Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer: The Work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva by Crosbie, Michael J., DaSilva, John R., Pelli, Cesar In the twelve years since Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders was formed, the firm has created a significant body of wooden buildings that are rooted in the seaside vernacular of the fabled region of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. As a design/build firm led by architects, Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders is able to reach a level of aesthetic control not normally associated with light construction today. Each project is approached as an individual work of art and craft specifically associated with its site and client. The eclectic, evolutionary use of architectural history infuses the firm's designs with fresh interpretations of architectural tradition, subtle playfulness, and wit. The compositional and planning strategies ground the work in the vernacular tradition that evolved into the shingle style; the 'architecture of the American summer' to use the words of historian Vincent Scully. The experience of the firm's principal designers, John and Sharon DaSilva, includes several years at Venturi Rauch and Scott Brown and Cesar Pelli and Associates. The book features over twenty houses and a handful of small institutional buildings in photographs by some of the world's best architectural photographers and drawings by the firm. It includes essay by noted architecture writer Michael J. Crosbie.

Bikeman: An Epic Poem by Flynn, Thomas F. I do not know which category this book, "Bikeman: An Epic Poem" by Thomas F. Flynn, (978 0 7407 75549 8 Andrews McMeel Publishing. LLC) should go in so I am sending in my thoughts on it now. Mr. Flynn has captured succinctly and poignantly the "forever September morning" we all remember - 9/11. This small book captures that morning in images created by few words that are haunting and memory provoking. As the epic poem it is it should be remembered for years to come.--Dorothy Dickerson, Books &More of Albion (Albion, MI)