#architecture books

[germanpostwarmodern]

what are your favourite architecture books from your library?

That's a really difficult question. But answered offhand I would say Fritz Neumeyer's "The Artless Word: Mies van der Rohe on the Building Art", Wolfgang Pehnt's "Deutsche Architektur seit 1900" and "Julius Shulman: Modernism Rediscovered".

[drawdownbooks]

Trading Between Architecture and Art does not attempt to answer the question of whether architecture is an art but considers the question itself: how it affects architecture, and art, as a practice + a discipline. This volume aims to identify the overlaps and misalignments between concepts + categories implied in the question and to trace the impact of these on the ways that art and architecture are valued.

By unpacking the historical and current interests at stake in defining architecture as art, Trading between Architecture and Art reconsiders the place of architecture in contemporary culture.

With texts by Angelique Campens, Guy Châtel, Mark Dorrian, Maarten Liefooghe, Mark Linder, John Macarthur, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Annalise Varghese, Stefaan Vervoort, Stephen Walker, and Rosemary Willink

Edited by Wouter Davidts, Susan Holden, and Ashley Paine 

Designed by Sam de Groot

Published by Valiz, 2019 Available at Draw Down Books

[alessandro55]

the treehouse book

Peter and Judy Nelson with David Larkin

Universe, New York 2000, 224 pages, 21,5x21,5cm, paperback, ISBN 978-0789304117

euro 25,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

It seems that almost everyone likes treehouses.  Smiles of recognition turn into grins of enthusiasm as more people discover them and dream about making their own private retreats or family play spaces.  And it's nice to remind ourselves that treehouses are built into the oldest and most forgiving, living things on earth.  Also, history records treehouses as being built as deliberate follies, as challenges for arboreal designers, for merrymaking, and for keeping the spirit of fairy tales alive.  But treehouses can also be social places.  We will visit many that were built to entertain, to hang out with friends, or as guest houses.  Trees come in all types. Master treehouse builders Peter and Judy Nelson, with David Larkin, have embarked on yet another treehouse-discovery expedition across America, this time adding the investigation of backyard playhouses to their agenda.  Now, in The Treehouse Book, they reveal their findings, illustrated and described in the most complete volume yet. From casual treeshacks made from discarded lumber to multitiered feats of fancy, they found shelters representing myriad builders--interesting characters ranging from childhood fanatics grown up, to weekend carpenters, to those who want their grandkids to have the best clubhouse on the block. Detailed how-to information, including plans and drawings, is woven with behind-the-scenes tales of each structure's occupants and stunning interior and exterior photographic exploration.

05/09/24

[escapismsworld]

✨Pretty floor mosaics✨

[bryanharryrombough]

305 Lost Buildings of Canada by Raymond Biesinger My rating: 3 of 5 stars

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[schau]

Armando Ruinelli Architetti Architekten, Progetti Bauten 1984-2022

Leggere il tempo

Park Books

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[ai-dream]

[daily-spooky]

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[itsnicolasvalencia]

SPACE10 asked ArchDaily editors from five countries to contribute to this exchange of ideas, and they selected to share books — on architecture and otherwise — that guide their practice as curators and editors.

‘Architecture is made up of a multitude of aspects that form human habitat in different scales,’ ArchDaily Mexico editor Mónica Arellano says. ‘The bodily experience of stopping for a moment to focus our attention on an object such as a book is essential to reconnect with the non-virtual world.’

Check out the full list of selected books by ArchDaily team.

[germanpostwarmodern]

For bibliophiles there is little more interesting than to browse the libraries of other bibliophiles and discover inspiring books to add to the own collection. In 2023 the Nidus Architekturgalerie in Düsseldorf, Germany together with curator Oliver Jahn dedicated an entire exhibition to the book and their readers: in „Das Haus im Buch“ 100 individuals, i.e. architects, journalists, photographers, displayed their favorite architecture-related books from their own collection, complete with dog ears, annotations and bookmarks. Alongside each book the exhibition presented brief texts by the contributors, among them Andreas Murkudis, Florian Illies, John Pawson, Roger Boltshauser and Vincent Van Duysen. 

For all those who haven’t visited the exhibition the present volume offers the opportunity to make up for it: edited by Ana Vollenbroich, Annelen Schmidt-Vollenbroich, Oliver Jahn and published recently by Park Books: it follows the exhibition’s structure and on double pages shows the books and accompanying texts. And in view of the 100 individual entries there is a lot to discover: Gisbert Pöppler e.g. recounts that the reading of architectural historian Julius Posener‘s autobiography prompted him to pay the latter a visit that became a most treasured encounter he will never forget. And Jórunn Ragnarsdóttir on the other hand quotes Aldo Rossi‘s „Architecture of the City“ as the most important source of her architectural thinking. 

These two examples are representative of the variety of books and people included in the book and even for bibliophiles and well-read architecture buffs there will be surprises and suggestions for books to (re)read after finishing the present one. 

In a nutshell: „Das Haus im Buch“ is a gem and wonderful ode to the physical book as a cultural treasure!

[anelaxoxo]

@anelaxoxo

"And you too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine."

Mary oliver, from Evidence :poems, "when i am among the trees"

[n--m7]

[escapismsworld]

“Do not draw me without reason. Do not wield me without valor.”

[gentlemanmotorslifestyle]

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