{"id":60276,"date":"2018-11-09T21:42:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T21:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/projects\/architecture-design-fall-2018-books-preview\/"},"modified":"2021-09-10T17:01:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T17:01:13","slug":"architecture-design-fall-2018-books-preview","status":"publish","type":"metro_viewpoint","link":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/architecture-design-fall-2018-books-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2018 Books Preview: 27 Top Picks from Metropolis Magazine<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roberto Garza Sada Center for Arts, Architecture and Design, Monterrey, Mexico (from Ando: Complete Works 1975\u2013Today<\/i>) Courtesy Shigeo Ogawa \/ TASCHEN<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It may seem obvious to state, but at Metropolis Magazine<\/em>, we love books\u2014enormous jam-packed bookcases line our office meeting rooms. For a team of bibliophiles such as ourselves, the task of assembling our season book previews is always an adventure\u2014and this Fall was no exception. From experimental cow dung pottery, to a bracingly candid profile of Philip Johnson, to a deep-dive into to the Concorde aircraft’s luxuriously-designed interior, there’s something for everyone here.<\/p>\n

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Essential Modernism<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
Edited by Dominic Bradbury with essays from multiple contributors \nYale University press, 480 pp., $85<\/pre>\n
The 1920s, \u201830s, and early \u201840s was that essential period where disparate Modern art, architecture, and design movements intermixed, producing countless canonical works and enduring legacies. This massive survey drinks from that fire-hose of early 20th century history, highlighting countless examples of Modern furniture, lighting, ceramics\/glass, industrial design, and graphic design, with a healthy dose of architecture (primarily houses) thrown into the mix. Though image-rich, a series of essays help contextualize and elaborate upon the works shown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Drawing Architecture<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Helen Thomas \nPhaidon, 320 pp., $80<\/pre>\n
This lavishly produced book is a potted history in pictures, consisting of orthographic drawings\u2014plans, sections, elevations, perspectives\u2014that quite literally span centuries. If that sounds dubious then the presentation doesn\u2019t help\u2014two drawings, from two entirely different epochs, share a spread, with the older example on the verso, the contemporary genus on the recto. The similarities are namely superficial, yet that fact does not lessen the joy of flipping through the book, contemplating, for example, a fragment of Rafael\u2019s drawing of the Pantheon with an isometric diagram by the Mexican it-firm Pezo von Ellrichausen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Shoplifter! New Retail Architecture and Brand Spaces<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
Introduction by Alison Embrey Medina \nGestalten, 259 pp., $69<\/pre>\n
The nature of the brick and mortar retail shop is shifting\u2014with the domination of online shopping, customers are looking for a unique experience when they walk into a shop. In Shoplifter!<\/em>, over 50 examples of these new retail environments\u2014with their temporary venues, stunning window displays, and community activities\u2014are showcased and analyzed. \u201cWhen I speak about experiences in brick-and-mortar retail, I\u2019m not talking about self-checkout robots,\u201d writes Alison Embrey Medina, design:retail\u2019s<\/em> chief\/associate publisher, in the introduction. \u201cI\u2019m talking about curated moments, facets of thought, lifestyle awareness that transform a store into a place you can achieve sound body and mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Kengo Kuma: Complete Works<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Kenneth Frampton\nThames & Hudson, 320 pp., $75<\/pre>\n
This second edition of\u00a0Kengo Kuma: Complete Works<\/em> (first released in 2013) includes several recent projects, including Kuma\u2019s new stone-clad V&A Dundee<\/a>. This is definitely an architect\u2019s book: An introduction by architectural historian Kenneth Frampton situates Kuma within history\u2019s grand canon (there are name-drops of Sebastiano Serlio, Bruno Taut, and Akira Kurosawa). The subsequent pages highlight projects through photography, plans, sections, and technical drawings, some of which are quite detailed. Frampton writes, \u201cone can never overlook in Kuma\u2019s architecture that time-honored Japanese awareness of the interplay between nature, culture and time, and the tragic beauty that inevitably ensues in their continual metamorphosis into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Owen Hatherley \nRepeater Books, 240 pp., $15<\/pre>\n
