HeyJaredA Weekly Dose of Architecture Books
A weekly newsletter on architecture books, delivered on Mondays with a "Book of the Week," a curated list of new architecture books, a roundup of architecture book news, and a glance at one or two old books related to the Book of the Week.
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Books Received and Noted – Fall 2026 Edition (opens the original)
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A Book of Sixes (opens the original)
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This newsletter for the week of September 21 looks inside Becoming: Architectures for a Planet in Transition, the catalog to the UIA World Congress that took place under the same name a few months ago. Though published in time for the event, which I was able to attend, the book is being released this week in the United States. The book from the archive is a catalog for another triennial event, but one I was not fortunate enough to visit. In between are the usual headlines and new releases. Happy
An Archi–Political Trilogy (opens the original)
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This newsletter for the week of September 14 heads to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to take in Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa, the exhibition curated by Martino Stierli and Ikem Stanley Okoye, who edited the companion catalog of the same name. Further down we take a brief look at the catalogs to two previous exhibitions at MoMA curated by Stierli, while the usual headlines and new releases are in between. Happy reading!Book of the Week<a class="image-link image2 is-viewa
Finding Astra (opens the original)
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This newsletter for the week of September 7 delves into Astra Zarina: Lessons on Continuity and Change, the forthcoming book (released the end of this month in the US) by Laura Helena Wurth that briefly presents the life of architect, educator, and preservationist Astra Zarina, and which launches the She Was an Architect series that “highlights forgotten and overlooked female architects of the 20th century.” With Zarina’s passion for a hill town in Italy, the newsletter also features an old book
Two Takes on Modern Japanese Architecture (opens the original)
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This newsletter for the week of August 31 features two books on Japanese architecture that have been published by Thames & Hudson a few months apart: Ari Seligmann’s KA ME RA: Modern Japanese Architecture through the Photographer’s Lens, published in March, and Naomi Pollock’s Vanishing Japan: Modern Architecture, Gone But Not Forgotten, published this week. The book From the Archive is about a building that makes an appearance in both Books of the Week: Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower. I
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