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Why We Build Mme
Rowan Moore
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Description for Why We Build Mme
Paperback. Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires: hope, power, money, sex, and the idea of home. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 148 x 27. Weight in Grams: 354.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330535823
SKU
V9780330535823
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99-50
About Rowan Moore
Rowan Moore is the architecture critic for the Observer and previously for the Evening Standard. He is also a trained architect, and between 2002 and 2008 was the Director of the Architecture Foundation. Rowan Moore is the architecture critic for the Observer and previously for the Evening Standard. He is also a trained architect, and between 2002 and 2008 ... Read more
Reviews for Why We Build Mme
‘A refreshingly humane and lucid book from one of our most intelligent architecture critics’ Daily Telegraph ‘Vivid and witty . . . it’s a book about what happens when other non-architectural matter – capital, sex, family life, the caprices of function – barges into a discipline that sometimes likes to think of itself as pure’ Guardian ‘Architecture critic for the ... Read more