The look of architecture / Witold Rybczynski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rybczynski, Witold.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture.

Architectural design.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 130 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : New York Public Library ; [Oxford] ; [New York] : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

A bestselling author offers a highly entertaining and insightful look at the meaning and importance of style to architecture. This is a book brimming with sharp observations as it shows the connection between architecture, interior decoration, and fashion. 10 line illustrations.

Contents:

Dressing up

In and out of fashion

Style.

Notes:

"Each year the New York Public Library and Oxford University Press invite a prominent figure in the arts and letters to give a series of lectures on a topic of his or her choice. The lectures become the basis of a book jointly published by the Library and the Press ..."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-124) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has blue post-it with ms. annotation "for Asher Lev #3 (incomplete ms.)" on cover.

ISBN:

0195134435

0965336034

OCLC:

45284714