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Architecture matters / Aaron Betsky.
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Betsky, Aaron
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English
Published/Created
[London] : Thames & Hudson, [2017]
©2017
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144 pages ; 21 cm
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Architecture Library - Stacks
NA680 .B4967 2017
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Architecture
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Philosophy
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Architecture, Modern
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Architecture matters. To our cities, to our planet, to our personal lives. How we design and what we build has an impact that usually lasts for generations. The more we understand the importance of architecture, and the thinking and decisions behind the buildings we create, the better world we will construct. Who better to guide readers into the rich and complex world of contemporary architecture than Aaron Betsky, former architect, author, curator and museum director, and today dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Combining his early experiences working and meeting cutting-edge architects with his frequent role as jury member selecting the world's most prominent global architects to build icon for cities, Betsky possesses rare insight into the mechanisms, politics and personalities that play a role in how buildings in our societies and urban centres come to be. In some fifty themes and drawing from his own experiences and encounters with people and buildings around the world, he explores a broad spectrum of topics, from the meaning of domestic space to the spectacle of the urban realm.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-137) and index.
Contents
1. Why architecture is so cool (to a teenager)
2. How to build an (elite) community
3. How you can get away with doing (almost) nothing
4. Why being a good architect is expensive
5. How a good architect gets things built
6. How to win a competition
7. How good work will out
8. How dreams die in the process
9. How perfection kills
10. Why architecture doesn't matter
in our daily life
11. Why it is better to gather than to erect
12. Why it all happens in China
13. How to show what is already there
14. Why it is important to go slumming
15. How to design with dry humor
16. How to pick architecture off the shelf
17. How to keep the past present
18. How to see architecture beyond buildings
19. Where to find civic architecture
20. Why you should drive the grid
21. Where to find urban patterns
22. Why understanding sprawl matters
23. Where it all comes together
24. What we can still learn from the Greeks
25. Why we should build with (and not on) the land
26. How to build landscrapers
27. How to build a community
28. How to break the box
29. How to make architecture that is of the place
30. How architecture can be tasted
31. How to cook up buildings
32. How spatial arrangement works
33. How to weave the new into the old
34. How to spiral out and back again
35. How to do deep planning
36. Why blobism is not the style of the century
37. Why you shouldn't build
38. Why architects are becoming rhino monkeys
39. How to do tactical urbanism
40. How even a staircase can be sexy
41. When architecture leaves you in awe
42. Where to find a moment of zen in a city
43. Where to discover infinity
44. Where to find a new Eden
45. How to slice, slash, and stun
46. What is to be done.
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ISBN
0500519080 ((hardcover))
9780500519080 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2016952925
OCLC
961001992
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