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Robert Sroufe et al, “The Power of Existing Buildings” (Island Press, 2019)

Robert Sroufe, Craig Stevenson and Beth Eckenrode
The Power of Existing Buildings
Save Money, Improve Health, and Reduce Environmental Impacts
Island Press, 2019

New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books Network May 12, 2020 Tricia Keffer

Your building has the potential to change the world. Existing buildings consume approximately 40 percent of the energy and emit nearly half of the carbon dioxide in the US each year. In recognition of the significant contribution of buildings to climate change, the idea of building green has become increasingly... Read More

Richard Williams
Why Cities Look the Way They Do

Polity, 2019

New Books in Architecture New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network May 11, 2020 Dave O'Brien

How should we understand our cities? In Why Cities Look the Way They Do (Polity, 2019), Richard Williams, Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh explores the processes that shape the city foregrounding images over the idea that cities are designed or planned. The... Read More

Patrick M. Condon, “Five Rules for Tomorrow’s Cities” (Island Press, 2020)

Patrick M. Condon
Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities
Design in an Age of Urban Migration, Demographic Change, and a Disappearing Middle Class
Island Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books Network April 29, 2020 Tricia Keffer

How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, we will run out of time to keep our global temperature from increasing. Since approximately 80% of greenhouse gases come from cities, it... Read More

Ünver Rüstem, “Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul” (Princeton UP, 2019)

Ünver Rüstem
Ottoman Baroque
The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
Princeton University Press, 2019

New Books in Architecture New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in History New Books in Islamic Studies New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network April 28, 2020 Nadirah Mansour

In Istanbul, there is a mosque on every hill. Cruising along the Bosphorus, either for pleasure, or like the majority of Istanbul’s denizens, for transit, you cannot help but notice that the city’s landscape would be dramatically altered without the mosques of the city. In Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning... Read More

Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren
Farmscape
The Design of Productive Landscapes
Routledge, 2020

New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Food New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network April 21, 2020 Tricia Keffer

Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren‘s book Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes (Routledge, 2020) situates agriculture as a design practice, using a wide range of international case studies and analytical essays to propose lessons for contemporary landscape architects who are interested in integrating agriculture into their designs. Agricultural processes, technologies,... Read More

Patrick Mooney
Planting Design
Connecting People and Place
Routledge, 2020

New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books Network April 16, 2020 Tricia Keffer

Landscape designers have long understood the use of plants to provide beauty, aesthetic pleasure and visual stimulation while supporting a broad range of functional goals. However, the potential for plants in the landscape to elicit human involvement and provide mental stimulation and restoration is much less well understood. Patrick Mooney‘s... Read More

Theodora Varbouli and Olga Touloumi, “Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground” (Routledge, 2019)

Theodora Vardouli and Olga Touloumi
Computer Architectures
Constructing the Common Ground
Routledge, 2019

New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books in Technology New Books Network April 14, 2020 Tricia Keffer

Weaving together intellectual, social, cultural, and material histories, Theodora Vardouli and Olga Touloumi‘s book Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground (Routledge, 2019) paints the landscape that brought computing into the imagination, production, and management of the built environment, whilst foregrounding the impact of architecture in shaping technological development. The book... Read More

Kristian Ly Serena, “Age-Inclusive Public Space” (Hatje Cantz, 2019)

Kristian Ly Serena
Age-Inclusive Public Space

Hatje Cantz, 2020

New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books Network April 10, 2020 Marshall Poe

Public spaces tend to over-represent facilities and spatial design for the young and the middle-aged, whereas elderly citizens are all too often neglected by contemporary urban design practice. Dominique Hauderowicz and Kristian Ly Serena‘s edited volume Age-Inclusive Public Space (Hatje Cantz, 2020) establishes a dialogue between architects and academic contributors... Read More