I Love Chicago's Buildings

A Selective Guide to the City

Christian Bjone (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2022
Oro Editions (Verlag)
978-1-954081-69-7 (ISBN)

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The book is not a typical guidebook, nor a generic history tale and not even a disguised autobiography. It is a listing of select pairs of buildings that each articulates a formal and abstract concept that is part of the culture of architecture, spelled with a capital a. The main idea of the book is to hide the bitter pill of academic formal analysis in a dollop of sugary personal anecdotes and humour. Hopefully, this will be creating unexpected juxtapositions that might elicit shock and new perceptions, cancelling the sleepy accepted dogma we all live under. The essays will be paring the famous and the infamous, the profound and the absurd, the beloved and the forgotten, the monstrous and the miniscule.

Christian Bjone is a practicing architect in New York City, educated at the University of Illinois, Chicago and Princeton University. He is the author of four books on art and architectural history, one of which, Art + Architecture: Strategies in Collaboration, has been translated into German.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2022
Zusatzinfo	120 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	San Rafael
Sprache	englisch
Maße	184 x 254 mm
Gewicht	423 g
Themenwelt	Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-954081-69-3 / 1954081693
ISBN-13	978-1-954081-69-7 / 9781954081697
Zustand	Neuware