Joseph Rykwert

Remembering Places: A Memoir (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Born in Warsaw in 1926, Joseph Rykwert is one of the best-known critics and historians of architecture. In this autobiography he tells for the first time of how his life's experiences shaped his working life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315278278
• Artikelnr.: 48837067

Autorenporträt

Joseph Rykwert CBE (born 1926) is Paul Philippe Cret Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and one of the foremost architectural historians and critics of his generation. He has spent most of his working life in the UK and US. Rykwert is the author of many influential works on architecture, including The Idea of a Town (1963), On Adam's House in Paradise (1972), The Dancing Column (1996) and The Seduction of Place (2000). All his books have been translated into several languages.

Inhaltsangabe

First Ruin. Grandpapa. Poles and Jews. Warsaw. Goody-goody. Mesalliance.
Grandmother. More contradictions. A change of circumstance. Politics.
Anatol. The new home. A rift. A profession. Politics in pre-war Poland.
Menace. School. Mornings. Lessons out-of-school. The Chrysalis. A Change of
direction. Abbazia. Mortality. War. Kaunas. Saltsjøbaden, Amsterdam,
Brighton. A very different school. My father's decline and death.
Architecture. Cambridge. London - the Architectural Association. Student
Movement House. Girls. Architecture Again. In the world. Arup. On my own.
Friends. The Warburg Institute. Italy. Paris. CIAM. Milan. Going South.
Paris again - architects and artists. Ideas. Peace. Soho. The Idea of a
Town. Borshch. Anatole. Hampstead. The Idea of a Town - again. Notes.