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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195156331ISBN-10:195156331UPC:9780195156331Book Category:Architecture, ArtBook Subcategory:Criticism, Criticism & Theory, Design, Drafting, Drawing & PresentationSize:6.54 x 5.60 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.3197Product ID:SC5F0DNFQ6
The Look of Architecture
What is style in architecture? "Style is like a feather in a woman's hat, nothing more," said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects' low regard for the subject. But Witold Rybczynski disagrees, and in The Look of Architecture, he makes a compelling case for the importance of style to the mother of the arts.
This is a book brimming with sharp observations--that form does not follow...
This is a book brimming with sharp observations--that form does not follow...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780195156331ISBN-10:195156331UPC:9780195156331Book Category:Architecture, ArtBook Subcategory:Criticism, Criticism & Theory, Design, Drafting, Drawing & PresentationSize:6.54 x 5.60 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.3197Product ID:SC5F0DNFQ6
Witold Rybczynski is one of America's best known writers on architecture, the author of the bestselling One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw, Home, Waiting for the Weekend, The Most Beautiful House in the World, and A Clearing in the Distance. He has also written on architecture for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, and The New York Review of Books. The Martin...
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