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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Today's archidose #836

Here are some photos of the Citroën C42 Showroom (2007) in Paris, France, by Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, photographed by JP2H.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just:::...

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Today's archidose #835

Here are some photos of the CityLife Milano Residential Complex (2014) in Milan, Italy, by Zaha Hadid Architects, photographed by Simone Utzeri.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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Beard to Brindille

Congratulations to my good friend James Gorski and his partner Tom Nahabedian of Bureau of Architecture and Design on winning the 2015 James Beard Foundation Outstanding Restaurant Design Award (75 seats and under) for Brindille in Chicago. The restaurant opened in 2013 in the city's River North area....

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Whoever said less is more...

So this morning when I looked at my blog, I was greeted by an ad in the upper-right corner saying this:I was intrigued a little bit, since the phrase takes Mies van der Rohe's famous phrase, "Less is more," and puts into what is obviously some real-estate-speak. But what is the development? The next...

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Ladislav Sutnar: Visual Design in Action

The folks at Designers & Books recently launched a Kickstarter project to create a "facsimile reprint of an iconic 1961 book by modernist graphic designer and pioneer of information design Ladislav Sutnar." More information in the below video. I'm hoping the same sort of thing can happen for out-of-print architecture books. Any come to mind, dear readers? If so, please comment bel...

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Book Briefs #21: 7 Issues of 5 Journals

"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 blog....

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