Book Review: Graphic Anatomy – Atelier Bow-Wow
22 January 2013, 22:22
Book Review: No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston
14 December 2010, 14:12
In 1926, municipal efforts to shape communities across the country by regulating the types of construction, developments and businesses in district zones were made constitutional. This became national practice and thus, the process we know as zoning was born. However,...
Book Review: Blue Issue 01
1 June 2010, 21:03
The work of many great contemporary architects is based on a tremendous amount of research and development of new ideas. This research produces some of the most innovative and sustainable new architecture yet we often only see the product and...
Book Review: The Stephen Sprouse Book
28 September 2009, 12:27
Our friend Barbara Amelio gave us this recently published book for the studio’s library. Stephen Sprouse, who according to William Norwich was the fashion designer credited with pioneering the 1980’s mix of “uptown sophistication in clothing with a downtown...
Book Review: Tomasello
22 June 2009, 20:02
This is not as much a book review as it is an overview of a catalog of the current exhibit on the work of a friend, but most of all a master: Luis Tomasello. The work of Tomasello is now being concurrently shown at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires and at Sicardi Gallery in Houston. This is the artist’s …
Book Review: Amancio Williams
5 June 2009, 18:50
With forewords by former Dean of Architecture at the University of Michigan, Reginald Malcolmson and architect Emilio Ambasz, this book offers an essential look into the work of one of modernism’s most mystical characters. The recently published book, started by...
Book Review: Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century
16 April 2009, 15:07
From the Peabody Buildings of the early 1900’s in London to Foreign Office Architects’ recent Carabanchel 16 Housing in Madrid, the book if full of excellent examples of housing projects, social and otherwise. This 240 page volume is organized by...
Book Review: Le Corbusier - Le Grand
11 March 2009, 14:52
How do you make a book that contains the story of a person who has arguably had the biggest influence on architecture as we know it?
You make it big… Very big. Instead of being another biography, or...
Book Review: Ecstacity
2 March 2009, 22:44
Formed in the early 80’s, Ecstacity is the brainchild of British Architect and scholar Nigel Coates. By overlaying the street plans of seven existing cities, Coates has created a hypothetical environment that allows us to speculate on the future of...
