2 comments about Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes (Creating the North American Landscape).

1. Wonderful book with very detailed information regarding architectual styles and construction techniques. This information is very useful for both the layman and scholar. It is written in easy to understand language with numerous illustrations and photographs.



2. This is the perfect book for those interested in the art and science of examining and interpreting the built landscape. Providing the same instruction as an intro-level Historic Preservation course, it teaches the reader the process for building documentation , as well as some of the other basics of the Historic Preservation profession. The beautiful photographs, drawings, and illustrations clarify the more-difficult ideas. Not for the casual building-enthusiast, but it will greatly add to the enjoyment of the more serious vernacular architecture fan.

No comments about Rapid City: Historic Downtown Architecture (SD) (Images of America).

1 comments about Ruins of Ancient Rome: The Drawings of French Architects Who Won the Prix De Rome 1786-1924.

1. Few architects will dispute that the high-point of architectural rendering was achieved in the schools and ateliers of the Beaux Arts. Indeed architectural representation has gone seriously downhill since. No matter that computers produce 3-D views and other realistic views, but the human touch is so lacking as to render AutoCAD drawings cold and lifeless despite the high degree of accuracy that is possible.
   
   Ruins of Rome collects an extraordinary set of images, all student work no less, that shows a level of skill no longer taught and possibly not understood. Not least it also represents a particularly fine period in architecture. Beaux Arts architectural renderings can be appreciated in their own right as works of art. This book is that rare gem in publishing, an affordable book packed with quality color plates. The generously-sized format allows appreciation of fine detail throughout. An informed essay adds useful background to this special book. A treasure!

1 comments about Carlos Ferrater.

1. This book brilliantly covers the work of the spanish architect Carlos Ferrater. A mediterranean international neo-modernist whos architecture best can be described as poetic rationalism expressed in clean-cut forms sharp details and a richness of fine details. This book is an overall pleasure to read including both text, drawing material and the many beautiful pictures it consist of.

No comments about Cool Shops Berlin (Cool Shops).

No comments about Urban Design in Western Europe: Regime and Architecture, 900-1900.

1 comments about Creating the Artful Home: the Aesthetic Movement.

1. Creating the Artful Home: The Aesthetic Movement is, surprisingly, the first close examination of late 19th-century American home design and its culture, offering up details on how the Aesthetic movement left a legacy of houses, developments, and ideas which linger into modern times. Historians, collectors and home and garden readers will learn about the movement and its impact on home furnishing trends, offering many rare color photo views of past interiors and exteriors along with dozens of drawings not seen elsewhere. A scholarly tone is added with an analysis of gender roles and architectural history, but while this scholarly tone allows CREATING THE ARTFUL HOME to be a pick for some college-level arts collections, its more likely audience will be the public or general-interest lending library, which will find it a unique coverage.
   
   Diane C. Donovan
   California Bookwatch

No comments about Inside the white house.

No comments about Tibetan Pilgrimage: Architecture of the Sacred Land.

No comments about Gamble House: Greene and Greene (Architecture in Detail).