By Sean Ruthen
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Book Review: The Women Who Changed Architecture
Foreword by Beverly Willis, Introduction by Amale Andraos, Edited by Jan Cigliano Hartman, Princeton Architectural Press, 2022 The Women Who Changed...
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Book Review: The Stahl House – Case Study House #22
Written by Shari Stahl Gronwald, Bruce Stahl, and Kim Cross, Chronicle Books (2021) Considered one of the most iconic and recognizable examples of...
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Book Review: 250 Things an Architect Should Know
Author: Michael Sorkin (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021) Equal parts poetic, practical, playful, and wise, Two Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect...
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Book Review: Cuban Modernism – Mid-Century Architecture 1940-1970
Authors: Victor Deupi & Jean-Francois Lejeune (Birkhäuser, 2021) In the 20th century, modern architecture thrived in Cuba and a wealth of buildings...
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Book Review: Canadian Architecture
Written by Leslie Jen, Figure 1 Publishing (2021) What is Canadian architecture? The question has often been posed, with no single satisfactory response...
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Book Review | Growing Up Modern: Childhoods in Iconic Homes
Written by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster (Birkhäuser Publishing, 2021) Publishing these stories allows both architects and those interested in...
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Book Review: Patented – 1,000 Design Patents
Thomas Rinaldi, Phaidon Press, 2021 From patents that have gone on to become world famous design classics to everyday, anonymous objects that have become...
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Book Review – Lateness
Written by Peter Eisenman and Elisa Iturbe, Princeton University Press, 2020 In this incisive book, internationally renowned architect Peter Eisenman...
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From the Stacks – Tom Kundig: Houses
Edited by Dung Ngo (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006) Tom Kundig: Houses is the kind of monograph that makes most architects’ hearts skip a beat...
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Book Review – Here & Gone: Artwork of Vancouver & Beyond
Text and watercolours by Michael Kluckner, Midtown Press, 2020 I could not have imagined Vancouver becoming such a city of contrasts even 30 or so years...
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Book Review – Tom Kundig: Working Title
Princeton Architectural Press, 2020 When considering Kundig’s buildings, twenty-nine examples of which are included here in his fourth book, one is...
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Book Review: France Sketchbooks
Edited by Laurie Olin and Pablo Mandel (ORO Editions, 2020) Drawing is about seeing and not wriggling one’s wrist. It is also an act of the mind. Seeing...