Why architecture matters / Paul Goldberger.

Main entry:

Goldberger, Paul.

Title & Author:

Why architecture matters / Paul Goldberger.

Publication:

Description:

xvii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Series:

Why X matters

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Ch. 1. Meaning, culture, and symbol -- Ch. 2. Challenge and comfort -- Ch. 3. Architecture as object -- Ch. 4. Architecture as space -- Ch. 5. Architecture and memory -- Ch. 6. Buildings and time -- Ch. 7. Buildings and the making of place -- Glossary -- A note on bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Index.

Summary:

"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' - to teach us how to understand the architecture that surrounds us every day."-- inside jacket.

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ISBN:

9780300144307 (cloth ; alk. paper)
030014430X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300168174 (pbk.)
0300168179 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Psychological aspects.
Architecture and society.
Architecture Aspect psychologique.
Architecture et société.
Architektur
Rezeptionsästhetik
Wahrnehmungspsychologie
Architekturtheorie
Arkitektur psykologiska aspekter.
Arkitektur och samhälle.

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Why X matters.

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Location: Library main 263941
Call No.: BIB 195250
Status: Available

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