Look of Architecture

Name: Look of Architecture
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ISBN: 9780195156331

ISBN-10: 0195156331

ISBN-13: 9780195156331

Edition: 2001

Authors: Witold Rybczynski

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What is style in architecture? "Style is like a feather in a woman's hat, nothing more," said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects' low regard for the subject. But Witold Rybczynski disagrees, and in The Look of Architecture, he makes a compelling case for the importance of style to the mother of the arts. This is a book brimming with sharp observations--that form does not follow function; that the best architecture is not timeless but precisely of its time; that details do not merely complement the architecture--details are the architecture. But the heart of the book illuminates the connection between architecture, interior decoration, and fashion. Style is the language of…

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List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

Witold Rybczynskihas written about architecture forThe New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, andSlate, and is the author of the critically acclaimed bookHomeand the award-winningA Clearing in the Distance. He is the recipient of the National Building Museum's 2007 Vincent Scully Prize. He lives with his wife in Philadelphia, where he teaches at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.



Introduction



Dressing Up



In and Out of Fashion



Style


Notes


Index