New Book Dedicated to Screen Blocks in Hawai‘i
Architecture geeks take note: Docomomo Hawai‘i celebrates the screen block with a breezy new book.
Seen one screen block, seen ’em all? The concrete building material is so ubiquitous in the Islands that it would be easy to think so, until you flip through Screen Blocks in Hawai‘i: Letting Trade Winds Flow. The newly released book from Docomomo Hawai‘i, the nonprofit dedicated to conserving modern architecture, documents a whopping 45-plus different styles of screen blocks in Hawai‘i. The book also considers screen blocks’ origins here, their rise in popularity as part of the post-World War II development boom and chronicles its use by leading architects and in iconic buildings.
$15, docomomo-hi.com, @docomomohi
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