Holiday Gift Books: 2009.4

As in the <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/search/label/holiday%20gift%20books">last four years</a>, I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays. This time around I'm presenting one each by 50 publishers, posted in five digestible installments of ten each, in alphabetical order. Below is the fourth installment. Once posted, the rest can be found <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/search/label/gift%20books%2009">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.phaidon.com/">Phaidon</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0714843695?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0714843695"><img alt="books09-phaidon.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-phaidon.jpg" title="Anish Kapoor by David Anfam" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Anish Kapoor</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by David Anfam</span><br />"This is the most extensive monograph ever published on the artist, covering more than thirty years of work and illustrated with hundreds of full-color images including sketches and technical diagrams from his most ambitious projects."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.edicionespoligrafa.com/">Poligrafa</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8434311860?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=8434311860"><img alt="books09-poligrafa.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-poligrafa.jpg" title="The Feeling of Things by Adam Caruso" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Feeling of Things</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Adam Caruso</span><br />"Principal of the London based architecture office <a href="http://www.carusostjohn.com/">Caruso St John</a>, together with Peter St John, Adam Caruso has develop an intense activity as writer, focusing his thoughts on the architectural practice and the updated of some figures of the so called other tradition of the Modern Movement."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.prestel.com/">Prestel</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/379134207X?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=379134207X"><img alt="books09-prestel.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-prestel.jpg" title="A Manifesto for Sustainable Cities by Jeremy Gaines" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Albert Speer & Partner: A Manifesto for Sustainable Cities</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Jeremy Gaines</span><br />"Many of [<a href="http://www.as-p.de/">the firm</a>'s] trailblazing projects are discussed in this compelling and timely look at what has been accomplished in an effort to satisfy the array of social, economic, and environmental demands of the twenty-first century."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.papress.com/">Princeton Architectural Press</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568987838?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1568987838"><img alt="books09-papress.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-papress.jpg" title="Design Ecologies by Lisa Tilder, Beth Blostein" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Design Ecologies: Sustainable Potentials in Architecture</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> edited by Lisa Tilder and Beth Blostein</span><br />"A new generation of architects, landscape architects, designers, and engineers aims to recalibrate what humans do in the world according to how the world works as a biophysical system. <span style="font-style: italic;">Design Ecologies</span> is a ground-breaking collection of never-before-published essays and case studies by today's most innovative designers and critics. Their design strategies—social, material, and biological—run the gamut from the intuitive to the highly technological."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.reaktionbooks.com/">Reaktion Books</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1861894287?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1861894287"><img alt="books09-reaktion.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-reaktion.jpg" title="Twenty Minutes in Manhattan by Michael Sorkin" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Twenty Minutes in Manhattan</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Michael Sorkin</span><br />"A personal, anecdotal account of [Sorkin's] casual encounters with the physical space and social dimensions of this unparalleled city. His perambulations offer him—and the reader—opportunities to not only engage with his surroundings but to consider a wide range of issues that fascinate Sorkin as an architect, urbanist, and New Yorker."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rizzoliusa.com/">Rizzoli</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0847830608?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0847830608"><img alt="books09-rizzoli.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-rizzoli.jpg" title="Frank Gehry: The Houses by Mildred Friedman" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Frank Gehry: The Houses</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Mildred Friedman</span><br />"[The architect] has achieved worldwide fame for such large-scale public projects as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, but it was in private houses that Gehry first explored and interrogated the principles of modern architecture."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rockpub.com/">Rockport</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592535739?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1592535739"><img alt="books09-rockport.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-rockport.jpg" title="1000 Ideas by 1000 Architects by Sergi Costa Duran and Mariana R. Eguaras" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">1000 Ideas by 1000 Architects</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Sergi Costa Duran and Mariana R. Eguaras</span><br />"This book provides behind the scenes insight into the work of 100 top international designers through the deconstruction of 1000 architectural details and projects. An unrivaled sourcebook for ideas, this collection also provides details and information that are not available on this level through any other source."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.routledgearchitecture.com/">Routledge</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415563097?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0415563097"><img alt="books09-routledge.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-routledge.jpg" title="Climate and Architecture by Torben Dahl" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Climate and Architecture</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Torben Dahl</span><br />"Beautifully illustrated with photographs, diagrams and building plans, the book sets out the environmental basis for sustainable design into the 21st century."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.skira.net/">Skira</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0847834190?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0847834190"><img alt="books09-skira.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-skira.jpg" title="The New Acropolis Museum by Bernard Tschumi Architects " /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The New Acropolis Museum</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> edited by Bernard Tschumi Architects</span><br />"The book provides an in-depth look at the creation of the building, set only 280 meters from the Parthenon, as well as the restoration, preservation, and housing of its exhibits through over 200 photographs, drawings, and texts."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.steidl.de/">Steidl</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3865219438?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=3865219438"><img alt="books09-steidl.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-steidl.jpg" title="Edward Burtynsky: Oil edited by Marcus Schubert" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Edward Burtynsky: Oil</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> edited by Marcus Schubert</span><br />"Burtynsky locates and documents the sites that urban dwellers never see, and questions human accountability. His imagery is vast in both scale and ambition, revealing the apparatus behind the energy we mine from dwindling resources, and the ongoing effects of the industrial revolution."

