{"product_id":"the-look-of-architecture-paperback","title":"The Look of Architecture - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWitold Rybczynski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is style in architecture? \"Style is like a feather in a woman's hat, nothing more,\" said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects' low regard for the subject. But Witold Rybczynski disagrees, and in \u003cem\u003eThe Look of Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e, he makes a compelling case for the importance of style to the mother of the arts.\u003cbr\u003e This is a book brimming with sharp observations--that form does not follow function; that the best architecture is not timeless but precisely of its time; that details do not merely complement the architecture--details \u003cem\u003eare\u003c\/em\u003e the architecture. But the heart of the book illuminates the connection between architecture, interior decoration, and fashion. Style is the language of architecture, Rybczynski writes, and fashion represents the wide and swirling cultural currents that shape and direct that language. The two--style and fashion--are intimately linked; indeed, architecture cannot escape fashion. To set these ideas in sharp relief, he shows us how style and fashion have been expressed in the work of major architects including Frank Gehry, Mies van der Rohe, Charles McKim, Allan Greenberg, Robert Venturi, Enrique Norten, and many others. He helps us see their works anew and ultimately to look afresh at our surroundings.\u003cbr\u003e Style is one of the enduring--and endearing--aspects of architecture, Rybczynski concludes. Furthermore, an architecture that recognizes the importance of style would not be as introspective and self-referential as are so many contemporary buildings. It would be part of the world: Not architecture for architects, but for the rest of us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWitold Rybczynski\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of America's best known writers on architecture, the author of the bestselling \u003cem\u003eOne Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw, Home, Waiting for the Weekend, The Most Beautiful House in the World\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eA Clearing in the Distance\u003c\/em\u003e. He has also written on architecture for \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times, The New Yorker, Time\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e. The Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, he lives in Philadelphia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 6.54 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256402796646,"sku":"9780195156331","price":24.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/MlZGR2FHb1NhK0ZQYnNqQkxZTVIzZz09.webp?v=1773719435","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-look-of-architecture-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}