Book reviews, tools and resources for architects and students
Vienna-based architect Martin Feiersinger and his brother, artist and photographer Werner Feiersinger have extensively travelled across Northern Italy in order to document the region’s modern architecture after World War II. Italomodern 1 and 2 is the result of their travels, the most authoritative survey of […]
Written over 2000 years ago, this first treatise on architecture forms the basis of much of our knowledge on Roman Architecture. It covers a broad range of topics, including engineering, plumbing, acoustics, urban planning, military fortifications, materials, mechanics, styles, and more. It is an essential […]
A milestone in modern thought, Space, Time and Architecture has been reissued many times since its first publication in 1941 and translated into half a dozen languages. In this revised edition of Mr. Giedion’s classic work, major sections have been added and there are 81 […]
Along with plan and elevation, section is one of the essential representational techniques of architectural design; among architects and educators, debates about a project’s section are common and often intense. Until now, however, there has been no framework to describe or evaluate it. Manual of […]
Trachtenberg and Hyman’s Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity offers a great introduction to beginning architecture students. In its second edition, this text has been long been a standard in history courses for accredited architecture schools across the United States. It is strong in its assessment […]
Pezo von Ellrichshausen, the eponymous firm of Chilean partners, Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen, have put together a delightful and beautiful longform essay that parallels the development of their spatial practice. In over a decade of constant academic and professional practice, as a parallel […]
