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Oliver Wainwright on RIBA's '100 Women: Architects in Practice,' a new primer for industry-wide change

2024-02-29T13:40:00-05:00

We’re not there yet. In an industry where the gender pay gap has widened in recent years, where all-male panels at conferences are not unusual, and where macho culture still prevails on building sites, a book like this, sadly, still has a place.

Writing for The Guardian, critic Oliver Wainwright says he hopes RIBA’s new publication 100 Women: Architects in Practice, which we previewed in December, will encourage competition judges, academic panels, awards juries, exhibitions organizers, and rebuke “the headhunters who claim women never apply, [...] the clients who say they just can’t find women with the right experience.”

Many of the architects included in the book, namely Mariam Kamara, Suhailey Farzana, and others, are women whose practices are informed by and in service to decolonization in the developing world à la the 2023 RIBA Gold Medal winner Yasmeen Lari and 2021 Soane Medalist Marina Tabassum. (The profiles are divided into 18 geographical "sub-regions" based on the UN's geoscheme.)

The 320-page book was written by Harriet Harriss, Naomi House, Monika Parrinder, and Tom Ravenscroft, with Alison Brooks responsible for the foreword.

RIBA's '100 Women: Architects in Practice’ profiles the heroines of building change for a new generation

2023-12-10T09:00:00-05:00

Just in time for the holiday gift-giving season, a new survey of the 100 most influential women architects working in our time is set to hit the shelves courtesy of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

The organization’s new title, 100 Women: Architects in Practice, intends to champion the cause of gender equity in architecture while promoting the contributions of often overlooked or unheralded women architects in more than 70 different countries.

“We wrote this book as a form of peaceful protest not a bloody revolution,” authors Harriet Harriss, Naomi House, Monika Parrinder, and Tom Ravenscroft detailed in the RIBA Journal. “It is the inequitable product of an inequitable profession, and all four authors eagerly await the day when the need for publications like this are rendered obsolete. When that day comes, it will mean that the perennial problem of gender-prejudice in architecture is a thing of the past.”

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Frances Anderton says LA must end the stigma of apartment dwelling to survive

2023-01-12T17:38:00-05:00

Anderton’s book provides further powerful evidence that density is not something to be scared of, but is fertile ground for architectural invention, creating more neighbourly, walkable communities, and ultimately making Los Angeles a more livable city for all.

The Guardian’s Oliver Wainwright joined Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles author Frances Anderton for a walking tour of select historic apartment buildings that included Richard Neutra’s 1937 Strathmore Apartments in Westwood (noteworthy as the first apartment Charles and Ray Eames rented after they moved to the city in 1941) and the Irving Gill’s 1910 Horatio West Court, whose new neighbor is a just-finished transitional housing project from Brooks + Scarpa.

“There’s still an ingrained cultural stigma here, that renting an apartment means you haven’t quite made it," Anderton reminds us. The city's broken political culture, meanwhile, isn't making the issue much easier.

The former host of KCRW's popular radio show, DnA, has been a frequent collaborator on Archinect. Anderton joined us in December 2020 on the Archinect Sessions podcast to talk about her career and "the backstory behind her transition from architecture student to journalist to radio personality."

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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. ...

Artist Nick Relph is turning New York’s development boom into digital art ‘scans’

2021-11-20T09:00:00-05:00

Relph’s collection might be described as the first post-internet expression of the genre. The images mostly show buildings that are, in one sense, real or in the process of becoming so. But the rendering posters, created by design firms and developers, are also highly fictive, cinematic branding documents created to comply with a city law requiring public images of buildings under construction.

The arch flaneur Nick Relph has been documenting the city’s whirlwind transformation since the Gulliani administration and, for the past seven years, incorporating a VuPoint digital scanner into his work to produce a physical record of the changes that first made its debut in 2015 in MoMA PS1’s Greater New York survey.

Relph’s new book, called Eclipse Body & Soul Syntax, hit the shelves this month from publisher Pre-Echo.

