Built, the Unbuilt and the Unbuildable
Built, the Unbuilt and the Unbuildable
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An examination of the meaning of architecture, and how this has changed through the ages. As well as looking at topics such as gardens, monuments and fortifications, this book also enters the realm of the imagination in chapters on projects that have seen the light only as architects' dreams.
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Built, the Unbuilt and the Unbuildable by Robert Harbison
Robert Harbison has acquired a reputation for looking at architecture in a highly original way. The questions he asks are those deliberately suppressed by conventional architectural historians: What draws me to this building? What meaning intended or unintended - does it have? Has that meaning changed through time? To expound his argument, the author chooses examples of buildings "freed from function", the architectural borderland where use and symbolism overlap: gardens - "places of undeclared war between architecture and its antitype nature"; monuments "how sure of themselves yet how entirely fictional"; historic fortifications - "prompting armies of tourists to assault them"; and ruins - "architecture existing only in the mind or in the eye of the beholder". Finally he enters the realm of the imagination in chapters on the internal space of paintings and on projects that have seen the light only as architects' dreams. Robert Harbison has lectured on architecture at MOMA, New York, the University of Toronto, Stanford University, Cornell University and the Architectural Association, London.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780500277454 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500277451 |
| Title | Built, the Unbuilt and the Unbuildable |
| Author | Robert Harbison |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Year published | 1993-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |