Looking Around by Witold Rybczynski
This collection of essays has an eclectic range which encompasses all that is to be celebrated, discussed and fondly remembered about the buildings that shape our lives. History's reverberations great and small are explored - from the Chinese Cultural Revolution to quieter changes in the European living room. So too are shifts in taste - from modernism to the views of Prince Charles. Political questions raised by the home are brought to polemical life - the charms of the small home, the poetry of the suburbs, the symbolism of the porch, and the rise of the "androgynous home". Rybczynski sounds out buildings as diverse as museums and airports, model homes and postmodernist dreams, listening for Geothe's "frozen music".
Witold Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh, raised in Surrey and attended Jesuit schools in England and Canada. He is now an architect and Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books and his exploration of domestic comfort, HOME, has been translated into eight languages. Rybczynski lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780743221382 |
| ISBN 10 | 0743221389 |
| Title | Looking Around |
| Author | Witold Rybczynski |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-08-05 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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