Richard Sennett
Flesh and Stone: Body and City in Western Civilization
Strelka Press, 2016.
The publishing house of the Strelka Institute continues to publish in Russian the works of the most prominent contemporary researchers of the city. The book by the sociologist Richard Sennett, first published in 1992, is a historical essay on how, from antiquity to the present day, bodily experience, the experience of corporeality, was formed in the West under the influence of the evolution of the city. * * *
George Tsypin Opera Factory
Invisible city
Princeton Architectural Press, 2016.
The book contains 20 works by Georgy Tsypin, a graduate of the Moscow Architectural Institute and one of the most famous set designers - from the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sochi and the design of the opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen in Amsterdam to Broadway musicals and the Seaglass carousel in New York's Betteri Park. * * *
F. L. Wright
Disappearing city
Strelka Press, 2016.
One of the key architectural texts of the 20th century, The Vanishing City, was written by F. L. Wright during the Great Depression: it was published in 1932. However, the concept of deurbanization outlined there is quite optimistic: the architect saw in the "suburbia" a guarantee of a prosperous future, which was made possible by the proliferation of personal vehicles and the development of communications. * * *
Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron
Treacherous transparencies: thoughts and observations triggered by a visit to Farnsworth House
Actar, 2016.
A small book, Insidious Transparency: Thoughts and Observations Caused by a Visit to Farnsworth House, was written by Jacques Herzog and illustrated with black and white photographs of Farnsworth House taken by Pierre de Meuron. Its theme is transparency in architecture and art, and the goals and intentions with which it was used in their works by Bruno Taut, Ivan Leonidov, Marcel Duchamp, Gerhard Richter - and, of course, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. * * *
Andres Lepik et al.
World of malls: architecture of consumption
Hatje Cantz, 2016.
The catalog of the exhibition "World of Malls: Architecture of Consumption", which ended at the end of October at the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich, is dedicated to malls. These shopping centers emerged in the United States in the middle of the last century and quickly spread around the world, sparking debate: are they harming cities by attracting people to the suburbs, or are they just reflecting global trends? The same is with the malls of our days: large shopping malls are constantly opening all over the world, but at the same time many malls burn out, are empty, or adapt to new functions. * * *
Samantha hardingham
Cedric Price Works 1952–2003: a forward-minded retrospective
Architectural Association, 2016.
Published by the London Architectural Association in collaboration with the Canadian Center for Architecture, the two-volume publication of all projects, articles and transcripts of speeches by Cedric Price, one of the most daring and inventive architects-experimenters of the second half of the 20th century, is for the first time fully published. Starting with the first projects - the aviary at the London Zoo and the unrealized Fun Palace, the "palace of fun" (later inspired the authors of the Pompidou Center), Price contrasted the determinism of modernism with the idea of the uncertainty and temporality of architecture, the building as a set of opportunities for use, rather than a scenario for behavior people. In his works, playfulness was combined with attention to the possibilities of technology and scientific discoveries, and the theme has always been architecture, which can give a person a goal and moral support, joy and an aesthetic quality of life. * * *
David Brown, Tom Williamson
Lancelot Brown and the Capability men: landscape revolution in 18th-century England
Reaktion Books, 2016
Steffie shields
Moving Heaven and Earth: Capability Brown'st of landscape
Unicorn Press, 2016
John Phibbs
Capability Brown: designing the English landscape
Rizzoli, 2016
These three books about the great landscape architect, one of the founders of the English landscape park of the 18th century Lancelot "Capability" Brown were published on the 300th anniversary of his birth. David Brown and Tom Williamson's work focuses primarily on setting up Brown's landscaping venture and comparing it to other Georgian "good taste" suppliers - the brothers Adam, Thomas Chippendale, Josiah Wedgwood. Steffy Shields, on the other hand, speaks of Lancelot Brown as an artist and a man of encyclopedic knowledge; her book is provided with a guide to 250 parks in England and Wales, one way or another associated with the name of the master. John Pibbs has focused on 15 of Brown's key works that showcase the breadth of his palette, from the idyllic landscapes of Milton Abbey to the well-ordered landscapes of Blenheim. * * *
Peter ortner
Back in the USSR: Soviet roadside architecture: from Samarkand to Yerevan
Jovis, 2016
The book by German photographer Peter Ortner is dedicated to the most popular subject of international architecture blogs: Soviet bus stops. The author found both unusual, "vernacular" and more restrained modernist versions of roadside micro-architecture in the former republics of the USSR, from Uzbekistan to Moldova. * * *
Allison rae
Vertical Worlds
Abrams Noterie, 2016
The Vertical Worlds Coloring Book for adults, featuring the Vertical City, Natural History Museum, Cathedral, Film Studio and more, has entered the Royal Institute of British Architects bookstore range: more than a serious recommendation. * * *
