Reviews for Building the Georgian City

The average rating for Building the Georgian City based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-02-28 00:00:00 Steven Tarpening Trees can be drawn from this introductory book of how ideas descend from generations of architects. Requires some knowledge of architecture history. Different historians might have different views on classifying and reinterpreting the streams in the 20th century architecture.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-11-14 00:00:00 Jeff Edelstein As an outsider who has had a casual interest in Brazil, I would like to recommend this book for reasons the authors perhaps did not intend. While it appears to be a very specialized book aimed architects and planners, it (perhaps unintentionally) serves as an amazing transect through the Brazil of the period, with appearances by major public figures like Niemeyer, Costa and Roberto Burle Marx but in a presentation that inevitably also focuses on the experience 'on-the-street' of the population of Brasilia. It considers all of this through the lens of international, national and local politics, culture and criticism. The book is also loaded with quality photos and illustrations. It does not tell the whole story of Brazil or Brasilia, but it teases out several significant threads. Any other book would be hard pressed to pack as effective a snapshot of a time and place into a mere 100 pages. I am including it on my personal 'five foot shelf'.