Building up and tearing down
Subtitle: reflections on the age of architecture
By: Paul Goldberger.
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781580932646
Subjects: Architecture
Description: "In this collection of fifty-seven essays, the critic Tracy Kidder called "America's foremost interpreter of public architecture" moves from Havana to Beijing, from Chicago to Las Vegas, dissecting everything from skyscrapers by Norman Foster and museums by Tadao Ando to airports, monuments, suburban shopping malls, and white-brick apartment houses. This is a comprehensive account of the best - and the worst - of the "age of architecture.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Articles originally published 1997-2009 in the New Yorker, the New York Times and Metropolis magazine.

Includes index.