Paul Gapp

The declared goal of this book is to assemble a selection of opinions about a dozen controversial buildings to better understand major architectural concerns of the last 15 years. After...

Large suburban buildings of the last few decades seldom present the kind of exterior imagery that sticks in the memory. Because we ordinarily view them from fast-moving automobiles, their long,...

The Curve of the Arch By Larry Millett (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 203 pages) The National Farmers` Bank in Owatonna, Minn., was the first and best of the small banks...

Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier By Thomas Doremus (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 192 pages, $35) Doremus is trying to develop a comprehensive theory of modern architecture that in his words...

With 160 illustrations and a compact but lively narrative, Hoffman has produced a splendid account of Chicago`s most famous house, the genius who designed it and the families who lived...

In November of 1982, 25 architects from eight nations gathered at the University of Virginia to engage in a rather extraordinary show-and-tell. Each displayed visual materials on one of his...

Erich Mendelsohn has been called the Arnold Schonberg of architecture, and some of the expressionistic buildings he designed in his early years support that analogy. The plasma-like flow of those...

The author intended this to be an easily understood overview of building technology for architecture students and for professionals in the construction industry. As such, it is certainly a great...

Next year is the centennial of Mies van der Rohe`s birth. It will be observed in Chicago and elsewhere in many ways, but the publication of Spaeth`s book may be...

The appearance of this book is more a celebration than a mere act of publication. To spend an evening (or a week or a month) savoring its glorious and exquisitely...