Posts tagged “review”
101 Things I learned in Architecture School
101 Things I learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick. (Amazon .co.uk / .com) A friend loaned this book to me and before I hand it back, long overdue, I thought I’d write a few things about it. I read it through once, at the beginning of my loan from cover to cover, then again [...]
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Ways of Seeing by John Berger Amazon .com .uk The basic premise of the book is simple, that people see and understand things and themselves by sight. That as seeing establishes our place in the world then how we see is important. But from these basic assertions a fast and near complete deconstruction of culture [...]
House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore
House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore Amazon (.com) (.uk). This is an interesting book because it is by a British author but the novel is set in pre-revolution Finland. As such the author faces the challenge of making the characters and settings both believable and accurate without bogging down the story with too much detail. [...]
Provisional Book Review
Provisional – Emerging modes of Architectural Practice US by Elite Kedan, Jon Dreyfous, Craig Mutter (Princeton Architectural Press 2009) This book takes nine practices from the U.S.A which are by their nature different from a standard architectural practice and look at how they work. Some things are about the practical building relationships during a project for [...]
Nightlands
Nightlands Nordic building by Christian Norberg-Schulz. Amazon (uk|us) A tip off from a reader of this blog sent me to this book for which I will be eternally grateful. First I should start with a warning you that this is not a coffee table publication, the pictures are sparse and in black and white. However [...]
Arctic Cities
I wrote a review of the Arctic Cities exhibition currently on at the Finnish Museum of Architecture in Helsinki over at the Ovi. The exhibition is about three cities in the North, Tromsø in Norway, Kiruna in Sweden which I’ve written about before, and Oulu in Finland. Also I took some photos.
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, is a beautiful novel about a grandaughter and grandmother living on an island in the Finnish Arpelago. This is one of Tove Janssons’ adult novels although she is much more famous as the creator of the moomins. This book however really deserves to be held up as a great [...]