Tag: Books
RSSBook review: The Auckland School
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Guy Marriage reviews The Auckland School: 100 Years of Architecture and Planning by Julia Gatley and Lucy Treep.
Books on our shelf: November edition
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We review two recent architecture books: Alexander Rodchenko and The Glass of the Architects.
Bookshelf: August edition
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Camille Khouri reviews three new interesting architecture and design books that have recently hit the shelves.
Book review: Claude Megson
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Dr. Andrew Barrie reviews Claude Megson: Counter Constructions by Giles Reid, with photography by Jackie Miering.
Autumn architecture reading
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Camille Khouri reviews three recent architecture books, including In Search of Bawa and Simon Devitt’s Rannoch.
Book review: The Big Smoke
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Guy Marriage reviews Ben Schrader’s The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities 1840–1920, published by BWB.
In focus: Michael Webb
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Vanessa Coxhead spoke to architectural writer Michael Webb about his new book and what makes a great apartment building.
Bookshelf: new housing forms
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A compilation of book reviews from Houses Australia magazine in 2016 that hone in on alternative housing forms.
Domestic arrivals
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Writer John Walsh and photographer Patrick Reynolds talk about their latest book and the future of housing.
Book review: Peter Beaven ARCHITECT
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Pip Cheshire reviews Peter Beaven ARCHITECT by Peter Beaven.
Book review: Life of a Building: Futuna
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Pip Cheshire reviews Life of a Building: Futuna, edited by Nick Bevin and Gregory O’Brien.
The brutality of vertical living
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Colin Martin reviews the film High-Rise, based on JG Ballard’s novel about the psychological effects of ‘the tower block’.
Book review: The Politics of Parametricism
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The Politics of Parametricism: Digital Technologies in Architecture, edited by Matthew Poole and Manuel Shvartzberg.
A changing field of literature
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A review of a selection of influential publications written about the New Zealand-designed landscape since the 1890s.
Book review: Industries of Architecture
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Guy Marriage reviews Industries of Architecture, edited by Katie Lloyd Thomas, Tilo Amhoff and Nick Beech.
Book review: The Architect as Worker
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A review of The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design, edited by Peggy Deamer.
Coast. Country. Neighbourhood. City.
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This newly released book documents 25 projects that express Isthmus’ personal ideology, style and body of work.
Book review: Worship
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Guy Marriage reviews Worship, a book on the architecture of the New Zealand church.
Book review: Living in Paradox
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Matthew Bradbury reviews Living in Paradox: A History of Urban Design across Kainga, Towns and Cities in New Zealand.
Book review: The Japanese House Reinvented
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The architecture of Japanese houses has developed from imported styles since prehistoric times.