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* Just the essential information for readers on the go who want to understand architecture.
* Covers the highlights of architectural history, from the Great Pyramids to Frank Gehrys Guggenheim museum in Bilbao.
* Explains how to look at a building and appreciate it. Explains when a buildings a building and when its art.
* Part of Tens includes: Ten Great Architectural Masterpieces, Ten Biggest Architectural and Engineering Failures, Ten of the Most Interesting Architects Working Today-and more.

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Architecture For Dummies by Deborah K Dietsch Foreword by Robert A M Stern - photo 1
Architecture For Dummies

by Deborah K. Dietsch

Foreword by Robert A. M. Stern, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture

Architecture For Dummies Published by Wiley Publishing Inc 111 River St - photo 2

Architecture For Dummies

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Library of Congress Control No.: 2002103281

ISBN: 978-0-7645-5396-7

Printed in the United States of America

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About the Author

Deborah K. Dietsch is a Washington, D.C.-based writer who specializes in architecture and design. She is the author of Classic Modern: Midcentury Modern at Home and Dream Pools. Additionally, she frequently writes for The Washington Post and various magazines.

Dietsch received a Master of Architecture degree and a Master of Science in Historic Preservation degree from Columbia University. After working for several New York architecture firms, she began a career in journalism.

From 1989 to 1997, Dietsch was the editor-in-chief of Architecture magazine. Under her tenure, the magazine received dozens of editorial and design awards and critical praise from the profession. She subsequently joined the South Florida Sun-Sentinel as the newspapers art and architecture critic.

Over the past decade, Dietsch has helped judge many design competitions for civic, academic, and commercial buildings. She has served as an advisor to the U.S. General Services Administration in selecting architects for a new federal courthouse in Orlando, Florida, and research laboratories at the National Institutes of Health. The American Institute of Architects awarded her an honorary membership in recognition of her contributions to the architecture field.

Dedication

To all my architect friends who keep me enthused about the art and craft of building.

Authors Acknowledgments

Many thanks to all the smarties who helped make this Dummies book possible. Im grateful to Bob Stern, whose thoughtful Foreword adds a grace note to the book. His teaching, writing, and passion for architecture continue to inspire me. A huge thanks to Barry Bergdoll of the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia University, whose wise comments improved my text. Architects Charles Brickbauer and Andrea Leers deserve credit for taking their red pens to several chapters. I am also indebted to my agent Diane Maddex of Archetype Press, who urged me to undertake this project, and to editor Sherri Fugit for her dedication and support.

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Foreword

Architecture is an artistic and practical expression of the real world it is the art of building in the service of individuals and institutions. It is the art of construction, not deconstruction; of representation, not communication; it is the solidity of the here-and-now. Architecture is important. It is the setting for life. Despite the reality of architecture, or perhaps because of it, architecture is a field whose very nature is endlessly questioned by its own practitioners and appointed experts theorists and critics, who, to avoid confronting the simple but profound circumstances of architecture, try to judge it by criteria outside itself, whether from literature or science or the social sciences, or whatever. Its a process of avoidance that reminds me of the Paul Simon song,

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