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New Book Looks at the Last 60 Years of Work by Ricardo Bofill Taller De Arquitectura

2019-06-03T12:17:00-04:00

In light of the ‘rediscovery’ of Ricardo Bofill’s work in the era of social media, it was a brilliant move by Gestalten - a publishing house firmly committed to the coffee table book genre, with titles including Northern Comfort: the Nordic Art of Creative Living and Bohemian Residence: Metropolitan Apartments and Interior Design - to make the last 60 years of work by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura their most recent focus. With gorgeously reproduced photographs of gorgeously produced architecture, Ricardo Bofill: Visions of Architecture, will be as desirable a coffee table book as any other today.

Aranda\Lasch's 'Trace Elements' Outlines the Seeds of Their Design Process

2018-04-10T12:43:00-04:00

The past decade has witnessed the canonization of a new type of architectural publication, the anti-monograph. This type of book could be defined as an early retrospective publication of a working architect on the architectural avant-garde. Unlike the traditional monograph which collects and focuses on a discreet body of work from a period of time, these books prefer to collect and frame the process and thought that animate the firm’s approach, often through speculative and projective work.

Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects pumps up the volume with "Amplified Urbanism"

2017-01-24T13:15:00-05:00

According to Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects’ new monograph Amplified Urbanism, not only has Los Angeles arrived as a city with its own idiosyncratic urbanism, but that urbanism deserves bolder, louder expression through architecture.