New Books in Architecture

Interviews with Scholars of Architecture about their New Books

Arts
Visual Arts
226
Julian Bolleter, "Desert Paradises: Surveying t...
Bolleter explores how designed landscapes can play a vital role in constructing a city’s global image and legitimizing its socio-political hierarchy...
47 min
227
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
228
Darius Sollohub, "Millennials in Architecture: ...
Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth...
48 min
229
Thomas Yarrow, "Architects: Portraits of a Prac...
What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise?
34 min
230
Michael R. Boswell, "Climate Action Planning: A...
"Climate Action Planning" is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community's greenhouse gas emissions...
47 min
231
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
232
Kathryn Holliday, "The Open-Ended City: David D...
It may only be a slight exaggeration to say that one of David Dillon's career accomplishments was to put the words "Dallas" and "architecture" in the same sentence again...
36 min
233
Malcolm Woollen, "Erik Gunnar Asplund: Landscap...
Woollen investigates the landscapes and buildings of Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund...
53 min
234
Gary Meisner, "The Golden Ratio: The Divine Bea...
From the pyramids of Giza, to quasicrystals, to the proportions of the human face, the golden ratio has an infinite capacity to generate shapes with exquisite properties...
38 min
235
Dewey Thorbeck, "Agricultural Landscapes: Seein...
Thorbeck encourages using design thinking to provide greater meaning and understanding of places where humans live and work with the rural landscape...
51 min
236
R. Cervero, E. Guerra, S. Al, "Beyond Mobility:...
"Beyond Mobility" is about prioritizing the needs and aspirations of people and the creation of great places...
46 min
237
Eddie Chau, "Random Imaginations: A Collection ...
Chau's book reproduces of thousands of graphic images from a single sketchbook, drawn over the course of 27 years.
40 min
238
Thaisa Way, "The Landscape Architecture of Rich...
Haag founded the landscape architecture department at the University of Washington, and his innovative work contributed to the increasingly significant design approach known as urban ecological design...
46 min
239
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
240
Marc Treib, "Doing Almost Nothing: The Landscap...
Descombes has developed and applied a method unique to landscape architecture, one in which an extremely broad vision, both scientifically and culturally, shapes his thinking and projects...
46 min
241
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
242
Kate Baker, “Captured Landscape: Architecture a...
Baker discusses the continuing relevance of the typology of the enclosed garden to contemporary architects...
47 min
243
Stephen Hamnett, "Planning Singapore: The Exper...
Two hundred years ago, Sir Stamford Raffles established the modern settlement of Singapore...
51 min
244
Kathryn E. O’Rourke, "O’Neil Ford on Architectu...
O'Rourke brings together Ford’s major professional writings and speeches for the first time.,,
47 min
245
Paul McClean, "McClean Design: Creating the Con...
Design is not just a job for Paul McClean. It is a dream realized from his childhood. It is his passion...
51 min
246
Jacky Bowring, "Melancholy and the Landscape: L...
Bowring situates the concept with landscape’s aesthetic traditions, and reveals how it is a critical part of ethics and empathy...
45 min
247
Kenneth Olwig, "The Meanings of Landscape: Essa...
Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective...
62 min
248
Susan Jaques, "The Caesar of Paris:  Napoleon B...
Jaques offers up a richly detailed and researched account of Napoleon’s fascination with ancient Rome,..
41 min
249
Kapila D. Silva and Amita Sinha, "Cultural Land...
South Asian architecture and landscapes are not as well known in the western design schools...
50 min
250
Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister, "Projective E...
"Projective Ecologies" is about how landscape architecture can move forward in the design field beyond garden landscapes...
54 min