Architecture Books
Millennials in Architecture
Taking a clear-eyed look at the new generation in the context of the design professions, Darius Sollohub begins by situating Millennials in a line of generations stretching back to early Modernism, exploring how each generation negotiates the ones before and after. He then considers the present moment, closely evaluating the significance of Millennial behaviors and characteristics, all underpinned by fluency in the digital world. The book concludes with an assessment of the profound changes and opportunities that Millennial disruption will bring to education, licensure, and firm management.
Small Architecture
Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have turned in a more focused way to creating works that may be diminutive in their dimensions, but are definitely big when it comes to trendsetting ideas. Whether in Japanese cities, where large sites are hard to come by, or at the frontier between art and architecture, small buildings present many advantages and push their designers to do more with less.
Canadian Modern Architecture: A Fifty Year Retrospective
The fifty-year retrospective begins with the nation's centennial projects, including Expo 67, and then proceeds to explore national institutions and movements, regional and Indigenous architectural tendencies, and how Canadian architects interpreted major international trends. Canadian Modern Architecture, 1967 to the present also examines the influence of architects in Canada's three largest metropolitan areas-Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Structured Lineages: Learning from Japanese Structural Design
Structured Lineages: Learning from Japanese Structural Design presents a selection of essays and roundtable discussions by internationally prominent structural engineers on the intertwined traditions of architecture and engineering in postwar Japan. Charting a largely unexplored history in a manner at once scholarly and accessible, these conversations and essays - each accompanied by an expansive array of archival and contemporary photographs - illustrate how intimately the innovations of this collaborative tradition passed from one generation to the next.
Graphic Assembly: Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s
Graphic Assembly unearths the role played by montage and collage in the development of architectural culture over the past century, revealing their unexamined yet crucial significance. Craig Buckley brings together experimental architectural practices based in London, Paris, Vienna, and Florence, showing how breakthroughs in optical media and printing technologies enabled avant-garde architects to reimagine their field.
Michigan Modern: An Architectural Legacy
This monograph presents 34 selected projects carefully documented to record its place in art history and the story behind both its architect and client. One breathtaking view after another invites readers to enter what are often private realms not open to the public, to explore the innovative and cutting-edge design solutions presented on these pages. With 300 pages and 227 color images, Michigan Modern: An Architectural Legacy will appeal to a wide audience beyond professional designers, art scholars, and cultural historians.
The Story of Western Architecture
Now in its fourth edition, this classic bestselling book has been updated with brand new chapters and hand-drawn illustrations. The Story of Western Architecture explores not only the buildings constructed, but also how they were built, by whom and for what purpose. This informative book, brought to life through the author's expressive line drawings, is an essential guide to how buildings have evolved through time for keen amateurs and experts alike.
Structure and Architecture
This thoroughly updated edition of Angus J. Macdonald's insightful book Structure and Architecture offers an in depth analysis of structural design and its relationship with architecture. It draws on clear explanations of the connections between structural form, structural performance and architectural design to explore the interface between the technical and the visual in architecture. Additional chapters in this new edition cover the fields of structural theory, structural philosophy, the contributions of prominent engineers to the evolution of Modern architecture, and the concept and practice of sustainable design.
The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism
This large-format and generously illustrated book captures the visionary approach to the land embraced in designs for The Sea Ranch, the planned community that has become a touchstone of 1960s West Coast modernism. It features the work of architects Lawrence Halprin, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Charles Moore, William Turnbull, Donlyn Lyndon, Richard Whitaker, and Joseph Esherick. A collection of essays that consider The Sea Ranch in relation to popular leisure destinations and within the context of the architectural history of California are accompanied by conversations with designers and others associated with the project from its inception.
Single-Handedly: Contemporary Architects Draw by Hand
Single-Handedly: Contemporary Architects Draw by Hand features an inspiring collection of 220 hand drawings by more than 40 talented architects from Asia, Europe, the UK and North America. The powerful yet intimate drawings carry larger propositions about materials, space, and construction, and each one stands on its own as a work of art.
