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5 reviews from Architecture blogs:

• ArchDaily 16 Feb 10
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5 reviews from Architecture blogs:

• ArchDaily 16 Feb 10:
  ... the void we propose to experience it by letting a trampoline net spiral down the rotunda space.   The experience plays with Wright’s original scenography for the Guggenheim: to visit the exhibition downwards. The below image corresponds to the project featured on the new book by JDS “Agenda: Can We Sustain Our Ability to Crisis?“, edited by ACTAR. Expect a review soon. © JDS ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 30 Dec 09:
  ... you could call it, where go to experience what it might be like to throw themselves into the void. You get a certificate of survival at the end. [Images: (top) Let's Jump! by MVRDV (2009) and (bottom) Experiencing the Void by Julien De Smedt Architects (2009), the latter project also depicted in Agenda, pubished earlier this month]. There are photo-collages and sectional diagrams of internally returning ecosystems. [Images: (top) Morris in Guggenheim by M/M (2009), (center) Perfection_Perversion by West 8 (2009), and (bottom) The House of GI–A Proposal by Matthew Ritchie (2009)]. There ...
  
• Dezeen 08 Dec 09:
  ... Dezeen have teamed up with JDS Architects to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of their new book Agenda, published by Actar. (more…) ...
  
• Archinect 07 Dec 09:
  ... AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a collective narrative, personal and subjective. It documents the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The form of the book exploits the double meaning of its title, presenting the absurdities of day-to-day architectural practice while also staking our intent. Rather than a definitive direction, our agenda is a definitive attitude - of eagerness, enthusiasm, and optimism, of criticality and concern, of fun and ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 07 Dec 09:
  ... [Image: The DoChoDo Zoological Island by Julien De Smedt Architects, from Agenda]. Another book launch I am looking forward to is for Agenda, which documents the work of Julien De Smedt Architects. Here are some page-spreads. [Images: From Agenda by Julien De Smedt Architects]. If you're in NYC this week, come by the book's official North American launch party, hosted by Storefront for Art and Architecture; it's on Thursday evening, December 10, starting at 7pm. [Images: From Agenda by Julien De Smedt Architects]. The book includes a huge range of projects, including the DoChoDo Zoological ...
  

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11 reviews from Architecture blogs:

• BLDGBLOG 16 Mar 10
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• BLDGBLOG 29 Nov 09
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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 24 Nov 09
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• BLDGBLOG 13 Nov 09
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• BLDGBLOG 10 Nov 09
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• BLDGBLOG 09 Nov 09
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• BLDGBLOG 27 Oct 09
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• BLDGBLOG 18 Sep 09
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• BLDGBLOG 14 Sep 09
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• Life Without Buildings 31 Jul 09

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11 reviews from Architecture blogs:

• BLDGBLOG 16 Mar 10:
  ... It costs $5, unfortunately, but it should be fun, and I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of old friends and colleagues again; as all of those friends and colleagues know, I wasn't a huge fan of San Francisco when I lived here, but it's good to be back in this rolling city of fog lines, abandoned bunkers that look like hills, tectonic trembling, lost ships, ghost streets, buried dunes, vinicultural microclimates, chemical weapons, a suicide bridge, and its artificially shrunken bay. I'll be talking about quarantine, The BLDGBLOG Book (which I'm thrilled to say has just gone into a second printing), the 'Glacier/Island/Storm' studio and its accompanying blog-week experiment, blackouts, and more. ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 29 Nov 09:
  ... It's been a fantastic holiday week for The BLDGBLOG Book. I was thrilled to see, for instance, that the Wall Street Journal chose the book—amidst only 36 books—for their 2009 'Holiday Book Guide. ' For good or for bad, The BLDGBLOG Book pops up as one of six titles that the newspaper specifically recommends for 'a young artist who enjoys science fiction and high brow fantasy' (!), alongside books by Jonathan Lethem, Margaret Atwood, Jeff VanderMeer, R. Crumb, and Geoff Dyer. So thanks, Wall Street Journal! That was genuinely awesome news. Check out the rest of their picks here. However, ...
  
