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Reviews
"Beautiful, rich photos wonderfully enhance the informative text making
Underground Buildings a welcome and much appreciated addition to
academic and professional Architectural Studies collections."
—The Midwest Book Review, October 2004
"From bunkers to bedrooms, underground structures excite our imagination
like few other types of architecture. Loretta Hall’s impressive Underground
Buildings feeds this excitement by taking us on a fascinating subterranean
tour."
—Arthur Dyson, AIA, Dean Emeritus, The Frank Lloyd Wright School of
Architecture
"To me, a building
that can heal the earth-wounds of its own construction is incredibly
valuable in this time of environmental crisis, and its other very real
attributes are icing on the cake. I’m thinking of silence, fire safety, low
maintenance, great energy savings, appropriateness, longevity, and,
switching to adjectives, dry and sun-filled.
We can all be grateful to Loretta Hall for helping us, in such a delightful
way, to confront that frightening word “underground.” For too long we’ve let
musty images of cellars and subways blind us to the sunny realities of
modern earth cover."
—Malcolm Wells: Architect, lecturer, and author of twenty books about
underground building design, creator of Underground America Day
"As the world
population approaches five billion, underground buildings will become an
increasingly significant part of the human environment. Loretta Hall’s
intelligent and witty book demystifies an important subject and reinforces
underground building as an appealing solution to some of our most demanding
problems."
—David J. Bennett, FAIA. Architect of numerous underground buildings
including the University of Minnesota’s Civil and Mineral Engineering
Building
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