Writing about architecture : Mastering the language of buildings and cities /
Dominar el lenguaje de los edificios y las ciudades. Mastering the language of buildings and cities.
Alexandra Lange ; with photographs by Jeremy M. Lange.
- Primera edición.
- 192 páginas : ilustraciones ; 22 centímetros.
- Architecture briefs. .
Introduction : How to be an architecture critic -- Skyscrapers : House of glass / Lewis Mumford ; Skyscrapers as superlatives -- Museums : The miracle in Balbao / Herbert Muschamp ; What should a museum be? -- Landmarks : Save the Whitney / Michael Sorkin ; What's worth preserving? -- Monuments : You have to pay for the public life (excerpt) / Charles W. Moore ; Searching for a center -- Parks : Public parks and the enlargement of towns (excerpt) / Frederick Law Olmsted ; Landscape is more than a lawn -- Cities : The death and life of great American cities (excerpt) / Jane Jacobs ; Criticism from the ground up -- Conclusion : More than one way to skin a building.