Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture Paperback - 1993
by Rybczynski, Witold
- Used
An inspired, engaging look at what architecture is and how we live and work in it--by the acclaimed author of Home and The Most Beautiful House in the World. Rybczynski discusses buildings like the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, demonstrates how architecture actually works, and more.
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- Title Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture
- Author Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Printing
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1993-12-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # F12C-01567
- ISBN 9780140168891 / 0140168893
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.14 x 0.71 in (19.81 x 13.06 x 1.80 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Architecture - Themes, motives
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92014555
- Dewey Decimal Code 720
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Summary
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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- Publishers Weekly, 10/25/1993, Page 0