“It was really about just having the scanner with me in my bag when I was walking around,” the 42-year-old Relph told the Times’ Randy Kennedy. “I’m a walker. That’s how I make work, generally speaking. I just couldn’t ignore these posters, these very stark images. I pay attention to images. And the purpose of these is in one sense clearly defined and in another not at all.”

Image courtesy Pre-Echo Press

Lee Bey reminds us of the beauty and importance of Chicago's Black Churches

2021-02-08T16:54:00-05:00

Photographer, writer, and lecturer Lee Bey has used his experience as a Chicago native to help uncover, highlight, and preserve the historical significance and importance of architecture within Black communities. In 2017 Bey showcased Southern Exposure, an exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Biennial consisting of photographs of buildings located on Chicago's South Side.

After years of documenting, Bey has created a deeper meaning behind these buildings. The images he's captured are reflections and visual narratives of his perspectives and viewpoints behind the camera lens. In tandem with his exhibition, Bey published his book Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side. Previously covered on Archinect, he shared in conversation with Iker Gil that "The exhibition and the book grew up together [...] The idea was to not make the book an exhibition book, but to use the exhibition as inspiration and to go beyond the show and showcase more buildings and pla...

First biography on architect Max Bond to be published by Princeton University Press

2020-08-24T13:36:00-04:00

Princeton University Press (PUP) has announced plans to publish If Architecture Were for People: The Life and Work of J. Max Bond., Jr., a forthcoming biography on the pivotal 20th century architect written by architectural historian Brian D. Goldstein.

A PUP announcement explains that Bond's works, which include the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others, offer "a new perspective on two sweeping forces that transformed architecture, urban planning, and American culture: modernism and the Civil Rights movement."

View of the Bolgatanga Library in Ghana. Image courtesy of Willis E. Bell and Davis Brody Bond.

Bond, often considered among the most prominent Black architects working in the United States during the late 20th century, was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1935 and ea...

Win a copy of “The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces”, a new book by Mehruss Jon Ahi and Armen Karaoghlanian!

2020-08-18T11:15:00-04:00

Craving more inspiring books about architectural film studies? Eager to learn more about the ever-intriguing relationship between architecture and film? Don't miss out on “The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces”, the latest volume by Mehruss Jon Ahi and Armen Karaoghlanian, the editors of online journal Interiors. Thanks to the book's publisher Intellect Books, Archinect is giving away five copies of the book to our readers!

This 96-page book takes an academic, graphic approach to film studies, combining critical essays with original architectural floor plan drawings detailing the production design of iconic 20th and 21st century films like “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”, “Rope”, “Le mépris”, “Playtime”, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, “Home Alone”, “Panic Room”, “A Single Man”, “Her”, and “Columbus”. Each chapter features an original floor plan of a key scene in each film.

Whether for scholarly research or just for fun, this page-turner inspires us to pay closer attention to the stories the...

Snøhetta explores new project delivery standards with their latest book "Lean methodology in Design and Construction"

2020-06-29T15:49:00-04:00

Recognized for their distinct approach within architecture and landscape design, Snøhetta has published a new book highlighting their efforts to "recognize a potential to further challenge existing industry standards by developing new Lean key principles in the complex merge of design, construction, process planning, and BIM technology."

The book was initiated in 2017 and was developed alongside Statsbygg (the Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property), engineering and consulting firm Atkins, and Danish construction and architecture firm Rambøll.

Lean methodology in design and construction book. Image courtesy of Snøhetta

The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design ("KMD") in Bergen, Norway. Image courtesy of Snøhetta

Following project experiences gathered during the design and construction process of the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design ("KMD") in Bergen, the firm wanted to explore new ways for exploring and publishing industry standards.

Image courtesy of Snøhet...

Win a copy of “Lair,” a book that explores the architecture of iconic movie villain abodes

2020-01-09T11:24:00-05:00

Co-authored by Miami-based architect Chad Oppenheim and editor Andrea Gollin, “Lair” is an entertaining dive into the designs of villainous hideouts in iconic films and explores the question of why so many of them live in such architectural splendor. The book marks the first title of Tra Publishing's Design + Film series. Thanks to Tra Publishing, Archinect is giving away five copies of the book to our readers!