• A Daily Dose of Architecture 24 Nov 09:
  ... years, 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 here. Chronicle Books:The BLDGBLOG Book by Geoff Manaugh'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. 'DesignIntelligence:33: Understanding Change & the Change in Understanding by ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 20 Nov 09:
  ... Finch, designed by John Coulthart]. From the event description:What do writers take from the real world when creating their fantastical creations? What does the real world take from fantasy? VanderMeer's new noir phantasmagoria, Finch, takes place in a once-prosperous failed city-state. Manaugh's BLDGBLOG Book is a biography of the city through essays and interviews. Ford has written about both historical and fantastical cities in his many acclaimed novels and stories. Come out to celebrate the squalor, the possibilities, and the madness of cities. In preparation, read BLDGBLOG's earlier ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 13 Nov 09:
  ... The Turbulence Biennial. It's free and open to the public, and it starts at 6pm in Room B1 of Meyerson Hall. [Image: A map of pilot-reported turbulence above the U. S. east coast]. The basic idea will be to revisit and extend some of the material from the climate change/weather control chapter of The BLDGBLOG Book—looking at everything from John Constable and the Cloud Appreciation Society to urban weather-engineering and airplane turbulence as a kind of invisible landscape in the sky. If the sky is a geography, how can we both map and design it? If you're near Philadelphia, definitely ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 10 Nov 09:
  ... of apocalypse. ' There is 'a fearsome animal caged in this exotic metal, ' he writes, 'hot as the sun, but one whose instabilities could be accurately charted and precisely aimed. ' [Image: The uranium-powered Fat Man bomb]. There is a moment in John Milton's Paradise Lost, which I mention in The BLDGBLOG Book, where Milton—writing in the 1600s—describes mineral weaponry pulled from the surface of the earth by Satan's minions as they launch an insurrectionary terrorist assault on God. It is geological siege-warfare, we might say. Milton describes, in Book Six, 'materials dark and ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 09 Nov 09:
  ... [Image: A flood strikes Manhattan; image via New York magazine]/. Jace Clayton, aka DJ /rupture, who is interviewed in The BLDGBLOG Book, has a new album out with Matt Shadetek—and he's suddenly everywhere. The newest issue of New York magazine, for instance, has a short feature in which Rupture describes their new album; called Solar Life Raft, it comes with its own architectural premise. The mix 'paints a picture, ' we read, 'of New York 40 years in the future, where the water line is at the fourth story of buildings and the rich people are dry in the Catskills. Kids are making music on ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 27 Oct 09:
  ... Even knowing how much it annoys certain people whenever I mention The BLDGBLOG Book on this website, I'm ridiculously excited—and admittedly quite stunned—to see that the book is #92 on Amazon. com's list of the 100 Best Books of 2009. [Image: Six of Amazon. com's 100 Best Books of 2009]. To be ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 18 Sep 09:
  ... next week at Storefront for Art and Architecture. Van Lengen, who collaborated with Joel Sanders on the fantastic Mix House project (as featured in The BLDGBLOG Book), will be replacing Sanders, who has to be away on business. You can watch a long interview with Van Lengen on the Charlie Rose ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 14 Sep 09:
  ... series of public talks and live interviews at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, featuring many of the people whose work appears in The BLDGBLOG Book. We've organized a stellar line-up of speakers, going from 3-6pm, and all of it will be followed by drinks. [Image: The Mix House ...
  
• Life Without Buildings 31 Jul 09:
  ... interview I did with former Dwell Editor and current BLDG BLOG author Geoff Manaugh went up this week at Dwell. com. We spoke about the new The BLDGBLOG Book, old media, new media, novels, inspirations, and and the future forms BLDGBLOG might take. · Author Q&A: The BLDGBLOG ...
  

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8 reviews from Architecture blogs:

• BLDGBLOG 19 Apr 10
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• Pruned 11 Feb 10
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• BLDGBLOG 06 Jan 10
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• BLDGBLOG 28 Dec 09
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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 26 Oct 09
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• BLDGBLOG 29 Sep 09

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8 reviews from Architecture blogs:

• BLDGBLOG 19 Apr 10:
  ... Bhatia's short history of thermally regulated interior environments, and what he calls 'the crisis of created climates, ' is a highlight. Bhatia, of course, is co-author of the blog InfraNet Lab, whose four authors collectively participated in our Glacier/Island/Storm blog week back in February. 7) Subnature by David Gissen. Gissen's book has already come up several times, to positive review, here on BLDGBLOG and presumably needs little introduction to long-term readers—but it's a memorably wide-ranging look at all those other presences in the city that urbanists tend to overlook: puddles, dust, dirt, rats, weeds, and car exhaust, to name but a few. ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 22 Feb 10:
  ... all summer long, this would be pure heat—and its attendant humidity—roiling upward from the Earth itself. The result would be to generate a new architecture not of walls and buildings but of temperature thresholds and bodily sensation. Indeed, as David Gissen suggests in his excellent book Subnature, this project could very well imply 'a new form of urban planning, ' one in which sculpted zones of thermal energy take precedence over architecturally designated public spaces. Of course, whether this simply means that under-designed urban dead zones—like the otherwise sorely needed ...
  
