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

Bjone, Christian

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.

A propos du livre

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.

Détails de l'édition

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