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Architecture Matters
Hardback
Main Details
Title |
Architecture Matters
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Aaron Betsky
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:144 | Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 125 |
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Category/Genre | Architecture Architectural structure and design History of architecture |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780500519080
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Classifications | Dewey:720 |
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Audience | Undergraduate | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Imprint |
Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Publication Date |
13 April 2017 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Architecture matters. To our personal and daily lives, to our communities and cities and to our economy and ecology. Former practitioner, critic, curator, museum director and, today, dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Aaron Betsky has been deeply engaged with the world of architecture for almost fifty years. Drawing from his personal and professional experience, he revelas why architecture really does matter to all of us, everywhere, increating better buildings and places.
Author Biography
Aaron Betsky is Dean of the Frank Lloyd School of Architecture, Taliesin West, in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Reviews'A collection of observations about the social and political role that the built environment plays that is as handy, eloquent and appealing to high-minded architects as it is to dilettantes' - Monocle 'Informative and entertaining' - Architects' Journal
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