LOOKING AROUND A Journey through Architecture

Witold Rybczynski

ISBN 10: 0670844217 / ISBN 13: 9780670844210

Edité par Viking, New York, 1992

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Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. ; 8.1 X 5.9 X 1.3 inches; 288 pages.

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• Titre: LOOKING AROUND A Journey through Architecture
• Éditeur: Viking, New York
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0670844217
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780670844210
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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  • misc sale
  • Art, Architecture and Photography

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Book by Rybczynski Witold

Présentation de l'éditeur

This kaleidoscopic collection of essays has an eclectic range that encompasses all that is to be celebrated, discussed and fondly remembered about the buildings that shape our lives.
History's reverberations great and small are explored - from the Chinese Cultural Revolution to quieter changes in the European living room. So too are shifts in taste - from modernism to the views of Prince Charles. Political questions raised by the home are brought to polemical life - the charms of the small home, the poetry of the suburbs, the symbolism of the porch, and the rise of the 'androgynous home'. Rybczynski sounds out buildings as diverse as museums and airports, model homes and postmodernist dreams, listening for Goethe's 'frozen music'.
Vastly informed and beautifully written, LOOKING AROUND gives us a fresh, close look at the spaces we live in.