How Architecture Works

Name: How Architecture Works
Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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6709033How Architecture Workshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/how-architecture-works-9781429953320/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3287379/ab3f1632-9863-49b8-be51-192b4eced51f.jpg?v=638610021645100000211274MXNFarrar, Straus and GirouxInStock/Ebooks/The prize-winning scholars "expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide" to the beauty and function of architecture ( Booklist , starred review). We spend most of our days and nights in buildings. They are the setting of our everyday lives as well as a public art form. Yet architecture remains a mystery to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, a renowned critic 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, Rybczynski reveals how architects as varied 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 can convey an architects vision.Ranging widely from a war memorial in London to an opera house in St. Petersburg, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to a famous architects private retreat in downtown Princeton, How Architecture Works explains the central elements that make up good building design. "Architecture, if it is any good, speaks to all of us," Rybczynski writes. This revelatory book is his grand tour of architecture today....4083308How Architecture Works211274https://www.gandhi.com.mx/how-architecture-works-9781429953320/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3287379/ab3f1632-9863-49b8-be51-192b4eced51f.jpg?v=638610021645100000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781429953320_W3siaWQiOiIzMWQ2MzUxNS04MTBiLTQ5NmUtYTRjYi0wZWI1ZmRhOGQ5YWQiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI3NCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjYzLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIxMSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMDktMDRUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781429953320_An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday livesWe spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Buildings often overawe us with their beauty. Architecture is both setting for our everyday lives and public art formbut it remains mysterious to most of us. 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 goodand not-so-goodbuildings 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 detailof a stair balustrade, for instancecan convey an architects vision. Ranging widely from a war memorial in London to an opera house in St. Petersburg, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to a famous architects private retreat in downtown Princeton, How Architecture Works, explains the central elements that make up good building design. It is an enlightening humanists toolkit for thinking about the built environment and seeing it afresh. "Architecture, if it is any good, speaks to all of us," Rybczynski writes. This revelatory book is his grand tour of architecture today....(*_*)9781429953320_The prize-winning scholars expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide to the beauty and function of architecture (Booklist, starred review).We spend most of our days and nights in buildings. They are the setting of our everyday lives as well as a public art form. Yet architecture remains a mystery to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, a renowned critic 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, Rybczynski reveals how architects as varied 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 can convey an architects vision.Ranging widely from a war memorial in London to an opera house in St. Petersburg, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to a famous architects private retreat in downtown Princeton, How Architecture Works explains the central elements that make up good building design. Architecture, if it is any good, speaks to all of us, Rybczynski writes. This revelatory book is his grand tour of architecture today....(*_*)9781429953320_The prize-winning scholars "expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide" to the beauty and function of architecture ( Booklist , starred review). We spend most of our days and nights in buildings. They are the setting of our everyday lives as well as a public art form. Yet architecture remains a mystery to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, a renowned critic 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, Rybczynski reveals how architects as varied 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 can convey an architects vision.Ranging widely from a war memorial in London to an opera house in St. Petersburg, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to a famous architects private retreat in downtown Princeton, How Architecture Works explains the central elements that make up good building design. "Architecture, if it is any good, speaks to all of us," Rybczynski writes. This revelatory book is his grand tour of architecture today....9781429953320_Farrar, Straus and Girouxlibro_electonico_9781429953320_9781429953320Witold RybczynskiInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-f3035a34-bbf6-4418-9d34-50e50387a646.epub2024-09-04T00:00:00+00:00Farrar, Straus and Giroux