8 Must-Read Architecture and Design Books This Summer – Azure Magazine

National Museum of Qatar by Philip JodidioLast year saw a bumper crop of impressive museum unveilings — David Adjaye’s Ruby City in Texas, Addenda Architects’ Bauhaus Museum Dessau — but the most spectacular had to be the National Museum of Qatar. Jean Nouvel’s sprawling “desert rose,” an 11-gallery masterpiece composed of hundreds of interlaced disks, became an instant global landmark.This book, published by Thames & Hudson to mark the opening’s first anniversary, more than does justice to the unique facility, cramming many of its 310 pages with sumptuous, full-bleed photos by Iwan Baan and Khalifa Al Obaidly. The text, by noted architectural writer Philip Jodidio, sheds light on just about every conceivable aspect of the museum, from its cladding to its contents. It’s the next best thing to being there (which, these days, is everything). —Danny Sinopoli2

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