Why Architecture Matters
Subtitle: Lessons from Chicago
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: October 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780226423210
Subjects: Architectural structure & design; City & town planning - architectural aspects; c 1990 to c 2000; Architecture; Illinois; Criticism; General; Art / General; Buildings, structures, etc; Chicago; Chicago (Ill.)
First sentence: The tale may seem hard to believe today, especially if you happen to be glancing at the forest of construction cranes on the Chicago skyline.
Description: For more than a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin has been writing fiery, intelligent essays on the state of contemporary architecture. His subjects range from high-rises to highways, parks to public housing, Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry. Why Architecture Matters collects the best of Kamin's acclaimed columns, offering both a look at America's foremost architectural city and a taste of Kamin's penetrating, witty style of critique.