Автор: Rybczynski Witold Название: Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays ISBN: 0374538093 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374538095 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Цена: 15490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homes
In Mysteries of the Mall, Witold Rybczynski, the author of How Architecture Works, casts a seasoned critical eye on the modern scene. His subject is nothing less than the broad setting of our metropolitan world.
In thirty-four discerning essays, Rybczynski ranges over topics as varied as shopping malls, Central Park, the Op ra Bastille, and America's shrinking cities. Along the way, he examines our post-9/11 obsession with security, the revival of the big-city library, the rise of college towns, our fascination with vacation homes, and Disney's planned community of Celebration. By looking at contemporary architects as diverse as Frank Gehry, Moshe Safdie, and Bing Thom, revisiting old masters such as Palladio, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright, and considering such unsung innovators as Stanley H. Durwood, the inventor of the cineplex, Rybczynski ponders the role of global metropolises in an age of tourism and reflects on what kinds of places attract us in the modern city.
Mysteries of the Mall is required reading for anyone curious about the contemporary world and how it came to be the way it is.
This delightful chronicle of contemporary building and planning in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, makes a compelling case for the importance of architecture on a local scale.
Автор: Rybczynski Witold Название: How Architecture Works: A Humanist`s Toolkit ISBN: 0374534829 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374534820 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Цена: 11030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Architecture is both setting for our everyday lives and public art form--but it remains mysterious to most of us.
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 reveals 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. Ranging widely from a war memorial in London to an opera house in St. Petersburg, from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to a famous architect's private retreat in downtown Princeton, "How Architecture Works," explains the central elements that make up good building design. It is an enlightening humanist's toolkit for thinking about the built environment and seeing it afresh.
"Architecture, if it is any good, speaks to all of us," Rybczynski writes. This revelatory book is his grand tour of architecture today.
Автор: Rybczynski Witold Название: Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History ISBN: 0374537038 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374537036 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Цена: 10420.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
A grand tour of the chair through the ages by our foremost writer on design
Have you ever wondered where rocking chairs came from, or why cheap plastic chairs are suddenly everywhere?
In Now I Sit Me Down, the distinguished architect and writer Witold Rybczynski chronicles the history of the chair from the folding stools of pharaonic Egypt to the ubiquitous stackable monobloc chairs of today. He tells the stories of the inventor of the bentwood chair, Michael Thonet, and of the creators of the first molded-plywood chair, Charles and Ray Eames. He reveals the history of chairs to be a social history--of different ways of sitting, of changing manners and attitudes, and of varying tastes. The history of chairs is the history of who we are. We learn how the ancient Chinese switched from sitting on the floor to sitting in a chair, and how the iconic chair of Middle America--the BarcaLounger--traces its roots back to the Bauhaus. Rybczynski weaves a rich tapestry that draws on art and design history, personal experience, and historical accounts. And he pairs these stories with his own delightful hand-drawn illustrations: colonial rockers and English cabrioles, languorous chaise longues and no-nonsense ergonomic task chairs--they're all here.
The famous Danish furniture designer Hans Wegner once remarked, "A chair is only finished when someone sits in it." As Rybczynski tells it, the way we choose to sit and what we choose to sit on speak volumes about our values, our tastes, and the things we hold dear.
Автор: Rybczynski, Witold Название: Most Beautiful Hse In The Wrld ISBN: 0140105662 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140105667 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 9190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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