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Zusatztext 'Dazzling . . . there's plenty to discover.' Sunday Times Informationen zum Autor Rowan Moore is the architecture critic for the Observer and previously for the Evening Standard . He is also a trained architect, and between 2002 and 2008 was the Director of the Architecture Foundation. Rowan Moore is the architecture critic for the Observer and previously for the Evening Standard . He is also a trained architect, and between 2002 and 2008 was the Director of the Architecture Foundation. Klappentext Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home. In Why We Build Rowan Moore explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation and reveals the paradoxical power of architecture: it looks fixed and solid, but is always changing in response to the lives around it. Moving across the globe and through history, through works of folly, beauty, spectacle, and subtlety, Moore gives a provocative and iconoclastic view of what makes architecture, why it matters, and why we find it fascinating. You will never look at a building in the same way again. Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires: hope, power, money, sex, and the idea of home. Zusammenfassung Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires: hope, power, money, sex, and the idea of home. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter - 1: Desire shapes space, and space shapes desire Chapter - 2: The fixed and the wandering home Chapter - 3: The true fake Chapter - 4: The inconsistent horizon, or notes on the erotic in architecture Chapter - 5: Power and freedom Chapter - 6: Form follows finance Chapter - 7: The rapacity of 'hope' Chapter - 8: Eternity of overrated Chapter - 9: Life, and the look of life Chapter - 10: Indespensible as bread Section - 11: List of illustrations Section - 12: Selected bibliography Section - 13: Acknowledgements Section - 14: Index...
