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Volume 56, Issue 4

Dec. 1997

ISSN 0037-9808

EISSN 2150-5926

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Editorial

William Henry Jordy, A Reflection

William H. Pierson,, Jr.

Articles

An Architecture for Modern Nerves: Josef Hoffmann's Purkersdorf Sanatorium

Leslie Topp

The Vernacular, Modernism, and Le Corbusier

Francesco Passanti

Joseph Hudnut's Other Modernism at the "Harvard Bauhaus"

Jill Pearlman

The Openwork Flying Buttresses of Amiens Cathedral: "Postmodern Gothic" and the Limits of Structural Rationalism

Robert Bork; Robert Mark; Stephen Murray

Exhibitions

Review: Building for Air Travel: Architecture and Design for Commercial Aviation

Sheri Olson

Review: The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963

George Wagner

Review: Grand Tour: The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century; Petitot: Un Artista del Settecento Europeo a Parma

Jeffrey Collins

Books

Houses, Castles, Palaces

Review: The Citadel of Cairo: A New Interpretation of Royal Mamluk Architecture by Nasser Rabbat

D. Fairchild Ruggles

Review: Châteaux et enceintes de la France médiévale: de la défense à la résidence by Jean Mesqui; Crusader Castles by Hugh Kennedy

Michael Thompson

Review: The Medieval Hall: The Basis of Secular Life, 600-1600 A. D. by Michael Thompson

Simon Thurley

Review: Viterbo: Profile of a Thirteenth-Century Papal Palace by Gary M. Radke

Julian Gardner

Review: Sixtus V and the Lateran Palace by Corinne Mandel

Jack Freiberg

Review: Bernini's Scala Regia at the Vatican Palace: Architecture, Sculpture, and Ritual by Tod A. Marder

Sarah McPhee

Nineteenth Century

Review: Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture by Mark Crinson

Zeynep Çelik

Review: Meiji Revisited: The Sites of Victorian Japan by Dallas Finn

Jonathan M. Reynolds

Review: Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 by Annmarie Adams

Deborah E. B. Weiner

Review: Personal and Professional Recollections by George Gilbert Scott

Stefan Muthesius

Review: Gottfried Semper, Architect of the Nineteenth Century by Harry Francis Mallgrave

Kurt W. Forster

Review: Karl Friedrich Schinkel: An Architecture for Prussia by Barry Bergdoll

Harry Francis Mallgrave

Moderns

Review: Sven Markelius, Architect by Eva Rudberg; The Architecture of Peter Celsing by Wilfried Wang

Marc Treib

Review: Willem Marinus Dudok: Architect-Stedebouwkundige, 1884-1974 by Herman van Bergeijk

Hans Ibelings

Review: Ernö Goldfinger by Robert Elwall

Eric Mumford

American Architects and Their Buildings

Review: The Progressive Architecture of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr. by Martin Aurand; The Architecture of Edwin Lundie by Dale Mulfinger; Carl F. Gould: A Life in Architecture and the Arts by T. William Booth, William H. Wilson

Boyd C. Pratt

Review: Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion by Joseph M. Siry; Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright by Robert McCarter; Frank Lloyd Wright's Dana House by Donald Hoffmann, Frank Lloyd Wright

David M. Sokol

Review: The Civic Architecture of Paul Cret by Elizabeth Greenwell Grossman

Paul Eli Ivey

American Landscapes and Gardens

Review: A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina by Catherine W. Bishir, Michael T. Southern

Carroll van West

Review: The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman by Judith B. Tankard; The Muses of Gwinn: Art and Nature in a Garden Designed by Warren H. Manning, Charles A. Platt, and Ellen Biddle Shipman by Robin Karson

William Lake Douglas

North American Ethnic and Cultural Traditions

Review: Building and Builders in Hispanic California, 1769-1850 by Mardith K. Schuetz-Miller

Mark L. Brack

Review: Contemporary Native American Architecture: Cultural Regeneration and Creativity by Carol Herselle Krinsky

Kenneth A. Breisch

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The Gardens of the Alhambra and the Search for Spanish Modernism, 1953–75

Negligentia Diligens: Baldassare Longhena and the Ospedaletto Church Façade

Review: Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe

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