Why We Build (Aziza's Secret Fairy Door, 306) - Softcover

Moore, Rowan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 033053582X ISBN 13: 9780330535823

Verlag: Picador, 2013

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Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home.

In Why We Build Rowan Moore explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation and reveals the paradoxical power of architecture: it looks fixed and solid, but is always changing in response to the lives around it.

Moving across the globe and through history, through works of folly, beauty, spectacle, and subtlety, Moore gives a provocative and iconoclastic view of what makes architecture, why it matters, and why we find it fascinating. You will never look at a building in the same way again.

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Rowan Moore is the architecture critic for the Observer and previously for the Evening Standard. He is also a
trained architect, and was formerly the Director of the Architecture Foundation. His award-winning book Why We Build was published by Picador in 2012. In 2014 he was named Critic of the Year by the UK Press Awards.

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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 033053582X
• ISBN 13: 9780330535823
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
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