This is Owen Hatherley\u2019s tenth book, but it is not the first to find the curmudgeonly architecture writer\u2014Britain\u2019s finest\u2014trawling the vast acreage of the former USSR. His earlier outing, 2015\u2019s Landscapes of Communism<\/em>, recounted his travels through \u0141\u00f3d\u017a and Tbilisi, Kiev and Ljubljana. It was slightly unwieldy, thoroughly enjoyable, and absolutely not portable. The Adventures of…<\/em> is, by contrast, intended to \u201cactually be placed in people\u2019s pockets as they walk around,” says Hatherley. A fine aim indeed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Design for Children<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Kimberlie Birks \nPhaidon, 536 pp., $59.95<\/pre>\n
\u201cThe stuff of childhood is abundant. Anyone in the presence of a toddler knows that to be around a young child is to have any semblance of a modern minimalist lifestyle upended,\u201d writes art and design writer Kimberlie Birks in the introduction of Design for Children<\/em>. For the design-minded parent, the overwhelming number of garish, blinking, sanity-testing objects in their homes can be a true testament of love for their children. But parents, fear no more\u2014the last 60-years have seen a steady increase of designers creating modern toys (ones that don\u2019t scream or blink at you). Design for Children<\/em> outlines the history of children\u2019s design through seven categories: Play, Ride, Learn, Eat, Create, Sit, and Sleep. By spotlighting more than 450 designs created exclusively for children (toys, furniture, tableware, textiles, lights, vehicles, and more) this book thoroughly explores the benefit of thoughtful child-centric design.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Mark Lamster \nLittle, Brown and Company, 528 pp., $35<\/pre>\n
We all have our own variegated composite of Philip Johnson: the silver-tongued starchitect in the round glasses; a caustic (and later repentant) anti-Semite; Modern master; Postmodern Granddaddy; developer lackey; MoMA pioneer. A page-turning new biography by Dallas Morning News<\/em> architecture critic, Mark Lamster digs into Johnson\u2019s complex life and career in The Man in the Glass House<\/em>, out this month from Little, Brown and Company. Lamster takes an unflinching stance toward Johnson\u2019s many duplicities: \u201cHe was controversial because he was happy to reverse himself, to lean in to his own hypocrisy, to occupy multiple positions even if they were diametrically opposed.\u201d But he also paints a sympathetic picture: a sheltered (and suffocating) childhood, bouts with bipolar disorder, the struggle to be a gay man practicing in a closeted culture. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of the architect who forever\u2014for better or worse\u2014shaped our built environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Design: Vignelli: Graphics, Packaging, Architecture, Interiors, Furniture, Products<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Beatriz Cifuentes-Caballero \nRizzoli, 408 pp., $100<\/pre>\n
\u201cI was raised to believe that, as a designer, I have the responsibility to improve the world around us, to make it a better place to live, to fight and oppose trivia, kitsch, and all forms of subculture which are visually polluting our world,\u201d writes Massimo Vignelli. The distinctive designs of Vignelli Associates have dominated our world\u2014from the New York Subway system signage, to American Airlines interiors, to hundreds of variations on glass and tableware\u2014making the firm arguably one of the most iconic practices of the century. This landmark volume is devoted to Massimo and Lella Vignelli’s influential work produced from their New York headquarters since the 1960s, as well as rarely seen early work produced in their native Italy. Through a gorgeous selection of images and drawings, everyday readers and design professionals alike will enter into the minds of these two greats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Story of the Bauhaus<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Frances Ambler \nOctopus Publishing Group, 224 pp., $25<\/pre>\n
The story of the Bauhaus\u2014at least of its first period\u2014is well-known. Even so, on the occasion of the design school\u2019s centenary, this book recapitulates the tale, yielding several interesting curios and episodes in the process. Depth isn\u2019t the point of Ambler\u2019s text, but breadth. In the place of contextual history or analysis, she presents dozens of vignettes of milestones, personages, and footnotes. Ambler turns over one particularly brilliant nugget about the Bauhaus band (Bauhauskapelle Band<\/em>), which attempted to transmute the shards of color and vertiginous patterns evident in student designs into sound. And not just any sound, but \u201cimprovised fantasy music.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Less Is More (Difficult): 20 Years of Design at Blu Dot<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Andrew Blauvelt with contributions from Maurice Blanks, John Christakos, and Charlie Lazor \nRizzoli, 360 pp., $85<\/pre>\n
