Screen LibraryHow architecture tells : 9 realities that will change the way you see /
The general reading public is likely to think of architecture as buildings. But, with this book, Robert Steinberg would like to help readers understand that architecture shapes lives. Architecture can help communities integrate and thrive. Architecture can touch us, influencing how we feel, and how...
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| Publisher Address: | Novato, California : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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The general reading public is likely to think of architecture as buildings. But, with this book, Robert Steinberg would like to help readers understand that architecture shapes lives. Architecture can help communities integrate and thrive. Architecture can touch us, influencing how we feel, and how we interact with others. In short, architecture can fundamentally improve our quality of life. As a young graduate architect fresh from Berkeley, Steinberg began to discover the potential of architecture to shape communities. Working with his father, an architect who had studied with Mies van der Roe (and whose father was also an architect), one of Steinberg's first projects was to draft and redraft a parking garage in downtown Silicon Valley, CA. As he mediated between the two architects in charge of the project - his father and the city architect - he noticed that with each evolution, the garage became more beautiful and refined. And with each improvement, this garage became more able to succeed in the goal of reviving the dying downtown core of Silicon Valley. 0The garage was a huge success, and Steinberg began to codify what he had learned. Thanks to the garage, he wrote the first of what would become the 9 Realities of Architecture: Architecture is the Pursuit of Perfection - a magnificent take-away from a humble parking garage project. As Steinberg eventually rose to become CEO of his firm and grew it into a global practice with six regional offices including Austin and New York, and a major office in Shanghai, he used his drive for creating thriving communities to eventually touch the lives of countless people around the world. |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 295 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 27 cm + 1 folded poster (20 x 20 cm) |
| ISBN: |
9781954081314 1954081316 |
| Index Number: | NA2543 |
| CLC: | TU-05 |
| Call Number: | TU-05/S819 |
| Contents: | Foreward / The Honorable Penny Pritzker -- Introduction: the sublime hazing -- 9 Realities : 1. Architecture is the pusuit of perfection Market Street parking garage ; 2. Architecture is inherently disruptive Cal Poly faculty office building Avalon at Cahill ; 3. Architecture builds community Jobs Corps Center ; 4. Architecture exists in tension with nature Davis High School Library complex ; 5. Architecture is storytelling Markethouse Lofts ; 6. Architecture tells us how to use it Fullerton Freshman campus ; 7. Architecture is art private residence ; 8. Architecture requires leadership CRBH-The VI ; 9. Architecture is innovation Campus for Jewish Life -- On the road: the China test -- Lagniappe. |