ISBN: 9780802717078 - on architecture: collected reflections on a century of change (12 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 496 pages. The architectural revolution of the twentieth century as witnessed by America 's preeminent architecture critic.Known for her well-reasoned and passion ately held beliefs about architecture, Ada Louise Huxtable has captivated reader s across the country for decades, in the process becoming one of the best-known critics in the world. Her keen eye and vivid writing have reinforced to readers how important architecture is and why it continues to be both controversial and fascinating.In her new book?which gathers together the best of her writ ing, from one of her first pieces in the New York Times in 1962 on le Corbusier' s Carpenter Center at Harvard, to essays in the New York Review of Books, to mor e recent writing in the Wall Street Journal?Huxtable bears witness to some of the twentieth century's best?and worst?architectural masters and projects.With a perspective of more than four decades, Huxtable examines the century 's modernist beginnings and then turns her critic's eye to the seismic shift in style, function, and fashion that occurred midcentury?all leading to a dramati c new architecture of the twenty-first century. Much of the writing in On Archit ecture has never appeared in book form before, and Huxtable's many admirers will be delighted to once again have access to her elegant, impassioned opinions, in sights, and wisdom.Looking back, I realize that my career covered an ext raordinary period of change, that I was writing at a time in which architecture was changing slowly but radically?a time when everything about modernism was b eing incrementally questioned and rejected as we moved into a new kind of thinki ng and building. And while it was a quiet, nearly stealth revolution, it was a.…

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