No comments about The World's Greatest Architecture: Past and Present.

No comments about Finnish Architecture and the Modernist Tradition.

1 comments about The Havana Project: Architecture Again (Architecture & Design).

1. Do you want to know architects' own thinking and voices? Take this book. It would be the one that can satisfy your wondering about architecture.

No comments about Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism).

No comments about Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and Social Practices (Pedagogy and Cultural Practice, V. 5).

1 comments about Olympic Architecture.

1. Having visited the Homebush site for the 2000 Olympic games, I was keen to buy a book that would explain all the reasons for the architectural features I had seen first hand. Patrick Bingham-Hall's book does this. Each venue is investigated and the architectural features of each are discussed. The photographs are superb and the wealth of knowledge inspiring. For any visitor to the Olympic games site, this book provides a lasting memorial to a truly vibrant and exciting Olympic park.

5 comments about Stones of Venice.

1. The Stones of Venice is beautifully written and a must-read for anyone interested in art, architecture, Venice, and Victorian literature. The massive original has been pared down here into a much more manageable volume without sacrificing its brilliant prose and insightful commentary. It'll easily fit in your carry-on luggage for your next trip to Italy.



2. This is misleading...not even 5% of the Ruskin masterwork is printed in this book.



3. Amazon frequently mixes reader reviews of various editions of a given classic work. Such is the case here. Be advised that if you are now veiwing the Dover 3 vol. edition of Ruskin's The Stones of Venice, it is the UNABRIDGED edition of this work. Not a single word is missing. As such, this is the ultimate edition to own.



4. Hey, guys! A lot of the reviews of this book are complaining that the text is abridged. No! This book is the first of THREE VOLUMES which, together, make up the entire "Stones of Venice." To get the whole thing, you need to buy Volumes 10 and 11 as well, not just Volume 9. (N.B., "The Nature of Gothic," the best-known part, is in Volume 10.) It's all there. You just weren't looking in the right place.
   
   That having been said, it's a shame that one has to spend about $300 to get the complete text in a nice, hardbound format. But it's still a worthy investment.



5. As much as I appreciate and respect the work of the editor, I was distresed to find that passages in which Ruskin addressed labor reform were left out. This was in Chapter 6. In the original, Ruskin argued for preserving the integrity of individual workers. I found that this edition left out pages that concerned labor reform, making the work appear to concern architecture alone. If you are interested in Ruskin's views on society, then, be cautious of this. For my part, I ended up resorting to the Norton Anthology of Literature for the text I needed.
   
   In the "Gothic" passage of SoV Ruskin wrote quite forcefully in defense of labor. He emphasized how important it is for buildings to show the work of individual workers. Signs of their work are an essential part of the architecture, he contended. Much of this argument does not appear in this edition.
   
   It remains a wonderful work for those who are interested in the architecture alone.

No comments about Chicago on Foot: Walking Tours of Chicago's Architecture.

No comments about Boston Architecture: 1975-1990 (Architecture & Design).

No comments about The Italian Renaissance Palace Façade: Structures of Authority, Surfaces of Sense (Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics).