By Sean Ruthen
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Book Review: 100 Ideas That Changed Architecture
Written by Richard Weston (Laurence King Publishing, 2020) This book’s title poses two obvious questions: what is an architectural ‘idea’, and how were...
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Book Review: The Architecture of Trees
Authors: Cesare Leonardi & Franca Stagi (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019) In Italy, most architects know this book and have drawn on the...
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Book Review: McIntyre House
UBC SALA West Coast Modern House Series Written by Sherry McKay, Preface by Douglas Coupland (ORO Editions 2020) I miss that people once built houses...
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Book Review: Tall Wood Buildings – Design, Construction, and Performance
Written by Michael Green and Jim Taggart– Second and Expanded Edition (Birkhauser Press, 2020) A fundamental change in the way in which we build our...
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Book Review: The Architecture of Engagement – A Human-Centered Approach to Sustainable Design
Written by Jim Taggart– Abacus Editions (2019) This book provides an important insight into this emerging model of social sustainability in architectural...
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Book Review: Canadian Modern Architecture
Edited by Elsa Lam and Graham Livesey – Princeton Architectural Press (2019) This anthology comprises the contributions of seventeen scholars...
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Book Review – Compression
Author: Steven Holl (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019) Compression of human habitat should be a concern of all global citizens living on this fragile...
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Book Review: New Investigations in Collective Form – The Open Workshop
Edited by Neeraj Bhatia – Actar Publishers/CCA Architecture Books (2019) More than fifty years have passed since the publication of Fumihiko Maki’s...
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Book Review – An Architect’s Guide to Construction: Enduring Ways in the Age of Immediacy
Author: Brian Palmquist (self-published, 2nd ed., 2019) Much has changed in design and construction since the first edition of an Architect’s Guide to...
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Book Review From the Stacks: Form + Code
“Elegant as an algorithm, clear as a program, and as enthralling as a video game, Form+Code is a powerful tool, both as a tutorial and in-depth...
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Book Review From the Stacks: Extreme Architecture – Building for Challenging Environments
“The fascination of architecture in extreme environments is that it is so demanding technically, yet offers so much potential… the greatest constraint...
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From the Stacks: The Ethical Architect – The Dilemma of Contemporary Practice
“Architects live and work today in a functioning but weakened profession that lacks a dominant design ethic. An opportunity to examine unquestioned...