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I Love Chicago's Buildings: A Selective Guide to the City - Couverture souple

Bjone, Christian

 
9781954081697: I Love Chicago's Buildings: A Selective Guide to the City
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1954081693 ISBN 13 : 9781954081697
Editeur : Oro Editions, 2022

Synopsis

  • Works as a great guide for visitors going to Chicago
  • A thorough, insightful look at the Harold Washington Library Center (main public library)


The book is not a typical guidebook, nor a generic history tale and not even a disguised autobiography. It is a listing of select pairs of buildings that each articulates a formal and abstract concept that is part of the culture of architecture, spelled with a capital a. The main idea of the book is to hide the bitter pill of academic formal analysis in a dollop of sugary personal anecdotes and humour. Hopefully, this will be creating unexpected juxtapositions that might elicit shock and new perceptions, cancelling the sleepy accepted dogma we all live under. The essays will be paring the famous and the infamous, the profound and the absurd, the beloved and the forgotten, the monstrous and the miniscule.

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À propos de l'auteur

Christian Bjone is a practicing architect in New York City, educated at the University of Illinois, Chicago and Princeton University. He is the author of four books on art and architectural history, one of which, Art + Architecture: Strategies in Collaboration, has been translated into German.

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Éditeur
Oro Editions
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1954081693
ISBN 13 
9781954081697
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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