded second edition of Robert McCarter\'s monograph ...
Between Memory and Invention:Â My Journey in Architectureby Robert A. M. Stern, with Leopoldo VillardiThe Monacelli Press, March 2022Hardcover | 7-1 ...
Over at World-Architects, I put together a list of 15 Summer Reads for the Newsletter I edit there, a newsletter that goes on summer break as of today ...
Today is the Fourth of July, Independence Day in the US, so I\'m taking the week off, with posts resuming next week.The sunset over Manhattan, as seen ...
Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous bo ...
Post-pandemic UrbanismEdited by Doris Kleilein, Friederike MeyerJovis, December 2021Paperback | 5-3/4 x 8-1/4Â inches | 192 pages | 50 illustrations ...
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 ...
Hutong Metabolism: ZAO/standardarchitectureWith contributions by Farrokh Derakhshani, Mohsen Mostafavi, Kenneth Frampton, Martino Stierli, Nondita Cor ...
Archinect is giving away five copies ? yes, five! ? of my latest book, Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books ...
an ambitious treatise that combines stories from daily life in Syria with observations of cities such as Detroit, Helsinki, Bristol, Beirut, Dubai, an ...
Archives Universum 01: Flores & PratsCarlos Quintáns C2C Proyecto Editorial, December 2021Paperback | 6-1/2 x 9-1/4 inches | 148 pages | English/S ...
Architecture of Normal: The Colonization of the American LandscapeDaniel KavenBirkhäuser, February 2022Hardcover | 8-1/2 x 11 inches | 456 pages | 45 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Here is the 42nd installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous bo ...
Who\'s Next" Homelessness, Architecture, and CitiesEdited by Daniel Talesnik and Andres LepikArchiTangle, November 2021Hardcover | 10 x 12 inches | 27 ...
The Women Who Changed ArchitectureEdited by Jan Cigliano HartmanPrinceton Architectural Press, March 2022Hardcover | 7-1/2 x 10 inches | 336 pages | E ...
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 ...
Ian Nairn: Words in Placeby Gillian Darley and David McKieFive Leaves Publications, November 2013Hardcover | 6 x 9 inches | 160 pages | 21 illustratio ...
Reconstructing the Garrick: Adler & Sullivan\'s Lost MasterpieceEdited by Jon Vinci, with contributions by Tim Samuelson, Eric Nordstrom, Chris WareAl ...
Vacant Spaces NYMichael Meredith, Hilary Sample, MOSActar Publishers, October 2021Paperback | 6 x 9 inches | 608 pages | English | ISBN: 9781948765992 ...
Interior Design since 1900, Fourth Editionby Anne MasseyThames & Hudson, April 2020Paperback | 6 x 8-1/4 inches | 272 pages | 229 illustrations | Engl ...
An Alphabet of Architectural ModelsEdited by Teresa Frankhänel, Olivia Horsfall Turner, Simona Valeriani, Matthew WellsMerrell, October 2021Flexicove ...
Temple and Teahouse in Japanby Werner BlaserBirkhäuser, October 2021 (New edition)Hardcover (also available in paperback) | 9-1/4 x 12 inches | 172 p ...
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 ...
The Culture Factory: Architecture and the Contemporary Art Museumby Richard J. WilliamsLund Humphries, January 2022Paperback | 5-1/4 x 8 inches | 144 ...
Piranesi Unboundby Carolyn Yerkes and Heather Hyde MinorPrinceton University Press, September 2020Hardcover | 9 x 11-1/2 inches | 240 pages | 193 illu ...
Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Gardeby Joseph GiovanniniRizzoli, November 2021Hardcover | 9 x 11 inches | 876 pages | 698 ill ...
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 ...
The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignityby Michael P. Murphy with Jeffrey Mansfield and MASS Design GroupCooper Hew ...
Santa Fe Modern: Contemporary Design in the High Desertby Helen Thompson, photographs by Casey DunnThe Monacelli Press, November 2021Hardcover | 8 x 1 ...
The Work: Architecture, Urban Design, Drawings and Sculpturesby Rob KrierBirkhäuser, August 2021Hardcover (2 volumes) | 10 x 12 inches | 1,344 pages ...
MAD Dinnerby MAD.exe office (Ma Yansong, Yosuke Hayano, Dang Qun); edited by Brendan McGetrick, Chen ShuYuActar Publishers, July 2008Paperback | 8 x 9 ...
Sigurd Lewerentz?Pure Aesthetics:Â St Mark?s Church, StockholmConcept and photography by Karin Björkquist and Sébastien CorbariPark Books, October ...
Contemporary House Indiaby Robert Gregory, with photographs by Edmund SumnerThames & Hudson, November 2021Hardcover | 9-1/4 x 11-3/4 inches | 272 page ...
