Why We Build Power and Desire in Architecture

Name: Why We Build Power and Desire in Architecture
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ISBN: 9780062277534

ISBN-10: 0062277537

ISBN-13: 9780062277534

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Authors: Rowan Moore

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In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotionssuch as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of homeare 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 Mooreformer director of the Architecture Foundation, now the architecture critic for…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/20/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English




Desire Shapes Space, and Space Shapes Desires



The Fixed and Wandering Home



The True Fake



The Inconstant Horizon, or Notes on the Erotic in Architecture



Power and Freedom



Form Follows Finance



The Rapacity of 'Hope'



Eternity is Overrated



Life, and the Look of Life



Indispensable as Bread


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgements


Index