Main entry:

Shepheard, Paul.

Title & Author:

What is architecture? : an essay on landscapes, buildings, and machines / Paul Shepheard.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994.

Description:

viii, 131 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Preface -- 1. The Facts of Life -- Two Architects -- The Furor -- Three Expeditions in Search of Architecture -- Five More Architects -- 2. Architecture Is Not Everything -- Terry -- The Opera House -- Know What Your Business Is -- The First Book -- The Human Condition -- Nature -- Other People -- Yourself -- Anna -- Meaning -- Landscapes, Buildings, Machines -- 3. Debut De Siecle -- Sally -- A Short History of Modern Life -- Conrad -- There Was a Time When Everything Looked like Buildings -- The Escape of the Machines -- A Short Flight over Public Space -- A Machine for Living In -- 4. The Art of the Land -- The Flamenco Magician -- Architecture and Literature -- Kitty Hawk -- St. Paul's Cathedral -- The White Horse and the Moon -- Interlude -- 5. What Is Next? -- The Kilt -- Machines -- Camouflage -- The Second Echelon -- Nap of the Earth -- Aegis -- Zeppelin Tech -- Landscapes -- Strategy -- Time -- Demolition -- Buildings -- Shed-off-the-Peg -- Adrian's Shrine -- The Soanes' Family Vault -- Joseph's Tondo.

Summary:

Discusses the meaning of architecture, describing its place in history, art and technology. Rather than saying that architecture is everything, the author sets limits to the subject. The text is a series of fables which meditate on the options, hopes and failures of shelter in society.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262193418
9780262193412
0262691663 (pbk.)
9780262691666 (pbk.)

Subject:

Shepheard, Paul.
Architecture.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Philosophie.
architecture (discipline)
architectural theory.
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Bouwkunst.
Filosofische aspecten.
Arquitetura.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109574
Call No.: ID NA2500.S47; ID:94-B345
Status: Available