Obviously one thing missing in books with interviews is the voice, the actual recording. Books by their nature are transcripts, and therefore they have the ability to give the words some polish (removing "ummms," for example) and condense them into more concise expressions. But this book with interviews with forty architects (some are presented in print as snippets, but some are longer transcriptions) comes with a CD for listening to select conversations. It makes it truly an "oral history" and one that any fan of modern architecture should have. ( )