JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS

September 2003, Volume 62, Number 3

Table of Contents

Editorial

Preserving Nimrud

NANCY STIEBER

Articles

The Architect Trdat: Building Practices and Cross-Cultural Exchange
in
Byzantium and Armenia

Christina Maranci

Venice Between East and West: Marc'Antonio Barbaro and Palladio's
Church of
the Redentore

Deborah Howard

Castle Howard and the Emergence of the Modern Architectural Subject

Neil Levine

The Architecture of Control: Shaker Dwelling Houses at Mount Lebanon, New
York

Julie Nicoletta

Exhibitions

Gaudí: Exploring Form Saló del Tinell, Museu d'Història de la Ciutat,
Barcelona 21 March-29 September 2002
Gaudí: Art and Design Centre Cultural Caixa de Catalunya (La Pedrera),
Barcelona
18 June-24 September 2002

Gaudí's Universe Centre de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona 31 May-8
September 2002; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid 15
October 2002-6 January 2003; REVIEWED BY JUDITH C. ROHRER

David Adler, Architect: The Elements of Style The Art Institute of Chicago 7
December-18 May 2003 ; David Adler: Picture Perfect David Adler Cultural
Center, Libertyville, Ill.
9 December-28 February 2003; REVIEWED BY Stuart Cohen

Books

EUROPEAN MODERNISM

Le Corbusier in America by Mardges Bacon

Henri Sauvage by Jean-Baptiste Minnaert

Les Frères Perret L'Oeuvre complète by Maurice Culot, David Peycere, Gilles
Ragot, with Joseph Abram, Guy Lambert, Rejean Legeault, and Simon Texier;
REVIEWED BY BRIAN BRACE TAYLOR

Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century by Stanford
Anderson; REVIEWED BY Kathleen James-Chakraborty

MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE

Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: The Theater of the Dead by Marjorie
Susan Venit

Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans by Jane Taylor; REVIEWED BY
JAMES F.D. FRAKES

Chinese Architecture by Fu Xinian, Guo Daiheng, Liu Xujie, Pan Guxi, Qiao
Yun, and Sun Dazhang, edited by Nancy S. Steinhardt; REVIEWED BY ROBERT L.
THORP

The Italian Renaissance Palace Façade: Structures of Authority, Surfaces
of Sense by Charles Burroughs; REVIEWED BY DOROTHY METZGER HABEL

AMERICAN PRACTICES

Inventing the Charles River by Karl Haglund; REVIEWED BY Maureen Meister

The Portfolio and the Diagram: Architecture, Discourse, and Modernity in
America by Hyungmin Pai; REVIEWED BY Jean La Marche

Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850 by W. Barksdale Maynard;
REVIEWED BY GABRIELLE M. LANIER

UTOPIAS

Les saint-simoniens. Raison, imaginaire et utopie by Antoine Picon;
REVIEWED BY Martin Bressani

Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis edited by

Amy Bingamen, Lise Sanders and Rebecca Zorach; REVIEWED BY TANIA MARTIN

Obituary

Whitney Stoddard by William H. Pearson