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1 comments about Industrial Storage & Distribution.

1. Purchased to get some ideas on new inovation in warehouse design and layout. Is expensive. Book is dated and needs to to be updated or price needs to be drastically reduced. Has basic info from 10 years ago with little new added. I would not recommend this book unless you are looking for a basic primer.

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1. This book is a direct reprint from 1980. It was good then but much of it is out of date. Some of the sections the one on installation on are the same. Having been in the trade for 27 years I found it useless.

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3 comments about Iron: Erecting the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

1. Michael Webb is arcitectural critic for a magazine owned by the publisher of Garcetti's book. Fair's fair.
   This is a nice book, but the photography is well, mediocre. The building is astounding.



2. In his foreword, Frank Gehry calls ironworkers "the forgotten heroes of architecture," and this book celebrates their courage and skill. Nobody who saw the structural frame going up on Grand Avenue will forget its raw beauty, but most of the bones were covered in a shimmering skin a year before the hall opened. Garcetti, better known as the former DA of Los Angeles County, has captured the physicality of the work in his photos, and in the words of the people who did it. Their pride and solidarity are inspiring. (Michael Webb is the book reviewer for LA Architect magazine.)



3. There were only a few architectural drawings of The Disney in the back of the book: most of this photographic tour de force deals with the iron works, the skeleton of the building. After paging through this entire book, which is on display for sale at the historic Lummis Home off the Avenue 43 exit of the Pasadena Freeway, I had a new appreciation of the new Disney Concert Hall, which I had photographed under contruction against the backdrop of a thunderstorm.

   Garcetti takes you close to the massive lattice of ironwork that underlies the curvaceous and apparently delicate hall. "Lattice" , "Skeleton", "frame", none of these words capture in their sense of mere adumbration the massiveness of the iron underneath. Can I say it simply? There's really a lot. Just what you're looking for in a book entitled "Iron."

   Garcetti does a great job of capturing the workers, too, with many closeup shots of them as people that really bring out their essential happiness. There's a sign of their union hall, and the wonderful holiday shot of the christmas tree being lifted up to the top on a huge steel beam.

   Also shown are some huge ironworking tools.

   If you're fascinated with the state of the art in iron-based construction today, I'd say this book is for you.

   Something else to remember -- once a building is built, you'll never be able to take photographs of it under construction again. It may sound trivial to say it that way, but after reading this book you probably won't think so.

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