Why Architecture Matters

Name: Why Architecture Matters
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ISBN: 9780300144307

ISBN-10: 030014430X

ISBN-13: 9780300144307

Edition: 2009

Authors: Paul Goldberger

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Why Architecture Mattersis not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose ofWhy Architecture Mattersis to "come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually"with its impact on our lives. "Architecture begins to matter," writes Paul Goldberger, "when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads." He shows us how that works in examples ranging from a small Cape Cod cottage to the "vast, flowing" Prairie houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, from the Lincoln Memorial to the…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 11/3/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Paul Goldberger is the architectural critic and a staff writer at The New Yorker.