The Photography Of Architecture: Twelve Views

by Akiko Busch

illustrated Large paperback book on the photography of architecture

233 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1986

About the author

Akiko Busch has written about design and culture since 1979. She is the author of Geography of Home: Writings on Where We Live and The Uncommon Life of Common Objects: Essays on Design an the Everyday. Her most recent book of essays, Nine Ways to Cross a River, a collection of essays about swimming across American Rivers, was published in 2007 by Bloomsbury/USA. She was a contributing editor at Metropolis magazine for 20 years. Her essays have appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues, and she has written articles for Architectural Record, Elle, Home, House & Garden, Metropolitan Home, London Financial Times, The New York Times, Traditional Home, Travel & Leisure and Wallpaper*, among other publications. In Fall, 2005 she served as a Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair for the Visual Arts at the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. She has lectured widely on architecture and design and has appeared on public radio in the U.S. and Canada. Currently, she is a regular contributor to The New York Times Sunday regional section.

Reviews

[False · Rating 2 out of 5]

Certain books don't always age well over time: travel writing, cookbooks, popular culture, fashion. This book, published in 1978. All photographs in black and white, I suppose to heighten the architectural detail of each building or room. The prints are faded, with time. Others buildings have come and gone in the past forty years. I checked this out of the library, solely based on my reading of all of Akiko Busch's work. Of minor, contemporary interest.