Have you ever wondered how the ideas behind the worldrsquo;s greatest architectural designs came about? What process does an architect go through to design buildings which become world-renowned for their excellence? This book reveals the secrets behind these buildings. He asks you to lsquo;readrsquo; the building and understand its starting point by analyzing its final form. Through the gradual revelations made by an understanding of the thinking behind the form; you learn a unique methodology which can be used every time you look at any building.
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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful. Not at all distant or forgotten an era in LA lifeBy S. ElliottI was a student at Caltech in the late 60s and the influence of the European emigree community in LA in science. music. literature. and the arts was still very strongly palpable; indeed many of my best professors were themselves emigrees. Reading this book makes far clearer and more comprehensive than anything I have read before the broad outlines of who these people were and what they accomplished while in the US.Later a student and businessman myself in Germany and Asia. I see even more clearly what an extraordinary European elite blessed LA with their presence. Not all of them are appealing (I personally dont care for Bertold Brecht or Adorno). but even their influence was visible. sometimes on well-known radicals like Angela Davis.
