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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.

Why We Build

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Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home. In Why We Build... Read more

    Publisher: Pan Macmillan
    Publication Date: 25/04/2013
    ISBN13: 9780330535823, 978-0330535823
    ISBN10: 033053582X

    Number of Pages: 432

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

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    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.

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