No comments about Open Moral Communities.

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No comments about Desire Lines: Space, memory and identity in the post-apartheid city (Architext).

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2 comments about Architecture of Fear.

1. The articles were interesting. However, the direction of the articles fell like scattered shot. This was not planned exploration into the interaction of fear and environment for which I had hoped. Perhaps that was not the point of this work, but that was what I wanted as a layman.

   The gender and literary perspectives complemented the expected architects well. I did not expect the personal accounts and they added energy and freshness into the work. The photo-essay annoyed me more than enlightened me. In short, there was something for everyone, but not a whole lot for anyone in particular.

   None of the articles explicitly built on each other. The full value of the many perspectives was not used. One article was spent defining different types of defensive spaces and then the definitions fell by the wayside.

   Besides the loose nature of the work, I felt that sociology and economy were excluded. Numbers have powerful stories to tell (anyone who need convincing, see Edward Tufte) and their voices were not heard in this multi-disciplinary collection.

   This is worthwhile reading, but not a must have.




2. Architecture of Fear provides fascinating insights into the effects of the structures that surround us in our everyday lives. By drawing upon a diverse group of professionals, not all of them architects or urban planners, Nan Ellin has created an important work that will serve as a base for future research into the perplexities of urban life. Nan Ellin's own thoughts are among the most significant contributions to the compendium.

1 comments about The Architecture of the Washington Convention Center, Washington D.C.: Civic Architecture In Support Of Urban Aspirations.

1. I feel the product that I bought from you all is awesome. By me working for the WCCA, seeing it come into fuition from the ground up and helping to bring the vision to light, has been an awesome experience. It is such a large, beautiful building. The decor is just wonderful. The product, the book of all the different pictures of the WCCA is just awesome, everyone who is from DC should have one. Especially those of us who work for the WCCA. Thanks Ms. Dietsch for creating such an awesome tribute to the WCCA.

1 comments about Hegemann and Peets American Vitruvius (Reprint Series).

1. This is an incredible achievement. It absolutely must be in the library of every architect and architecture student in the world, because we have lost contact with the beauty and social glory of living urbanistically. The architecture we produce supports this suburbanized lifestyle, and the anti social results of this new pattern of living can be seen daily on the news in all manner of bizarre murders and cultist activity. Well then! Without advocating a style of architecture in particular, this book advocates a type of planning that, if we are intelligent enough to understand this book, could save this country, and save the world. I do not exaggerate. Buy the book. You'll be a different person for having purchased it.

No comments about Urban Construction Project Management (McGraw-Hill Construction Series) (Mcgraw-Hill Construction Series).

1 comments about Architecture and Politics in Germany, 1918-1945.

1. Lane's book does and excellent job at analyzing architecture during the height of germanies history. We are all aware of the politics surrounding the period, but Lane shows the architecture and politics under the same light; as an influence for each other.

No comments about Glitter Stucco and Dumpster Diving: Reflections on Building Production in the Vernacular City (Haymarket).