Urbanisms by Steven Holl named one of the years best architecture books! · Dec 10, 01:34 PM
Norman Weinstein, architecture writer for The Christian Science Monitor, picked his top ten architecture books of 2009 and posted them on archnewsnow.com are thrilled to report that the list includes Urbanisms: Working With Doubt.
Weinstein writes:
“This is a dazzling model of an architect’s reflections upon his own work that generates open-ended questions of first-order. While disclosing the musical and poetic programs actualized in his designs, Holl articulates his sense of practical constraints that are integral to 21st-century urbanism. Annotating projects in the U.S., Europe, and Asia during the past two decades, an astute reader might want to begin the book in the middle with Holl’s Chinese architecture. Buildings like the Horizontal Skyscraper and Linked Hybrid cast long shadows in terms of reformulating visions of high-density urban design. Probing, adventuresome, unsettling – and yet optimistic.”
Click on the image above to view The Architectural League video podcast from its February 21, 2008 lecture with Steven Holl, in which Holl discusses his design of the Linked Hybrid project in Beijing and Urbanisms: Working With Doubt.
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