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The Transitive Paraphernalia of Love: On Mug Altman’s “Discipline Park”
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A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books
This newsletter for the week of October 14 features two Books of the Week. Both of them overlap with some personal history, so I’m using them as excuses to take trips down memory lane. The books From the Archive at the bottom of the newsletter echo the Books of the Week, while in between are the usual newly released books and architecture book headlines. Happy reading!
Broadly put, the two books featured here are histories of American architecture, both generously illustrated, but in their specifics there are widely divergent. One focuses on an architect who bridged the 19th and 20th centuries and designed buildings that were modern yet were inspired by nature and did not break sharply from the traditional architecture of its time. The other book documents a short-lived niche typology that has been overlooked in histories of architecture. Personally, both books resonate with me in terms of family history and personal experience. The first book is:
Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling by Chris Nichols with Adriene Biondo (Buy from Angel City Press / from Amazon / from Bookshop)
In the 1960s, both of my parents worked in the Chicago Loop office of Brunswick, the maker of bowling, billiards, and other leisure spo
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The Bertrand Goldberg Archive is an extensive collection of photographs, project files, office papers, and professional papers documenting Goldberg's career as architect, engineer, urban planner, lecturer, and businessman. Goldberg's vast oeuvre consists of residential, commercial, industrial, religious, institutional, medical, mixed-use, and prefabricated works, built and unbuilt, throughout the United States and to a lesser extent, abroad. This diversity of building type, geographic location, and date is reflected clearly in this Archive. Some series, such as photographs and slides (Series I, II), writings (Series XIV), and publications (Series XV), can be characterized as relatively complete accumulations, in that most relevant projects, subjects, or time periods are well represented within these groups. Other series, such as project files (Series III-X), correspondence (Series XIII), and office papers (Series XVI), are less complete accumulations. Portions of Goldberg's early career including some seminal projects are underdocumented in these papers and, in general, the volume of materials from the 1970s to the 1990s is much greater than from earlier decades. Though the majority of materials in this collection relate to Goldberg's architectural work, other