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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “Paperback in Very Good condition.”
- Brand
- Ex Libris Used Books
- ISBN
- 9780140168891
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140168893
ISBN-13
9780140168891
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57696
Product Key Features
Book Title
Looking Around : a Journey Through Architecture
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Study & Teaching, Criticism, History / General
Publication Year
1993
Features
Reprint
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Architecture
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
92-014555
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Informative and provocative, an excellent companion in plance, train, living room, kitchen, or porch" -- The Washington Post "You only have to look around to see how thought-provoking these essays are." -- The New York Times "His best work to date." - The Boston Sunday Globe, "Informative and provocative, an excellent companion in plance, train, living room, kitchen, or porch" — The Washington Post "You only have to look around to see how thought-provoking these essays are." — The New York Times "His best work to date." — The Boston Sunday Globe, "Informative and provocative, an excellent companion in plance, train, living room, kitchen, or porch" -- The Washington Post "You only have to look around to see how thought-provoking these essays are." -- The New York Times "His best work to date." -- The Boston Sunday Globe
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
720
Grade To
UP
Table Of Content
Introduction I. Homes and Houses Home, Sweet Bungalow Home Good Housekeeping The Androgynous Home Looking Back to the Future If a Chair Is a Work of Art, Can You Still Sit on It? Getting Away from It All As American as Blue-Jeans and Sweat Shirts From Mao's House to Our House Habitat Revisited Hot Housing Buttons Living Smaller Should Suburbs Be Designed? Our Town II. Special Places A Place Map Art Inside the Walls Airports At the Mall Curious Shrines The Birthplace of Postmodernism A National Gallery A National Billboard A Homemade House III. The Art of Building Little Architects, Little Architecture "But Is It Art"? How to Pick an Architect Fame Low-Cost Classicism A Decade of Disorientation: 1910-19 High Tech Will the Real California Architecture Please Stand Up? Shaping Chicago's Future God Isn't in the Details, After All The Seven Implants of Postmodern Architecture Listen to the Melody Reprise: The Art of Building, or the Building of Art? Index
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
From the opening sentences of his first book on architecture, Home , Witold Rybczynski seduced readers into a new appreciation of the spaces they live in. He also introduced us to "an unerringly lucid writer who knows how to translate architectural ideas into layman's terms" ( The Dallas Morning News ). Rybczynski's vast knowledge, his sense of wonder, and his elegantly uncluttered prose shine on every page of his latest meditation on the art of building. Looking Around is about architecture as an art of compromise -- between beauty and function, aspiration and engineering, builders and clients. It is the story of the Seagram Building in New York and the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts in Columbus, Ohio -- a museum that opened without a single painting on view, so that critics could better appreciate its design. But what of the visitors who want a building that displays art well? What of those who work in the building? Looking Around explores the notion of the architect as superstar and assesses giants from Palladio to Michael Graves, styles from classicism to high tech. It demonstrates how architecture actually works -- or doesn't -- in corporate headquarters, airports, private homes, and the special buildings designed to represent our civilization. For all its erudition, Looking Around is also bracingly straightforward. Rybczynski looks closely and critically at structures that may once have dazzled us with their ostentation and expense, and sees them as triumphs or failures -- of aesthetic ideals and of lasting function. This is a fascinating and illuminating book about an art form integral to our lives.
LC Classification Number
NA2550.R97 1993
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