The Built, the Unbuilt, and the Unbuildable

副标题: In Pursuit of Architectural Meaning

ISBN: 9780262581226

出版社: The MIT Press

出版年: 1993-05-04

页数: 192

定价: USD 20.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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."

Robert Harbison has lectured widely on architecture at the Museum of Modem Art in New York, the University of Toronto, Stanford University, Cornell University, and the Architectural Association, London. His previous books include Eccentric Spaces, Deliberate Regression, and Pharaoh's Dream.