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New AS+GG book explores design process behind world’s tallest towers

2022-11-07T12:37:00-05:00

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) has published a new book charting the firm’s design and delivery of some of the world’s tallest structures. Titled Supertall | Megatall: How High Can We Go?, the book uses drawings and details from AS+GG’s archives to explore projects from the viewpoint of sustainability, technology, programming, and contextualization.

Among the schemes featured in the book are the Central Park Tower in New York City, the Chengdu Greenland Tower in China, and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which still holds the record of the world’s tallest building.

Central Park Tower by AS+GG. Image © Royce Douglas

With only 173 completed supertall buildings around the world, defined as a building whose height measures between 985 and 1,970 feet (300 and 600 meters), AS+GG sees the retrospective look at built precedents as an important tool for informing future high-rise projects.

"To go back and see something that was done 15 years ago, and how that's weathering, or how...

Win a copy of Sandfuture, Justin Beal's revealing biography of World Trade Center architect Minoru Yamasaki

2022-06-23T17:43:00-04:00

Admirers of World Trade Center architect Minoru Yamasaki in search of a hot beach read this summer look no further! We’re giving away a copy of Justin Beal’s engrossing title Sandfuture, recently published by The MIT Press, wherein the prolific career and perplexing obscurity of the late Japanese designer is threaded across 256 pages to an eventual conclusion that asks several essential questions about architectural history, the art market, and changing face of the city in a technically precise novelistic tone.

By avoiding a simple shot-for-shot retelling of the different formative events and pivotal moments comprising the arc of Yamasaki’s still-debated five-decade-long career, Sandfuture builds from the scrapheap of a bygone era into an accurate reflection on contemporary life in post-9/11 New York City, beginning with the author’s own retelling of the infrastructure damage that occurred during Hurricane Sandy.

Image: The Century City Plaza in Los Angeles (courtesy of Walter P. ...

Win a copy of 'Buildings in Print,' a new book that compiles 100 of the most 'influential' and 'inspiring' illustrated architecture books

2022-06-02T11:05:00-04:00

Longtime Archinectors will surely recognize the name John Hill as the writer behind one of the oldest architecture blogs on the internet, A Daily Dose of Architecture (changed to A Daily Dose of Architecture Books in 2019). In addition to 23 years of covering architecture and related books online, John has also authored a number of books covering a wide variety of architectural topics. That said, he is arguably one of the most qualified individuals today to author his latest title, Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books.

Buildings in Print, as the title gives away, is a top-100 list of carefully curated print titles, from Corb's 1923 Vers une architecture to Reinier de Graaf's 2017 Four Walls and a Roof. Consider it a cheat sheet for building the ultimate architectural library.

The book is broken down into nine categories of books: manifestos, histories, education, houses & housing, monographs (architects), monographs (buildings), exhibitions...

MVRDV and The Why Factory present urban study of Marseille in new book

2020-08-31T13:35:00-04:00

MVRDV and The Why Factory at TU Delft have announced the release of Le Grand Puzzle, a book showcasing the result of intensive research of Marseille. The project was made from 2018 to the beginning of 2020 by an international team of architects and urbanists from MVRDV and The Why Factory in collaboration with Manifesta 13.

"Le Grand Puzzle shows the incredible urban possibilities and impossibilities of Marseille, through conversations, analyses, maps and ideas," said Winy Maas, co-founder of MVRDV and director of The Why Factory in a statement. "It forms an urban portrait of Marseille; a constructive mirror to Marseille."

The study was commissioned as the foundational base of the Manifesta 13 Marsielle art exhibition. "Marseille is a city of flux, transit and trade. It responds to a diversity of contradictory connotations. So it offers a rare prism we can use to investigate multiple questions that are crucial to Europe’s future and current crises," Maas added. "Our research was a...

Yale University Press offers e-book portal filled with architecture titles

2020-05-11T15:40:00-04:00

The A&AePortal developed by Yale University Press, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, offers "an authoritative e-resource featuring important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design" that includes out-of-print titles, backlisted and new releases, as well as a variety of museum and academic publications.

Initially launched in late 2019, the portal has found additional usefulness and relevance during the quarantine period. Included in the archive are "Dozens of architecture and design publications," including publications featuring the work of architects that include Leonardo da Vinci, Andrea Palladio, Antoni Gaudi, Julia Morgan, and Thom Mayne, among others, according to Yale University Press.