• Pruned 11 Feb 10:
  ... or merely damp earth, plug in our iPad and update our blog, all the while using the soil for power?Can we use our (muddy) backyard garden to create a digital 3D model of our next landscape project?(The Mud Tub and Tetris. )We're reminded here of David Gissen's chapter on mud in his marvelous book Subnature. Mud, he writes, is “a type of unstable ground that must be overcome in the construction of foundations. In the development of modern cities, rather than discussing mud as something wanted or desirable, it was identified as the product of poor drainage and ineffective engineering. ” ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 06 Jan 10:
  ... the decrepit state of Biosphere 2, a semi-derelict bio-architectural experiment in the Arizona desert. [Image: Biosphere 2, photographed by Noah Sheldon]. The largest sealed environment ever created, constructed at a cost of $200 million, and now falling somewhere between David Gissen's idea of subnature—wherein the slow power of vegetative life is unleashed 'as a transgressive animated force against buildings'—and a bioclimatically inspired Dubai, Biosphere 2 even included its own one million-gallon artificial sea. 'The structure was billed as the first large habitat for humans that ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 28 Dec 09:
  ... curbs and pooling in gutters, the aquatic remains of last week's rain and snowmelt. [Image: Photo by Flickr-user ShellyS]. This surprise limnology—often demanding new, indirect lines of approach from one side of the street to the next—reminded me of David Gissen's recent, recommended book Subnature, which includes an entire chapter on urban puddles. 'Although we often think of puddles as inconsequential, ' Gissen writes, 'they appear in architectural history in prominent ways—in drawings of ruins, photographs of decaying buildings, and experimental designs that attempt to use ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 27 Oct 09:
  ... fantastic books published this year, all worth checking out if you get a chance, including China Miéville's The City & The City, David Gissen's Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments, Owen Hatherley's Militant Modernism, Leslie Chang's Factory Girls, James Lawrence Powell's Dead Pool: ...
  
• A Daily Dose of Architecture 26 Oct 09:
  ... My weekly page update:Grid House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Moto Designshop. This week's book review is Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments by David Gissen. Some unrelated links for your enjoyment: AbitareThe Italian magazine's web page is redesigned. (linked in sidebar under architectural links::publications)Architectural RecordAnother redesigned web site for an architecture magazine. (linked in sidebar under architectural links::publications)AJ Notebook'Design inspiration. Selected by you, curated by the Architect's Journal. ' (added to sidebar under ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 29 Sep 09:
  ... conversation – ranging from the architecture of déjà vu and haunted house novels to the possibility of sonic archives and the work of David Gissen – were more than enough to show that he is pushing forward through some incredibly interesting ideas and is already someone worth keeping an ...
  

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4 reviews from Architecture blogs:

• Remodelista 11 Jul 10
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• ArchDaily 01 Jun 10
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• ArchDaily 26 Jan 10
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• BLDGBLOG 17 Sep 09

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4 reviews from Architecture blogs:

• Remodelista 11 Jul 10:
  ... It has given us a better understanding not only of the importance of livable spaces but also the lifecycle of buildings. "   Above: Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, by Rem Koolhaas; $23. 10 at Amazon. "This is a must-read for any New Yorker. " Above: On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time, by Mohsen Mostafavi and David Leatherbarrow; $19. 14 at Amazon. "This is a book that helped us answer all those questions on why we instinctively like buildings that have age and often find ourselves falling in love with leaning barns and rusty steel windows. ...
  
• ArchDaily 01 Jun 10:
  ... I am very interested on the relation between architecture and weather. That’s why On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time by Moshen Mostafavi has a special place on my bookshelf. That’s why enjoyed Arium so much. Arium is the result of a studio led by Jürgen Mayer with Neeraj Bhatia at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. The book moves between a series of analytical articles on the relationship between weather and architecture, ranging from tourism to shopping. These concepts are then tested by the studio over the Victory Soya Mills Silos, a massive concrete structure sitting silent along Toronto’s waterfront, the perfect lab for a weatherized intervention: the Ariums (Algarium, Fogarium, Thermarium, etc). ...
  
