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Mysteries of the MallAnd Other Essays
A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homes. Following How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski casts a seasoned critical eye over the modern scene with Mysteries of the Mall. His subject is nothing less than the broad setting of our metropolitan world. In thirty-five discerning essays, Rybczynski ranges over subjects as varied as shopping malls, Centra…
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How Architecture WorksA Humanist's Toolkit
The prize-winning scholar's "expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide" to the beauty and function of architecture (Booklist, starred review). We spend most of our days and nights in buildings. They are the setting of our everyday lives as well as a public art form. Yet architecture remains a mystery to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, a renowned critic and winner of the Vi…
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The Perfect HouseA Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio
"Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century -- and his influence is still evident in the ample porches, columned porticoes, grand ceilings, and front-door pediments of America tod…
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