Publishing partners for the initiative include the Art Institute of Chicago; Bard Graduate Center; Dallas Museum of Art; Harvard Art Museums; Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University...

rise International sets to launch first architecture and design library in Lesotho, Africa

2019-05-28T14:32:00-04:00

Blending social impact practices, architecture, and economic development initiatives the non-profit organization rise International aims to build and create Lesotho's first Architecture and Design library. From now until August 1st the African Library Project will be collecting books for rise International which will be shipped on a container to Lesotho in the Fallto.

rise International (Relationships Inspiring Social Enterprise) co-founded by BOND Events uses social impact efforts to help the people in Southern Africa gain resources to create sustainable social businesses and transform communities through design and architecture practices. Since their start in 2016, the organization provides aid through their professional network in the design and architecture industry.

Container conversion project into a computer lab and tuck shop. Image courtesy of rise International

rise links asp...

The new wave of architecture in Los Angeles

2019-04-16T19:59:00-04:00

Though a relatively young city in America, Los Angeles is no stranger to significant architecture: Richard Neutra's Lovell Health House, Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis Brown House and the Eameses own home alone solidified the city as a hotbed for modern architectural production.

New Architecture Los Angeles. Published by Prestel.

A new book recently published by Prestel sought to catalogue a few of the buildings completed after 2000 which continue that architectural legacy which has come to define the city. New Architecture Los Angeles features text by Brooke Hodges and photos of over 40 new Los Angeles buildings by local photographer Mike Kelley.

Walt Disney Concert Hall, by Gehry Partners. Photo by Mike Kelley

"Los Angeles has always been seen as embodying a strong sense of promise, of almost limitless potential." It is with these words that one may understand how Frank Gehry's Concert Hall, Eric Owen Moss' Samitaur Tower and Michael Maltzan's One Santa Fe can all coexist in the same m...

Olafur Eliasson produces architecture with artistry

2019-04-05T15:37:00-04:00

Few artists have dedicated their work to architectural space quite as much as Olafur Eliasson. His objects transform walls by their luminescence; his projections cast structure on structure; his geometry bends over backyards to multiply the qualities of sites. It is without doubt that one can place him on a list along with spatial artists including Dan Graham, Gordon Matta Clark and Kurt Schwitters.

Unspoken Spaces (Studio Olafur Eliasson), published by Thames & Hudson.

Perhaps the fact that Eliasson's contributions to architectural affect have been historically undermined led to Thames & Hudson's publication of Unspoken Spaces, a monograph of the artist's most architectural work. It begins with an introduction by Eliasson that highlights his innate inability to separate art from architecture: "The artwork in this book are mostly models for space, defined by movement. They are world-makers."

Cirkelbroen, by Studio Olafur Eliasson.

One of Eliasson's recent architectural projects, for ...

Win a copy of “Reprogramming the City”, a book that explores new possibilities in existing city design

2018-12-14T13:00:00-05:00

Time for a book giveaway! Archinect readers have a chance to win a copy of “Reprogramming the City”. Authored by writer and urban strategist Scott Burnham and designed by Samantha Altieri, this new book presents a collection of real-world examples of how existing urban elements can be redesigned to perform alternate functions or even take on completely new roles in the city.

Chapter 2: Shelter + Housing. Photo credit: Reprogramming the City.

Chapter 4: Energy + Ecology. Photo credit: Reprogramming the City.

The 214-page book features over 40 projects based in numerous cities across 17 countries — from billboards in Lima that were repurposed to generate clean drinking water, to bus shelters in Umeå, Sweden that swapped their advertising lights for light-therapy tubes to give commuters a mood boost during the dark winter months. Projects are thematically organized into five chapters: Food and Water; Shelter and Housing; Health and Wellbeing; Energy and Ecology; and Renewal and Recovery....

Win a copy of Joseph Choma's “Études for Architects”, a book of pedagogical design games for architects

2018-08-08T12:25:00-04:00

Design Topology Lab founder and architectural educator Joseph Choma is back with a new pedagogical book called “Études for Architects”, which comes a few years after his acclaimed “MORPHING: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects and Designers”.

If you're a new student to design or maybe you want to refresh your skills, this book features a series of pedagogical games that architects can play as a means to design. Thanks to publisher Routledge and Joseph Choma, Archinect is giving away five copies of the book to our readers!

