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Written by Mick McConnell. By SITES.
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No comments about LAX: The Los Angeles Experiment.
Posted in Art and Photography (Monday, September 8, 2008)
Written by Dieter Wronsky and Werner Blaser. By Birkhauser.
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No comments about Bauen Vor Der Stadt: Beispiel, Kanton Basel-Land.
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Written by Sanford Kwinter. By The MIT Press.
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1 comments about Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture.
- Kwinter's analysis is extraordinary. His method is fairly eclectic, however, as some would issue this as a detraction, he compensates by having a wonderful writing style and a copious amount of mastery of the concepts that he addresses. I have read several treatises on architecture from 'philosophers'(i.e., Foucault, the Sitiuationists, et al.), but what is novel here is a designer explaining the epistemological frame of reference in the edifice, or engendering from it. Furthermore, it is completely amazing to think of the ostensibly disparate entities of Futurist architecture, quantum mechanics and relativity and Kafka as all burgeoning within the same epochal stuctures. I did find it odd that the author did not address Lefevbre's space/time tomes and rhythmanalysis. Kwinter is worth reading, and I think this book will be written about for years to come.
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Posted in Art and Photography (Monday, September 8, 2008)
Written by Claes Caldenby and Olof Hultin and Erik Gunnar Asplund. By Gingko Press.
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1 comments about Asplund.
- This is the best book I have seen on the works of swedish architect Eric Gunnar Asplund. The articles by Caldenby and Cornell are very helpfull to understand the background of the designer. The book puts Asplund work at the level of Gropius and Mies Van der Rohe, right where it belongs. It does justice to this not very "popular" architect.
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By St James Pr.
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No comments about International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture: Architects: 001.
Posted in Art and Photography (Monday, September 8, 2008)
Written by Sean Rothery. By Lilliput Press.
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No comments about Ireland and the New Architecture: 1900-1940.
Posted in Art and Photography (Monday, September 8, 2008)
Written by Trent Elewood Sanford. By University of Arizona Press.
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1 comments about The Architecture of the Southwest.
- This is more a history book of the settling of the southwest than an architecture book. It was originally written in 1940, so like all good followers of architecture at that time, he praises the adobe styles, utterly despises the Victorian (including the Territorial style, which he considers Victorian), and puts in a few good words for the International Style. The book is predominantly about adobe buildings and does not neglect Native American architecture.
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Posted in Art and Photography (Monday, September 8, 2008)
Written by Javier Quintana De Una. By Alianza Editorial Sa.
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No comments about Sueno y frustracion/ Dream and Frustration: El rascacielos en Europa 1900-1939/ The Skyscrapers in Europe 1900-1939 (Libros Singulares).
Posted in Art and Photography (Monday, September 8, 2008)
By University of Tennessee Press.
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No comments about Shaping Communities (Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture).
Posted in Art and Photography (Monday, September 8, 2008)
Written by Isabelle Desvaux De Marigny and Henriette Valentin Lagesse. By Thames & Hudson.
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No comments about Living in Mauritius: Traditional Architecture of Mauritius.
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