Book Review: OfficeUS Atlas

OfficeUS Atlas edited by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Ana Miljački, Ashley Schafer, Michael KuboStorefront for Art and Architecture, Lars Müller Publishers, 2015Hardcover, 1,250 pagesThe 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale was one of the most anticipated since it started in the 1970s. Rem Koolhaas served as...

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Book Review: World Atlas of Sustainable Architecture

World Atlas of Sustainable Architecture: Building for a Changing Culture and Climate by Ulrich PfammatterDOM Publishers, 2014Hardcover, 584 pagesThe back cover of this hefty book purports a total of 333 projects in its nearly 600 pages. With so many projects, the question in any book is how to structure...

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Book Review: Out of the Loop

Out of the Loop: Vernacular Architecture Forum Chicago edited by Virginia B. Price, David A. Spatz, and D. Bradford HuntMidway Books, 2015Paperback, 204 pagesIn early June the Vernacular Architecture Forum, "the premier organization in North America dedicated to the appreciation and study of ordinary...

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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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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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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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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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Book Review: MONU #22

MONU #22 - Transnational UrbanismReviewed by Iulia Hurducaș[All photographs are courtesy of MONU Magazine.]Continuing the conversation on urbanism, this issue of MONU Magazine picks up on a topic opened in MONU #8 on border urbanism. Transnational Urbanism expands the topic of trans-border relations...

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Book Review: Portraits of the New Architecture 2

Portraits of the New Architecture 2 by Richard SchulmanAssouline, 2015Hardcover, 170 pagesAs the title to this coffee table book makes clear, it is the second Portraits book by photographer Richard Schulman; the first was released in 2004. Paul Goldberger, in his introduction, states Schulman didn't...

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Book Review: Conversations with Architects

Conversations with Architects: In the Age of Celebrity by Vladimir BelogolovskyDOM Publishers, 2015Paperback, 584 pagesCurator and author Vladimir Belogolovsky did not set out to make a book on the celebrity phenomenon in architecture, as the name to this collection of 30 interviews with well known...

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Book Review: Architectural Styles

Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide by Owen HopkinsLaurence King, 2014Paperback, 240 pages In the introduction to his visual guide to architectural styles, Owen Hopkins lets the reader know that architectural "style" is a 19th century creation, something that enabled architectural historians to chart...

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Book Review: Local Architecture

Local Architecture: Building Place, Craft, and Community by Brian-MacKay-Lyons, edited by Robert McCarterPrinceton Architectural Press, 2015Hardcover, 224 pagesGhost, a laboratory run by Canadian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons where architecture students would design and build small structures on land...

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Book Review: Fuksas Building Update

Fuksas Building Update by Massimiliano & Doriana FuksasActar, 2015Hardcover, 250 pagesFirst off, I should admit that I don't have nor haven't seen the first Fuksas Building, published by Actar in 2011, which this book updates. So I can't really comment on how well this book extends the content of...

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Book Review: The Japanese House Reinvented

The Japanese House Reinvented by Philip JodidioMonacelli Press, 2015Hardcover, 288 pagesIn the introduction to Philip Jodidio's new book highlighting fifty recent Japanese houses, the author mentions that Japan and the United States share a preference for single-family houses over apartments. While...

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Book Review: Extrastatecraft

Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space by Keller EasterlingVerso Books, 2014Hardcover, 252 pagesRecently, the Center for Architecture hosted two book talks organized by the AIANY Oculus Committee that I attended: one on Keller Easterling's Extrastatecraft, and on on Justin McGuirk's Radical...

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Book Review: Lighting Design & Process

Lighting Design & Process by Office for Visual InteractionJovis, 2014Hardcover, 216 pagesI'll admit that when it comes to light, I veer toward books that focus on natural light, such as titles like Henry Plummer's Nordic Light and Mary Ann Steane's The Architecture of Light. As an architect I understand...

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Book Review: Three Mies Books

Last Is More: Mies, IBM, and the Transformation of Chicago by Robert Sharoff, photographs by William ZbarenImages Publishing, 2014Hardcover, 160 pagesMies by Detlef MertinsPhaidon, 2014Hardcover, 560 pagesMies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition by Franz Schulze and Edward WindhorstUniversity...

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