Book reviews

Architectural Record is one of the three major professional architectural journals published monthly in the United States. Since 1974 the “Record” has entitled the mid-August issue Engineering for Architecture. This issue in the words of Walter Wagner, Editor, is “intended to honor the best work of the best engineers and consultants: to recognize their absolutely essential and all-too-often unrecognized inventiveness and resourcefulness in working with architects to achieve economical and rational and beautiful buildings.” Robert E. Fischer has assembled articles from these mid-August publications: as well as articles, I believe, from the regular monthly publication for the current hard cover version of Engineering for Architecture. The book is the twenty-second volume of a series of Architectural Record Books. It is the second of the same title.