architecture + urbanism

Book Reviews

• Jorge Almazan: Emergent Tokyo
  - yokochō alleyways, zakkyo buildings, undertrack infills, ankyo streets + dense low-rise neighbourhoods
• David Buisseret: Envisioning the City
  Six Studies in Urban Cartography
• Robert Byron: The Road to Oxiana
  - travels in Persia and Afghanistan in the 1930s
• Barry Dawson, John Gillow: The Traditional Architecture of Indonesia
  - rumah adat across the archipelago
• Maureen Dillon: Artificial Sunshine
  A Social History of Domestic Lighting
• Richard Fawcett: Scottish Medieval Churches
  The Ecclesiastical Architecture of the 12th to 16th Centuries
• David Harrison: The Bridges of Medieval England*
  Transport and Society 400-1800
• Fil Hearn: Ideas That Shaped Buildings
  - architectural theory from Vitruvius to deconstructivism
• Robert Irwin: Islamic Art*
  Art, Architecture and the Literary World
• George Konrád: The City Builder*
  - a planner's life in a provincial Eastern European town
• Jean-Pierre Mohen: Standing Stones
  Stonehenge, Carnac and the World of Megaliths
• Borislav Pekic: The Houses of Belgrade*
  - a man looks back on a life obsessed by his houses
• Mark Rappolt: Georges Perec and Paris*
  - criticism, poetry, fiction, architecture, photography
• Gisli Sigurdsson: Works Along the Way
  - notable Icelandic architecture in concrete
• Adriaan Verhulst: The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe
  - the 4th to 12th centuries, from the Meuse to the Scheldt