About Architecture An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings

About Architecture An Essential Guide in 55 BuildingsAbout Architecture is an engaging introduction to architecture, exploring the ways in which we construct our built environment, and why. Hugh Pearman guides us through the architecture that shapes our livesfrom how our towns and cities are organized, to where we live, learn and work, and how we get around, interact with others, and relax. Organized by typefrom civic spaces, to homes, offices, and museumsthe clear and straightforward structure

By turns funny and sobering

the Republic still holds up a mirror to us

But in the end

brings together the best of Norman Mailer’s classic commentary The Fight with color and black-and-white photographs from the two men who captured Ali like no one else: Neil Leifer and Howard L

and Heaven’s Gate

“Everything about me is in my films

with notes on country of origin and era of invention

Gibney's book explores major themes such as Ireland’s often contentious relationship with Britain

from the goddess mythologies of ancient cultures to the contemporary embrace of the craft by modern artists and activists

it is a violent and outrageous black comedy about the darkest side of human nature

an evocative journey into the maze of memory

and excerpts from Melville on Melville