#books #architecture | Terror and wonder : architecture in a tumultuous age

Terror and wonder : architecture in a tumultuous age / Blair Kamin
University of Chicago Press, Chicago [etc.] : 2010
xxiv, 291 p. : il. ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9780226423111
Materias:
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Estados Unidos.
Urbanismo -- Estados Unidos.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Historia.
Biblioteca Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.038(73) TER
OPAC Millennium

For nearly twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and writer of the widely read Cityscapes blog, Kamin treats his subjects not only as works of art but also as symbols of the cultural and political forces that inspire them. Terror and Wonder gathers the best of Kamin's writings from the past decade along with new reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper. A prominent cast of players - including Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry, Helmut Jahn, Daniel Libeskind, Barack Obama, Renzo Piano, and Donald Trump - fills the pages of this eye-opening look at the astounding and extraordinary ways that architecture mirrors our values - and shapes our everyday lives.

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