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Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture
by Rybczynski, Witold
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670844217
- ISBN 13
- 9780670844210
- Seller
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About This Item
New York et al.: Viking, 1992 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, black cloth spine with gilt titles, xviii, 301 pp, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Collection of essays "about buildings as places rather than objects, and as a part of a larger social and cultural context rather than as diverting works of art." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 21 X 15 cm.
Synopsis
From the opening sentences of his first book on architecture, Home , Witold Rybczynski seduced readers into a new appreciation of the spaces they live in. He also introduced us to "an unerringly lucid writer who knows how to translate architectural ideas into layman's terms" ( The Dallas Morning News ). Rybczynski's vast knowledge, his sense of wonder, and his elegantly uncluttered prose shine on every page of his latest meditation on the art of building. Looking Around is about architecture as an art of compromise— between beauty and function, aspiration and engineering, builders and clients. It is the story of the Seagram Building in New York and the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts in Columbus, Ohio— a museum that opened without a single painting on view, so that critics could better appreciate its design. But what of the visitors who want a building that displays art well? What of those who work in the building? Looking Around explores the notion of the architect as superstar and assesses giants from Palladio to Michael Graves, styles from classicism to high tech. It demonstrates how architecture actually works— or doesn't— in corporate headquarters, airports, private homes, and the special buildings designed to represent our civilization. For all its erudition, Looking Around is also bracingly straightforward. Rybczynski looks closely and critically at structures that may once have dazzled us with their ostentation and expense, and sees them as triumphs or failures— of aesthetic ideals and of lasting function. This is a fascinating and illuminating book about an art form integral to our lives.
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- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AC00002
- Title
- Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture
- Author
- Rybczynski, Witold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670844217
- ISBN 13
- 9780670844210
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York et al.
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Architecture Essays Criticism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
- X weight
- 32 oz
- Size
- 21 X 15 cm
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