How architecture works
Subtitle: a humanist's toolkit
By: Witold Rybczynski
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780374211745
Subjects: Architecture
Description: In "How Architecture Works," Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and winner of the Vincent Scully Prize for his architectural writing, answers our most fundamental questions about how good--and not-so-good--buildings are designed and constructed. Introducing the reader to the rich and varied world of modern architecture, he takes us behind the scenes, revealing how architects as different as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Robert A. M. Stern envision and create their designs. He teaches us how to "read" plans, how buildings respond to their settings, and how the smallest detail--of a stair balustrade, for instance--can convey an architect's vision.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The idea; title: The setting; title: Site; title: Plan; title: Structure; title: Skin; title: Details; title: Style; title: The past; title: Taste.