Why We Build

Released on by Rowan Moore
preview-18

  • Why We Build Book Detail

  • Author : Rowan Moore
  • Release Date : 2013-08-20
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Genre : Architecture
  • Pages : 366
  • ISBN 13 : 0062277596
  • File Size : 26,26 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Why We Build by Rowan Moore PDF Summary

Book Description: In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions—such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of home—are the most powerful force behind architecture, yesterday and (especially) today. We are living in the most dramatic period in architectural history in more than half a century: a time when cityscapes are being redrawn on a yearly basis, architects are testing the very idea of what a building is, and whole cities are being invented overnight in exotic locales or here in the United States. Now, in a bold and wide-ranging new work, Rowan Moore—former director of the Architecture Foundation, now the architecture critic for The Observer—explores the reasons behind these changes in our built environment, and how they in turn are changing the way we live in the world. Taking as his starting point dramatic examples such as the High Line in New York City and the outrageous island experiment of Dubai, Moore then reaches far and wide: back in time to explore the Covent Garden brothels of eighteenth-century London and the fetishistic minimalism of Adolf Loos; across the world to assess a software magnate’s grandiose mansion in Atlanta and Daniel Libeskind’s failed design for the World Trade Center site; and finally to the deeply naturalistic work of Lina Bo Bardi, whom he celebrates as the most underrated architect of the modern era.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Why We Build books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Why We Build With Brick

Why We Build With Brick

File Size : 98,98 MB
Total View : 9201 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book focuses on the contemporary fired clay brick to explore themes of home and house, homeownership, materiality, and sense of place. It investigates why,

Why We Build

Why We Build

File Size : 30,30 MB
Total View : 3196 Views
DOWNLOAD

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

We Build Drawings

We Build Drawings

File Size : 40,40 MB
Total View : 4965 Views
DOWNLOAD

A collection of sketches and watercolours by Mikkel Frost, co-founder of Danish architecture firm CEBRA, champions drawing as a communication tool. ‘Architect

We Build Our Homes

We Build Our Homes

File Size : 85,85 MB
Total View : 6007 Views
DOWNLOAD

It’s not only humans who can build incredible structures: around the world, mammals, birds, and insects can be found building incredible things. From big beav