New Books in Architecture
Episodes
Courtney J. Campbell et al, "Empty Spaces: Perspectives on Emptiness in Modern History" (U London Press, 2019)
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining 'nothingness'? Why hav...
Justin Beal, "Sandfuture" (MIT Press, 2021)
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sandfuture (MIT Press, 2021) is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite ...
Matthew Fuller, "Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth" (Verso, 2021)
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today, journalists, legal professionals, activists, and artists challenge the state's monopoly on investigation and the production of narratives of tr...
Joseph L. Clarke, "Echo's Chambers: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A room’s acoustic character seems at once the most technical and the most mystical of concerns. Since the early Enlightenment, European architects h...
Antoine Picon, "The Materiality of Architecture" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmente...
Shannon Mattern, "A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences" (Princeton UP, 2021)
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficienci...
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Chinese-Inspired Architecture
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Howard chats with Dang Qun, one of the three founding partners of Beijing-based MAD architects, about aesthetics, history, cultural distinctiveness an...
Rolf Hughes and Rachel Armstrong, "The Art of Experiment: Artistic Research in Experimental Architecture" (Routledge, 2020)
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world livable again, this book takes the reader on a journey across time―from the dee...
Thomas C. Hubka, "Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England" (UP of New England, 2004)
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Big house, little house, back house, barn”―this rhythmic cadence was sung by nineteenth-century children as they played. It also portrays the f...
Craig Robertson, "The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet i...
Michael Benedikt, "Architecture Beyond Experience" (Applied Research & Design, 2020)
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Architecture Beyond Experience (Applied Research & Design, 2020) is a work in the service of one goal: the bringing about of a more relational, “po...
Aaron Passell, "Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn" (Columbia UP, 2021)
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. In this view, designating a neighborhood as historic is a project by and for afflu...
Patricia Bickers, "The Ends of Art Criticism" (Lund Humphries Publishers, 2021)
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Crisis? What Crisis? At a time where there are repeated claims of the impending demise of art criticism, The Ends of Art Criticism (Lund Humphries P...
Katie Cummer and Lynne D. DiStefano, "Asian Revitalization: Adaptive Reuse in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore" (Hong Kong UP, 2021)
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adaptive reuse, or using a building for a new purpose, has become popular around the world, but discussion about adaptive reuse in Asia is relatively ...
Lisa Heschong, "Visual Delight in Architecture: Visual Delight in Architecture" (Routledge, 2021)
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Heschong's book Visual Delight in Architecture: Visual Delight in Architecture (Routledge, 2021) examines the many ways that our lives are enri...
Jacob Lederman, "Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy Versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circula...
Under the Arch of Titus: A Gateway to the Jewish Community
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Steven Fine, Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, Israel, discusses his new book Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem...
Catharina Gabrielsson et al., "Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has bee...
Grace Ong Yan, "Building Brands: The Architecture of Corporate Modernism" (Lund Humphries, 2021)
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Between the Stock Market Crash and the Vietnam War, American corporations were responsible for the construction of thousands of headquarters across th...
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, "A Glossary of Urban Voids" (Jovis Verlag, 2020)
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today I interview Sergio Lopez-Pineiro about his new book, A Glossary of Urban Voids (...
Stuart Walker, "Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures" (Routledge, 2021)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures (Routledge, 2021) examines the philosophical context of our current situation and its impl...
Stephen Murray, "Notre-Dame of Amiens: Life of the Gothic Cathedral" (Columbia UP, 2020)
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. Its construction began in 1220, and artistic production in the Gothic mode lasted well int...
James Tait, "Entering Architectural Practice" (Routledge, 2020)
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Featuring exclusive interviews with the internationally renowned architects: Kengo Kuma; Alberto Campo Baeza; Špela Videcnik (OFIS); Fernanda Canales...
Amy D. Finstein, "Modern Mobility Aloft: Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-interstate America" (Temple UP, 2020)
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the first half of the twentieth century, urban elevated highways were much more than utilitarian infrastructure, lifting traffic above the streets;...
Skylar Tibbits, "Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2021)
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploitin...
Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp, "Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope" ( American University in Cairo Press, 2021)
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 square miles (360 square kilometers), 1.8 million peo...
