Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities (Architecture Briefs)

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Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities, the recent addition to the Architecture Briefs series, is a handbook on easy methods to write effectively and critically concerning the latest city. The book offers works by one of the best architecture critics of the twentieth century including Ada Louise Huxtable, Lewis Mumford, Herbert Muschamp, Michael Sorkin, Charles Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Jane Jacobs to explains one of the most successful methods with which to approach architectural criticism. Every chapter opens with a reprint of a historically significant essay (and organized by typology such as the skyscraper, the museum, and parks) discussing a specific building or urban project. The creator, Alexandra Lange, then offers a close reading of that essay, in addition to her own analysis through latest examples, to further enlighten the reader about easy methods to write an effective piece of architectural criticism.

This book, in accordance with lessons learned from the creator’s courses at New York University and the School of Visual Arts, could serve as the main text for a course on criticism for undergraduates or architecture and design majors. Architects covered include Marcel Breuer, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Field Operations, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Frederick Law Olmsted, SOM, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

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