Beautiful Architecture

Acknowledgments

The publication of a book is a team effort, and an edited collection even more so. Many people deserve our thanks. First of all, we thank the book’s contributors for submitting outstanding material in a timely manner, and then putting up with our requests for various changes and revisions. The book’s reviewers, Robert A. Maksimchuk, Gary Pollice, David West, Greg Wilson, and Bobbi Young, gave us many excellent comments for improving each chapter and the book as a whole. At O’Reilly, our editor, Mary Treseler, helped us locate contributors, organized the review process, and oversaw the book’s production with remarkable efficiency. Later, Sarah Schneider worked with us as the book’s production editor, adroitly handling a pressing schedule and often conflicting requirements. The copyeditor, Genevieve d’Entremont, and the indexer, Fred Brown, deftly massaged material coming from authors around the world to form a book that flows as easily as if it was written by a single pen. The illustrator, Robert Romano, managed to convert the disparate variety of the graphics formats we submitted (including some hand-drawn sketches) into the professional diagrams you’ll find in the book. The cover designer, Karen Montgomery, produced a beautiful and inspiring cover to match the book’s contents, and the interior designer, David Futato, came up with a creative and functional scheme for integrating the chapter legends into the book’s design. Finally, we wish to thank our families and friends for standing by us while we diverted to this book attention that should have belonged to them.