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Michael Sorkin - Some Assembly Required - 9780816634835 - V9780816634835
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Some Assembly Required

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Description for Some Assembly Required Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: AMA; AMVD; RPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.

The long-awaited collection by one of architecture’s most exciting voices.

Michael Sorkin is widely hailed as one of the best architecture critics writing today. Iconoclastic and often controversial, he is a witty, entertaining, yet ultimately serious writer. In this new collection, Sorkin reviews the state of contemporary architecture and surveys the dramatic changes in the urban environment of the past decade. From New York to New Delhi, from Shanghai to Cairo, Sorkin offers a sweeping assessment of the impact of globalization, environmental degradation, electronic media, rapid growth, and the legacies of modernist planning. Whether laying out, manifesto-like, eleven necessary tasks for ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816634835
SKU
V9780816634835
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Michael Sorkin
Michael Sorkin is principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio and professor of architecture and director of the graduate urban design program at New York’s City College. He is the author of Giving Ground (with Joan Copjec, 1999), Wiggle (1998), Exquisite Corpse (1994), and Variations on a Theme Park (1991), and his writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Metropolis, New ... Read more

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