Reddit mentions: The best regional architecture books

I own a tipi. My wife made the poles out of lodgepole (I think) pine, and the cover was made by some friends of hers who have a business. This book is great, and has plans if you want to make your own cover.

I love our tipi. I spend a week in it every fall, and we bring it to music festivals, where it is an absolute hit.

Good luck!

HK

• Much more commercial than I expected. The ability to turn every building into a mall is quite admirable, though the high end malls ended up seeming extremely samey after a while
  
• The urbanism of Central + Tsim Sha Tsui was awesome. I loved being able to walk around above and below ground level without ever having to step foot outside. The city certainly lived up to its promises
  
• The frequency of jewelry shops (Chow Tai Fook, Chow Sang Sang, Lukfook etc) was quite alarming. Why are there so many??
  
• Can we just transplant the MTR to NYC please? Other than the color scheme of the car interiors - white/bloodred/chrome seemed slightly apocalyptic in a way. (I still think the Taipei MRT is better though)
  
• dimmm summm mmmm
  
• Cantonese hospitality lives up to its reputation
  
• I should probably learn Canto - would've been helpful
  
• did not expect people to wait for the light to change at crosswalks
  
  
  Would I go back? Likely not in the foreseeable future apart from a short layover. It was a good trip but I suspect it might be more enjoyable if I go back I'm older and richer.
  

The unfortunate reality is that many of the tribes lost the art and history behind the tipi. The best resource we have today is a book by a white man who resided with several tribes and wrote down his knowledge in a book originally published back in 1957.

http://smile.amazon.com/The-Indian-Tipi-History-Construction/dp/0806122366?sa-no-redirect=1

Today pretty much everything you read is taken either directly or indirectly from that book. Fortunately it's a great read and the Laubins took great care in not only detailing how a tipi is made/built/lived in but also why and the cultural heritage behind it.

That is a great starting point.

After that talk attending pow wows can be another resource as methodology varies greatly not only from tribe to tribe but from family to family.

Way cool. We want to retire to one down the road. I'm also researching traditional Native American tipis which we'll probably build as well. If we nab a camper though that will take a backseat because I'll have to build a carport for it to take care of it over the winter here.

From what I've read the RV shows are overwhelming and the models all blend together very quickly. Mostly I just want some exposure and the opportunity to talk to other owners as well as the OEMs about the basics.

This beast helped me in finding design inspiration plus it helps keep my arms in shape for all the coffee I drink.

This is featured in "Never Built New York", a book full of amazing projects that never came to fruition.

Wish I could say that, it was in 2010 and I noped out of that nonsense as soon as I could believe that they were serious. Searching for the phrase in the older year range brought another 'space' issue, from 2001

>Is the building and controlling of space a feminist issue? Consider the Washington Monument, a prominent feature of our nation's capital--a tall, pointed shaft of a building. Or consider the assembly line layout of a maternity ward--women shunted from labor to delivery to recovery--and how it dehumanizes that most female of roles, giving birth. Leslie Kanes Weisman, former dean of architecture, offers this critique of space management. It is complemented by practical advice on creating more inclusive architecture and community.

http://www.amazon.com/Discrimination-Design-Feminist-Critique-Environment/dp/0252063996

Since we're recommending books, I think everyone in the sub needs to read these two books before mouthing off in their respective topics.

Naked Economics

White City Black City

The Architecture Student's Guide to Professional Practice

Got it. Its called Never Built New York

Exhibition: http://www.queensmuseum.org/2016/10/never-built-new-york

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Never-Built-York-Greg-Goldin/dp/1938922751

There does seem to be a concerted effort to remove all-male spaces. Even the Boy Scouts aren't permitted to be purely boys. Feminism seems to be the primary reason for this attitude.

That doesn't prevent ad hoc all male groups from forming, but there's clearly defined and expressed hostility towards any all-male gathering.

> "There was a haveli [mansion] owned by Hindu ruler Jai Singh which existed before the Taj was built there.

> "Shah Jahan officially bought the haveli from him. An official farman [order] was issued about this and it still exists. The farman also shows that the Mughals were very particular about recording their deeds and history," she said.

> Ms Safvi says a book titled Taj Mahal: The Illumined Tomb by WE Begley and ZA Desaihas compiled an anthology of these documents.

> "From such books I realised how well-documented the building of the mausoleum was. I use these translations to present my arguments that the Taj Mahal was built on the land where Raja Jai Singh had a mansion and that there is no mention of any religious building on that land," she said.