Book Reviews

1994

  • Bauhaus on the Carmel and the Crossroads of Empire by G. Herbert und S. Sosnovsky (Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1993), and Tel Aviv Neues Bauen 1930-1939 ed. by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, and the Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität München (Tübingen, Berlin: Wasmuth Verlag, 1993), Bauwelt, 85 (1994), no. 12, p. 570.

1995

  • Organicism in Nineteenth-Century Architecture. An Inquiry into its Theoretical and Philosophical Background by Caroline van Eck (Amsterdam: Architectura & Natura Press, 1994), kursiv Literaturblatt der Bauwelt, 86 (1995), no. 23, pp. 13-14.
  •  Tony Fretton (Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1995), kursiv Literaturblatt der Bauwelt, 86 (1995), no. 41, pp. 10-11.

1997

  • Die Synagoge by Harold Alan Meek (München: Knesebeck, 1996), kursiv Literaturblatt der Bauwelt, 88 (1997), no. 31, pp. 16-17.
  •  Sir John Soane Enlightenment Thought and the Royal Academy Lectures by David Watkin (Cambridge: University Press, 1996), kursiv Literaturblatt der Bauwelt, 88 (1997), no. 30, p. 7.

1999

  • Tel Aviv from Dream to City by Joachim Schlör (London: Reaktion Books, 1999), RIBA Journal, 106 (1999), October, pp. 33-34.
  • Atlantropa—Weltenbauen am Mittelmeer. Ein Architektentraum der Moderne by Wolfgang Voigt (Hamburg: Dölling und Gallitz, 1998), kursiv Literaturblatt der Bauwelt, 90 (1999), no. 31, p. 13., and Planning History, 21 (2/1999), pp. 51-53 (expanded version).

 2000

  • Automobiles by Architects by Ivan Margolius (Chichester: Wiley-Academy, 2000), Bauwelt, 91 (2000), no. 34, pp. 48-49.

 2001

  • Nie gebaute Niederlande 'Denn zwischen Traum und Tat stehen Gesetze und praktische Bedenken' by Cees Nooteboom (Stuttgart: DVA, 1999), Bauwelt, 92 (2001), no. 44, p. 36.
  •  Hopkins 2. The Work of Michael Hopkins and Partners ed. by Colin Davies (London: Phaidon, 2001), Bauwelt, 92 (2001), no. 44, p. 19.
  •  Frederick Romberg. The Architecture of Migration 1938-1975 ed. by Harriet Edquist (Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2000), Bauwelt, 92 (2001), no. 48, p. 87.
  •  Urban Planning in a Changing World. The Twentieth Century Experience ed. by Robert Freestone (London: Routledge, 2000), Planning History, 23 (2001), no. 1/2, pp. 72-75.

2002

  • Gaudí. The Biography by Gijs van Hensbergen (London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001), Bauwelt, 93 (2002), no. 4, p. 40.
  •  Avantgarde und Tradition. Die Architektur des kritischen Regionalismus by Vicky Richardson (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2001), Bauwelt, 93 (2002), no. 39, p. 24.
  •  German Architecture for a Mass Audience by Kathleen James-Chakraborty (London, New York: Routledge, 2000), Bauwelt, 93 (2002), no. 39, pp. 27-28.

2003

  • Gaudí, Interieurs, Möbel, Gartenkunst ed. by Maria Antonietta Crippa and Marc Llimargas Casas (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2001), Bauwelt, 94 (2003), no. 7, p. 33.
  •  Ernst Plischke. Das neue Bauen und die Neue Welt ed. by Eva B. Ottilinger and August Sarnitz (München: Prestel, 2003), Bauwelt, 94 (2003), no. 23, pp. 45-46.

2004

  • Ernst Plischke. Architekt und Lehrer (Wien: Anton Pustet, 2003), Bauwelt, 95 (2004), no. 6, p. 36.

2005

  • Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House. Architecture as Portrait by Jack Quinan, (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004), Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 64:3 (September 2005), 380-8.

2006

  • Constructing a Sense of Place: Architecture and the Zionist Discourse by Haim Yacobi (ed.), (Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2004)Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 65:4 (December 2006), 641-43.

2007

  • Heidegger’s Hut by Adam Sharr (Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press, 2007), Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 66:4 (December 2007), 542-543.
  •  Britain. Modern Architectures in History, by Alan Powers (London: Reaktion, 2007), Journal of Design History, 20:4 (2007), 357-359.

2008

  • The A-Z of Modern Architecture by Peter Gössel (ed.) (Cologne: Taschen, 2007)Journal of Art History. The International Periodical of Reviews, 12:1 (2008), 57-60.
  •  Industriearchitektur in Berlin 1840-1910 by Miron Mislin (Tübingen: Wasmuth, 2002), Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67:3 (September 2008), 451-452.
  •  Designing Modern Britain by Cheryl Buckley (London: Reaktion, 2007), Journal of Design History, 21: 3 (2008), 298-300.
  •  Bertram Goodhue: His Life and Residential Architecture by Romy Wyllie (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007), and An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco & the Bay Area by Susan Cerny (Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2007), California History, 2008. 
  • Der Raum der Stadt—Raumtheorien zwischen Architektur, Soziologie, Kunst und Philosophie in Japan und im Westen by Jürgen Krusche (ed.) (Marburg: Jonas Verlag, 2008), Journal of Art History, 12:4 (2008), 311-314.
2011
  • Early Women Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Life and Work of Fifty Professionals, 1890-1951 by Inge Schaefer Horton (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2010), California History, 88:3 (2011), 68.
Forthcoming
  • German Cities and Bourgeois Modernism 1890-1924, by Maiken Umbach (Oxford University Press, 2009), Journal of Art History
  • Imaginationen des Urbanen. Konzeption, Reflexion, und Fiktion von Stadt in Mittel- und Osteuropa, ed. by Arnold Bartetzky, Marina Dmitrieva und Alfrun Kliems (Lukas Verlag, 2009), Journal of Art History