This introduction to Emilio Ambaz's work revealed for me a start of a new civilization. His language of Architecture, a true invention is constant in its honesty and his view of the built environment is a peaceful one. For those who like to dream and those who like to assemble dreams, this book is a visual and theoretical introduction to a visionary's ideal.

If you are into architecture in any way, try this book. Although there is not a lot of usefull information in this book it is still a good read. It features simple and effective descriptions of some of his famous buildings which are illustrated by great photographs and small diagrams. And that is the power of this book: keeping it simple.

A must-have monograph that is as lucid, intelligent, and unpretentious as its subject-and at a bargain price. Ban combines a respect for the Japanese architectural tradition of simple, open, lightweight structures with the theoretical rigor he absorbed from John Hejduc, his teacher at Cooper Union. His signature element is the cardboard tube (first used as an economy in his installation of an Aalto exhibition) and since employed as the structural support for houses, a post-earthquake church in Kobe, a graceful canopy over the MoMA garden, and the Japanese Pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hanover. Ban's oeuvre includes provocative private houses and temporary shelters for disaster victims.

Luis Barragan is one of the most over looked genius's of our time. Not only was he a brilliant architect but one might say he was the one of first ergonomicly concern architect. It so sad that Latin American architects get overlooked by publishers. especialy since Luis recieved one of the highest honors a architect can recieve.