1. Culicidae Architectural Press, and her sister Culicidae Press, LLC, are proud to announce their latest book titles:

  2. Kansas City author Julie Arntson just published her archi-biographical Architecture Cookbook (148 pages, full-color interior with many illustrations, ISBN 978-1-4357-4407-3) with Culicidae Architectural Press in October. In her unique book Arntson moves deftly through a series of essays from architectural practice through architecture theory and design to sensory design, and finally dessert. This is a creative study by a woman architect intern (soon to be an architect...) of the intersection between architecture and cooking, complete with essays and recipes. Chapters explore Architecture Practice (Recipe for an Architect: An Invented Tradition; Construction), Architecture Theory and Design (Levittown Salisbury Steak; Agri-tecture: A Look at Sustainability), Sensory Design (Consuming Architecture; Can I get that in Pill form? Taste in Architecture), and, of course, Dessert (History of Culture, Cuisine, and the Cookbook; Personal Samplings). Profusely illustrated in full color.

  3. The book is available now through Lulu.

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  5. Former University of Florida Architecture Professor Harry Merritt just published his book Perspective Drawing: The Projected Image Method (56 pages, many black & white illustrations) ISBN 978-0-6151-8696-2

  6. The book teaches anyone interested in hand-perspective drawing how to quickly and accurately construct one-, two- and three-point perspectives using Merritt’s Projected Image Method, an ingenious way to use perspective drawing as a design tool. Merritt has developed this method over several years while teaching architecture at the University of Florida. Now his knowledge and expertise in perspective drawing is available for the first time to a larger audience outside the academy. The book has an introductory section on perspective construction, then teaches two-point perspective drawing, followed by chapters on one- and three-point perspective. Each chapter walks the designer through a series of hands-on exercises to develop the skills necessary for accurate drawings of three-dimensional space.

  7. The book is currently only available through Lulu but will be in wide circulation by the end of September 2008.

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  9. Jenny Quillien recently published her book Delight’s Muse: on Christopher Alexander’s THE NATURE OF ORDER (188 pages, 220 color illustrations) ISBN 978-1-4303-1317-5.

  10. Delight’s Muse is a blessedly short, accessible, and thoughtfully illustrated summary of Christopher Alexander’s four volume work, The Nature of Order. It rescues readers from the massive effort required to navigate Alexander’s 2000-page labyrinth without map or compass.

  11. Famous (and infamous) architect and author Christopher Alexander is an iconoclast both revered and despised. But in this overview of his recent and ever-so-ambitious magnum opus Jenny Quillien (a former colleague of Alexander) suggests that we eschew those conventional judgments and simply recognize that Alexander is ‘on to something’ novel, useful and important. Alexander aims not only to examine the how and why of true success in built environments, but pushes on to far-reaching discussions about order and process in the natural and man-made worlds, questioning the very character of beauty, wholeness, and spirituality.

  12. Quillien’s synopsis and interpretative commentaries foreground what can be called Alexander’s ‘General Theory of Everything’ with the goal of promoting critical discussion and thoughtful implementation. She argues that we need not be wedded to the products of Alexander’s thought but can benefit greatly by courting its process. Winning an audience over to innovative ideas is a ‘high-stakes’ proposition for all parties. Listening sympathetically—the only way really to truly ‘hear’ what a new point of view is proposing—is to risk changing one’s mind. In turn, a new perspective, if openly engaged, will be transformed by those listening. On offer is a restructuring of the attending mind.

  13. Delight’s Muse will interest not only fans of Alexander’s earlier books (the best known being A Pattern Language from 1977, and The Timeless Way of Building from 1979) but everyone willing to entertain a fresh and stimulating way to observe the world and the variety of things we place in it.

  14. Jenny Quillien is a Research Associate with the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She can be reached at jquillien@cybermesa.com or by phone at 1 505 983 7129.

  15. Delight’s Muse is available for on-line purchase from Culicidae Architectural Press, from the on-demand printer Lulu.com, major bookstores, online at Amazon.com, or as a downloadable .pdf through Lulu.

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