Ellen Ziegler is currently living in Toronto where she is a project manager and art director for a small publishing house. She is taking a one year hiatus from a Masters in Advanced Studies of Architecture and plans to spend the time biking, exploring, thinking, and writing book reviews.

Book Review: Urban Wildscapes, Anna Jorgensen and Richard Kennan

Editors: Anna Jorgensen and Richard Kennan (Routledge, 2011) Urban Wildscapes is a diverse collection of essays that provides a... Read More

Balthazar Korab, Architect of Photography

Author: John Comazzi (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012) Balthazar Korab is “an architect who makes pictures rather than a... Read More

Urban Composition: Developing Community Through Design

Author: Mark C. Childs (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012) Cities are one of humanity’s greatest achievements, more than just a sum... Read More

Up on the Roof: New York’s Hidden Skyline Spaces

Author: Alex MacLean (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012) Up on the Roof is a playful photographic exploration of a secret world... Read More

The Human Face of Climate Change

Authors: Mathias Braschler & Monika Fischer (Hatje Cantz, 2011) The Human Face of Climate Change is a quiet and stunning journey... Read More

Old Buildings and New Design: Architectural Transformations

Author: Charles Bloszies (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) “Design integrity is essential for exemplary architecture” – it is... Read More

Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching and Other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village

Author: Robert Mellin (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching and Other Tales... Read More

The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1944

Author: Donald Albrecht (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005) In 1925, at the age of 50, traveling salesman Samuel H. Gottscho quit... Read More

In the Wilds: Drawings by Nigel Peake

Into the Wilds is an incredible collection of hand-drawings by Irish artist, Nigel Peake. Created over the course of three months... Read More

Pamphlet Architecture 31: New Haitian Villages

Author: Steven Holl (Princeton Architectural Presss, 2011) Reviewed by Ellen Ziegler, Spacing Vancouver Pamphlet Architecture 31: New... Read More