arthur trystan edwards (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. 1924 1st edition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. Some marking due to age but overall an excellent copy. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Can a haphazard assemblage of buildings, each conceived in isolation, and expressing nothing but its own immediate purpose, really be described as a city? What attribute is it which makes a building urban? My answer to this latter question may seem simple and tautological, but I am venturing to give it nevertheless. In order that a building may become urban it must have urbanity. I propose to analyse the precise nature of this urbanity. Now, urbanity, as everybody knows, is nothing more nor less than good manners, and the lack of it is bad manners. I think I shall have little difficulty in showing that there can be both good and bad manners in architecture. On the other hand I wish at the outset to disclaim any intention of setting myself up as an authority on manners either architectural or of any other kind. I shall confine myself to first elements, and if manners be con- sidered for the moment as an academic subject, it will be found.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original paper-covered boards with paper labels. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; xi, 244 pages illustrations, plates 20 cm. Subjects; Architecture. Architecture Philosophy. Architecture Human factors. Architecture and society. Architecture - Aesthetics. Architectural design : theory. 1 Kg.