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Sto caricando le informazioni... The language of houses : how buildings speak to us (edizione 2014)di Alison Lurie (Autore), Karen Sung (Illustrator.), Joe Olsham (A cura di), Tom Pitoniak (A cura di), Greg Mortimer (Designer)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This book by Alison Lurie has been unfairly downgraded so far. I found that this book is a fairly well organized tour about architecture and the various types building that can be described. I am recommending it my sister and her husband to read. Quite a long time ago she wrote "The Language of Clothes" which was very well received. There are regional styles of building and these are well noted. How to do school architecture has been fraught in the 20 the century with bad experiments. And so Houses of Confinement (prisons, hospitals, asylums and nursing homes). Houses communicate with us in various ways, sometimes depending with our circumstances, age and wealth, for instance. ( ) When Alain de Botton goes off on a riff about how and why architecture can make us happy, we might roll our eyes a bit, but we understand that Botton's work in this world is as a social commentator. When Allison Lurie tries to do the same thing, it is a bit different. Of course, anyone may write about anything, but whereas Botton is first and foremost a social critic, Ms Lurie is a prize winning novelist and a university professor. I, for one, expect a little scholarship and a bit of interesting writing. The notion that an editor could let "The Language of Houses" get out the door with that title without containing a single reference to Christopher Alexander "A Pattern Language" is astonishing. There are few scholarly references of any sort in this book and the whole has no more weight than the doodling of someone on a long summer break. I received a review copy of "The Language of Houses" by Allison Lurie (Delphinium Books) through NetGalley.com. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
How do the spaces we inhabit affect us--and reflect us? A Pulitzer Prize-winning author explores architecture, in this insightful, "breezy" read (The Washington Post). In 1981, Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized. Now Lurie has returned with a companion book, The Language of Houses, a lucid, provocative and entertaining look at how the architecture of buildings and the spaces within them both reflect and affect the people who inhabit them. Schools, churches, government buildings, museums, prisons, hospitals, restaurants, and of course, houses and apartments--all of them speak to human experience in vital and varied ways. The Language of Houses discusses historical and regional styles and the use of materials such as stone and wood and concrete, as well as contemplating the roles of stairs and mirrors, windows and doors, tiny rooms and cathedral-like expanses, illustrating its conclusions with illuminating literary references and the comments of experts in the field. Accompanied by lighthearted original drawings, The Language of Houses is an essential and highly entertaining new contribution to the literature of modern architecture. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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