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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 720 EAN: 9780140168891 ISBN: 0140168893 Label: Penguin (Non-Classics) Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: December 01, 1993 Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics) Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Accessible Essays on ArchitectureI am a big fan of architecture critic Witold Rybczynski. If you haven't read his books HOME, or WAITING FOR THE WEEKEND, or CITY LIFE, this book is a good way to get familiar with many of the themes he has addressed time and again over his long and prolific career (e.g., the place of houses in people's lives, living smaller, the role of architects, the legacy of modernism, the place and meaning of ornament, the intrusion of fashion into the world of architecture, and the importance of the Vitruvian ... Read More Rating:  - Affirming the TraditionalPlanning on building a house, I was especially interested in Rybczynski's thoughts and insights about homes and what they should look like. From the start I was captivated. Wanting to be sleek and modern, I thought an architect would quickly confirm my ideas. Instead, at the start of the book Rybczynski, with reasoning, brings the reader back to the traditional home and approves of it; and makes me want to build one... and live in a lovely little neighborhood. He moves beyond the house and ... Read More Rating: - This is an incredible bookThis is an incredible book and I recommend it to anyone, whatever field you are in, you live in this world and may as well enjoy it. Rating: - A guided tour with a viewHere is an unusual book: Witold Rybczynski takes us wandering through the professional byways of a subject usually reserved for a more intellectual readership, if such a thing exists. Why architecture is important and what makes it so is the subject matter here, brought to us by a very competent writer. Delightfully so, in fact, as Rybczynski has the storyteller's ability to weft and weave. The stories he has chosen here are a mixed bunch and we are asked to think about such diverse constructions ... Read More Rating: - Good readingThis is an easy reader. I bought this book a long time ago, but never had the time to open it, then one day I was looking for a magazine to read in, you know, those intimate moments, and in the rush I grabed 'looking around'. Fact is: I couldn't stop reading it. Even tough I am not what you'd call a lay-man on architectural issues, Witold's book really made me see that's possible to write about architecture without being too academic or technical. I can say that I've learned a great deal, ... Read More 
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