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Title: Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture by Witold Rybczynski ISBN: 0-14-016889-3 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This is an incredible book
Comment: This is an incredible book and I recommend it to anyone, whatever field you are in, you live in this world and may as well enjoy it.
Rating: 4
Summary: A guided tour with a view
Comment: Here is an unusual book: Witold Rybczynski takes us wandering through the professional byways of a subject usually reserved for a more intellectual readership, if such a thing exists. Why architecture is important and what makes it so is the subject matter here, brought to us by a very competent writer. Delightfully so, in fact, as Rybczynski has the storyteller's ability to weft and weave.
The stories he has chosen here are a mixed bunch and we are asked to think about such diverse constructions as the American bungalow, the Grow Home and public buildings like the Canadian Centre for Architecture. He has stories to tell about all of them, the people who live in or use them and the odd trends which are sometimes responsible for a particular design. As he points out, although we use architecture every day of our lives and are clearly affected by it (whether we know it or not), we are more than prone to take it for granted. Should we not be more aware of what's around us, in general? This book offers up some thoughtful ideas on the subject.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good reading
Comment: This is an easy reader.
I bought this book a long time ago, but never had the time to open it, then one day I was looking for a magazine to read in, you know, those intimate moments, and in the rush I grabed 'looking around'.
Fact is: I couldn't stop reading it. Even tough I am not what you'd call a lay-man on architectural issues, Witold's book really made me see that's possible to write about architecture without being too academic or technical. I can say that I've learned a great deal, not only about architecture, but about life.
my advice? buy it now!
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Title: The Look of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski ISBN: 0195156331 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski ISBN: 0140102310 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski ISBN: 0140105662 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw by Witold Rybczynski ISBN: 0684867303 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Perfect House : A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio by Witold Rybczynski ISBN: 0743205863 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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