Why We Build by Rowan Moore

Why We Build

Rowan Moore

416 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction design challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions-such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of home-are the most powerful force behind architecture, yesterday and (especiall...

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