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Review of 'The Iconic Interior: 1900 to the Present'

By Dominic Bradbury

Wendy Moonan

June 10, 2020

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British design journalist Dominic Bradbury presents 100 influential residential interiors.

Photographic Portfolio: Nic Lehoux

June 4, 2020

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See images from the West Vancouver Art Museum's early 2020 exhibition "Presence & Absence: Nic Lehoux and Attilio Fiumarella."

Review of 'Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe'

By Jean H. Baker

Richard Korman

May 14, 2020

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This compendium explores the career of "America’s first architect and engineer."

Nine New and Notable Design Books

Suzanne Stephens

May 13, 2020

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A roundup of publications highlights new findings about the past and present.

Review of 'Villa of Delirium'

By Adrien Goetz

Suzanne Stephens

April 10, 2020

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Adrien Goetz’s fictionalized history of the actual Villa Kerylos on the French Riviera demonstrates both a convincing commitment to facts and a dramatic ability to animate characters, events, and settings of the past.

Review of 'Edgy Architecture: Living in the Most Impossible Places'

By Agata Toromanoff

Josephine Minutillo

April 8, 2020

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The projects in Agata Toromanoff's new book are experimental, avant-garde, but also edgy in the literal sense, as in built on an edge.

Review of 'Le Corbusier Paper Models: 10 Kirigami Buildings to Cut and Fold'

By Marc Hagan-Guirey

Linda C. Lentz

April 7, 2020

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Hone your knife skills, and you can recreate semblances of 10 works of the Modernist master with this challenging collection of model templates devised by British paper artist Marc Hagan-Guirey.