Holiday Gift Books: 2009.4

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Holiday Gift Books: 2009.3

As in the <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/search/label/holiday%20gift%20books">last four years</a>, I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays. This time around I'm presenting one each by 50 publishers, posted in five digestible installments of ten each, in alphabetical order. Below is the third installment. Once posted, the rest can be found <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/search/label/gift%20books%2009">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.laurenceking.co.uk/">Laurence King Publishing</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/185669609X?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=185669609X"><img alt="books09-king.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-king.jpg" title="Extreme Architecture by Ruth Slavid" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Extreme Architecture: Building in Challenging Environments</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Ruth Slavid</span><br />"Forty-five recent buildings designed for challenging environments, giving valuable insights into the extremes of architectural thinking. Futhermore, in an increasingly unstable world, some of the lessons they teach about self-sufficiency may yet become more generally applicable." Read my review of the book <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2009/09/book-review-extreme-architecture.html">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.map-office.com/">Map Book</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9881771218?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=9881771218"><img alt="books09-mapjpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-map.jpg" title="Public Works by by J. Meejin Yoon with Meredith Miller" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Public Works: Unsolicited Small Projects for the Big Dig</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> edited by J. Meejin Yoon with Meredith Miller</span><br />"A series of 14 disarmingly modest, speculative interventions by the Boston-based <a href="http://www.mystudio.us/">MY Studio</a>, a multidisciplinary design firm operating in the space between architecture, art and landscape. Collectively, these interventions expose, connect and reconfigure the relationship between the underground expressways and the new parks that emerged in the Big Dig's wake, demonstrating the effect design can have on our conception of public space."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mhprofessional.com/">McGraw-Hill</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071376755?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0071376755"><img alt="books09-mcgraw.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-mcgraw.jpg" title="The Smart Growth Manual by Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, Mike Lydon" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Smart Growth Manual</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Andres Duany and Jeff Speck with Mike Lydon</span><br />"With this long-awaited companion volume [to <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0865476063?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0865476063">Suburban Nation</a></span>], the authors have organized the latest contributions of new urbanism, green design, and healthy communities into a comprehensive handbook, fully illustrated with the built work of the nation's leading practitioners."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.merrellpublishers.com/">Merrell Publishers</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1858944910?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1858944910"><img alt="books09-merrell.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-merrell.jpg" title="Books Do Furnish a Room by Leslie Geddes-Brown" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Books Do Furnish a Room</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Leslie Geddes-Brown</span><br />"In this beautifully illustrated guide, self-confessed bibliophile Leslie Geddes-Brown offers inspirational solutions and practical tips on how to make the most of books in every room and forgotten nook of the house."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20060223/metropolis-books">Metropolis Books</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933045957?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1933045957"><img alt="books09-metropolis.