Reviews for Colonial Germantown Mennonites

The average rating for Colonial Germantown Mennonites based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-05-15 00:00:00 D V This is a kind of training manual for how to examine your aesthetic judgments. By placing a picture of a subtly modified version of a building or part of a building next to a picture of the original, Brolin eliminates the primary barrier to ordinary aesthetic judgments, which is a kind of incommensurability--you might be reluctant to compare the Chrysler building with the Hancock building, for example, since they are different in innumerable ways. But there's nothing that stands in the way of deciding whether the Chrysler building is better or worse without its distinctive gargoyles. Once you can make those kinds of judgments, progressing to much more complicated assessments of relative value shouldn't be too hard. I think one of the few buildings that Brolin's altered version improves on is Venturi's Guild House (p.23).

Review # 2 was written on 2015-05-31 00:00:00 P M S Dawson Pretty cool book. Very simple, picture book for designers/architects/architecture lovers. It points out various subtleties in arrangement and details, and how they help buildings look and feel better.