Book Briefs #41: Six Monographs
I've decided to bring back "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. Obviously, these briefs are not full-blown reviews, but they are a way to share more books worthy of attention than those that end up as long reviews. This installment features six monographs published between December 2020 and January 2022.
Todd Saunders: New Northern Houses by Dominic Bradbury | Thames & Hudson | November 2021 | 12 x 10-1/2 inches | 256 pages | $75 | Amazon / Bookshop
When I think of architect Todd Saunders, two places spring to mind: Fogo Island in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and Norway. Saunders was raised and educated in Canada, and he has been based in Bergen, Norway, since 1996. Although the Fogo Island Inn and other smaller structures on Fogo Island are more familiar to people in the US than his Norwegian houses, one would have to search out the hard-to-find Architecture in Northern Landscapes from 2012 (updated in 2016) for a book with those projects (or watch one-hour documentary devoted to them). New Northern Houses is all about, clearly, recently completed residential projects: nine in Norway, one in British Columbia, and one in Ontario. The large page size and landscape format (very much like the monograph on Sean Godsell's houses, also published by Thames & Hudson) is used to full effect, with large color photo...
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