No comments about New Architecture in China.

No comments about Architecture and Power in Africa:.

1 comments about Abstraction and Transcendence: Nature, Shintai, and Geometry in the Architecture of Tadao Ando.

1. It was a fascinating book for anyone who has the slightest interest in architecture, history, and geometry. It is a must read for all searching for insight into these fields.

1 comments about Oppositions Reader: Selected Essays 1973-1984.

1. a great project, a necessary book to understand the Seventeens, not only in the architecture, not only for architects.

No comments about Modern Architecture.

No comments about Architecture in the Netherlands: Yearbook 2001-2002.

No comments about The Judicious Eye: Architecture Against the Other Arts.

1 comments about Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (Texts & Documents).

1. Mallgrave and the Getty have done it again, bridging the gap between modernity and 18th century classic culture. This beautiful edition, supported on the vast culture of its editors, gives us the image of Wagner as a master, more than a simple architect.
   In this sense his observations on style, life, architecture, drafting, etc., all melt together, and become general, powerful ideas.

1 comments about Architecture of the Everyday.

1. In Architecture of the Everyday Harris and Berke produced an anthology of essays on the architecture of the everyday. It is ordinary, banal, and quotidian. Yet such a normative, or major, theory encompasses the authority of examples from history. We can only learn how to conjecture, and thereby design, from history.

   New ideas, or minor theories also abound and are expressed as critical commentary in contemporary art, architecture, and landscape. One minor theory in landscape is that the landscape needs a dynamic language. After all-- "a landscape is worth a thousand pictures". The vast complexity and ephermeralness of the landscape as a subject of inquiry and contemplation requires more tools. Text and even drawings and still images are orders away from the intensity of percept bombardment from the real world.

   The landscape is not a still life, but determined by time, sense, movement, function, spatial structure, and perhaps most significantly by the internal landscape narratives, or fantasies. Poetry may be the essential and functionally driven language of spatial structure. Filmakers are spacemakers. Copyright 1998 Robert Hotten

2 comments about Art Nouveau.

1. This is the most beautiful and comprehensive book of images of Art Nouveau architecture I have ever seen. Yes the quality of the binding is substandard...and the book is not large...but, hey...it's $......not $......so what...if you love this style of architecture..get it!



2. If you believe that one picture is worth 1,000 words, then this book is worth 223,000 words. There are 223 beautiful pictures of art nouveau buildings from throughout the world.

   The book is subdivided into sections by geography each with a brief text introduction covering key artists and trends. This book has the broadest geographic overview of art nouveau buildings I have ever seen including Russia, Italy, Turkey, Hungary as well as the more well known Western European locales.

   The bulk of the book is photos, beautiful color photos. Mostly detail photos. Some of the photos are too close, focusing too much on the detail, and ignoring the context and larger scale themes of many of the buildings. For instance, there were closeups of many details from Gaudi buildings, but few of the complete exteriors that other books include. I think that focusing on the subtle details is the author's intent, but I still want to see what the outside of the building looks like before I see the detail of the stair-rail and chimney. This was one of my key disappointments.

   The other disappointment was the quality of the perfect-bound binding. I first saw this book on the shelf of a local bookstore. That copy's cover was almost completely off the book. I bought my copy from Amazon for the generous discount and in the hope of getting a copy whose cover was not abused. Well, I got mine yesterday. I opened it, thumbed through it, and the cover started to separate from the binding. My binding separated from the spine completely before I had thumbed through the first 100 pages in the first hour I had the book. The paper is very high quality, so I don't think the separation is a production problem. I think the separation is a design problem. In order to keep the cost down, the publisher chose a binding technology more appropriate to a smaller book with lighter paper.

   The photographer's focus on beautiful details at the expense of context and the binding quality kept me from giving the book the five full stars this unique, insightful photo album otherwise deserve.