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Original Title:	Bldgblog Book
ISBN:	0811866440 (ISBN13: 9780811866446)
Edition Language:	English

The BLDGBLOG Book Paperback | Pages: 272 pages

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Title	:	The BLDGBLOG Book
Author	:	Geoff Manaugh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	June 10th 2009 by Chronicle Books
Categories	:	Architecture. Nonfiction. Art. Design. History

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Read by millions since its launch in 2004, BLDGBLOG is the leading voice in speculation about architecture, landscape, and the built environment. Now The BLDGBLOG Book distills author Geoff Manaugh's unique vision, offering an enthusiastic, idea-filled guide to the future of architecture, with stunning images and exclusive new content. From underground exploration to the novels of J.G. Ballard, from artificial glaciers in the mountains of Pakistan to weather control in Olympic Beijing, The BLDGBLOG Book is "part conceptual travelogue, part manifesto, part sci-fi novel," according to Joseph Grima, executive director of New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture.

"BLDGBLOG is something new and substantially different from anything else I have seen," says Errol Morris, Director of Fast, Cheap & Out of Control and the Academy Award-winning documentary Fog of War. "Secretly, I had always hoped it would become a book. Geoff Manaugh has provided the reader with an excursion into a new world—part digital fantasy, part reality at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape design, and pure ideas. Like the blog, the book is personal, idiosyncratic, and, best of all, incredibly interesting."

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Ratings: 4.22 From 406 Users | 19 Reviews

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A lot of good ideas can be found in this book! You don't have to study architecture to read it.

An unbelievably playful and creative book that challenges you to think outside of your normal preconceptions about what you might consider architecture, building, and non-fiction. More of a collection of flights of fancy and narrative expressions - think pieces - than an academic work, it's a book that (if you'll let it) really lets some air in to an often musty discipline.

So many stimuli paired with nearly zero content. As a blog in the form of a book is surely interesting, full of suggestions and speculations. As a book only, though, lacks unity, relevance and even utility. The same can apply to its main argument (architecture): BLDGBLOG is full with theoretical hints, but empty of any practical value.good for skimming and reading through over a long period, bad to read thoroughly all in one

"I think every piece of infrastructureevery buildingis on a trajectory, and you're experiencing it at just one moment in its very extended life. We see things, but we don't often ask how they came about or where they're going to go from herewhether there will be structural deterioration, or if living things will colonize the structure. We tend to ignore these things, or to see them in temporal isolation. We also don't give enough time or consideration to how this infrastructure fits into the

Geoff Manaugh is my favorite non-fiction writer. For those who don't know, BLDGBLOG is his website on "Architectural Conjecture, Urban Speculation, and Landscape Futures." It's a damn good editorial mix of travels, interviews, and general musings on the spaces we used to, do, and could inhabit.I'm not sure how much of this collection is repurposed from the website since it's been a long time since I've trawled the archive, but it's a treasure trove nonetheless. Besides the greatest hits articles

I received BLDGBLOG Book as a gift from a precious friend and I thank her warmly again and again and again (to indicate my pleasure for this book). I enjoyed reading it. More than a book on blog of architecture, The BLDGBLOG Book is a document on architecture, built and natural environment, on architecture fiction and other landscape futures. Well-written, well-documented, this book is a pleasure to read but also a reference for those with an interest beyond the simple medium of architecture.

4.5* . Superb! A wonderful, imaginative mash-up of architecture and science fiction, philosophy and pop-culture, whismy and logic. Full of amazing essays on architectural theories, but unlike most theory books, this is written in an engaging, relevant, entertaining way - while still going deep. I wish Geoff could teach at my uni!