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How to Enjoy Architecture: A Guide for Everyone (Hardback)
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How to Enjoy Architecture: A Guide for Everyone (Hardback)

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Hardback 192 Pages
Published: 23/04/2024
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Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architecture
 
Architecture is bound up with our daily lives but, for most of us, it is experienced as a blur of habit. Our reactions towards the buildings that surround us are often culturally generated, and we experience them in ways that are immediate but often mundane. How to Enjoy Architecture: A Guide for Everyone encourages us to move beyond this and, instead, really look at buildings.
 
Renowned architect Charles Holland talks about the buildings and architects that excite and inspire him, and the ideas and principles through which we can engage with architecture. By breaking buildings down into categories such as materials, structure, space, and use, Holland guides us through drastically different styles and building types—from the satisfying symmetry of a Queen Anne house to the thrill of a high-tech tower, or the social ideals that lie behind a housing estate. In doing so, he demonstrates how looking at, experiencing, and using architecture can bring joy in itself.

"A book that will enrich any encounter with a building, it made me want to look harder and be more curious. We are led playfully through the fundamentals of architecture so that we might enjoy the details and the poetry of buildings all the more. A walk through the city feels more fun and also more profound after reading this book." Grayson Perry, artist

"We so often encounter architecture when it goes wrong, or offends us with its looks. Holland, though, is the perfect, clear-headed tour guide to help us appreciate it with newly sharpened senses and fall in love again – even those buildings we think we hate." Tom Dyckhoff, academic and broadcaster

"An enlightening and urbane exploration of architecture that resonates beyond conventional chronological histories" Catherine Slessor, architecture writer and critic
 

Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300263930
Number of pages: 192
Dimensions: 216 x 140 mm


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“A calm, wise, learned, undogmatic and quietly passionate new book.”—Rowan Moore, The Observer  “It is easy to take architecture for granted. In this book Holland runs through a series of interesting buildings, architects and movements in an accessible manner, seeking to make us look at our surroundings with fresh and curious eyes.”—Apollo Magazine, “Off the Shelf”“Charles Holland knows how to look at architecture. His own enjoyment results in a book offering a lucid, thoughtful account of informed understanding of buildings.”—Gillian Darley, SPABMagazine

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