Photo courtesy of Joseph Choma.

Written in straightforward text and featuring explanatory diagrams, the book's learning objectives include: computational thinking and making; introduction to design as an iterative, reflective, and rigorous process; ideas of continuity and discontinuity; and understanding the bias and constraints of analog and digital tooling. It also includes compelling examples of student work to e...

Keller Easterling discusses her latest book "Medium Design" with Failed Architecture

2018-07-09T23:07:00-04:00

In her latest book Medium Design, Easterling turns this idea of disposition to our ways of thinking, and rehearses a set of tools to address unfolding relations in spatial and non-spatial contexts. She rejects the righteousness of manifestos and certainty of ideologies, urging ways of thinking better attuned to complexity and ambiguity.

Keller Easterling, architect, theorist, writer and Professor at Yale University School of Architecture, discusses her new book, Medium Design, with Hettie O’Brien. In this conversation she expounds on the ideas around no new master plans or right answers, tying together concepts from her previous book Extrastatecraft. Easterling asserts, “Culture is good at pointing to things and calling their name but not so good at describing the relationships between things or the repertoires they enact.”

Win a copy of “Making LA Modern: Craig Ellwood—Myth, Man, Designer”!

2018-06-14T11:58:00-04:00

An icon of California midcentury modernism, architect Craig Ellwood exemplified refined decadence — whether it was his lifestyle or the luxurious spaces he designed throughout Southern California in the 1950s and '60s. “MAKING L.A. MODERN: Craig Ellwood—Myth, Man, Designer”, edited by designer Michael Boyd, is the first book in over a decade to examine the architect's glamorous life and design legacy. Thanks to publisher Rizzoli New York, Archinect is giving away five copies to our readers!

Featuring Ellwood's photographic collaborations with Julius Shulman and others, this hardcover, 240-page book explores the architect's brand of “playboy architecture”, depicted in the nostalgic, dreamy paradise of midcentury Los Angeles — palm trees, Herman Miller furniture, the Pacific Ocean, fashion models. His minimalist, glamorous designs suggested the coveted laidback lifestyle of ...

Win a copy of “Mobitecture: Architecture on the Move”!

2018-04-25T12:11:00-04:00

Mobile architecture has been around for centuries, yet it's as popular as ever today. Looking for some design inspiration? “Mobitecture: Architecture on the Move” is a fun little reference book that spotlights a vast collection of architectural designs that roll, inflate, pop up, slide, and float — from the whimsical and the practical, to the rustic and the deluxe. Thanks to Phaidon, Archinect is giving away five copies of the book to our readers!

Authored by Rebecca Roke, this 320-page, hardcover book features over 250 projects worldwide. Projects are organized into eight chapters based on their primary means of mobility: Human, No Wheels, One & Two Wheels, Three Wheels, Four Wheels, 5+ Wheels, Sleds+, and Water.

Mobile Kitchen, Geneva University of Art and Design, Switzerland, 2013. Steel framing, plywood, plasterboard, wheels, kitchenware. Photo credit: Emmanuelle Bayart.

Walking Shelter, Sibling, Australia, 2008. Polyester, rope, plastic buckles. Photo credit: Tin&Ed.

Bicycle Tear...

Wilbert Hasbrouck, renowned Chicago preservation architect and co-owner of Prairie Avenue Bookshop, dies at 86

2018-02-14T14:06:00-05:00

Wilbert R. Hasbrouck, a pioneering Chicago preservation architect who breathed new life into buildings designed by some of the city’s renowned architects and co-owned a beloved architectural bookstore, died Saturday at a care facility in suburban Norridge. A longtime Chicago resident, Hasbrouck was 86. The cause of death was complications from Parkinson’s disease, said his son Charles, a director at the Chicago architectural firm of bKL.

Over a 40 year career, Hasbrouck renovated buildings such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Dana-Thomas House in Springfield, William Le Baron Jenney's Manhattan Building skyscraper, and Louis Sullivan's Peoples Savings Bank in Cedar Rapids, along with several of Chicago’s important 19th-century buildings.

He and his wife Marilyn Whittlesey Hasbrouck co-edited and published an architectural magazine named the Prairie School Review. This publication promoted the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects well before their work became revered. Marilyn Hasbrouck eventually opened the Prairie Avenue Bookshop, to help support the magazine, which became a highly respected architectural bookshop in Chicago.

