Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky Life as a Voyage Tapa dura - 2007

Basel: Birkhauser, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Setting out from the assumption that the design of every single room in a house is based on a physical function: one place to lie the body down to rest, another to take in food, a third to step into a tub to bath, Bernard Rudofsky believed architecture served to stimulate the senses and refine everyday culture. The rich visual material conveys his philosophy: "I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture." Quarto: 304 p. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Basel: Birkhauser, 2007. Hardcover. Good/Poor. A clean, unmarked, sound copy, with lean to spine noticeable enough to qualify only as Good, or perhaps Very Good Minus. Jacket bumped at head and heel of spine and folds; rear panel heavily rippled and creased from moisture, but with no sign of moisture to book whatever. 296 pp., color and b/w plates and illustrations throughout. Exhibition publication. Size: 4to

Birkhäuser. As New in As New dust jacket. 2007. First. Hardcover. 3764383607 . As-new, shrinkwrapped copy.; 8.75 X 0.75 X 11.5 inches; 304 pages .

Birkhäuser, Auflage: 1., In cooperation with AzW. Auflage: 1., In cooperation with AzW. Hardcover. 28,1 x 21,8 x 3,1 cm. What we need is not a new way of building but a new way of living—so the subtitle of one of Rudofsky’s last works. Setting out from the assumption that the design of every single room in a house is based on a physical function: one place to lie the body down to rest, another to take in food, a third to step into a tub to bath, Bernard Rudofsky (1905-88) believed architecture served to stimulate the senses and refine everyday culture. His conception of architecture and design is more topical today than ever. Internationally renowned in his day for the exhibitions he created for MoMA in the 1940s and 1950s, today he is remembered above all for his sharp-tongued, witty writings, which still speak to a broad audience. "Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky" is more than a collection of essays by experts and introduction to the complex concept of architecture and living of a cosmopolitan and… Leer más

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