Why Architecture Matters (Paperback)Paul Goldberger (OUT OF PRINT NEW)

Why Architecture Matters (Paperback)Paul Goldberger(OUT OF PRINT NEW)

Now in paperback after five printings, a remarkablejourney through the built world from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorkercritic and "America's foremost interpreter of public architecture"(Tracy Kidder) Why Architecture Matters is not a work of architectural historyor a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it containselements of all three. The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to "cometo grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with howarchitecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually"-with itsimpact on our lives. "Architecture begins to matter," writes PaulGoldberger, "when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awealong with a roof over our heads." He shows us how that works in examplesranging from a small Cape Cod cottage to the "vast, flowing" Prairiehouses of Frank Lloyd Wright, from the Lincoln Memorial to the highlysculptural Guggenheim Bilbao and the Church of Sant'Ivo in Rome, where"simple geometries . . . create a work of architecture that embraces thedeepest complexities of human imagination." Based on decades of looking atbuildings and thinking about how we experience them, the distinguished criticraises our awareness of fundamental things like proportion, scale, space,texture, materials, shapes, light, and memory. Upon completing this remarkablearchitectural journey, readers will enjoy a wonderfully rewarding new way ofseeing and experiencing every aspect of the built world.