Architecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form that shapes the world as it pleases. Four Walls and a Roof turns this fiction on its head, offering a candid account of what it’s really like to work as an architect. Drawing on his own tragicomic experiences in the field, Reinier de Graaf reveals the world of contemporary architecture in vivid snapshots: from the corridors of wealth in London, Moscow, and Dubai to the demolished hopes of postwar social housing in New York and St. Louis. We meet ambitious oligarchs, developers for whom architecture is nothing more than an investment, an Four Walls and a Roof - Reinier de Graaf od authora Reinier de Graaf a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Reinier de Graaf |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
528 |
Rok vydání |
2019 |
Nakladatelství |
Harvard University Press |