The Anatomy of the Architectural Book

Architectural bookmaking has been exposed to disciplinary debates, just asbuilding construction has been exposed to the charms of book culture. Dissectinga wealth of books through fi ve conceptual tools, André Tavares analyzes thematerial qualities of books in order to assess their crossovers with architecturalknowledge. The detailed history of Sigfried Giedion’s Befreites Wohnen andthe two incarnations of the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park and Sydenham providea background that confronts us with the confi guration of the book as a uniquevisual device.