Marilyn Whittlesey Hasbrouck at her Prairie Avenue Bookshop in Chicago. Image: Glessner House Museum.

Win “Mass Timber: Design and Research" by Susan Jones!

2018-02-06T12:00:00-05:00

“Mass Timber Design and Research” by architect Susan Jones, the owner of Seattle-based atelierjones, is a handy resource for learning about the emergence of Mass Timber construction technology in the U.S. Thanks to publisher ORO Editions, Archinect is giving away five copies of the book to our readers!

The book presents years of research by Jones' firm, her family, and her University of Washington students. As a prominent voice in the Mass Timber dialogue in the U.S., Jones' book starts with the story of her family's sustainable forest practices that have been going on for three generations.

Tree tenderers. Photo courtesy of ORO Editions.

Vaagen Brothers Lumber. Photo courtesy of ORO Editions.

Photo courtesy of ORO Editions.

The book delves into Pacific Northwest forestry, timber and Cross-Laminated Timber manufacturing practices and carbon analysis, and carbon comparisons between standard building construction assemblies and technologies.

It concludes with model buildings designed ...

Win LOT-EK's latest monograph, “LOT-EK: Objects + Operations”

2017-11-10T12:24:00-05:00

New York-based design practice LOT-EK showcases their crafty upcycling of ordinary objects in their latest monograph, “LOT-EK: Objects + Operations”. Want to learn more about the practice's design process? Thanks to publisher The Monacelli Press, Archinect is giving away five copies of the book to our readers!

Featuring a hardcover designed by MTWTF, the 400-page book was authored by LOT-EK founding partners Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano with architectural writer Thomas de Monchaux.

Qiyun Mountain Camp in Huangshan, China. Photo by Noah Sheldon.

LOT-EK's UrbanScan61. Photo courtesy of The Monacelli Press.

Readers can peruse LOT-EK's built, unbuilt, and in-progress works — such as their shipping container projects — as well as their exploration of ideas. The projects are accompanied by photos from the firm's ongoing URBAN SCAN project, a “raw and observational” photo documentation that “focuses on man-made objects and systems and the way they proliferate, accumulate, overlap and inte...

Facsimile of the first hard cover edition of Learning from Las Vegas published by MIT press

2017-10-03T13:16:00-04:00

Now, decades after the original hardcover edition sold out, the MIT Press is publishing a facsimile edition of the original large-format Cooper-designed edition of Learning from Las Vegas, complete with translucent glassine wrap. This edition also features a spirited preface by Denise Scott Brown, looking back on the creation of the book and explaining her and Robert Venturi’s reservations about the original design.

45 years after its first publication, the groundbreaking book, Learning from Las Vegas, is still read, purchased and studied by architecture and urban planning students, thinkers and practitioners around the world.

Last year Archinect spoke with Denise Scott Brown about the Learning from Las Vegas on three themes: foundation, pedagogy, research.

MIT press is republishing a facsimile of the long discontinued, first hard cover edition of the book. The facsimile is sold for 100 dollars, much more than the paper back, but still much cheaper than the few remaining originals sold on the rare book market!

Win “New Architects 3: Britain's Best Emerging Practices”!

2017-10-03T12:00:00-04:00

Want to brush up on the emerging talent from British architecture? Archinect readers now have a chance to win a copy of the latest volume of “New Architects: Britain's Best Emerging Practices”, thanks to Merrell Publishers.

Cover of “New Architects 3”

Since The Architecture Foundation began the “New Architects” series in 1998, the third edition continues the series' tradition of showcasing new generations of architects. Bounded in a shiny hardcover, “New Architects 3” is a 320-page guide to over 85 young, up-and-coming architecture practices that were selected by a jury of architectural professionals.

Platform 5 Architects, Lewisham Southwark College Business Centre atrium. Photo courtesy of Merrell Publishers.

Invisible Studio. Photo: Andy Matthews, courtesy of Merrell Publishers.

The book presents a comprehensive expert assessment of each featured practice, along with a total of 450 color illustrations of the firms' recent projects and contact details. It also offers an overview o...

Winners of the “Elastic Architecture” book giveaway

2017-08-21T14:23:00-04:00

In Archinect's latest book giveaway, our readers had a chance to win “Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture”. Authored by Stephen Phillips, SPARCHS principal and an architecture professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, the book delves into Kiesler's interdisciplinary research and design practice and its lasting impact.

