No comments about Tokyo (Architecture Guides).

1 comments about Discover the Historic Houses of Odessa (Discover Winterthur).

1. This fine book is a concisely brief photographic
   history of eighteenth and nineteenth century colonial
   homes in Odessa, Delaware. It contains many fine photos.
   I was particularly attracted to this book because
   the man who was the original creator of my ancestral
   Lister family died in 1819 on his wheat farm around
   Odessa, Delaware in New Castle County. His name was
   Joshua Lister. He was married to Nancy Hartshorne.
   They had a daughter named Mary who married Hezekiah Masten.
   They also had sons named James, Henry, Joshua and Timothy.
   Almost all individuals with the last name of Lister
   who have resided in Caroline, Talbot and Queen Anne's
   counties in Maryland are members of this same Lister
   family. There have been only a very few exceptions to this
   general rule.

No comments about Great Pyramid: Its Builder and Its Prophecy.

No comments about New American Houses 2: Country, Sea & Cities (International Architecture & Interiors).

No comments about Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future.

No comments about Villas and Cottages.

5 comments about Pacific Edge: Contemporary Architectures on the Pacific Rim.

1. Although this book is nearly two years old now, the concepts, pratices and projects presented still indicate that the Pacific is an increasingly important cultural zone. Very few books have attempted to tackle the issue of a non-European architecture and whilst this misses some major practitioners (notably Glen Murcutt and Peter Corrigan in Australia, Tadao Ando in Japan and Frank Gehry in LA) and projects I still give the book two thumbs up!



2. This book is well-written, well researched, exploring contemporary architecture in the Pacific Rim, complemented by 3 essays which are definitely thought provoking. Sad to say that the rating by the readers is poor because this is one of the best architecture book that I have ever come across & a book that I keep coming back too. If readers are looking for a pictorial architecture book that looks good on your coffee table, probably there's an element of truth that its standard can't surpassed those published by Phaidons, but in terms of being an intelligent book, it delivers, even exceeding my expectation. The author split the book into 5 different types of architecture that are observed in this region. They are the the modernist legacies (international vernacular), edge condition (regional inflection & the architecture of local identity), dense cities (architecture in the expanding new world city), tectonics (building corporeal architecture) & lastly, media-tectonics (generating an ambient architecture). Many examples are provided from LA to NZ. Rather than covering works of superarchitects of our time, the book opted to cover works by established but less well known architects such as Mathias Klotz of Chile, Stephen Yeang of Malaysia, Thom Craig of Christchurch (good on ya!), Ricardo Legoretta (this year's winner of AIA gold medal), etc. Considering that the book is published in 1988, the author definitely does have foresight in his selections of those architecture works. A book not to be missed by architecture enthusiast. Highly recommended & look forward to his next book offering.



3. Destined to be a fixture in many bargain used bookshops or the coffee tables of people who should no better.



4. zellner's book opens up a whole new view of architecture through an inspired analysis of the architectures of the pacific rim.



5. Is incredible this book receive a good critique. The text is badly write and the grafic design too bad for a architecture book. The reader who review it as good must be himself Zellner under a faked identity.

No comments about The Architecture of East Australia.

5 comments about Dwellings.

1. It is estimated that over 90% of the world's buildings were constructed without the services of an architect. Most of these buildings are owner or commuity constructed using traditional building technologies. They are part of a building tradition known as "vernacular" architecture.
   
   There are hundreds of millions of these traditional dwellings throughout the world and as Westerners we have a need to better understand these buildings by breaking them up into discrete and easily understood categories. There is probably no one in the world more knowledgeable about vernacular architecture than Professor Paul Oliver of Oxford and "Dwelings" is his attempt to classify these buildings into better understood categories.
   
   The strength of this book is in the many interesting photographs of vernacular buildings througout the world. They show the wide array of ingenious solutions people have come up with to shelter themselves from the elements. Of further value is Paul Oliver's broad categories into which he groups vernacular buildings. Unfortunately, in order to justify his categories, Paul Oliver turns to summarizing numerous academic articles on vernacular architecture. This need to summarize other people's work turns the text into an episodic and sometimes tedious narrative. "Dwellings" is a good jumping off point for the study of vernacular architecture. However, in depth knowledge of vernacular architecture will have to be found somewhere else.



2. A lot of text but of very good quality and wonderful pictures ! highly commandable together with Built by Hand from Steen(s)& komatsu(s) (almost only pictures of the highest quality) and Home Work from Lloyd Kahn, You get the best to study dwellings all over the world and maybe built with more simplicity healthy powerful and sacred places as all dwellings should be !



3. when we are looking for a new perspective to see architecture. this book is the one.
   paul oliver offers an inclusive, and balance view to see architecture. no more from western point of view.
   i think, this is in tune with rudofsky's 'architecture without architect'.
   i recommend those books to my coleagues as great and a must be read book!



4. I was really impressed by this careful selection of photographs by one of the most inventive photographers of the twentieth century. These beautifully printed images lead us through the life of Erwin Blumenfeld, from Holland, to Paris, to the United States. The photographs lead us through Blumenfeld's endless creativity from striking political photos (of Hitler in 1933) to pure beauty , and on to fashion in the fifties. Many of the interesting captions are taken from Blumenfeld's autobiography Eye to I which I had read with great interest a few years ago. The photographs (55) color and Black and white are placed in chronological order and some of them had not been published before.
   The variety of techniques and darkroom magic displayed here is a stunning lesson in photography and this book can be as well considered as a first approach to Erwin Blumenfeld's work as a more in-depth perception, thanks also to the excellent introduction by Michel Métayer.



5. Paul Oliver is a scholar with soul. In the early '70s, he published Shelter and Society, a wonderful book on indigenous building. He was formerly head of the Graduate School at the Architectural Association in London and is now Chair of the Master's Course in International Studies in Vernacular Architecture at Oxford Brookes University in Devon, England. Dwellings is about handmade buildings by indigenous people of the world, some of whom still thrive, others whose traditional ways of life are threatened. The photos, mostly by the author, are terrific, and the accompanying text is perceptive and informative.

1 comments about A Cleveland Legacy: The Architecture of Walker and Weeks.

1. This is a fabulous read for anyone interested in Cleveland architecture. Johannesen does a wonderful job of describing the Walker and Weeks legacy, using both words and photographs to portray the work by these two men. Walker and Weeks truly defined the architecture in Cleveland for some time, and Johannesen's historical account is superb. The book also contains a fairly current list of buildings designed by the architects, and which still remain. A must read for any Clevelander!