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Autumn architecture reading

Review | Camille Khouri reviews three recent architecture books, including In Search of Bawa and Simon Devitt’s Rannoch.

Review | Guy Marriage reviews Ben Schrader’s The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities 1840–1920, published by BWB.

People | Vanessa Coxhead spoke to architectural writer Michael Webb about his new book and what makes a great apartment building.

Review | A compilation of book reviews from Houses Australia magazine in 2016 that hone in on alternative housing forms.

Review | Writer John Walsh and photographer Patrick Reynolds talk about their latest book and the future of housing.

Review | Pip Cheshire reviews Peter Beaven ARCHITECT by Peter Beaven.

Review | Pip Cheshire reviews Life of a Building: Futuna, edited by Nick Bevin and Gregory O’Brien.

Review | Colin Martin reviews the film High-Rise, based on JG Ballard’s novel about the psychological effects of ‘the tower block’.

Review | The Politics of Parametricism: Digital Technologies in Architecture, edited by Matthew Poole and Manuel Shvartzberg.

Practice | A review of a selection of influential publications written about the New Zealand-designed landscape since the 1890s.

Review | Guy Marriage reviews Industries of Architecture, edited by Katie Lloyd Thomas, Tilo Amhoff and Nick Beech.

Review | A review of The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design, edited by Peggy Deamer.

Review | This newly released book documents 25 projects that express Isthmus’ personal ideology, style and body of work.

Review | Guy Marriage reviews Worship, a book on the architecture of the New Zealand church.

Review | Matthew Bradbury reviews Living in Paradox: A History of Urban Design across Kainga, Towns and Cities in New Zealand.

Review | The architecture of Japanese houses has developed from imported styles since prehistoric times.

Review | Justine Harvey reviews Morphing: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects and Designers by Joseph Choma.

Review | Architecture New Zealand magazine reviews a new book about the Transitional Cathedral and its architect.

News | Freerange Press is releasing a new book, Once in a Lifetime: City-building after Disaster in Christchurch.

Review | Joanna Bates reviews a book featuring the new breed of the “21st-century-townhouse”.