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Architectural Record editors and critics review the latest books, films, and exhibitions about architecture and design.
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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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The Legacy of Racism in the Making of Cities and Communities

Alicia Olushola Ajayi
March 18, 2021
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Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness, at MoMA, interrogates the past while imagining a liberated future.


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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
March 9, 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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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 new books.
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

Bill Gates's Book on How to Save the Planet

Fred A. Bernstein
February 23, 2021
One Comment

The billionaire's new book on the climate crisis is as much about practicality as it is about technology.


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Japanese Design Since 1945: A Complete Sourcebook.

Review of 'Japanese Design Since 1945: A Complete Sourcebook'

By Naomi Pollock
Wendy Moonan
February 8, 2021
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A new book give a comprehensive history of postwar design in Japan.
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Architectural Styles and The Elements of Modern Architecture

Review of 'Architectural Styles' and 'The Elements of Modern Architecture'

By Margaret Fletcher and Robbie Polley; Antony Radford, Selen Morkoç, and Amit Srivastava
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Josephine Minutillo
February 5, 2021
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Two new books serve as handy refreshers for understanding architectural styles and structures.
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Brave New Home.

Review of "Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing"

By Diana Lind
Paul Makovsky
January 12, 2021
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A new book explores the idea that many problems besetting America connect to the historic fixation on the single-family house.
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Space and Anti-Space and Lateness.

Books in Brief

Stephens
Suzanne Stephens
Preston Scott Cohen
January 11, 2021
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Two short reviews interpret themes of space and lateness as they relate to architecture.
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Three Books on Frank Lloyd Wright

In celebration of the architect's 150th birthday, RECORD reviews three new books on Frank Lloyd Wright's life and work:

  • The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconoclastic Masterpiece, by Francesco Dal Co
  • An Organic Architecture: The Architecture of Democracy, by Frank Lloyd Wright, with a new introduction by Andrew Saint
  • Travels with Frank Lloyd Wright: The First Global Architect, by Gwyn Lloyd Jones

Scroll through the slideshow below to read a mini-review of each.

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