• ArchDaily 26 Jan 10:
  ... Weathers Permitting, constructs an elevated boardwalk with a topology which collects water, which varies or evaporates depending on the current weather at the location. The action of the weather over the boardwalk reminds me of the weathering effect described by Mohsen Mostafavi on his book On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time. More about William’s proposal after the break: © William O'Brien Jr Weathers Permitting: A Field Guide to Transitional Environments Weathers Permitting — a proposal for the 2010 MoMA/ P. S. 1 Young Architects Program — aspires ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 17 Sep 09:
  ... within weeks everything you've built will be indistinguishable from photo-degraded ruins of the early 1970s. That is, no one is talking about weathering. And it's not a trivial exercise, I would suggest, to imagine, for instance, Zaha Hadid's collected built works re-realized in sandstone: ...
  

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5 reviews from Architecture blogs:

• Pruned 07 Jun 10
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• BLDGBLOG 19 Apr 10
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• BLDGBLOG 16 Mar 10
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• BLDGBLOG 31 Oct 09
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• BLDGBLOG 29 Oct 09

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• Pruned 07 Jun 10:
  ... Most importantly the segments can be designed to accommodate differing recreational needs along its six-kilometer extent; for example, a set of terrace segments serving one neighborhood could be very open, while another, serving a different neighborhood, could provide more layers of shelter and semi-enclosed spaces. ”*(A proposal for a market in the marshes, by Smouth Allen. )From Smout Allen's Augmented Landscape:“The estuaries of Essex form a liquid edge to the county. This fragile boundary, which extends and retracts with the ebb and flow of the tide, reinforces the connection between the sea and the land. The proposal responds to the current thinking on a managed realignment of the coast, removing hard sea defenses such as sea walls and embankments that prevent the natural landward movement of the salt marshes, and allowing the land to be flooded by the incoming tide. ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 19 Apr 10:
  ... As much an archaeological handbook as it is an architectural guide, Ray's pamphlet takes us into the ruins of underground spaces around Italy, including helical stairways, spherical ice-storage facilities 'with as little surface area as possible, ' and vaulted secret passageways for midgets. [Images: Subnature by David Gissen, Seven Partly Underground Rooms and Buildings for Water, Ice, and Midgets by Mary-Ann Ray, and Augmented Landscapes by Smout Allen]. 9) Augmented Landscapes by Smout Allen. Smout Allen's work bridges landscapes, watersheds, continents, and villages, connecting architectural design to the mobile terrains of receding coastlines, wind-blown fens, and drainage canals. 'In this Pamphlet, ' the authors write, 'we discuss five design cases. ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 16 Mar 10:
  ... That will definitely be something to keep your eye on if you're at all interested in landscapes, the hydrosciences, water rights, mythology and the American West, archaeoastronomy, the contested history (and future) of weather modification, offworld exploration, the anthropology of mining, nature writing in its broadest possible sense, and much more. We're putting together something really fantastic, to be honest, and you have 18 months to make plans to be there. Even better, Nicola Twilley from Edible Geography and Mark Smout of Smout Allen were also on hand, winning stuffed animals together in the Circus Circus casino (Mark quipped that the casinos were simply 'giant, ugly buildings with jewelry stuck on them, like earrings'), and so the three of us are now down in San Francisco, where we'll be picking up Sarah Rich tomorrow to drive down to LA—and I can hardly imagine a better group of people to hit the Californian road with. ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 31 Oct 09:
  ... NY, which she produced while a student at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Bursa's tutors for that project were Mark Smout and Laura Allen, of Smout Allen; and I should right away that I'm consistently amazed at the quality of work coming out of Smout Allen's studios. I thought, then, that I ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 29 Oct 09:
  ... skills necessary for rationally subdividing office floorplates. [Image: From a project by Margaret Bursa for the Bartlett's Unit 11, taught by Smout Allen]. Having said all this, the Times article ends up being a formulaic list of reasons why such-and-such an industry is doomed to fail—too ...
  

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4 reviews from Architecture blogs:

• Archinect 25 May 10
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• BLDGBLOG 13 Apr 10

