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| | | | | Hone your knife skills, and you can recreate semblances of 10 works of the Modernist master with this challenging collection of model templates devised by British paper artist Marc Hagan-Guirey. The model-making method used is kirigami, a variation of origami that involves cutting in addition to the typical folding of a single piece of paper. The results, not unlike pop-up cards, are limited to how well a building can be plotted as a two-dimensional pattern, so some are quite abstract. | |
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| | | | | Martin Filler, the architecture critic who has appeared in The New York Review of Books since 1985, now gives us his third anthology of these essays on modern architects. Most are devoted to historical figures of the last century, some revered (Frederick Law Olmsted), some notorious (Albert Speer), and some inexcusably forgotten (Jan Duiker, designer of Holland's brilliant Zonnestraal sanatorium, 1931). Although Filler's essays are usually prompted by a new publication or even exhibition about the subject, they are considerably more than book reviews. His . . . | |
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| | | | | A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form, by Kenneth Frampton; edited by Ashley Simone. LarsMüller Publishers, October 2015, 304 pages, $40. In A Genealogy of Modern Architecture, the prolific historian, critic, and theorist Kenneth Frampton presents a documentation of a course he used to teach, which involved comparative critical analyses of 14 pairs of more or less canonical modern buildings completed between 1924 and 2007. Frampton systematically analyzes the pairs, which have similar programs and were built about the same times, . . . | |
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| | | ACCA announced that it has developed a curriculum especially for teaching students how to do a load calculation using the Manual J8ae Speedsheet. This new curriculum is available for free download atwww.acca.org/educators/. | ||
