No comments about The Complete Route 66 Lost & Found.

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2 comments about Outer Banks Architecture: An Anthology of Outposts, Lodges, and Cottages.

1. Hard to easily categorize but North Carolina residents will find this a compelling cultural account. Marimar McNaughton's Outer Banks Architecture provides a survey of North Carolina's outer banks region, examining the architectural heritage of cottages, lodges, and other structures. Black and white photos of selected structures are accompanied by descriptions, architectural notes, and history.



2. Marimar McNaughton's Outer Banks Architecture: An Anthology Of Outposts, Lodges And Cottages is a compendium of facts, anecdotes and photos showcasing the North Carolina Outer Banks' architectural history and styles that range from simple cottages to elaborate custom built homes and striking commercial buildings to lodges, light houses, life saving stations, and community structures. Outer Banks Architecture is a superb regional architectural study and a valued contribution to the growing literature of American architectural history and accomplishment.

1 comments about Muskoka II.

1. Fantastic pictures in the book that emulate the spirit of Muskoka. However, the book was a bit short in length for the price.

1 comments about Tokyo: A Guide to Recent Architecture (Architecture Guides).

1. Tokyo is one of the most exciting, pulsating cities in the world and one of the reasons is its fabulous avant garde architecture. This great little book (it measures about 3"x3") is organized into neighborhoods. Each building is shown with one or more excting photos and a great description of WHY it is exciting. A full address is given as well as architect info. It is great for getting you turned on without being overwhelmed with minutiae. I look forward to going and looking at the real thing with this book in hand someday.

5 comments about Charleston Style: Past and Present.

1. Susan Sully's book revived many delightful memories of my recent visit to Charleston. Her evocative prose paired with the beautiful photographs made as much of an impression on me as seeing Charleston's gracious architecture in person. It's not often that such a pretty book is also so well written, but Sully' elegant, beautifully crafted sentences do justice to the photos and the grand old homes themselves. After reading her book I wanted to book a flight back for another visit!



2. Susan Sully's Charleston Style splendidly captures the unique beauty of my city. Sully's writing is gorgeous, lush and evocative as many of the homes she shows us. Her thorough research is obvious; then she takes the facts and, with words, weaves a beautifiul gossamer fabric representing one ofAmerica's most beloved cities. As a Charlestonian, I was introduced to places I never knew existed. The detailed photographs, artistic and architectural, complement the text. I bought numerous copies to give to friends who have visited Charleston in reality or in their dreams.



3. Just named one of the ten best books of 1999 about South Carolina by "The Nation," this winner rises above the usual book of stunning photography in the quality of Sully's writing. Her thoughtful and incisive reflections upon a complex city are rendered in delightful, sensual, intelligent prose. All this is compellingly presented in a classic coffee-table stand-out!



4. Praised in House Beautiful (May '99) for author Susan Sully's "evocative text [that] lifts this book a notch above many similar style books," Charleston Style was listed by The State newspaper from Columbia, SC as one of the top ten books by or about South Carolinians published in 1999. The State's reviewer, William Starr praises the book's "uncommonly attractive" appearance and notes that "the author combines valuable information with an artistic sensibility.... Among the book's virtues is Sully's willingness to look beyond the obvious into homes which give us some very different views of this most traditional of historic cities."



5. Despite author Susan Sully's grammatical errors, misspellings ("sheathes of wheat" instead of sheaves of wheat -- why, oh, why don't editors catch those anymore?), labored metaphors, and use of cliche' ("dripping with spanish moss"), I loved this book. Josephine Humphreys writes a beautiful and moving foreward. The photos (by John Blais) are literally breath-taking (to borrow another cliche'). Imperative reading for the student of architecture or design, or for those simply enamored of regional style.

No comments about Exploring Nova Scotia: Halifax, Dartmouth. Peggy's Cove, Chester, Mahone Bay, Lunenburg, Grand Pré and Wolfville.

1 comments about Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts.

1. Glassie takes the principles of Noam Chomsky's transformational- generative grammar and applies them to architecture. His book demonstrates the value of applying and adapting ideas from linguistics into new fields of study. There are clear grammatical parallels between ways of creating and understanding linguistic utterances and ways of creating buildings. What Glassie accomplishes is a demonstration of how to look at these patterns for clues to understanding how and why the builders designed their houses in particular ways. The work is fascinating, and the method and theories have been applied to a range of artistic expressions from blues music to pie safes. This book is one of the most important contributions to the study of folklore and archaeology.

No comments about Cool Shops Munich (Cool Shops).

No comments about Pierre Puvis De Chavannes: A Critical Study of His Life and Art.