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  • New Books in Architecture

    Lauren Stara, "Planning Library Spaces: A Practical Guide for Library Building Projects" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

    12.08.2026 | 55 min.
    Planning Library Spaces: A Practical Guide for Library Building Projects (Bloomsbury, 2025)
    is a book designed for librarians, trustees, local government
    officials, architects, and interior designers who are designing or
    planning to build, renovate, or reconfigure library spaces. Most
    librarians embark upon a library building project with little experience
    in space planning, architecture, or construction. Written by a
    registered architect and professional librarian, this is a guidebook for
    librarians embarking on a library building project. It includes a brief
    history of library facilities, placing them in the context of public
    buildings. An introduction to library planning principles and a
    discussion of library design concepts and trends are presented,
    including the impact of the 2020 pandemic on library design. Sections on
    working with architects, building design/construction terminology and
    the basics of reading architectural drawings provide insight into
    unfamiliar jargon and visual communication. Extensive illustrations and
    photographs show examples of library layouts and furniture and
    equipment, and the final chapter addresses the challenges inherent in a
    major building project. As library services change, buildings must adapt
    to accommodate and provide these new innovations. Buildings are living
    things, and this book will offer guidance to those embarking on a
    project of any scale or size.

    Guest: Lauren Stara is a registered architect and a
    librarian, specializing in library building design. Her past library
    experience includes everything from front desk clerk to director. As a
    Library Building Specialist for the Massachusetts Board of Library
    Commissioners, Lauren administers grant funds and provides technical
    assistance and advice from initial planning through construction of
    public library projects. She writes, consults, and speaks on library
    design, service design, and future trends in libraries and is coauthor
    of Responding to Rapid Change in Libraries: A User Experience Approach (2020).

    Host: Dr. Michael LaMagna is the Information Literacy Program &
    Library Services Coordinator and Professor of Library Services at
    Delaware County Community College.
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  • New Books in Architecture

    William Whyte, "The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood" (Harvard UP, 2026)

    11.08.2026 | 42 min.
    We often idealize the university as a sanctuary for disinterested
    reason, where material concerns are set aside in favor of higher
    principles. Yet when we remember our own college experiences, what
    springs to mind are not just lofty concepts but also material realities:
    cramped dorm rooms and musty library stacks, gothic towers and freshly
    mowed quads.

    The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood (Harvard
    University Press, 2026) puts such seemingly inconsequential details at
    the center of the institution’s 900-year history. Constructing each
    chapter around an emblematic material—straw, stone, flesh, blood, silk,
    paper, iron, and concrete—Professor William Whyte traces the intimate
    connections between the university’s shifting physical form and its
    evolving social and cultural meanings. From the medieval University of
    Paris, where students purchased bundles of straw to use as chairs in
    otherwise-unfurnished classrooms, to the ocean of concrete at
    postcolonial Nigeria’s Obafemi Awolowo University, Professor Whyte shows
    how competing visions of higher learning left their imprint on
    generations of university architecture, landscaping, and furniture.
    Along the way, he highlights perennial fears that, within the social
    space of the university, the life of the mind would recede before
    worldly interests: that student bloodlines would be tainted by racial
    intermixing, that courting donors with buildings named in their honor
    would become more important than research and education, that the allure
    of powdered wigs and silk gowns would undermine scholarly discipline.

    A richly textured chronicle, The University concludes that,
    even in the age of remote learning, the college campus is irreplaceable.
    The future of higher education includes fiber-optic cables, but stone,
    brick, and steel are here to stay.

    This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book
    focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty
    negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative
    analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find
    Miranda’s interviews on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts.
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  • New Books in Architecture

    Marco Pompili, "Public Housing in Japan: The Dōjunkai Apartments One Hundred Years On" (Brill, 2026)

