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Abstract

THE aim of this publication is to cover the whole range of work embraced not only under the term ‘building,’ but also architecture. Modern buildings require an extraordinary range of services for which an architect takes responsibility, and the task imposed in an endeavour to cover this field, even in a work which, it is presumed, will eventually comprise some 1600 pages, is no light one. Among the editor's forty contributors appear the names of a number of leading men in the architectural and engineering professions who have each taken a subject upon which progressive articles will appear in successive issues, and the editor points out that many ordinary text-books are incomplete and that certain administrative and commercial aspects of building work have been much neglected by writers in the past, which gaps it is proposed to fill.

Pitman's Building Educator.

Edited by Richard Greenhalgh. Complete in 30 fortnightly parts. Part 1. Pp. ii + 56. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1926.) 1s. 3d. net each part.