It\u2019s a humble image that opens Less Is More (Difficult)<\/em>: A seating buck, built from particle board, planks of pine, and a handful of screws, photographed in profile. Unprecious and raw, yet distinctly architectural, it\u2019s a great metaphor for Blu Dot<\/a> itself\u2014a company whose knack for accessible, well-considered furniture earned it a National Design Award for Product Design<\/a> from the Cooper Hewitt this year. Tracing the Minneapolis-based brand\u2019s evolution over two decades, Less Is More (Difficult)<\/em> compiles the products, prototypes, ad campaigns, and faxes\u2014Blu Dot was born in \u201990s, after all\u2014that helped the company carve out its niche in the industry. An oral history from founders John Christakos, Maurice Blanks, and Charlie Lazor offers insight into the brand\u2019s origins and development, while an essay from Andrew Blauvelt, the director of the Cranbrook Art Museum in Michigan, charts Blu Dot in the larger landscape of American design. Part monograph, part scrapbook, Less Is More (Difficult)<\/em> is a candid and fascinating peek behind the curtain into a major player in contemporary design.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Inside North Korea<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Oliver Wainwright and Julius Wiedemann \nTaschen, 237 pp., $60<\/pre>\n
Mention North Korean cities and long, grey rows of dour functionalist buildings are likely what come to mind. But that\u2019s not exactly accurate: Oliver Wainwright\u2019s Inside North Korea furnishes a striking view into the Hermit Kingdom\u2019s colorful cityscapes. The book explains that while examples of Western design elements, such as Hausmann\u2019s long boulevards, alongside Soviet-like architecture, can be found, the combination of the two (along with some additional creative architecture and design moves) is distinctly North Korean. The admixture of structures, color, and space is extraordinarily stunning and distinctive. Through brilliant images and a detailed yet accessible history, Inside North Korea<\/em> reveals how every element of the capital city Pyongyang negotiates the dictatorship’s tastes and an insistence on isolation from outside influences.<\/p>\n
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A House Is Not Just a House: Projects on Housing<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Tatiana Bilbao, with essays by Gabriella Etchegaray, Hilary Sample,\nand Ivonne Santoyo-Orozc \nColumbia University Press, 160 pp., $23<\/pre>\n
Like many countries around the globe, Mexico is in the midst of a housing crisis. In Mexico City\u2014whose greater metropolitan area is home to more than 21 million people\u2014this need is particularly felt. Local architect Tatiana Bilbao has been leading the charge on how to address some of these challenges\u2014exacerbated by opportunist cookie-cutter development, corruption, and natural disasters. Her thoughts on housing are documented in a slender new book from Columbia University Press which repackages a recent lecture she delivered at the university\u2019s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Her sociological-driven approach to housing\u2014with a particular focus on affordable solutions\u2014underscores the value of both collaboration and constraints. For one project, her firm worked with a government agency to reconceive a 600-home community in Michoac\u00e1n, Mexico, destroyed after severe mudslides. Though the firm wasn\u2019t able to alter the housing units themselves, the architects convinced the client to allow them to change the overall master plan so that the community would feel more like a neighborhood, rather than anonymous rows of homes. Just by altering the neighborhood plan to something more humane, residents were happier and able to sell their houses for nearly double their value. \u201cExperimentation is more interesting when there are limitations,\u201d Bilbao asserts. In addition to Bilbao\u2019s text, the book includes essays by Gabriela Etchegaray, Hilary Sample, and Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco, and photographs by Iwan Baan, Alejandro Cartagena, and others.<\/p>\n
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The Minard System<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Sandra Rendgen \nPrinceton Architectural Press, 176 pp., $60<\/pre>\n
Some have called Charles-Joseph Minard\u2019s map of Napoleon\u2019s disastrous Russian invasion “the best statistical graphic ever drawn”\u2014nerdy praise, to be sure, but one that suggests fellow design geeks will revel in the antiquated-yet-beautiful designs of Minard, a 19th century French engineer. The book provides a modest introduction on Minard\u2019s life, work, and accomplishments before showcasing 61 of his most notable maps, charts, and diagrams. Each is accompanied by a quick blurb, however, the designs themselves dominate the pages. Vibrantly colorful and chocked full of data, The Minard System<\/em> is sure to delight any designers willing to look to history for inspiration.<\/p>\n
