ARCHITECTURE
CANDID REFLECTIONS: Letters from Women Architects, 1970 & 2000
February 2007
Doris Cole
ISBN 978-1-877675-63-8, Illust., $24.00
In the process of researching her first book on the history of women in architecture, Doris Cole sent out an inquiry letter in 1972 to women architects throughout the country. These personal letters are transcribed, edited, and included in this book. They chronicle careers that spanned from the turn of the twentieth century through two World Wars, the Great Depression, and into the 1970s. Additionally, observations were obtained in 2004 from contemporary women in architecture in order to learn about developments over the subsequent thirty years.

The 47 illustrations included in this book are only a sampling of the projects by women in architecture from 1946 to 2006 in the United States. There are many more buildings and architects to be considered and documented by future researchers.

This book serves as a resource, a collection of personal, candid reflections. The letters are a testimony to the grit, humor, pathos, and determination of these women architects, whose goal was to be full participants in constructing a better world. Their stories can be an inspiration to all architects, of all backgrounds, who may be facing similar challenges today. It is hoped that more womenıs voices can be added to make the creation of the built environment truly representative of the values and aspirations of our entire culture.

POETRY AND IMAGES
THE DREAMING LIFE OF SAINT LEONORA DE LA CRUZ, February 2007
by Agnieszka Taborska with Art by Selena Kimball
ISBN 978-1-877675-61-4; 96 pp; paper; illust.; $26.00
The dreaming life of Leonora de la Cruz is absolutely so many things all packed together that don't know where to start. It is a prose poem in chapters, of haunting beauty, exactly the kind of writing Surrealism and we devotees of it most love. And thew collages are something else: think Ernst and think past him. Truly one of the most amazing books I have ever had the privilege of dreaming through.

--Mary Ann Caws
Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature Graduate School, City University of New York author of "Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting and Writing," "Surprised in Translation," and many books on Surrealism and the arts.