Traditional Building Magazine Table of Contents February 2007

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VOL. 20/NO. 1 february 2007

Table of Contents

PROFILE
So Rich in Beauty
From his studio in northern Italy, Pier Carlo Bontempi draws inspiration from the country's 3,000 years of architectural heritage in his finely detailed work. By Kim A. O'Connell

ROUNDTABLE
Raising Standards
Three leading architects, Paul Spencer Byard, Robert D. Loversidge, Jr., and Steven W. Semes, discuss the issue of additions to historic buildings and neighborhoods with Traditional Building Editorial Director Michael Carey.

PROJECT REVIEW
Missed Opportunity
With its overscaled mansard roof, misplaced windows and underdeveloped details, the new $72-million Hotel Commonwealth in Boston's Kenmore Square is a poor imitation of a Classically styled building. By Sheldon Richard Kostelecky

BOOK REVIEWS
Pragmatic Visionaries
Carrère & Hastings, Architects, by Mark Alan Hewitt, Kate Lemos, William Morrison and Charles Davock Warren. Reviewed by Eve M. Kahn

Renovatio Urbis
Palladio's Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic, by Tracy E. Cooper. Reviewed by Victor Deupi

Setback Style
Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York, by Jewel Stern and John A. Stuart. Reviewed by Nicole V. Gagne

THE FORUM
A Message to the New Congress
By Allan Greenberg

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