By Sean Ruthen
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Book Review: The Sea Ranch – Fifty Years of Architecture, Landscape, Place, and Community on the Northern California Coast
Edited by Donlyn Lyndon & Jim Alinder, (Princeton Architectural Press, 2014) One hundred miles north of San Francisco, the Sonoma County coast meets...
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Book Review: City Builder – The Architecture of James KM Cheng
Edited by Trevor Boddy, The Images Publishing Group (2017) One cannot understand the architecture and urban design produced by JKMCA without...
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Book Review – People Cities: The Life and Legacy of Jan Gehl
Written by Annie Matan & Peter Newman, (Island Press, 2016) Over the last 50 years, Jan Gehl has changed the way we think about architecture and city...
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Book Review: Eric Owen Moss Architects/3585
Edited by Todd Gannon (Applied Research & Design Publishing, 2016) No. 9 – Source Books in Architecture Eric Owen Moss Architects/3585, the...
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Book Review From the Stacks – More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today
Editor: Jennifer Siegal (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) More Mobile is the little book that roared. About the size of a stack of old 6”x 9” photos...
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Book Reviews From The Stacks – Snøhetta Works
Editors: Snøhetta (Lars Müller Publishing – 2009) These projects and descriptions together have been selected to show the wide range, at times...
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Notes from Holland
As an architect on vacation, one does not travel merely to escape the ennui of change orders and field reviews. Time spent abroad in another city is an...
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Book Review: Downs House II
Edited by Christopher Macdonald, ORO Editions (2016) “Against the varied and positive nature of the houses depicted in this series, it is important...
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Book Review From The Stacks – The Miller|Hull Partnership: Public Works
“The Miller|Hull Partnership’s energy-conscious designs, love of local materials, and structural expressiveness helped define the essence of a new and...
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Book Review: Citizen City
Edited by Robert Enright (Blueimprint Publishers, 2016) “The projects compiled in this book are the culmination of over 25 years of architectural...
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Book Review – Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival
“Since 2005, nearly 9,000 demo permits for residential buildings have been issued in Vancouver. An average of three houses a day are torn down, many of...
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Places – Public Architecture: HCMA Architecture + Design
“This book provides a primer for architectural practitioners and the public alike; a portfolio of projects completed by a firm that, over its 40 year...