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University Planning and Architecture: The Search for Perfection

Jayne Merkel
November 15, 2011
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By Jonathan Coulson, Paul Roberts, and Isabelle Taylor. Routledge, 2010, 264 pages, $125 This ambitious history chronicles campus design from the founding of the first European universities in the 11th century until last year. Although buildings for higher education are often among the most significant ones we build, surprisingly few good studies of them exist. There are numerous books on individual campuses, some good ones on architects who design college buildings (such as Robert A. M. Stern on Campus), and plenty of guides for facilities managers (even this one has a chapter on how to plan a campus). But only
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Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture

Norman Weinstein
October 16, 2011
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Edited by Karla Britton, Yale University Press, 2011, 248 pages, $50 This inter-faith overview of contemporary religious architecture, distilled from a 2007 Yale University School of Architecture symposium, showcases 20 essays by architects, historians, and theologians. And the architects steal the show. Outstanding insights from the likes of Stanley Tigerman, Richard Meier, Steven Holl. Zaha Hadid, and Peter Eisenman make half of this book illuminating, alas, the latter half. Britton’s rambling but informative prologue traces the roots of 21st century religious architecture to Le Corbusier (from whom the book takes its title) and Louis Kahn, who introduced a sense of
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Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts

Witold Rybczynski
October 16, 2011
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Edited by Robert Twombly, W.W. Norton, 2010, 344 pages, $25. Generally speaking, the writings of designers are not as important to understanding their intentions as their actual work. Frederick Law Olmsted’s copious writings are an exception, for two reasons. He was a man of letters before he was a landscape architect. He wrote The Cotton Kingdom, an influential chronicle of his travels as a newspaper correspondent in the ante-bellum South, edited Putnam’s Magazine, an important literary journal, and co-founded The Nation. Moreover, because he was not formally trained in an art or design school, Olmsterd approached park and landscape design
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The Scenes of the Street and Other Essays

Aleksandr Bierig
October 16, 2011
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By Anthony Vidler. The Monacelli Press, 2011, 368 pages, $50 Some first impressions about this new collection of old essays by Anthony Vidler are misleading. The title, for instance, The Scenes of the Street, and the city plan on the cover indicate a broad coverage of topics regarding the city. In fact, two thirds of the book is dedicated to Paris and most of that to Paris before the turn of the 20th century. Those essays that do not deal with Paris directly are mostly concerned with theories created by 19th century French male architects, authors, and humanists. Vidler’s texts
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A 75th Anniversary for an American Icon

Alexandra Polier
July 28, 2011
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A new book and series of events commemorate Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. Photo © Michael Tavani, with permission of Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Click on the slideshow button to see more images. Related Links: Taliesin Celebrates 100 Years Each year 160,000 visitors travel to Pennsylvania’s scenic Laurel Highlands to visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and to pay homage to America’s most celebrated architect. Thanks to an impeccable restoration completed in 2002 by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (which obtained Fallingwater from the owner Edgar Kaufmann Jr. in 1963), the house appears in near-perfect condition, and tours regale visitors with such entertaining details
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Filmmaker Sam Wainwright Douglas on 'Citizen Architect' Samuel Mockbee of Rural Studio

Donna Paul
January 16, 2011
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Filmmaker Sam Wainwright Douglas speaks to RECORD about "Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio."
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