"For architects, travel brings experiences, images, and ideas, braided threads woven into understanding and inspiration. Like Le Corbusier’s similarly diminutive carnets of a few years later, this facsimile edition of Henry Hornbostel’s journals provides a portal into an important architect’s formative journeys at a critical juncture in the discipline’s history. These tiny pages reveal a world framed by and far exceeding that of the field’s best available formal education, and U.S. architecture’s expanding horizons as the nation began to see itself as not just a cultural outpost, but a global power."

—Denise Costanzo, associate professor of architecture, Stuckeman School of Design, Penn State University (and American Academy in Rome, Modern Italian Studies, Rome Prize fellow 2014-2015)

"Discernment and careful observation are potent catalysts for an architect's imagination. The travel sketches of the emerging master, Henry Hornbostel, illustrate his excitement at seeing places for the first time, interrogating their significance, and committing them to memory. Professor Francesca Torello brings to light his sketchbooks in a format that enables today's architecture student, practitioner, and enthusiast to know, admire and emulate the lessons he learned. These lessons are critical for advancing architectural culture and inspiring tomorrow's citizen-architects."

—Mark Ferguson, dean, School of Architecture and Planning, The Catholic University of America and CMU alumnus, Architecture 1978

“'Eyes That Do Not See' is the provocative title of a chapter in Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture (1923); nevertheless, for architects, eyes are the most generative apparatus capable to empower them to define the contours of their own professional realm.
The facsimile editions of two recently published travelogues demonstrate that ‘eyes that saw’ and explore were systemic tools that transformed future architecture narrative in the case of Henry Hornbostel’s travel journal of his grand tour of Europe, dated 1893, and of Le Corbusier’s Album Punjab 1951. 
Created half a century apart, inspired in the former’s elaboration by the optimism of the late Enlightenment culture, and in the latter’s imagination by the powerful dimension of the creation of a new capital, these sketchbooks spoke to several aspects of the career of these designers. They also suggest that travel narratives are unique in the education of the architects and serve to create strong pedagogical vehicles.
In this superbly published facsimile edition, Francesca Torello charts the intellectual odyssey of the young Hornbostel and traces the trajectory for his rich, intense, and fortunate career."  

—Maristella Casciato, senior curator, head of architecture collections, Getty Research Institute