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Looking Around : A journey through architecture

Looking Around : A journey through architecture

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Looking Around : A journey through architecture

by Rybczynski, Witold

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9780670844210
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Viking: (New York, 1993). First edition, 1993 Cloth & bds;(two tiny dust spots top edge), 8vo.,301pp.Nice d/j, crease rear inside flap & slight damp stain inside front panal, else Near Fine in Near Fine D/j.

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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.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Looking Around : A journey through architecture
Author
Rybczynski, Witold
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
Jacket Condition
Dust Jacket Included
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ISBN 10
0670844217
ISBN 13
9780670844210
Publisher
Viking: (New York, 1993). First edition
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1993
Keywords
ARCHITECTURE

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