New Books in Architecture
Interviews with Scholars of Architecture about their New Books
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 371
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Patricia Bickers, "The Ends of Art Criticism" (Lund Humphries Publishers, 2021)
Crisis? What Crisis? At a time where there are repeated claims of the impending demise of art criticism, The Ends of Art Criticism (Lund Humphries Publishers, 2021) dispel these myths by arguing that…
01:04:33 |
Fri 06 Aug 2021
Katie Cummer and Lynne D. DiStefano, "Asian Revitalization: Adaptive Reuse in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore" (Hong Kong UP, 2021)
Adaptive reuse, or using a building for a new purpose, has become popular around the world, but discussion about adaptive reuse in Asia is relatively scarce. As a result, this architectural innovatio…
00:57:57 |
Tue 03 Aug 2021
Lisa Heschong, "Visual Delight in Architecture: Visual Delight in Architecture" (Routledge, 2021)
Lisa Heschong's book Visual Delight in Architecture: Visual Delight in Architecture (Routledge, 2021) examines the many ways that our lives are enriched by the presence of natural daylight and window…
00:28:18 |
Fri 23 Jul 2021
Jacob Lederman, "Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy Versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circulates around the globe. These strategies—establishi…
00:53:25 |
Thu 22 Jul 2021
Under the Arch of Titus: A Gateway to the Jewish Community
In this episode, Steven Fine, Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, Israel, discusses his new book Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem to Rome—and Back, published in Brill’s Religious …
00:31:09 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
Catharina Gabrielsson et al., "Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics but a …
00:25:07 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
Grace Ong Yan, "Building Brands: The Architecture of Corporate Modernism" (Lund Humphries, 2021)
Between the Stock Market Crash and the Vietnam War, American corporations were responsible for the construction of thousands of headquarters across the United States. Over this time, the design of co…
00:34:24 |
Thu 08 Jul 2021
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, "A Glossary of Urban Voids" (Jovis Verlag, 2020)
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today I interview Sergio Lopez-Pineiro about his new book, A Glossary of Urban Voids (2020). It's one of the more fascinating books I've en…
00:46:53 |
Mon 05 Jul 2021
Stuart Walker, "Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures" (Routledge, 2021)
Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures (Routledge, 2021) examines the philosophical context of our current situation and its implications for design. It explores how modernity and…
00:44:40 |
Wed 30 Jun 2021
Stephen Murray, "Notre-Dame of Amiens: Life of the Gothic Cathedral" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. Its construction began in 1220, and artistic production in the Gothic mode lasted well into the sixteenth century. In Notre-Dame of Amiens:…
00:31:51 |
Tue 22 Jun 2021
James Tait, "Entering Architectural Practice" (Routledge, 2020)
Featuring exclusive interviews with the internationally renowned architects: Kengo Kuma; Alberto Campo Baeza; Špela Videcnik (OFIS); Fernanda Canales; Jonathan Sergison (Sergison Bates); and Jane Hal…
00:35:45 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
Amy D. Finstein, "Modern Mobility Aloft: Elevated Highways, Architecture, and Urban Change in Pre-interstate America" (Temple UP, 2020)
In the first half of the twentieth century, urban elevated highways were much more than utilitarian infrastructure, lifting traffic above the streets; they were statements of civic pride, asserting b…
00:54:36 |
Wed 02 Jun 2021
Skylar Tibbits, "Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program …
00:50:30 |
Tue 01 Jun 2021
Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp, "Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope" ( American University in Cairo Press, 2021)
The Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 square miles (360 square kilometers), 1.8 million people live under an Israeli siege, enforcing condit…
00:38:44 |
Fri 28 May 2021
Matthew Thompson, "Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives" (Liverpool UP, 2020)
How can we develop solutions to the housing crisis? In Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives (Liverpool UP, 2020), Matthew Thompson, a Leverhulme Early …
00:57:51 |
Thu 27 May 2021
Aaron Shapiro, "Design, Control, Predict: Logistical Governance in the Smart City" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
The “smart” city of today looks little like what experts of yesteryear expected them to. In this book, Aaron Shapiro, Ph.D. takes readers on a behind the scenes tour of the smart city and shows the r…
01:04:01 |
Wed 19 May 2021
Simon Unwin, "Analysing Architecture: The Universal Language of Place-Making" (Routledge, 2020)
Now in its fifth edition, Analyzing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. Aimed primarily at those wishing to become professional architects, i…
00:41:09 |
Mon 17 May 2021
Kathy D. Dixon et al., "The Business of Architecture: Your Guide to a Financially Successful Firm" (Routledge, 2017)
The Business of Architecture: Your Guide to a Financially Successful Firm (Routledge, 2017) is the essential guide to understanding the critical fundamentals to succeed as an architect. Written by su…
00:52:11 |
Fri 14 May 2021
Louis Nelson, "Mosaic: War Monument Mystery" (239 Productions, 2021)
The Korean War is now America's seminal war. It was the first war conducted with the new United Nations, the first war fought against the Chinese Communists, and the first modern war the US didn't wi…
00:33:07 |
Fri 14 May 2021
Scott Berkun, "How Design Makes the World" (2020)
Everything you use, from your home to your smartphone, from highways to supermarkets, was designed by someone. What did they get right? Where did they go wrong? And what can we learn from how these e…
00:51:00 |
Tue 11 May 2021
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