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The coloring of the various types of Greek capital is a subject worthy of greater elaboration than our space permits.

In the preceding part of the treatise it was maintained that color gradation when artificially produced in architectural polychromy induces visual impressions which are not in accord with actual conditions.

The element of confusion which accompanies an inexperienced attempt to introduce color in a façade arises in most cases from ignorance of the physical properties of color, and their relation to and reaction upon the architectonic values established in design.

Since the parts of a building have been industrialized, it has naturally occurred to certain intelligent designers that the whole might eventually be treated in the same manner: hence various schemes for single family unit houses, designed for greater mechanical efficiency.

The purge was initiated on September 25th. 1948, in a Pravda article innocently entitled "Pending Questions of Soviet Architecture."

Whitaker, with the help of students and the staff at Craig Whitaker Architects, undertook a months-long study of the planning issues that face potential World Trade Center designers before anything else can be done.

For those of us who live in the shadow of an empty sky, there is a particular duplication of mourning, for what was once and is now gone, but also for what is to come.

Why do we need another book about Le Corbusier? Since well before his death in 1965, the prolific French-Swiss architect has been the center of a virtual industry of publications about his work.