1 comments about Art, Space and the City: Public Art and Urban Futures.

1. This book is one of the best studies carried through on the problematic of the public art in the internacional context. The author displays of a form notable the new conceptions of public art, collated with the classic conceptions that afect the monument. He analyzes some of the interventions more interesting of the public space, and explains the intentions of each creator. Richard Serra, Rachel Whiteread, Tone Otterness, Antony Gormley, Isamu Noguchi, Mierle Ukeles, Wodiczko, is some of the examples that the author appeals to show to the diversity of the proposals contemporaries. For beyond the artists, the author collates diverses teses defended by Rosalin Deutshe, Suzanne Lacy, Sara Selwood, Harriet F. Senie, among others. If it is interested in deepening its knowledge in the field of the public art, cannot leave to possess a unit of this book in your private library.

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No comments about Guidelines for Laboratory Design: Health and Safety Considerations, 3rd Edition.

3 comments about Building Fences & Gates: How to Design & Build Them From the Ground Up.

1. A great source for design ideas and advice on planning, plotting and building your fence. This book has beautiful photographs and presents clever solutions for fence builders.



2. Put it this way - if you need to build a fence yourself - this is not the book for you.



3. This book has maybe 10 pages on building a fence from the ground up. The rest is mostly filler and pictures of the types of fences that are out there. I would not recommend this book to anyone!

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3 comments about Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series).

1. Wonderful illustrations. Up-tu-date analyses & comments. For amateurs and specialists as well.



2. This is a superbly illustrated and written book, with photographs of renown artifacts from museums around the world, and even more outstanding essays by relevant scholars. I suspect anyone interested in Ancient Art from the formative stages (3000-2000 BCE) of the world's first civilizations will enjoy reading this book.



3. A magnificent volume, for those who might be interested in the miriad small and large details pertaining to the earliest artifacts of those primordial history writing civilizations. A great many details as to the History, Physical conditions, Geography, Economics, Foreign relations, Art, Religion, Litterature, Iconography, Archaeology and so on, both textual and visual. A most interesting book for those interested in the cradle of civilisation.

2 comments about The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.

1. College-level architectural collections serious about their in-depth coverage will want to look at the weighty The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. It catalogs all of Latrobe's domestic commissions from interiors to exteriors, and even includes analysis of his training and career in both England and Europe, his design principles, and his methods. Analytical essays accompany sketches and vintage black and white photos, surveying changes in his thinking and approach, considering his contemporaries and influences, and examining the preservation of his structures. A comprehensive 'must' for any serious college-level architectural history holding.
   
   Diane C. Donovan
   California Bookwatch



2. THE DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF BENJAMIN HENRY LATROBE by Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon. Johns Hopkins U. Press, Baltimore, MD; www.press.jhu.edu. 2006. 769+xx pp. $75.00 hardcover, 9" x 11", ISBN 0-8028-8204-8. maps on endpages, color/black-and-white photographs, illustrations, architectural diagrams, notes, index.
   Nothing is spared in the way of breadth and depth of scholarship, nor in the way of production quality--for a definitive study of this important, but generally overlooked, American architect of the late 1700s into the early 1800s, the early period of the American Republic. A leading architect popular with the English royalty and gentry in their adaptations in a growing democratic society, Latrobe attracted the interest and commissions of the old and newly wealthy in the United States in the decades after the Revolutionary War for design of homes with many similarities to those he had done for the upper classes in his native England. And he attracted interest from government officials wishing to build impressive buildings representing the pride, the values, and the ambitions of the new Republic. Latrobe's architectural principles and designs went far in America as they had earlier in England because they characterized what he called his "rational house" based on ideas of the Enlightenment partly originating in England and embraced by America's Founding Fathers in their creation of the basics of the American political system and its institutions. Fazio is a professor at Mississippi State U.'s School of Architecture; Snadon is a professor of interior design at the School of Architecture and Interior Design at the U. of Cincinnati. The abundant biographical, critical, and analytical text with the hundreds of illustrations of all scales of architectural works are peerlessly informative standing alone. But also they work to render the authors' revisionist perspective that "perhaps only Thomas Jefferson...held a panoramic view over the international architectural scene comparable to Latrobe."

2 comments about Victorian Wooden and Brick Houses with Details (Dover Books on Architecture).

1. This is a fine collection of historical Victorian homes. They are classic draftsman's drawings of what must have been wonderful, and pretty homes to live in. This book is finely illustrated and a joy to study.



2. Architects and house designers who need old plans probably know what can be found inside these kind of cheaper booklets. The details inside are "exact enough" to foster imagination The drawing forms are descriptive also for laymen, who might get some sophisticated ideas from the paste for some personal new building. For reconstructions the best guidance might still be in the original drawings of the house, not in a series of these old-timer publications.
   
   As a historical document or architectural handbook this book can neither be taken. I recommend it as an illustrative inexpensive introduction to Victorian building tradition.
   
   A special hint finally: the reviewer used this (and other similar books) as model catalogues in 2D-drawing exercises, when teaching (AutoCad) in some technical institutions.

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