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How architecture works : a humanist's toolkit / Witold Rybczynski.
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Rybczynski, Witold
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English
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First edition.
Published/Created
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
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355 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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NA2550 .R965 2013
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In "How Architecture Works," Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and winner of the Vincent Scully Prize for his architectural writing, 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 takes us behind the scenes, revealing how architects as different 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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The idea
The setting
Site
Plan
Structure
Skin
Details
Style
The past
Taste.
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ISBN
9780374211745 (hardcover)
0374211744 (hbk.)
LCCN
2013006524
OCLC
827256446
Other standard number
99957558447
RCP
C - S
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