Customer Review: In many ways, the reading of this book reminded me of the writings of Louis Kahn: both explicit and metaphorical reflections on the inner complexities of the apparent simplicities of daily life. The selections of almost inscrutable photographs, extreme close-ups of sections of Zumthor's house, act... more info
Customer Review: On 7 October 2006, the journalist Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated. She was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building in an apparent contract killing. It is very important, I think, to bear this ending in mind while you read A Russian Diary. Politkovskaya is not objective. This is... more info
Customer Review: My review title is not meant to be flip but it was the only way I could capture my feelings about this book. From a courage perspective or from the depth of research conducted,this is a 5 star book. The reason I reduced the rating is two-fold: (1) while the situations Ms Politkovskaya cites do show... more info
Customer Review: sus fotografias son blanco y negro y pequeñas....muy poquitas hojas de ....informacion y no muestra muchos ejemplos de portafolios....sin embargo hay cierta informacion iinteresante...y se le puede sacar provecho.....
Customer Review: The author does a very good job of describing the pathetic state of contemporary architecture to include all the isms. He starts with the school of the Bauhaus and continues with the concepts of machine age architecture or what was termed the international style and then classifies those associated... more info
Customer Review: This is a book full of wonderful stories. It has many stories already familiar to those that read Cherokee tales as well as many new stories that I have never seen writen down before. The editor tries to stay as true to the story teller's own words as possible and manges to even keep the story... more info
Customer Review: This is a real good buy. Prof. Szokolay is one of the prominent experts in the field. I was waiting for this book to be published .... to use it as the required textbook for a course I teach. It is a perfect content for an Architectural Engineering course on environmental control. Sadly, I couldn't... more info