Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 366 pp., 19 color ills., 300 b/w. $100.00

Since the early 1980s, Paul Turner has been uncovering or, as he so aptly puts it, "reconstructing" (p. xviii) the career of Joseph Ramee, a significant but highly peripatetic neoclassical architect whose very itinerancy is as characteristic as his style of this international movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The result, as evident in this book, is a richly detailed ...