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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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 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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Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

Mark your calendars: MAD (Museum of Arts and Design) is presenting a retrospective of director Andrei Tarkovsky's films this Summer. Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time "presents the work of the revolutionary director and includes screenings – all on 35 mm – of all seven feature films and a behind-the-scenes...

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