On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

Huxtable, Ada Louise

ISBN 10: 0802717071 / ISBN 13: 9780802717078

Editore: Walker Books, 2008

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Known for her well-reasoned and passionately held beliefs about architecture, Ada Louise Huxtable has captivated readers across the country for decades, in the process becoming one of the best-known critics in the world. Her keen eye and vivid writing have reinforced to readers how important architecture is and why it continues to be both controversial and fascinating. In her new book?which gathers together the best of her writing, from one of her first pieces in the New York Times in 1962 on le Corbusier's Carpenter Center at Harvard, to essays in the New York Review of Books, to more recent writing in the Wall Street Journal?Huxtable bears witness to some of the twentieth century's best?and worst?architectural masters and projects.

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• Titolo: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
• Editore: Walker Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0802717071
• ISBN 13: 9780802717078
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: As New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good
• Peso: 27 once
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Architecture

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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.