Kieran Long, Johan Orn, and Mikael Andersson. Park Books Publishers with ArkDes. 712 pages. August 2021. A four year project, the catalog to the massive exhibit to open Fall 2021 in Stockholm at ArkDes Museum, the exhibit itself designed by London's Caruso St. John Architects. The catalog is structured in three parts - Biography, Photographs and Archive - each thorough, new, intensive and beautifully displayed. There has always been extraordinary interest in Lewerentz's work, from around the world - he is the legend and myth, he is the formidable enigma. It is the Woodland Chapel that designers travel around the world to visit, to hold. It is the flower shop in Malmo, the churches St. Marks and St. Peter. This is the first extensive display of Lewerentz work since the 1980s and shall finally bring the genius of this intensely private architect to a brilliant, open view. Born in 1885, his first major project, with the more voluble Erik Gunnar Asplund, came when he was 30 years old, the Woodland Cemetery, which has since been designated a Unesco World Heritage site. Here, in a difficult year, a catalog of passion and knowledge, of history and presence, of such intent and labor that it is a literal inspiration. And a remarkable honor. UPS Shipping ONLY. Not applicable for Media Mail.

Amy Astley, Architectural Digest. Abrams Publishers. 463 pages, cloth 2020. So funny, you can not not look at this, it is a runway of rare looks inside private worlds, the best interiors of the past 100 years. From Lautner and Capote to Wearstler and Vervoordt. Divided, with certainly some tongue, into California, Celebrities, Designers' Own Homes, City, Artists, Country, Fashion Insiders and Cost.  That should get you there, and of course, it does. You barely have time for a drink or barely can do it without a drink. What fun and fortune.

Nola Anderson, photos by Clint Clemens. 232 pages. The history, restoration and renewal of The Chimneys. a great Olmsted seaside garden, purchased by Nola Anderson and her husband in 1991.

US Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection, 1886-1942, 378 pp., Atelier Editions 2021, cloth $50. A grandma once told me, when she was 16 years old, you were expected to know 16 different kinds of apples, by their smell and looks and taste, and that was how you knew when and what to use in an apple pie. This is a lovely book, a catalog of such knowledge, and such times, a sweet presentation of paying attention and loving attention, a playlist of fruits and nuts. Includes contributions by authors Jacqueline Landy, John McPhee, Michael Pollan and Marina Vitaglione.

Women in Architecture - Past, Present, and Future by Ursula Schwitalla. 216 pp. In color and B&W.

Traversing the House and the City by Kazuo Shinohara, with 200 pages of color and B&W media. Features interviews, essays, and translated texts. Shinohara was one of Japan's most influential architects postwar. And several of his houses are true legends. This is a study of his woder concerns - the city, relation of house to city, his urban projects, his urban visions. Published with Harvard GSD

The Ideal City - Exploring Urban Futures by SPACE10. 256pp. SPACE10 visits 53 cities in 30 different countries, detailing the specifics different firms have enacted to envision a more ideal city.

Inspired by Place, created by CLB Architects. 448 pages of full color photographs. foreword by Ian Volner, introduction by Tom Kundig. A tribute to Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Montana, to rocks and stones and trees, to big and to gentle. CLB Architects was founded in 1992, in what was an almost shy ski town, mountain village. Jackson Hole has become the very front edge of rural modernism, the literal icon of residential architecture and design in the mountains, of the mountains.  CLB is right there, a fine and wonderful crew, bent to the task of keeping honor and power and sheer intelligence pointed right at the design of their mountain houses. In a way, their harshest critics are the trees and the land, the mountains and the streams, the wind and snow and the animals. And all of history. And they know it. Ten very powerful wood and stone houses, presented in the fullest color and in the fullest natural context.

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Up we go, up it must go, slender, slim, tiny and tall, the new urban housing design and its most complicated task. 48 projects, all over the urban landscape, solving and celebrating the details of vertical design in compact space. Done well, it is the thrill of intent and a true bow to design. Done well, it is the city as great hope.

18 houses for AIR, 12 for EARTH, 10 for FIRE and 14 for WATER, from all over this land and world. From Vietnam to Finland, from Olson Kundig in Kona to a Tulum treehouse, all in lovely color photos. And in each case, nature is not the backdrop, it is the houses that are showing respect. 256 pp.