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Book review: Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Posted in Books First published in 1971, Reyner Banham’s Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies provides both a history of Los Angeles and a chequered survey of its hitherto largely ignored...
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Books // Façadomy by James Cornetet
Posted in Books Façadomy offers a comprehensive critique of architecture and its relationship to capitalism.
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Books // “In the Shadows of the Tetons”
Posted in Books New Monograph Released Featuring Jackson Hole Architects Ward + Blake
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Architecture books of the year – Guardian’s Review
Posted in Books In an age of austerity and dwindling resources, there's no shortage of big, beautiful books about buildings
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How to Design a Happier City
Posted in Books Charles Montgomery begins his new book, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, on a bicycle ride in Bogota, Colombia..
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Book Mountain: Biography of a Building by MVRDV
Posted in Books A captivating tale of creating a building with a mission. It is the second part in a new experimental series of books by MVRDV.
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Book Review // Time Bandits
Posted in Books Patrick W. Ciccone on the new book, The Fragile Monument: On Conservation and Modernity.
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The Images of Architects edited by Valerio Olgiati
Posted in BooksVideos & Interviews From Adjaye, Chipperfield to Toyo Ito and many others, Valerio Olgiati asked architects to send him important images that show the basis of their work. The post...
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Book Review // Reinventing Architecture and Interiors
Posted in Books This book published by Libri Publishing, UK, brings together the work of authors from several countries dealing with issues revolving around the reuse of existing infrastructure..The...
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A Kabbalah for Architects?
Posted in BooksNews Two New Books Posit a Uniquely Jewish Theory of Building..The post A Kabbalah for Architects? appeared first on Architecture Lab.
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Books // The future of architecture Vol.2
Posted in Books What is the future of architecture? Vol.2 is finally here, it continues the same path as last years edition and aims to capture an image.The post Books // The future of architecture...
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Book review: Architecture between spectacle and use (2011)
Posted in Books A review by Berrin Chatzi Chousein and edited by Ross Wolfe. The book is a collection edited by Anthony Vidler, focuses on the concepts of “spectacle” and “use” as they appear in many...
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Book Review // Architecture Follows Nature: Biomimetic Principles for...
Posted in Books Biomimicry is increasingly becoming one of those loaded words, like sustainability or innovation, rendered meaningless by overuse..The post Book Review // Architecture Follows Nature:...
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Books // Culture, Architecture and Nature
Posted in Books Gathering his most compelling essays and addresses from the last fifty years in one accessible volume, this book looks at the pioneering ideas that underpin Sim Van der Ryn’s ecological...
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Mies by Detlef Mertins review – ‘definitive’ biography
Posted in Books To some, Mies van der Rohe was a god among architects, to others a Teutonic control freak. This imposing life gives the whole picture The post Mies by Detlef Mertins review –...
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Book Review // Architecture in India
Posted in Books Rahul Mehrotra's Architecture in India since 1990 attacks the effect the country's liberalized economy has had on its built environment. The post Book Review // Architecture in India...
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Future Park: Imagining Tomorrow’s Urban Parks
In 2007, on a bursary awarded to her by Queensland’s Centre for Subtropical Design, Brisbane-based landscape architect Amalie Wright travelled to Columbia and the United States to study the role of...
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Ettore Sottsass: the godfather of Italian cool
The receptionist gave me a fax and an odd look. It said, in handwritten capitals: “DEAR ROWAN MOORE… THANK YOU FOR EVER… ETTORE”, above a drawing of a dishevelled bed with condoms and discarded...
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Review –‘Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture’
Book Details: Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture, by Justin McGuirk, Verso, RRP£17.99/$29.95, 288 pages From a distance, the favelas creeping up Rio de Janeiro’s...
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Book Review – Bricks & Mortals
The debut book by Tom Wilkinson (the architectural historian, rather than the actor) is a stunning assembly of ideas, thoughts and perspectives. While it ostensibly covers the history of 10 eclectic...
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