Drawing for architecture / Léon Krier ; foreword by James Howard Kunstler.

Main entry:

Krier, Léon, author.

Title & Author:

Drawing for architecture / Léon Krier ; foreword by James Howard Kunstler.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2009.
©2009

Description:

xiv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

Writing architecture series

Notes:
Foreword -- Author's note -- Construction -- City/anti-city: urbs versus suburbia -- Composition: organic versus mechanic -- Two worlds -- Buildings and urban spaces -- Vernacular and classical -- Tuning buildings and fabric -- Forms and uniforms -- Conservation and maintenance -- Architectural pathologies.
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Summary:

Architect Léon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment. Rather, they make an impassioned argument against what Krier sees as the unquestioned doctrines and unacknowledged absurdities of contemporary architecture.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780262512930 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0262512939 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Krier, Léon Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Krier, Léon
Architecture, Modern 20th century Pictorial works.
City planning History 20th century Pictorial works.
Architecture 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Architecture, Modern
City planning
Karikaturen.
Urbanisatie.
Bouwkunst.
Luxemburg (land)

Form/genre:

History
Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Pictorial works

Added entries:

Kunstler, James Howard, writer of forward.
Kunstler, James Howard
Writing architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263670
Call No.: BIB 194900
Status: Available

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