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• Archinect 25 May 10:
  ... Hey New Yorkers, are you looking for something to do after work today? Here's a suggestion - go check out our buddy Geoff Manaugh interview Joe Flood, the author of The Fires, a book about the fire department in 1970s NYC, and the influence of the RAND Corporation on their catastrophic planning decisions for shutting down firehouses in the Bronx. Steven Johnson, of The Ghost Map, will also be there. (And wine will be served). More info with address/directions ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 25 May 10:
  ... I want to remind anyone near New York that, tonight in Brooklyn, author Joe Flood will be presenting his brand new book The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City—and Determined the Future of Cities. [Image: Photo by Lisa Kahane, courtesy of the New York Times]. As I mentioned here the other week, The Fires covers a huge range of topics, from neighborhoods in 1960s-70s New York where a full 90% of the buildings burned down to the analytic shortcomings of statistical urban planning, and from a short history of the RAND Corporation to the larger-than-life people behind the scenes of these increasingly catastrophic financial decisions that inadvertently set the city alight. ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 12 May 10:
  ... Two weeks from now, on Tuesday, May 25, at powerHouse Books in Brooklyn, BLDGBLOG will co-host a live conversation with authors Joe Flood and Steven Johnson about Flood's new book The Fires. Come celebrate the publication of The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City—and Determined the Future of Cities by Joe FloodAt a BLDGBLOG eventSponsored by Riverhead BooksThe book—a 'Best of May 2010' on Amazon—is an impressive look at city planning, disaster management, urban decay (from huge, poison-resistant rats to neighborhoods where 90% of the buildings burned down), internecine municipal politics, the rise of the corporate consulting class, and the South Bronx, all set in a NYC on the verge of collapse. ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 13 Apr 10:
  ... Put another way, as Mike Davis wrote in Planet of Slums, “the cities of the future, rather than being made out of glass and steel as envisioned by earlier generations of urbanists, are instead largely constructed out of crude brick, straw, recycled plastic, cement blocks, and scrap wood. Instead of cities of light soaring toward heaven, much of the twenty-first-century urban world squats in squalor, surrounded by pollution, excrement, and decay. ” But feral cities are one thing, cities under siege are something else. [Images: The Fires by Joe Flood and Planet of Slums by Mike Davis]. In his new book Cities Under Siege, published just two weeks ago, geographer Stephen Graham explores 'the extension of military ideas of tracking, identification and targeting into the quotidian spaces and circulations of everyday life, ' including 'dramatic attempts to translate long-standing military dreams of high-tech omniscience and rationality into the governance of urban civil society. ...
  

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3 reviews from Architecture blogs:

• City of Sound 20 Aug 10
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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 07 Feb 10
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• City of Sound 20 Aug 10:
  ... What's next?” [Bryan Boyer, Of This We Are Sure] That’s exactly right, and I too am that careless visitor entranced by the chilly fug enveloping everything around me in a beguiling poisonous embrace. I do later feel the visceral effects of being outside in Dashanzi all afternoon, but early this morning the atmosphere is simply intriguing. Interestingly, Steven Holl, in the excellent Urbanisms: Working with doubt (Princeton Architectural Press), describes this an entirely different way. He talks not about the Z-buffer but the Z-axis, reclaiming the section for 21st century urbanism, and about “multiple horizons and vanishing points” in Beijing. He nimbly side-steps (or ignores) the failed ‘streets in the sky’ model of mid-20th-century housing projects and instead proposes that the “Z dimension of the development of buildings in section has overtaken the planimetric. ...
  
• A Daily Dose of Architecture 07 Feb 10:
  ... My weekly page update:This week's dose features Concrete Studio in Austin, Texas by Mell Lawrence Architects:The featured past dose is Bar House in Aspen, Colorado by Peter L. Gluck & Partners, Architects:This week's book review is Urbanisms: Working with Doubt by Steven Holl:Some unrelated links for your enjoyment: ArchiExpo'The Virtual Architecture Exhibition' (added to sidebar under architectural links::guides)NYC BigAppsGallery of the winners and other entries in the competition to develop 'a software application. . . in keeping with New York City's drive to become more transparent, ...
  
• City of Sound 09 Jan 10:
  ... designing a series of large buildings, high-rises of various forms, in an urban Asian context and still find ways to emphasise physical connectivity to an almost exaggerated degree. "Porosity becomes essential for the vitality of street life", as he puts it (in his superb new book Urbanisms). There is little obvious porosity here. And so I can't find a way of justifying the monumental scale and homogeneity of some of the streets, and the invitation to the private car to be the primary mode of transit, combined with an approach to retail that seems entirely ...
  

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• BLDGBLOG 10 May 10
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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 14 Nov 09

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3 reviews from Architecture blogs:

• BLDGBLOG 10 May 10:
  ... As before, I have not read all of the following books, which means I cannot vouch for all of their quality (except in a few cases that I will note); also, as before, these are not all new books. They are newly purchased—or newly received as review copies—but they are not necessarily hot off the press. And with that. . . —Radical Games by Lara Schrijver (Netherlands Architecture Institute). Schrijver looks back at the 'radical movements' of the 1960s, to 'a moment in the history of architecture when revolutionary ideals were paramount and dreams became drawings. ' Her goal, however, is to uncover how the ideals of three specific groups—Archigram, the Situationists, and Venturi & Scott Brown—maintained a confusing dependency on the very Modernist philosophies they were trying to dispute. ...
  