Matthew Thompson, "Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives" (Liverpool UP, 2020)
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we develop solutions to the housing crisis? In Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives (Liverpo...
Aaron Shapiro, "Design, Control, Predict: Logistical Governance in the Smart City" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The “smart” city of today looks little like what experts of yesteryear expected them to. In this book, Aaron Shapiro, Ph.D. takes readers on a b...
Simon Unwin, "Analysing Architecture: The Universal Language of Place-Making" (Routledge, 2020)
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Now in its fifth edition, Analyzing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. Aimed primarily at...
Louis Nelson, "Mosaic: War Monument Mystery" (239 Productions, 2021)
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Korean War is now America's seminal war. It was the first war conducted with the new United Nations, the first war fought against the Chinese Comm...
Kathy D. Dixon et al., "The Business of Architecture: Your Guide to a Financially Successful Firm" (Routledge, 2017)
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Business of Architecture: Your Guide to a Financially Successful Firm (Routledge, 2017) is the essential guide to understanding the critical fund...
Scott Berkun, "How Design Makes the World" (2020)
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everything you use, from your home to your smartphone, from highways to supermarkets, was designed by someone. What did they get right? Where did they...
David Barth, "Parks and Recreation System Planning: A New Approach for Creating Sustainable, Resilient Communities" (Island Press, 2020)
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Parks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open spac...
Karsten Jørgensen et al., "Teaching Landscape: The Studio Experience" (Routledge, 2019)
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Teaching Landscape: The Studio Experience (Routledge, 2019) gathers a range of expert contributions from across the world to collect best-practice e...
R. Armstrong and R. Hughes "The Art of Experiment: Post-Pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st-Century Architecture and Design" (Routledge, 2020)
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Art of Experiment: Post-Pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st-Century Architecture and Design (Routledge, 2020) is a handbook for navigating our ...
James Beattie, "Gardens at the Frontier: New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes" (Routledge, 2019)
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gardens at the Frontier: New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes (Routledge, 2019) addresses broad issues of intere...
Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America’s consumer culture was centralized in New York to an extent unparallel...
Timothy Beatley, "The Bird-Friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats" (Island Press, 2020)
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has ta...
Enoch B. Sears, "Social Media for Architects" (2021)
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Enoch Sears about his short ebook Social Media for Architects. The book details how architects can use social media for lead gener...
Thomas C. Hubka, "How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the average American family still lived by kerosene light, ate in the kitchen, and used an outhouse. By 1940, e...
Francoise Bollack, "Material Transfers: Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary Architecture" (Monacelli Press, 2020)
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Material Transfers: Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary Architecture (Monacelli Press, 2020), architect, architectural historian, and pre...
Christina Schwenkel, "Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam" (Duke UP, 2020)
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Following a decade of U.S. bombing campaigns that obliterated northern Vietnam, East Germany helped Vietnam rebuild in an act of socialist solidarity....
Sebastiaan Loosen, et al., "The Figure of Knowledge: Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s-1990s" (Leuven UP, 2020)
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anth...
Łukasz Stanek, "Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2020)
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with ...
Katherine Zubovich, "Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital" (Princeton UP, 2020)
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital (Princeton University Press, 2021), Professor Katherine Zubovich of th...
B. Kilpatrick and M. Patel, "Estate Regeneration: Learning from the Past, Housing Communities of the Future" (Routledge, 2020)
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One hundred years ago, the Addison Act created the circumstances for the large scale construction of municipal housing in the UK. This would lead to t...
Yasser Megahed, "Practiceopolis: Stories from the Architectural Profession" (Routledge, 2020)
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Practiceopolis: Stories from the Architectural Profession (Routledge, 2020) is a graphic novel about the contemporary architectural profession, in wh...
Daniel A. Barber, "Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning" (Princeton UP, 2020)
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs,...
Jodi Rios, "Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis" (Cornell UP, 2020)
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis (Cornell University Press, 2020), Dr. Jodi Rios ...
Adina Hoffman, "Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City" (FSG, 2017)
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A remarkable view of one of the world's most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman's Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City (FS...
