The Resource Why we build, Rowan Moore
Why we build, Rowan Moore
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The item Why we build, Rowan Moore represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- Architecture, good and bad, is shaped by emotions. In Why We Build Rowan Moore shows how buildings are driven by human emotions and desires -- such as hope, power, money, sex, and the idea of home -- and how buildings then shape our experiences. He explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation, and reveals the paradoxical power of architecture: it looks fixed and solid, but is always changing, in response to the lives around it. Moore takes us on a personal journey, moving freely across the globe and through history, through works of folly, beauty, spectacle, and subtlety. He uncovers the doomed mansion of an Atlanta multimillionaire, the phenomenally successful High Line in New York, and the remarkable Museu de Arte in Sao Paulo. He discusses baroque churches and Egyptian pyramids alongside works of the moment. We meet extraordinary characters: Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, the lecherous Stanford White, and Lina Bo Bardi, the most underrated architect of the twentieth century. Refusing to bow to fashion or reputation, Moore gives a provocative and iconoclastic view of what makes architecture, why it matters, and why we find it fascinating. After reading Why We Build you will never look at a building in the same way again
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 422 p.
- Contents
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- Machine generated contents note: 1.Desire shapes space, and space shapes desires
- 2.The fixed and wandering home
- 3.The true fake
- 4.The inconstant horizon, or notes on the erotic in architecture
- 5.Power and freedom
- 6.Form follows finance
- 7.The rapacity of `hope'
- 8.Eternity is overrated
- 9.Life, and the look of life
- 10.Indispensable as bread
- Isbn
- 9780330535571
- Label
- Why we build
- Title
- Why we build
- Statement of responsibility
- Rowan Moore
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Architecture, good and bad, is shaped by emotions. In Why We Build Rowan Moore shows how buildings are driven by human emotions and desires -- such as hope, power, money, sex, and the idea of home -- and how buildings then shape our experiences. He explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation, and reveals the paradoxical power of architecture: it looks fixed and solid, but is always changing, in response to the lives around it. Moore takes us on a personal journey, moving freely across the globe and through history, through works of folly, beauty, spectacle, and subtlety. He uncovers the doomed mansion of an Atlanta multimillionaire, the phenomenally successful High Line in New York, and the remarkable Museu de Arte in Sao Paulo. He discusses baroque churches and Egyptian pyramids alongside works of the moment. We meet extraordinary characters: Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, the lecherous Stanford White, and Lina Bo Bardi, the most underrated architect of the twentieth century. Refusing to bow to fashion or reputation, Moore gives a provocative and iconoclastic view of what makes architecture, why it matters, and why we find it fascinating. After reading Why We Build you will never look at a building in the same way again
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Moore, Rowan
- Dewey number
- 720.1
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Architecture and society
- Architecture
- Label
- Why we build, Rowan Moore
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Desire shapes space, and space shapes desires -- 2.The fixed and wandering home -- 3.The true fake -- 4.The inconstant horizon, or notes on the erotic in architecture -- 5.Power and freedom -- 6.Form follows finance -- 7.The rapacity of `hope' -- 8.Eternity is overrated -- 9.Life, and the look of life -- 10.Indispensable as bread
- Control code
- 000050016642
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 422 p.
- Isbn
- 9780330535571
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- Why we build, Rowan Moore
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Desire shapes space, and space shapes desires -- 2.The fixed and wandering home -- 3.The true fake -- 4.The inconstant horizon, or notes on the erotic in architecture -- 5.Power and freedom -- 6.Form follows finance -- 7.The rapacity of `hope' -- 8.Eternity is overrated -- 9.Life, and the look of life -- 10.Indispensable as bread
- Control code
- 000050016642
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 422 p.
- Isbn
- 9780330535571
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Other physical details
- ill.
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