Xenakis is one of the most exceptional, indeed original, composers of the 20th century, in large part because he drew his musical ideas from an interdisciplinary world. His training was as a civil engineer, but after working for a while for Le Corbusier in Paris, he took on many architectural projects, among them the Philips Pavilion for the Brussels World's Fair in 1958. This book not only gives us a detailed factual accounting of his many architectural projects, including the Philips Pavilion, but it also has an unusually large and magnificent collection of photos, of different stages of construction in various projects and of different aspects of the finished projects, some of them 50 or more years old, that show us in images his process of thought in developing an architectural plan. Most of the information in this book is not available elsewhere. I can not imagine a more exhaustively researched, complete and coherent book on this subject, or better written and presented, or with better translations from the French notes and documents, or with more carefully selected photographs and images. Sharon Kanach has done a superb job in translating and putting this all together, and we owe her a major round of applause!Music and Architecture (Iannis Xenakis)