Old Buildings, New Designs
by Charles Bloszies
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, November 2011
Reviewed by Françoise Bollack

Alvar Aalto: Mark of the Hand
by Harry Charrington and Vezio Nava, editors
Helsinki: Rakennustieto, 2011
Reviewed by William Morgan

Edward Durell Stone: A Son’s Untold Story of a Legendary Architect
by Hicks Stone
New York: Rizzoli, 2011
Reviewed by Alexander Gorlin

100 Ideas that Changed Architecture
by Richard Weston
Laurence King, 2011
Reviewed by William Morgan

Reverse Effect: Renewing Chicago’s Waterways
by Jeanne Gang
Studio Gang Architects, 2011
Reviewed by Lee Bey

The New Mathematics of Architecture
by Jane Burry and Mark Burry
Thames and Hudson, 2010
Reviewed by Norman Weinstein

The Agile City: Building, Well-Being, and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change
By James S. Russell
Island Press, 2011
Reviewed by Jonathan Barnett

Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City
By Anne Mikolet & Moritz Pürckhauer
MIT Press, 2011
Reviewed by Claire Weisz

Urban Design Roundup
Three new books by thoughtful architect-urbanists, usefully read together, explore the current state of urban design.
Reviewed by Ernie Hutton

Living in the Endless City
Edited by Ricky Burdett and Devan Sudjic. London: Phaidon Press, 2011, 432 pages, $69.
Reviewed by Craig Whitaker

University Planning and Architecture: The Search for Perfection
By Jonathan Coulson, Paul Roberts, and Isabelle Taylor
Routledge, 2010
Reviewed by Jayne Merkel

Japan Roundup
An island nation where the cool and the ordinary flourish together.
Reviewed by Norman Weinstein

Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts
Edited by Robert Twombly
W.W. Norton, 2010
Reviewed by Witold Rybczynski

Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture
Edited by Karla Britton
Yale University Press, 2011
Reviewed by Norman Weinstein

The Scenes of the Street and Other Essays
By Anthony Vidler
The Monacelli Press, 2011
Reviewed by Aleksandr Bierig