The Editors Spherical Up Notable Books on All Issues Home

The Edith Farnsworth Home: Structure, Preservation, Tradition,
by Michelangelo Sabatino. Contributions by Scott Mehaffy, Dietrich Neumann, Ron Henderson, and Hilary Lewis. Monacelli, 256 pages, $75.

Few homes are as iconic because the one Mies van der Rohe designed for nephrologist and humanities patron Edith Farnsworth in Plano, Illinois. On the event of the twentieth anniversary of this masterwork’s bequest to the Nationwide Belief for Historic Preservation, Michelangelo Sabatino not solely totally charts the proliferation of the home’s picture in architectural glossies, historical past books, and tradition writ giant—however he additionally figuratively brings the shopper, neglected as an mental match to her architect, again to life. The wide-ranging array of ephemera, images, and drawings—handsomely offered—will certainly impress archive-obsessed readers too. Leopoldo Villardi

The New Modernist Home: Mid-Century Houses Renewed for Modern Residing,
by Patricia Callan. Thames & Hudson, 280 pages, $60.

The heyday of Modernism was over half a century in the past. Though buildings of that period represented the innovative on the time of their development, they’re, in lots of instances, approaching outdated age. The New Modernist Home, authored by Patricia Callan, examines 21 midcentury homes throughout Australia which were painstakingly restored and renewed by householders, architects, and fanatics alike. In so doing, the quantity additionally reveals the work of lesser-known designers akin to Ernest Fooks, Anatol Kagan, and Alistair Knox. Matthew Marani

Whereas its geographic scope is (mercifully) extra restricted than its subtitle may indicate, Reside covers a huge quantity of floor inside Canada’s British Columbia, from better Victoria and the Gulf Islands to Vancouver and the Kootenays. The e-book’s 34 initiatives—organized by context—showcase a “placing variety of concepts, options, compositional methods, and materials palettes, which collectively mirror the situations of latest settler residential design within the province,” writes Michael Propokow. Matt Hickman

Homes Pure/Pure Homes,
by Philip Jodidio. Rizzoli, 304 pages, $65.

This globe-spanning compendium spotlights 51 houses that “return to nature”—that’s, sustainable, small-scale residences that exist harmoniously inside unspoiled and infrequently distant landscapes. Touching down in locales starting from Nicaragua to Norway, Tasmania to Joshua Tree, are: initiatives by the anticipated companies (for instance, Olson Kundig and Snøhetta); various Antipodean architects (akin to Sean Godsell and John Wardle); and a smattering of Design Vanguards, together with Thailand’s Sher Maker (2024) and Chile’s Max Núñez (2017), whose Home within the Timber is featured within the September subject. MH

The Nicely-Designed Accent Dwelling Unit: Becoming Nice Structure into Small Areas,
by Lydia Lee. Foreword by Barbara Bestor. Schiffer Publishing, 176 pages, $35.

In The Nicely-Designed Accent Dwelling Unit, creator Lydia Lee investigates this more and more fashionable housing typology, profiling 16 buildings from throughout North America. Encompassing additions to present homes, transformed garages, and new indifferent buildings, the e-book covers each site-built and prefab approaches. With useful suggestions, akin to test if a jurisdiction permits ADUs, and highlights on space-saving methods, it’s clearly focused to a lay viewers. Nevertheless, the choice of ingenious formal options, from a geode-like writing studio to a crimson stucco–lined quantity with an off-kilter roof, will make this e-book gratifying and instructive for architects as properly. Joann Gonchar, FAIA

The Henry Clay Frick Homes: Structure, Interiors, Landscapes within the Golden Period,
by Martha Frick Symington Sanger. Foreword by Wendell Garrett. Monacelli, 312 pages, $85.

Elsie de Wolfe noticed that the story of homes is the story of life. Sanger, great-granddaughter and biographer of Gilded Age industrial tycoon Henry Clay Frick, tells the story of her formidable household by profiling its home structure, from art-filled city dwellings to sprawling nation retreats. Amply illustrated with 300 archival images and drawings, this reprint of Sanger’s 2001 e-book coincides with the upcoming reopening of the Frick Assortment, now one in all America’s most celebrated home museums. Molly Heintz

Peter Marino: Ten Trendy Homes,
by Peter Marino. Introduction by Pilar Viladas, with contributions by Sam Lubell. Phaidon, 272 pages, $150.

Don’t decide a e-book by its cowl. Ten Trendy Homes—sq. in format with daring sort and inked e-book edging—unfolds with a collection of residences which are extra opulent than readers may anticipate from its title or, for that matter, from an architect identified for his biker getup, usually togged in leather-based from head to toe. Peter Marino’s newest monograph showcases 9 accomplished works from the final decade, whereas 5 extra, all on the boards, vie to be the titular tenth. Sketches introducing every mission, drawn with heavy black strokes, add a becoming private aptitude. LV

Homes: Vo Trong Nghia & the Work of VTN Architects,
by Vo Trong Nghia. Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 320 pages, $75.

VTN Architects, based in 2006 by Vo Trong Nghia, lays out its intimate idea of inexperienced structure—rooted in Buddhist rules and hyperlocal apply—on this photo-packed monograph with 15 initiatives, all within the agency’s house turf of Vietnam. Lushly planted and naturally ventilated raw-concrete homes are offered as antidote to, and respite from, the social and environmental ills related to fashionable city dwelling. Pansy Schulman

Structure of Place: Bates Masi + Architects,
by Paul Masi. Introduction by Pilar Viladas. Oro Editions, 304 pages, $65.

Bates Masi + Architects is a lot accustomed to the Hamptons—for over half a century, the agency has designed scores of homes throughout its sand-specked and wooded landscapes. This monograph surveys latest work, which is usually rooted in place with site-specific massing methods and a vernacular materials palette. Over some 200 pages of images and drawings (plans, sections, and particulars), readers garner a complete take a look at the agency’s methodology. MM

Stone Homes.
Introduction by Tessa Pearson. Phaidon, 240 pages, $50.

Stone, the erstwhile go-to constructing materials, generally deemed stodgy or standing in opposition to modern design, is present process a reappraisal. This hefty quantity, curated by the editors of publishing large Phaidon, surveys 50 initiatives from greater than 20 nations that spotlight distinctive purposes of stone, from landmarks together with Fallingwater to Portugal’s boulder-straddling Casa Do Penedo, designed by engineer Leonel Marques Rodrigues. MM

Towards the Grain: Mass Timber within the House,
by William Richards. Foreword by Jennifer Castenson. Schiffer Publishing, 192 pages, $50.

Mass timber has obtained a lot consideration for its promise as a low-carbon alternative for metal or concrete, particularly in tall or giant buildings. However Towards the Grain takes a totally different tack, as a substitute exploring the fabric’s environmental and aesthetic potential at a smaller scale in 12 single-family homes and modestly sized housing initiatives. Maybe unsurprisingly, given the perceived dangers that encompass the still-nascent development system, half of the featured buildings are the designers’ personal residences or buildings for which the architect doubled as developer. As Jennifer Bonner is quoted saying concerning the multi-peaked dwelling she constructed for herself in Atlanta, “No one was going to name me and ask for a CLT home, so I needed to do it myself.” JG