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Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture
de Witold Rybczynski
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- ISBN 10
- 0670844217
- ISBN 13
- 9780670844210
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Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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First Edition, 1st printing. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Minor edge and surface wear to the dust jacket. Deckle edge.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- BooksGalore
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- BX45-LA
- Título
- Looking Around
- Autor
- Witold Rybczynski
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Sewn binding
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0670844217
- ISBN 13
- 9780670844210
- Editorial
- Viking
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1992
- Páginas
- 301
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