No comments about Architectural Epicentres: Inventing Architecture, Intervening in Reality.

No comments about Cairo Heritage: Essays in Honor of Laila Ali Ibrahim.

1 comments about Doing Things With Things: The Design And Use of Everyday Objects (Ethnoscapes) (Ethnoscapes) (Ethnoscapes).

1. A useful book for occupational therapists interested in how people interact and have intention toward the world and objects around them. It provides insights from a variety of percpectives and builds on what we already understand as a profession.

1 comments about Dynamics of Delight: Architecture and Aesthetics.

1. Debating about the aesthetic properties can be a fruitless endeavor. Although on a macro scale, it can be agreed, that some objects are certainly more pleasing than others. Peter Smith argues that borrowing form and algorithmic functions from nature can be an equation for pleasing aesthetics. He brings in quite a few architectural examples between modernist functionality and post-modern contextual designs and breaks them down at an easy to follow level. There are points that are more conceptual than others but he certainly puts a tangible form on something that has been debated vehemently for ages.

   This book fits nicely as a companion guide to Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language.

No comments about Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy.

No comments about La Forma Y La Mirada/ the Forms and the Glance.

No comments about Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity.

1 comments about Readings in Urban Theory.

1. The reading was comprehendable, easy to process,
   easy to write an essay on, citing this book. I
   read it for a class and would recommend it to
   anyone who is trying to get a more thorough
   understanding of urban theories.

2 comments about Learning from China: The Tao of the City.

1. This book went straight to my heart! Fingerhuth has masterfully connected the ancient philosophy of Taoism with the needs of today's modern urban cities. In a fresh, innovative and personal way, he takes us to a place "beyond" modernism, to a new consciousness of the intimate relationship between our urban environments and their surrounding landscapes. This book proposes a gestalt for the city of today that takes into consideration the sensitivities, complexities and idiosycrasies of the post-modern human being. I highly recommend this book to the city-dweller who longs for a more human envoronment in which to live but also to the urban planner whose job it is to create urban spaces in which we can live, breathe and begin to feel at home.



2. This book illustrates how each time and society expresses the core values of its philosophy in the way it develops cities. The many fantastic pictures visualize the concepts of the book in a thought inspiring manner. For me this book was a journey through time and around the world, accompanied by the personal experience and philosophy of the author, which felt like having a personal talk and discussion.

No comments about Alfred Caldwell: The Life and Work of a Prairie School Landscape Architect.