Global City Blues by Daniel Solomon
In "Global City Blues", renowned architect Daniel Solomon presents a perceptive overview and insightful assessment of how the power and seductiveness of modernist ideals led us astray. As an alternative, Solomon discusses how architecture and cities can offer a vital counterbalance to the forces of sprawl, urban disintegration, and placelessness that have so transformed the contemporary landscape.
"Global City Blues is one of the rare architecture books that will resonate with any thoughtful reader" - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "If only all architects could write as engagingly as Daniel Solomon!... This is a big-picture book rather than a how-to book, but it's much better reading than most overviews of the transition from the modernist mindset to however it is that we think and see design now." - PLANNING"
Daniel Solomon, FAIA, is emeritus professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and was named to Architectural Digest's list of 100 foremost architects in 1991 and 1995. He lives in San Francisco, California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781597260855 |
| ISBN 10 | 1597260851 |
| Title | Global City Blues |
| Author | Daniel Solomon |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Island Press |
| Year published | 2006-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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