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FOLLIES in AMERICA: A History of Garden and Park Architecture (Cornell University Press) examines historicized garden bu...
23/02/2022

FOLLIES in AMERICA: A History of Garden and Park Architecture (Cornell University Press) examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876.

In a period of increasing nationalism, follies―such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins―brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness. Learn more on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/follies-in-america

In the world of interior design, mid-century Modernism has left an indelible mark still seen and felt today in countless...
22/02/2022

In the world of interior design, mid-century Modernism has left an indelible mark still seen and felt today in countless open-concept floor plans and spare, geometric furnishings. Yet despite our continued fascination, we rarely consider how this iconic design sensibility was marketed to the diverse audiences of its era. Examining advice manuals, advertisements, and more, MID-CENTURY MODERNISM and the AMERICAN BODY: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design (Princeton University Press) offers a powerful new look at how codes of race, gender, and identity influenced—and were influenced by—Modern design and shaped its presentation to consumers. Tune in 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/mid-century-modernism-and-the-american-body

14/06/2021

Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart.

The trappings of Gothic architecture have become shorthand for “medieval Europe." Visitors around the world have travell...
04/12/2020

The trappings of Gothic architecture have become shorthand for “medieval Europe." Visitors around the world have travelled to Europe to see the tall spires and stained glass windows of the continent’s Gothic cathedrals. Yet in STEALING from the SARACENS: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe (Hurst Publishers), Diana Darke investigates the Islamic origins of Gothic architecture, tracing its history through pre-Islamic Syria through the Islamic empires to the tall European cathedrals between the 12th and 17th centuries. Darke joins Asian Review of Books ↙

https://newbooksnetwork.com/stealing-from-the-saracens

How do architectural designers apply ideas to produce meaningful spaces that make sense to people?Philip D. Plowright's ...
30/11/2020

How do architectural designers apply ideas to produce meaningful spaces that make sense to people?

Philip D. Plowright's MAKING ARCHITECTURE THROUGH BEING HUMAN: A Handbook of Design Ideas (Routledge Built Environment) is a reference book that presents 51 concepts, notions, ideas and actions that are fundamental to human thinking and how we interpret the environment around us. Learn more on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/making-architecture-through-being-human

Cities are one of the most significant contributors to global climate change. The rapid speed at which urban centers use...
17/11/2020

Cities are one of the most significant contributors to global climate change. The rapid speed at which urban centers use large amounts of resources adds to the global crisis and can lead to extreme local heat. Douglas Kelbaugh's book THE URBAN FIX: Resilient Cities in the War Against Climate Change, Heat Islands and Overpopulation (Routledge) addresses how urban design, planning and policies can counter the threats of climate change, urban heat islands and overpopulation, helping cities take full advantage of their inherent advantages and new technologies to catalyze social, cultural and physical solutions to combat the epic, unprecedented challenges humanity faces. Learn more on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-urban-fix

A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century: simulated ci...
08/11/2020

A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century: simulated cities, states and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work—passing laws, growing food, and constructing buildings, among other tasks—inside virtual worlds. STATES of CHILDHOOD: From the Junior Republic to the American Republic, 1895-1945 (MIT Press) examines the phenomena of “junior republics, offering insights into the deep roots of such contemporary concepts as gamification, play labor, and virtuality. Jennifer Light joins the NBN's Nushelle de Silva 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/jennifer-s-light-states-of-childhood-from-the-junior-republic-to-the-american-republic-1895-1945-mit-press-2020

Eric Reinholdt joins the podcast to fill us on his new two-volume book, ARCHITECT + ENTREPRENEUR Volume 1: A Field Guide...
04/11/2020

Eric Reinholdt joins the podcast to fill us on his new two-volume book, ARCHITECT + ENTREPRENEUR Volume 1: A Field Guide and Volume 2: A How-To Guide (Design Workshop Press). These manuals offer high-level strategies, field-tested tactics, and case studies showing how architects are reinventing practice in the 21st century. Reinholdt, founder of 30X40 Design Workshop describes in detail how his business model has evolved to leverage passive income producing products and offers a new paradigm for practice on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/eric-reinholdt-architect-and-entrepreneur-design-workshop-press-2015

Contemporary Hindu temples raise aesthetic, economic, political and philosophical questions about the role of architectu...
04/11/2020

