On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

Huxtable, Ada Louise

ISBN 10: 0802717071 / ISBN 13: 9780802717078

Editore: Walker Books, New York., 2008

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Hardcover 2008,1st edition. Dust jacket and boards in fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. (478 pages).

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• Titolo: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
• Editore: Walker Books, New York.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0802717071
• ISBN 13: 9780802717078
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Fine
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Architecture

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Riassunto

A forefront and passionate critic evaluates architecture as a pivotal and controversial component of twentieth-century culture, in a collection of articles that covers such topics as Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center at Harvard, the mid-century shifts in style, and her selections for best and worst architectural examples. 25,000 first printing.

Informazioni sull?autore

Ada Louise Huxtable, former New York Times critic, winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, and MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, is currently the architecture critic for the Wall Street Journal. She is recognized as the founder of contemporary architectural journalism. Her books include The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion, Kicked a Building Lately? and, most recently, a short biography of Frank Lloyd Wright for the Penguin Lives series. She served for many years on the juries of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the American Committee of the Japanese Praemium Imperiale. She lives in New York City and Marblehead, Mass.