Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and
Cities, the latest addition to the Architecture Briefs series, is a
handbook on how to write effectively and critically about the
contemporary city. The book offers works by some of the best
architecture critics of the twentieth century-including Ada Louise
Huxtable, Lewis Mumford, Herbert Muschamp, Michael Sorkin, Charles
Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Jane Jacobs- explains some of the
most successful methods with which to approach architectural
criticism. Each chapter opens with a reprint of a historically
significant essay (and organised by typology-such as the
skyscraper, the museum, and parks) discussing a specific building
or urban project. The author, Alexandra Lange, then offers a close
reading of that essay, as well as her own analysis through
contemporary examples, to further enlighten the reader about how to
write an effective piece of architectural criticism.This book,
based on lessons learned from the author's courses at New York
University and the School of Visual Arts, could serve as the
primary text for a course on criticism for undergraduates or
architecture and design majors. Architects covered include Marcel
Breuer, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Field Operations, Norman Foster,
Frank Gehry, Frederick Law Olmsted, SOM, Louis Sullivan, and Frank
Lloyd Wright.
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