JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS

September 2006, Volume 65, Number 3

Table of Contents

*Editorial

Art History and Its Publications in the Electronic Age
HILARY BALLON

*Articles

The Original Buttressing of Abbot Suger's Chevet at the Abbey of Saint-Denis
DAVID J. STANLEY

A.W. N. Pugin's English Covent Plans
TIMOTHY BRITTAIN-CATLIN

"Build More and Draw Less": The AIA and Leopold Eidlitz's Grand Central
School of Architecture
KATE HOLLIDAY

To End a Continent: The Courtyard of the Salk Institute
MARC TREIB

*Books

DESIGN TOOLS AND ENGINEERING

Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt by Corina Rossi ; REVIEWED BY
DIANA WOLFE LARKIN

Picturing Machines 1400-1700 edited by Wolfgang Lefèvre. ; REVIEWED BY
ANTHONY GERBINO

The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy by David P. Billington ;
REVIEWED BY DANA BUNTROCK.

MONUMENTS AND ARCHITECTS

The Architecture of Roman Temples: the Republic to the middle Empire by
John W. Stamper ; REVIEWED BY JAMES C. ANDERSON, JR.

In Pursuit of Holy Wisdom: New Books on Hagia Sophia; REVIEWED BY ROBERT
OUSTERHOUT

- Hagia Sophia by W. Eugene Kleinbauer, Anthony White, Henry Matthews

- Santa Sofia di Constantinopoli. L'arredo marmoreo della Grande Chiesa
giustinianea edited by Alessandra Guiglia Guidobaldi and Claudia Barsanti

- Un tempio per Giustiniano. Santa Sofia di Costantinopoli e la Descrizione
di Paolo Silenziario by Maria Luigia Fobelli

- Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950: Holy Wisdom Modern Monument by Robert S.
Nelson;

Francesco Primaticcio architetto by Sabine Frommel, with Flaminia Bardati ;
REVIEWED BY DAVID KARMON

Ralph Adams Cram -An Architect's Four Quests: Medieval, Modernist, American,
Ecumenical by Douglass Shand-Tucci ; REVIEWED BY AARON BETSKY

Le Corbusier, Architect of Books; Le Corbusier et Le Livre by Catherine de
Smet ; REVIEWED BY MARDGES BACON

Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower edited by Anthony
Alofsin ; REVIEWED BY DAVID A. HANSER

SOCIAL FRAMEWORKS

Art and Patronage in the Medieval Mediterranean. Merchant Culture in the
Region of Amalfi by Jill Caskey ; REVIEWED BY ENRICO PARLATO

Architettura e controriforma: i dibattiti per la facciata del duomo di
Milano, 1582-1682 edited by Francesco Repishti and Richard Schofield ;
Nuovi antichi: committenti, cantieri, architetti, 1400-1600 edited by
Richard Schofield ; REVIEWED BY EVELYN WELCH

Articulating British Classicism: New Approaches to Eighteenth-Century
Architecture edited by Barbara Arciszewska and Elizabeth McKellar ;
REVIEWED BY LYDIA M. SOO

The Courthouses of Early Virginia: An Architectural History by Carl R.
Lounsbury ; REVIEWED BY KATHERINE FISCHER TAYLOR

The Chicago Architectural Club: Prelude to the Modern by Wilbert R.
Hasbrouck ; REVIEWED BY STEVEN BEDFORD

THEORY AND MODERNITY

Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968 by Harry
Francis Mallgrave ; REVIEWED BY JOHN MACIUIKA.

Re-Reading Perspecta: The First Fifty Years of the Yale Architectural
Journal edited by Robert A. M. Stern, Alan Plattus, and Peggy Deamer ;
REVIEWED BY JOHN A. STUART

Citiscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations by David Frisby ; REVIEWED
BY NADER VOSSOUGHIAN

*Exhibitions

Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection, National Building
Museum ; REVIEWED BY FRANCES M. MCMILLEN

In Pursuit of Pleasure: Schultze & Weaver and the American Hotel; REVIEWED
BY MICHELANGELO SABATINO

*Multimedia and Websites

No Angel From Hell: Albert Speer.

Speer und Er. Hitlers Architekt und Rüstungsminister (film), directed by
Heinrich Breloer; Unterwegs zur Familie Speer. Begegnungen, Gespräche,
Interviews (book), by Heinrich Breloer; Speer und Er. Hitlers Architekt
und Rüstungsminister (book), by Heinrich Breloer; Die unbeantwortbaren
Fragen. Notizen über Gespräche mit Albert Speer zwischen Ende 1966 und 1981,
by Joachim C. Fest ; REVIEWED BY ANSON RABINBACH.

The Automibile in American Life and Society (website); REVIEWED BY MATTHEW
W. ROTH

The Ancient City of Athens (website); Athenian Agora Excavations (website);
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (website); REVIEWED BY CHRISTOPHER
JAMES ALEXANDER