Volume 59 / Number 1 / March 2000

 

Contents
 

5 From the Editor
Articles
6 Architectural Representations in the Hyperotomachia Poliphila (Aldus Manutius, 1499)
ROSWITHA STEWERING
20 On the Idea of the Mandala as a Governing Device in Indian Architectural Tradition
SONIT BAFNA
50 Genesis and Mimesis: The Design of the Arch of Constantine in Rome
MARK WILSON JONES
78 What Do Victorian Churches Mean? Symbolism and Scaramentalism in Anglican Church Architecture, 1850-1870
MICHAEL HALL
Exhibitions
96  Im Brennpunkt der Moderne: Mies van der rohes Haus Tugendhat, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, 2 October-31 December 1998
Mies van der Rohe: Möbel und Bauten in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno, Weissenhof Institut, Stuttgart, 29 October­-30 November 1997, REVIEWED BY DIETRICH NEUMANN
100 Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 27 March-23 May 1999, 
REVIEWED BY RICHARD L. KRONICK
103 Montreal Metropolis, 1880-1930, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 18 March-24 May 1998,
REVIEWED BY KELLY CROSSMAN
Books
106 Italy 1500-1800

Sebastiano Serlio architetto, by Sabine Frommel, REVIEWED BY RICHARD J. TUTTLE

Sostegno e adornamento, Saggi sull' architettura del rinascimento: disegni, ordini, magnificenza, by Christof Thoenes, with a preface by James S. Ackerman, REVIEWED BY CHARLES BURROUGHS

The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance. Architectural Invention, Ornament and Literary Culture, by Alina Payne, 
REVIEWED BY CHRISTINE SMITH

L'architettura del seicento, by Daniel del Pesco, REVIEWED BY ANDREW HOPKINS

Specchio di Roma Barocca: Una guida inedita del XVIII secolo, edited by Joseph Connors and Louis Rice
Francesco Borromini, Opus Architectonicum, edited by Joseph Connors, REVIEWED BY JOHN PINTO

The Altars and Alterpieces in New St. Peter's, Outfitting the Basilica 1621-1666, by Louis Rice, REVIEWED BY EVONNE LEVY

Bernini and the Art of Architecture, by T. A. Marder, REVIEWED BY PATRICIA WADDY
 

119 Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Architecture and Independence: The Search for Identity-India 1880 to 1980, by Jon Lang, Madhavi Desai, and Mike Desai, REVIEWED BY KATHERINE B. ASHER

Béla Lajta: Ornamento e Modernità, edited by Marco Biraghi
Competing Visions: Aesthetic Invention and Social Imagination in Central European Architecture, 1867-1918, 
by Ákos Moravánszky
The Architecture of Historic Hungary, edited by Dora Wiebenson and Jósef Siza, REVIEWED BY CHRISTOPHER LONG

Historie de l'architecte, edited by Louis Callebat
Les bâtisseurs d'avenir: Portraits d'architectes XIVe-XXe siècle, by Jean-Michel Leniaud
L'architecture moderne en France, Volume 1, 1889-1940, by Claude Lopia and Christine Mengin, edited by Gérard Monnier
REVIEWED BY BARRY BERGDOLL

Dimitris Pikionis, 1887-1968, by Alberto Ferlenga, REVIEWED BY NICHOLAS ADAMS

Cheap, Quick, and Easy: Imitative Architectural Materials, 1870-1930, by Pamela H. Simpson, REVIEWED BY JULIE NICOLETTA

Country, Park, and City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux, by Francis R. Kowsky, REVIEWED BY ELIZABETH C. CROMLEY
 

132 Film and Photography

Mary Jane Colter: The Desert View (videotape), written, directed, and produced by Jennifer Lee
Mary Jane Colter: House Made of Dawn (videotape), written, directed, and produced by Karen A. Bartlett,
REVIEWED BY LINDA HART

L.A. Obscura: The Architectural Photography of Julius Shulman, by Lisa Goodgame et al.
Bernice Abbott: Changing New York, by Bonnie Yochelson
Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James, edited by Phillis Lambert,
REVIEWED BY DAVID NAYLOR
 

136 Preservation

Boston's "Changeful Times":  Origins of Preservation & Planning in America, by Michael Holleran, 
REVIEWED BY RICHARD M. CANDEE

A Cleveland legacy: The Architecture of Walker and Weeks, by Eric Johannesen, REVIEWED BY CAROL POH MILLER
 

141 Abstracts
Articles submitted to JSAH are subject to anonymous peer review.
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