Why Architecture Matters by Paul Goldberger
Deals with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually, and with its impact on our lives. This book raises our awareness of fundamental things like proportion, scale, space, texture, materials, shapes, light, and memory.
Paul Goldberger is America's foremost interpreter of public architecture.. -Tracy Kidder Tracy Kidder Why Architecture Matters reminds us that in a democratic capitalist society, the only sure guarantee that we will get good architecture is if we shake off our ignorance and start to take a personal interest in the design of our neighborhoods. Here is a succinct, lyrical and heartfelt book that celebrates the best works of architecture and points the way to being able to build more of it in the world today. There are so many guides to the world of art, so few to the world of architecture. This is among the very best.-Alain de Botton, author of The Architecture of Happiness Alain de Botton A beautifully written and generous meditation on the art of building that every aspiring architect should read.-Witold Rybczynski, author of The Perfect House Witold Rybczynski Placing on display the most public of all the arts can be astonishing. Paul Goldberger, collecting his thoughts on architecture over 40 years, does this. His book, Why Architecture Matters, could be said to be a portable architectural museum that, by turns, astonishes, intrigues, explains and entrances.-Architecture Bulletin Architecture Bulletin The strength of populist writing like Goldberger's is that it is accessible and engaging.-Penny Lewis, Blueprint Magazine -- Penny Lewis Blueprint Magazine Best of all, Goldberger combines forensic analysis of the architectural art with a sense of wonder.-Jonathan Wright, Scottish Sunday Herald -- Jonathan Wright Scottish Sunday Herald This generously illustrated volume anchors its speculations in brief discussions of buildings that manage this hard-won equilibrium.-Brian Sholis, The Virginia Quarterly Review -- Brian Sholis The Virginia Quarterly Review
Paul Goldberger is the architecture critic for The New Yorker, where since 1997 he has written the magazine's celebrated "Sky Line" column. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in Manhattan. He began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300144307 |
| ISBN 10 | 030014430X |
| Title | Why Architecture Matters |
| Author | Paul Goldberger |
| Series | Why X Matters Series |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2009-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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