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-metropolis.jpg" title="Design Revolution by Emily Pilloton" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Emily Pilloton</span><br />"Featuring more than 100 contemporary design products and systems--safer baby bottles, a high-tech waterless washing machine, ... universal composting systems, DIY soccer balls--that are as fascinating as they are revolutionary, this exceptionally smart, friendly and well-designed volume makes the case for design as a tool to solve some of the world's biggest social problems in beautiful, sustainable and engaging ways--for global citizens in the developing world and in more developed economies alike."<br /><br /><a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/">MIT Press</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262013495?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0262013495"><img alt="books09-mit.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-mit.jpg" title="Asylum by Christopher Payne" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Christopher Payne</span><br />"Architect and photographer Christopher Payne spent six years documenting the decay of state mental hospitals, visiting seventy institutions in thirty states. Through his lens we see splendid, palatial exteriors and crumbling interiors."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/monacelli/">The Monacelli Press</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580932401?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1580932401"><img alt="books09-monacelli.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-monacelli.jpg" title="The Architecture of Natural Light by Henry Plummer" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Architecture of Natural Light</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Henry Plummer</span><br />"For all those seeking to create space that transcends the physical, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Architecture of Natural Light</span> is a powerful and poetic yet practical survey that provides an original and timeless approach to contemporary architecture."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.naipublishers.nl/">NAi Publishers</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9056626868?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=9056626868"><img alt="books09-nai.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-nai.jpg" title="Architecture in the Netherlands by Samir Bantal, JaapJan Berg, Kees van der Hoeven, Anne Luijten" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Architecture in the Netherlands: Yearbook 2008/09</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Samir Bantal, JaapJan Berg, Kees van der Hoeven, Anne Luijten</span><br />"The shortlist of 30 projects provides a wide-ranging overview of trends, design strategies, architectural typologies and topical themes that have influenced architecture in 2008. The editorial team also highlights relevant and urgent developments and places them on the agenda in a series of essays, visual and textual."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.oup.com/us/">Oxford University Press</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198605684?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0198605684"><img alt="books09-oup.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-oup.jpg" title="The Oxford Companion to Architecture by Patrick Goode, Stanford Anderson and (the late) Sir Colin St John Wilson " /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Oxford Companion to Architecture</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Patrick Goode, Stanford Anderson and (the late) Sir Colin St John Wilson </span><br />"Embracing the world of architecture in all its variety, the Companion offers complete coverage of architecture from around the world, giving equal weight to architecture in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America as to the more familiar examples from Western Europe and the United States,and of both modern and vernacular architecture."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.papadakis.net/">Papadakis Publishers</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1906506043?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1906506043"><img alt="books09-papadakis.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-papadakis.jpg" title="Drawing Parallels by Quintin Lake" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Drawing Parallels: Architecture Observed</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Quintin Lake</span><br />"From megacities to the remotest villages, from man-made structures to natural forms, [Quintin Lake] takes us through pairings of photographs that force us to re-examine the world around us and challenge our understanding of what constitutes architecture."

