Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics and the Building of Modern Philadelphia, a new biography by Gregory L. Heller, explores his role as a Philadelphia planner and as a third way between the visions of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses.
Answer Austin architecture trivia to win tickets to the "Integrated Design for Achieving Maximum Building Performance" workshop on May 9 and a chance for tickets to the AIA Austin 2013 Homes Tour.
Michael G., Imber: Ranches, Villas, and Houses offers readers highlights from the architect’s award-winning residential designs. The book also digs into Imber’s process of creating these classical buildings.
In Maine, a house on a meadow, a hill, the water, all reference local typologies and local landscape through a modern lens.
Maria Semple's 2012 novel, "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," follows the reclusive Bernadette Fox, an architect whose stellar early promise also frustrates her creativity.
The newest monograph from New York firm Robert A.M. Stern Architects defies the traditional monograph form and invites readers to see details, and evidence of its broad portfolio, rather then whole projects.
Daniel Toole, Assoc. AIA, has written a book, Tight Urbanism, that looks at the use of alleys in urban design.
Author Steven Park uses sectional perspectives, plans, and other drawings to bring readers inside the houses of Le Corbusier.
Overcast nearly 230 days of the year, the Seattle and Portland areas have a great need for lighting solutions. Fifteen examples of projects where architects and designs have delivered are highlighted in a new book, 'Daylighting Design in the Pacific Northwest.'
See Modernism as its birthed, through the camera of photographer Ezra Stoller in one of ARCHITECT's best books of 2012.
