Space for Architecture

The architecture of Sheila and John exudes the scent of the Finnish master architect (Alvar Aalto) in a new inspired way! Their buildings breathe new life into the sites where they are located, generating a new feeling for landscape, street, fragment of a city, or an old construction. ~Elias Torres, Martinez Lapeña Torres

They [O' Donnell and Tuomey] speak in a timeless architectural language that makes us feel instinctively connected to our roots, to history and to the larger phenomenon of being.[They create] vital architecture that clearly carries the rich weight of history but always in a manner that is novel, interpreting the past while adding new layers of meaning. ~Lene Tranberg, Lundgaard & Tranberg

The appearance of a second edition of this marvelous book a few years after its first publication is hardly surprising. The questions it asks and the replies it gives resonate with primary cultural concerns of this historical moment, as well as architecture itself ~David Leatherbarrow, University of Penn.

In today’s architectural climate of uniform style, Sheila and John’s work is independent and refreshing, it inspires and amplifies the value original architecture can bring to society. ~Peter Stutchbury, Australian architect

The book is a lovely thing. It is hard-backed, weighty, serious, with quality paper and print, well-set text, and carefully chosen fonts [...] The book consciously tries to capture and reflect the personality and preoccupations of the practice. It does so pretty well.