• A Daily Dose of Architecture 22 Nov 09:
  ... My weekly page update:Olympia Avenue Student Housing in Pullman, Washington by Mithun. This week's book review is Radical Games: Popping the Bubble of 1960s' Architecture by Lara Schrijver. Note: All this week I'm posting my list of holiday gift books, followed by a few days off for an extended Thanksgiving vacation. Regular posts will resume the middle of next week. My next weekly page update will be on 2009. 12. 07. ...
  
• A Daily Dose of Architecture 14 Nov 09:
  ... makeover is no more than a temporary placebo for their problems. Or we could also say: if there is a role for architecture to play in the everyday life of suburban families, this offers a caricature of what architects could be doing -- making the home back into a castle. '- Lara Schrijver from Radical Games: Popping the Bubble of 1960s' Architecture (NAi Publishers, 2009, p. 20) ...
  

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• Remodelista 11 Jul 10
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• Remodelista 11 Jul 10:
  ... " Above: In Praise of Shadows, by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; $9. 95 at Amazon. "A compelling book and one that has us thinking of dark wood panels, earthen and under-illuminated spaces. A good break when we have given too much thought to our love of white walls and brightly lit rooms. "   Above: The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and Senses by  Juhani Pallasmaa; $30. 81 at Amazon. "This is the book we most often have tucked in our back pocket. A dog-eared copy of this book sits on our library shelf. Powerful, emotive, and affecting, Pallasmaa's treatise on vision and the importance of bringing back our other, no-less-important senses has us closing our eyes and breathing in the smell of freshly sawn wood and running our hands over well-worn stone. ...
  
• City of Sound 07 Feb 10:
  ...   In an otherwise useful review by Andy Ihnatko: “On the iPad, it feels as though you put your finger on the bottom-right corner of the page and dragged that corner towards the spine of the book until it flipped over. ” No, it doesn't. This is ‘ocularcentric’ thinking (that Pallasmaa et al have so brilliantly critiqued, if not eradicated, sadly, in architectural discourse) — the mistaken belief that somehow sight overrides all other senses. Or that in this case, visual feedback is so convincing that it substitutes for touch. Touch is another sense altogether, and ...
  

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• Cityscapes 08 Jun 10
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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 25 Nov 09

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• Cityscapes 08 Jun 10:
  ... Other than touring a breathtaking building,  there's nothing quite so bracing in architecture as a battle of ideas, particularly when the battle is fought by skilled combatants. And so it is as New Urbanist guru Jeff Speck responds to sprawl defender Robert Bruegmann's critique of Speck and Andres Duany's 2009 book "The Smart Growth Manual. " Bruegmann, the highly respected (and frequently contrarian) Chicago architectural historian,  landed the first punch in Feburary with a review in Architect magazine titled, "How Smart Is Smart Growth?" The book, he wrote, seems "intended both as a primer for card-carrying New Urbanists and as a set of arguments designed to convince those who remain skeptical or hostile to that movement. ...
  
• A Daily Dose of Architecture 25 Nov 09:
  ... 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. 'McGraw-Hill:The Smart Growth Manual by Andres Duany and Jeff Speck with Mike Lydon'With this long-awaited companion volume [to Suburban Nation], the authors have organized the latest contributions of new urbanism, green design, and healthy communities into a comprehensive handbook, fully illustrated with the ...
  

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• BLDGBLOG 10 May 10
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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 27 Sep 09

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• BLDGBLOG 10 May 10:
  ... Behind the street walls and cyclone fencing, inside the shuttered factories and warehouses, there exists a world hidden to the casual observer. Newtown Creeks reflects, in the words of one waterfront planning official, the 'backyard' of New York City. Desolate in spots, disgusting in others, it is far from abandoned. ' — Meet The Nelsons by Wes Jones and Pendulum Plane by the Oyler Wu Collaborative (Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design). These two pamphlets from the LA Forum unfortunately suffer from bad production, with almost instantly cracking spines and pages falling loose within minutes of reading. No matter, the Oyler Wu pamphlet in particular has some fantastic details, including beautiful shots of their Lebbeus Woods-like sketchbooks and some backstage glimpses of the 'Live Wire' installation they did for SCI-Arc. ...
  
• A Daily Dose of Architecture 27 Sep 09:
  ... into the mix, extending the effects of the previous projects but making one hope this isn't the last we've seen of Oyler Wu's aluminum experiments. ...
  