Jose Sanchez, "Architecture for the Commons: Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms" (Routledge, 2020)
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Architecture for the Commons: Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms (Routledge, 2020) dives into an analysis of how the tectonics of a buildi...
Diana Darke, "Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe" (Hurst, 2020)
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Visitors around the world have travelled to Europe to see the tall spires and stained glass windows of the continent’s Gothic cathedrals: in Cologne...
Philip D. Plowright, "Making Architecture Through Being Human: A Handbook of Design Ideas" (Routledge, 2019)
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Architecture can seem complicated, mysterious or even ill-defined, especially to a student being introduced to architectural ideas for the first time....
Douglas Kelbaugh, "The Urban Fix: Resilient Cities in the War Against Climate Change, Heat Islands and Overpopulation" (Routledge, 2019)
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cities are one of the most significant contributors to global climate change. The rapid speed at which urban centers use large amounts of resources ad...
Stephen H. Whiteman, "Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe" (U Washington Press, 2020)
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours n...
Jennifer S. Light, "States of Childhood: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895-1945" (MIT Press, 2020)
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and n...
Eric Reinholdt, "Architect and Entrepreneur" (Design Workshop Press, 2015)
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Eric Reinholdt about two excellent books: Architect + Entrepreneur Volume 1: A Field Guide (Design Workshop Press, 2015) and Archit...
Annapurna Garimella, “The Contemporary Hindu Temple: Fragments for a History” (Marg Foundation, 2019)
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Contemporary Hindu temples raise aesthetic, economic, political and philosophical questions about the role of architecture in making a place for the s...
John Lobell, "Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy" (Monacelli Press, 2020)
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For everyone interested in the enduring appeal of Louis Kahn, this book demonstrates that a close look at how Kahn put his buildings together will rev...
Newton D'Souza, "The Multi-Skilled Designer" (Taylor and Francis, 2020)
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Newton D'Souza's new book The Multi-Skilled Designer (Taylor & Francis, 2020) presents and analyzes different approaches to contemporary architectural...
Jewish Architecture: A Stage for Jewish Liturgy
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jewish religious architecture is central to the Jewish religion. Across the centuries, Jewish temples and synagogues have been treated as symbols of h...
Prita Meier, "Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere" (Indiana UP, 2016)
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent an...
Carla Yanni, "Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Every fall on move-in day, parents tearfully bid farewell to their beloved sons and daughters at college dormitories: it is an age-old ritual. The res...
Despina Stratigakos, "Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway" (Princeton UP, 2020)
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway (Princeton University Press, 2020), Despina Stratigakos investi...
Mariana Mogilevich, "The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with “urban crisis,” the administration of May...
Emily Anthes, "The Great Indoors" (Scientific American, 2020)
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and ...
Karen Holl, "Primer of Ecological Restoration" (Island Press, 2020)
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The pace, intensity, and scale at which humans have altered our planet in recent decades is unprecedented. We have dramatically transformed landscapes...
Joseph S. Cialdella, "Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit" (U of Pittsburg Press, 2020)
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph S. Cialdella's Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit (University of Pittsburg Press, 2020) is a history of...
Joy Knoblauch, "The Architecture of Good Behavior" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the fed...
T. Fischer and C.M. Herr, "Design Cybernetics: Navigating the New" (Springer, 2019)
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Those who have followed this podcast in the past, and those who follow developments in cybernetics in the present, will be no strangers to the name Ra...
Hank Dittmar, "DIY City: The Collective Power of Small Actions" (Island Press, 2020)
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Some utopian plans have shaped our cities —from England’s New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussmann plan for Paris and the L’Enfant plan for ...
Sasha Costanza-Chock, "Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need" (MIT Press, 2020)
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (MIT Press, 2020), Sasha Costanza-Chock, an associate professor of Civic Media...
Thomas Bishop, "Every Home a Fortress: Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter" (UMass Press, 2020)
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Every Home a Fortress: Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), Thomas Bishop details the rema...
Laurie Olin, "Be Seated" (ORO Editions, 2017)
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Laurie Olin about his book Be Seated (ORO Editions, 2017). Olin’s interest in public outdoor seating in parks and civic spaces re...
