Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home.
In Why We Build Rowan Moore explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation and reveals the paradoxical power of architecture: it looks fixed and solid, but is always changing in response to the lives around it.
Moving across the globe and through history, through works of folly, beauty, spectacle, and subtlety, Moore gives a provocative and iconoclastic view of what makes architecture, why it matters, and why we find it fascinating. You will never look at a building in the same way again.
- ISBN10 0062277596
- ISBN13 9780062277596
- Publish Date 20 August 2013 (first published 30 August 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Harper Design
- Format eBook
- Pages 400
- Language English