Books chosen by the New York Architecture and Design Book Club
 

American Modern: Architecture; Community; Columbus, Indiana (Monacelli Press) with contributions by Matt Shaw and photographs by Iwan Baan
 
Minerva Parker Nichols, The Search for a Forgotten Architect
("The untold story of America's first independent female architect. Minerva Parker Nichols (1862-1949) was the first American woman to practice architecture independently. Her specialty was residential spaces--though her commissions also included an iron foundry and a macaroni factory--and she was a significant figure in the design of the emerging railroad towns just outside of Philadelphia, where she was in active practice from 1883 until 1896.")
 
The Advanced School of Collective Feeling: Inhabiting Modern Physical Culture 1926–38
 
("The Advanced School of Collective Feeling explores the advent of radical new conceptions of the body—a phenomenon known in the 1920s and ’30s as 'physical culture'—and their impact on the thinking of some of modern architecture’s most influential figures")
 
A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes
("The first major publication devoted to weaver and designer Dorothy Liebes, reinstating her as one of the most influential American designers of the twentieth century")
 
Touch Wood: Material, Architecture, Future
("Wood is the building material of the 21st century. Understanding the renewable raw material and its potential requires recognizing it in its ecological, technological and cultural-historical contexts. These are explored in the publication and presented with inspiring examples – practical and visionary.")
 
Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place
("Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place surveys the last 10 years of Burks’s global workshop-based practice, alongside a new commission of speculative works exploring ideas concerning domesticity in the wake of global crises.")

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