Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture - Hardcover

Rybczynski, Witold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670844217 ISBN 13: 9780670844210

Publisher: Viking, 1992

Synopsis

Using examples from the giants in architecture, a history of the art demonstrates how architecture actually works in corporate headquarters, private homes, and special buildings to represent our civilization. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo.

About this title

Review:

"Informative and provocative, an excellent companion in plance, train, living room, kitchen, or porch"
--The Washington Post

"You only have to look around to see how thought-provoking these essays are."
--The New York Times

"His best work to date."
—The Boston Sunday Globe

About the Author:

Witold Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh, raised in Surrey and attended Jesuit schools in England and Canada. He is now an architect and Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books and his exploration of domestic comfort, HOME, has been translated into eight languages. Rybczynski lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0670844217
• ISBN 13: 9780670844210
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256