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• BLDGBLOG 10 May 10
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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 28 Jan 10

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2 reviews from Architecture blogs:

• BLDGBLOG 10 May 10:
  ... ' Her goal, however, is to uncover how the ideals of three specific groups—Archigram, the Situationists, and Venturi & Scott Brown—maintained a confusing dependency on the very Modernist philosophies they were trying to dispute. This continues to have effects today, Schrijver argues, in muddying the waters of both theoretical debate and experimental practice. —Provisional: Emerging Modes of Architectural Practice USA, edited by Elite Kedan, Jon Dreyfous, and Craig Mutter (Princeton Architectural Press). Speaking of architectural practice, this fantastically designed (by Project Projects) book shows how architects actually work and how their buildings come together, including nARCHITECTS' extraordinary 'Wind Shape. ...
  
• A Daily Dose of Architecture 28 Jan 10:
  ... who now seek government-funded building programs but fail to address the opportunity for digital design process change will have missed the point. '- 'The Digital Design Ecosystem: Towards a Pre-Rational Architecture' by Paul Selestsky (senior manager of digital design in SOM's New York office) in Provisional: Emerging Modes of Architectural Practice USA, edited by Elite Kedan, F. Jonathan Dreyfous, Craig Mutter (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009, pp. 44-45) ...
  

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• BLDGBLOG 13 Apr 10
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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 27 Nov 09

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• BLDGBLOG 13 Apr 10:
  ... ' If you're looking for more, and you are in New York City tonight, Tuesday, April 13, Graham is actually speaking at Columbia University's Studio-X space, along with blogger Enrique Ramirez and Deborah Natsios. The talk is free and it starts at 6:30pm. (Parts of this post, on feral cities, originally appeared in AD: Architectures of the Near Future, edited by Nic Clear). ...
  
• A Daily Dose of Architecture 27 Nov 09:
  ... of Klippan, the Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz was invited to design a church in 1962 at the age of 77. It was to become his most important commission, one that absorbed his typological concerns of earlier church designs as well as formal interests that he held since the early 1930s. 'Wiley:Architectures of the Near Future edited by Nic Clear'Architectures of the Near Future offers a series of alternative voices, developing some of the neglected areas of contemporary urban life and original visions of what might be to come. Rather than providing simplistic and seductive images of an ...
  

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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 31 Mar 10
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• BLDGBLOG 29 Nov 09

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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 31 Mar 10:
  ... As the Storefront searches for Grima's replacement, the past tenuousness of its existence seems to have given way to a widespread appreciation of the organizations, its space (restored in 2008), and its place within the broader architectural community. The influence of its programs reaches beyond its 868sf home (PDF link), but the newsprints are unique artifacts for those able to visit the gallery in person. . . and now for those willing to spend $49. US: or at Storefront Bookstore ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 29 Nov 09:
  ... up on December 9, Storefront for Art and Architecture will be celebrating 27 years' worth of newsprint newsletters with the publication of a massive two-volume collection, no fewer than 1000 pages in length, called Storefront Newsprints 1982-2009. Over time, the archive of Storefront's Newsprints grew to become the most complete historical documentation of the gallery's programs since its earliest days. Storefront Newsprints 1982-2009 is comprised of reproductions of over 154 newsletters, many of which contain otherwise unpublished texts by artists, architects and theorists such as Vito ...
  

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• ArchDaily 02 Feb 10
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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 24 Nov 09

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• ArchDaily 02 Feb 10:
  ... 2G is a bilingual (english/spanish) magazine published by Spanish editorial Gustavo Gili, a series of monographs that has featured architects such as Sou Fujimoto, Williams Tsien, Lacaton & Vassal, OFIS, Tony Fretton, and classics such as Mies van der Rohe (Issue 48/49, all MvdR houses… a must have) or Marcel Breuer. Issue 51 features the spanish practice Morales Giles Mariscal, which I already knew about because of 2 housing projects in Ceuta, Spain, with an interesting mix of unit configurations. On this monograph you can see several completed and ongoing projects by the firm, ...
  
• A Daily Dose of Architecture 24 Nov 09:
  ... the Commissioner of Curiosity and Imagination. 'Elsevier:London's Contemporary Architecture: An Explorer's Guide by Kenneth Allinson'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. 'GG:2G 48/49 Mies van der Rohe: Houses edited by Moisés Puente'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 ...
  

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• inhabitat 18 Jan 10
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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 25 Nov 09

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• inhabitat 18 Jan 10:
  ... the hot seat across from Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report TONIGHT! Project H Design is a non-profit humanitarian design initiative that brings design to the places in the world that need it most. From their Hippo Rollers that provide a means of carrying fresh water to Emily’s new book Design Revolution, Project H Design is doing a lot of good for a lot of people. Now it’s time to see if Emily can swing Stephen Colbert to her side! We know she’s going to be great and we can’t wait to hear what Stephen is going to say. Tune in tonight at 11:30 p. m. EST and 8:30 ...
  
