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Articles Tagged with ''Book Reviews / Excerpts''

Napoli Super Modern.

Review of 'Napoli Super Modern'

by Local Architecture Network and Le Laboratoire R.A.A.R.
Andrew Ayers
Andrew Ayers
August 5, 2021
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Edited by Paris-based architects, this book focuses on 18 Neapolitan buildings constructed between 1930 and 1960.


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Review of 'Reviviscence: A Bridge Over Genoa'

By Andrea Botto
Josephine Minutillo
Josephine Minutillo
August 5, 2021
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Three years after the deadly Polcevera Viaduct collapse on August 14, 2018, this compendium shows the aftermath from the demolition of the remaining portion of the bridge to the construction of a new one.


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Konrad Wachsmann’s Television.

Review of 'Konrad Wachsmann's Television'

By Mark Wigley
Jean-Louis Cohen
July 8, 2021
One Comment

Jean-Louis Cohen reviews 'Konrad Wachsmann’s Television: Postarchitectural Transmissions,' Mark Wigley’s new book on the German architect who in his later years operated in an immaterial world of visual and numeric data.


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Built Up.

Review of 'Built Up'

By Patrice Derrington
Julie Anne Hoffmann
June 7, 2021
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Real-estate developers have a reputation for valuing profit over contributing to the urban fabric. Patrice Derrington traces and critiques the evolution of the practices that guide their decision-making.
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Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past

Review of 'Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past'

By Reyner Banham
Anthony Vidler
May 6, 2021
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A reprint of Reyner Banham’s historical survey provides insight into the aims behind what was called the “megastructural” movement.
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Unless The Seagram Building Construction Ecology

Review of 'Unless: The Seagram Building Construction Ecology'

By Kiel Moe
Eric Höweler, FAIA
May 6, 2021
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This critical assessment of Mies van der Rohe's Modernist icon demolishes much of the building's mythology.
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Shared Structures, Private Spaces.

Review of 'Shared Structures, Private Spaces: Housing in Mexico'

By Fernanda Canales
Florian Idenburg
April 8, 2021
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Mexico City–based architect Fernanda Canales chronicles an extensive collection of housing projects across the country.
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My House is Better Than Your House.

Review of 'My House Is Better Than Your House'

By Nader Tehrani
Stella Betts
April 7, 2021
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Architects Nader Tehrani and Preston Scott Cohen debate the design of the house at a disciplinary level.
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Building a New World and Avant Garde as Method.

Review of 'Building a new New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture' and 'Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920–1930'

By Jean-Louis Cohen; Anna Bokov
Eric Mumford
March 8, 2021
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Historians shed light on Soviet Design and pedagogy in two books.
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Our Days Are Like Full Years.

Review of 'Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn'

By Harriet Pattison
Cathleen-McGuigan
Cathleen McGuigan
February 28, 2021
One Comment
A handsomely illustrated volume of Kahn’s love letters during the last 15 years of his complicated—and architecturally triumphant—life, salted with photographs, sketches, and personal memories.
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