Book and Exhibition Review: Making and Provocations

Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick StudioCooper HewittJune 24, 2015 - January 6, 2016Thomas Heatherwick: Making by Thomas Heatherwick and Maisie RoweMonacelli Press, 2015 (Revised and expanded edition)Paperback, 640 pagesOn June 24 the third leg of the traveling exhibition Provocations:...

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Today's archidose #846

Here are some photos of Houses Sete Cidades (2015) in São Miguel, Portugal, by Eduardo Souto de Moura and Adriano Pimenta Arquitectos, photographed by José Carlos Melo Dias. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your...

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Book Review: 30 Years of Emerging Voices

30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance by Architectural League of New YorkPrinceton Architectural Press, 2015Hardcover, 304 pagesThere is a certain ebb and flow to architecture, by which I mean the culture at large – practice, publishing, awards, exhibitions, conferences, etc. In one of...

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Today's archidose #845

Here are some of my photos of COSMO by Andres Jaque / Office for Political Innovation at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. COSMO is on display until September 7, 2015. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your Instagram...

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Today's archidose #844: Potpourri

Here is a miscellaneous smattering of photos posted recently to the archidose Flickr pool. Click on photos for more information, including the photographer. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images...

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Book Review (sort of): Solid Wood

Solid Wood: Case Studies in Mass Timber Architecture, Technology and Design by Joseph MayoRoutledge, 2015Paperback, 346 pagesLast week I spoke with Joseph Mayo about his new book, putting together a piece over at World-Architects that highlights a few buildings featured as case studies in Mayo's book....

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Tim Shot Andy Warhol (and other gems at Timothy Hursley's new website)

For as long as I can recall, the website of Timothy Hursley – architectural photographer extraordinaire – was just a splash page with some photos of the "Broken Silo" near Greensboro, Alabama. But recently Hursley updated his website so it functions as a retrospective of his photography. I spent some...

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Book Review: Young-Old

Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society by Deane SimpsonLars Müller Publishers, 2015Hardcover, 576 pagesMy review of Deane Simpson's Young-Old is published in the June 3, 2015, issue of the Architect's Newspaper. Click here or on the image below to read the review in larger PDF form...

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Book Review: Saarinen Houses

Saarinen Houses by Jari Jetsonen, Sirkkaliisa JetsonenPrinceton Architectural Press, 2014Hardcover, 224 pagesI have never been to Finland, so the only Eliel Saarinen house I've seen in person is his own residence on the campus of the Cranbrook Academy of Art outside Detroit. It was probably fifteen...

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Today's archidose #843

Here are some photos of Underwood Road (2015) in London by Brady Mallalieu Architects, photographed by Andrew Carr.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...

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LG's La Gota Process

Earlier today I received a newsletter with updates on the work of Losada Garcia Architects, a firm based in Spain and San Diego, California. One of their projects, La Gota Cultural Center - Tobacco Museum in Cáceres, Spain, was inaugurated on Wednesday. The design of five shifted boxes is a decent one...

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