Talk:Gion A. Caminada

Translation
I'm not a native German speaker (and guess at the meaning of the Romansh phrase from my command of the other three Swiss languages) but I wouldn't translate Totenstube different from Stiva da morts. Die Toten means "the dead (people)", while der Tod is "death", so "death's room" would be Todesstube (if we're using Stube). Maybe an even better translation would be: a "living room" for the dead. 93.136.109.47 (talk) 11:58, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Romansh and German translations
Hi 93.136.109.47 (talk), thanks for your comments. When I drafted this article I almost translated the Romansh as "living room for the dead". I know in my previous reading about the Stiva da morts that this is the literal translation from Romansh; however, I couldn't exactly remember where I saw it translated. It may have been in a book called Stiva da morts, Gion A. Caminada : vom Nutzen der Architektur, but I no longer have access to it. If I can get a hold of it and provide a citation - or if someone else can in my stead - I think it would make sense to change it. Hportfacts5 (talk) 15:59, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

"a+u 2015:10: Gion A. Caminada"
Is "a+u 2015:10: Gion A. Caminada" (the first entry in the "Further reading" section) really a book? It looks more like a magazine article to me, and citations to those should use cite magazine instead of cite book. Glades12 (talk) 19:17, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Glades12, that is a good question. The citation refers not to an individual article but to an entire 160-page publication about Caminada and his works. It is issued an ISBN (which I will add to the citation), which is not issued for magazines. The publisher is called a+u Architecture + Urbanism Magazine, and they do issue some of their publications in a periodical fashion, so it's not inaccurate to call it a magazine. However, given that cite magazine seems to apply to individual articles, I would argue cite book is more appropriate in this case. Hportfacts5 (talk) 14:21, 19 October 2020 (UTC)