By Erick Villagomez
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Book Review – Le Corbusier Redrawn: The Houses
Author: SooJin (Steven) Park (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012) Le Corbusier needs no introduction in the architecture and urban planning circles. As a...
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Book Review – The Public Library: A Photographic Essay
Author: Robert Dawson (Photographer) with Bill Moyers (Foreword)and Ann Patchett (Afterword) – (Princeton Architectural Press, 2014) It is rare to...
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Book Review – Farming Cuba: Urban Agriculture from the Ground Up
Author: Carey Clouse (Princeton Architectural Press, 2014) In light of growing urban populations and diminishing resources, the issues around food...
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Visual Thoughts #44
Last VT image: A fragment of the Manhattan skyline viewed from near Peter Detmold Park, New York. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at...
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Five Key Questions for the Study of Public Life
Although studies on the interaction between public life and public space are relatively few, several great examples do exist. From Christopher Alexander’s...
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Book Review: How to Study Public Life
Authors: Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre (Island Press, 2013) Those versed in research around public life and urban spaces are bound to know the name, Jan...
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Visual Thoughts #43
Last VT image: View to Smoke Lake, Algonquin Park, Ontario. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an...
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Book Review: Analysing Architecture (Fourth Edition)
Author: Simon Unwin (Routledge, 2014) At a time when increasing complexity seems to be the overriding direction in all fields, lucidly describing the...
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Visual Thoughts #42
Last VT image: The Dominion Building at sunset – Vancouver, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an...
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Book Review From The Stacks – Mannahatta: An Natural History of New York City
Author: Eric W. Sanderson (Harry N. Abrams, 2013) Cities are inseparable from their unique landscapes. The values and culture of the earliest settlers...
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Book Review From the Stacks: Cities for People
Author: Jan Gehl (Island Press, 2010) With the great success of his consulting practice and several excellent books to his name, the release of Jan...
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Book Review – Sun Wind and Light: Architectural Design Strategies (3rd Edition)
Authors: G. Z. Brown, Mark DeKay (Wiley, 2014) As the complexity of buildings has increased over the past decades, issues around energy-conscious...