No comments about A History of Venetian Architecture.

No comments about L'Enfant's Legacy: Public Open Spaces in Washington, D.C. (Creating the North American Landscape).

3 comments about Holkham.

1. This is a very good book on a fascinating family and a grand estate. Holkham is without doubt one of the grandest of the non royal estates, it really is quite a stack of stones. The history makes the house all the more interesting. The images in this book are very good and the text is very well researched. A must have!



2. An exceptionally well written account of the building, builders, and custodians of a magnificent piece of history. Would that this sense of stewardship were more widespread.
   
   Enjoy.



3. I never received the book! How can I review it?
   Kindest regards
   Edoardo Greppi

No comments about Scottish Lighthouses (Lighthouse Series).

1 comments about The Origins of Medieval Architecture: Building in Europe, A.D. 600-900.

1. You may have to love medieval architecture to love this book, but if you do, you'll discover a very exciting journey into the development of Romanesque and Gothic Architecture from Roman and Byzantine forms. And very well written!

2 comments about Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson: Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture.

1. One of the best books on Jefferson as an architect, plus a well-crafted account of America's other early architects. Reads like a detective story, which architectural history done well usually is.



2. I originally decided to read this book because of my deep interest in Jefferson. I expected another recounting of Jefferson's building and rebuilding of Monticello. I was pleasantly surprised that this wonderful book is so very much more. The text intersperses with its discussion of American architecture the fascinating life and career of Dr. Fiske Kimball, who practically invented the discipline of American architectual history. And what a career he had--Michigan, NYU, UVA, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and most prominently as long-time director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He also wrote a number of important pathbreaking books, and worked on the Monticello restoration and the Jefferson Memorial. I had never heard of him; I am glad that deficiency has been remedied. But the author, himself a leading architectual historian with books on Jefferson and the "Colonial Houses" of Williamsburg, also includes discussion of such important early figures as William Buckland, L'Enfant, Charles Bulfinch, James Hoban, and Samuel McIntire. Some 20th architects are included, such as John Russell Pope and Ferdinand C. Latrobe II. But a central theme remains the remarkable contributions that Jefferson made to early American architecture in such endeavors as the Virginia State House, the University of Virginia (see also Gary Wills' fine book on this), and of course Monticello. Ironically, Jefferson submitted an anonymous entry in the competition to design what became the White House--and lost! A very fine and extremely well-written book, with outstanding illustrations, and highly useful bibliographical notes.

No comments about Wallace Neff 1895-1982 The Romance of Regional Architecture.

2 comments about High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline, 1881 to the Present.

1. A good book for reading about the history and stories of the Local 40 Structural Ironworkers of NYC.



2. Rasenberger brings awareness to the little known and aknowledged trade of Iron Workers. This is an excellent book for those who are in the trade and those who want a close to real life view of who Ironworkers are and what their life was and is like. The book gives a pretty accurate history of the trade going back to the early Bridgeman to the current International Associates of Bridge, Structrual, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers. Being a 3rd generation Iron Worker I found this a very pleasureable read and recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about what it is that we do as we build America on Beam at a time.

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No comments about Architecture of the Old South: Louisiana (Architecture of the Old South).