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The TCLF will honor Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture, with a new digital guide ahead of his 200th birthday

2022-04-14T15:20:00-04:00

In honor of the 200th birthday of perhaps the most revered figure in the history of American landscape architecture, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) has produced a wonderfully illustrated digital guide to more than 300 of Frederick Law Olmsted’s landscape designs.

Featuring landscapes from Maine, Massachusetts, Illinois, Canada, his home state of Connecticut, and 26 others, the guide offers a mapping system and database with important biographical information about his myriad employees and even more detail about the outsized impacts of his successor firms.

A daguerreotype of Olmsted writing in winter 1858 at Brookline, MA. Olmsted was an accomplished literary journalist during the Antebellum period before turning to landscape design full-time. Image courtesy National Parks Service.

The 20th in the TCLF’s series of “What’s Out There” guides, this edition gives equal weight to the 30 National Historic Sites and hundreds of other lesser-known designs associated with Olmsted, ...

Win a “Concrete New York” map city guide!

2017-11-30T12:00:00-05:00

Explore New York City the (mostly) old-fashioned way with the “Concrete New York” Map, the latest paper architectural map by Blue Crow Media. This unique two-sided city guide highlights a selection of NYC's most celebrated concrete buildings as a gateway to discovering historic gems like Battery Hill at Fort Tilden or contemporary works like Steven Holl Architects’ Hunters Point Community Library or Dattner Architects' Spring Street Salt Shed. Thanks to Blue Crow Media, Archinect is giving away five Concrete New York maps to our readers!

The foldable map includes an intro by Brooklyn-based writer Allison C. Meier, photographs by Jason Woods, and project details of over 50 of NYC's concrete buildings and structures, including Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist Begrisch Hall, and the Eero Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Center.

Detail of the Concrete New York map. Image courtesy of Blue Crow Media.

Begrisch Hall at Bronx Community College by Marce...

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 “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.

Brutalist Sydney Map celebrates the city's concrete heritage

2017-04-25T21:03:00-04:00

The family of Brutalist Maps architectural guide books just welcomed its newest member into this world and extends the reach to Australia: Brutalist Sydney Map—launched this week by Blue Crow Media in collaboration with Glenn Harper of @Brutalist_Project_Sydney and Senior Associate Architect at PTW Architects—helps concrete aficionados locate and learn more about landmark buildings designed by Marcel Breuer, Herbert Beckhard, Harry Seidler & Associates and many others.

"The guide features fifty of the most significant examples of Brutalist architecture in the city and suburbs of Sydney. Celebrated buildings such as the Sirius Apartments (likely to be sold without heritage listing) by Tao Gofers and the former NSW Housing Commission, Sydney Town Hall by Anchor Mortlock and Woolley, and Bidura Children’s Court (now sold and likely to be demolished) by former NSW Government Architect are included alongside lesser known structures such as Buhrich House II by the émigré architects Hugh ...

Tour Paris' Brutal landmarks with this new architectural guide

2017-03-09T12:55:00-05:00

Paris is not only the City of Lights, but also one of the great repositories of Brutalist buildings. "Brutalist Paris Map," a new architectural guide book put together by photographer Nigel Crow and edited by Robin Wilson of the Bartlett, marks the sixth in a series of publications touring various architectural genres in different cites.

The book will point you to monuments such as Les Choux de Creteil, Les Orgues de Flandre Les Damiers, and Bourse by Travail among a slew of others.

buildingcommunityWORKSHOP launches The People's Design Library

2016-03-11T13:45:00-05:00

"The People's Design Library is a digital library maintained by buildingcommunityWORKSHOP for anyone looking for help in improving their community. The three collections - guides, inspiration, and [bc] publications - provide practical advice and examples of the wide range of resources out there for citizens doing community work. It’s the right of the People to shape their city, let's exercise that right and have some fun doing it!"

There are countless design, policy, and organizing guides created by different organizations to help citizens navigate how to make lasting change in their neighborhoods. We created The People’s Design Library to bring these resources together in one place. If you know of, or have created, a great guide, you can submit a resource to the library! The more people contribute to the library, the better it will be. Topics covered by the guides posted so far include how to conduct effective community outreach, how to convert underused street parking spaces to a public amenity, and how to map existing neighborhood conditions using balloons and kites. New resources will be posted every two weeks.

The People’s Design Library is the latest project of People Organizing Place (POP), the participatory city shaping initiative of nonprofit community design center buildingcommunityWORKSHOP. POP puts local stakeholders in collaboration with outside expertise to proactively shape their neighborhood’s ...