Holiday Gift Books: 2009.3

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Holiday Gift Books: 2009.2

As in the <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/search/label/holiday%20gift%20books">last four years</a>, I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays. This time around I'm presenting one each by 50 publishers, posted in five digestible installments of ten each, in alphabetical order. Below is the second installment. Once posted, the rest can be found <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/search/label/gift%20books%2009">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.010publishers.nl/"></a><a href="http://www.chroniclebooks.com/">Chronicle Books</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0811866440?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0811866440"><img alt="books09-chronicle.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-chronicle.jpg" title="The BLDGBLOG Book by Geoff Manaugh" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The BLDGBLOG Book</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">by Geoff Manaugh</span><br />"Insights in book form, combining history, urban exploration, science fiction, design, climate change, and city planning with the view that everything is relevant to architecture."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.di.net/store/">DesignIntelligence</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/098189898X?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=098189898X"><img alt="books09-di.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-di.jpg" title="33 by Richard Saul Wurman" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">33: Understanding Change & the Change in Understanding</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Richard Saul Wurman</span><br />"Architect, designer, creator of the celebrated TED Conference, and prolific author Richard Saul Wurman's <span style="font-style: italic;">33</span> chronicles the adventures and musings of an eccentric (yet oddly familiar) character: the Commissioner of Curiosity and Imagination."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.elsevier.com/">Elsevier</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1856178013?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1856178013"><img alt="books09-elsevier.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-elsevier.jpg" title="London's Contemporary Architecture by Kenneth Allinson" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">London's Contemporary Architecture: An Explorer's Guide</span></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Kenneth Allinson</span><br />"Now in its fifth edition, the guide has been fully updated to cover the latest additions to the London skyline and buildings of architectural significance."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ggili.com/">GG</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8425221889?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=8425221889"><img alt="books09-gg.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-gg.jpg" title="2G 48/49 edited by Moisés Puente" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">2G 48/49 Mies van der Rohe: Houses</span></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> edited by Moisés Puente</span><br />"New, specially commissioned photographs and commentary on 16 built and 21 unbuilt houses. This eagerly-anticipated publication contains a compendium of Mies' houses, built between 1906 and the beginning of the 1960s ... showing the enduring influence he has had over the whole of the last century in both Europe and the USA." Read my review of the book <a href="http://www.archidose.org/books/mies2g.html">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hatjecantz.de/">Hatje Cantz</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3775723692?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=3775723692"><img alt="books09-hatje.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-hatje.jpg" title="James Turrell: Geometry of Light edited by Ursula Sinnreich" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">James Turrell: Geometry of Light</span></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> edited by Ursula Sinnreich</span><br />"A lifelong explorer of perceptual psychology, Turrell is undoubtedly the most influential contemporary light artist, as well as one of America's most popular artists. In <span style="font-style: italic;">Geometry of Light</span>, the first significant Turrell survey in many years, an extraordinary body of work covering several decades is assessed."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hatjecantz.de/">Images</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1864703423?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1864703423"><img alt="books09-images.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-images.jpg" title="Details in Architecture by Andrew Hall" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Details in Architecture</span></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Andrew Hall</span><br />"A study of the emerging trends in architectural detailing, with a strong focus on innovative design, enviro-sustainability and many aspects of cross-cultural design."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.jovis.de/">Jovis</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3868590110?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=3868590110"><img alt="books09-jovis.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-jovis.jpg" title="Berlin-New York Dialogues by AIA New York" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Berlin-New York Dialogues</span></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> edited by AIA New York</span><br />"Berlin–New York Dialogues explores the mechanisms of urban regeneration that are changing the built environment in Berlin and New York."<br /><br /><a href="http://knopf.knopfdoubleday.com/">Knopf</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375404066?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0375404066"><img alt="books09-knopf.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-knopf.jpg" title="Hearts of the City by Herbert Muschamp" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Hearts of the City: The Selected Writings of Herbert Muschamp</span></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Herbert Muschamp</span><br />"The pieces here—from <span style="font-style: italic;">The New Republic</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Artforum</span>, and <span style="font-style: italic;">The New York Times</span>—reveal how Muschamp’s views were both ahead of their time and timeless."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.laforum.org/">L.A Forum</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0976316641?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0976316641"><img alt="books09-la.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-la.jpg" title="After the city, this by Tom Marble" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">After the city, this</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Tom Marble</span><br />"Using the structure of a screenplay to tell the story, architect Tom Marble takes the reader inside the minds of the people on both sides of the [Los Angeles real estate] development conflict - those seeing land as a commodity for profit, and those who see it as a valued resource for all to enjoy."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/">Lars Müller Publishers</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3037781890?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=3037781890"><img alt="books09-lars.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-lars.jpg" title="Ecological Urbanism by Harvard University" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Ecological Urbanism</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> edited by Harvard University</span><br />"While climate change, sustainable architecture, and green technologies have become increasingly topical, issues surrounding the sustainability of the city are much less developed. The premise of the book is that an ecological approach is urgently needed both as a remedial device for the contemporary city and an organizing principle for new cities."

