Book Reviews
Book Review: ‘Reuse, redevelop and design: how the Dutch deal with heritage’
Marinke Steenhuis and Paul Meurs present 20 inspiring redevelopment projects in this updated edition
Book Review: ‘How to Build an Indian House?’ by Sameep Padora
How to Build an Indian House focuses on one of India’s perennial and most daunting questions: mass housing
Book Review: ‘Voorland Groningen: Wandelingen door het Antropoceen’
‘Foreland Groningen: Walks through the Anthropocene’ examines the landscape pre-human interference, discusses four themes revolving our current crises and depicts a picture of tomorrow
Book Review: “10 Sketches For Shared Streets” by SWA Group
SWA Group have developed a new guidebook outlining design solutions for businesses to successfully transition their outdoor areas to ensure safety post-Covid
Book Review: Thames & Hudson publish Catherine Shaw’s ‘Crossing Cultures with Design’
Design writer Shaw explores the work of Andre Fu, Asia’s interior architect, whose projects range from luxury hotels, art galleries and apartments, to furniture, lighting and decorative accessories
Book Review: ‘Timeless Interiors: India, Dubai, Singapore’
A collective of designers and architects written work
Book Review: The Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs
In the light of the Covid-19 pandemic, the annual Open House guidebook has been rethought
Book Review: ‘Childcare Facilities’, edited by Natascha Meuser
Construction and Design Manuals series by DOM publishers
Pandemic ‘playbook’ published
Dyer Brown’s ‘Future Shift: Work spaces in Transition’ is a post Covid-19 guide for returning to offices and shared work settings
New book considers history of building traditions in brick, stone, metals and wood
Images Publishing announces new book called Brick Stone Metal Wood from authors Carlos García Fernandez and Begoña de Abajo Castrillo with a curated selection of projects
New book offers clear advice for architecture on how to weather tough times
Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm: The People, Stories, and Strategies Behind HOK has been written by Patrick MacLeamy, former CEO of the design, architecture, engineering and planning firm
Book Review: celebrating 50 years of the Designers Guild
Out of the Blue celebrates a half-century of design and innovation from Designers Guild - the company was founded by Tricia Guild in 1970
Book Review: UK housing policy comes under the spotlight in RIBA’s New Towns: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth
Billed as a milestone publication, new book reveals the forgotten hope of the new towns and calls for a new start in UK housing policy
Book Review: New monograph celebrates noted American architect Tom Kundig
Now to be released on 23 June, this new book called Tom Kundig: Working Title celebrates the wide-ranging portfolio of the noted American architect Tom Kundig, FAIA, RIBA, of Seattle-based Olson Kundig
Book Review: ‘The Amsterdam Agenda’ by Daan Roggeveen and Michiel Hulshof
Architect Daan Roggeveen and journalist Michiel Hulshof have launched ‘The Amsterdam Agenda - 12 Good Ideas for the Future of Cities’ in Amsterdam’s Pakhuis de Zwijger, Netherlands
Book Review: ‘Architecture in Global Socialism’ by Łukasz Stanek
'Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War' divulges how socialist architects worked to urbanize and develop the global South during the Soviet era
Book Review: ‘Le Corbusier Paper Models’ by Marc Hagan-Guirey
'Le Corbusier Paper Models: 10 Kirigami Buildings to Cut and Fold', use the art of kirigami to create 10 of the Modernist icons' most important works
Book Review: ‘The World by Design’ by A. Eugene Kohn
‘The World by Design: The Story of a Global Architecture Firm’ tells the story of how Kohn founded Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) and turned it into a global architecture firm
Book Review: 100 Ideas that Changed Architecture
100 Ideas That Changed Architecture chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped architecture
Book Review: Retrofitting for Flood Resilience
With many throughout the UK now facing the arduous journey of restoring their homes after winter floods that reached new destructive heights, it’s clear that we must prepare better and faster for flooding—and not just in the UK
