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In the future, Archivolt content will be published as news at www.avista.org, the website of the Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art.

New Review

Michael T. Davis, "Robert Bork, The Geometry of Creation: Architectural Drawing and the Dynamics of Gothic Design (Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011)," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 73 (1) 2014, 169-171.

Florence Cathedral Complex to Undergo Cleaning

Time for some exterior grime removal.
http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/a-facelift-will-brighten-up-florences-piazza-del-duomo-7724

Recent Books

Ashgate:
Glaire D. Anderson, The Islamic Villa in Early Modern Iberia: Architecture and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba (August 2013)

Meredith Cohen and Fanny Madeline, eds., Space in the Medieval West: Places, Territories, and Imagined Geographies (June 2014)

Martin Bressani, Architecture and the Historical Imagination: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, 1814-1879 (April 2014)

Paul Davies, Deborah Howard, and Wendy Pullan, eds., Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500 (October 2013)

Denys Pringle, Churches, Castles, and Landscapes in the Frankish East (January 2013)

Brepols:
Massimiliano David, Eternal Ravenna: From the Etruscans to the Venetians (September 2013)

Reichart Verlag:
Mark J. Johnson, The Byzantine Churches of Sardinia (April 2013)

Ege Yayinlari:
Halil Inalcik, The Survey of Istabul 1455 (December 2012)

New Reviews

Speculum 89 (1)
Luca Zavagno, Review of James Scott Petre, Crusader Castles of Cyprus: The Fortifications of Cyprus under the Lusignans, 1191-1489 (Nocosia: Kentro Epistēmonikōn Ereunōn, 2012): 228-230.

Christine B.Verzar, Review of Max Seidel, Father and Son: Nicola and Giovanni Pisano (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2012): 245-247.

New article on Gothic

Tallon, Andrew. "An Architecture of Perfection." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 72 (4): 530-554.

New Reviews

Speculum 88 (4)

Eric Fernie, review of Rodwell, Warwick, The Archaeology of Churches (Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2012), 1151-1152.

William Chester Jordan, review of Rowe, Nina, The Jew, the Cathedral, and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 1154-1156.

Charles T. Little, review of Stratford, Neil, Brigitte Maurice-Chabal, David Walsh, et.al., Corpus de la sculpture de Cluny, 1: Les parties orientales de la grande église Cluny III (Paris: Picard, 2010), 1172-1173.

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 72 (4)

Jeffrey A.K. Miller, review of Richard Fawcett, The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church, 1100-1560 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 584-587.

Matthew Johnson, review of Goodall, John, The English Castle, 1066-1650 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 587-588.