Building up and tearing down

reflections on the age of architecture

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Building up and tearing down

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Monacelli Press
Language
English
Pages
319

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Building up and tearing down: reflections on the age of architecture
2009, Monacelli Press
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Cover of: Building up and tearing down
Building up and tearing down: reflections on the age of architecture
2009, Monacelli Press
in English - 1st ed.
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Building up and tearing down: reflections on the age of architecture
2009, Monacelli Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Buildings that matter : Good vibrations ; High-tech bibliophilia ; Unconventional ; Seductive skins ; Spiraling upward ; Situation terminal ; Out of the blocks
Places and people : Bringing back Havana ; Casino royale ; Forbidden cities ; Many mansions ; The Eames team ; House proud ; Eminent domain ; Toddlin' town
New York : A helluva town ; Dior's new house ; Busy buildings ; High-tech emporiums ; Miami vice ; West Side fixer-upper ; Center stage ; The incredible hulk ; Triangulation ; Home ; Towers of Babble ; Gehry-rigged ; New York becomes like America ; A new beginning
Present and past : Shanghai surprise ; Why Washington slept here ; Athens on the interstate ; A royal defeat ; Down at the mall ; Requiem
Museums : The politics of building ; The people's Getty ; When in Rome ; Beaubourg grows up ; The supreme court ; Art houses ; A delicate balance ; Artistic license ; Outside the box ; Molto Piano ; Mile high ; Lenses on the lawn ; Bowery dreams ; Hello Columbus
Ways of living : A touch of crass ; Part perfect ; Glass is the new white rock ; Some assembly required ; Homes of the stars ; Green monster ; Disconnected urbanism ; The sameness of things.

Edition Notes

Articles originally published 1997-2009 in the New Yorker, the New York Times and Metropolis magazine.

Includes index.

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New York
Other Titles
New Yorker., New York times., Metropolis.

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Dewey Decimal Class
720
Library of Congress
NA27 .G58 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
319 p. :
Number of pages
319

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24116115M
ISBN 10
1580932649
ISBN 13
9781580932646
LCCN
2009028451

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