Rybczynski, Witold.

How architecture works : a humanist's toolkit / Witold Rybczynski.

First edition.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.

355 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

In "How Architecture Works," Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and winner of the Vincent Scully Prize for his architectural writing, answers our most fundamental questions about how good--and not-so-good--buildings are designed and constructed. Introducing the reader to the rich and varied world of modern architecture, he takes us behind the scenes, revealing how architects as different as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Robert A.M. Stern envision and create their designs. He teaches us how to "read" plans, how buildings respond to their settings, and how the smallest detail--of a stair balustrade, for instance--can convey an architect's vision.

9780374211745 (hardcover)
0374211744 (hbk.)
9780374534820
0374534829

Architecture.
architecture (discipline)
Centre canadien d'architecture

Lambert, Phyllis

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 284351
Cote: NA44.R989.A35 2013
Statut: Disponible