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Starred Review on September 1, 2014 | Arts and Humanities
Arguably, this is the most impressive professional memoir ever written by an architect. It relentlessly records the Polshek's accurate memories of his 50-year architectural career starting in Japan in 1962 and including the renovation/restoration of the old Carnegie Hall in New York City and the design/construction of the new American embassy in Muscat, Oman. The book's title validates for the architecture profession Vladimir Nabokov's famous title Speak, Memory, thereby justifying th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More