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An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures Without Architecture<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
Edited by Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, and MOS \nMIT Press, 1256 pp., $85<\/pre>\n
Scale figures\u2014or \u201cscalies\u201d\u2014are the anonymous understudies in the theater we call architecture. Yet, paradoxically, architectural representation (and architecture generally) is dependent upon people: \u201cEven when the human presence is intentionally left out or is reduced to a faceless set of measurements, it haunts architecture in its absence,\u201d observe Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of the New York firm MOS. The architects decided to tackle the subject head-on with An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures without Architecture<\/em>, an encyclopedic and entertaining book of more than 1,000 figures produced by more than 250 architects\u2014ranging from Alvar Aalto to Peter Zumthor. When confronted by the sheer volume of figures, typologies emerge: Many are but shadows, faceless abstractions like chalk-out lines at a crime scene or Rorschach test inkblots. Others are incredibly detailed and photorealistic (we learn that Bjarke Ingels sneaks images of himself into his renderings). Others still (like MOS\u2019s own) border on the cartoonish. Unsurprisingly, nudity abounds. Do these images comprise a sort of \u201cglobal citizenry\u201d like Sample and Meredith argue? Likely not. But it\u2019s a damn fun one.<\/p>\n
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Spomenik Monument Database<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Donald Niebyl \nFuel Design & Publishing, 208 pp., $21<\/pre>\n
If visitors to MoMA\u2019s latest architecture show, Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948\u20131980<\/em><\/a>, are familiar with any of the works on display, it will be those in the show’s concluding gallery. The hall is given over to a dazzling array of monuments collectively called spomenik<\/em> that have gained new currency through microblogging platforms and coffee-table books. But, as Donald Niebyl writes in the introduction to this new book, \u201cthe accompanying information about their origins has typically been sparse, or confused, or misleading\u201d; after all, these are war memorials to the atrocities committed by fascists troops, who were driven out by a grassroots army of partisan fighters. Niebyl is punctilious in laying out the particulars of the design and construction of these structures, whose uncanny forms create a kind of visual \u201cvocabulary of the revolution.\u201d The inside of the dust jacket becomes a map of existing spomenik<\/em>, in the event the reader is moved to see them firsthand.<\/p>\n
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Supersonic: The Design and Lifestyle of Concorde<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Lawrence Azerrad \nPrestel, 192 pp., $35<\/pre>\n
If you find yourself trapped in coach mid-flight, middle row, with a baby howling a row back, Prestel\u2019s new Supersonic<\/em> might just provide a moment of escapism, if a vodka soda doesn\u2019t cut it. This delightful tome from graphic designer Lawrence Azerrad (who won a Grammy Award this year for his design of a limited LP edition of the Voyager Golden Record) chronicles the high design and high-falootin\u2019 lifestyle aboard Concorde, the supersonic jet that operated between 1976 and 2003. \u201cDo not think I exaggerate when I say that Concorde is the single most important piece of design in my long lifetime,\u201d Sir Terence Conran (who re-designed the aircraft\u2019s interiors\u2014down to the napkin rings\u2014in 2000) writes in the book\u2019s foreword. And he\u2019s right: the luxury flights included everything from elaborate Christian LaCroix-designed menus, Concorde-emblazoned champagne buckets, and Raymond Loewy flatware (which Andy Warhol pocketed). The book also celebrates some of the kitschier ephemera: thimbles, toys\u2014even an original safety card depicting inflatable slides jetting from its the aircraft\u2019s needle-thin body. The Concorde dream ended after the infamous Air France crash in 2000, and flights halted altogether in 2003, but \u201cConcorde gave us the gift of time,\u201d super model Cindy Crawford reflects in the book\u2019s afterward. And indeed, in terms of design, timelessness.<\/p>\n
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Ando: Complete Works, 1975\u2013Today<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Philip Jodidio\nTaschen, 740 pp., $200<\/pre>\n
Fans of renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando, rejoice\u2014here is a mighty tome for you. All of Ando\u2019s 53 major projects have been gathered in this one luxe publication. A modest introduction gives way to the project catalog, where each project is treated to a short description and multiple interior and exterior photographs. Lovers of glass, concrete, and monumental moves will no doubt enjoy Ando: Complete Works, 1975\u2013Today<\/em>, though there are surprises in store\u2014many unbuilt works, from houses to memorials, are sprinkled throughout the book.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s a Gas! The Allure of the Gas Station<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
