Why Architecture Matters
Goldberger, Paul
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Why Architecture Matters is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectuallywith its impact on our lives. Architecture begins to matter, writes Paul Goldberger, when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads. He shows us how that works in examples ranging from a small Cape Cod cottage to the vast, flowing Prairie houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, from the Lincoln Memorial to the highly sculptural Guggenheim Bilbao and the Church of SantIvo in Rome, where simple geometries . . . create a work of architecture that embraces the deepest complexities of human imagination. Based on decades of looking at buildings and thinking about how we experience them, the distinguished critic raises our awareness of fundamental things like proportion, scale, space, texture, materials, shapes, light, and memory. Upon completing this remarkable architectural journey, readers will enjoy a wonderfully rewarding new way of seeing and experiencing every aspect of the built world.
AUTHOR BIO
Paul Goldberger is the architecture critic for The New Yorker, where since 1997 he has written the magazines celebrated Sky Line column. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in Manhattan. He began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism.
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"A beautifully written and generous meditation on the art of building that every aspiring architect should read."--
Witold Rybczynski, author of The Perfect House
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 030014430X
ISBN(13-digit): 9780300144307
Dewey Decimal: 720.1/03
Library of Congress: 2009011071
Book Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 273
Paper Weight (lb): 1.00 lb
