Beautiful Architecture

I got a chance to review one of the books in OReilly's "Beautiful" series, in this case it was Beautiful Architecture. One of the attractions of the books in this series, is the premise that you get to hear first-hand accounts, in an essay format, from the people behind some of the more interesting projects out there.

The book's idea is great, but the content is not really focused. For me Architecture is not about coding.

The book suffers from a "too many cooks" problem; it is a very timely book but lacks cohesion across chapters. I agree with the other reviewer that it has way too many pages about nothing.