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Witold Rybczynski How Architecture Works (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- How Architecture Works : a Humanist's Toolkit
- Publication Name
- How Architecture Works
- Title
- How Architecture Works
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0374534829
- EAN
- 9780374534820
- ISBN
- 9780374534820
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Genre
- Architecture
- Release Date
- 07/10/2014
- Release Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Topic
- History / Contemporary (1945-), General, Criticism
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Architecture is both the setting for our everyday lives and a public art form--but it remains mysterious to most of us. In How Architecture Works , Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and the winner of the Vincent Scully Prize for his writing on architecture, answers our most fundamental questions about how good--and not so good--buildings are designed and constructed. Introducing the reader to the rich and varied world of modern architecture, he reveals how architects as diverse as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Robert A. M. Stern envision and create their designs. He teaches us how to "read" plans, how buildings respond to their settings, and how the smallest detail--of a stair balustrade, for instance--can convey an architect's vision. How Architecture Works explains the central elements that make up good building design, ranging from a war memorial in London to an opera house in Saint Petersburg, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to a famous architect's private retreat in Princeton, New Jersey. It is an enlightening humanist's toolkit for thinking about the built environment and seeing it afresh. "Architecture, if it is any good, speaks to all of us," Rybczynski writes. This revelatory book is his grand tour of architecture today.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374534829
ISBN-13
9780374534820
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202460453
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Book Title
How Architecture Works : a Humanist's Toolkit
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History / Contemporary (1945-), General, Criticism
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Architecture
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
16 Oz
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The book's chief pleasure may be that Rybczynski, ever the engaging and thoughtful writer, offers a wide-ranging tour of the glories and curiosities, old and new, in the field., Praise for How Architecture Works "The book's chief pleasure may be that Rybczynski, ever the engaging and thoughtful writer, offers a wide-ranging tour of the glories and curiosities, old and new, in the field." -Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post "The beautiful and the useful, in buildings as well as books, never becomes obsolete. Neither do writers like Rybczynski, who can teach us how to recognize and appreciate both." -Laura Miller, Salon "In this conversational and invigorating treatise, Rybczynski deepens our understanding of allthat goes into the design and construction of buildings . . . [This] expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide awakens us to architecture's profound humanness." - Booklist "[A] robust tour of architecture . . . Rybczynski is an artful conductor and learned hand who leaves much of the pleasure of architectural discovery to readers." - Kirkus (starred review) "A commanding view of the field . . . Here, architecture is treated as craft executed with prudence and conviction." - Publishers' Weekly (starred review) , The beautiful and the useful, in buildings as well as books, never becomes obsolete. Neither do writers like Rybczynski, who can teach us how to recognize and appreciate both., [A] robust tour of architecture . . . Rybczynski is an artful conductor and learned hand who leaves much of the pleasure of architectural discovery to readers., In this conversational and invigorating treatise, Rybczynski deepens our understanding of allthat goes into the design and construction of buildings . . . [This] expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide awakens us to architecture's profound humanness., Praise for How Architecture Works "The book's chief pleasure may be that Rybczynski, ever the engaging and thoughtful writer, offers a wide-ranging tour of the glories and curiosities, old and new, in the field." -Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post "The beautiful and the useful, in buildings as well as books, never becomes obsolete. Neither do writers like Rybczynski, who can teach us how to recognize and appreciate both." -Laura Miller, Salon "In this conversational and invigorating treatise, Rybczynski deepens our understanding of allthat goes into the design and construction of buildings . . . [This] expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide awakens us to architecture's profound humanness." - Booklist "[A] robust tour of architecture . . . Rybczynski is an artful conductor and learned hand who leaves much of the pleasure of architectural discovery to readers." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A commanding view of the field . . . Here, architecture is treated as craft executed with prudence and conviction." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) , "The book's chief pleasure may be that Rybczynski, ever the engaging and thoughtful writer, offers a wide-ranging tour of the glories and curiosities, old and new, in the field." -- Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post "The beautiful and the useful, in buildings as well as books, never becomes obsolete. Neither do writers like Rybczynski, who can teach us how to recognize and appreciate both." -- Laura Miller, Salon "In this conversational and invigorating treatise, Rybczynski deepens our understanding of allthat goes into the design and construction of buildings . . . [This] expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide awakens us to architecture's profound humanness." -- Booklist "[A] robust tour of architecture . . . Rybczynski is an artful conductor and learned hand who leaves much of the pleasure of architectural discovery to readers." -- Kirkus (starred review) "A commanding view of the field . . . Here, architecture is treated as craft executed with prudence and conviction." -- Publishers' Weekly (starred review), A commanding view of the field . . . Here, architecture is treated as craft executed with prudence and conviction.
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