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(More customer reviews)When I was looking for some books to begin to learn about architecture (on a purely amateur level), someone recommended "Experiencing Architecture". I could not be happier with this book. The author consistently uses simple, concrete and engaging examples to illustrate his points. He compares and contrasts; uses buildings, sidewalks, windows, doorways, and steps from all over the world and across the centuries. Given my love of travel and history these references (liberally illustrated throughout the book in black and white photographs and some drawings) brought the book to life and added an additional dimension of enjoyment.
The reviews printed on the back cover say it all-"Lively without ever becoming condescending...learned without ever becoming dull" and "...so lucid and clear that every layman and beginner will be able to understand and to enjoy it". I can't recommend the book enough for anyone that has even the slightest interest in learning about architecture.
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Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architecturalexperimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecture manages to conveythe intellectual excitement of superb design. From teacups, riding boots, golfballs, and underwater sculpture to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feedingpavilion of the Peking Winter Palace, the author ranges over the less-familiarbyways of designing excellence.At one time, writes Rasmussen, "the entire communitytool part in forming the dwellings and implements they used. The individual was infruitful contact with these things; the anonymous houses were built with a naturalfeeling for place, materials and use and the result was a remarkably suitablecomeliness. Today, in our highly civilized society, the houses which ordinary peopleare doomed to live in and gaze upon are on the whole without quality. We cannot,however, go back to the old method of personally supervised handicrafts. We muststrive to advance by arousing interest in and understanding of the work thearchitect does. The basis of competent professionalism is a sympathetic andknowledgeable group of amateurs, of non-professional art lovers."
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