How Architecture Speaks and Fashions Our Lives
Description
190 pages
Contains Photos, Illustrations
$16.99
ISBN 1-895854-55-5
DDC 720'.1'9
Contains Photos, Illustrations
$16.99
ISBN 1-895854-55-5
DDC 720'.1'9
Author
Publisher
Year
1996
Contributor
Reviewed by James A. Love
James A. Love is an associate professor of environmental design at the
University of
Calgary.
Review
Although billed as a primer, this book assumes on the part of the
layperson an unrealistically high level of architectural knowledge. It
also gives undue emphasis to the author’s cartoons while relegating
some very useful photographic comparisons to an appendix. The
relationship between text and graphical material is not always clear,
and the book is further marred by typographical errors and a reversal in
the appendix’s comparison of facade features. (The latter mistake will
result in confusion for laypersons.) Mayerovitch’s tendency to put
architects on a pedestal is another unfortunate feature of this poorly
executed primer.
Citation
Mayerovitch, Harry., “How Architecture Speaks and Fashions Our Lives,” Canadian Book Review Annual Online, accessed November 13, 2024, https://cbra.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/5014.