New Books in Architecture

Interviews with Scholars of Architecture about their New Books

Arts
Visual Arts
201
Erica Bauermeister, "House Lessons: Renovating ...
This memoir is about the power of home, and the transformative act of restoring one house in particular...
58 min
202
Anne Godfrey, "Active Landscape Photography: Th...
Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design...
48 min
203
Susie Hodge, "The Short Story of Architecture" ...
What makes a building’s design come alive as it helps shape our existence?
38 min
204
Pablo Meninato, "Unexpected Affinities: The His...
While the concept of "type" has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introduction at the end of the eighteenth century, its role in the development of architectural projects has not been comprehensively analyzed...
46 min
205
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
206
Jane Hutton, "Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of...
How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed?
40 min
207
Robert Sroufe et al, "The Power of Existing Bui...
Your building has the potential to change the world...
54 min
208
Richard Williams "Why Cities Look the Way They ...
How should we understand our cities?
33 min
209
Patrick M. Condon, "Five Rules for Tomorrow’s C...
How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet...
54 min
210
Ünver Rüstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectur...
Rüstem takes a stab of a slice of that history, arguing that we should see the eighteenth-century Baroque period in Ottoman mosque architecture as innovative and not derivative...
68 min
211
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
212
Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren, "Farmscape: The...
Lickwar and Thoren situate agriculture as a design practice, using a wide range of international case studies and analytical essays to propose lessons for contemporary landscape architects who are interested in integrating agriculture into their designs
55 min
213
Patrick Mooney, "Planting Design: Connecting Pe...
Mooney meshes the art of planting design with an understanding of how humans respond to natural environments...
56 min
214
Theodora Vardouli and Olga Touloumi, "Computer ...
This book paints the landscape that brought computing into the imagination, production, and management of the built environment, whilst foregrounding the impact of architecture in shaping technological development...
56 min
215
Kristian Ly Serena, "Age-Inclusive Public Space...
Public spaces tend to over-represent facilities and spatial design for the young and the middle-aged, whereas elderly citizens are all too often neglected by contemporary urban design practice....
45 min
216
Jonathan Barnett, "Designing the Megaregion: Me...
Barnett describes how to redesign megaregional growth using mostly private investment,..
60 min
217
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
218
Diane Jones Allen, "Lost in the Transit Desert:...
Jones Allen investigates how housing and transport policy have played their role in creating these "Transit Deserts," and what impact race has upon those likely to be affected...
44 min
219
Cole Roskam, "Improvised City: Architecture and...
Accompanied by a rich array of archival photos, maps and designs, Roskam’s book takes us down to street level,..
59 min
220
Thaïsa Way, "GGN: Landscapes 1999 to 2018" (Tim...
Way surveys some of GNN's most important achievements...
56 min
221
Steven Stolman, "Heirloom Houses: The Architect...
Like beautiful music, a Wade Weissmann house is composed of notes and expressions, rhythm and syncopation, moving forward in time and space toward a resolution that separates ordinary from extraordinary architecture: harmony...
52 min
222
David Morton, "Age of Concrete: Housing and the...
Who built Africa’s cities?
88 min
223
Steven Higashide, "Better Buses, Better Cities ...
Higashide shows us what a successful bus system looks like with real-world stories of reform—such as Houston redrawing its bus network overnight,
46 min
224
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
225
Simon Bell, "Elements of Visual Design in the L...
Bell presents a vocabulary of visual design, structured in a logical and easy to follow sequence...
55 min