Holiday Gift Books: 2009.2

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Holiday Gift Books: 2009.1

As in the <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/search/label/holiday%20gift%20books">last four years</a>, I'm presenting a list of gift books just in time for the holidays. This time around I'm presenting one each by 50 publishers, posted in five digestible installments of ten each, in alphabetical order. Below is the first installment. Once posted, the rest can be found <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/search/label/gift%20books%2009">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.010publishers.nl/">010 Publishers</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9064506914?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=9064506914"><img alt="books09-010.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-010.jpg" title="Archiprix 2009 by Henk van der Veen" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Archiprix 2009</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> edited by Henk van der Veen</span><br />"Each year the Dutch institutions teaching architecture, urban design and landscape architecture select their best final-year projects. The crop is unfailingly rich and varied and reflects the ambition of a new generation of designers ready to take on every imaginable design task that comes their way."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.actar.es/">Actar</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8496954730?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=8496954730"><img alt="books09-actar.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-actar.jpg" title="The Function of Form by Farshid Moussavi" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Function of Form</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Farshid Moussavi</span><br />"A thought-provoking account of the challenges facing the 21st century built environment, and an enlivened awareness of the wider possibilities of architectural form."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.andsbooks.ugent.be/">A&S Books</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9076714304?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=9076714304"><img alt="books09-as.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-as.jpg" title="Choosing History by Andrew Leach" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Manfredo Tafuri: Choosing History</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Andrew Leach</span><br />"The first English-language book to consider [critic Manfredo Tafuri's] contribution to architectural culture, it opens an overdue discussion on both the premises of his practice and the historical questions that consequently emerge."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.aperture.org/books/">aperture</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1597110760?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1597110760"><img alt="books09-aperture.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-aperture.jpg" title="The Transparent City by Thomas Wolf" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Transparent City</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Thomas Wolf</span><br />"Bringing his unique perspective on changing urban environments to a city renowned for its architectural legacy, Wolf chose to photograph [Chicago's] central downtown area, focusing specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.aplust.net/">a+t</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8461330803?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=8461330803"><img alt="books09-at.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-at.jpg" title="HoCo by Aurora Fernandez Per, Javier Mozas & Javier Arpa" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">HoCo: Density Housing Construction & Costs</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">by Aurora Fernandez Per, Javier Mozas & Javier Arpa</span><br />"The new volume published by a+t forms part of the Density series, dedicated to the analysis of collective housing. HoCo is noted for including construction systems within the field of study and comparison, besides the costs of each project." Read my review of the book <a href="http://www.archidose.org/books/housing.html">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.arvinius.se/">Arvinius</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9185213330?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=9185213330"><img alt="books09-arvinius.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-arvinius.jpg" title="Nordic Architects by David Sokol" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Nordic Architects</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by David Sokol</span><br />"Readers will engage with the region's enduring legacy of modernist architecture that is sensitive to both site and occupants, as well as the global currents that are roiling designers toward experimental work and provocative thinking."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.avabooks.ch/">AVA Academia</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/2940411123?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=2940411123"><img alt="books09-ava.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-ava.jpg" title="Basics Landscape Architecture: Urban Design by Tim Waterman and Ed Wall" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Basics Landscape Architecture: Urban Design</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">by Tim Waterman and Ed Wall</span><br />"Providing an overview of urban design from a landscape architecture perspective and a brief history and definition of urban design, it looks at the elements of urban form and the importance of contextual details."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.springer.com/birkhauser">Birkhäuser</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3764387890?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=3764387890"><img alt="books09-birkhauser.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-birkhauser.jpg" title="Visualizing Landscape Architecture by Elke Mertens" /><br /></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3764387890?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=3764387890"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Visualizing Landscape Architecture: Functions, Concepts, Strategies</span></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Elke Martens</span><br />"This books sifts through the currently commonplace and available techniques [for communicating landscape designs] and evaluates them in terms of their informative value and persuasive power, always illustrating its points with analysis of examples from international firms."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blackdogonline.com/">Black Dog Publishing</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1906155208?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1906155208"><img alt="books09-bdp.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-bdp.jpg" title="Collected Essays in Architectural Criticism by Alan Colquhoun" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Collected Essays in Architectural Criticism</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Alan Colquhoun</span><br />"<span style="font-style: italic;">Collected Essays in Architectural Criticism</span> encompasses the clarity of style and rigorous, erudite analysis that Colquhoun has brought to bear on a diverse range of subjects, including Le Corbusier, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, the Pompidou Centre, Postmodernism and the design of museums."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.chartaartbooks.it/">Charta</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8881587319?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=8881587319"><img alt="" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/books09-charta.jpg" title="Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews, Volume 2" /><br /><span style=""><span style="font-style: italic;">Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews, Volume 2</span></span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> edited by Charles Arsène-Henry, Shumon Basar, Karen Marta</span><br />"A rich trove of international cultural thought spanning the past 100 years. Encyclopedic in scope but intimate in tone, these exchanges provoke unexpected torrents of biographical trajectories, theoretical adventurings and inklings of projects to come."

