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We are living in one of the most dramatic periods in modern architectural history: a time when cityscapes are being redrawn on a yearly basis, architects are testing the very idea of what a building is, and whole cities are invented overnight. In this bold and wide- ranging new work, Rowan Moore&;former director of the Architecture Foundation, now a leading architecture critic&;explores the reasons behind these changes in our built environment, and how they change the way we live in the world.
Provocative and personal, iconoclastic and transforming, Why We Build is that rarest of things: a book about architecture that is also, on every page, a book about people&;those chosen few who design buildings, and the rest of us, who use them every day.
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We are living in one of the most dramatic periods in modern architectural history: a time when cityscapes are being redrawn annually, architects are testing the very idea of what a building is, and whole cities are being invented overnight. In this bold and wideranging work, Rowan Moore-former director of the Architecture Foundation and now a leading architecture critic-explores the reasons behind these changes, and how they in turn are changing the way we live, demonstrated through a series of dramatic examples. Moore explores the High Line in New York City; the outrageous island experiment of Dubai; the Covent Garden brothels of eighteenthcentury London; the fetishistic minimalism of Adolf Loos; a software magnate's grandiose mansion in Atlanta; Daniel Libeskind's failed design for the World Trade Center site; and the deeply naturalistic work of Lina Bo Bardi, whom he celebrates as the most underrated architect of the modern era.
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