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
Gary Meisner, "The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics" (Race Point Press, 2018)
From the pyramids of Giza, to quasicrystals, to the proportions of the human face, the golden ratio has an infinite capacity to generate shapes with exquisite properties. This book invites you to tak…
00:40:56 |
Fri 22 Nov 2019
Dewey Thorbeck, "Agricultural Landscapes: Seeing Rural Through Design" (Routledge, 2019)
Dewey Thorbeck's new book Agricultural Landscapes: Seeing Rural Through Design (Routledge, 2019) follows on from the author’s previous books, Rural Design and Architecture and Agriculture, to encoura…
00:53:58 |
Tue 19 Nov 2019
R. Cervero, E. Guerra, S. Al, "Beyond Mobility: Planning Cities for People and Places" (Island Press, 2017)
Beyond Mobility: Planning Cities for People and Places (Island Press, 2017) by Robert Cervero, Erick Guerra and Stefan Al is about prioritizing the needs and aspirations of people and the creation of…
00:49:39 |
Fri 15 Nov 2019
Eddie Chau, "Random Imaginations: A Collection of Illustrated Musings" (ORO Editions, 2018)
Today I talked to Eddie Chau about his new book Random Imaginations: A Collection of Illustrated Musings (ORO Editions, 2018). The book is a reproduction of thousands of graphic images from a single …
00:43:43 |
Tue 12 Nov 2019
Thaisa Way, "The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Today I talked to Thaisa Way about her new books The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design (University of Washington Press, 2019). Haag is best known fo…
00:48:50 |
Tue 05 Nov 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most trade books in that most of them are what you might c…
00:37:40 |
Sun 03 Nov 2019
Marc Treib, "Doing Almost Nothing: The Landscapes of Georges Descombes" (ORO Edition, 2019)
Today I talked to Marc Treib about his new book Doing Almost Nothing: The Landscapes of Georges Descombes (ORO Editions, 2019).
Until now, writings about the architect/landscape architect Georges Des…
00:48:55 |
Wed 30 Oct 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
The things that make people academics -- as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often bordering on obsession, and a comfort with the solitude that developing expertise requires -- do not neces…
00:32:43 |
Thu 24 Oct 2019
Kate Baker, “Captured Landscape: Architecture and the Enclosed Garden” (Routledge, 2018)
In her book Captured Landscape: Architecture and the Enclosed Garden (Routledge, 2018; 2nd edition), Kate Baker discusses the continuing relevance of the typology of the enclosed garden to contempora…
00:50:22 |
Wed 23 Oct 2019
Stephen Hamnett, "Planning Singapore: The Experimental City" (Routledge, 2019)
In this episode, we talk with Stephen Hamnett about Planning Singapore: The Experimental City(Routledge, 2019), a book he edited with Belinda Yuen.
Two hundred years ago, Sir Stamford Raffles establi…
00:54:25 |
Mon 07 Oct 2019
Kathryn E. O’Rourke, "O’Neil Ford on Architecture" (U Texas Press, 2019)
O’Neil Ford on Architecture (University of Texas Press, 2019) brings together Ford’s major professional writings and speeches for the first time. Revealing the intellectual and theoretical underpinni…
00:50:30 |
Fri 04 Oct 2019
Paul McClean, "McClean Design: Creating the Contemporary House" (Rizzoli, 2019)
Paul McClean grew up in Irelands where he studied architecture before moving to Southern California and establishing McClean Design. Over the past 18 years it has grown into one of the leading contem…
00:53:46 |
Tue 01 Oct 2019
Jacky Bowring, "Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory, and Reflection in the Landscape" (Routledge, 2018)
Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape, experience, Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory, and Reflection in the Landscape(Routledge, 2018) situates the co…
00:48:31 |
Fri 27 Sep 2019
Kenneth Olwig, "The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Nature and Justice" (Routledge, 2019)
In The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Nature and Justice (Routledge, 2019), Kenneth Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanitie…
01:04:56 |
Fri 13 Sep 2019
Susan Jaques, "The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped An Empire" (Pegasus Books, 2018)
In her book, The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped An Empire (Pegasus Books, 2018), Susan Jaques offers up a richly detailed and researched account of…
00:44:36 |
Thu 22 Aug 2019
Kapila D. Silva and Amita Sinha, "Cultural Landscapes of South Asia : Studies in Heritage Conservation, and Management" (Routledge, 2017)
The book today is Cultural Landscapes of South Asia : Studies in Heritage Conservation, and Management (Routledge, 2017) edited by Kapila D. Silva and Amita Sinha. It's the Winner of the Environmenta…
00:53:17 |
Thu 15 Aug 2019
Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister, "Projective Ecologies" (HGSD, 2014)
Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister's book Projective Ecologies (Harvard Graduate School of Design 2014) is about how landscape architecture can move forward in the design field beyond garden landscape…
00:57:38 |
Fri 09 Aug 2019
Erin-Marie Legacey, "Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830" (Cornell UP, 2019)
In Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830 (Cornell University Press, 2019), Dr. Erin-Marie Legacey, Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech Uni…
00:52:18 |
Wed 07 Aug 2019
Elizabeth Otto, "Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics" (MIT Press, 2019)
In this segment of New Books in History, Jana Byars talks with Elizabeth “Libby” Otto, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies and Executive Director of the Humanities Institute at the …
01:14:08 |
Tue 06 Aug 2019
Nadia Amoroso, "Representing Landscapes: Analogue" (Routledge, 2019)
Nadia Amoroso's last book Representing Landscapes: Analogue (Routledge, 2019) focuses the art of hand drawings and why they are still relevant and important in our digital age. Nadia takes us on a jo…
00:25:26 |
Mon 05 Aug 2019
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