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Critical Essays on Architecture
Thuto Durkac-Somo assembles an architecture of black theology; Jessica Ngan recounts the narrative of architecture and agriculture told at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale; Stephen Rustow considers what is at stake, now that the dust has settled, at the new Barnes Foundation designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects; and Alexander Wood pages through Michael Osman’s latest book, Modernism’s Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America.
To celebrate five years of the Avery Review, we’ve introduced a Topics page that offers a series of thematic cross sections through our archive, documenting some of the crucial ideas and concerns that have animated our authors and editors alike.
…our fall 2019 new releases!
Signal. Image. Architecture. by John May, Biennials/Triennials: The Geography of Itinerant Display by Léa Catherine-Szacka, Ways of Knowing Cities edited by Laura Kurgan and Dare Brawley, Modern Management Methods: Architecture, Historical Value, and the Electromagnetic Image by Caitlin Blanchfield and Farzin Lotfi-Jam, …and other such stories edited by Yosumi Umolu, Sepake Angiama, and Paulo Tavares, and The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria by Jason Oddy.
Projects currently underway include:
Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound (edited by Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, and Niloufar Tajeri) examines how architecture and urbanism both produce riots and are produced by them.
Paths to Prison: Histories on the Architecture of Carcerality (edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt) traces architecture’s role in the long-standing and pervasive histories of incarceration in the United States.
Preservation and Social Inclusion (edited by Erica Avrami) documents historic preservation’s progress toward inclusivity and explores further steps to be taken.
Superpowers of Scale (by Andres Jaque) translates the Office for Political Innovation’s projects of architectural performance and research into book form.
Columbia Books on Architecture and the City will be camped out in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern for Offprint London, from May 18 to 20. Stop by to see our newest publications alongside some old favorites.
The book fair will be open
May 18, 6-10pm
May 19, 12-8pm
and May 20, 12-6pm
Two new books from CBAC are launching all over the world this spring! Check them out wherever you are…
Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling by Matt Waggoner
April 27, Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op, New Haven, CT, 6pm
April 30, Book Culture, New York, NY, 7pm
The Empire Remains Shop by Cooking Sections
April 12, SVA MA Curatorial Practice, New York, NY 7pm
April 13, e-flux, New York, NY, 7pm
April 24, ArkDes, Stockholm, 6pm
May 14, The Showroom, London, 6.30pm
May 16, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul
June 11, University of the West Indies, Barbados, 5pm
June 22, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
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CBAC will be spending some time at the Center for Architecture this March, with presentations related to recent book projects.
On Tuesday, March 7, Amale Andraos will be presenting The Arab City: Architecture and Representation. And toward the end of the month, join Michael Maltzan, author of Social Transparency: Projects on Housing, will be discussing some of his housing projects on Wednesday, March 29.
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Join us to discuss and preview Columbia in Manhattanville, a new book from Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. Amale Andraos, Reinhold Martin, and Eric Washington will be in conversation with Caitlin Blanchfield at 1pm on Nov 4, Ware Lounge, Avery Hall.
Home to the famed Cotton Club, Alexander Hamilton’s grange, the Manhattan Project, and a Studebaker factory, West Harlem has been an ever-transforming pocket of New York City. With the arrival of Columbia University’s Manhattanville expansion, it is now also a site of experimentation in the future of the twenty-first century university. Bringing together conversations with the architects and planners designing the Manhattanville campus, the educators who will inhabit its buildings, and essays from urban and architectural historians, this book documents the making of Manhattanville and critically engages the University’s own history of expansion.
The editors of five fresh publishing projects gathered at GSAPP on February 12, 2016, for a rousing conversation on the varying concerns, approaches, and stakes of contemporary architectural publications practice. Joining us were Anthony Acciavatti of Manifest; Shumi Bose and Jack Self of The Real Review; Alfie Koetter of Project; Jimenez Lai of the Treatise series; and Lily Wong of :.
A complete recording of the event is available here.
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“I first became aware of Amaza Lee Meredith two or three years ago. I had no idea that there had been a black woman architect practicing in Virginia as early as the 1920s and ’30s. And to be a modernist within that context! I thought that was quite extraordinary…”
Mario Gooden speaks with Artforum about his recently-released Dark Space—which the magazine describes as “a subtle reading of a number of African American cultural institutions [and] a consideration of the politics they spatialize”—in an interview from December 2015.