The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century
When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one of the most recognizable--and influential--figures on the American cultural landscape. The first recipient of the Pritzker Prize and MoMA's founding architectural curator, Johnson made his mark as one of America's leading architects with his famous Glass House in New Caanan, CT, and his controversial AT&T Building in NYC, among many others in nearly every city in the country--but his most natural role was as a consummate power broker and shaper of public opinion. Award-winning architectural critic and biographer Mark Lamster's The Man in the Glass House lifts the veil on Johnson's controversial and endlessly contradictory life to tell the story of a charming yet deeply flawed man.
New York Rising
From the first European settlement in the seventeenth century through the skyscrapers and large-scale urban planning schemes of the late twentieth century, this book presents a broad historical survey, illustrated with images drawn largely from the rich archival resources of the Durst Collection at Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Edge of Order
Edge of Order offers a stunning tour of the work of internationally known architect Daniel Libeskind and an investigation of a master artist's creative process. Libeskind opens the door to his unique creative process, guiding us through a selection of his projects never before collected - both built and unrealized, major commissions and unexpected favorites - and revealing how he arrived at their designs through text and a rich array of visuals, including drawings, plans, and photographs. With a voracious appetite for culture and history, and an encyclopedic memory, Libeskind draws on everything from Greek mythology to Emily Dickinson to the Marx Brothers to explain the way he thinks about buildings and cities.
Living in the Desert
Living in the Desert is a carefully curated and beautifully photographed selection of 50 architect-designed houses that reflects contemporary concerns about the unique challenges presented by life in the desert's sensitive environment. Each building, designed by established and well-known contemporary stars as well as emerging architects, includes a short text and several exterior & interior images of its structure and surroundings.
Cocktails and Conversations : Dialogues on Architectural Design
For six years, the AIA New York Architecture Dialogue Committee's "Cocktails and Conversations" series has hosted some of the most interesting and provocative practitioners we know to discuss what informs their designs. They shared insights about how to create form, how to relate new to old, what they learned from their built projects and ones unrealized. They talked about designing at all scales, from the macro to the micro, the role of drawing, and that of the client, politics, and the economy. They discussed aesthetics, color, and form. This book intends to inspire and delight while distilling the ideas presented.
Naturally Animated Architecture
'Naturally Animated Architecture' by Kevin Nute explains how the natural movements of the sun, wind, and rain can be used to improve the well-being of people in buildings and raise awareness of sustainable living practices. In demonstrating how buildings can be designed to reconcile their traditional role as shelter from the elements with the active inclusion of their movement, the book shows how, in the process of separating us from the extremes of the natural world, architecture can also be a means of reconnecting us with nature.
The Winery Collection
With the evolution of agriculture from a family-run, artisanal economy to an industrial scale activity, wine production was mainly concentrated in industrial style buildings lacking in any architectural inspiration, since it was limited to a purely functional role. Thanks to a series of social, economic, and also cultural factors, this trend was even completely inverted. The challenge now lies in creating wineries that are industrial buildings suitable for production, but at the same time evocative and engaging spaces, perfectly integrated with the landscape, so that they will not alter the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside. Showing a selection of twenty-eight wineries spread throughout Italy, this book is aimed at investigating the characteristics of every single construction, establishing and underlining the connection between the architectural structure and its role within the agricultural fabric.
Bauhaus Architecture
Bauhaus Architecture contains an outstanding collection of photographs by the renowned architectural photographer Hans Engels and provides a detailed survey of surviving Bauhaus architecture in Europe. Focusing on buildings designed by Bauhaus members from 1919 to 1933, this book features some 65 famous and lesser-known building projects in Germany, Vienna, Barcelona, Prague, and Budapest by architects including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Arranged chronologically, Bauhaus Architecture offers informative commentary and site plans along with photographs, taken especially for this book.
Unboxing New York
Unboxing New York is a collaborative testimony to the realities architecture faces in the evolving landscape of New York City. In a collection of 50 short texts, richly illustrated with detailed diagrams and photo essays, ODA weaves together the stories, inspirations, and methodologies it has developed over the last 10 years to challenge the city's architectural conventions with an optimistic outlook.
