BOOK REVIEW: Constructing Architecture by Andrea Deplazes

Andrea Deplazes of ETH Zurich created this book to teach how an architect can construct a building. The German translation of the title is Baukunst, this means the art of construction.

All I can say is: BRILLIANT

*****   [this book received 5/5 stars]

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Ignacio Azpiazu said

"Andrea Deplazes, the editor and author or co-author of many of the articles, teaches at the Zurich ETH (and I would guess the same must be true for the authors of most of the other articles), which for well over a hundred years has been one of the few true schools of architecture in the world. The book glows with the power of this accumulated knowledge developed in a true academic environment since the times of Semper. It also gives a glimpse at how the ETH consistently produces first class ordinary architecture, and for that matter first class extraordinary architecture too."