No comments about The Honan Chapel: A Golden Vision.

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2 comments about The American house.

1. Most architectural field guides describe a specific style and then show a number of ordinary buildings that illustrate the details that make up the style. By the sheer volume, authors try to make their points.
   
   This field guide is different in that Mary Mix Foley spends a lot more time describing the architectural style and picks notable houses to illustrate the points she is making. Foley is a strong writer and she takes the time to tell her story. She is aided in this endeavor by very good line drawings of significant American houses. There are more comprehensive field guides but there are no field guides that are better written.



2. I got this book from the library and loved it so much I wanted a copy of my own. If you love American architecture, this has just about every type of American style home scetched with precision, each architectural detail explained. Each home is identified by its style, and where exactly it is located, with interesting tidbits about the owners or location added. Being from NJ, it was interesting to see that there is one specific style seen only in Salem County, NJ, which is right around the corner from me. Stuff like that really brings it alive.

2 comments about Discoveries: Architecture of the Renaissance (Discoveries (Abrams)).

1. This book explains the Renaissance architecture very clearly. I wish I had this book in the beginning of the semester. Now I understand what my professor was trying to say. It explains what the Renaissance is all about, the principles, the language, the different building types and more. It also has beautiful photography and illustrations. I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting an introduction to the Renaissance.



2. This is an excellent overview of Renaissance architecture. I've been carrying it around in my book bag (off and on) for years. If you like art and want to learn more about architecture, buy this book.

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2 comments about Masted Structures in Architecture (Butterworth Architecture New Technology Series).

1. The book offers critical insights into a large collection of tensile structures around the world. Although one would wish for more colour pictures, the information provided is informative and could easily be followed if needed. The book is suitable for professionals and students alike. However, given the rapid development in this area, I wonder if the authors would consider publishing a revision or an expanded edition. Overall, very well done.



2. Being one of the authors of this book. It is difficult to write an impartial review. However, if anyone wish to contact the authors, you can email me at kli@HK.Super.Net

1 comments about Architecture of the New West: Recent Works by Cottle Graybeal Yaw Architects.

1. This is a very famous architecture firm. If you've ever been to Aspen, you will recognize the buildings featured in this book. As a hangout for the rich and famous, know that you couldn't produce mediocre work and get the bids on these jobs. The cover does not do this book justice.

4 comments about George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America.

1. Knowing Professor Dalzell and Mrs. Dalzell personally, I was incredibly curious to see how they blended the two seemingly connected but perhaps contrasting topics of George Washington and his home. Essentially, they were connected very successfully. The entire history of the home itself is told vividly with photographs, anecdotes, and objective descriptions of its development. Following, Washington's own personal, military, and political history is told in light of the times, and in the book's shining ability, in relation to the home itself. The Dalzell's cleverly-melded arguments and discussions leads the reader to a full knowledge of Mt. Vernon and its inspiring owner.



2. I openned this book expecting to read a story about a house and how it was built. I was surprised, and impressed, to discover that what went on as Mt. Vernon took form was far more interesting than I had expected. This is not so much a book about a house as it is the story of how George Washington related to the slaves on whom he relied to execute his architecture. In other words, the story here reverberates far beyond the boundaries of the plantation. It went to the heart of the republic, and it goes to the heart of this nation. Slavery is encoded in our national DNA (sorry, Jefferson). The Dalzells make it clear that it is also mortared in the wood and plaster (cut and painted to look like stone) of our national edifice. Are you tormented, or at least intrigued, that a slaveowner could style himself father of a republic dedicated to freedom? Maybe Washington was, too. Find out. Visit Mt. Vernon, and do it by reading this book.



3. Mount Vernon was both architecturally innovative and a true mirror of Washington's feelings and mind. He never wrote an autobiography and his diaries consist largely of farm accounts, but in Mount Vernon, the authors write, "he produced a text from which it is possible to coax a remarkably full sense of his political convictions and of how, over time, they changed." The book, George Washington's Mount Vernon, combines the public and the private sides of his life and uses the combination to enrich our understanding of both.



4. For an Architect practicing in any era since Monticello was built, it has always been easy to enter into Jefferson's process--to commune with the models and the methods he sat down with as he designed (time and again) the house that he built as a monument to his ideas and his place in history. In part, this has been because he planned and drew much as we do today. We have the drawings. We know (and can quickly avert our eyes from) the form of labor. We can hold these two-dimensional maps up to the brilliant artifact, and be satisfied, with ourselves, that we have made a connection to the past. Mount Vernon, however, has had to wait for the Dalzells to read, for us, the full and fully three-dimensional process of its becoming. This beautifully written book brings to George Washington's home, a context of meaning and National symbolism that time and distance had almost obliterated. The book is a restoration project: and as such, it is a key compliment to the preservation work so ably executed over the years by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association. I heartily recommend this book to architects (amateur and professional), their clients (who may find comfort in learning that building has always been a trial), architectural historians, or anyone at all who is curious about the faithfulness of our democracy to the designs of one of its primary draftsmen.

5 comments about Complete Plans for Building Horse Barns Big and Small.

1. I thought this was a well done job of advising the reader on how to design a barn that fits the horse-owning public's wide variety of needs for horse shelter. There were many different examples of horse barn designs along with the basic design decisions that need to be made for a successful design process by the reader. I was able to read the book and learn enough to start the design and pricing process with a local builder. I was able to come up with a fundamental design that suited my particular needs and I have the author to thank for this educational book that made this possible. If you are thinking about having a barn built I would highly recommend this book.



2. I am planning in buiding new stables for my horses when I started searching for books I got a little confused with all the available titles, but I definately did the right thing in choosing this one. Concise, adresses all the main problems conected to housing horses, and actually offers stright forward solutions (design and everything).
   Priced just right this is a really helpfull book for horse owners new and old. For a general overview a woderful book you can always refer to.
   
   (I have to add that this is the first time I took the time to write a review, that should also mean something)



3. I purchased this book thinking it would help me to get some new ideas for when I rebuild our old horse barn. It didn't really satisfy that need because it didn't really address the different types of construction or provide many detailed building plans to view for techniques, etc. What I did find useful was much of the other horse management information in general around the farm - pointers on bedding, care, feeding, etc. I'm the type that can look at a set of building plans and glean useful construction ideas from them and think of new ways to adapt them to my needs. I guess I was expecting too much from this book.



4. At age 63, I am FINALLY the proud owner of a horse--now looking for land with room for a house, pasture, and a barn. This book is full of all sizes and shapes of barns/shelters and gives great advice as to location on the land, etc. I've already chosen two plans that I really like; now, to find that land!



5. This book has everything needed to ensure nothing is left out during the building process. There were ideas in here I had not thought of. An excellant tool for anyone getting ready to build, add on or refurbish a barn.

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