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Yale University Press
November 2009
On Sale: November 3, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 030014430X
EAN: 9780300144307
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Non-Fiction
Why Architecture Matters is not a work of architectural
history or a guide to the styles or an architectural
dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The
purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to “come to grips
with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with
how architecture affects us emotionally as well as
intellectually”—with its impact on our lives. “Architecture
begins to matter,” writes Paul Goldberger, “when it brings
delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a
roof over our heads.” He shows us how that works in
examples ranging from a small Cape Cod cottage to
the “vast, flowing” Prairie houses of Frank Lloyd Wright,
from the Lincoln Memorial to the highly sculptural
Guggenheim Bilbao and the Church of Sant’Ivo in Rome,
where “simple geometries . . . create a work of
architecture that embraces the deepest complexities of
human imagination.” Based on decades of looking at buildings and thinking about
how we experience them, the distinguished critic raises our
awareness of fundamental things like proportion, scale,
space, texture, materials, shapes, light, and memory. Upon
completing this remarkable architectural journey, readers
will enjoy a wonderfully rewarding new way of seeing and
experiencing every aspect of the built world.
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