New Books in Architecture

Interviews with Scholars of Architecture about their New Books

Arts
Visual Arts
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Erin-Marie Legacey, "Making Space for the Dead:...
Legacey explores the transformation of burial practices in the aftermath of the French Revolution...
49 min
252
Elizabeth Otto, "Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirit...
Otto “liberates Bauhaus history” with this work, drawing the focus from the handful of male artists like Klee and Breuer outward as she considers the other 1200 odd Bauhäusler...
71 min
253
Stefan Al, "Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: ...
This book is a tool kit for adapting and managing sea level rise and storm events for metropolitan cities and smaller communities...
49 min
254
Nadia Amoroso, "Representing Landscapes: Analog...
Amoroso focuses the art of hand drawings and why they are still relevant and important in our digital age...
22 min
255
Sandra L. Albro, "Vacant to Vibrant: Creating S...
Vacant lots, so often seen as neighborhood blight, have the potential to be a key element of community revitalization...
42 min
256
Edward Hutchison, "Drawing for Landscape Archit...
Mr. Hutchison’s latest book is “how to do it.” He explains his process for understanding how taking the time to understand the site influences his designs and the benefits of it...
56 min
257
Nancy S. Steinhardt, "Chinese Architecture: A H...
Steinhardt here draws on decades of exhaustive reading and tireless fieldwork to tell the story of Chinese building practices, principles and techniques across space and time...
63 min
258
Raymond Jungles, “The Cultivated Wild: Gardens ...
Jungles discusses his design process and its synthesis with local ecologies for our human desires of cultivated landscapes.
61 min
259
Alexander Garvin, "The Heart of the City: Creat...
Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. They are the heart of the city that drives its future...
45 min
260
Jason Dewees, "Designing with Palms" (Timber Pr...
Dewees' book offers a wealth of design inspiration and ideas, exquisitely photographed by Caitlin Atkinson and featuring gardens in Hawai`i, South Florida, the Bay Area, Southern California, South Carolina, and the Desert Southwest...
51 min
261
Bradley Cantrell and Adam Mekies, "Codify: Para...
Landscape architecture has a long history of innovation in the areas of computation and media, particularly in how the discipline represents, analyses, and constructs complex systems...
48 min
262
Chip Sullivan, “Cartooning the Landscape” (U Vi...
This is a magically journey about the mystery of the design process...
57 min
263
Caitlín Eilís Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: E...
Barrett draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a particular type of Roman household space: the domestic garden...
99 min
264
Kenneth I. Helphand, "Lawrence Halprin" (Librar...
49 min
265
Christof Spieler, "Trains, Buses, People: An Op...
"Trains, Buses, People' is a fascinating book about “How To” develop better transportation modes for US cities and urban...
46 min
266
Harold Holzer, "Monument Man: The Life and Art ...
Holzer chronicles the career of French, who became best known for his sculpture of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. 
64 min
267
Anne Cheng, "Second Skin: Josephine Baker and t...
Through Baker, Cheng invites us to reconsider the mutual imbrication of object/subject, surface/depth, and exploitation/fascination...
41 min
268
K. Kennen and N. Kirkwood, "Phyto: Principals a...
The authors are both landscape architects who address “how to” contain and mediate through phytotechnologies the pollutants humans have used in the environment...
50 min
269
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
270
Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: La...
As Romans established imperial control over Italy and beyond, the city itself radically transformed from an ambitious central Italian settlement into the capital of the Mediterranean world...
32 min
271
Adrienne Brown, "The Black Skyscraper: Architec...
In this bold and deeply interdisciplinary work, Brown demonstrates the centrality of race to modern architectural design...
74 min
272
Nadia Amoroso, "Representing Landscapes: A Visu...
55 min
273
Sun-Young Park, "Ideals of the Body: Architectu...
We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron Haussmann in the late nineteenth century, but little scholarship has seized on its precursors...
49 min
274
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis. "Classical New York: ...
A new book explores how and why New York City became a showcase for the art and architectural styles of ancient Greece and Rome.
38 min
275
Robert C. Trumpbour and Kenneth Womack, "The Ei...
t rose against the Texas sun in all its architectural audacity: a domed stadium big enough to cover a baseball field...
53 min