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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 1d

A groundbreaking history of Africa’s looted architectural heritage—and a bold proposal for the repatriation of the continent’s stolen cultural artifacts.

Africa's Buildings by Itohan I. Osayimwese is now available (2 Dec UK pub).

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage by Itohan I. Osayimwese

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 1d

With this project, 270 Park Avenue, and no doubt others, they need to make a new documentary:

"How much do the buildings demolished to make way for your buildings weigh, Mr. Foster?"

Dezeen @dezeen.com · 1d

Foster + Partners designing San Siro replacement as demolition edges closer to reality: www.dezeen.com/2025/10/07/san-siro-demolition-foster-partners/

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 2d

Book of the Week in my Substack newsletter is "Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City’s Everyday Architecture" by Carla Bruni and Phil Thompson, published this week by @agatepublishing.bsky.social:
archidose.substack.com/p/chicago-in...
(Scroll down for another Chicago/Agate book from the archive.)

Cover of "Chicago Homes" has a grid of line drawings of different styles of houses and apartment buildings in Chicago.

The cover for "Out of the Loop" shows a lone house at dusk next to an overpass, trees, and with snow on the ground.

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks. I hope you like the book!

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 9d

"Architecture for Culture: Rethinking Museums," written by Béatrice Grenier and published by Rizzoli, is atop my newsletter this week: archidose.substack.com/p/the-museum...

The Museum Is [Fill in the Blank]

Architecture Books – Week 40/2025

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 13d

Why are those windows so skinny now (first/left) compared to the July rendering (second/right)? Ballroom get taller? Bays get narrower? Structure get beefier? Whatever the case, the proportions (both the windows and the pilasters) seem odd to me, not very classical.

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 16d

Fittingly, the film/book from the archive at the bottom of the newsletter is "Koolhaas Houselife" by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine: archidose.substack.com/p/the-name-i...

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 16d

Book of the Week in my Substack newsletter is "The House of Dr Koolhaas" by Françoise Fromonot, the first title in the "Gumshoe" series edited by Fromonot and Thomas Weaver, and published by Park Books: archidose.substack.com/p/the-name-i...

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 23d

And scroll to the bottom to read my write-up of "By the Book: Architecture, Print, and the Future of Monographs," a panel discussion at AIANY/Center for Architecture last week with Holly LaDue from Monacelli Press and Julie Cirelli from Park Books.

L–R: Holly LaDue (Monacelli Press), Julie Cirelli (Park Books), and moderator Leopoldo Villardi (Architectural Record)

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 23d

The new (and first) monograph on London's Assemble is out this week from @thamesandhudson.bsky.social. Written by Aaron Betsky, it's also Book of the Week in my newsletter: archidose.substack.com/p/the-abcs-o...

The ABCs of Assemble

Architecture Books – Week 38/2025

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · Sep 8

This serious yet enjoyable essay summarizes all of the reasons I hate AI:
www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop

AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.

www.e-flux.com

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · Sep 8

Bottom of the post has an old book by Osmund Overby, the architectural historian who started but died about a decade before "Buildings of Missouri" was completed: "Wisconsin Architecture," a survey from the Library of Congress’s Historic American Buildings Survey. I picked up the book while in MO.

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · Sep 8

My newsletter is back from a two-week break and suitably features a book I used while on break: "Buildings of Missouri" by Osmund Overby, Carol Grove and Cole Woodcox, part of the Society of Architectural Historians’ "Buildings of the United States" series.
archidose.substack.com/p/show-me-sh...

Harry S. Truman Visitor Center and Museum, near Warsaw, by Linscott, Haylett and Associates, 1977

Bott House, Kansas City, by Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Associated Architects, 1963

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · Sep 4

When Trump started his second term and issued the memo to Make America Beautiful Again, I signed up for GSA emails to stay in the loop. Instead of news about buildings, new or old, each week seems to bring a bunch of announcement about AI deals and the supposed efficiencies, savings, etc. it brings.

John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · Aug 30

Today's Unzoomed should be an easy one for most architects, urban designers, landscape architects, ...: www.unzoomed.com/en/2025-08-30

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · Aug 29

Checking the proofs for the ***new edition*** of THE DESIGN OF CHILDHOOD with all of my Pulitzer Prize winning essays! Out in November.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/design-of...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Collective publishers are distinct from cooperatives, often more motivated by ideological ideals than by increasing the bottom line." - featuring the Publishers Cooperative, FC2, Ugly Duckling Presse, City Works Press, AK Press

Collective and Co-op Publishers Find Strength in Numbers

Indie collectives and co-ops are creating their own definitions of success—and finding their people.

www.publishersweekly.com

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · Aug 29

Good piece by @rockmarooned.bsky.social that is focused on film and culture reviews but just as easily applies to architecture critics: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

The death of the review? Cultural criticism is at risk of erasure

Recent announcements at major publications have seen critics losing their positions, an ongoing shift that we should all be alarmed by

www.theguardian.com

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · Aug 18

There's a new monograph on WORKac published by Park Books hitting bookstores this week. So it's also in my newsletter this week: archidose.substack.com/p/from-brook...

From Brooklyn to Boulder, Beirut, and Beyond

Architecture Books – Week 34/2025

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · Aug 11

Book of the Week in my Substack is "The Expressway World" by Richard J. Williams, published by @politybooks.bsky.social in July: archidose.substack.com/p/we-are-liv...

We Are Living in an Expressway World

Architecture Books – Week 33/2025

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · Aug 4

Book of the Week in my Substack newsletter is "Value of Design: Creating Agency Through Data-Driven Insights" from the Real Estate Innovation Lab at MIT, while the book From the Archive is "The Creative Destruction of New York City" by Alessandro Busà: archidose.substack.com/p/driving-de...

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · Aug 1

White House rendering vs. Mar-a-Lago reality:

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · Jul 28

Book of the Week in my Substack newsletter is "Tashkent Modernism XX/XXI," edited by Boris Chukhovich, Davide Del Curto and Ekaterina Golovatyuk, published by Lars Müller Publishers:
archidose.substack.com/p/taking-tas...

Taking Tashkent Into the Future

Architecture Books – Week 31/2025

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · Jul 21

My book newsletter this week features "Studio Ghibli: Architecture in Animation" by Hiyao Miyazaki and Terunobu Fujimori and, from the archive, "Terunobu Fujimori: Architect": archidose.substack.com/p/fantasy-ro...

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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · Jul 14

"Pitch Black" is for sale! The Fort Greene (BK) house and studio that David Adjaye designed for artists Lorna Simpson and James Casebere in 2005 is asking $6.5 million. Photo is one I took for my 2011 NYC guidebook. Many pics at 6sqft: www.6sqft.com/modern-fort-...

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