Main entry:

Goldberger, Paul.

Title & Author:

Building up and tearing down : reflections on the age of architecture / Paul Goldberger.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Monacelli Press, ©2009.

Description:

319 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Articles originally published 1997-2009 in the New Yorker, the New York Times and Metropolis magazine.
Includes index.
Introduction -- Buildings that matter : Good vibrations ; High-tech bibliophilia ; Unconventional ; Seductive skins ; Spiraling upward ; Situation terminal ; Out of the blocks -- Places and people : Bringing back Havana ; Casino royale ; Forbidden cities ; Many mansions ; The Eames team ; House proud ; Eminent domain ; Toddlin' town -- New York : A helluva town ; Dior's new house ; Busy buildings ; High-tech emporiums ; Miami vice ; West Side fixer-upper ; Center stage ; The incredible hulk ; Triangulation ; Home ; Towers of Babble ; Gehry-rigged ; New York becomes like America ; A new beginning -- Present and past : Shanghai surprise ; Why Washington slept here ; Athens on the interstate ; A royal defeat ; Down at the mall ; Requiem -- Museums : The politics of building ; The people's Getty ; When in Rome ; Beaubourg grows up ; The supreme court ; Art houses ; A delicate balance ; Artistic license ; Outside the box ; Molto Piano ; Mile high ; Lenses on the lawn ; Bowery dreams ; Hello Columbus -- Ways of living : A touch of crass ; Part perfect ; Glass is the new white rock ; Some assembly required ; Homes of the stars ; Green monster ; Disconnected urbanism ; The sameness of things.

Summary:

"In this collection of fifty-seven essays, the critic Tracy Kidder called "America's foremost interpreter of public architecture" moves from Havana to Beijing, from Chicago to Las Vegas, dissecting everything from skyscrapers by Norman Foster and museums by Tadao Ando to airports, monuments, suburban shopping malls, and white-brick apartment houses. This is a comprehensive account of the best - and the worst - of the "age of architecture.""--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781580932646 (hardcover)
1580932649 (hardcover)

Subject:

Architecture.
Architektur
Städtebau
Arkitektur.
Stadsplanekonst.

Added entries:

New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
New York times.
Metropolis (New York, N.Y.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 264820
Call No.: BIB 196271
Status: Available