books

EDITORS Elsa Lam and Graham Livesey CHAPTER AUTHORS George Baird, Brian Carter, Ian Chodikoff, Odile Hénault, George Kapelos, Lisa Landrum, Steven Mannell,…

Chronicling the evolving vision of a site in Muskoka over several decades, The Architecture of Point William: A Laboratory for Living (ORO Editions, 2021) is…

Book by Avi Friedman (Thames & Hudson, 2021) Pre-Fab Living provides a timely overview of current pre-fabrication technologies through a collection of…

As a companion to our 2020 Holiday Gift Guide, here are our picks for the top books to add to the shelves of architects and other design-lovers this year.…

The following excerpt is taken from Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future  by Mary Soderstrom (University of Regina Press, 2020). The book can…

Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm, by Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA (Wiley and Sons: Houston, 2020) From the title, I initially thought this book was about…

Adaptation By Omar Gandhi, Jimenez Lai and John Leroux (Mexico City: Arquine, 2020) “There is a mythology about the first ten years of young architects in…

Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning By Daniel A. Barber (Princeton University Press, 2020) It’s been more than 50 years since…

Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L.…

Two international competition experts—Université de Montréal's Jean-Pierre Chupin and G. Stanley Collyer, chief editor of Competitions magazine—have penned an…