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• Book 'Engaging Spaces'

  The best of Kossmann.dejong's oeuvre of exhibition designs come alive through unexpected use of ordinary materials to make what the firm calls Engaging Spaces.

• Exhibit: 'Judith Turner: The Flatness of Ambiguity'

  The University of Michigan Museum of Art has a new exhibition of photos by the acclaimed architectural photography of Judith Turner. Through Sept. 2.

• Exhibit: Mini-Golf at the National Building Museum

  Practitioners from the D.C. region designed and detailed the holes for an architecturally inspired indoor mini-golf course. Through September 3.

• Book: 'Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next'

  An enthusiastic, if not horrifying, glimpse at our possible future of airport cities. Co-authors Greg Lindsay and John Kasarda reintroduce the idea of the city of the future as the spokes surrounding the hub of an airport, and find evidence to justify their assertions.

• Book: 'Vitamin G'

  A best-of compilation and sourcebook for lo-fi sustainable projects and green features includes small-scale and large-scale ideas alike.

• Book: 'Draw Me a House'

  Thibaud Herem’s new book provides a wealth of inspiration for the young architect.

• Studio Visit: Olson Kundig Architects

  The studio crit remains a crucial part of the culture at this Seattle-based firm, which stops work once per week to gather for a group critique, even as it has grown from two to nearly 100 people.

• Book: 'One Million Acres & No Zoning'

  As with so much about Texas, the book 'One Million Acres & No Zoning,' a love letter to Houston by Rice School of Architecture professor Lars Lerup, is full of contradictions.

• Exhibit: 'Hello Materials'

  From where do our materials come from, and to where do they go? A new exhibit in Denmark investigates. Through Sept. 21.

• Geometric Objects up for Auction at Wright

  The Chicago auction house's semiannual Mass Modern sale includes exquisite, geometrically pure objects by Hoffmann, Peche, and Mangiarotti.