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"Let's start with a warning: it's important to know what NOT to buy. Don't buy lifestyle books (all rubbish), don't buy monographs on living architects and designers (mostly uncritical vanity publishing), and don't buy books listing the hundred best this or the world's most beautiful that (see below). All that stuff is chaff. Clear it away and you get to some genuinely interesting books, such as: "
"Architect Louis Cordonnier was probably the first to use frames made by the firm Braat when he constructed the Peace Palace in The Hague in 1908. The sale of custom-made frames was a lucrative source of revenue during the manufacturer's 139-year existence. But the firm achieved its strongest market position through the production of steel casements in standard dimensions and the application of anti-rust treatments. The company records of Braat are maintained by the NAi Collection. The numerous photos among the records offer a vivid picture of the workers in the factory, the components it produced, and the buildings they were used for. This is the most complete overview of the series of photos made for Braat by photographer Hans Sibbelee (1915-2003)."
non-standard architectures
World Monuments Fund 2004 top 100 endangered buildings
"The list is compiled every two years from sites nominated by individuals, preservation groups and government agencies. Sites can be relisted, and those reappearing this year include some in Lower Manhattan and ancient palaces at Nimrud and Nineveh in Iraq."
9/11 images in war rugs
sales in nyc slack
"The Russian Utopia is represented by a compact depository of 480 architectural projects from the last 300 years of the Russian history that have never been carried out. They constitute but a fraction of the pool of ideas with a claim on the architectural reorganization of engsia - a collective Russian dream."
ABC: International Constructivist Architecture, 1922-1939
"The Proun is the station where one changes from painting to architecture"
El Lissitzky
kelly fitzgeralds notes on prounen
about 2 squares
el lissitzky wolkenbugel (cloud-iron)
elementry school in paradise ks for sale $45,000
artandculture
super studio continuous monument
american sign museum
papress
precis no.14
"Photography and architecture use each other. Photography encounters architecture specifically as a means of representation and dissemination. The architectural manipulates the photographic for its own ambitions. However, the question is not so much of who does who, but rather how each creates and delineates the other?"
samuel mockbee
modern home design
atomic ranch
living small
dieter rams
the queens museum nyc panorama 1" = 100'