Fifteen films are highlighted in the book, including “Blade Runner 204”, “Ex Machina”, “The Spy Who Loved Me”, “The Incredibles”, “Dr. Strangelove”, and more. Printed on stark black pages, “Lair” takes a look at these seductive, edgy abodes through original architectural illustrations and renderings by Carlos Fueyo, photographs, essays, film analyses, interviews, and more.

Photo courtesy of Tra Publishing.

It also contains interviews with film production designers, directors, and other top industry professional...

Win a copy of “Trajan's Hollow” by Joshua G. Stein!

2019-12-03T13:13:00-05:00

“Trajan's Hollow” is a new book by Joshua G. Stein — founder of Radical Craft and co-director of the Data Clay Network — that sheds new light on the historic Trajan's Column, one of ancient Rome's great monuments that has been obsessively documented by archaeologists and historians for centuries and visited by tourists from around the world. Thanks to ORO, Archinect is giving away five copies of the book to our readers!

Intrigued by Piranesi's iconic engravings on the Column and “the perennial tension between classical geometry and picturesque ruin,” Stein compiled his research into a book that exposes and renders new material qualities of the Column that have long been overlooked. The book “proposes a new ethos of scanning and replication, saturating digital technologies with an expansive material awareness to amplify the projective capacity of historical inquiry.” Plus, it features written contributions from David Gissen, Michael J. Waters, and Michael Swaine.

Courtesy ORO Edition...

'Lair' book explores the radical homes and hideouts of movie villains

2019-11-01T12:58:00-04:00

From Atlantis in The Spy Who Loved Me to Nathan Bateman's ultra-modern abode in Ex Machina, big-screen villains tend to live in architectural splendor. The villain’s lair, as popularized in many of our favorite movies, is much more than where the megalomaniac goes to get some rest. Instead, the homes of the villains are places where evil is plotted and where, often, the hero is tested...

By Miami-based architect Chad Oppenheim and editor Andrea Gollin, the new publication explores the architectural designs from fifteen films through architectural illustrations and renderings, photographs, essays, film analyses, and interviews. Some of the films featured include Dr. Strangelove, The Incredibles, Blade Runner 2049, and You only Live Twice. It will be released on November 5th.

New book shares the untold work of African American architects from Chicago's South Side

2019-09-30T11:49:00-04:00

Chicago is recognized for its iconic architectural history, however, there are some areas of this beloved architectural haven that have not found a voice until now. Writer and photographer Lee Bey has documented buildings located in Chicago's South Side for several years. With the hopes to expose their architectural and cultural influence within the city Bey showcased these photographs in an exhibition, Southern Exposure, during the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Since then Bey has published the book "Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side"

Recently Bey sat with Iker Gil of, director of MAS Studio to discuss the book and the project's origin. According to Bey he explains "The exhibition and the book grew up together [...] The idea was to not make the book an exhibition book, but to use the exhibition as inspiration and to go beyond the show and showcase more buildings and places, and have the text delve deeply into the South Side’s—and Chicago’s...

Mies van der Rohe's life has been turned into a graphic novel

2019-09-10T14:15:00-04:00

Agustín Ferrer Casas, a Spanish illustrator and writer began working on the graphic novel in 2015, in an endeavor to tell the story of Mies' life and career. Now in 2019, the book is ready for release.

Image by Agustín Ferrer Casas

Casas did his homework for the 4-year project, working from a robust body of material. "It is a fictional biography of his life, based on numerous writings by many other authors and Mies himself," he says in a blog post. "And I say fiction because in this book, I try to show not only part of his work but life, the personality of the architect. What made him a great architect and what he left behind in his ambition to build."

Image by Agustín Ferrer Casas

Norman Foster has also written the prologue for the artistic work, in which he reflects on his appreciation for Mies' projects. The book can be previewed on Issuu and purchased here.

Revisiting "A Pattern Language"

2019-07-12T13:09:00-04:00

“A Pattern Language” is not about architecture, but about how specific design choices can help us build better relationships. By fitting a series of those choices—the patterns—together, you get a room, a house, a neighborhood and eventually a city.

