How architecture works : a humanist's toolkit / Witold Rybczynski.

Author
Rybczynski, Witold [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Description
355 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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    Summary note
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780374211745 (hardcover)
    • 0374211744 (hbk.)
    LCCN
    2013006524
    OCLC
    827256446
    Other standard number
    • 99957558447
    RCP
    C - S
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