Magazine of the Moment: Kimbell Art Museum – Drawing Collection

This one is hard to resist: the 538th issue of a+u is devoted to Louis I. Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum, presenting drawings as well as some photographs and essays by Lawrence Speck and Carlos Jimenez....

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Book of the Moment: Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas

Ingrid Böck's Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas: Essays on the History of Ideas will be released by Jovis on July 28.Per the publisher's website:Rem Koolhaas has been part of the international avant-garde since the nineteen-seventies and has been named the Pritzker Architecture Prize for the year...

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Book of the Moment: Herman Hertzberger

If any architect deserves a monumental survey of their work it is the Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger. Heck, the 82-year-old architect deserves the Pritzker Architecture Prize, too. Although nothing can be done about the latter, at least for another year, April sees the release of Robert McCarter's...

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Graphic Novel of the Moment

Walking past Greenlight Bookstore at lunchtime today a certain book called out to me:Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City is a graphic novel by Pierre Christin and Olivier Balez, published by Nobrow. Here's a description of the book from the publisher, though I'd argue with the statement...

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Long-Awaited DVD of the Moment

Finally! Thom Andersen's brilliant, nearly three-hour documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself is being released on DVD and Blu-Ray on October 14, eleven years after it was completed.At its most basic, the video essay (as it's been called) is an analysis of Los Angeles through movies. On a deeper level,...

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Multi-Volume, Slipcased, Super-Pricey Book of the Moment

You guessed it: Peter Zumthor: Buildings and Projects, 1985-2013, published by Scheidegger and Spiess, now available.[Images from Amazon and Scheidegger and Spiess]Only $233.17 at Amazon:...

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Book of the Moment: War of Streets and Houses

Not many graphic novels treat buildings and cities as an integral part of their stories, so I'm intrigued by War of Streets and Houses, a new graphic memoir from cartoonist and author Sophie Yanow.[All images via Uncivilized Books]Text from the publisher:The War of Streets and Houses is named after...

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Book of the Moment: Collage and Architecture

Over spring break I gave my first-year students an assignment to make a collage as part of a precedent study. If I had known about Jennifer A.E. Shields's Collage and Architecture, published in paperback last month by Routledge, I certainly would have used it to give them a little bit more guidance....

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