On Architecture (Thinking in Action)

by Fred Rush (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $165.13

  Drawing on examples from architects, such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, and exploring the significance of buildings in relation to film and music and philosophers, such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, this book argues that philosophical reflection on building can tell us something important about the human condition.

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $46.61

  Architecture is a philosophical puzzle. Although we spend most of our time in buildings, we rarely reflect on what they mean or how we experience them. This book argues that this is a consequence of neglecting the role of the body in architecture.