Description
| Product ID: | 9780330535823 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Why We Build |
| Authors: | Author: Rowan Moore |
| Page Count: | 432 |
| Subjects: | Theory of architecture, Theory of architecture |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires: hope, power, money, sex, and the idea of home. <p>Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home.<br><br> In <i>Why We Build</i> Rowan Moore explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation and reveals the paradoxical power of architecture: it looks fixed and solid, but is always changing in response to the lives around it.<br><br> Moving across the globe and through history, through works of folly, beauty, spectacle, and subtlety, Moore gives a provocative and iconoclastic view of what makes architecture, why it matters, and why we find it fascinating. You will never look at a building in the same way again.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-04-25 |