No comments about Dublin: A Grand Tour.

5 comments about In Detail: Building in Existing Fabric.

1. Very informative and gives a clear precise description of varying types on renovation and adaptive reuse.



2. This book is part of a deliriously excellent series of Birkhauser's In
   Detail collection, a series of books emphasizing and celebrating the importance of architectural details and the susbsequent spatial magic that emerges from the vigilant attention to design craft. Feast on the International wisdom; it's like architectural health food.



3. The book was exactly as I expected, high quality, detailed explanations in the Caliber of detail magazine. I will defiantly be purchasing the other books in this series.



4. I found the essays on simple construction to be variable in quality...The chapters on wood and steel either suffered in translation or were student composition exercises to begin with. The projects illustrated, however, are of uniformly high quality, and are documented with Detail's typical precision. For an American architect, many of the projects using wood construction will be eye openers. The stone and clay construction projects are wonderful for daydreaming about a different building culture in this country. Well worth it for the photos and drawings.



5. The book describes simple and neat residential building design in detail , shape, and material. The book should be applicable to architects or designers who aspire to work in modernism or minimalism on housing and who desire to improve the residential detil design to be more insighfully clean and blight. As well, the analysis from the publication could be developed to function in other architecture types.

No comments about Shrinking Cities: Volume 2.

No comments about Open 14: Art as a Public Issue (Open).

No comments about Oase No. 63: Plat Land/Countryside (Oase).

No comments about The Fourth Dimension in Architecture: The Impact of Building on Behavior : Eero Saarinen's Administrative Center for Deere & Company, Moline, Illino.

No comments about After-Images of the City.

No comments about Dutch Vernacular Architecture in North America, 1640-1830.

2 comments about Neil Spiller: Lost Architectures (Architectural Monographs No 53).

1. I found this book to be entirely contrary to the review which precedes mine, one stating that this book has little substance. The book is an overview of architectural ideas, or dare I say "styles." Not all the drawings in it aim to clearly depict buildings, but instead are ideas about how we approach problem solving and crafting representations in architecture. It is for this reason that I believe this book is a must have for any student of architecture. The works in this book productively expand the boundaries of where one finds architectural inspiration, and the logic for making such architectural moves is clearly supported in the writings (and open for discussion.)
   
   Certainly this book appeals to those concerned with keeping alive the romantic and seductive qualities of architecture. However, even the most pragmatic designers should be able to uncover significant value from turning these pages. One might not like every project in the book (I'm not sure I "like" them all), however it is nice to gain a modest understanding of the many perspectives present here.
   
   This book is outstanding, unique, and invaluable... I'm glad I found it.
   P.S. I will agree that the book is graphically excellent (search inside)



2. It seems like those, who do not know, how the structure works, how to distribute the bldg program functionally, and how to merge both of them efficiently, have their book too, but graphically excellent on beautiful paper using very good printing technology and dyes.
   PS. Not good even for students, who want to learn substance, but only for those, who do not.

No comments about The Parthenon: Illustrations, Introductory Essay, History, Archeological Analysis, Criticism (Norton Critical Studies in Art History).