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After 25 years of running this blog under various names — all of which can be lumped under the “Archidose” monicker — I’ve decided to shut it down, moving this hobby, this labor of love, to Substack, which I have used since mid-2021 and where I will continue to send out weekly newsletters focused on […]
Instead of digesting a new book or diving into a novel, something others do often but I do rarely, I spent my holiday break reading a five-year-old book about a trio of intertwined topics I’m particularly fond of: drawings, exhibitions, and New York City. As the book’s subtitle indicates, Drawing Architecture covers a two-decade period — […]
For the fifteenth and last time on this blog, I’m highlighting my favorite books of the year, selected from the many books I reviewed or featured as “Book Briefs” on this blog, and the few titles that I reviewed at World-Architects. From the 86 books I featured in 2023, 15 (or 16) books made my […]
Just as last week’s Places in Time III post featured a trio of books that were initially listed in my earlier holiday gift books post, two of the three monographs featured here were also on that list. As happened when I wrote this post, each book begins with a rhetorical question pertaining to monographs. This post […]
This third and most likely last installment in the inadvertent “Places in Time” series looks closely at three books: the first about Chicago from the Great Depression to the mid-1980s; the second one about the broader American built landscape over roughly the same period of time; and the third jumping to Switzerland and tracing the […]
A few years after Princeton University Press published William B. Helmreich’s well-received The New York Nobody Knows, it started putting out standalone “urban walking guides” to each of the five boroughs. Helmreich, a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the City College of New York, famously walked every street in New York City, speaking with just […]
A review of a new book released this week: What makes modern and contemporary Japanese houses so appealing? Much of it stems from the novelty of residential designs, which can be traced to a litany of factors, including a cultural acceptance of demolition and renewal that creates a constant stream of new architecture; a litany […]
The recent publication of two books prompted me to ponder the future of cities and do a write-up of them together: Implementing Urban Design is the latest of many books about urban design and planning by Jonathan Barnett, whose career and CV span around fifty years. Over that time he has served as an architect, […]
In 1939, Otto Neurath’s Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. Knopf. Neurath was director of the International Foundation of Visual Information and used the Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) system to “teach through the eye.” A recent article describes Modern Man in the Making as a “pictorial statistical history of human technological […]