Livro - Why We Build - Power And Desire In Architecture

Livro em ótimo estado, como novo. Capa dura e sobrecapa em ótimo estado. Páginas em ótimo estado, sem grifos, riscos nem rasuras. 392 pgs. Formato 16 x 24 cm, Lombada 3 cm. 1ª edição, Ano 2013 - Livro completo em inglês. Why We Build - Power and Desire in Architecture In this bold and wide-ranging new work, Rowan Moore - former director of the Architecture Foundation, now a leading architecture critic - explores the reasons behind these changes in our built environment, and how they in turn are changing the way we live in the world. Taking as his starting point dramatic examples such as the High Line in New York City and the outrageous island experiment in Dubai, Moore then reaches far and wide: back in time to explore the Covent Garden brothels of eighteenth-century London and the fetishistic minimalism of Adolf Loos; acrosse the world to assess a software magnate's grandiose mansion in Atlanta and Daniel Libesking's failed deseign for the World Trade Center aite; and finally to the deeply naturalistic work of Lina Bo Bardi, whom he celebrates as the most underrated architect of the modern era. Provocative and personal, iconoclastic and transforming, Why We Build is that rarest of things: a book about architecture that is also, on every page, a book about people - those chosen few who design buildings, and the rest of us, who use them every day.