Curbed architecture critic Alexandra Lange takes us on a journey through some of the key lessons from Christopher Alexander's seminal work, A Pattern Language.

The book, originally published in 1977 has long been out of fashion in architecture schools, but, Lange argues, with the rise of smart cities and other quick-fix approaches to contemporary urban and global design problems, now is perhaps a good time to revisit Alexander's earnest, methodical, and people-centered tome.

Lange writes, "As New York, Toronto, Singapore, and more places around the globe build so-called smart cities, maybe we need to read “A Pattern Language” again in that context," adding, "Who is the audience for the smart city? Who has access to the data? Who has the ability to make design decisions based on that data? Is this city going to build better relationships? People are the scoring system, whether you’re deciding on a rug for the living room, or a light rail system for the city."

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Win a copy of “Architecture and Modelbuilding”, a guide to help sharpen your model-building skills

2019-06-20T12:04:00-04:00

Eager to update your knowledge on the art of model-building? The book “Architecture and Modelbuilding: Concepts - Methods - Materials” is a guide that illustrates the possibilities of the medium and also explores its past and future. Thanks to publisher Birkhäuser, Archinect is giving away five copies of the book to our readers!

Authored by Alexander Schilling, an architect and lecturer at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the book builds on its successful predecessor “Basics Model Building”. This latest volume offers practical tips, techniques, simple explanations, and specific examples — with an abundance of photos, of course — for different work stages and tasks.

Courtesy of Birkhäuser.

Presentation and Views. Courtesy of Birkhäuser.

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Want a chance to win a copy of “Architecture and Modelbuilding"? Fill out this survey by the deadline on Friday, June 28th, end of day. Five paperback copies of the book are available to win. Winners will b...

Buildings lost, forgotten, reimagined and transformed

2019-04-24T10:27:00-04:00

Though buildings are often symbols of permanence, as it may lend itself to the status of an icon for a city or an heirloom for a family, they can be rendered obsolete at any moment. According to Ruin and Redemption in Architecture, Dan Barasch's newest book published by Phaidon Books, abandoned buildings can either be Lost, Forgotten, Reimagined or Transformed.

1. Lost

Robin Hood Gardens, by Alison and Peter Smithson. Completed 1972, Demolished 2017.

"The Brutalist Robin Hood Houses in London featured innovative design elements including "streets in the sky," internal elevated passageways and alcoves that were intended to encourage social interaction and give shared amenity to residents.

After a period of decline and despite considerable attempts at preservation, demolition of the 252 apartments began in 2017. A new 1,575-unit housing development is now partly complete on the site, and a museum is plann...

Hélène Binet photographs Zaha Hadid's Pierres Vives

2019-04-04T15:20:00-04:00

Pierres Vives, one of the last projects overseen by Zaha Hadid, reflects an innovative approach to spatial design and urban planning for the town of Montpellier, France. The 28,500-square-meter stone and concrete public building was conceived as a "tree of knowledge" by the architect as early as 2002. Pierres Vives combines three government functions—archives, a library, and a sports center—to suit the needs of the growing town.

Interior of Pierres Vives. Photo by Hélène Binet

The landmark project was photographed by famed architectural photographer Hélène Binet shortly after its completion and compiled in an eponymous book, Pierres Vives, published by Rizzoli and Skira.

Cover of Pierres Vives, by Rizzoli and Skira

According to its publishers, the book "is the definitive source of images for the built structure and the construction process, and explores the architect’s design choices, allowing a deep understanding of the work and thought behind the structure."

You can get your copy ...

A children's book to gift to your little aspiring architect

2018-12-28T17:03:00-05:00

Through gorgeous illustrations and a relatable story Norman's Architecture Adventure teaches children how having an imagination is the greatest adventure anyone can have. Nothing holds Norman back, he sees what could be and he creates it. He is unrestricted by age, ethnicity, or preconceptions.