Introduction by Jay Leno\nGestalten, pp. 239, $60<\/pre>\n
In the introduction for It\u2019s a Gas!<\/em>, American talk show host and car enthusiast Jay Leno explains, \u201cAs a kid, gas stations were an adventure,\u201d and it\u2019s true. At the core of them awaits exploration, travel, and the experience of somewhere brand new. It\u2019s a place that literally symbolizes freedom\u2014which may be why, beginning in the 1950s, so many architects were thrilled to get the chance to design them. Primarily through photography, It\u2019s a Gas!<\/em>, brilliantly showcases over 200 of these odes to the open road\u2014including examples by Frank Lloyd Wright, Arne Jacobsen, and Mies van der Rohe. The styles range from a quirky little hut covered in dried grass (fire hazard, much?) to sleek, cleverly disguised modernist structures. One thing for sure is: creativity has never been lacking in this area of architecture.<\/p>\n
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LA Forum Reader<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
Edited by Rob Berry, Victor Jones, Michael Sweeney, Mimi Zeiger, Chava Danielson, Joe Day, Thurman Grant, and Duane McLemore \nActar, 256 pp., $34.95<\/pre>\n
Driving across Los Angeles can be a surreal experience. For miles and miles, you pass the same gas stations, supermarkets, and mini-malls\u2014have you even moved at all? Then, without warning, you come upon the Pacific Ocean, oil fields, Walt Disney Concert Hall, or some tiny airstrip. The LA Forum Reader<\/em> is a similarly surprising and eclectic experience: It strings together some 26 essays and articles sourced from the 30-year-old nonprofit\u2019s<\/a> publication. These thoroughly academic writings (generally no more than 10 pages each) cover taco trucks, crime-influenced architectural design, sprawl urbanism, and everything in between. Contributors include Aaron Betsky, Sylvia Lavin, Mimi Zieger, and Craig Hodgetts, just to name a few.<\/p>\n
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A Scented World: The Magic of Fragrances<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Claire Bingham \nTeNeues, 224 pp. $56<\/pre>\n
Like the Proustian madeleine, scent has the uncanny ability to transport us to a different time and a different place. A Scented World<\/em> from TeNeues explores the interiors, gardens, histories, and objects of some of the biggest names in fragrances, for both storied and newcomers alike (in three languages, no less). But just as delightful as the personalities and the histories are the perfumeries themselves, ranging from the shimmering Guerlain flagship store on Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, to the minimalistic, wood-clad aesthetic of Perfumer H in London. If only this book were scratch-and-sniff!<\/p>\n
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Victor Lundy, Artist Architect<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Donna Kacmar \nPrinceton Architectural Press, 240 pp., $55<\/pre>\n
In format alone, there are few surprises to this new monograph. And yet, one can\u2019t think of a better medium to showcase the work of this obscure American midcentury Modernist architect, whose facility with the drafting pencil is the biggest revelation to be found in these pages. Lundy\u2019s drawings, both off-the-cuff ideations and measured delineations, are beautiful to behold, but a small sampling of his travel sketches leave the reader wanting more. These reveal Lundy\u2019s \u201ckeenly sensitive eye\u201d for architectural volume, surface, and tectonic. (It\u2019s also true that his voluptuous sensibility bordered on the baroque.) As Nader Tehrani writes in the foreword, through his pencil work, \u201cLundy constructs his drawings as if building on the page line by line, and layer by layer.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Verner Panton<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Ida Engholm and Anders Michelsen \nPhaidon, 336 pp., $95<\/pre>\n
It\u2019s a major undertaking to encapsulate the life, influences, designs, and ideas of a leading 20th century designer, but that\u2019s what Verner Panton<\/em> attempts\u2014starting with the Dutch designer\u2019s early childhood, but then quickly covering his iconic furniture, hyper-groovy interiors, and vibrant graphic designs. The book moves chronologically, interweaving Panton\u2019s works and personal life throughout its chapters. The text is accessible but the book\u2019s images\u2014infused with the Dutch designer\u2019s signature bright colors and fantastic atmospheres\u2014speak volumes by themselves.<\/p>\n
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Why Materials Matter: Responsible Design for a Better World<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Seetal Solanki \nPrestel, 240 pp., $50<\/pre>\n
