The Endless City (2008) edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
Phaidon Press
Hardcover, 512 pages

The stats on the cover of Phaidon’s recent tome to expanding global urbanism paint a picture of what many people know but what many people don’t want to believe: the world is primarily urban and it’s becoming more so every day, from [...]

Back in 2000, then New York Gov. George E. Pataki “proposed building one of the first museums in the country to be devoted to women’s history.” The following year’s competition for the Battery Park City site was won by Smith-Miller Hawkinson, but what interests me here is Weiss/Manfredi’s runner-up design.

[Museum of Women's History | scan [...]

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (2000) by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, & L. Hunter Lovins
Back Bay Books
Paperback, 416 pages
Ten Shades of Green: Architecture and the Natural World (2005) by Peter Buchanan
W. W. Norton
Paperback, 128 pages

One look at magazines, newspaper or television, or a listen to the radio and it’s clear that sustainability has [...]

Building London: The Making of a Modern Metropolis (2008) by Bruce Marshall
Universe
Hardcover, 304 pages
Paris 2000+: New Architecture (2007) by Sam Lubell
Monacelli Press
Hardcover, 240 pages

These two image-drenched coffee table books focus on what can be seen as Europe’s two most cosmopolitan cities, using photographs to tell the story of London and Paris, each in its own [...]

A new "paperless" architecture book featuring facades from around the world.
This book is the result of two years of architectural research. Dynamic facades, ventilated, high-tech or traditional composites with new features. This book shows that currently new skins not only act as an isolating element, besides interact with the environment, optimizing energy exchange with the [...]

One of our most popular posts here at L+L is the Finland Summer House posted by James back in January 2005. If exploring summer houses in Finland is your raison d’être, then we have a book for you. Finnish Summer Houses by Jari & Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen is a new book from Princeton Architectural Press [...]

It’s snowing here again, in April!, and frankly I’d rather be somewhere warmer, somewhere like say, Silver Lake, CA (aka Willamsburg West). Bohemian Modern is the illustrated guide to Silver Lake, a creative enclave in the midst of Los Angeles and the birthplace of BoMo. As a guide, it touches on the community spirit there [...]

Cost-Effective Building: Economic concepts and constructions (2007) edited by Christian SchittichBirkhauserHardcover, 176 pages

The latest in Detail Magazine’s in DETAIL series presents what could be called “un-Bilbao” buildings; those commissions not blessed with the almost limitless budgets that allow for expensive materials, formal invention, and a HUGE scale. Where previous books in the series looked at [...]

I’m looking forward to the May release of the new Charlotte Moss Book “A Flair For Living”. To pre-order your copy visit the Charlotte Moss website here…I’ll definately be pre-ordering a copy for my library.

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