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Summary: A picturesques book on World Trade Center Competition.
Review: The book is a very nice picturesque book on the many entries for the World Trade Center Competition. I have seen other WTC Competition book and this is the best. Graphically this book is for the visual architects. The book show the WTC projects snap shot, big money rendering, sketches, diagram, section, elevation, plan and perspective. Other books on the WTCC only so the big money rendering and some drawings. This book is more complete and is almost 200 pages long.The problems I founded are the texts and writings in the book are not very good. The texts are very simple and obvious description for some the bigger entry project of more well known architectural firms, but nothing on the small firm. There are also more Korean texts then English, maybe that is where most of the insight of the scheme could be read. The other WTC Competition book I seen had some money shot renderings, but every entry had some text to describe the architects' reasoning for the project and personal quotes. This book really lacks the attention to verbal description, but we all know that in architectural reason are just personal jargons. I also notices that not all the entries are shown, only a selection. Graphically this is a very good and if you do care for too much philosophy this is the book for you. []
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Summary: A picturesques book on World Trade Center Competition.
Review: The book is a very nice picturesque book on the many entries for the World Trade Center Competition. I have seen other WTC Competition book and this is the best. Graphically this book is for the visual architects. The book show the WTC projects snap shot, big money rendering, sketches, diagram, section, elevation, plan and perspective. Other books on the WTCC only so the big money rendering and some drawings. This book is more complete and is almost 200 pages long. The problems I founded are the texts and writings in the book are not very good. The texts are very simple and obvious description for some the bigger entry project of more well known architectural firms, but nothing on the small firm. There are also more Korean texts then English, maybe that is where most of the insight of the scheme could be read. The other WTC Competition book I seen had some money shot renderings, but every entry had some text to describe the architects' reasoning for the project and personal quotes. This book really lacks the attention to verbal description, but we all know that in architectural reason are just personal jargons. I also notices that not all the entries are shown, only a selection. Graphically this is a very good and if you do care for too much philosophy this is the book for you. []
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