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"Is High Tech an architectural style or a building technique?" One is still not sure after reading this small book, but High Tech Architecture is the only book attempting to document this primarily British phenomenon. Davies focuses on 36 case studies by 16 designers, copiously illustrated by photographs, plans, sections, and details. In this book Davies attempts to do for architecture what Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin's High-Tech (1978) did for the industrial-style home, but its sparse text is more appropriate for architectural periodicals. With only a brief introduction to each case study and six pages on its history, and with only eight pages on defining high tech as an "alternative Modernism," High Tech Architecture is too dependent upon its illustrations, leaving serious scholarship for later books. G. F. Hisel University of Kentucky