No comments about The Conservation of Glass and Ceramics: Research, Practice and Training.

No comments about Building Desire: On the Barcelona Pavilion.

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2 comments about Towards a New Museum.

1. This book is ok if you want a coffee-table type, once-over- lightly look at some new museums. If you want the kind of serious consideration or analysis that seems promised by the contents/chapter titles, look elsewhere. A waste of $ for my purposes.



2. Victoria Newhouse's book on recent museum design is fascinating--I have been to many of the projects she includes (there are lots and lots of them), and her descriptions and analyses of them never fail to strike me as remarkably insightful. I don't always agree with her comments or her selection of projects (Frank Stella should stick to painting), but as a whole the book is both a wide-ranging compendium of current designs for the visual arts, and an informed treatise with a strong point of view. Far from being an advocate of universal space, Newhouse keeps returning to her central theme: how well does a particular design serve its particular contents? In answering that question, she displays an unusual comprehension of sophisticated issues in both the architectural and artistic arenas. Newhouse has visited much and looked hard; she has also apparently done a lot of research, talked to many of the clients, architects, and curators, and gives one not only the obvious facts but often the inside story. Then she calls it as she sees it, cogently summarizing the strengths and weaknesses of each project's suitability as a container for art. This is required reading for anyone seriously interested in or involved with problems of museum and gallery design.

No comments about Places That Count, Traditional Cultural Properties in Cultural Resource Management.

No comments about Investigating Rainwater Penetration of Modern Buildings: Investigating Weather Related Defects.

No comments about Geometry in Architecture: Texas Buildings Yesterday and Today.

2 comments about Aztec Templo Mayor.

1. reading from the author all the illustrations are computer generated based on oral and verbal manuscripts and on the actual foundations left behind...

   i found the plaza's and home layouts to be of great interest... also his recreation of the ball court is good...

   author also touches on the design of the temples... based on what manuscripts we have and the surviving structures...

   the chapter on the templo mayor was great... but was hoping it could of been more detailed... author leaves alot of room for possibilities

   definitely worth the purchase... if interested in the design of possible configurations of our capital




2. If you have ever been interested in ancient civilizations, and have wondered where/how they lived... this book is for you. The pictures in this book are fabulous and bring you into the lives of this ancient civilization.
   I would recommend this for anyone both for it's visual beauty and historical content!

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No comments about The Historic Architecture of Warsaw North Carolina.