Robert Harbison has acquired a reputation for looking at architecture in a highly original way. The questions he asks are those deliberately suppressed by conventional architectural historians: What draws me to this building? What meaning intended or unintended - does it have? Has that meaning changed through time? To expound his argument, the author chooses examples of buildings "freed from function", the architectural borderland where use and symbolism overlap: gardens - "places of undeclared war between architecture and ...
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Robert Harbison has acquired a reputation for looking at architecture in a highly original way. The questions he asks are those deliberately suppressed by conventional architectural historians: What draws me to this building? What meaning intended or unintended - does it have? Has that meaning changed through time? To expound his argument, the author chooses examples of buildings "freed from function", the architectural borderland where use and symbolism overlap: gardens - "places of undeclared war between architecture and its antitype nature"; monuments "how sure of themselves yet how entirely fictional"; historic fortifications - "prompting armies of tourists to assault them"; and ruins - "architecture existing only in the mind or in the eye of the beholder". Finally he enters the realm of the imagination in chapters on the internal space of paintings and on projects that have seen the light only as architects' dreams. Robert Harbison has lectured on architecture at MOMA, New York, the University of Toronto, Stanford University, Cornell University and the Architectural Association, London.
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Good Condition. Dust jacket is fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. Clean and fresh contents mostly. Overall, a good used copy. Publisher's note: 'Robert Harbison reads architecture as one would read poetry for meaning. Meaning, he finds, resides especially in those works of architecture that are unnecessary, having outlived their physical functions or never having been intended to have any. Gardens, monuments, historic fortifications, and ruins are among the examples he uses to reveal the secret meanings of this architecture "freed from function."' MIT Press. 192 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Architecture; Architecture Philosophy; Symbolism in architecture; Architecture and history; Architectural writing; Architecture Theories of; Architecture; Architecture History; Architecture Composition, proportion, etc; Fantastic architecture; Architecture Composition, proportions, etc; Aesthetics; Monuments; Architectural theory; Aesthetics: architecture; Architecture Design and plan; Architecture Theory and criticism.; ISBN: 0500341168. ISBN/EAN: 9780500341162. Add. Inventory No: 240322NPG004005.
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Book. Octavo, 192 pages. In Good plus condition. Red spine with gilted lettering. Lacking dust jacket. Boards have mild wear on head corners and along spine head and tail. Textblock has mild splitting to gutter from pages 50-78 and 79-115, a bent corner on page 143, mild wear on front pastedown, and mild staining on fore edge. Two pages containing information about author located between rear pastedown and rear end-page. Shelved ND-C. 1379013. FP New Rockville Stock.
