Written from a neo-Marxist point of view by a prominent Italian architectural historian, Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the relation of architecture to society and the architect to the wo "I saw a true masterpiece"- the great French painter, Eugene Delacroix, noted in his diary on 8 April 1853 about /Portrait of the Artist's Mother/ by Henryk Rodakowski. This is probably the first time that the term "masterpiece" was applied about a paiti More than eight centuries ago, Armenians, Greeks and Jews settled in Venice in integrating its social fabric. Venice hosts therefore a set of different cultures who have never given up their traditions and their religious rites; significant sign of what a Dr. Kirakossian has produced a unique and very valuable book. In it he has collected and published more than seventy public statements be made during his tenure as the Republic of Armenia's Ambassador to the United States of America. Arriving in Washingto |