Research Catalog

Title

What is architecture? : an essay on landscapes, buildings, and machines / Paul Shepheard.

Author

Shepheard, Paul.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994.

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Details

Description

viii, 131 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Discusses the meaning of architecture, describing its place in history, art and technology. Rather than saying that architecture is everything, the author sets limits to the subject. The text is a series of fables which meditate on the options, hopes and failures of shelter in society.

Subject

• Architecture
• Architecture > Philosophy
• architecture (discipline)
• architectural theory
• Architecture
• Architektur
• Architekturtheorie
• Bouwkunst
• Filosofische aspecten
• Arquitetura

Contents

Preface -- 1. The Facts of Life -- Two Architects -- The Furor -- Three Expeditions in Search of Architecture -- Five More Architects -- 2. Architecture Is Not Everything -- Terry -- The Opera House -- Know What Your Business Is -- The First Book -- The Human Condition -- Nature -- Other People -- Yourself -- Anna -- Meaning -- Landscapes, Buildings, Machines -- 3. Debut De Siecle -- Sally -- A Short History of Modern Life -- Conrad -- There Was a Time When Everything Looked like Buildings -- The Escape of the Machines -- A Short Flight over Public Space -- A Machine for Living In -- 4. The Art of the Land -- The Flamenco Magician -- Architecture and Literature -- Kitty Hawk -- St. Paul's Cathedral -- The White Horse and the Moon -- Interlude -- 5. What Is Next? -- The Kilt -- Machines -- Camouflage -- The Second Echelon -- Nap of the Earth -- Aegis -- Zeppelin Tech -- Landscapes -- Strategy -- Time -- Demolition -- Buildings -- Shed-off-the-Peg -- Adrian's Shrine -- The Soanes' Family Vault -- Joseph's Tondo.

ISBN

• 0262193418
• 9780262193412
• 0262691663
• 9780262691666

LCCN

93030168

OCLC

• ocm28676579
• 28676579
• SCSB-2012884

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library