Main entry:

Betsky, Aaron, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture matters / Aaron Betsky.

Publication:

[London] : Thames & Hudson, [2017]
©2017

Description:

144 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-137) and index.
1. Why architecture is so cool (to a teenager) -- 2. How to build an (elite) community -- 3. How you can get away with doing (almost) nothing -- 4. Why being a good architect is expensive -- 5. How a good architect gets things built -- 6. How to win a competition -- 7. How good work will out -- 8. How dreams die in the process -- 9. How perfection kills -- 10. Why architecture doesn't matter -- in our daily life -- 11. Why it is better to gather than to erect -- 12. Why it all happens in China -- 13. How to show what is already there -- 14. Why it is important to go slumming -- 15. How to design with dry humor -- 16. How to pick architecture off the shelf -- 17. How to keep the past present -- 18. How to see architecture beyond buildings -- 19. Where to find civic architecture -- 20. Why you should drive the grid -- 21. Where to find urban patterns -- 22. Why understanding sprawl matters -- 23. Where it all comes together -- 24. What we can still learn from the Greeks -- 25. Why we should build with (and not on) the land -- 26. How to build landscrapers -- 27. How to build a community -- 28. How to break the box -- 29. How to make architecture that is of the place -- 30. How architecture can be tasted -- 31. How to cook up buildings -- 32. How spatial arrangement works -- 33. How to weave the new into the old -- 34. How to spiral out and back again -- 35. How to do deep planning -- 36. Why blobism is not the style of the century -- 37. Why you shouldn't build -- 38. Why architects are becoming rhino monkeys -- 39. How to do tactical urbanism -- 40. How even a staircase can be sexy -- 41. When architecture leaves you in awe -- 42. Where to find a moment of zen in a city -- 43. Where to discover infinity -- 44. Where to find a new Eden -- 45. How to slice, slash, and stun -- 46. What is to be done.

Summary:

Architecture matters. To our cities, to our planet, to our personal lives. How we design and what we build has an impact that usually lasts for generations. The more we understand the importance of architecture, and the thinking and decisions behind the buildings we create, the better world we will construct. Who better to guide readers into the rich and complex world of contemporary architecture than Aaron Betsky, former architect, author, curator and museum director, and today dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Combining his early experiences working and meeting cutting-edge architects with his frequent role as jury member selecting the world's most prominent global architects to build icon for cities, Betsky possesses rare insight into the mechanisms, politics and personalities that play a role in how buildings in our societies and urban centres come to be. In some fifty themes and drawing from his own experiences and encounters with people and buildings around the world, he explores a broad spectrum of topics, from the meaning of domestic space to the spectacle of the urban realm.

ISBN:

0500519080 (hardcover)
9780500519080 (hardcover)

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture, Modern Philosophy.
Architecture and society.
Architecture et société.
21.60 architecture: general.
ARCHITECTURE History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295414
Call No.: BIB 241627
Status: Available