Architect, historian, editor, landscape architect, and fashion designer Richard Weston is one of those indefatigable, suavely literate English polymaths who, among other accomplishments, has written studies of Alvar Aalto and Jørn Utzon. He also crafts books on impossibly broad topics like materials or the 20th-century house. Now, following Key Buildings in the Twentieth Century, he has tackled 100 Ideas That Changed Architecture.
Unlike another maddeningly useless book of lists or slickly packaged architecture lite, Weston's 100 Ideas is a rewarding and often-witty romp through the building arts of western civilization. Mercifully free of jargon and short on theory, the book's two-page spreads of definitions, stand-alone essays, and lavish photographs are more refresher course than introduction or definitive history. While most examples are well known, the book offers a fresh new way of seeing old chestnuts.
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