Böcker av Kyle Miller

Building Practice features interviews with architects, designers, educators, curators, fabricators, strategists, critics, and activists who are advancing speculative design through the culture and politics of building, capturing critical and formative moments associated with building a practice. Each interview reveals strategies for linking practical and theoretical forms of knowledge and evidences the active creation of unique approaches to contributing positively to both architectural culture and the built environment. Collectively, an introduction, twelve short texts on topics that are pertinent to architecture today, and thirty-two interviews convey how architects claim conceptual territory regarding form, space, order, materiality, and aesthetics, and push for design to have meaning and value in relation to cultural, environmental, political, and social concerns. The individuals and practices profiled in this book collectively partition themselves from previous generations of experimentally motivated practices while individually exemplifying their own inimitable affinities, techniques, and sensibilities. Building Practice shares the first acts of an emerging generation of practices and identifies the peripheral yet pivotal aspects of building a practice today.

A history of World War II with first hand accounts of the veterans that served in the Battle of the Bulge. The history of World War II is retold by a 16 year old with a passion for history. Interspersed in the overall general history of the war are the personal accounts of the men who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. These personal accounts tell the story of the war through the eyes of the those who actually witnessed it. An effort to preserve the living history of the war, the book captures both the historical facts and the personal insights.