Bookshelf: September 2008
Construction Zone

Photographs by Richard Sobol
Text by Cheryl Willis Hudson
Candlewick, 2006
Construction, says the author, is like "dozens of people working together to solve a great puzzle." For his book, the photographer spent a long time hanging around while the Stata Building, designed by Frank Gehry for MIT, took shape. His photographs show everything—the architect's drawing, workers pouring the foundation and assembling the steel skeleton, and finally the tilted, funny finished building. The text has lots of detail about the construction process to fascinate budding builders.



