New stuff! 'scape subscription and featured books

We've just added a new title to our growing collection of journals! Even more to come in the near future.

Also, if these feature books don't quench your thirst for exciting new materials, check out our New Books Spotlight page or come in and browse the new book shelf here in the library...get it while it's hot and fresh!

'scape: The international magazine for landscape architecture and urbanism

Each issue of 'scape is oriented around a single principle subject, with four profiles of internationally significant projects and personalities, three critiques by knowledgeable authors, and important information from other areas of landscape architecture and town planning.

The first issue of 2007 is entitled 'Tempting Strategies.' Articles focus on the urban revival of Bogota, the growing consumption of space worldwide, a profile of Dutch architect and urban planner Sjoerd Soeters, and a review of villages and gardens for senior citizens.

The Architect, the cook and good taste

Cooking and building have forever been among humanity's most basic occupations. While both are rooted in necessity, they also possess a cultural and sensory, aesthetic dimension. Both arts give expression to periods of human cultural history and both accord a central role to the materials employed. They involve measuring and proportioning, shaping and designing, assembling and composing.

This book pursues the astonishing parallels and deeply rooted connections between the art of building and that of cooking. Essays take up questions of materiality and proportioning, and attention is given to food cultivation and architecture, to the places where meals are prepared as well as a range of different culinary spaces.

Hiroshi Naito: Innerscape

This book documents the work of one of Japan's most prolific and innovative young architects, known for his complex wooden structures and ornate roofing tiles.

Selected projects include the new Shimane Arts Center, and extensive museum and theater complex, the municipal library in Tokamachi and the botanical museum in Makino. These, and other projects from 1985-2005, are presented with numerous technical drawings showing all their details and material characteristics.