JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
March 2007, Volume 66, Number 1

Table of Contents

In This Issue: Jane Jacobs (1916-2006)

Jane Jacobs Before "Death and Life"
PETER L. LAURENCE

Jane Jacobs and the West Village: The Neighborhood against Urban Renewal
JENNIFER HOCK

Jane Jacobs's Urban Village: Well Preserved or Cast Adrift?
CHRISTOPHER KLEMEK

Articles:

Romanesque Construction and the Urban Context: Parthenay-le-Vieux in Aquitaine
ROBERT A. MAXWELL

Texas Gothic, French Accent: The Architecture of the Roman Catholic Church
in Antebellum Texas
RICHARD CLEARY

Challenging the Curtain Wall: Paul Rudolph's Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Building
TIMOTHY M. ROHAN

Books:

Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400-1600, by
Evelyn Welch
REVIEWED BY BRUCE BOUCHER

Florentine Villas in the Fifteenth Century: An Architectural and Social
History, by Amanda Lillie
REVIEWED BY DIANNE HARRIS

The Treatise on Perspective: Published and Unpublished, edited by Lyle Massey
REVIEWED BY MARIO CARPO

City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics
in New Spain, by Jaime Lara
REVIEWED BY BARBARA MUNDY

The Charnley House: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Making of
Chicago's Gold Coast, edited by Richard Longstreth
REVIEWED BY NEIL LEVINE

Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony, edited by Nancy E. Green

Architecture and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Boston: Harvard's H.
Langford Warren, by Maureen Meister

Reconfiguring Harvey Ellis, by Eileen Maning Michels

REVIEWED BY KELLY L'ECUYER

Team 10, 1953-1981: In Search of a Utopia of the Present, edited by Max
Risselada and Dirk van den Heuvel
REVIEWED BY LOUIS MARTIN

Les architectes et mai 68, by Jean-Louis Violeau
REVIEWED BY LARRY BUSBEA

Exhibitions:

Soane's Magician: The Tragic Genius of Joseph Michael Gandy

Joseph Gandy: Visionary Architect

REVIEWED BY FRANK SALMON

Multimedia and Websites:

Picturing a Metropolis: New York City Unveiled (DVD), in Unseen Cinema:
Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941, curated by Bruce Posner

Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941 (book), edited by
Bruce Posner

REVIEWED BY MARY N. WOODS

Mies Media

Glas, Stahl, Beton (film), directed by Georgia van der Rohe and Sam
Ventura

Mies van der Rohe (film), directed by Georgia van der Rohe

Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe (DVD), directed by Joseph
Hillel and Patrick Demers

Mies (video), written by Franz Schulze and directed by Michael Blackwood

Creating Community: Lafayette Park (video), produced by June and Paul Finfer

Mies van der Rohe: The Farnsworth House (video) produced by June and Paul
Finfer

The Tugendhat House: Mies van der Rohe's Czech Masterpiece (DVD), produced
by June and Paul Finfer

Mies van der Rohe 1886-1969: The Architect and his Work (website)

Mies in Berlin/Mies in America (website)

Villa Tugendhat (website)

Mies Barcelona (website)

REVIEWED BY DIETRICH NEUMANN

Letters to the Editor

Notes to the Contributors