Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

June 2007, Volume 66, Number 2

In this Issue:

Field Notes
Stephen Rustow, "Scenography and Structural Theatrics: Urban, Foster,
and the Hearst Tower"

Articles
Kristoffer Neville, "The Early Reception of Fischer von Erlach's
Entwurff einer historischen Architectur"

Alison McQueen, "Women and Social Innovation during the Second
Empire: Empress Eugénie's Patronage of the Fondation Eugène Napoléon"

Margaret Maile Petty, "Illuminating the Glass Box: The Lighting
Designs of Richard Kelly"

Jorge Otero-Pailos, "Photo[historio]graphy: Christian Norberg-
Schulz's Demotion of Textual History"

Books
Chinese Spatial Strategies: Imperial Beijing 1420-1911, by Zhu Jianfei;
Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political
Space, by Wu Hung;
- reviewed by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt

On Alberti
Between Science and Drawings: Renaissance Architects on Vitruvius's
Educational Ideas, by Liisa Kanerva;
Serene Greed of the Eye: Leon Battista Alberti and the Philosophical
Foundations of Renaissance Theory, by Branko Mitrovic;
La Roma di Leon Battista Alberti. Umanisti, architetti e artisti all
scoperta dell'antico nella città del Quattrocento, edited by Paolo
Fiore with Arnold Nesselrath;
- reviewed by Mark Jarzombek

The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire, by
Gülru Necipoglu;
- reviewed by Catherine Asher

The Renaissance Perfected: Architecture, Spectacle, and Tourism in
Fascist Italy, by D. Medina Lasansky
- reviewed by Diane Ghirardo

Storia dell'architettura italiana. Il Seicento, edited by Aurora
Scotti Tosini
- reviewed by Patricia Waddy

'De Huysbou': A Reconstruction of an Unfinished Treatise on
Architecture, Town Planning and Civil Engineering by Simon Stevin, by
Charles van den Heuvel;
- reviewed by Piet Lombaerde

St. Peter's in the Vatican, edited by William Tronzo;
- reviewed by Suzy Ford

Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950: Holy Wisdom and the Modern Monument, by
Robert S. Nelson;
- reviewed by David Van Zanten

Detention Castles of Stone and Steel: Landscape, Labor and the Urban
Penitentiary, by James Garman;
- reviewed by Bernard Zirnheld

Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American
City, 1780-1830, by Bernard Herman;
- reviewed by Nora Pat Small

Ernst Plischke: Modern Architecture for the New World -- The Complete
Works, by August Sarnitz and Eva B. Ottillinger;
- reviewed by Christopher Long

Modernism: Designing the New World, 1914-1939, edited by Christopher
Wilk;
The Modernist Home, by Tim Benton;
Modern: The Modern Movement in Britain, by Alan Powers;
- reviewed by Helen Searing

Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility, by Michael John Gorman;
- reviewed by Jonathan Massey

Capital Drawings: Architectural Designs for Washington, D.C., from
the Library of Congress, edited by C. Ford Peatross, with Pamela
Scott, Diane Tepfer and Leslie Freudenheim;
- reviewed by Howard Gillette, Jr.

Multimedia and Websites
Versailles décor sculpté extérieur (website), by Béatrix Saule et al.;
Les Grands Appartements de Versailles sous Louis XIV. Catalogue des
décors peints (book), by Nicolas Milovanovic;
- reviewed by Guy Walton

Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright's Building and Legacy in
Japan (video), produced and directed by Karen Severns and Mori Koichi;
- reviewed by Jonathan Reynolds

Archigram Movies! (DVD);
- reviewed by Hadas A. Steiner