By Sean Ruthen
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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...
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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, 2022Â 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...