The five lucky winners are:

Jeff in Little Rock, AR
Richard in Englewood, CO
Philip in Bedford, MA
Michael in Morro Bay, CA
Justin in Knoxville, TN

Congrats to all the winners! Thanks to everyone who participated.

Win “Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture”!

2017-07-28T10:30:00-04:00

“Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture” is the first scholarly book on the architecture of Frederick Kiesler, who was once dubbed as the “the greatest non-building architect of our time” by Philip Johnson back in 1960. Authored by Stephen Phillips, SPARCHS principal and an architecture professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, the 384-page hardcover book delves into Kiesler's interdisciplinary research and design practice.

Thanks to publisher MIT Press, Archinect is giving away five copies of “Elastic Architecture” to our readers! Read on for more.

Frederick Kiesler, concept of “expansion.” Saks Fifth Avenue show window, New York, 1929. Photograph by Karl John Worsinger. From Frederick Kiesler, Contemporary Art Applied to the Store and Its Display, 1930.

According to Phillips, Frederick Kiesler “established a new career trajectory for architects not as master builders, but as research practitioners whose innovative means and me...

Winners of the “Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: West Coast USA” giveaway

2017-07-24T20:14:00-04:00

Archinectors recently had a chance to win “Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: West Coast USA” by Sam Lubell. Published by Phaidon, this handy travel guide features over 250 Mid-Century Modern projects neatly organized into color-coded chapters that cover the Pacific Northwest region of Washington and Oregon, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and San Diego.

The lucky winners are:

Eric in Warwick, RI
Samson in Palo Alto, CA
Benjamin in Tampa, FL
Marcus in Chicago, IL
Thérèse in Brooklyn, NY

Congrats to all the winners! A big thanks to everyone who participated.

Win “Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: West Coast USA” by Sam Lubell!

2017-07-06T13:10:00-04:00

Any design maven is aware that America's West Coast is chockfull of historic mid-century modern architecture designed by the likes of Charles and Ray Eames, Rudolph Schindler, John Lautner, and Richard Neutra. Of course, there's more than just the most infamous icons, but where to begin? Whether you're planning a big West Coast excursion or want to brush up on your midcentury modern history, “Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: West Coast USA” by architecture critic Sam Lubell can help.

Thanks to publisher Phaidon, Archinect is giving away five copies of the book to our readers!

Read on for more, and find out how to enter the giveaway.

Authored by Sam Lubell, this handy travel guide features over 250 Mid-Century Modern projects all neatly organized into color-coded chapters that cover the Pacific Northwest region of Washington and Oregon, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and San Diego. Each entry is accompanied by historic tidbits from Lubell, project data, and ...

Winner of PPI's ARE 5.0 Review Manual Book giveaway

2017-02-22T18:21:00-05:00

In Archinect's most recent giveaway, our readers had the chance to win an architecture dream bundle that includes PPI’s ARE 5.0 Review Manual Book written by David Kent Ballast, FAIA, CSI, NCIDQ-Cert. No. 9425, and Steven E. O Hara, PE ($250 value); a LEGO set from the Architecture Collection, The White House (no longer available); and PPI’s Stainless SteeI Water Bottle ($24.95 value).

The lucky winner is: Laura from New York City.

Congratulations, and thanks to everyone who participated!

A Brutalist coloring book lets you paint it black (and gray, perhaps even blue)

2017-01-12T18:47:00-05:00

Depending on the level of surreality you favor in your coloring book exercises, The Brutalist Colouring Book from Belgian graphic designer Marc Thomasset allows you to create wildly imaginative or strictly literal renderings of various famous brutalist landmarks, including works by William Pereira and SOM (and even provides pre-made clouds for you):

Winners of the “Dingbat 2.0" book giveaway

2016-11-30T20:29:00-05:00

In Archinect's latest giveaway, our readers had the chance to win “Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis”. Co-edited by Radical Craft founder Joshua Stein and architect and educator Thurman Grant, the book is the first full-length critical study of the dingbat apartment, the stucco-clad “building code creature” considered to be LA's most ubiquitous and mundane vernacular typology.

The lucky winners are:

Jonathan E.
Erdem T.
Henry M.
Annie L.
Kisha P.

Congrats to all the winners! Thanks to everyone who participated.

You can read more about Dingbat 2.0 on Archinect here.

