Ama'r Children's Culture House in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Dorte Mandrup Architects, 2013 The following text and images are courtesy of Dorte Mandrup Architects. [caption id="attachment_5637" align="alignnone" width="510" caption="Photograph by Jens Lindhe"][/caption] The Ama'r Children’s Culture House is an innovative project developed with the ...Read More
Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb by June Williamson Island Press, 2013 Paperback, 160 pages Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in China by Bianca Bosker University of Hawai'i Press, 2013 Paperback, 176 pages What is the appropriate form for the city in ...Read More
Water Treatment Plant in Évry, France, by AWP, 2013 [caption id="attachment_5608" align="alignnone" width="509" caption="Photo © AWP, Anna Positano"][/caption] Over ten years ago AWP won a competition for the enlargement of Évry's water purification plant, located on the edge of the Seine River ...Read More
Instigations: Engaging Architecture, Landscape, and the City edited by Mohsen Mostafavi and Peter Christensen Lars Müller Publishers, 2012 Paperback, 560 pages How does a school celebrate its 75th anniversary? With a historical timeline? With an archive? With a presentation of important milestones? For ...Read More
Four Visions for Penn Station in New York City, 2013 [caption id="attachment_5583" align="alignnone" width="510" caption="Image courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro"][/caption] In April the Municipal Art Society (MAS) invited four architects—Diller Scofidio + Renfro, H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, SHoP Architects, and Skidmore, ...Read More
Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories by Ben Katchor Pantheon, 2013 Hardcover, 160 pages Since 1998 Ben Katchor has been contributing comic strips that grace the back page of Metropolis Magazine. They have been one of my favorite parts of the magazine, something ...Read More
Tunnel Monitoring Complex in Hausmannstaetten, Austria, by Dietger Wissounig Architekten, 2012 The following text and images are courtesy of Dietger Wissounig Architekten. [caption id="attachment_5562" align="alignnone" width="508" caption="Photograph by Jasmin Schuller"][/caption] The large complex of buildings nestled on level ground along the new ...Read More
From Camp to City: Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara edited by Manuel Herz Lars Müller Publishers, 2012 Hardcover, 512 pages On page 185 of this excellent analysis of the refugee camps of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in western Algeria, Mohamed ...Read More
The Public Theater in New York City by Ennead Architects, 2012. Sometimes the smallest and most discrete of projects can have the greatest impact. Such is my take upon experiencing the new lobby for The Public Theater at Astor Place, and ...Read More
Where Are the Utopian Visionaries?: Architecture of Social Exchange edited by Hansy Better Barraza Periscope Publishing, 2012 Paperback, 160 pages With one of the most intriguing names of any recent architecture title, Where Are the Utopian Visionaries? asks architects to "consider the people ...Read More