Contemporary Hindu temples raise aesthetic, economic, political and philosophical questions about the role of architecture in making a place for the sacred in society. THE CONTEMPORARY HINDU TEMPLE: Fragments for a History (The Marg Foundation) presents the Hindu temple from the perspectives of institutions and individuals, including priests, building practitioners and worshippers, to consider what it means when the temple is no longer at the centre of Indic life, but has instead become one among several important sites of social praxis. Co-editor Annapurna Garimella joins the NBN's Raj Balkaran ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/annapurna-garimella-the-contemporary-hindu-temple-fragments-for-a-history-marg-foundation-2019

As one of the most monumental and recognizable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate, the distinctiv...
02/11/2020

As one of the most monumental and recognizable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate, the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum is widely known and familiar to Zanzibaris and visitors alike. Yet the complicated and compelling history behind its construction and collection has been overlooked. Drawing on a rich and wide range of unexplored archival, photographic, architectural, and material evidence, CRACKS in the DOME: Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum, 1897-1964 (Routledge) is the first serious investigation of this remarkable institution. Sarah Longair discusses her work on the podcast👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/sarah-longair-cracks-in-the-dome-fractured-histories-of-empire-in-the-zanzibar-museum-1897-1964-routledge-2015

Louis I. Kahn is one of the most influential and poetic architects of the 20th century, a figure whose appeal extends be...
27/10/2020

Louis I. Kahn is one of the most influential and poetic architects of the 20th century, a figure whose appeal extends beyond the realm of specialists. In LOUIS KAHN: Architecture as Philosophy (The Monacelli Press), noted Kahn expert John Lobell explores how Kahn's focus on structure, respect for materials, clarity of program, and reverence for details come together to manifest an overall philosophy. Check out Lobell's NBN interview ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/john-lobell-louis-kahn-architecture-as-philosophy-monacelli-press-2020

The residence hall has come to mark the threshold between childhood and adulthood, housing young people during a transfo...
22/09/2020

The residence hall has come to mark the threshold between childhood and adulthood, housing young people during a transformational time in their lives. Whether a Gothic stone pile, a quaint Colonial box, or a concrete slab, the dormitory is decidedly unhomelike, yet it takes center stage in the dramatic arc of many American families. Richly illustrated, LIVING on CAMPUS: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory (University of Minnesota Press) is the first architectural history of this critical building type. Carla Yanni is our guest on the podcast ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/carla-yanni-living-on-campus-an-architectural-history-of-the-american-dormitory-u-minnesota-press-2019/

Drawing on extraordinary unpublished diaries, photographs, and maps, as well as newspapers from the period, HITLER'S NOR...
18/09/2020

Drawing on extraordinary unpublished diaries, photographs, and maps, as well as newspapers from the period, HITLER'S NORTHERN UTOPIA: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway (Princeton University Press) tells the story of a broad range of completed and unrealized architectural and infrastructure projects far beyond the well-known German military defenses built on Norway’s Atlantic coast. Learn more as Despina Stratigakos discusses her research on the podcast ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/despina-stratigakos-hitlers-northern-utopia-building-the-new-order-in-occupied-norway-princeton-up-2020/

As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with “urban crisis,”...
14/09/2020

As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with “urban crisis,” the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay (1966–1973) experimented with a broad array of projects in open spaces to affirm the value of city life. Mariana Mogilevich provides a fascinating history of a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake the city in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society. Learn more about THE INVENTION of PUBLIC SPACE: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York (University of Minnesota Press) ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/mariana-mogilevich-the-invention-of-public-space-designing-for-inclusion-in-lindsays-new-york-u-minnesota-press-2020/

THE GREAT INDOORS: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness (Scientific America...
09/09/2020

THE GREAT INDOORS: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness (Scientific American) provides a fresh perspective on our most familiar surroundings and a new understanding of the power of architecture and design. It’s an argument for thoughtful interventions into the built environment and a story about how to build a better world―one room at a time. Emily Anthes fills us in ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/emily-anthes-the-great-indoors-scientific-american-2020/

Putting policy documents and presidential addresses into conversation with previously unmined personal letters, diaries,...
27/07/2020

Putting policy documents and presidential addresses into conversation with previously unmined personal letters, diaries, local media coverage, and antinuclear ephemera, EVERY HOME a FORTRESS: Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter (University of Massachusetts Press) details the remarkable cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of Cold War masculinity—the fallout shelter father, who, with spade in hand and the canned goods he has amassed, sought to save his family from atomic warfare. Thomas Bishop fills us in ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/thomas-bishop-every-home-a-fortress-cold-war-fatherhood-and-the-family-fallout-shelter-umass-press-2020/

How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes whe...
11/06/2020

How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed?

