What do we see when we look at a building? Philip M. Isaacson answers this deceptively simple question when he takes us on a personal tour of buildings around the world, from the classical Parthenon in Greece to the simple fisherman's shacks in New England to the post-modernist Pompidou Center in France. Along the way he discusses the many elements that give buildings their flavor and character,, including materials, forms, color, ornamentation placement in the landscape, and the way that light strikes them.
When this book was first published in 1988, critics hailed it as the book to introduce all ages to architecture. Now republished in this handsome hardcover edition, Round Buildings, Square Buildings, & Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish re-invites us to look at buildings as we have never before, and to savor what we see.
Used hardcover. Inside corner of dust jacket cut.