Architecture (History-Theory-Practice) and Graphic Design Books
polytekton Volume 1: mikeschDesign 1978-1989 is a collection of architectural projects, essays, etchings, photography, paintings, and drawings completed between 1978 and 1989 by the designer Mikesch Muecke, aka polytekton.
Texts and images (black & white). Volume 1 of 3.
Essays on the Intersection of Music and Architecture is a collection of nine texts written by international scholars. Most of the essays were originally presented at the interdisciplinary conference Architecture | Music | Acoustics that took place in Toronto, Canada, in June 2006 at Ryerson University. The texts range from historiographical and theoretical explorations of the relations between music and architecture via translations of architectural spaces into music to analytical case studies of architectural spaces for musical performance. The book includes illustrations, author biographies, and an index.
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Perspective Drawing: The Projected Image Method is a book that teaches hands-on perspective drawing using the projected image method developed by architect and former University of Florida architecture professor Harry Merritt. The book includes detailed instructions on how to generate one-, two- and three-point perspectives. With many illustrations and a preface by Culicidae Architectural Press editor Mikesch Muecke.
polytekton Volume 2: mikeschDesign 1990-1997 is a collection of architectural projects, essays, etchings, photographs, paintings, and drawings completed between 1990 and 1997 by the designer Mikesch Muecke, aka polytekton.
Texts and images (black & white). Volume 2 of 3.
Universal-Design Bathroom by misumiwaDesign is a documentation of a modern design/build renovation of a universal-design bathroom suite for a retired and disabled music teacher by the design company misumiwaDesign. Includes numerous full-color illustrations of design sketches and drawings as well as demolition, construction, and in-use photographs.
A design/build project by misumiwaDesign, in which the company transformed a 1970s kitchen to 21st-century standards for a disabled and retired music teacher. The book chronicles the design decision-making process through sketches, CAD drawings, demolition, construction, and final installation/in-use photographs, and a descriptive text.
Until now Gottfried Semper (1803-1873) has been framed as an important theoretician but a merely historicist architect. With a few exception no scholar has so far analyzed the resonance between his writings and his built works. Rather than limit himself to a historical analysis of either, the author explores in this text the consequences of thinking architectural production as the convergence of writing and building in six of Semper’s lesser known works, developed during his tenure in Zurich, Switzerland, between 1854 and 1871.
A biography about the graphic designer Max Hertwig who worked at the beginning of the 20th century with and for such masters of design as Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Chamelion- and Zelig-like he happened to be in the right places at the right time without getting much attention for his substantial contributions to the discipline and profession of graphic design. This book, by Hertwig's grandson C. Arthur Croyle—a well-known illustrator and painter—provides a comprehensive and exhaustive study of Hertwig's amazing, yet almost forgotten work.
Delight’s Muse is a blessedly short, accessible, and thoughtfully illustrated summary of Christopher Alexander’s four volume work, The Nature of Order. It rescues readers from the massive effort required to navigate Alexander’s 2000-page labyrinth without map or compass. Delight’s Muse will interest not only fans of Alexander’s earlier books (the best known being A Pattern Language from 1977, and The Timeless Way of Building from 1979) but everyone willing to entertain a fresh and stimulating way to observe the world and the variety of things we place in it.
A design/build project by misumiwaDesign, in which the company transformed a 1970s kitchen to 21st-century standards for a disabled and retired music teacher. The book chronicles the design decision-making process through sketches, CAD drawings, demolition, construction, and final installation/in-use photographs, and a descriptive text.
