Reviewing Design Book Review
A Counteranthology
- This book looks back on Design Book Review, a journal of architectural ideas published between 1983 and 2001, bringing together selected excerpts from DBR’s pages alongside an oral history and new essays
- Founded in Berkeley, California, DBR created a new kind of architectural journal aimed at communicating the debates and ideas of the field to the general public
- This was a major journal that was an epicentre of architectural conversation for many who came of age during these decades, but has been largely under-discussed since
Design Book Review, published between 1983 and 2001, was a wide-ranging journal of architectural ideas founded and edited in offices in Berkeley, California. Taking the book review as its primary format, the journal connected its community of readers with emerging ideas in architecture, design, urban planning, and beyond. DBR guided its readers through this expanding landscape of architectural publishing with a distinctly accessible voice — “no less than the indispensable record and the liveliest critique of contemporary architectural consciousness”, as the late Michael Sorkin put it. Gathering together a remarkable constellation of authors, it remains an enduring document of design discourse in the closing decades of the twentieth century. Assembled by the editors in a spirit of counteranthology, Reviewing Design Book Review features notable texts from DBR’s pages alongside an oral history and newly commissioned essays that extend the journal’s ambitions into the present.
- Publisher
- ORO Editions
- ISBN
- 9781961856127
- Publish date
- 14th Sep 2026
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Territory
- World excluding USA, Canada, Australasia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan
- Size
- 229 mm x 171 mm
- Pages
- 256 Pages
- Illustrations
- 220 color
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