Here is the next installment of "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 four recently published monographs in two pairs: two small ones (for architecture books) followed by two big ones.

Verify in Field: Projects and Coversations Höweler Yoon by Eric Höweler and J. Meejin Yoon | Park Books | May 2022 | 7-3/4 x 9-1/4 inches | 360 pages | $50 | Amazon / BookshopVerify in Field, the second monograph on Boston's Höweler + Yoon, comes about a dozen years after their first book, Expanded Practice, and as the studio moves forward in its third decade of existence. In 2009, at the release of the first monograph, their most famous project was most likely White Noise / White Light, an interactive sound and light installation located in the shadow of the Acropolis during Athens's hosting of the Olympic Games in 2004. Fast forward to the present and the most well-known project by the studio of Eric Höweler and J. Meejin Yoon is a pavilion: the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia. While these two projects would appear to indicate that Höweler + Yoon have not advanced far in terms of typology and scale (they ...