this is the first list in like forever that i've been really into
I just read de botton's architecture and happiness and i kind of really liked it but I thought it might have only be because I know nothing about architecture and it was a nice intro. Regardless, lately I have been really into John Hejduk catalogues/books/poetry &c. to fulfill my architecture needs. sooooo
top five books about/relating to/tangential to architecture. also please explain the lack of any nouveau roman on the list.
Christ almighty, I'm a design historian thrown into a fit of vacillation. I will have to go to the gilded vestigial chambers of Frank Gehry for penance after eschewing so many equally deserving theorists. PS. FG is NOT invited to the party.
Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form - Venturi* The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses - James Ackerman Rome, profile of a city, 312-1308 - Richard Krautheimer History of Interior Design - John Pile The Program at St-Denis - Abbott Suger (translated by Panofsky)
No Le Corbusier. No FLW. - do they really need another accolade?
*I use Rob's name for tracking purpose but most of the theoretical heavy lifting was carried out by his wife, Denise. Not to mention the impetus. Trust.
As with everything I've thumbed through by Lutz, I've always felt as if I was at the receiving side of a confessional. It's much more intimate than a diary although his immaculate grammar and devastating extended metaphors could have any skimmer fooled. Partial list of people to bleach had it's gristly gems
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I hauled this sonofabitch back and forth with me on the subway every goddamn day for 3 weeks; it took me 200 pages to realize there was never going to be a plot. Once I learned Euler square configuration with all of its constrained intricacies I learned to love it for what it is not what I had come to expect from a short-story collection; Perec is surely rolling after I've given his work such an inappropriate appellation. To answer the question, I could choose 'staying hitched' and 'bearing the unbearable' but without unlimited access to the other windows the structure of the work would collapse, the attic spilling into the gutters.
your answer is a little vague, but the answers to your other challenges have been good, so i'll give it a yes.
when i read it, i came to the dawning realization that all the pages (and pages) dealing with errata were meant for the reader to realize all the minutiae of daily life were every bit as real and present as the fantastic experiences that shape our individual narratives. and so i made myself carefully consider the painting-within-paintings stuck in the cellar, and the periodicals left in doctor's offices, etc.
if i had read this book when i had applied to BYC, it would have easily made my top 20 as well.
i'm looking forward to poring through some of your recs.
Which century? Please don't say any - I might, no I will, have an embolism mid-post. I'm still having agita from the architectural question. Jeez Louise!
Regretfully, I'm a little flummoxed by the question. Novelists, essayists, poets, historians - are they all included in the fold? If so, it's a broad and brilliant spectrum and I want to make sure I'm diving into the correct pool. Redundancies! Apologies!
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I just read de botton's architecture and happiness and i kind of really liked it but I thought it might have only be because I know nothing about architecture and it was a nice intro. Regardless, lately I have been really into John Hejduk catalogues/books/poetry &c. to fulfill my architecture needs. sooooo
top five books about/relating to/tangential to architecture. also please explain the lack of any nouveau roman on the list.
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PS. FG is NOT invited to the party.
Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form - Venturi*
The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses - James Ackerman
Rome, profile of a city, 312-1308 - Richard Krautheimer
History of Interior Design - John Pile
The Program at St-Denis - Abbott Suger (translated by Panofsky)
No Le Corbusier. No FLW. - do they really need another accolade?
*I use Rob's name for tracking purpose but most of the theoretical heavy lifting was carried out by his wife, Denise. Not to mention the impetus. Trust.
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when i read it, i came to the dawning realization that all the pages (and pages) dealing with errata were meant for the reader to realize all the minutiae of daily life were every bit as real and present as the fantastic experiences that shape our individual narratives. and so i made myself carefully consider the painting-within-paintings stuck in the cellar, and the periodicals left in doctor's offices, etc.
if i had read this book when i had applied to BYC, it would have easily made my top 20 as well.
i'm looking forward to poring through some of your recs.
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