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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday livesWe 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.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorWitold RybczynskiKlappentextrnrnAn essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday livesWe spend most of our days and nights in b.