No comments about Perspecta 29: The Yale Architectural Journal.

No comments about Drager House (Architecture in Detail).

No comments about The Architect's Secret: Victorian Critics and the Image of Gravity.

No comments about Architecture in Britain & Ireland 600-1500.

No comments about Archilab: Radical Experiments in Global Architecture.

No comments about La imagen romantica de espana/ The Romantic Image of Spain: Arte Y Arquitectura Del Siglo XX (Alianza forma).

No comments about Pienza: Der Entwurf einer humanistischen Weltsicht.

4 comments about Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited.

1. A beautiful book, but it is principally a very short compendium of the Ruskin book assorted with awesome pictures!



2. I am a yearly visitor to Venice and an amateur of Venetian history. I have tried to read the original Ruskin several times and always got bogged down in it. This book does a lovely job highlighting Ruskin's voluminous work with wonderfully detailed photography. I was in Venice 2 weeks ago and having read this book greatly enhanced my appreciation of the architectural details of many buildings. Highly recommended for anyone desiring to take the time to study the exquisite fine points of this jewel of a city.



3. I read an original copy (circa 1890), a three volume set with beautiful, color stone lithographs and (of course) no editorial abridgment. It became a gift to a friend wanting to learn about architecture as the best possible starting point. I cannot condone abridgment of this work. Particularly as Ruskin's illustrations really clarify his presentation.
   
   But if one is willing to overlook unnecessary editorial wiseacreing, this book is obviously a classic. It is a marvelous experience to be able to look at a building, any building, when driving or walking down a street, and know the history, name, and significance of each of its facets and adornments.
   
   Unless you happen to live in an area with considerable architectural variety, you will find your newly acquired skills only serve to confirm your opinion that we live in an age of totally bland and meaningless construction.
   
   I cannot recommend this book (at least in its original) highly enough.



4. This is a deeply inspiring photographic account of Ruskin's commitment to Venice. It serves as a remarkable and revelatory companion to Ruskin's THE STONES OF VENICE and, to any one who cares about this city, it is an entirely necessary book. It is difficult to imagine how it might have been done better.

No comments about City Levels.

1 comments about The Ancient Ones: Sacred Monuments of the Inka, Maya & Cliffdweller.

1. This is a beautifully designed, well executed, and powerful publication that leaves the reader both informed and mystified by its contents. Hans Li successfully integrates stunning visual images of the architecture of the ancient Americas with verbal excerpts underlying the myths that surround the creation of such structures, thereby linking the notion of ancient ritual and spiritual ceremony with what is essentially one of the earliest formations of civilization. "The Ancient Ones" underlies a connection between the spiritual and the tangible, between legend and civilization, and between man nature with a kind of purpose and humility that is both poignant and alluring. I highly recomend a look through his website www.theancient1s.com which contains all the images from the book, plus a few bonuses on the author and his exhibitions.