When I was just out of architecture school and was working in Chicago for an architecture firm with an office near Navy Pier, I visited Prairie Avenue Bookshop every chance I could get. Job site visit nearby? Head to PA. Softball game in Grant Park? Head to PA. A lecture in the Loop? Head to PA. More often that not, I saw a book but couldn't afford it or justify the expense, what with students loans, rent and all the other stuff that ate up a young architect's salary. Nevertheless, every now and then I would talk myself into buying a pricey special issue of A+U, such as a Herzog & de Meuron monograph, Henry Plummer's Light in Japanese Architecture, or this great title with contributions focused the role of experience and perception in architecture. The $48 price tag (it's still penciled in the upper-right of the first page, where it was put since the cost of A+U at PA varied, based on the exchange rate and shipping costs) doesn't seem too bad all these years later, still less than the new edition put out by William Stout Books in 2006. This new edition illustrates the lasting significance of the title, which has a fairly academic essay by Pérez-Gómez, head of the History and Theory program at McGill; a more readable piece by Pallasmaa, "The Architecture of the Seven Senses," which preceded his classic The Eyes of the Skin by two years; and a collection of Holl's projects that included honest accounts of both their designs and the influence of travel on his thinking. The trio's philosophical takes on architecture and history are aided by a beautiful design that incorporates vellum inside and out, other special papers, and numerous illustrations throughout. ( )