No comments about Mies Van Der Rohe Award 2007: European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.

No comments about The Architect in Practice.

1 comments about Facilities Management and the Business of Space.

1. Don't be misled by the apparently narrow title of this book - it is actually a very comprehensive text which addresses many pertinent areas to Facilities Management.

   The material is excellent and up to date, offering useful case studies.

   I shall be adopting this excellent book for my intermediate level and final level undergraduates.

1 comments about How to Estimate With Means Data & Costworks: Lean How to Estimate Using the Nation's Most Recognized Construction Cost Data.

1. I finally found an excellent estimating text that very clearly explains how to use the RS Means data books in performing construction estimates. I teach construction management at Missouri State University and am continually looking for publications that "put the cookies on the bottom shelf", so to speak.
   
   This text is very thoroughly written, exceptionally supported with worked-out examples with the solutions provided. After having dived into the chapters, I found it to be very plainly explained without insulting the intelligence of the reader.
   
   Even if you don't plan on using the CostWorks estimating software (we used WinEst), this is a worthwhile book for learning how to use RS Means data, the industry standard for construction costs.

No comments about Award Winning Projects 2006.

1 comments about The Environmental Imagination.

1. College-level readers of architecture or environmental design will find this a fine history which uses themes and a chronological arrangement from the 18th century to modern times to survey the history of environmental design. While The Environmental Imagination: Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment could have also been featured in our Arts section, it's reviewed here for its wider applications to any college-level holding strong on poetics and environment: essays consider qualitative dimensions of the environment and both old and new technologies of mechanical services, building design choices, and diversity.

1 comments about The Executive Architect: Transforming Designers into Leaders.

1. I found this remaindered for only five bucks. I read it not as a building architect, but as someone interested in what other creative/engineering disciplines had to say about creative projects that I could apply to web projects.

   The authors needed a better editor, that's for sure. There's lots of awkward writing here, and the interviews with architects are virtually unreadable, rambling, and vague.

   Those involved in web or software consulting will find not a lot new here--have the issues of client relations and creative services marketing really not had this kind of treatment before?

No comments about Professional Liability of Architects and Engineers (Wiley Series in Engineering Management).

No comments about Goettsch Partners (The Master Architect Series).

No comments about Information Technologies for Construction Managers, Architects and Engineers.