Frozen Music: A History of Portland Architecture

by Gideon Bosker, Lena Lencek

Book by Bosker, Gideon, Lencek, Lena

331 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

Reviews

[Jesse · Rating 1 out of 5]

I skipped to the part about the US Bancorp building AKA Big Pink. Not only did it have not much to say, but the surrounding pages were so full of ridiculously overwrought purple prose that I couldn't imagine the rest of the book being very interesting. Oh well.

[Missy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I came across this while skimming the shelves of a local bookstore. Then I recognized the authors' names as Reed college professors (one who was on my thesis board, no less) and became intrigued. Portland is such a pretty city architecturally-speaking, and you get a lot of its history here. While I've never been inclined to read it cover-to-cover, I bought it as a "coffee table book."