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Why architecture matters

Author: Paul Goldberger
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Series: Why X matters.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Deals with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually, and with its impact on our lives. This book raises our awareness of  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Paul Goldberger
ISBN: 9780300144307 030014430X 9780300168174 0300168179
OCLC Number: 316233485
Description: xvii, 273 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
1. Meaning, culture, and symbol --
2. Challenge and comfort --
3. Architecture as object --
4. Architecture as space --
5. Architecture and memory --
6. Buildings and time --
7. Buildings and the making of place --
Glossary --
A note on bibliography --
Acknowledgments --
Illustration credits --
Index.
Series Title: Why X matters.
Responsibility: Paul Goldberger.

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"This generously illustrated volume anchors its speculations in brief discussions of buildings that manage this hard-won equilibrium."--Brian Sholis, "The Virginia Quarterly Review"--Brian Sholis "The Read more...

 
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