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Why architecture matters
- Title
- Why architecture matters / Paul Goldberger.
- Author
- Goldberger, Paul.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | NA2540 .G63 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 273 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to 'come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually' - to teach us how to understand the architecture that surrounds us every day."--
- Series Statement
- Why X matters
- Uniform Title
- Why X matters
- Subjects
- Note
- Purchase supported by the Elise and Wesley Wright, Jr. '51 Marquand Book Fund.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Meaning, culture, and symbol -- Challenge and comfort -- Architecture as object -- Architecture as space -- Architecture and memory -- Buildings and time -- Buildings and the making of place -- Glossary -- A note on bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9780300144307
- 030014430X
- 9780300168174
- 0300168179
- LCCN
- 2009011071
- OCLC
- ocn316233485
- 316233485
- SCSB-14008160
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library