| Description |
250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Thinking and Doing -- Necessity and Convention -- Positive and Arbitrary -- Nature and Reason -- Gothic Excursus -- Reason and Grace -- The Rites -- A House for the Soul |
| Summary |
This new edition of On Adam's House in Paradise (first published by the Museum of Modern Art) incorporates all the original illustrations and several new ones, as well as additional text by the author.On Adam's House in Paradise "takes off backward through history hunting for Adam's house, the original image. En route, with wry wit and charm, Rykwert singes every generation of architectural theoreticians back to Vitruvius, but he manages to illuminate their efforts and their immolations |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 225-239 |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Psychological aspects.
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Architecture, Primitive.
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| LC no. |
81008123 |
| ISBN |
026268036X (paperback) |
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