BOOK REVIEWS
Book Review of "Cities for People" by Jan Gehl
by Katie Poppel
Danish architect, Jan Gehl’s "Cities for People," (2010) explores improving designs of cities for people to live and work. In this follow-up to "Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space" (1971), Gehl explores the shift...
Book Review of "Brunelleschi's Dome" by Ross King
by Meg Mulhall
Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelo. Voltaire. Isaac Newton. These are some of the great thinkers that probably come to mind when you think of the Renaissance. But for some of us more versed in the history of the time, archi...
Book Review of "The Agile City: Building Well-being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change" by James S. Russell
by Andrew Kinaci
The world has begun to feel the effects of climate change. In America, hurricanes like Superstorm Sandy and Katrina, and more recent hurricanes Irma and Harvey, have brought urban areas to their knees; killing people, de...
Book Review of "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City" by Greg Grandin
by Jessica Yoon
In his book "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City," author Greg Grandin chronicles Henry Ford’s great attempt to create a vast rubber plantation and idyllic company town in the complex ecos...
Review of “The BLDGBLOG BOOK: Redesigning the Sky”
by Athina Kyrgeorgiou
The BLDGBLOG Book by Geoff Manaugh introduces us to speculation about future architecture and how the present built environment will eventually change. From the first page of the book, the reader gets an idea of what...
A Review: The BLDGBLOG Book Chapter 2: The Underground
by Andrew Kinaci
Geoff Manaugh’s BLDGBLOG book attempts to frame the world as consisting of architecture, resultant of design choices, as legible texts similar to a work of literary fiction, and perhaps most importantly, open to the poss...
A Review: Architectural Conjecture, Urban Speculation: The BLDGBLOG Book
by Alex Riemondy
The BLDGBLOG Book offers readers an exciting and unpredictable exploration of architecture in the broadest of contexts. Uninhibited by constraints, author Geoff Manaugh follows his line of interests wherever they may lea...
Review of "Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities" Chapter 2: What Should a Museum Be? by Alexandra Lange
by Luis Hernando Lozano-Paredes
Museums have become a hallmark topic in the teaching of architecture, as many architecture schools tend to include several museum projects in their design studio curricula, and that shouldn’t surprise anyone since we liv...
Review of "Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities" Chapter 1: Skyscrapers as Superlatives by Alexandra Lange
by Jasna Hadzic
With the rising popularity of critical writing and blogging on various topics of interest, more writers are finding digital mediums to be a more effective way to reach a broad spectrum of audiences. More specifically, wh...