By Sean Ruthen
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Book Review: Hey Computer! Icons of Architecture Rebuilt by AI
We are currently experiencing a noetic turn, from a speech-based to a data-based civilization. In the historical analogue world, the relationship between...
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Book Review: The Painter Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray’s Villa E1027, and Le Cabanon
“From the end of the 1930s onwards, Le Corbusier tested the possibilities of mural painting to enliven architectural space. Following a first...
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Book Review: About Architecture – An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings
Written by Hugh Pearman, Yale University Press, 2023 “This guide aims for simplicity. There are short introductory essays to each of the 11 building...
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Book Review: Exploring Vancouver – Ten Tours of the City and its Buildings
Written by Harold Kalman & Robin Ward, Fifth Edition (Harbour Publishing, 2023) This fifth edition of Exploring Vancouver brings the city’s...
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News from Calgary and Banff
This past month in Calgary, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada held its first in-person conference since 2019, showcasing the recent opening of...
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Book Review: Building With Paper – Architecture and Construction
Edited by Ulrich Knaack, Rebecca Bach, and Samuel Schabel – Berkhauser Verlag, 2023 To identify industrial solutions in the building industry...
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Book Review: American Urbanist
Author: Richard K. Rein (Island Press, 2022) “In our attention to making organization work we have come close to deifying it. We are describing its...
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Book Review: Ron Thom Architect – The Life of a Creative Modernist
Author: Adele Weder (Greystone Publishing, 2022) Drawing on extensive archival research and over one hundred interviews, this definitive biography –...
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Book Review – When Eero Met His Match: Aline Loucheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect
Author: Eva Hagberg (Princeton University Press, 2022) Today, I think about Aline’s contributions to the field, and to the practice and publicity of...
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Book Review: Modern Heritage – Reuse, Renovation, Restoration
Edited by Ana Tostões, Docomomo International & Birkhäuser Publishers, 2022 Modernism was the defining architectural expression of the 20th century â€...
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Book Review: Architecture of Normal – The Colonization of the American Landscape
Written by Daniel Kaven, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2022 In the weeks leading up to my 40th birthday, I took an epic road trip. I drove east from Los Angeles...
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Book Review: 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
Written by Aaron Betsky and Gideon Fink Shapiro, Rizzoli Books, 2021 This book presents the work and imaginings of this iconic architect in an accessible...