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- Pagine: 355
- Data di uscita: 31-01-2019
Recensioni
'Brick' is a eye-opening exploration of great brick buildings, styles, uses and architecture around the world and over the centuries. You don't need to be a builder or architect to appreciate this Phaidon book; just someone who admires beauty and utility, and extraordinary skill. Recommended alongsi Leggi tutto
Maybe I just don't like brick, or most of the works featured in this book were downright ugly *. And I mean appetite-suppressing, nausea-inducing ugly. A lot of the buildings looked incomplete or unfinished because you could still see the brick - it felt as though they needed a coat of paint or a
Lovely book. Features a nice wide range of projects, geographically and chronologically, and the image selection & layout are beautifully done. Borrowed this from the Sasaki library at the beginning of the pandemic – figured I’d be home for a couple weeks and it’d be good to have some extra reading Leggi tutto
В целом неплохая книга, не только для журнального столика. Однако удручают две вещи: 1) автор плавает в фактологии. Сказал про царевича Дмитрия Ивановича что его иногда называют Иваном Ивановичем. Это неправда и абсолютно ненужный фактоид в контексте угличских палат 2) автор тяготеет к архитектуре 20 Leggi tutto
A lovely survey of brick architecture of all ages. Beautiful photography, but the writing was a little spare for my tastes. I was also missing a human element, both for scale of the buildings, and for the human interaction with the materials.
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