Design Books: September 2009
Check out this selection of recently released design books culled by our editors and profiled in the September 2009 issue's In The Modern World section.
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Architecture Now! Houses
- By: Philip Jodidio
- Price: $39.99
The latest in Taschen’s ever-growing Architecture Now! series (does Philip Jodidio ever sleep?), this volume takes us on a fantastic visual voyage around the world to some of the most stunning structures designed for dwelling: Cantilevered quarters jut out from fields in front of mountain quarries, stone residences emerge from rocky silhouetted cliffs, and modern glass palaces disappear into the horizon of the seas they overlook. We love these modern houses so much you might recognize some straight from the pages (and covers) of Dwell, like the Floating House by MOS.
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Conversations with Frank Gehry
- By: Barbara Isenberg
- Price: $40
He’s the world’s only architect to guest star on The Simpsons and appear in Apple’s Think Different ads, but how well do you really know Frank Gehry? Think what you will of his work, but in this easily digestible series of interviews, the Canadian—born Ephraim Owen Goldberg—comes off as a pretty regular guy who happens to be the world’s most famous architect—not the villainous, megalomaniacal starchitect stereotype we’ve been trained to expect.
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Louis I Kahn
- By: Robert McCarter
- Price: $85
When charting architectural development, it generally follows that architects build upon the generation that preceded them—from modernism to postmodernism to deconstruction and so on. Not so for Louis Kahn, who defied categorization by stretching back centuries in search of inspiration. In ancient ruins and great buildings of the past, Kahn found recipes for a different path forward—based not on how buildings looked but rather how they made you feel. This massive tome—now in bicep-friendly paperback—explores Kahn’s epic oeuvre (including rather convincing digital images of his unbuilt work) to prove he was that rare architect who worked for all mankind.
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Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space
- By: Charlie Hailey
- Price: $29.95
Offering far more than a reminiscence of summer sleepaways, author Charlie Hailey addresses questions of “identity, residency, safety, and tensions of mobility and fixity” in three campy categories: Autonomy, Control, and Necessity. Autonomy indulges in hedonist escapes like Nevada’s Burning Man festival; Control covers those spaces guarded by force, like POW holding areas; and Necessity discusses the gray area in between, such as FEMA cities erected after natural disasters. This extensive field guide deftly navigates these socially, politically, and spatially relevant places, which are often relegated to the fringes of our built environment. Another season of Bug Juice this ain’t.
Top photograph by Peter Belanger.
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