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
Andrew Demshuk, "Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021) compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under three compe…
00:41:31 |
Tue 14 Dec 2021
Winka Dubbeldam, "Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Forms" (Actar, 2022)
The object as solid, having three dimensions, is not just a different formal trend, but a paradigm shift; a reconceiving of how the architectural object is produced and experienced, changing the very…
00:29:38 |
Thu 09 Dec 2021
Jisha Menon, "Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in the Indian City" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in the Indian City (Northwestern UP, 2021) follows a postcolonial city as it transforms into a bustling global metropolis after the liberalization of the Indi…
00:41:34 |
Tue 07 Dec 2021
Barbara White Bryson, "Creating a Culture of Predictable Outcomes: How Leadership, Collaboration, and Decision-Making Drive Architecture and Construction" (Routledge, 2020)
Creating a Culture of Predictable Outcomes: How Leadership, Collaboration, and Decision-Making Drive Architecture and Construction (Routledge, 2020) demonstrates the importance of creating cultures i…
00:39:04 |
Fri 26 Nov 2021
Kenneth O'Reilly, "Asphalt: A History" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
In Asphalt: A History (U Nebraska Press, 2021), Kenneth O’Reilly provides a history of this everyday substance. By tracing the history of asphalt—in both its natural and processed forms—from ancient …
01:25:33 |
Mon 22 Nov 2021
Carolyn L. White, "The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
How do you do archaeological research on a place that exists for only one week per year, in the middle of the Nevada desert, and is based on the ethos of "leave no trace?" In The Archaeology of Burni…
00:59:37 |
Wed 17 Nov 2021
Conchita Anorve-Tschirgi and Ehsan Abushadi, "The Architecture of Ramses Wissa Wassef" (AU of Cairo Press, 2019)
The pioneering Egyptian architect and teacher Ramses Wissa Wassef (1911–74) is best known for his founding in 1951 of the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre in Harraniya, a small village near the Giza Py…
00:18:20 |
Thu 11 Nov 2021
Simon O'Meara, "The Ka'ba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
The Kaʿba is the famous cuboid structure at the center of the Great Mosque in Mecca. In his book The Kaʿba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Simon O'…
01:00:14 |
Fri 05 Nov 2021
Courtney J. Campbell et al, "Empty Spaces: Perspectives on Emptiness in Modern History" (U London Press, 2019)
How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining 'nothingness'? Why have a variety of historical actors, from colonial p…
00:50:15 |
Thu 28 Oct 2021
Justin Beal, "Sandfuture" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sandfuture (MIT Press, 2021) is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American archit…
00:38:37 |
Fri 22 Oct 2021
Matthew Fuller, "Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth" (Verso, 2021)
Today, journalists, legal professionals, activists, and artists challenge the state's monopoly on investigation and the production of narratives of truth. They probe corruption, human rights violatio…
01:17:35 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
Joseph L. Clarke, "Echo's Chambers: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
A room’s acoustic character seems at once the most technical and the most mystical of concerns. Since the early Enlightenment, European architects have systematically endeavored to represent and cont…
00:32:46 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
Antoine Picon, "The Materiality of Architecture" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In The Materiality of Archi…
00:26:05 |
Fri 01 Oct 2021
Shannon Mattern, "A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our under…
00:45:35 |
Fri 24 Sep 2021
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Chinese-Inspired Architecture
Howard chats with Dang Qun, one of the three founding partners of Beijing-based MAD architects, about aesthetics, history, cultural distinctiveness and architecture's unique balance of the concrete a…
01:33:53 |
Wed 22 Sep 2021
Rolf Hughes and Rachel Armstrong, "The Art of Experiment: Artistic Research in Experimental Architecture" (Routledge, 2020)
In search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world livable again, this book takes the reader on a journey across time―from the deep past to the unfolding future. The authors search …
01:01:19 |
Thu 09 Sep 2021
Thomas C. Hubka, "Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England" (UP of New England, 2004)
“Big house, little house, back house, barn”―this rhythmic cadence was sung by nineteenth-century children as they played. It also portrays the four essential components of the farms where many of the…
00:32:42 |
Tue 24 Aug 2021
Craig Robertson, "The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with …
01:00:28 |
Fri 20 Aug 2021
Michael Benedikt, "Architecture Beyond Experience" (Applied Research & Design, 2020)
Architecture Beyond Experience (Applied Research & Design, 2020) is a work in the service of one goal: the bringing about of a more relational, “posthuman” and yet humanist strain in architecture. It…
00:48:58 |
Tue 17 Aug 2021
Aaron Passell, "Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. In this view, designating a neighborhood as historic is a project by and for affluent residents concerned with aesthetics, not affo…
00:28:18 |
Wed 11 Aug 2021
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