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Architecture of the Absurd: How 'Genius' Disfigured a Practical Art

By: John Silber

Price: $27.50

Publisher: Quantuck Lane Press: November 2007

Seller ID: 247793

ISBN: 1593720270

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Have you ever wondered why the Guggenheim is always covered in scaffolding? Why the random slashes on the exterior of Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum, supposed to represent Berlin locations where pre-war Jews flourished, reappear, for no apparent reason, on his Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto? Or why Frank Gehry's Stata Center, designed for MIT's top-secret Cryptography Unit, has transparent glass walls? Not to mention why, for $442 per square foot, it doesn't keep out the rain? You're not alone. In "Architecture of the Absurd," John Silber dares to peek behind the curtain of "genius" arc...
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