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Some major recent works are ‘Sea Pools – 66 saltwater sanctuaries from around the world’, by Chris Romer-Lee, published by Batsford, and ‘Lubetkin and Goldfinger: The Rise and Fall of British High-Rise Council Housing’ by Nicholas Russell. Lubetkin built one of the earliest post-war estates in London, Spa Green (Finsbury), while Goldfinger designed the last and most notorious council block in the city, Trellick Tower (North Kensington).
We also feature architect Nili Portugali’s third tome, ‘And the alley she whitewashed in light blue-‘. Nili is also a senior lecturer; researcher; published author; film director, living in the holly ‘Kabbala’ city of Tsefat, Israel. Her work focuses on both practice and theory.
Lubetkin and Goldfinger: The Rise and Fall of British High-Rise Council Housing news – Nicholas Russell’s authoritative book about the lives and careers of two architects of UK civic housing following the Second World War
“Buildings are important, but so are ideas. Ideas are the real building blocks of the city.” – Nigel Coates recounts a prolific life in architecture with new autobiography from RIBA Publishing
The SAOTA Architects book celebrates thirty-five years of innovative residential design from around the world, including houses from the dramatic South African coast where it all began
Managing Energy Use in Modern Buildings: Case Studies in Conservation Practice: book by The Getty Conservation Institute’s Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative to advance conserving 20th-century heritage
The Baumschlager Eberle Architekten 2010 – 2020 publication presents a body of architectural work characterised by a self-assured sustainability that is strikingly topical
Terreform is delighted to announce that Michael Sorkin’s latest book Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope has been officially launched!
February 20 2021 will mark the 120th anniversary of the birth of Louis I. Kahn. To mark the occasion Designers & Books launches a kickstarter on February 17 to reissue The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn
The Norman Foster Foundation presents the introductory volume of Norman Foster Sketchbooks 1975–2020, a new series reflecting this architect’s career from 1970s until today
New architecture books – Modern buildings publications – books about new architecture across the globe: international building publications
BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group’s third Taschen book, Formgiving. An Architectural Future History, takes readers on a chronological journey across time and space via a collection of exclusive essays
Autobiography of British architect Sir Terry Farrell launches RIBA’s Lives in Architecture series: one of Britain’s most influential architects of 21st century offers a full, personal account of his life
Wayne Howes’ ‘London in Lockdown’ book is a vivid and truly spectacular collection of photographs capturing London’s busiest and most popular attractions, streets and sights – during 2020’s lockdown.
“I heartily commend Ed Lippmann’s book. It comes at a critical time in the life of his city and will contribute to the crucial debate now underway on the future form of Sydney.” — Lord Richard Rogers
Single-building book called ‘Miner Road House: Faulkner Architects’ – part of the Masterpiece Series published by Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers. The featured home is in Orinda, California. It’s the architecture firm’s first book.
In 2016, as part of a consortium of corporations, universities and research and technology organisations, Foster + Partners was awarded an EU grant to develop, build and test a LASIMM – a world-first for 3D-printing in metal.
The first book in the What is Architecture? series, Understanding Architecture is a unique insight into the meaning, heritage, and purpose of this ancient craft. Dispelling with the tendency for architecture theory books to be pompous and cryptic, this book instead unfolds as a story.
Foster + Partners Portfolio: 1967-2017 Book, a complete account of the first fifty years of the practice. Now in bookstores, the 540-page book celebrates the British architecture practice’s breadth of works.
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