Why We Build

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home.In Why We Build Rowan Moore explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation and reveals the paradoxical power of architecture: it looks fixed and solid, but is always changing in response to the lives around it.Moving across the globe and through history, through works of folly, beauty, spectacle, and subtlety, Moore gives a provocative and iconoclastic view of what makes architecture, why it matters, and why we find it fascinating. You will never look at a building in the same way again.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-04-25
Mått:131 x 197 x 28 mm
Vikt:302 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:432
Förlag:Pan Macmillan
ISBN:9780330535823
Utmärkelser:Winner of CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award 2014 (UK)

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Mer om författaren

Rowan Moore is the architecture critic for the Observer and previously for the Evening Standard. He is also a trained architect, and between 2002 and 2008 was the Director of the Architecture Foundation.Rowan Moore is the architecture critic for the Observer and previously for the Evening Standard. He is also a trained architect, and between 2002 and 2008 was the Director of the Architecture Foundation.

Recensioner i media

‘A refreshingly humane and lucid book from one of our most intelligent architecture critics’ Daily Telegraph

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter - 1: Desire shapes space, and space shapes desire Chapter - 2: The fixed and the wandering home Chapter - 3: The true fake Chapter - 4: The inconsistent horizon, or notes on the erotic in architecture Chapter - 5: Power and freedom Chapter - 6: Form follows finance Chapter - 7: The rapacity of 'hope' Chapter - 8: Eternity of overrated Chapter - 9: Life, and the look of life Chapter - 10: Indespensible as bread Section - 11: List of illustrations Section - 12: Selected bibliography Section - 13: Acknowledgements Section - 14: Index