The Anatomy of the Architectural Book

How printed, mass-produced books on architecture shaped knowledge of the discipline itself

Published with Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Examining the crossovers between book culture and building culture makes the axes visible along which architectural knowledge circulates through books into buildings and back. Dissecting a breadth of architectural books through five conceptual tools--texture, surface, rhythm, structure and scale--author and architect André Tavares analyzes the material q...