[PDF.40uq] Why We Build: Power and Desire in Architecture

Why We Build: Power and Desire in Architecture

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Illuminating Our Environment|By Karen J. Dahood|Moore, a trained architect and former director of the Architecture Foundation in London theorizes about the relationship of buildings to emotions. As a critic, he calls his contemporaries on their mistakes, and is humanistic in doing so, saving his praise for those (too few) who have honored the context of their projects. Most of|From Booklist|Architecture resides at the intersection of wealth, power, and art. No wonder then, that it can result in hubris. In this account of why architects and, to some extent, their clients build what they

In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions—such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of home—are 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 w...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Why We Build: Power and Desire in Architecture   |  Rowan Moore. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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