Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Look of ArchitectureCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0195156331EAN: 9780195156331ISBN: 9780195156331Publisher: Oxford University PressRelease Date: 02/20/2003Description: What is style in architecture? "Style is like a feather in a woman's hat, nothing more," said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects' low regard for the subject. But Witold Rybczynski disagrees, and in this book, makes a compelling case for the importance of style to the mother of the arts. This is a book brimming with observations - that form does not follow function; that the best architecture is not timeless but precisely of its time; that details do not merely complement the architecture - details are the architecture. But the heart of the book illuminates the connection between architecture, interior decoration and fashion. Style is the language of architecture, Rybczynski writes, and fashion represents the wide - and swirling - cultural currents that shape and direct that language. The two, style and fashion, are intimately linked - indeed, architecture cannot escape fashion. To set these ideas in sharp relief, he shows us how style and fashion have been expressed in the work of major architects - including Frank Gehry, Mies van der Rohe, Charles McKim, Allan Greenberg, Robert Venturi, Enrique Norten and many others.He helps us see their works anew and ultimately to look afresh at our surroundings. Style is one of the enduring and endearing aspects of architecture, Rybczynski concludes. Furthermore, an architecture that recognizes the importance of style would not be as introspective and self-referential as are so many contemporary buildings. It would be part of the world - not architecture for architects, but for the rest of us.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 178mmItem Length: 127mmItem Width: 10mmItem Weight: 145gAuthor: Witold RybczynskiGenre: Architecture & AntiquesTopic: Arts & PhotographyType: ArchitectureRelease Year: 2003 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Look of Architecture
Title: The Look of Architecture
ISBN-10: 0195156331
EAN: 9780195156331
ISBN: 9780195156331
Release Date: 02/20/2003
Release Year: 2003
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Type: Architecture
Book Title: Look of Architecture
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Topic: Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, General
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2003
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Architecture
Item Weight: 3.5 Oz
Item Length: 7 in
Author: Witold Rybczynski
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Uk-Trade Paper
