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Available Now Naegele’s Guide to the Only Good Architecture in Iowa is a deceptive title but it is not a misnomer. Guide is accurate. Iowa is fairly accurate. Naegele’s is there because this is a personal account, one that makes no attempt to be unbiased. Naegele’s qualifies Good, “good” being […]
Walkscapes: Walking as an Aesthetic Practice by Francesco Careri was originally published in a dual-language Spanish/English edition in 2002, and republished in 2012 (only in Spanish) both times by Editorial Gustavo Gili, SL in Barcelona. When Careri gave a lecture about his research on walking and its impact on contemporary culture and […]
About the Book A House and its Atmosphere is a meditative essay about the experience of designing and building a house of one’s own. Told in seventy black and white photographs and a series of narrative excursions, architect Ben Jacks reflects on a lifetime of influences as he reveals the […]
About the Book (from the Prologue) Francis Jeffrey’s indictment of William Wordsworth’s The Excursion (1814) as “mystical verbiage of the Methodist pulpit”—“This will never do!”—will itself never do (Jeffrey 463, 465). Charles Lamb’s praise of The Excursion as “natural methodism” provides a fuller, more positive clue to the historical, interdisciplinary […]