Skyline
Subtitle: The Narcissistic City (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Contributors: John Goodman (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: January 31, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780804732451
Subjects: Cultural studies; Theory of architecture; Planning; Philosophy Of Architecture; Art & Art Instruction; Architecture; Symbolism in architecture; General; Art / General; Classification; Criticism; United States
First sentence: November 1619. Sequestered in his "stove-heated room" on the banks of the Danube, where he had been delayed by the first cold of winter en route to rejoin the army of the duke of Bavaria, Descartes tried to put his thoughts in order.