    10.08.2026 | 57 min.
    Public Housing in Japan: The Dōjunkai Apartments One Hundred Years On
    (Brill, 2026) is the first comprehensive English-language examination
    of the Dōjunkai Foundation (1924-2024). Compiled and edited by Dr. Marco
    Pompili through interviews and studies, it is a must-read for anyone
    interested in modern Japanese architecture. The Dōjunkai Apartments
    (1924-1934), the Foundation's best-known work, introduced apartment
    living to Japan in response to crucial historical and social challenges
    such as urban reconstruction after the devastating earthquake of 1923
    and the emergence of new working and middle classes. The book's texts,
    by prominent scholars and architects, as well as a series of original
    drawings and photographs from the period, bring the work of the Dōjunkai
    Foundation back to life 100 years after its founding. While the
    Dōjunkai Apartments have unfortunately been lost in the rapid changes
    and greedy redevelopment typical of Japanese metropolises, this book
    seeks to contribute to the preservation of their memory and their
    significance.
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  • New Books in Architecture

    Stefan Al, "Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home" (Norton, 2026)

    09.08.2026 | 30 min.
    A sweeping history of humanity’s most fundamental creation―the home―and its effects on the land, cities, and people themselves.

    Americans
    spend, on average, 90 percent of their lives indoors, with two-thirds
    of that time spent in their homes. Globally, the construction and
    maintenance of residential buildings account for a staggering portion of carbon emissions. In this timely
    and fascinating work, architect and urban-planning scholar Stefan Al
    deftly weaves together archaeology, engineering, social history, and
    environmental science to explain how our homes have developed through
    the ages and in turn shaped civilization and the planet itself.

    From
    tiny pit-houses in the Levant and Mesoamerica thousands of years ago to
    soaring skyscrapers in Dubai, New York, and Shanghai today, Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home (W. W. Norton & Company, 2026) takes
    readers on a swift and absorbing tour of the evolution of human
    habitation. Whisking readers from ancient Pompeii to contemporary Hong
    Kong, industrial-age Liverpool to postwar Levittown, Al shows how our
    choices in housing have both reflected and affected ideas about gender
    roles, privacy, and comfort. Discover how seemingly mundane
    elements―like door-knockers
    and corridors―have altered everyday interactions, and how material
    choices have remade the planet’s surface. He also confronts the darker
    side of domesticity, exposing the unintended consequences of our
    architectural choices across millennia, including smoke-filled Neolithic
    dwellings, deadly fires in crowded Roman apartment buildings, and
    worsening social isolation in car-dependent suburbs. Finally, he
    examines the myths and reality of future housing, including 3D-printed
    homes and space architecture built by robots.

    Drawing from personal experiences
    across global cities and professional insights, Al illuminates how our
    choices in housing continue to influence everything from social
    relationships to climate change, ultimately arguing
    that understanding this rich history is crucial for building a more
    sustainable future. With billions more people needing housing in the
    coming decades, Dwelling on Earth reveals how we might transform humanity’s defining challenge into our greatest opportunity.

    HOST BIO: Alex Hallbom is an urban planner and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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  • New Books in Architecture

    Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–32" (Lund Humphries, 2026)

    03.08.2026 | 57 min.
    Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–1932
    (Lund Humphries, 2026) by Dr. Elizabeth Darling is about the
    architecture and design of broadcasting in the 1920s and 1930s,
    examining the buildings which the BBC occupied in its founding decades,
    with a particular focus on Broadcasting House in London. It argues that
    these environments were as constitutive of the Corporation’s identity as
    the programmes and people that they housed. Borrowing from the
    architectural writer Christopher Hussey’s characterisation of
    Broadcasting House as a ‘palace of the ether’ Dr. Darling asks how the
    immaterial medium of the broadcast was given material and spatial form
    by the BBC, and the engineers, architects and designers whom they commissioned.

    The
    book traces the development of the BBC both technologically and
    organisationally, and the changing demands it had of the spaces which
    accommodated it. It shows how associational networks and personal
    affiliations affected who was commissioned to work on what became
    Broadcasting House and offers a detailed account of the work of Val
    Myer, who designed the exterior and shell of the new building, and the
    team of architects who designed the studio interiors (Serge Chermayeff,
    Wells Coates, Edward Maufe, Raymond McGrath and Dorothy Warren). In
    documenting the design of Broadcasting House, and the responses to it, Palace of the Ether offers new insights into British architectural culture at a pivotal moment in the profession’s history.

    This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book
    focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty
    negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative
    analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find
    Miranda’s interviews on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts. 
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    Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/architecture
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