Holiday Gift Books: 2009.1

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Monday, Monday

<span style="font-weight: bold;">My weekly page update:</span><br /><img alt="image01sm.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Nov09/23/image01sm.jpg" title="Olympia Avenue Student Housing in Pullman, Washington by Mithun" /><br /><a href="http://www.archidose.org/Nov09/23/dose.html">Olympia Avenue Student Housing</a> in Pullman, Washington by Mithun.<br /><br />This week's book review is <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.archidose.org/books/schrijver.html">Radical Games: Popping the Bubble of 1960s' Architecture</a></span> by Lara Schrijver.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Note: All this week I'm posting my list of <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/search/label/gift%20books%2009">holiday gift books</a>, followed by a few days off for an extended Thanksgiving vacation. Regular posts will resume the middle of next week. My next <a href="http://www.archidose.org/main.html">weekly page</a> update will be on 2009.12.07.<br /></span>

Monday, Monday

My weekly page update: Olympia Avenue Student Housing in Pullman, Washington by Mithun. This week's book review is Radical Games: Poppi...

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Today's archidose #374

<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/naveenassociates/4122181348/" title="THE BURJ by WOWHYD, on Flickr"><img alt="THE BURJ" height="500" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2766/4122181348_99a33c32e6.jpg" width="375" /></a><br /><span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/naveenassociates/4122181348/">THE BURJ</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/naveenassociates/">WOWHYD</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> The <a href="http://www.burjdubai.com/">Burj Dubai</a> in Dubai, United Arab Emerites by <a href="http://www.som.com/">SOM</a>, 2009.</p><p>To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just:</p><blockquote>:: Join and add photos to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/archi-dose/">archidose pool</a>, and/or<br />:: Tag your photos <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/archidose/">archidose</a></span></blockquote><p></p>

Today's archidose #374

THE BURJ , originally uploaded by WOWHYD . The Burj Dubai in Dubai, United Arab Emerites by SOM , 2009. To contribute your Flickr ima...

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Louvre Abu Dhabi

The idea of a Louvre branch on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island is just mind-boggling. When completed in 2013, the museum will present "works drawn from the Louvre and other French museums and from its own permanent collection." But if the numbers in Adran Hornsby's article on the end of "starchitecture" in the latest <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/905662718X?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=905662718X"><span style="font-style: italic;">Hunch</span></a> are any indication -- approximately half of the $1.4 billion budget is allotted for "Louvre art loans and management and curatorial services" -- the majority of art will be shipped to Abu Dhabi.<br /><br />But what art? Curators will have to pass on paintings depicting the female nude, a rather large canon of Western art, as Hornsby points out. So when thinking about a project that buys the use of the name Louvre, borrows its art, and is still largely undefined in terms of its contents, it seems appropriate that <a href="http://www.jeannouvel.com/">Jean Nouvel</a>'s design is basically a big roof, a dome over a bunch of buildings and outdoor space. The name and the architecture come before the contents, which are seen as just more items of international trade and commerce.<br /><br /><img alt="nouvel-sultan1.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/nouvel-sultan1.jpg" title="Jean Nouvel and Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan inspect a prototype of the lattice-like dome for the Louvre Abu Dhabi" /><br />[architect and client under full-scale mock-up]<br /><br />Yet I have to admit it's a <a href="http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=1334">pretty cool roof</a>, one that filters the sun to minimize the heat from it but still celebrate it. The PR text describes it and the mock-up above:<br /><blockquote>"A key design element of the Louvre Abu Dhabi will be its great dome, 180 meters (almost 600 feet) in diameter, floating above a cluster of buildings and waterways. Perforated by interlaced patterns, the dome will let a diffused light filter magically into the spaces below. The prototype, 6 meters (approximately 20 feet) in diameter, is being used to test the play of light and shadows on the site prior to fabrication of the final structure"</blockquote><img alt="nouvel-sultan2.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/nouvel-sultan2.jpg" title="Jean Nouvel and Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan inspect a prototype of the lattice-like dome for the Louvre Abu Dhabi (crop)" /><br />[architect and client inside small-scale model of the Louvre Abu Dhabi]<br /><br />Well, if the Louvre Abu Dhabi can't display the nude female body, why not giant statues of Jean Nouvel and Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan? Looks good to me.

Louvre Abu Dhabi

The idea of a Louvre branch on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island is just mind-boggling. When completed in 2013, the museum will present "...

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