Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In this ambitious exploration, an eminent thinker examines what, exactly, the building blocks of architecture have meant over the centuries and how technology may—or may not—be changing how we think about the...(展开全部)

"Warmly recommended. It is that rare achievement, a lively book which at the same time takes the fullest possible advantage of scholarly knowledge."--Charles C. Gillespie, "New York Times Book Review"

From Publishers Weekly With this entertaining and stimulating book, de Botton (How Proust Can Change Your Life) examines the ways architecture speaks to us, evoking associations that, if we are alive to them, can put us in touch with our true selves and influence how we conduct our lives. Because of this, he contends, it's the architect's task to design buildings that contribut...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly With this entertaining and stimulating book, de Botton (How Proust Can Change Your Life) examines the ways architecture speaks to us, evoking associations that, if we are alive to them, can put us in touch with our true selves and influence how we conduct our lives. Because of this, he contends, it's the architect's task to design buildings that contribut...(展开全部)

Bestselling author, Alain de Botton has written about love, travel, status and how philosophy can console us. Now, he turns his attention to one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their furnishings. He asks: What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can diff...(展开全部)

Aldo Rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza, is also one of the most influential theorists writing today. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as ...(展开全部)

Aldo Rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza, is also one of the most influential theorists writing today. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as ...(展开全部)

In the films of Alfred Hitchcock, architecture plays an important role. Having worked as a set designer in the early 1920s, Hitchcock remained intensely concerned with the art direction of his films. In addition, the ’master of suspense’ made some remarkable single-set films, such as Rope and Rear Window, that explicitly deal with the way the confines of the set relate to those...(展开全部)

彼得•默里， 伦敦大学艺术史荣誉教授， 毕业于考陶德艺术学院［the Courtauld Institute of Art］，并在那里从事教学。1967年，他接替尼古拉斯•佩夫斯纳［Nikolans Pevsner］来到伦敦大学伯贝克学院[Birbeck College, University of London］。他撰写了许多建筑史著作， 包括《文艺复兴建筑》 ［Renaissance Architecture] ( 1972 ) ; 《英国建筑史》［A History of English Architecture] ( 1962, 1965）的一部分；以及与妻子琳达•默里［Linda Murray］共同撰写的《文艺复兴艺术》 ［The Art of the Renaissance] ( 1963）， 该书也被艺术世界丛书收录。

A handsome reissue of a classic guide to the architecture of Renaissance Italy indispensable to travelers, students, and architecture buffs alike and still the most comprehensive and accessible overview available. Photos and drawings throughout.