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Reviews several architectural journals and magazines. `Assemblage'; `ANY'; `Design Book Review'; `Perspecta'; `Center.'

The article reviews "The Paper Architect" by María Victoria Garrido Bianchini, Ingrid Siliakus, and Joyce Aysta.

Reviews the book 'White Papers, Black Masks: Architecture, Race and Culture,' edited by Lesley Naa Norie Lokko.

Reviews the book 'White Papers, Black Marks: Architecture, Race, Culture,' edited by Lesley Naa Norle Lokko.

Reviews two books on architecture "Place: A Story of Modelmaking, Menageries and Paper Rounds," by Terry Farrell; "Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time," by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.

Reviews the book "The Architectural Papers," by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and edited by Pamela Robertson.

The article reviews the book "Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Architectural Papers," edited by Pamela Robertson.

The article reviews the book "The Conservation of Decorated Surfaces on Earthen Architecture," by Leslie Rainer and Angelyn Bass Rivera.

Reviews the book "Gender, Class, and Shelter: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture," edited by Elizabeth Collins Cromley and Carter L. Hudgins.

The article presents information from the world of art. The latest book on illustrators is "Modern Book Illustrators and Their Work," edited by C. Geoffrey Holme and Ernest G. Halton and text by M.C. Salaman. Much said, one may pass to enjoyment of the contents of the book, which, besides the short introductory text, offers the work of fifty illustrators. The list of names suggests such contrasts as Crane and Deardsley, Morris and Sullivan, H. M. Brock and Vernon Hill, etc. The issue of the journal "Architectural Quarterly," of Harvard University for last June consisted entirely of an important paper by Prof. Sidney Fiske Kimball on "Thomas Jefferson as Architect: Monticello and Shadwell."

Reviews the book 'Chicago Architects.'

The article presents reviews of art, architecture, and photography books to be released in Spring of 2014, including "The New Net Zero: Leading-Edge Design and Construction of Homes and Buildings for a Renewable Energy Future" by Bill Maclay; "The Luminous and the Grey" by David Batchelor; and "The Public Library: A Photographic Essay" by Robert Dawson.

Reviews "The Architect's Newspaper." Information on the columns of the newspaper; Focus and scope; Web site.

A review of the book "Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece," by Alex Beam, is presented.

Reviews the book "Wood, Brick, and Stone: The North American Settlement Landscape," vol. 2, "Barns and Farm Structures," by Allen G. Noble.

The article presents an overview of the book "Lomabard Architecture," by Arthur Kingsley Porter. Porter, in his monumental work "Lombard Architecture," has made the most complete and authoritative contribution thus far produced in any language. It is extraordinary in the amount and quality of its documentation based on primary sources; in the number of hitherto unpublished monuments measured, studied, and photographed, by its author, some of them apparently quite unknown. This little book, embodying the results of two years of personal study of little-known churches in Lombardy, and a later series of papers in Italian on these and other churches.

Reviews various books focusing on architecture. Citing of the book `Centerbook, Voulume 2,'; Design concepts within the book `Alexander Gorlin: Buildings and Projects,' by Paul Goldberger.

A review of the book "eVolo Skyscrapers," by Carlo Aiello and others is presented.

Visualising Lost Theatres is an innovative study that uses virtual reality to advance new conclusions about the architecture and use of a sample of historic performance spaces. Theatres are conceived as "living systems" whose "flows" can be best appreciated by inhabited digital reconstructions of these spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reveiws several products in architecture, including the as4 Modular Shelving System, which is a component-based shelving and furniture system handcrafted of solid wood and cold-rolled steel bar from Atlas Industries, Okawood insulating glass offers a new way to integrate the warmth of wood into curtain-wall glass from Schott N.A. and Abacá, a new line of decorative laminate surfaces from Lamin-Art, is manufactured using recycled banana fibers and kraft paper and contains approximately 40 percent post-industrial recovered content.

Reviews the non-fiction book `Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, III,` by Thomas Carter and Bernard L. Herman.

The article reviews the book "Bridging the Gap Between Architecture and Philosophy," by Tom Spector.

The article reviews the book "A Singular Voice: Essays on Australian Architecture," by Joan Kerr, edited by Candice Bruce, Dinah Dysart and Jo Holder.

The article reviews the book "Scottish Architecture," by Miles Glendinning and Aonghus MacKechnie.

The article reviews the book "The Problem of Writing Architecture: Knots, Restraint and Pleasure," Chris L. Smith.

The article reviews the book "Ancient Roman Topography and Architecture: The Paper Museum of Cassiano Dal Pozzo, Series A, Part IX," by Ian Campbell, with contributions by Arnold Nesselrath, Johannes Röll, Lynda Fairbairn and David Hemsoll.

Reviews the book "Eating Architecture," edited by Jamie Horowitz and Paulette Singley.

A review of the book "American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture," by Alice T. Friedman, is presented.

Reviews the book 'Cutting the Cost of Cold,' edited by Janet Rudge and Fergus Nicol.

Reviews the book "Gehry Draws," by Frank O. Gehry, edited by Mark Rappolt and Robert Violette.

Reviews the book "Ideas That Shaped Buildings," by Fil Hearn.

Reviews the book 'Luigi Moretti: Works and Writings,' by Federico Bucci and Marco Mulazzani; translated by Marina De Conciliis.

Reviews the non-fiction book, 'Bernini and the Bell Towers: Architecture and Politics at the Vatican,' by Sarah McPhee.

Reviews two books about architecture. `Origins of Architectural Pleasure,' by Grant Hildebrand; `The Anaesthetics of Architecture,' by Neil Leach.

The article reviews the exhibition "Trends of the Twenties" at the New National Gallery in Berlin, Germany until October 16, 1979.

Presents several books on architecture. "The Prodigious Builders," by Bernard Rudojsky; "Form Follows Fiasco," by Peter Blake; "The Architecture Book," by Norval White.

A review of the book "Blooming in Winter: The Story of a Remarkable Twentieth-Century Woman," by Pamela Valois, is presented.

Reviews the book "Eating Architecture," edited by Jamie Horwitz and Paulette Singley.