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We're Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City

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July 16, 2015
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By Roberta Brandes Gratz. Nation Books, June 2015, 404 pages, $28. A crisis is a moment of reckoning. By altering or destroying the status quo, a crisis opens things up, making visible what is often submerged, making possible what is usually thought otherwise. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina laid bare the deep inequalities in the city of New Orleans, while clearing paths for reform and change. In her new book, Roberta Brandes Gratz tracks efforts to reshape the city in the wake of the storm. Gratz is a self-proclaimed urbanist in the tradition of Jane Jacobs, and here, as in her
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Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy

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June 16, 2015
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Edited by Nicholas Dagan Bloom, Fritz Umbach, and Lawrence J. Vale. Cornell University Press, April 2015, 296 pages, $70 (hardcover), $23 (paper). Nothing led to the disillusion with modern architecture during the postmodern era more than the critique of public housing. It was not, after all, Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966) that really ushered in the new style. That book was too complex and subtle. Charles Jencks's more colorful and bombastic The Language of Postmodern Architecture (1977) was much more influential, and it began with a view of the destruction of Pruitt-Igoe. With one facile fell swoop,
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Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms

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June 16, 2015
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By William J.R. Curtis (revised and updated). Phaidon, April 2015, 512 pages, $150. In the preface to his classic Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms, published in 1986 and for the quarter century since the most thoughtful and complete analysis of the architect, William J.R. Curtis compared his subject's impact to that of Freud, Joyce, and Picasso. But why stop there? If the pronouncement-making passion of the early Corbusier makes him another Freud (explaining away the darkness, an answer for everything), then the later Corbusier—the architect of post-rational dreamscapes like La Tourette and Ronchamp —is another Karl Jung. There simply is
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Informal Urbanism

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June 16, 2015
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Villages in the City: A Guide to South China’s Informal Settlements, edited by Stefan Al. Hong Kong University Press and University of Hawaii Press, October 2014, 216 pages, $28. Handmade Urbanism: From Community Initiatives to Participatory Models, edited by Marcos Rosa and Ute Weiland. Jovis, October 2013, 224 pages, $40. Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change, by Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia. Island Press, March 2015, 256 pages, $25. From the slum settlements of burgeoning megacities to the guerrilla gardening and pop-up everything we celebrate in the United States, recent years have seen a growing interest in creative and
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Elements of Venice

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June 16, 2015
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By Giulia Foscari with a foreword by Rem Koolhaas. Lars Müller Publishers, October 2014, 696 pages, $32. To say Giulia Foscari's book is a beautifully put together trove of information about Venice's luxuriantly scenic architecture sounds gushy. Actually, it is an understatement. Foscari's distinctive analysis of the variegated riches that are a feast for the eye in this city of encrusted layers pays proper homage to its subject. By zeroing in on the architectonic vocabulary of facades, walls, ceilings, stairs, doors, and other elements, the author, who is a young architect in Hamburg, provides an intensive look into the creation
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Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia

Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia

Whose Continent Is It Anyway? Eurocentrism Is Hard to Break.
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May 16, 2015
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Except for a handful of anthologies and books focusing on specific architects or events, Latin America has received little attention in English-language histories of architecture.
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Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia

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By Luis E. Carranza and Fernando Luiz Lara with a foreword by Jorge Francisco Liernur. University of Texas Press, January 2015, 424 pages, $81 (hardcover) $45 (paperback). Whose Continent Is It Anyway? Eurocentrism Is Hard to Break. Except for a handful of anthologies and books focusing on specific architects or events, Latin America has received little attention in English-language histories of architecture. The Museum of Modern Art, though, mounted three exhibitions (and published accompanying books) on the region in the 20th century—Brazil Builds in 1943, Latin American Architecture Since 1945 in 1955, and The Architecture of Luis Barragán in 1976—and
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Educating Architects: How Tomorrow's Practitioners Will Learn Today

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Edited by Neil Spiller and Nic Clear. Thames & Hudson, November 2014, 352 pages, $50 (hardcover). This is actually three books in one. As a collection of 40 essays by 35 different authors, it is, first, an advertisement for the University of Greenwich's Department of Architecture and Landscape in its new location at the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site outside of London and its assumed new relevance. It is, alternatively, a platform for schools of architecture that indulge “radicality,” “innovation,” and visions of the “future.” And, finally, it is a history of various schools offering alternative (read: anti-institutional) modes of
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David Adjaye: Form, Heft, Material

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May 16, 2015
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Edited by Okwui Enwezor and Zoë Ryan in consultation with Peter Allison; Yale University Press , April 2015, 296 pages, $55. Wrapped in golden tracery, this nearly 300-page book showcases the sophistication and craftsmanship of the London-based architect David Adjaye. The book's material is drawn from an exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago (where it's on view until January 3, 2016) and the Haus der Kunst in Munich (through May 31). The introduction, written by curators Zoë Ryan and Okwui Enwezor, defines two essential threads in Adjaye's work: a strong sense of artistry, materiality, and craft, as well
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Saarinen Houses

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By Jari Jetsonen and Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen. Princeton Architectural Press, October 2014, 224 pages, $50 (hardcover). Father and Son, Together and Apart This beautifully illustrated book covers most of the houses designed by Eliel Saarinen, with his partners and members of his family, and by his son, Eero, both with Eliel and with associates of his own. It is important because most writing about Eero pays far too little attention to the influence of his father or to the collaborative nature of both their practices. The authors, a photographer and an architect, know about cooperative family ventures, since they are married
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