Structure As Architecture: A Source Book for Architects and Structural Engineers
Structure as Architecture presents a comprehensive analysis of the indispensable role of structure in architecture. An exploration, as well as a celebration, of structure, the book draws on a series of design studies and case study examples to illustrate how structure can be employed to realize a wide range of concepts in contemporary architecture. By examining design principles that relate to both architecture and structural engineering, Andrew Charleson provides new insights into the relationship between both the technical and aesthetic aspects of architecture.
A New History of Modern Architecture
Combining a fascinating, thought-provoking and - above all - readable text with over 800 photographs, plans, and sections, this exciting new reading of modern architecture is a must for students and architecture enthusiasts alike. Organized largely as a chronology, chapters necessarily overlap to allow for the discrete examination of key themes including typologies, movements, and biographical studies, as well as the impact of evolving technology and country-specific influences.
The Modern A-Frame
The A-Frame home surged in popularity in the 1950s, and has captured the public's imagination with its playfully modern, steep-sloping roofline ever since. The Modern A-Frame celebrates seventeen diverse accounts of these minimalists cabins reinvented for the twenty-first century. Nostalgic escapes, heritage homes, full-time simplicity, and artists at work categorize the A-frames whose engaging stories are shared.
The Complete Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid (1950- 2016) was one of the most innovative and celebrated architects of our time. This comprehensive survey of over two hundred projects―from her earliest experimentations to product design, from speculative follies to large-scale built works―is a testament to the depth, range, and inventiveness of her vision.
The Architecture Reference & Specification Book
The updated and revised edition of Architecture Reference & Specification contains vital information that's essential to planning and executing architectural projects of all shapes and sizes, all in a format that is small enough to carry anywhere. It distills the data provided in standard architectural volumes and is an easy-to-use reference for the most indispensable--and most requested--types of architectural information.
Modern to Classic II: Residential Estates
This book explores Landry Design Group's recent work, defined by an eclectic range of references and styles. Emphasizing the unique stories that inform the projects, the monograph's 15 chapters-each dedicated to a single completed residence and opening with a conceptual sketch by principal Richard Landry-demystify the process behind creating the grand estates for which the firm has become known. From a modern steel and glass aerie perched above L.A.'s Sunset Boulevard to a lakeside stone villa in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, the houses selected embody the spirit of those who inhabit them.
An Architect's Cookbook: A Culinary Journey Through Design
Half design journal and half cookbook, An Architect's Cookbook: A Culinary Journey Through Design peeks behind the curtain into the process of creating magical culinary experiences both inside and outside the kitchen. In his first book, New York-based architect and designer Glen Coben brings us on a journey throughout New York City and beyond, delving into his architectural process and collaboration with some of the world's greatest chefs, including Mario Batali, Mary Dumont, Alex Stupak, Gabriel Kreuther, and more.
Hudson Modern: Residential Landscapes
Hudson Modern showcases the stunning new houses in the Hudson River Valley that embrace their dramatic settings in this popular and culturally bountiful region. In this book the author has chosen 17 homes that exemplify a uniquely contemporary aesthetic unlike other New York area second home enclaves like the Hamptons and Connecticut. The book also looks to art and architectural experts such as Barlis & Wedlick, Drew Lang and Andrew Zuckerman for commentary on such far flung topics as affordable housing, subdivisions uneasy reconciliation with ecology and the area's expansiveness of nature juxtaposed with its proximity to New York City.
The Design-Build Studio: Crafting Meaningful Work in Architecture Education
The Design-Build Studio examines sixteen international community driven design-build case studies through process and product, with preceding chapters on community involvement, digital and handcraft methodologies and a graphic Time Map. Together these projects serve as a field guide to the current trends in academic design-build studios, a window into the different processes and methodologies being taught and realized today.
Adaptive Architecture: Changing Parameters and Practice
Adaptive Architecture explores structures, or environments that accommodate multiple functions at the same time, sequentially, or at periodically recurring events. It demonstrates how changing technological, economic, ecological and social conditions have altered the playing field for architecture from the design of single purpose structures to the design of interacting systems of synergistically interdependent, distributed buildings.
Innovative Architecture Strategies
This book presents a series of contemporary, diverse and innovative design strategies that vary in form, function and design intent. The common denominator of all projects is the alternative and/or experimental approach of combining both private and public spaces.