Rowan Moore

Why We Build (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home.

In Why We Build Rowan Moore 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.

Moving across the globe and through history, through works of folly, beauty, spectacle, and subtlety, Moore gives a provocative and iconoclastic view of what makes architecture, why it matters, and why we find it fascinating. You will never look at a building in the same way again.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447204503
• Artikelnr.: 39924290

Autorenporträt

Rowan Moore is the architecture critic for the Observer and previously for the Evening Standard. He is also a
trained architect, and was formerly the Director of the Architecture Foundation. His award-winning book Why We Build was published by Picador in 2012. In 2014 he was named Critic of the Year by the UK Press Awards.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter
1: Desire shapes space, and space shapes desire Chapter
2: The fixed and the wandering home Chapter
3: The true fake Chapter
4: The inconsistent horizon, or notes on the erotic in architecture Chapter
5: Power and freedom Chapter
6: Form follows finance Chapter
7: The rapacity of 'hope' Chapter
8: Eternity of overrated Chapter
9: Life, and the look of life Chapter
10: Indespensible as bread Section
11: List of illustrations Section
12: Selected bibliography Section
13: Acknowledgements Section
14: Index