Architecture Matters

Hardback

Main Details

Title Architecture Matters
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Aaron Betsky
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 125
Category/GenreArchitecture
Architectural structure and design
History of architecture
ISBN/Barcode 9780500519080
ClassificationsDewey:720
Audience
Undergraduate
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 13 April 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

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