Win “Dingbat 2.0”, a critical study of L.A.'s most ubiquitous vernacular typology

2016-10-24T12:00:00-04:00

Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis is the first full-length critical study of the dingbat apartment, the stucco-clad boxy “building code creature” that is the Southland's most ubiquitous and mundane vernacular typology. Co-edited by Radical Craft founder Joshua Stein and architect and educator Thurman Grant, the book is the latest initiative in the Dingbat 2.0 project, following the LA Forum's 2010 Dingbat 2.0 competition.

The nearly 300-page publication features essays by figures like Barbara Bestor, Aaron Betsky, Dana Cuff, John Kaliski, the editors themselves, and more. It also includes a Dingbat Field Guide, a fun-to-read section of critical responses and comments from both architects and non-architects, and winning entries of the Dingbat 2.0 competition.

Thanks to DoppelHouse Press, Archinect is giving away five copies to our readers!

Joshua Stein and Thurman Grant took a moment with Archinect to share more details about the book. Read on f...

Win Arquitectura Viva's 2016 Spain Yearbook monograph!

2016-05-31T13:18:00-04:00

Arquitectura Viva's 2016 Spain Yearbook is a visual throwback of the last 12 months in Spanish architecture, revisiting 24 top-notch buildings that were all completed in the country over the last year. Recently released by Arquitectura Viva — who previously published monographs on Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster, and BIG — the book “confirms the good health of Spanish architecture” in spite of the country's ongoing construction sector crisis, AV describes.

Thanks to Arquitectura Viva, Archinect is giving away two copies of the 2016 Spain Yearbook to our lucky readers! Keep reading for more about the monograph, and how to enter the giveaway.

Projects designed by both established and emerging firms made the cut in this year's edition, including: Nieto & Sobejano, Josep Lluís Mateo, Francisco Mangado, Rafael Mone, Víctor López Cotelo, and Carlos Ferrater. Readers can learn more about the works of young practices who are based throughout the country, like BaKpak of Sevilla, the Cáceres offic...

Read an excerpt from the new “Where Are the Women Architects?” book

2016-04-11T20:08:00-04:00

As the stories of Hadid and Scott Brown show, the pairing of architecture prizes (or at least the big ones) and women raises hackles. Hadid won the Pritzker Prize amid talk that she did not deserve it; Scott Brown did not win the prize amid talk that she did not deserve it. No solo female architect has won the Pritzker Prize since Hadid, nor has a husband-and-wife architectural team ever been honored. Indeed, to date, of the 39 Pritzker Prize laureates, only two (or about 5 percent) are women.

Excerpted from her new book, Despina Stratigakos sheds some light on the Pritzker's lack of awarding women architects in their own right.

Win the "Architectural Guide China", a handy travel book of the country's architectural history

2016-02-23T12:25:00-05:00

Architectural Guide China is a unique travel guidebook that presents up-to-date insight into the rich architectural histories in Eastern China's megacities, which continue to create widespread impact through rapid urbanization, population growth, and the consequential effects on the natural environment.

In this volume of Architectural Guide, authors Evan Chakroff, Addison Godel, and Jacqueline Gargus give an architectural overview of nine major urban sites in mainland China as well as Hong Kong and Macau. If you're planning a trip to any of those places, this book can definitely come in handy.

Thanks to DOM-publishers, Archinect is giving away Architectural Guide China to three of our readers!

Read on for more about the book, and find out how to enter the giveaway.

"The 'Reform and Opening' era affected these metropolises in different ways and has influenced the existing structures of dynastic capitals, trade centers, former European colonies and discovery areas.

The volume contains 620...

Winners of the "Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog" book giveaway

2016-01-12T14:19:00-05:00

In one of Archinect's latest giveaways, our readers got the chance to win "Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog", published by Princeton Architectural Press. The book features a selection of articles and sketches from Lebbeus Woods' blog, which is considered as his last major work before he passed away in 2012.

The winners are:

Javier, Madrid
Joe, Brooklyn
Rick, Rocklin
Ann, Philadelphia
Carlos, San Francisco

Congrats to the winners, and thanks to everyone who participated!

Learn more about "Slow Manifesto" from Archinect's interview with Woods' longtime editor, Clare Jacobson: "A continuation of his way of being" – an interview with the editor of "Slow Manifesto: Lebbeus Woods Blog"