R. Sroufe and S. Melnyk, "Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value" (Business Expert Press, 2017)
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Sroufe and Steven Melnyk's Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value (Business Expert Press) provides a multi-perspective approach to...
Thaisa Way, "River Cities, City Rivers" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2018)
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Thaisa Way, editor of River Cities, City Rivers (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2018). Cities have been built along...
Laurie Olin, "France Sketchbook" (ORO Editions, 2020)
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries artists and designers have recorded places, people, and life in travel sketchbooks. Over a period of fifty years, Laurie Olin, one of Am...
Robert Sroufe, "Integrated Management: How Sustainability Creates Value for Any Business" (Emerald, 2018)
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Integration has been a key theme across the general management, organizational behavior, supply chain management, strategy, information systems and th...
Sam Roberts, "A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis (Bloomsbury, 2019), New York Times corresp...
Erica Bauermeister, "House Lessons: Renovating a Life" (Sasquatch Books, 2020)
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From the New York Times, best selling author Erica Bauermeister comes House Lessons: Renovating a Life (Sasquatch Books, 2020). This memoir is about t...
Anne Godfrey, "Active Landscape Photography: Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape Architecture" (Routledge, 2020)
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design. Through a diverse set of essay...
Susie Hodge, "The Short Story of Architecture" (Laurence King Publishing, 2019)
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a building’s design come alive as it helps shape our existence? Listen in as I discuss this and other questions with Susie Hodge, author ...
Pablo Meninato, "Unexpected Affinities: The History of Type in Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp" (Routledge, 2018)
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While the concept of "type" has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introduction at the end of the eighteenth century, its role i...
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for S...
Jane Hutton, "Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements" (Routledge, 2020)
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are in...
Robert Sroufe et al, "The Power of Existing Buildings" (Island Press, 2019)
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your building has the potential to change the world. Existing buildings consume approximately 40 percent of the energy and emit nearly half of the car...
Richard Williams "Why Cities Look the Way They Do" (Polity, 2019)
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand our cities? In Why Cities Look the Way They Do (Polity, 2019), Richard Williams, Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures i...
Patrick M. Condon, "Five Rules for Tomorrow’s Cities" (Island Press, 2020)
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmosph...
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. B...
Ünver Rüstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton UP, 2019)
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Istanbul, there is a mosque on every hill. Cruising along the Bosphorus, either for pleasure, or like the majority of Istanbul’s denizens, for tr...
Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren, "Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes" (Routledge, 2020)
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren's book Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes (Routledge, 2020) situates agriculture as a design practice, usin...
Patrick Mooney, "Planting Design: Connecting People and Place" (Routledge, 2020)
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Landscape designers have long understood the use of plants to provide beauty, aesthetic pleasure and visual stimulation while supporting a broad range...
Theodora Vardouli and Olga Touloumi, "Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground" (Routledge, 2019)
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Weaving together intellectual, social, cultural, and material histories, Theodora Vardouli and Olga Touloumi's book Computer Architectures: Constructi...
Kristian Ly Serena, "Age-Inclusive Public Space" (Hatje Cantz, 2020)
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Public spaces tend to over-represent facilities and spatial design for the young and the middle-aged, whereas elderly citizens are all too often negle...
Jonathan Barnett, "Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale" (Island Press, 2020)
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The US population is estimated to grow by more than 110 million people by 2050, and much of this growth will take place where cities and their suburbs...
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat....
Diane Jones Allen, "Lost in the Transit Desert: Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form" (Routledge, 2017)
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit ...
Cole Roskam, "Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937" (U Washington Press, 2019)
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shanghai’s role in shaping modern China and indeed the very idea of what modernity is in China can hardly be overstated. Much of this long-lasting i...
Thaïsa Way, "GGN: Landscapes 1999 to 2018" (Timber Press, 2018)
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) is a landscape architecture firm based in Seattle, Washington. GGN was founded in 1999 by Jennifer Guthrie, Shannon Nic...
Steven Stolman, "Heirloom Houses: The Architecture of Wade Weissmann" (Gibbs Smith, 2018)
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Heirloom Houses : the Architecture of Wade Weissmann (Gibbs Smith, 2018), Steven Stolman explains how the houses designed by Wade Weissmann and his...