{"product_id":"how-architecture-works-paperback","title":"How Architecture Works - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWitold Rybczynski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Architecture is both the setting for our everyday lives and a public art form--but it remains mysterious to most of us.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eHow Architecture Works\u003c\/i\u003e, Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and the winner of the Vincent Scully Prize for his writing on architecture, answers our most fundamental questions about how good--and not so good--buildings are designed and constructed. Introducing the reader to the rich and varied world of modern architecture, he reveals how architects as diverse as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Robert A. M. Stern envision and create their designs. He teaches us how to \"read\" plans, how buildings respond to their settings, and how the smallest detail--of a stair balustrade, for instance--can convey an architect's vision. \u003ci\u003eHow Architecture Works\u003c\/i\u003e explains the central elements that make up good building design, ranging from a war memorial in London to an opera house in Saint Petersburg, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to a famous architect's private retreat in Princeton, New Jersey. It is an enlightening humanist's toolkit for thinking about the built environment and seeing it afresh.\u003cbr\u003e \"Architecture, if it is any good, speaks to all of us,\" Rybczynski writes. This revelatory book is his grand tour of architecture today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWitold Rybczynski\u003c\/b\u003e has written about architecture for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his award-winning books are \u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Most Beautiful House in the World\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Clearing in the Distance\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Prize. He lives with his wife in Philadelphia, where he is the emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. \u003ci\u003eHow Architecture Works\u003c\/i\u003e is his eighteenth book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762292359456,"sku":"9780374534820","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/50edb5b1146cb78d1701c463c201cbd4.webp?v=1780218774","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/how-architecture-works-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}