Building up and tearing down
Subtitle: reflections on the age of architecture
By: Paul Goldberger.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781580932646
Subjects: Architecture
Other titles: New Yorker.; New York times.; Metropolis.
Notes: Articles originally published 1997-2009 in the New Yorker, the New York Times and Metropolis magazine.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Buildings that matter : Good vibrations ; High-tech bibliophilia ; Unconventional ; Seductive skins ; Spiraling upward ; Situation terminal ; Out of the blocks; title: Places and people : Bringing back Havana ; Casino royale ; Forbidden cities ; Many mansions ; The Eames team ; House proud ; Eminent domain ; Toddlin' town; title: New York : A helluva town ; Dior's new house ; Busy buildings ; High-tech emporiums ; Miami vice ; West Side fixer-upper ; Center stage ; The incredible hulk ; Triangulation ; Home ; Towers of Babble ; Gehry-rigged ; New York becomes like America ; A new beginning; title: Present and past : Shanghai surprise ; Why Washington slept here ; Athens on the interstate ; A royal defeat ; Down at the mall ; Requiem; title: Museums : The politics of building ; The people's Getty ; When in Rome ; Beaubourg grows up ; The supreme court ; Art houses ; A delicate balance ; Artistic license ; Outside the box ; Molto Piano ; Mile high ; Lenses on the lawn ; Bowery dreams ; Hello Columbus; title: Ways of living : A touch of crass ; Part perfect ; Glass is the new white rock ; Some assembly required ; Homes of the stars ; Green monster ; Disconnected urbanism ; The sameness of things.