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How architecture works

How architecture works

by Witold Rybczynski

Architecture
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About this book

In "How Architecture Works," Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and winner of the Vincent Scully Prize for his architectural writing, answers our most fundamental questions about how good--and not-so-good--buildings are designed and constructed. Introducing the reader to the rich and varied world of modern architecture, he takes us behind the scenes, revealing how architects as different as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Robert A. M. Stern envision and create their designs. He teaches us how to "read" plans, how buildings respond to their settings, and how the smallest detail--of a stair balustrade, for instance--can convey an architect's vision.

Themes & subjects

Architecture

About the author

Witold Rybczynski
Witold Rybczynski

1 March 1943

Author

Witold Rybczynski

Pages

368

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

2

Language

English

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN

9780374534820

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