TERROR AND WONDER by Blair Kamin ( 9780226423111 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

TERROR AND WONDER
ARCHITECTURE IN A TUMULTUOUS AGE

By:

Blair Kamin

Format:

Hardback

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£28.00

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£25.20

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ISBN 10:

0226423115

ISBN 13:

9780226423111

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Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

24 September, 2010

Pages:

320

Description:

Offers a look at the extraordinary ways that architecture mirrors our values - and shapes our everyday lives. This title gathers the best of the author's writings along with reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper.

Synopsis:

For nearly twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and writer of the widely read Cityscapes blog, Kamin treats his subjects not only as works of art but also as symbols of the cultural and political forces that inspire them. "Terror and Wonder" gathers the best of Kamin's writings from the past decade along with new reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper. A prominent cast of players - including Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry, Helmut Jahn, Daniel Libeskind, Barack Obama, Renzo Piano, and Donald Trump - fills the pages of this eye-opening look at the astounding and extraordinary ways that architecture mirrors our values - and shapes our everyday lives.

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83 halftones

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University of Chicago Press

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