Decorative surfaces composed of corn husks; pottery shaped from cow dung and clay; vibrant terrazzo made with recycled glass; dyes and inks produced from airborne pollution\u2014all are provocative material experiments in Why Materials Matter: Responsible Design for a Better World<\/em>. The book features almost 40 different prototypes and production techniques that challenge how designers and manufacturers typically look at well-known materials (such as leather scraps) and more exotic substances (like human hair). Accessible and filled with beautiful imagery, Why Materials Matter<\/em> helps question the substances and industrial techniques we take for granted.<\/p>\n
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Le Corbusier: The Built Work<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Richard Pare and Jean-Louis Cohen \nMonacelli Press, 480 pp., $125<\/pre>\n
This weighty tome begins, unexpectedly, with a gabled Swiss house that looks straight out of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. The medieval-looking, wood-and-stone Villa Fallet (1905-07) was the famous Swiss-French architect\u2019s first work, and while it starts Le Corbusier: The Built Work<\/em> on a fanciful note, the book churns through Corb\u2019s built oeuvre as diligently photographed by the globe-trotting Richard Pare. Curator Jean-Louis Cohen provides some descriptive text for each building, but this book is first and foremost a visual feast. Even the most fanatical Le Corbusier devotee will likely encounter a project\u2014of cavernous concrete, brightly-painted plaster, or towering glass walls\u2014that they haven\u2019t yet seen.<\/p>\n
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Now We See Now: Architecture and Research by The Living<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By David Benjamin with Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Eyal Weizman, Kevin Slavin,\nand foreword by Paola Antonelli \nMonacelli Press, 595 pp., $40<\/pre>\n
Hy-Fi\u2014the 42-foot-tall tower of fungi-grown bricks that stood outside MoMA PS1 in 2014\u2014remains emblematic of New York City\u2013based the Living, the technology- and biology-forward practice led by architect David Benjamin. Yet, Hy-Fi is hardly the firm\u2019s only project of note. Most recently, the firm designed a network of sensors in the East River (dubbed Pier 35 Eco-Park) that, if you signed up via text message, would regularly send updates on the river\u2019s ecological health\u2014including if fish were present near the sensors. The breadth of the Living\u2019s projects and research are laid out in this image-rich tome that focuses on explaining the firm\u2019s process and philosophy (sometimes with tech-y and academic inflections).<\/p>\n
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Callous Objects: Design Against the Homeless<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Robert Rosenberger \nUniversity of Minnesota Press, 104 pp., $7.95<\/pre>\n
Anyone with a design eye can spot them\u2014spikes on a building ledge, dividers on benches, locks on trashcans. All placed to prevent spaces and resources from being used by the homeless. In this small-but-powerful book, professor of philosophy Robert Rosenberger delves into the objects and laws that target the homeless. The book balances its philosophical bent\u2014there’s mention of Latour, Merlau-Ponty, etc.\u2014with a hard look at how cities and governments counter a homeless presence. “With this attempt to raise awareness of antihomeless law and design, combined with this exploration of the agency and even potential guilt of technology,” writes Rosenberger, “we can put a spotlight on the callousness and injustice built into our environment.”<\/p>\n
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ELEMENTAL<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n
By Alejandro Aravena, Gonzalo Arteaga, Juan Cerda, V\u00edctor Odd\u00f3, and Diego Torres \nPhaidon, 256 pp. $89.95<\/pre>\n
When Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena and his design team ELEMENTAL embarked on creating their first comprehensive monograph, they considered calling it La Dura, which translates into \u201cthe hard truth.\u201d Rather than create another pretty coffee table book, says Aravena, \u201cWe wanted to tell the stories of each of the projects\u2014even those that failed.\u201d The result is ELEMENTAL<\/em>, a new cloth-bound volume from Phaidon which chronicles two decades of the firm\u2019s evolution\u2014from a sidewalk Aravena designed in Rio de Janeiro in 1997 to a Portuguese energy headquarters in 2017. (Social housing is left out, covered in a unaffiliated self-described \u201cmanual\u201d from 2013.) Despite the global notoriety that Aravena has gained since 2016 (the year he simultaneously curated the Venice Architecture Biennale<\/a> and took home a Pritzker) the architect wants to underscore the team-like nature of his firm. Fittingly, the book ends with a hand drawing of ELEMENTAL\u2019s studio floor plan, with a key indicating where each member sits.<\/p>\n
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