Book reviews, tools and resources for architects and students

Month: <span>March 2017</span>

Italomodern 2: Architecture in Northern Italy 1946-1976

Italomodern 2: Architecture in Northern Italy 1946-1976
Martin Feiersinger, Werner Feiersinger

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 […]


The Building

The Building
José Aragüez (Editor)

For nearly fifty years “the building” has primarily been viewed as a means rather than an end within architectural history and theory. This volume presents an alternative to that trend by reconceiving it as a central discursive category in its own right. Contributors―including architects and […]


Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture

Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture
Ulrich Conrads

The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philosophic and social basis of their art. Nearly every important development in the modern architectural movement began with the proclamation of these convictions in […]


A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form

A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form
Kenneth Frampton

“A Genealogy of Modern Architecture” is a reference work on modern architecture by Kenneth Frampton, one of today’s leading architectural theorists. Conceived as a genealogy of twentieth century architecture from 1924 to 2000, it compiles some sixteen comparative analyses of canonical modern buildings ranging from […]


Brodsky & Utkin

Brodsky & Utkin
Alexander Brodsky, Ilya Utkin

From 1978 to 1993, the renowned Soviet “paper architects” Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin created an incredible collection of elaborate etchings depicting outlandish, often impossible, buildings and cityscapes. Funny, cerebral, and deeply human, their obsessively detailed work layers elements borrowed from Egyptian tombs, Ledoux’s visionary […]