Book Review: Mediterranean Villages - an architectural journey

I find it necessary to draw your attention to, and suggest, a very interesting book on Mediterranean Architecture. It is "Mediterranean Villages: an architectural journey" of Steven & Cathi House. (Images Publishing, 2004).

This is a highly interesting touring of two young architects in Italy, Dalmatia, Spain and, mainly, Greece (Santorini, Amorgos, Ios, Paros, Sifnos, Mykonos, Monemvasia, Arcadia and Meteora). A book filled with photographs, sketches and eloquent and evocative texts that help you rediscover, along with the authors what Architecture is and / or should be. The book contains numerous references and thoughts of great thinkers on Architecture as it relates to nature and man (Ledoux, Louis Kahn, Eero Saarinen, Nadar Ardalan & Laleh Bakhtiar, Annie Albers, Alberti, Oscar Wilde, Voltaire, Goethe, Heidegger and among them of Aris Konstantinidis, Kazantzakis, Papadiamantis, C.P. Cavafy and Solomos). The sketches and photographs, of Steven & Cathi House, are extremely eloquent as well.

Athanasios Zoulias