1 comments about Gingerbread Age.

1. From Front Flap:
   
   "John Maass, author of the "The Gingerbread Age" and a native Austrian, upon his arrival in the United States was immediately struck with the unique quality of American Victorian architecture and began to sketch, photograph, and paint every example of these "fanciful" buildings he could find. His interest was certainly not to spoof, for he was "convinced that these strking landmarks of the vigorous Victorian past are more than just entertaining. Their boldness and vitality can teach a lesson to the conformist present.
   
   More than 100 handsome photographs, 75 drawings and paintings and rare Victorian engravings, supplemented with sparkling narrative, Maass surveys the rich Victorian scene, circa 1840-1880. It is, naturally, private houses and buildings that have claimed most of his attention, but also included are firehouses, depots and churches, along with some striking interiors, fashion plates and advertisements."

No comments about Exporting American Architecture 1870-2000 (Planning History and the Environment Series).

No comments about A Guide to the Buildings of Coventry: An Illustrated Architectural History (The Buildings of England S.).

No comments about Sentinels of History: Reflections on Arkansas Properties on the National Register of Historic Places.

No comments about The Eads Bridge.

1 comments about Wentworth-By-The-Sea: The Life and Times of a Grand Hotel.

1. If, like me, you're fascinated with grand hotels of the past, and especially with those that have managed to survive, you will enjoy Wentworth by the Sea, The Life and Times of a Grand Hotel. Dennis Robinson's book is much more than the history of a hotel; it is the story of New Castle, New Hampshire, from its settlement in the 1600's to modern time. The building, development, and ultimate salvation of the Wentworth has had much to do with this unique island village and its dynamic, fascinating people. The book is artistically done, with more than 250 pictures and drawings from all eras. Well written, it is filled with facts, legend, and lore told in an engaging manner that has its reader beginning at the front cover and following straight through to the end as if reading a novel. A terrific addition to New Hampshire's seacoast history!

1 comments about Folding in Architecture (Architectural Design Profile).

1. In this book it can find several approaches of project, leaving from the concept of which the function follows the form.
   Deconstruct. Fold the form/object/structure till you reach the feeling of posession. Creative art of projecting.
   Great book by all this points.

1 comments about Havana, La Habana.

1. Excellent book on Havana's architecture from Colonial times to the present. It is a very well structured book with a camera eye that gets deeply into the soul of the city.

   This book takes us to a living tour of Havana's dwellings from "Palaces to Huts" showing through beautiful and insightful details the diversity of styles that characterizes the organized anarchy of this city.

   La Habana captures the ingenuity, creativity and diversity of the cuban mind in the instance of a building. It also shows how this creative mind has been shut down by the experiments on communism.

No comments about Yann Kersalé: Light for Landmarks / Structures Lumière.

No comments about Japanese Homes and Lifestyles: An Illustrated Journey Through History.