Book Review: 2012 Competitions Annual

2012 Competitions Annual edited by G. Stanley Collyer with Daniel MadrygaThe Competition Project, 2013Paperback, 240 pagesAt the start of the 1990s, Competitions magazine began publishing quarterly issues with notices and results on architectural competitions. In 2011 the publication went the way of...

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Book Review: Three Books about Chicago

AIA Guide to Chicago edited by Alice Sinkevitch and Laurie McGovern PetersenUniversity of Illinois Press, 2014, Third EditionPaperback, 568 pagesBuilding Ideas: An Architectural Guide to the University of Chicago by Jay PridmoreUniversity of Chicago Press, 2013Paperback, 160 pagesChicagoisms: The City...

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Disappointed in Astoria

So, this is what Castle Hill in the Bronx gets for an EMS Station:[Zerega Avenue EMS Station by Smith-Miller Hawkinson | Photo by Michael Moran/OTTO]But this is what my neighborhood of Astoria, Queens gets:[Hoyt Avenue EMS station made from construction trailers | Photo by John Hill]What's up with that,...

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Today's archidose #779

Here are some photos of Brion Cemetery (1972) in San Vito d'Altivole, Italy, by Carlo Scarpa, photographed by Francesco Maria Gabriele Vozza.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration,...

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Book Briefs #19: University of Minnesota Press

"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. These briefs are not full-blown reviews, but they are a way to share more books worthy of attention than can find their way into reviews on my daily...

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Architectural Misquote #4: Mies van der Rohe

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Today's archidose #778

Here are some photos of Råå Day Care Center (2013) in Helsingborg, Sweden, by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter, photographed by Matthew Gribben.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just::: Tag your photos #archid...

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Today's archidose, now with Instagram

Since starting the "Today's archidose" feature in 2006, when I asked readers to contribute photos of contemporary via Flickr for consideration on this blog, I've done 777 posts. Given that Flickr isn't the primary means for people to share photos online, I've decided (somewhat well after the fact) to open the Today's archidose feature to Instagram.It basically works the same way as the Flickr instructions,...

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Book Review: Building as Ornament

Building as Ornament by Michiel van Raaijnai010 Publishers, 2014Paperback, 240 pagesBefore he took the helm at Dutch website Architectenweb, Michiel van Raaij penned one of my favorite architecture blogs, Eikongraphia (Iconography), which looked at buildings united through their resemblance to other...

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Today's archidose #777

Here are a couple photos of Emerson College Los Angeles (2014) by Morphosis Architects, photographed by Riley Snelling.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or:: Tag your photos archid...

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Mummers Theatre, RIP

While I haven't paid close attention to the fight to save John M. Johansen's Mummers Theater* in Oklahoma City, I'm disheartened to see this photo taken by Timothy Hursley last week of the one-of-a-kind building's demolition:[Click image for larger view | Photo: Timothy Hursley]One year before, Hursley...

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Rebel Architecture - Guerrilla Architect

The first installment in Al Jazeera's six-part "Rebel Architecture" series is on Spanish "self-build legend" Santiago Ciruge...

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Today's archidose #776

Here are some photos of Farmville, under consruction in Paredes, Portugal, by AND-RÉ, photographed by José Carlos Melo Dias.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or:: Tag your photos archid...

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Architecture Misquote #3: Winston Churchill

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Book Review: Book Mountain Spijkenisse

Book Mountain Spijkenisse: Biography of a Building by Nicoline Baartman, Winy MaasMVRDV/nai010 Publishers, 2013Hardcover, 260 pagesBook-length case studies of buildings are great for giving more space than a monograph or magazine in explaining the history, design, realization, and in some cases post-occupancy...

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Architecture Misquote #2: Louis Sullivan

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Architecture Misquote #1: Louis I. Kahn

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A New Harvard Design Magazine

It seems like it was just yesterday that Harvard Design Magazine (HDM) reinvented itself. Yet taking a look at their back issues makes me realize that the last reinvention took place five years ago. Now starting with its Spring/Summer 2014 issue, HDM has been "reconceived and relaunched with a new editorial...

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Building a Dream, Eden-Style

The other day I was wondering what Sean Eden, former guitarist with Luna, was up to. Turns out he splits his time between a number of bands (including Elk City, another band I like), sound design for video games, voice-overs, and music composition for films and other moving pictures. In regards to the last, it was interesting to discover that he scored part of Building a Dream, a half-hour film directed...

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Today's archidose #775

Instead of particular buildings, here are some urban vistas grabbed from the archidose Flickr pool.Barcode project (Oslo), photographed by Wojtek Gurak:La Défense (Paris), photographed by Arno Dumont: Emilli Plater Street (Warsaw), photographed by Krzewi:Financial District (Dubai), photographed by Andrew...

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NOMO's Golf Course Screenprints

In my review of Leftunder Rightunder I mention the book's designer, Jerome Daksiewicz, and visiting his site, NOMO, I came across his series of Golf Course Screenprints that include some of my favorite courses I've never had the chance of playing:Augusta National:Pebble Beach:Pine Valley:Having wanted...

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