{"product_id":"stories-from-architecture-book-philippa-lewis-9780262543026","title":"Stories from Architecture","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings and models, told through reminiscences, stories, conversations, letters, and monologues.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers, philanthropists--working, observing, admiring, arguing. In \u003ci\u003eStories from Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e, Philippa Lewis captures some of these personalities through reminiscences, anecdotes, conversations, letters, and monologues that collectively offer the imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSome of these untold stories are factual, like Frank Lloyd Wright's correspondence with a Wisconsin librarian regarding her $5,000 dream home, or letters written by the English architect John Nash to his irascible aristocratic client. Others recount a fictional, if credible, scenario by placing these drawings--and with them their characters--into their immediate social context. For instance, the dilemmas facing a Regency couple who are considering a move to a suburban villa; a request from the office of Richard Neutra for an assistant to measure Josef von Sternberg's Rolls-Royce so that the director's beloved vehicle might fit into the garage being designed by his architect; a teenager dreaming of a life away from parental supervision by gazing at a gadget-filled bachelor pad in \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e magazine; even a policeman recording the ground plans of the house of a murder scene. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe drawings, reproduced in color, are all sourced from the Drawing Matter collection in Somerset, UK, and are fascinating objects in themselves; but Lewis shifts our attention beyond the image to other possible histories that linger, invisible, beyond the page, and in the process animates not just a series of archival documents but the writing of architectural history.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49795097297169,"sku":"NGR9780262543026","price":45.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51027848429841,"sku":"GOR012286014","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53534333370641,"sku":"NIN9780262543026","price":31.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262543028.jpg?v=1750738491","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/stories-from-architecture-book-philippa-lewis-9780262543026","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}