{"id":644,"date":"2013-11-14T08:35:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T22:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/how-architecture-works-a-humanists-toolkit\/"},"modified":"2013-11-14T08:35:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T22:35:42","slug":"how-architecture-works-a-humanists-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.foamboards.com.au\/blog\/how-architecture-works-a-humanists-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"How Architecture Works: A Humanist’s Toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"

An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives

We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Buildings often overawe us with their beauty. Architecture is both setting for our everyday lives and public art form\u2014but it remains mysterious to most of us.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In\u00a0How 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\u2014and not-so-good\u2014buildings are designed and constructed.\u00a0Introducing 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\u00a0to \u201cread\u201d\u00a0plans, how buildings respond to their settings, and how the smallest detail\u2014of a stair balustrade, for instance\u2014can convey an architect\u2019s vision. Ranging widely from a war memorial in London to an opera house in St. Petersburg, from the\u00a0National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.,\u00a0to a famous architect\u2019s private retreat in downtown Princeton,\u00a0How Architecture Works, explains the central elements that make up good building design. It is an enlightening humanist\u2019s toolkit for thinking about the built environment and seeing it afresh.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cArchitecture, if it is any good, speaks to all of us,\u201d Rybczynski writes.\u00a0\u00a0This revelatory book is his grand tour of architecture today.<\/p>\n

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