An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art
form and the setting for our everyday lives
We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and
working and sometimes playing. Architecture is both the setting for
our everyday lives and a public art form--but it remains mysterious
to most of us.
In "How Architecture Works," Witold Rybczynski, one of our best,
most stylish critics and the winner of the Vincent Scully Prize for
his writing on architecture, answers our most fundamental questions
about how good--and not so good--buildings are designed and
constructed. Introducing the reader to the rich and varied world of
modern architecture, he reveals how architects as diverse as Frank
Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Robert A. M. Stern envision and create
their designs. He teaches us how to "read" plans, how buildings
respond to their settings, and how the smallest detail--of a stair
balustrade, for instance--can convey an architect's vision. "How
Architecture Works" explains the central elements that make up good
building design, ranging from a war memorial in London to an opera
house in Saint Petersburg, from the National Museum of African
American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to a famous
architect's private retreat in Princeton, New Jersey. It is an
enlightening humanist's toolkit for thinking about the built
environment and seeing it afresh.
"Architecture, if it is any good, speaks to all of us," Rybczynski
writes. This revelatory book is his grand tour of architecture
today.
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