RECIPROCAL LANDSCAPES: Stories of Material Movements (Routledge Built Environment) traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Jane Hutton debriefs us on the book 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/jane-hutton-reciprocal-landscapes-stories-of-material-movements-routledge-2020/

Erica Bauermeister's HOUSE LESSONS: Renovating a Life (Sasquatch Books) is a memoir about the power of home and the tran...
08/06/2020

Erica Bauermeister's HOUSE LESSONS: Renovating a Life (Sasquatch Books) is a memoir about the power of home and the transformative act of restoring one house in particular. A personal, accessible, and literary exploration of the psychology of architecture, as well as a loving tribute to the connections we forge with the homes we care for and live in, this book is designed for anyone who’s ever fallen head over heels for a house. It is also a story of a marriage, of family, and of the kind of roots that settle deep into your heart. Bauermeister joins Christina Gessler ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/erica-bauermeister-house-lessons-renovating-a-life-sasquatch-books-2020/

Beginning with Laugier’s 1753 Essay on Architecture, Pablo Meninato‘s UNEXPECTED AFFINITIES: The History of Type from La...
06/06/2020

Beginning with Laugier’s 1753 Essay on Architecture, Pablo Meninato‘s UNEXPECTED AFFINITIES: The History of Type from Laugier to Duchamp (Routledge History, Heritage Studies and Archaeology) traces type through nineteenth- and twentieth-century architectural movements and theories, culminating in a discussion of the affinities between architectural type and Duchamp’s concept of the readymade. Meninato joins us on the podcast ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/pablo-meninato-unexpected-affinities-the-history-of-type-in-architectural-project-from-laugier-to-duchamp-routledge-2018/

Beautifully illustrated in full color throughout, with over 200 images, Anne Godfrey‘s ACTIVE LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY: A T...
06/06/2020

Beautifully illustrated in full color throughout, with over 200 images, Anne Godfrey‘s ACTIVE LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY: A Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape Architecture (Routledge Built Environment) covers a variety of topics: the diversity of everyday photographic practices for design decision making, the perception of landscape architecture through photography, transcending the objective and subjective with photography, and deploying multiplicity in photographic representation as a means to better represent the complexity of the discipline. Godfrey discusses the project ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/anne-godfrey-active-landscape-photography-theoretical-groundwork-for-landscape-architecture-routledge-2020/

Your building has the potential to change the world. Existing buildings consume approximately 40% of the energy and emit...
12/05/2020

Your building has the potential to change the world. Existing buildings consume approximately 40% of the energy and emit nearly half of the carbon dioxide in the US each year.

In THE POWER of EXISTING BUILDINGS: Save Money, Improve Health, and Reduce Environmental Impacts (Island Press), academic sustainability expert Robert Sroufe, and construction and building experts Craig Stevenson and Beth Eckenrode, explain how to realize the potential of existing buildings and make them perform like new. 👂👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/robert-sroufe-et-al-the-power-of-existing-buildings-island-press-2019/

How should we understand our cities? In WHY CITIES LOOK THE WAY THEY DO (Polity), Richard Williams, Professor of Contemp...
11/05/2020

How should we understand our cities?

In WHY CITIES LOOK THE WAY THEY DO (Polity), Richard Williams, Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, explores the processes that shape the city, foregrounding images over the idea that cities are designed or planned. Check out Williams' conversation with Dave O'Brien on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/richard-williams-why-cities-look-the-way-they-do-polity-2019/

As urban designers respond to the critical issue of climate change they must also address three cresting cultural waves:...
03/05/2020

As urban designers respond to the critical issue of climate change they must also address three cresting cultural waves: the worldwide rural-to-urban migration; the collapse of global fertility rates; and the disappearance of the middle class. In FIVE RULES for TOMORROW'S CITIES: Design in an Age of Urban Migration, Demographic Change, and a Disappearing Middle Class (Island Press) planning and design expert Patrick Condon explains how urban designers can assimilate these interconnected changes into their work. Check out Condon's NBN interview ⬇️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/patrick-m-condon-five-rules-for-tomorrows-cities-island-press-2020/

