Articles Tagged with ''Book Reviews / Excerpts''

Author Kathryn Smith takes readers on a comprehensive tour through Frank Lloyd Wright’s exhibitions, from his first at the Chicago Architectural Club of 1894 to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1959.

Writer and editor Helen Thompson presents 21 case studies of the artistic utopia's domestic architecture.

In his latest book, The Rise of the Creative Class–author Richard Florida argues that the stratospheric housing prices, costly entrepreneur-stifling zoning regulations, and homogenizing tidiness of "superstar cities" threaten to kill the creative ethos.

Former filmmaker Marc Kristal is a natural storyteller, which enlivens his 18 case studies about adding contemporary additions to old houses.

Washing, dusting, scraping, patching, and other overlooked acts of upkeep triggered Hilary Sample to direct her attention toward a subject at once forgotten and self-evident.

Architectural historian Max Page believes America’s preservation movement has reached a crossroads.

Stephanie Meeks, CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has mustered an array of data in this book demonstrating the virtues of architectural adaptation.

UNStudio founders Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos explore the architect's changing role.

Alastair Gordon's new book chronicles the life and work of Bartholomew Voorsanger.

RECORD’s holiday roundup highlights books that deal with urbanity in its many guises, from perspectives that embrace skyscrapers to those that see antidotes to density in low-rise planning and landscape design.