• A Daily Dose of Architecture 25 Nov 09:
  ... Publishers:Books Do Furnish a Room by Leslie Geddes-Brown'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. 'Metropolis Books:Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People by Emily Pilloton'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, ...
  

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• CoolBoom 18 Dec 09
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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 27 Nov 09

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• CoolBoom 18 Dec 09:
  ... 1. Matryoshkus Bit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte take shape of Matryoshkas to make the right sequence. 2. Box Gift A resin and marble gift box that keeps on giving. 3. Hadid. Complete Works 1979 – 2009 An XL book that covers Hadid’s complete works to date. 4. Modulor Measuring tape based on the proportions of the human body developed by Le Corbusier. 5. Full Irish A book filled with modern architectural masterworks in Ireland’s landscape, from small private homes to large community centers. 6. Christmas Cow Boy Porcelain figurine for Xmas. 7. ...
  
• A Daily Dose of Architecture 27 Nov 09:
  ... last four years, 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 fifth installment. Once posted, the rest can be found here. Taschen:Zaha Hadid: Complete Works by Philip Jodidio'This XL tome demonstrates the progression of Hadid’s career—including not only her extraordinary buildings but also furniture and interior designs—with in-depth texts, spectacular photos, and her own drawings. 'Thames & Hudson:Unbuilt ...
  

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• BLDGBLOG 29 Nov 09
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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 27 Nov 09

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• BLDGBLOG 29 Nov 09:
  ... read, 'including editorial reviews, popularity, Planetizen reader nominations, number of references, sales figures, recommendations from experts and the book's potential impact on the urban planning, development and design professions. ' Again, it's great company to be in, including David Byrne's Bicycle Diaries, Eric Sanderson's Mannahatta, Green Metropolis by David Owen, Paul Goldberger's Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture, and many more—including Planetizen's 'Other Noteworthy Titles, ' where we find Kazys Varnelis's Infrastructural City. Planetizen ...
  
• A Daily Dose of Architecture 27 Nov 09:
  ... by Franklin Toker'Remade as a thriving twenty-first-century city and an international center for science, medicine, biotechnology, and financial services, Pittsburgh is now routinely acclaimed as one of the most promising and livable of America's cities. Franklin Toker shows us why. 'Viking:Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne'An account of what he sees and whom he meets as he pedals through metropoles from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to San Francisco, Manila to New York, Bicycle Diaries also records Byrne’s thoughts on world music, urban planning, fashion, architecture, cultural ...
  

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• BLDGBLOG 29 Nov 09
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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 02 Nov 09

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• BLDGBLOG 29 Nov 09:
  ... sales figures, recommendations from experts and the book's potential impact on the urban planning, development and design professions. ' Again, it's great company to be in, including David Byrne's Bicycle Diaries, Eric Sanderson's Mannahatta, Green Metropolis by David Owen, Paul Goldberger's Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture, and many more—including Planetizen's 'Other Noteworthy Titles, ' where we find Kazys Varnelis's Infrastructural City. Planetizen itself is also an extremely useful and interesting website in its own right, with a strong ...
  
• A Daily Dose of Architecture 02 Nov 09:
  ... My weekly page update:Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England by Rick Mather Architects. This week's book review is Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture by Paul Goldberger. Some unrelated links for your enjoyment: Architizer'A new way for architects to interact, show their work, and find clients. It is an open community created by architects for architects. ' (added to sidebar under blogs::sustainability)Bronx Architecture'An online guide to the architecture of the borough developed by Lehman College Art Gallery/CUNY' (added to sidebar under architectural ...
  

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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 27 Nov 09
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• BLDGBLOG 27 Oct 09

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• A Daily Dose of Architecture 27 Nov 09:
  ... review of the book here. Yale University Press:Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books by Jo Steffens'An intimate look at the personal libraries of twelve of the world’s leading architects, alongside conversations about the significance of books to their careers and lives. 'Zero Books:Militant Modernism by Owen Hatherley'In readings of modern design, film, pop and especially architecture, [the book] attempts to reclaim a revolutionary modernism against its absorption into the heritage industry and the aesthetics of the luxury flat. ' ...
  
• BLDGBLOG 27 Oct 09:
  ... if you get a chance, including China Miéville's The City & The City, David Gissen's Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments, Owen Hatherley's Militant Modernism, Leslie Chang's Factory Girls, James Lawrence Powell's Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the ...
  

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