Our friends from Abitare recently published their 500 issue!
For the occasion, they republished an old interview with Frank O. Ghery, conducted by Franco Raggi in 1981.
You can read the full interview at Abitare.
Louis Kahn on the Thoughtful Making of Spaces / Michael Merrill
From previously unpublished material and new analytic drawings this book explores Louis Kahn’s Dominican Motherhouse, his unbuilt masterpiece. Kahn pushed and prodded modern architecture into a crisis that questioned aspects of space that modernism had proudly banished from its…
Encyclopedia of Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture
French novelist Gustave Flaubert’s expression, “le bon Dieu est le détail” became a cliché for one reason, it is true. God does dwell in the details, and well done details are often the difference between a mundane building and…
Architectural Lighting: Designing with Light and Space / Hervé Descottes with Cecilia E. Ramos
As part of Architecture Briefs series, produced by The Foundations of Architecture, this short book on lighting gives a very good introduction into architectural lighting. The authors start by explaining the six visual principles of light; illuminance, luminance,…
sounds really interesting. It is Gehry actually…
Yeah, not to be picky, but you spelled Gehry wrong..
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