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The Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty-first Century and Beyond

The Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty-first Century and Beyond

by JosephRykwert (Author)

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Synopsis

Eminent architectural historian, Jospeh Rykwert looks at the complex story of the city since the industrial revolution. He draws on sociology, social, economic and political history and their complex interactions with the history of architecture. Rykwert's knowledge of world cities is remarkable, and the book will draw on Shanghai as much as Los Angeles, Rio as well as London, Melbourne as well as Paris, both in looking at past developments and for models for the future. His book is also a timely celebration of metropolitan values that have recently been denigrated: tolerance, liberalism, cultural vitality, pluralism. It is an important book that no-one with an interest in urban living can ignore.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 252
 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 09 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 0297819992
ISBN 13: 9780297819998
Book Overview: * Joseph Rykwert is one of the major architectural historians of this century, formerly at Cambridge and currently Professor at Pennsylvania * the richness of the author's knowledge of cities themselves and of a wide range of writings, from the theoretical to the practical will make this a remarkable book, and one that few others could aim to write

Author Bio
Joseph Rykwert is Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture and Professor of Art History, Emeritus M.A., Cantab; Dr., Royal College of Art; Hon. Dsc., Edinburgh. Was Slade Professor of Fine Arts, Cambridge University; The Andrew Mellon Visiting Professor, Cooper Union; Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington; George Lurcy Professor, Columbia; Senior Scholar, Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica; awarded Chevalier dans l'ordres des Arts et des Lettres, France. Member Accademia di San Luca. Books include: The Necessity of Artifice, The Idea of a Town, The First Moderns, On Adam's House in Paradise, a new translation of L.B.Alberti's On the Art of Building in Ten Books, The Dancing Column, and On the Orders of Architecture. and is widely recognised as one of the leading architectural historians of the twentieth century.