Book of the Moment

Jun 30

L.A. Under the Influence by Roger Sherman is A array of box studies in Los Angeles [in which] Sherman relates diversion speculation to investigate the function of … intersecting in isolation as well as open interests, divulgence an pick proof of architectural composition. Making endless make make use of of of diagrams, photographs, as well as the operation of...

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Book Review: The L!brary Book

May 13

The L!brary Book: Design Collaborations in a Public Schools by Anooradha Iyer SiddiqiPrinceton Architectural Press, 2010Paperback, 176 pages Memories of a living room in my class propagandize have been strong, even yet what prevails is not a earthy aspects of it though a time outlayed there seeking during books, guidance how to make use of computers, as well as...

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Book Review: LEED Materials

May 03

LEED Materials: A Resource Guide to Green Building by Ari MeiselPrinceton Architectural Press, 2010Paperback, 224 pages For those not informed with the workings of LEED — the Leadership in Energy as good as Environmental Design acceptance complement for measuring sustainability — the opposite certifications (Platinum, Gold, Silver, Certified) have been...

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Book Review: Beyond No.2

Feb 07

Beyond no.2 – Values as well as Symptoms edited by Pedro GadanhoSUN Architecture, 2009Paperback, 160 pages The second emanate of Beyond, a twice-yearly “bookazine dedicated to new, initial forms of architectural as well as civic essay … in which an lengthened network of immature as well as arriving European architectural writers have been since a...

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Book Review: Great Public Squares

Jan 02

Great Public Squares: An Architect’s Selection by Robert F. GatjeW. W. Norton, 2010Hardcover, 224 pages At a time when pattern books lend towards to concentration upon buildings, a objects which live cities, it’s lovely to see a book precisely focused upon open space, atonement a pun. Robert F. Gatje, a former partner of both Marcel Breuer as great...

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