There's a mosque on every hill in Istanbul. Cruising along the Bosphorus, you cannot help but notice that the city’s lan...
28/04/2020

There's a mosque on every hill in Istanbul. Cruising along the Bosphorus, you cannot help but notice that the city’s landscape would be dramatically altered without the city's mosques. In OTTOMAN BAROQUE: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul (Princeton University Press), Ünver Rüstem argues that we should see the Baroque period in Ottoman mosque architecture as innovative, not derivative. Learn more on the podcast ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/unver-rustem-ottoman-baroque-the-architectural-refashioning-of-eighteenth-century-istanbul-princeton-up-2019/

Agricultural processes, technologies, and cycles have long shaped landscape architectural projects, from the ornamented ...
22/04/2020

Agricultural processes, technologies, and cycles have long shaped landscape architectural projects, from the ornamented farm of the 19th century, to contemporary projects that integrate agriculture and ecological restoration. Situating agriculture as a design practice, FARMSCAPE: The Design of Productive Landscapes (Routledge Built Environment) offers up lessons for contemporary landscape architects who are interested in integrating agriculture into their designs. Tune in as Phoebe Lickwar & Roxi Thoren join us on the podcast ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/phoebe-lickwar-and-roxi-thoren-farmscape-the-design-of-productive-landscapes-routledge-2020/

Accompanied by a rich array of archival photos, maps and designs, IMPROVISED CITY: Architecture and Governance in Shangh...
10/03/2020

Accompanied by a rich array of archival photos, maps and designs, IMPROVISED CITY: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937 (University of Washington Press) takes us down to street level, showing up close how the competing influences of Chinese, British, French, American and other governance and architectural regimes interacted and shaped Shanghai's urban landscape. Listen to architectural historian Cole Roskam's NBN interview ⬇️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/cole-roskam-improvised-city-architecture-and-governance-in-shanghai-1843-1937-u-washington-press-2019/

Like beautiful music, a Wade Weissmann house is composed of notes and expressions, rhythm and syncopation, moving forwar...
07/03/2020

Like beautiful music, a Wade Weissmann house is composed of notes and expressions, rhythm and syncopation, moving forward in time and space toward a resolution that separates ordinary from extraordinary architecture: harmony. Known for their shingle-style homes, they also design ranch houses and equestrian estates, romantic cottages, contemporary penthouses, and lake homes. Learn more about the firm as Steven Stolman discusses HEIRLOOM HOMES (Gibbs Smith Books) ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/steven-stolman-heirloom-houses-the-architecture-of-wade-weissmann-gibbs-smith-2018/

Who built Africa’s cities? Going beyond the colonial archive and the planner’s gaze, David Morton’s AGE of CONCRETE: Hou...
05/03/2020

Who built Africa’s cities?

Going beyond the colonial archive and the planner’s gaze, David Morton’s AGE of CONCRETE: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique (Ohio University Press) describes the incremental process through which Maputo’s suburbios – popular neighborhoods outside the formally planned city – were built and occupied. Morton joins Jacob Doherty 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/david-morton-age-of-concrete-housing-and-the-shape-of-aspiration-in-the-capital-of-mozambique-ohio-up-2019/

The visual aspects of design are often treated as ‘cosmetic’ and not meriting attention or purely subjective and open to...
24/02/2020

The visual aspects of design are often treated as ‘cosmetic’ and not meriting attention or purely subjective and open to personal preference. Few attempts have been made to explain how we see the landscape in any rational and structured way, and to demonstrate how visually creative design and management can be undertaken. ELEMENTS of VISUAL DESIGN in the LANDSCAPE (Routledge Built Environment) aims to fill that gap. Simon Bell fills us in 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/simon-bell-elements-of-visual-design-in-the-landscape-routledge-2019/

In his new book, NO LITTLE PLANS: How Government Built America's Wealth and Infrastructure (Routledge), Ian Wray explain...
24/01/2020

In his new book, NO LITTLE PLANS: How Government Built America's Wealth and Infrastructure (Routledge), Ian Wray explains how government, plans, and bureaucrats--not businesses, bankers, and shareholders--contributed most to the growth of the country's wealth and the development of its infrastructure. Tune in as he makes his case to Tricia Keffer on the podcast ⬇️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/ian-wray-no-little-plans-how-government-built-americas-wealth-and-infrastructure-routledge-2019/

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