Now published and available for purchase online, Norman's Architecture Adventure is a fun children's book written & illustrated by Joshua P. Sanabria. By following the steps of a young African American boy that aspires to be an architect just like his mom, the book not only hopes to foster kids' curiosity and imagination but also to encourage more African Americans to pursue architecture.

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....

Here's your chance to get a super limited-edition copy of MASSX, Neil Denari's highly anticipated new monograph

2018-11-24T11:00:00-05:00

Join us Tuesday, November 27th celebrate MASSX, the latest monograph from Neil M. Denari Architects at Archinect Outpost.

We will be selling 20 copies of MASSX, priced at $162.50 + tax. It is recommended that you arrive before doors open at 6 if you want to get a copy of the book, as they will sell to the first people in line (if you already have a copy of MASSX, please feel free to bring it to the event to get it signed and receive secure access to the conversation).

The conversation will start at 6:30, and doors will close at that time until the conversation ends. Space will be limited, so priority will be given to those who buy a copy of MASSX or bring their own copy.

HL23, by Neil Denari

This formidable monograph of Neil M. Denari Architects can be viewed as a point of departure for examining architecture’s role in the contemporary world. It contains more than 700 pages of material that has evolved over time, the majority of which has never been published, and offers both a rich...

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.

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Win a copy of “The Complete Zaha Hadid” expanded and updated edition!

2018-03-30T12:00:00-04:00

Zaha Hadid was a force to be reckoned with throughout her illustrious 40-year career. From her early experimentations to her posthumously completed buildings, over 200 of Hadid's projects are surveyed in a newly expanded and updated edition of the book, “The Complete Zaha Hadid”. Thanks to publisher Thames & Hudson, Archinect is giving away five copies to our readers!

Prepared in collaboration with Zaha Hadid Architects, the hardcover book features an introduction by Aaron Betsky, dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. “Zaha Hadid boldly explored,” Betsky writes. “She slowed down and accelerated the rhythms of everyday life, and she subjected her environment to the surgical exposition of architecture as a form of representation.”

THE COMPLETE ZAHA HADID Expanded and Updated, 2018. Published by Thames & Hudson.

THE COMPLETE ZAHA HADID Expanded and Updated, 2018. Published by Thames & Hudso...

Win a Copy of “WORKac: We’ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge”!

2018-03-01T12:00:00-05:00

In their latest “duograph”, as WORKac co-founders Amale Andraos and Dan Wood call it, “WORKac: We'll Get There When We Cross That Bridge” revisits the firm's formative projects that shaped their practice to what it is today. Thanks to The Monacelli Press, Archinect is giving away five copies of the book to our readers!

Encased in a hardcover accented with bright colors and various paper stocks and page sizes, the book spotlights WORKac's core principle since its founding in 2003: an “utterly personal, ongoing conversation about what architecture could become,” Andraos and Wood write in the introduction.

Anthropologie, Dos Lagos retail store. Photo: Bruce Damonte.

Stealth Building. Photo: Bruce Damonte.

Some of the projects include the biodegradable Public Farm 1 at MoMA PS1, the first two buildings of Edible Schoolyards NYC, an addition to the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, their proposal for the Beirut Museum of Art, and the Kew Gardens Hills Library expansion in Queens that was fina...

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 John Cary's book, “Design for Good: A New Era of Architecture for Everyone”

2018-01-22T12:00:00-05:00

Esteemed designer and entrepreneur John Cary created the book “Design for Good: A New Era of Architecture for Everyone” to bring attention to impactful designs that address critical issues of inequity and accessibility, as well as challenge the widespread assumption that good design is a luxury. Thanks to publisher Island Press, Archinect is giving away five copies of the book to our readers!

The book starts with a foreword by philanthropist Melinda Gates. “Great design is not a finite resource; it is a choice we can all make by listening more, empathizing more, and demanding more for humanity,” Gates writes.

The book highlights 20 human-centered projects from around the world that not only demonstrate how design can elevate communities, but how it can be achieved. It features in-depth interviews with designers, clients, and users, alongside full-color photographs.

St. Jerome's Children's Centre in Murunyu, Nakuru, Kenya, by Orkidstudio. Photo: Odysseas Mourtzouchos.

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